reading times

finally free 10/29/2012 120 minutes
finally free 10/27/2012 10 minutes   30 minutes

short story post

The three stories that I have read were The Sniper, A Worn Path, and The Catbird Seat. I thought that the last two were quite boring. Wheras the sniper made me feel like I was there with the character. Im not saying that the other two are bad choices, im just saying that I enjoyed the sniper better. Probably because I like stories having to do with war and fighting. Something that includes guns in it.

When I heard we were going to be writing a thesis on a story, I was excited thinking about writing about The Sniper. The bad thing is; The story is only three pages and the thesis is going to be 3-5 pages long. So I now have to choose between the other two stories. I can't decide yet.

reading times

finally free 10/18/2012 45 minutes
finally free 10/19/2012 40 minutes
the sniper 10/13/2012 30 minutes

short story reading response

The short story books that we have been reading for the past few weeks have been pretty sad and depressing. Then a few of them have been some of the dumbest things I have ever heard. For example, "Harrison Bergeron" was by far the weirdest peice of writing that I have ever read. I did not get a single thing out of it. I could read the story and understand it but I could not seem to process it. Some of the stories though were very good. Even though I thought the ending to "A & P"was not quite complete, I liked Sammy as a character. The short story "And of Clay we are Created" was excellent. It was very sad though but it taught me a lesson like most of the other ones did.

To Da-Duh, in Memoriam- 10/2/2012- 40 minutes
A&P- 10/3/2012- 30 minutes
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings- 10/4/2012- 15 minutes
Dry September- 10/6/2012- 40 minutes
And of Clay We are Created- 10/6/2012- 45 minutes
Finally Free- 10/7/2012- 30 minutes

1st quarter evaluation

This quarter in english class, I think I participated average. I think that I can do a whole lot more in class though. It took me a little while to figure out that asking the teachers questions and going to see them during tutorial and free time helps tremendously. My blogs were not as good as I had wanted them to be. Honestly, I believe that I procrastinated on almost every blog and short story assignment which is one of the main things that I am going to improve on. Not turning completing my blogs at the beginning of the year is what i really think killed my grade more than anything. I also need to pay attention and put more effort into my annotations on my short story assignments. My binder sort of fell apart and now is not as organized as it should be. I have started to put handouts and useful worksheets in the back of my binder where I can not find them or will take me forever to find and if I do, I find them crumpled. These are some big things in english class that I hope to improve.

weekly reading

finally free by michael vick -october 6 -50 minutes
finally free by michael vick - october 7-126 minutes

plot response

The book I am reading right now is called Finally Free. In the book the author talks about his past and then while he is talking about his past he stops and talks about the present. Then, right after he continues to talk about his past. I find this very confusing and irritating. I wish he would just stay in the past until he gets to the present.

I am a writer who...

I am a writer who likes to write about sports. Writing about sports is the only type of writing that interests me. Everything else is boring to me. I find it easy to write about Baseball or Football but, when it comes to anything else I just find it hard.