Note Trends

During the class when we have to read and annotate the short stories I like it how we only have to look for a specific area of writing to look at. Like the point of view in today's writing or the setting and plots in the other stories. It helps by not having to focus on all aspects and you can focus in and keen your skills on a specific area of writing. Understanding these basic mechanics will help in writing our stories later. All of these topics that we look for are topics that you need in any good writing. So learning to master these skills will in turn help us in the long run become a better writer.

Point of view is important because it shows whose eyes your looking through when reading or writing something. Point of view is so important because it will also show what the reader can know and does know. Setting is important because it shows where plot is happening and what is going on at that time. Plot is important because it is the story that you are reading.






A very Old Man with Enormous wings, 25 minutes
Dry September, 45 minutes
And of Clay are we created, 30 minutes
Free reading in class World War Z,

Plot mapping

For the start of my story I want to start with a teenager who doesn't really know what to do with his life and doesn't really know about how to think about things. He thinks that he loves his parents but he doesn't know why he treats them so bad. He knows he is smart but doesn't know why he does so bad at school. He knows can work harder but doesn't know why he wont. The start of the story is after he comes home from a day of school and starts talking to his parents. He goes to bed and just start the new day. The day goes okay but after he goes home his mother doesn't return like normal. He makes his sister dinner and tucks her into bed. He then learns that his mother died in a car accident that after noon. He doesn't cry or anything he just thinks for a long time. The next day he goes to school the same and same things happen. He then comes home when his sister asked "where is mommy?" This is when he breaks down. and starts to cry. After all that is done he starts to turn his life around. He gets a better job and supports his little sister more and more. That is the end.

Reading Response to Harrison Bergeron

This was a weird type of thinking that really creeped me out. It felt like a numbed down American society that was caused by the government because the people chose to be this way. We voted for this outcome and this just gives me the chills. We chose to be this way. This writing also left me with a lot of questions. How come everyone are not ballerinas and new casters? How many people are still alive? Can you still vote in this future? Are other countries like this? Could they remove these rules? Why are they so scared of competition? Did something major happened that cause competition to be so hated? Did the people expect the handicaps to be this bad? What was the demand for doctors and specialized worker like that? If someone was born with a mental handicap would everyone have to be the same? This short story was sad and finalized but it still let out a lot of open questions.






















30 minutes Harrison Bergeron Annotations
20 minutes Da Dun annotations
30 minutes A+P Annotations
40 Strangerz Dean Koontz

Voice of character

I don't know about all of this. It seems like to much. When I know I can go harder and be a better person why do I have to stay in my shell. It is a social comfort but why would I want to do that. I have confidence well not really socially. I.. I know what I can do. I am not reaching my full potential. Is that why Dad yells at me? He just doesn't have any other way of conveying it. He feels like he has to be the rock that the family relies on. That just is just a task that is too much for one person. It is a lot of stress, rarely seeing your wife, your kids, because your at work all day trying to provide for them making sure they can stay in a nice house and have warm dinner every night. At least that is what I hope he means when he yells at me. He says I need to be stronger, but the ways he conveys it he is being a hypocrite, using his alcohol to tell his words when he is not enough of a man to say it himself. Uhh whatever I think about it tomorrow.

E-book things

I will not need to make any chances to my literacy to protect the innocent nor make any changes to fix my paper. I'm not that good at drawing so I think that I am going to be on the editing side of things for this e-book. I really fine with whatever happens for the art cover. I am sure my peers can come up with something awesome. It will look really cool to with freedom with font, size, and spacing too. I don't know what the tittle will be either. We had some really cool and silly ones during class but again I think that we will come up with something cool again. We could find cool pictures and have people draw stuff and I can't wait. I have never created a e-book before and I feel it will be a lot of fun.

Reading Response

During some of the free time in class I got to read a book called World War Z. It was a zombie book with a collection of zombie stories that happened during the zombie war. I have heard about the book from some people and I have seen it be recommended for Episcopal summer reading before. I thought that it was a cool because I am interested into that action zombie type of thing. It sounded very action-y and like a lot of fun.

The book started out like a biography type with the author saying how these events had truly happened and how these are not the narrator's stories, how they are the actors stories. He does this to add some tenseness to the story and how it tries to add some affections tenseness to the story. I didn't get the far into the story and only a little bit into the beginning.



Reading Log
15 minutes in class reading
30 minutes editing literacy narrative
75 minutes free reading

a conversation among three characters in which no line is more than three words long

a conversation among three characters in which no line is more than three words long

"Hey"

"Hey"

"Whats up?"

"Nothing you?"

"Yea something happened."

"What happened?"

"I cannot say"

"Why?"

"It was bad"

"How bad?"

"Illegal bad"

"What could you.."

"Do? Something bad"

"Like murder?

"No never."

"How do I.."

"Trust? You can't"

"Okay stealing?"

"Well kind of"

"Kind of?"

"Well it was.." 

"Who's? What?"

"Well it's personal"

"What was it"

"They made it"

"Made what?"

"Cookies"

"That's why."

"I'm so sorry"

"You should be."

"I.. I ... sorry."

"It'll be okay."

Update on the Literacy Narrative

Update on the Literacy Narrative

Right I have turned in the first draft of the Literacy Narrative and I think it has been graded. I haven’t check yet sorry. We are now doing the group chat thingy. I think I will like the group chat because it allows a new perspective to my piece of writing. It helps me get new ideas for my paper to make it better. I also like how there is only good and positive criticism. It is good to get criticism and help make the paper better which means a better grade for me! I think that this will also make me a better writer because it also me to gain criticism skill so I can make my paper better with revisions and bring me back to earth with not think my first draft is perfect. It allows to help me look for what things might not make sense or sound right.

I am so far loving this paper too. I love the idea first of all. It brought me back to great times and a great project that we got to do. I like the way my paper sounds and the details I have. I think that they are vivid and well written so far but still can use some revision and proofreading. It isn’t perfect yet but I would like it to get there. I hope you like reading and have a great literacy narrative. 





Reading Log
9/8/13 60 minutes Dean Koontz, Strangers
9/9/13 60 minutes Dean Koontz, Strangers 129 - 183

Reading Response

In Strangers the stories are getting stranger and stranger but there is some things in common. The first thing is the biker helmet and the leather gloves. What is up with that like Don (I think) got the note that said the answer lies in the past, so does that mean that all of their answers lie in the past. Were they all in the same place and some event happen that non of them remember, it is all strange. Next is that they all have some person that they go to and they trying to come up with solutions by themselves. All of them have different stories but all are connect. It is very cool and I can't wait to see what happens.







35 minutes W/ homework 8/27/13
10 minutes w/ class reading 8/30/13

60 minutes w/ home reading 9/1/13 Strangers Dean Koontz 93-129 

20 minutes w/ videos 9/2/13 

literacy narratives

For my literacy narrative I watched the I have a Dream and This is Water. I have a dream, what can you really say about that? It always has the it important but what effect does it really have. I like to think that it applies today but not necessarily in the same context. I feel that today it applies in the way to treat people today. No matter the differences like if they are weird to you or strange just try and talk to them and you might be surprised. Next the Water, I absolutely loved it. The message it gave was great and the way it presented it to you was awesome, it was strait up. You could tell that hey this is how it is and get ready for. I am glad I watched both.