Work for 11/18/13

2 hours Reading/Annotating- Lord of the Flies
1 hour 30 minutes- Chapter 1-4 Reading Responses Black Board

Free Prompt- My Awesome Neighbor

My neighbor is twelve, but at a maturity level, she can be sixteen. She goes to Episcopal, and is in middle school. We've known each other since day one. She is not only one of my best friends, but a sister. She has been with me through thick and thin, and it will stay like that forever.

I consider her family like my own. We are always together, and she knows she can always count on me. From beach trips, to those daily rides to school everyday that I love. I hope to be a role model to her and continue to set a good example for her. She will be starting high school in 2 years, prepared to say the least. She has heard more drama and stress from all my years in all lower, middle, and upper school. She knows it all and hopefully picks up on the good things and pushes away the bad. I hope she has half as much fun as I had and am having, because high school is one of the best times of your life. 

Prompt: Favorite

This week you will be blogging on your favorite thing would have covered this year. You can write about any acquired knowledge in English 1 with Dr. D this year. It can be about Lord Of The Flies, Literacy Narratives, or Literary Analysis. Any of which compete two paragraphs describing what is your favorite and why it is? If it happens to be a small topic then go into detail about it please.

My favorite thing we have covered this year so far would have to be literacy narratives. At first I had no clue on the topic. After countless meetings with Dr. D at tutorial and a writing center visit, I finally mastered it. I learned that the writing center and using your tutorial time wisely could really help you as well. Writing the literacy narrative was actually a lot easier once I understood the topic. It was also really encouraging and exciting once you looked at what all you had learned, and then your paper. 

Reading/Working 11/11

Work for 11/11
1 hour 15 minutes on LOTF annotating/reading
45 minutes on Literary Analysis work (20mins. at tutorial)

Free Post 11/11 Thanksgiving

I can't wait for Thanksgiving! It is one of my favorite holidays, and I love the meaning of it. I always feel so grateful for all my family. I'm truly blessed getting to see all my cousins and relatives. Seeing my Dad's side of the family only once a year makes me really cherish it even more.

Flying to New Jersey with my family is also fun. I bond with my brothers and my Dad, which is good because I don't see my older brother a lot since he is in college. My whole family, which is about 75 people, break into teams for a scavenger hunt that the whole town knows about. I have won 4 years in a row now. All the games, blessings, and pictures save a great memory for me to keep forever.

Reflection on Deserted Island

If I had one word to say about the activity on Thursday it would be noisy. Everyone's ideas were all said at one time. When a leader was assigned, nothing was really enforced. Nobody’s ideas made since with others and everything was jumbled. After I overhead someone say it was the Lord of the Flies introduction, I was confused. 


       At first, I tried to see how it connected to the book. Which since I wasn't at school on Friday, because I was sick and haven't started the book. Also since we have 15 or so first graders along with us was difficult to deal with. Maddie suggested taken care of the kids, which was a good idea. Many others were talking about stealing people's stuff or leaving the group for survival. Nina even suggested cannibalism, which is seriously scary. Overall, it would be a difficult task to accomplish organizing a system and surviving with nothing. 


       I think things would be a lot different in real life, because we would actually have to make life or death decisions. Everyone would be willing to listen to one another and cannibalism would hopefully not be even kinda an idea. Our class as a whole has smart people, and I think people who aren't so book smart would branch off and show their "street smart" abilities. The imagination and creative our class has is great and could be very useful. We have babysitters and hunters in our class as well, which is helpful. Disagreements would also be present. With the whole class and the 15 first graders, a disagreement is bound to come about. If we were truly put to the test I think everyone would come together and be a lot different than in class on Thursday. 

Another Free Post

Ugh... It is currently 10:50 pm and I am exhausted. I really want these optional blogs to be turned in, because I know I will greatly appreciate an off week of blogging. I think blogging is cool and I love the concept of it, it gets annoying to do every weekend. Free posts are especially fun to write because you can write about absolutely anything and as long as it meets the requirements you are good. Free posts lately have become a ranting session or a way to get all of the stuff bundled in my head onto a computer screen.

Although flash fiction was recommended since I'm so tired working on other work and trying to get my literary analysis on "it's feet and going," I'm going to have to skip this recommendation. After submitting my detailed outline, I deciding that I should go blog real quick. I had already done my working/reading log for the week and since it was an optional blog I should just do it. Having to not worry about blogs is a great feeling. I'm very glad I have spent this time to finish my optional set of blogging for November 4^th, 2013, and hope I enjoy the off time one of these days when I'm stressed to not have to do blogs. 

Literary Analysis Update

So far I have been struggling very much with the literary analysis. Just the concept itself is hard to get wrapped around my head. I know what literary means and what analyzing is but them together is just a brain cluster. I was one of the first one's in the class to get a thesis statement together. That was good to get a head start but also I was one of the last to turn in my detailed outline including the thesis statement, because I have OCD turning things in. 

I am starting to understand literary analysis more and more as we talk about it in class and move forward on writing one. I am somewhat ready to start a "rough draft." The good thing about rough drafts is that they are just a rough draft; nothing final just a beginning piece, like a backbone to a paper. The power points that we have gone over in class really help me understand it more. I don't usually have enough time to watch the Ted Ed videos, which look very interesting, so I might watch a couple of those before writing my rough draft. Moving forward, I would like to write a very helpful rough draft that is complex so I have to do less work to make a great literary analysis on Sucker.

Reading/Working Log 11/4

Working on Literary Analysis- 1 hour 20 minutes
Peer Review- 25 minutes
Re-reading Sucker- 15 minutes