Hudson's blog: https://huds0ngenglish.blogspot.com/2017/02/poem.html?showComment=1487610401366#c6086703170651127152
Ryan's blog: https://shamadaclan.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-mansion-that-held-me-for-ransom.html?showComment=1487610573407#c5354841101917099111
Monday, February 20, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Destin
Whenever my family and I visit our condo in Destin, Florida, there is so many things that we enjoy doing. When we are at the beach we love to go to bed late and sleep late. When we wake up we usually eat pancakes or cereal. Sometimes we go to the Candy Maker store that is in walking distance from the condo because they serve good breakfast. It's always fun to eat breakfast there because we bring our dogs and sit outside. After breakfast we get dressed and go to the beach and pool all day. Getting to lay on the beach all day feels like a luxery. When the waves are big, sometimes my sister and I stay in the ocean for hours jumping the waves which are worth lauding.
We love to stay on the beach to watch the sunset because it is always pretty over the ocean. After watching the sunset we go to the pool to rinse all of our beach chairs off and to sit in the hot tub and swim before we go upstairs. We then go upstairs and shower and get dressed for dinner if we plan to eat out. We love to walk on the beach to a restaurant called The Backporch. My sister and I always order the crab legs. When we get back to the condo, we all lay on the couch and watch some of our favorite shows, which are mostly sitcoms. Going to the beach is when my family happy.
We love to stay on the beach to watch the sunset because it is always pretty over the ocean. After watching the sunset we go to the pool to rinse all of our beach chairs off and to sit in the hot tub and swim before we go upstairs. We then go upstairs and shower and get dressed for dinner if we plan to eat out. We love to walk on the beach to a restaurant called The Backporch. My sister and I always order the crab legs. When we get back to the condo, we all lay on the couch and watch some of our favorite shows, which are mostly sitcoms. Going to the beach is when my family happy.
Poem
The sun was shining down on her through the field of flowers. The cool breeze flew through her hair and brought the scent of the flowers right to her nose. The bright sun made her blue eyes glimmer like the ocean. She heard a small whimper behind a large willow tree in the middle of the field.
She walked quietly to the large tree and peeked around the trunk.
It was a tiny spaniel puppy rolling around in the green grass.
She sat down in the cool grass and softly spoke to the puppy, "Come here dog." The puppy's tail began to wag as his little legs carried him all the way to the girl. As the puppy approached the girl, the tiny dog said is a soft, high voice, "Hello, it's nice to see someone in this field after all this time." The dog seemed to be young, and the girl wondered where he came from, and how old he was. The girl asked him another question, but she couldn't hear what she was saying. She began to panic, and the small dog softly barked and climbed into her lap and began to sleep.
Imagery
End- stopped line
Personification
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
research process, ups and downs
Over the course of writing this research paper, I've realized how important it is to have a very detailed outline. Though writing the outline was hard work, once I started writing my draft, I could see how much it was paying off. Writing your outline with a lot of detail makes the draft so much easier to write. If you have already written most the information you need in your paper, there isn't much that you need to add. I have also learned a lot more about MLA formatting and citations for a paper. Once I got used to it, I realized it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
One thing that I had trouble on while researching was making my notecards. I felt like I was doing them wrong. The example assignment online didn't help me see what I was missing. I was confused about the titles of the notecards, and how they would answer the research question. It turns out that I had misunderstood, and I realized the the pile titles were supposed to answer the research question. I'm glad I figured out my notecard problem before turning them in.
One thing that I had trouble on while researching was making my notecards. I felt like I was doing them wrong. The example assignment online didn't help me see what I was missing. I was confused about the titles of the notecards, and how they would answer the research question. It turns out that I had misunderstood, and I realized the the pile titles were supposed to answer the research question. I'm glad I figured out my notecard problem before turning them in.
reading response for ATDPTI
In the chapters of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian that I read this week, the plot took an unexpected turn. Junior went from being the Indian dork at school, to be being one of the most popular guys at his school. Almost all of the students at Reardan began to respect him, even the kid he punched in the face. He is said the be "semi dating" the schools popular girl. She is with him so she doesn't have too many standards to live up to. She is tired of being the popular girl that everyone looks up to.
I think another interesting event that I read this week was that Juniors sister ran away and got married. She got married to a guy that she met in a casino, and married him shorty after. This was interesting to me because she had been living in her parents basement for a while, excluding herself from many things. Junior mentioned that she might have ran off to get married because she was trying to live a romance novel instead of writing one. I am still interested to see what happens with her dream to write romance novels. This book has been pretty eventful so far.
I think another interesting event that I read this week was that Juniors sister ran away and got married. She got married to a guy that she met in a casino, and married him shorty after. This was interesting to me because she had been living in her parents basement for a while, excluding herself from many things. Junior mentioned that she might have ran off to get married because she was trying to live a romance novel instead of writing one. I am still interested to see what happens with her dream to write romance novels. This book has been pretty eventful so far.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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