The Conclusion!!

           I am so happy that this is the last blog of the year! Looking  back on all of my blogs I don't feel to proud of all of them. I know I didn't do all of my blogs this year so some are missing from my list. I notice that I started to get lazy in the end of the year and I just wanted to get my blogs done so I could get point for them. In the beginning of the year I could see that I was a least trying to do a good Job and do my best. Then getting towards the end I notice that I would skip around and add thing in random place to fill in gaps so it would take up more room.

          This year the blog that I have liked the most was my Boo Radley blog. I know it wasn't the best blog but I like the way we have to think of  away to connect the novel to my own life and not make something up. Looking back on this on blog I have really learned even more than when I wrote the blog is "you can't judge a book by its cover." I think that this applys to not just my blog but all the work I have done this year. My work this year hasn't been the prettiest thing or the most organized but I think that in the long run I tried my hardest to do the best I can. I think that in many ways I have improved in my writer but I still need to work on it.

         In the blogs that we would have to make something up or evaluate someone I saw that it would be a really short blog. On some of  the blog assignment I like I could have taken more of my time to do them and not just spend 10 minutes on them. To this day I still feel like I jump around in my writing. I also know that I didn't do all of my blogs, I know there is no real reason why didn't them and no excuse.

Poetry

           I haven't had many experiences with poetry. Not more than the couple poem we have read in my other classes. Nursery rhymes are what I have had the most exposure to. To me nursery rhyme are more than what your parents tell you before bed, to me Nursery rhymes can make connections between parents and their children. I remember when my mom would always tell one nursery rhyme to me almost every day.

          The nursery rhyme is called You are My Sunshine. The reason that this really stuck out when I read this blog assignment was because of the memories that I have tied to it. Not many people know this nursery rhyme and I can see how some people might not see it as a nursery rhyme.

        For poetry in general I am not a big fan. For me poetry has to many answer to one question. There are many points of views on the same thing and all can be right, and that is the part that I really don't care for. I like to have a  right and a wrong answer not more than one correct answer. If I can understand the poem than  my view is a little different. If I can understand than I can sometimes relate so I can understand the poem even more. I think that I could learn to like poetry but I don't know about loving poetry.

Favorite assignment

          When I read the this assignment I really had to think about all of the projects, essays and all the other thing that we had done. I think the most memorable assignment is The Great Expectations essay. I think that is mostly because I still haven't turned it in. But this blog is suppose to be about an assignment that I am proud of. So the project that I am the most proud about is the last project we did. Which was the outside reading. I read The Color Purple.

         When I read the first page it made me become very interested in the book. I feel like I worked really hard on every part of this project. I don't know what score I got on the book talk but I feel like I got a good grade. Even if I don't get an A, like I hope, I know that I did my best and tried my hardest.

Modern Day Romeo+ Juliet

There is a movie called Keith. I was looking for something to watch one day on Netflix and found the movie. This movie is based around two teenagers that far in love despite all of their peers and parents. The two don't fall in love after the first time of meeting like Romeo + Juliet. I think that this movie has many of the same concept as Romeo + Juliet. But I think it is still related to Romeo+ Juliet. It was a good movie, but it is one of those movie were you watch it  on a day were you are at home sick and have nothing better to do.

Connections

While reading this book at home I can understand what is going happening on the surface. But when we discuss what we read at home in class it make me look at it in a new way. I think that it is hard to relate to the play in many ways. One thing that I can relate to in the play is with Juliet.  Even though I did have a mom that loved me and I lived with her. I was raised by another woman. My mom worked a lot when I was younger and I would spend a lot of time with my moms best friend. Just like Juliet I will always love my real mother and would do anything for her, but someone else was always there that wasn't my mother.

Reading this play has been difficult. It hasn't been the hardest play or novel that we have read. At times Romeo + Juliet can be every hard to understand what is going on, but if I go back and re-read the part that I am confused I usually can figure out what is going on. In class when we read and discuss the play I understand it in a different way. In class it is easier to find the puns, and the metaphors. I think that reading the play in class is really smart and isn't a waste of time. Reading it aloud has really helped me understand the play.

Great Expectations: Thoughts on Reading

          After Finishing Great Expectation I like the novel. At the beginning of the novel I didn't think I would like it at all. But that changed through my reading of the book. I like the different types of characters, even though  there are a lot of them. But I am not sure if I like Dickens writing style. One thing I like about Dickens writing was the way he descried all of the settings. I love the way he uses the sun in so many different ways. At times I didn't understand what Dickens was trying to get across.  I have to say that without spark-notes I think I would only understand a little bit of the novel or maybe any of it. Having the discussions in the small groups also helped me understand the mysteries.

          While reading this novel I don't think I changed my routine of getting up and staying up late. Maybe if I did get up a little earlier and read the parts a little more careful I would have understood it a little better. One thing that I did have to do was cram in many numbers of page on Thursday nights so that I could do my journal assignment. Even though I usually didn't do my journal because I was tired and want to do something that was fun.

Connections and Pictures

I don't have much to compare Great Expectations by Charles Dickens too. I think that To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is similar but also very different. Both of the novels are about growing up and coming of age.In Great Expectations Pip has a grows up living with his sister that raises he "by hand"; and Scout grows up in a more loving and caring house-hold. But Scout grows up in a racial period  Both Pip and Scout face challenges.

 Dickens and Lee have very different writing styles. Dickens gives many details to characters that are being introduced. Dickens uses animals to compare some of his characters in Great Expectations. Dickens also refers to the other novels that he has written. On the other hand Lee's writing style is different than Dickens. Lee's TKAM is more based on racial times. No author can be compared to close to Dickens because of his every original writing style.

These two novels are the similar as well. Both based on young children that are growing up. Both Pip and Scout want their life's to be different. Pip want to become a gentlemen. Scouts everything to be fixed between the people in Maycomb.

In TKAM scout doesn't like Boo's House.

In Great Expectations Pip say that he doesn't want to go home but then he doesn't want to leave once he gets there.

Second stage

When Pip goes to London he meets many new people. Pip had met Mr. Jaggers before the second stage but you get to know him better in the second stage. Mr.Jaggers has a lot of guilt. He washes his hands with a strong scented bar of soap. Mr. Jaggers tries to wash away the guilt that he has for the guilty people that he defends. He is always bring his work home. But still Mr. Jaggers is very direct and hard-working.

 

Joe and Mr. Jaggers are similar but also very different. Joe is strong, loyal and trust worthy. Joe is a Blacksmith and he is not ashamed of what he does.But he doesn't like his life as a blacksmith get in the way of his family. Joe is patient and has a lot of wisdom even thought he is not educated.

Pip's Quote

     So far Pip had just gotten done with his first visit with Miss Havisham and met Estella. Pip took an interest in Estella very fast. Pip was thinking back to the day that he had. In chapter nine Pip is just a boy that thinks nothing to much of his life. But in the next chapters Pip starts to become more mature and starts to be a young man. The first day that Pip spent with Miss Havisham made Pip realize that he want to be more in life than becoming a blacksmith that doesn't know how to read or write.

     In my life I have had a lot of ''chains'' break between people but  one that has really impacted my life was when my aunt had her first daughter, Gabby. From the minute that I got to hold that small 2 hour old baby I never wanted to put her down. To this day Gabby is like the little sister I never had.

The Importance of Being Earnest paragrah.

           In the body paragraphs that my group has made so far the transition haven't been so good. We all need to work on the transitions.

    Dishonesty plays a big part in how the couples get to know each other. The relationship that they have are mostly lie. Jack tells everyone that he has a brother named Ernest and that he dies. " Poor Ernest! He had many faults, but it is a sad, sad blow." In this lie Jack wants everyone to think that he is the good kids ad doesn't go and get in trouble. Jack just want to impress the girls, mostly Gwendolen. In addition to jack lying so does Algernon. Algernon and Jack both where going by the name Ernest, Gwendolen and Cecily decide who really is Ernest. with both Cecily, Algernon and Gwendolen, Jack they don't know each other that much. Neither couple takes the time to understand the other person in the relationship, just get to know the good things and the thing they have in common. Over all in the play people lie about a lot of things. "Well if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt." this lie that Jack tells to Algernon is so the Algernon doesn't think to  much into a young girl that might be available. Does this girl have money, is she pretty? the only thing the people think about in the play is looks andmoney. Even though dishonesty in the play the characters lies come out in the end and everyone got to know everyone better.


Group I know that we decided to change a couple thing and those thing will be changed by monday.

Dishonesty in The Importance of Being Earnest

            In the play by The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde there are all of dishonest people and humor. There is a lot of dishonesty towards marriage and what marriage really means. In the book Lady Bracknell pretty much says that there is no such thing as true love. And that one much cheat to have a good relationship. Lady Bracknell really only care about her social standings in her community and London and she will do almost anything to get what she wants, even if that means to lie to get what she wants. The references to earnest and Ernest is basically all about dishonesty because when people say something about Ernest who is really Jack or Algernon, is all false. The people that make those statements are talking about someone that really isn't who they think they are. Most of the humor in the play is based off lies that someone told.

           To me Oscar Wilde is trying to express people from the Victorian era in his play. All the people that lied and cheated to get what they wanted or thought they need. I don't think that Wilde had any one specific in mind while writing the play but knew that there were people out there like those characters. Wilde represented many different types of people in the way they live. There are country people, city people, fashionable people, smart people and not so smart people. Wilde had a wide range of characters in this play that he wrote.    

10 Animal Farm evaluation

1: Angela Mack
    Picture: In Angela's picture of the pig with clothes fits really well with the changed commandments. And the way all the other animals are under Napoleon in the picture. She has a really effective project.

2: Giselle
    Giselle did a great job on her project. She took a different approach to show the way to the pigs started to take over. I really like the way she shows what Napoleon does to the other animals.

3: Tim
    Picture: In Tim's picture that he made has a really good connection with the Russian Revolution. He also shows how the pigs start to turn human like by the pig wearing clothes. Tim made a very good project in more ways than one. I think it was very effective.

4: Daniel
    Picture: Daniel's project is very creative and effective. The way he compares the leaders in the Russian Revolution to the animals. I like how he put Mr. Jones in his picture and not just the animals

5: Kelsey
    Comic strip: In her project the picture are good and looked really good. I like how they focused on the windmill. But I don't think it was that effective, its was good but really didn't show anything except the windmill falling down.

6: Emma and Catherine
    Movie trailer: The trailer these two  girls was great. I loved it when they burned the windmill down.They really got there point across in a great way.

7: Paden
    Picture: Paden got his point across. He tied in the Russian Revolution with Napoleon which I thought was good. His project was effective.

8: Kylie
    Organizer: I really like the way she had the commandments then in bold she had what they changed. her project really caught my eye. Her project was really good and effective.

9:Ragen
   Picture:  Its is probably my favorite. It shows great connection with the Russian Revaluation. I love how the pig is looking in the minor and what you see is Czar Nicholas. This is a very good project.

10: Annie
     Video: I think Annie did a great job on her video. I like how they used a horses being trained by person. That really fit with the starting of the rebellion.

ME:
   I made an Organizer. I think my project was a little boring on the eyes but still got the point across that the pigs took over and that they aren't all equal.

   
  

Animal Farm project

http://www.scribd.com/doc/46187980