I started and finished the book Burned this week. It's by Ellen Hopkins. The font is in the style of a poem, so I guess it's a big poem, and it tells this story. I think it's the second book or the sequel to the book Crank which I read in the seventh grade or something. The main character in this book is Pattyn. She is Mormon. She has nine sisters, a dad, and a mom. The setting is in Nevada.
I think the type of conflict for this book could be man vs man, man vs society, and man vs self. Pattyn started feeling temptations for boys when she was 16, and she didn't think she should because of her religion. She tried to resist, but she couldn't. Pattyn then dated a non-Mormon boy even though she knew it was a sin. Her father made Pattyn move with her aunt a few hours away during the summer because of this. Then Pattyn met another nice, non-Mormon boy named Ethan.
I think the climax is when Pattyn and Ethan started to date. Pattyn's aunt approved. Pattyn new her father and church would never allow it, but she did it anyway. Ethan gave her a promise ring because they had gained love and trust. Pattyn then moved back home because summer was over, and her father would think that Pattyn would be back in her right mind. The resolution was when Pattyn wanted to marry Ethan so he came to pick her up in his car, but they had gotten in a car accident and only Pattyn made it. Ethan was dead, and she felt dead to the world.
I think the theme of this story could be to resist your temptations because something good can come out of it for yourself, but in the very end the last result could be terribly brutal if you don't watch out.
9/25-30 min., 9/27- 20 min., 9/29- 3 1/2 hrs., pages 1-532
Total: 260 min., 532 pages.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
I am a Writer Who
I am a writer who knows what she wants to write about, but may not be able to interpret it on paper that well. I can see the details clearly in my mind, although it may appear to be a bit foggy when others read it. When things don't require concrete details about a background, place, or thing I can write pretty well. Most of the time, we always have to write about that type of stuff in school.
I am a writer who loves to use voice because it gives the things I write a little spunk. My voice is what separates my writing from other people's writing. Generally, I give good voice unless the topic or prompt I'm writing about is absolutely boring. I also am a writer who loves to get feedback from my writing, but I hate it when someone criticizes the things I write about because that is just uncalled for.
I don't like to write poems because they seem hard to me. I'm not good with rhyming words, even though it doesn't have to rhyme all the time.
I am just this writer who writes, thinks, and listens. I have my strengths, and I have my weaknesses. No other writer can be exactly like me.
I am a writer who loves to use voice because it gives the things I write a little spunk. My voice is what separates my writing from other people's writing. Generally, I give good voice unless the topic or prompt I'm writing about is absolutely boring. I also am a writer who loves to get feedback from my writing, but I hate it when someone criticizes the things I write about because that is just uncalled for.
I don't like to write poems because they seem hard to me. I'm not good with rhyming words, even though it doesn't have to rhyme all the time.
I am just this writer who writes, thinks, and listens. I have my strengths, and I have my weaknesses. No other writer can be exactly like me.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Totally Random Post
So many people change. It seems like yesterday when we were all sweet and nice and carefree. Now somehow, everything just twisted and rearranged itself. I can't even call everybody my friend even when I do want to because I like to get along with everyone. Some people's demeanor is just so fake and artificial. I just can't deal with some of these situations that come upon me and others. Then, when your parents find out, they just want to blame you for the cause of it! It's unreal.
Also, I see when some people are near each other they are nice to each other and appear to be jolly good and act as if they are friends. But when out-of-sight they talk about each other behind each other's backs. I find that backstabbing. Yes, people change. In the situation I'm talking about, it's a negative change.
Furthermore, I detest when people come and talk to you just when they want something or want to know the latest updates about your life to go and tell other people. I find that sickening. Yet, people do it. You start to question if certain people hang around you just to bring you down. When you know that that one person has talked about you and your friends to all of the "clique" that your in except yourself, then you will eventually find out who your real friends are. Well, do you know who your real friends are? I know who mine are.
Also, I see when some people are near each other they are nice to each other and appear to be jolly good and act as if they are friends. But when out-of-sight they talk about each other behind each other's backs. I find that backstabbing. Yes, people change. In the situation I'm talking about, it's a negative change.
Furthermore, I detest when people come and talk to you just when they want something or want to know the latest updates about your life to go and tell other people. I find that sickening. Yet, people do it. You start to question if certain people hang around you just to bring you down. When you know that that one person has talked about you and your friends to all of the "clique" that your in except yourself, then you will eventually find out who your real friends are. Well, do you know who your real friends are? I know who mine are.
Final Reading Response To Three Little Words
I have finished reading Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter. A lot of things go well for Ashley in the end. I also have found out what the three little words meant that she is referring to in her title. She was referring to when she said, "I guess so." when she agreed to stay with her new adoptive family, and her whole life turned around and became great for her. I think she should have been a little more appreciative towards the family when they adopted her, and she should have given a fonder response when the court asked her if she wanted to stay with them.
Ashley gets in contact with her biological family, and that's pretty good for her since they got along well and stuff. Also, she goes on to college with a full-time scholarship. She entered contest, and many papers she wrote about her life in the system were published, and even this book derived from one of the papers. I think Ashley is really blessed that she got those adoptive parents that stuck with her to the end throughout all the difficulties Ashley gave them in the beginning.
This book was good, and this is the first book I've read about foster care, court, and adoptive situations.
P.S.- I reread about 70 pages so I could have read for 2 1/2 hours.
9/18- 33 min., 9/19- 60 min., 9/22- 45 min., 9/23- 20 min., pages- 258- 316 + 70
Total: 158 minutes, 128 pages
Ashley gets in contact with her biological family, and that's pretty good for her since they got along well and stuff. Also, she goes on to college with a full-time scholarship. She entered contest, and many papers she wrote about her life in the system were published, and even this book derived from one of the papers. I think Ashley is really blessed that she got those adoptive parents that stuck with her to the end throughout all the difficulties Ashley gave them in the beginning.
This book was good, and this is the first book I've read about foster care, court, and adoptive situations.
P.S.- I reread about 70 pages so I could have read for 2 1/2 hours.
9/18- 33 min., 9/19- 60 min., 9/22- 45 min., 9/23- 20 min., pages- 258- 316 + 70
Total: 158 minutes, 128 pages
Monday, September 17, 2012
Second Reading Response to Three Little Words
I'm still reading Three Little Words: A Memoir. Ashley, the main character, had to move to a children's home with a whole bunch of different kids. She liked it there because they could get as much food as they wanted, she won things, she had friends, and they got mostly everything they wanted for Christmas. That's good that she found a placed that she liked, but I think that whenever she adopted, she would expect too much from the parents that adopt her.
Later on, Ashley get adopted, and things are different. I would have been happy if this happened to me but Ashley wasn't excited when she first learned that her new family was adopting her. She even gets to invite friends over to a friend's house after she wasn't able to at the children's home. I would have been one happy, little child if these new, but different things happened to me.
9/13-20 mins., 9/15-60 minutes, 9/16- 40 minutes, 9/17- 30 minutes, pp. 138- 258
Total: 150 minutes, 120 pages
Later on, Ashley get adopted, and things are different. I would have been happy if this happened to me but Ashley wasn't excited when she first learned that her new family was adopting her. She even gets to invite friends over to a friend's house after she wasn't able to at the children's home. I would have been one happy, little child if these new, but different things happened to me.
9/13-20 mins., 9/15-60 minutes, 9/16- 40 minutes, 9/17- 30 minutes, pp. 138- 258
Total: 150 minutes, 120 pages
Literacy Narrative Ideas
For English, we have to write a literacy narrative about how reading and writing has changed our opinions on things or we could just have a neutral feeling or opinion about what reading and writing has done for us. I think I will mainly focus on how I learned how to write my name when I was in Pre-K. That's the only thing I can really remember that may have changed me in some way pertaining to reading and writing.
I remember that I was in Pre-K at a school that I think my cousin owned. I was in Mrs.or Ms. (I can't remember if she was married or not) Butler's class. We had practiced over and over again writing out letters on the paper with large, long lines, and we had to trace over the dotted alphabet. I think this was important to me because if I didn't know how to write or spell my name, I wouldn't have a way to identify myself on paper.
I remember that I was in Pre-K at a school that I think my cousin owned. I was in Mrs.or Ms. (I can't remember if she was married or not) Butler's class. We had practiced over and over again writing out letters on the paper with large, long lines, and we had to trace over the dotted alphabet. I think this was important to me because if I didn't know how to write or spell my name, I wouldn't have a way to identify myself on paper.
Monday, September 10, 2012
First Reading Response to Three Little Words: A Memoir
Hello all. I have been reading this pretty good book that I got from the school library. It's in good condition and it looks like the school library just got the book. Anyway, the book is called Three Little Words: A Memoir, and the author is Ashley Rhodes-Courter. Yes, she is the main character in the book and the author. It's about how she ventures through many different foster cares, switches homes, loses trust, and goes through many different case workers because her father wasn't in her life and her mother was locked up in jail for multiple different in-fractions.
This book is cool to me so far because with this type of book I can learn something of great value because of the hard times Ashley had went through. I can learn to value my possessions better and appreciate what I own because within an instant, the items could be stripped from my life. I really think this book could send a message to many people, even if you aren't or weren't a foster or adoptive child. I can say that it's essential to be grateful for what you possess and appreciate the delicacies of life.
9/8/12- 70 min., 9/9/10- 60 min., 9/10/12- 25 min., pages 1-138
Total: 155 minutes, 138 pages
This book is cool to me so far because with this type of book I can learn something of great value because of the hard times Ashley had went through. I can learn to value my possessions better and appreciate what I own because within an instant, the items could be stripped from my life. I really think this book could send a message to many people, even if you aren't or weren't a foster or adoptive child. I can say that it's essential to be grateful for what you possess and appreciate the delicacies of life.
9/8/12- 70 min., 9/9/10- 60 min., 9/10/12- 25 min., pages 1-138
Total: 155 minutes, 138 pages
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Response to Comments
Here's a post especially for the people who have commented and have been commenting helpful things on my blog. Although I hadn't changed anything in particular on any one of my blogs, I still take you all's comments into consideration and try to carry the critics onto the next of my posts. In addition, I'm really happy that some of y'all like my posts and think they are good. I really appreciate all comments!
For the kind sir named Joe, there weren't any types of boyfriend/girlfriend relationships that you described in my blog titled "Final Response To Grief Girl" , but there were just family relationships like what they have in any other household, so some males might be able to enjoy this book because if they had ever experience anything that Erin in Grief Girl had experienced they might be able to read it. Also, to Dr. D, I'll be sure to try and use stronger verbs for my blog posts in the future which you mentioned in my blog post titled "Scenery of a Party!". Thanks for the thoughtful criticism and compliments from everyone who comments!
For the kind sir named Joe, there weren't any types of boyfriend/girlfriend relationships that you described in my blog titled "Final Response To Grief Girl" , but there were just family relationships like what they have in any other household, so some males might be able to enjoy this book because if they had ever experience anything that Erin in Grief Girl had experienced they might be able to read it. Also, to Dr. D, I'll be sure to try and use stronger verbs for my blog posts in the future which you mentioned in my blog post titled "Scenery of a Party!". Thanks for the thoughtful criticism and compliments from everyone who comments!
Monday, September 3, 2012
Scenery of a Party!
I just realized it's September, and it's Labor Day! Happy Labor day guys! It's also my second post of the month, and because I didn't acknowledge it in my other post, I am now! I am now about to describe a moment I had yesterday which was September 2, 2012. I'm wearing white shorts, a strapless navy blue top with a white flower pattern all over, and a navy blue tank top underneath that.
I walk into a large room. It has 4 white walls. On the left, there's a glass window. Through the window I can see the five forest green shrubbery bushes. The sky is sky blue with a few fluffy clouds as far as I can see. Towards the back wall, I see white tables which have the metal legs with black table clothes. On the tables I see silver balloons in the shape of a one and three with the red and black strings attached. Of course they have the black chairs on the beige tile floor underneath the tables.
Near the right wall, I see tables with food galore! There's red punch in clear, glass jugs, purple and green grapes with jack cheese in the middle of the the platter, chips and salsa, chocolate and vanilla cupcakes arranged into the shape of the numbers one and three, a chocolate cake with with the words happy birthday written across in red icing, meatballs in a tangy sauce, fried chicken, and much more.
On the wall I'm closest to, there's a man blasting hip-hop,rap, and dance music. In the middle of the floor I see people dancing in their on styles clad in colorful clothes. Some people doing the fist pump, stanky leg, jerk, and many other modern day dances. That was my scenery this past weekend at a birthday party for someone turning thirteen.
I walk into a large room. It has 4 white walls. On the left, there's a glass window. Through the window I can see the five forest green shrubbery bushes. The sky is sky blue with a few fluffy clouds as far as I can see. Towards the back wall, I see white tables which have the metal legs with black table clothes. On the tables I see silver balloons in the shape of a one and three with the red and black strings attached. Of course they have the black chairs on the beige tile floor underneath the tables.
Near the right wall, I see tables with food galore! There's red punch in clear, glass jugs, purple and green grapes with jack cheese in the middle of the the platter, chips and salsa, chocolate and vanilla cupcakes arranged into the shape of the numbers one and three, a chocolate cake with with the words happy birthday written across in red icing, meatballs in a tangy sauce, fried chicken, and much more.
On the wall I'm closest to, there's a man blasting hip-hop,rap, and dance music. In the middle of the floor I see people dancing in their on styles clad in colorful clothes. Some people doing the fist pump, stanky leg, jerk, and many other modern day dances. That was my scenery this past weekend at a birthday party for someone turning thirteen.
Final Reading Response To Grief Girl
So I finished the rest of Grief Girl: My True Story by Erin Vincent! In the end, Erin was more cheerful and understood things better after she graduated high school! I'm happy for her. I enjoyed the book very much so. She even got her dream job to be a journalist right after she graduated. If I got my dream job right after I graduated, I would be ecstatic because it would seem to me like a once in a lifetime oppurtunity. The thing that I was mad about in the end though was that Tracy left to a city ten whole hours away from Erin with Trent right by her side! They just left a month after telling Erin, and it was around that time when she first became the journalist that she wanted to be.
Vincent did a good job telling her story. She even remembered the tiny details and the way she felt from when she was fourteen to whatever age she was when she first started writing the story! She wrote it in a way that most girls would want to read it, but maybe both genders could read it if they had ever experienced that situation. I have to say the book was good! But on to the next when I hit the school library!
8/27-10 min., 8/30-2 hrs. & 10 mins., 8/31-23 mins., pp.180-306
Total- 163 mins., 126 pages
Vincent did a good job telling her story. She even remembered the tiny details and the way she felt from when she was fourteen to whatever age she was when she first started writing the story! She wrote it in a way that most girls would want to read it, but maybe both genders could read it if they had ever experienced that situation. I have to say the book was good! But on to the next when I hit the school library!
8/27-10 min., 8/30-2 hrs. & 10 mins., 8/31-23 mins., pp.180-306
Total- 163 mins., 126 pages
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