I'm sorry to say that I am dropping the project of "Childhood Obesity" and am moving on to scholarship hunting.
College is only a year away and I think it's about time that we all start searching for as many scholarships as possible to allow us to get into college with paying as minimal from our pockets as possible.
So..........the hunt is on. :)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Learning to Live Again
According to Steven M Schwarz, MD, FAAP, FACN, AGAF, author of article, Obesity in Children.
Approximately 21-24% of American children and adolescents are overweight, and another 16-18% is obese. Childhood obesity predisposes to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, liver and renal disease, and reproductive dysfunction. This condition also increases the risk of adult-onset obesity and cardiovascular disease. Sadly that percentage slowly starts to increase the more we don't do anything about our children's diets and activities.
We say we try but do we really?
Approximately 21-24% of American children and adolescents are overweight, and another 16-18% is obese. Childhood obesity predisposes to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, liver and renal disease, and reproductive dysfunction. This condition also increases the risk of adult-onset obesity and cardiovascular disease. Sadly that percentage slowly starts to increase the more we don't do anything about our children's diets and activities.
We say we try but do we really?
Monday, January 23, 2012
Happy, Sad, Mad, Boy am I glad
We have all felt fear loved or even at times hopeless. I have decided to change topics I was in the works of doing a stop motion but unfortunately the pictures got deleted and I was not going to start all over. I have decided to express emotions through art. The 1st emotion I did was Hopeless and I decided to write Friendship over and over and over. Sometimes it seems that we lose our hope throughout friendship because either you lost a friend or they have just turned away from you. We just get that feeling in our hearts and we can’t do anything and it seems like our hope has just faded away. But in the end we shine with those who stuck with you until the end. The next emotion I am focusing is FEAR and I will try to express it throughout drawing a monster or something that we have all feared in our lives.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Living to Learn Again
11.W.1.1 Students can write text using comparison/contrast organizational patterns.
Well I can safely start off by saying that it's a new year with a new attitude and with this comes a new 20% time project.
My new project entails that I will be blogging about the growing child obesity rates and their causes. It's sad enough that we feed our children fattening foods at a very young age. I feel that this is something that our students shoud be aware of as well as the adult world. Because if we know, at our generation, what's happening to our generation then we can help to prevent it from happening to future generations.
Well I can safely start off by saying that it's a new year with a new attitude and with this comes a new 20% time project.
My new project entails that I will be blogging about the growing child obesity rates and their causes. It's sad enough that we feed our children fattening foods at a very young age. I feel that this is something that our students shoud be aware of as well as the adult world. Because if we know, at our generation, what's happening to our generation then we can help to prevent it from happening to future generations.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Mush!
The past couple of weeks, there has actually been snow fall. The first day it snowed I ran outside with her. I was hoping she would go running around, but she stayed at my side, as if she didn’t know what she was supposed to do. See, when we had gotten Shasta, I had a thought in the back of my mind, that one day, I would be able to have a sled dog team. Of course that would mean I would need to get more Siberian Huskies, but let’s just keep that a secret from my mom. Anyways, I even yelled “MUSH!” a couple of times, just to see how Shasta would react to it. She must have thought it meant up or something, because all I got from it was a giant dog standing on her back legs, looking into my eyes. I pushed her off and she kept jumping on me, so then I decided I would play with her. My little brother, Adam, would wrestle with her when she was inside, and so I had learned some new “moves” to use on her. One of these moves being an arm bar that UFC people use on each other, and well, Shasta did not like that. So I let her go and decided I would put her in a leg lock. Shasta, being a Siberian Husky, she is an extreme escape artist. She got out of all the moves I would put on her, and by the end, it seemed as if she had won, because I was so tired from having to chase her down. So this time, the victory had gone to dog, but not for long. One of these times, I will be victorious.
Above here are two pictures of my dog Shasta. She is a giant baby, and I love her very much.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
We're Getting The Band Back Togther!
For the next three or so weeks Ellie, Casey, Abby and myself are in a band and will be preforming a song for our class. Ellie will be rocking it on the guitar, Casey will be scream her lungs off on vocals, Abby will be calm and collective playing the piano, and I will being keeping a nice steady beat on the drums. It will definitely be a fun and interesting process!
The Help
Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
I've always preferred to read on my own terms, so although this may seem late to those in Book Club I have decided to read The Help. I was going to write a summary for each chapter but have decided instead to read the whole book, then do a project over it that involves writing. I'm excited to read this book so I can finally watch the movie.
Thus far I love the writing style and use of dialect. I've been in the South on multiple occasions and reading this book transports me back to those warm summers.
Adieu.
I've always preferred to read on my own terms, so although this may seem late to those in Book Club I have decided to read The Help. I was going to write a summary for each chapter but have decided instead to read the whole book, then do a project over it that involves writing. I'm excited to read this book so I can finally watch the movie.
Thus far I love the writing style and use of dialect. I've been in the South on multiple occasions and reading this book transports me back to those warm summers.
Adieu.
Fearbook: Ted Bundy
My reading standard is 11.R.5.1. I have summarized this on a different document. I am still going through the Fearbook and learning about past notorious serial killers and what made them blow up like a ticking time bomb.
The second man I have researched and many people should have heard about him. His name is Ted Bundy also known as Theodore Robert Cowell. He was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Throughout the years, he always thought that his sister was his mother and his grandparents were his real parents. Ted Bundy was an attractive young man who was very intelligent especially when it came with politics.
When he entered college, he fell in love with a girl who broke his heart which made him start his depression. After awhile they got back together because she loves the “new” Ted Bundy. He started to run for campaigns, but soon after he left politics and Washington after suspicion from police when they started investigation of missing women. Ted decides to move to Salt Lake City, Utah to attend law school. Soon after he was charged with murder, but he somehow escaped from the prison. He was soon caught after and went back to prison, but soon after he escaped once again.
Ted Bundy murdered from 20-100 women, but he only confessed to 29 murders. There was a young woman by the name of Nita Neary who was an eye witness and saw Bundy leave a house of two women who were murdered. He was arrested for the third time for those murders. He went to trial and he was his own lawyer. After the counts of murder, he lost the trial and was sentence to death by the electric chair. Ted Bundy was executed on January 14th, 1989.
Overview:For 20% time I played and read reviews for the game Grand Theft Auto Episodes From Liberty City.Standard:11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
Game Review Site: http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/143/14352794.html blocked at school
Thoughts about the game:My thoughts about the game were that it is awesome but it is nothing compared to the new grand Grand Theft Auto that will becoming out soon. The graphics in the game were outstanding it looked so real. The only problems that i have from this game is that it might have a minor glitch here or there but nothing major like Saints Row the Third. But over all the game had great missions that challenged your skills to see if your a noob or a pro at the game. And the game is so addictiong that you want to keep playing the game.
Evaluation:I got most of the results out of the gameplay and and it took me a while to get the results i wanted out of the research. I found alot of good review sites after alot of looking throw gaming companies and other gaming reviewing sites. But there are also the bad game sites where they dont eather have the game you are looking for aor they dont have alot of reviews for them yet. Yes i would repeat this project because it it is fun and entertaining. I did the research on the game and i have played the game and have decieded that this is a great game for anyone.
Surviving the Extremes
I've recently started reading a book called Surviving the Extremes by Dr. Kenneth Kamler, a microscopic surgeon from New York. I haven't gotten that far into it yet, but the prologue is quite interesting.
Dr. Kamler is a microscopic surgeon from New York who is vice-president of the Explorers Club. He wanted to try something new to cure his monotonous life in the big city, so went off on an expedition to scale Mt. Everest as a medic for the other climbers. While on the mountain, a man fell 80 some feet head first into a crevasse, and didn't die. He starts the prolouge by saying, "If the chanting stopped, my patient would die." After the other climbers brought the injured man back to camp, Kamler went to work on him right away. These climbers were Sherpas, a native in the Everest region. They, unlike Kamler, believed in spiritual healing, and that the body can heal by men praying and chanting around him. The praying and chanting kept the man alive for a while, but his wounds were too great. This influenced Kamler to discover what happens to the human body when it is confronted with the most extreme environmental conditions. He continues the prologue talking about his first adventure with the Explorers Club. They were going to clim a 19,000-foot mountain in Peru called Taqurah. Even before they started the ascent, a truck in front of them tipped over a hillside leaving numerous amounts of and various injuries for Kamler (the only doctor present) to treat. After treating the patients, Kamler took them to the nearest clinic, and was named a local hero. That's where he ends the prologue and begins his adventure in the jungle.
Dr. Kamler is a microscopic surgeon from New York who is vice-president of the Explorers Club. He wanted to try something new to cure his monotonous life in the big city, so went off on an expedition to scale Mt. Everest as a medic for the other climbers. While on the mountain, a man fell 80 some feet head first into a crevasse, and didn't die. He starts the prolouge by saying, "If the chanting stopped, my patient would die." After the other climbers brought the injured man back to camp, Kamler went to work on him right away. These climbers were Sherpas, a native in the Everest region. They, unlike Kamler, believed in spiritual healing, and that the body can heal by men praying and chanting around him. The praying and chanting kept the man alive for a while, but his wounds were too great. This influenced Kamler to discover what happens to the human body when it is confronted with the most extreme environmental conditions. He continues the prologue talking about his first adventure with the Explorers Club. They were going to clim a 19,000-foot mountain in Peru called Taqurah. Even before they started the ascent, a truck in front of them tipped over a hillside leaving numerous amounts of and various injuries for Kamler (the only doctor present) to treat. After treating the patients, Kamler took them to the nearest clinic, and was named a local hero. That's where he ends the prologue and begins his adventure in the jungle.
Craftsman reveiw
For my 20% time I am will be reading reveiws for tools that i have then righting new reveiws on them based on how well they work. I will use the 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text. reading standard and the 11.W.1.1 Students can write text using comparison/contrast organizational patterns. writeing standard. The tools I write reweiws on will post the URL of the site to the blog. In the weeks up to now I have been resurching topics and reading other peoples reveiws. For the upcomming weeks I will read reveiws on tools that I have and then write several.
Short Film
I have started a new project where I will make a series of short films in the next few weeks, each being roughly 5-10 minutes long using the Website Curriculum from ISM (Independent Student Media) Films. There will be a few different genres including my first piece, which is a western. I also have a good creative idea about a murder mystery that takes place in my school. Because I am taking a production class at the CTE Academy, I thought I would create a few of my favorite pieces that I wrote and make them into real short films and post them on the blog. I would need some help with the casting of the roles and production team, but besides that I see no other obstacles that will stop me in this project. Below is a short minute long sample of the first film that I have started to write:
FADE IN:
EXT DAY OLD WESTERN TOWN YUMA- EMPTY BECAUSE GUNFIGHT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.jace ringer and joe silas standing at the top of the street looking west. jace is the yuma marshall,26, 5, slim, tanned like leather, looks indifferent, joe silas is the deputy sheriff, has a handlebar mustach,long hair with a ten gallon hat and is short and chubby.He is a pleasant looking man who wears overals.
JACE RINGLER
This town looks pretty empty.
Joe silas
Yes, Jace it does.
Jace ringler
Wasn't Tommy's gang supposed to be here by now.
Joe silas
Yeah- I reckin' so, Maybe they help up that train in Carson City like we thought they would.
(Suddenly Lucy walks out of the Prancing Pony Saloon and falls to the ground and starts crying)
Lucy
I need your help!
Joe silas
Lucy, what's the matter?
Lucy
Tommy's gang is in the saloon and she slit me sister's throat!
Joe
Wait a minute-they are supposed to be 20 miles away robbing the train from Tempe!
Marshal Jace
Guess we misjudged them. Joe, you go around back, I'll cover the front Lucy, go to the post office and have Mr. Johnson send a telegraph to Sheriff Woody in Toyville.
Lucy
Jace be careful, I love you.
FADE IN:
EXT DAY OLD WESTERN TOWN YUMA- EMPTY BECAUSE GUNFIGHT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.jace ringer and joe silas standing at the top of the street looking west. jace is the yuma marshall,26, 5, slim, tanned like leather, looks indifferent, joe silas is the deputy sheriff, has a handlebar mustach,long hair with a ten gallon hat and is short and chubby.He is a pleasant looking man who wears overals.
JACE RINGLER
This town looks pretty empty.
Joe silas
Yes, Jace it does.
Jace ringler
Wasn't Tommy's gang supposed to be here by now.
Joe silas
Yeah- I reckin' so, Maybe they help up that train in Carson City like we thought they would.
(Suddenly Lucy walks out of the Prancing Pony Saloon and falls to the ground and starts crying)
Lucy
I need your help!
Joe silas
Lucy, what's the matter?
Lucy
Tommy's gang is in the saloon and she slit me sister's throat!
Joe
Wait a minute-they are supposed to be 20 miles away robbing the train from Tempe!
Marshal Jace
Guess we misjudged them. Joe, you go around back, I'll cover the front Lucy, go to the post office and have Mr. Johnson send a telegraph to Sheriff Woody in Toyville.
Lucy
Jace be careful, I love you.
I tried
I did the challenge of writing a story in 420 characters or less I tried to get as close to 420 as possible, sometimes I succeeded and got exactly 420 other times I was a failure and didn't. So that met my writing standard using 2.2, but for the reading one I read some stories other people wrote on the website http://420characters.com/, using the first standard.
Here are some of my examples:
English class: Always something to do, read a book or write a paper, but on Every Tuesday we take a break. We work for a company called Eng. III for 20% of each week we do what we want so long as it relates to Eng. III. There are no carrots and no sticks but instead joysticks. A hand full of students have chosen to play video games in this “20% time”. Even though it made us famous I hate the blogs!
The color green make me think but as it write this down I think about how hard it is to type with one hand .Just a fair warning this has no plot and no theme as soon as you think you have figure them out it will change. poor doctor gravy sit all slouched over probably because he gets beaten every Friday during dance parties. There is a disco ball up on the shelf one of its colors is green.
Some like it while others despise it. what is “it“ you may ask but I cannot tell you the answer to that question. Personally it is one of the worst curses god hath bestowed upon us, although it does make the world look clean – even though it really is just a facade that just covers up how dirty everything really is. I will give you the answer but first you will have to take a guess before I will tell you… it’s snow
Here are some of my examples:
English class: Always something to do, read a book or write a paper, but on Every Tuesday we take a break. We work for a company called Eng. III for 20% of each week we do what we want so long as it relates to Eng. III. There are no carrots and no sticks but instead joysticks. A hand full of students have chosen to play video games in this “20% time”. Even though it made us famous I hate the blogs!
The color green make me think but as it write this down I think about how hard it is to type with one hand .Just a fair warning this has no plot and no theme as soon as you think you have figure them out it will change. poor doctor gravy sit all slouched over probably because he gets beaten every Friday during dance parties. There is a disco ball up on the shelf one of its colors is green.
Some like it while others despise it. what is “it“ you may ask but I cannot tell you the answer to that question. Personally it is one of the worst curses god hath bestowed upon us, although it does make the world look clean – even though it really is just a facade that just covers up how dirty everything really is. I will give you the answer but first you will have to take a guess before I will tell you… it’s snow
L.A. Candy
Jane and Scarlett aren't exactly liking filming L.A. Candy. They're both very annoyed with the cameras being with them all the time and never having time to themselves. Scarlett just isn't into the show at all. Jane likes the show and being involved, but when she's on a date with a boy she prefers to be alone, and not be filmed the whole time. Madison and Gaby, two other girls on the show, aren't getting along very well with Scarlett. Scarlett doesn't like them, and will hardly even give them a chance. Jane doesn't mind them, and tries to get along with them as best as she can. Their show has just went up at the number one show watched on MTV.
Skyrim: Elder Scrolls V
This blog i decided to review: Skyrim: Elder Scrolls V
This has just about everything in it from fighting dragons to going hunting in order to survive. This action packed game takes you farther into Skyrim to find its hidden secrets.
Skyrim has gotten the prestiges awards as E3 and all round best game of the year award.
Skyrim is a RPG about dragons coming back to skyrim to seek revenge to the poeple that sent them to their burial ground. You have just found out that you are the last DragonBorn, the only person that can send every dragon back to their resting places. You must now learn and master skills that can kill the dragons and by doing that, you must go on dangeous and heroic quest to find the true meaning of being DragonBorn.
Along the quest you must train to become more skilled in combat and magic and by doing so you must fight every enemy that challenges you. When you rank up you become more powerful, that makes you have more enemies, with more enemies that even helps you rank up faster.
There is also a overall level that whe nyoue level gets higher so does the enemies and so does the difficulty of the game. For example, if you were level 30 that means your emenies would be around level 20-25, but when you are level 10 you enemies are levels 1-5. When you reach level 50 with all skills mastered you are next to god mode, you are basically invinsible.
The higher level you get the better weapons and armour you can make in the blacksmith, the better armour you have, than it is harder for you to die, and better weapons means your enemies will die faster and easier.
In my opinion this game is one of the best games i have ever played along side the Call of Duty games. there is no word that there is going to the a VI coming out but if there is that I'm deffinently going to buy it. If i were to rank this game out of 10 i would rank it at a 7 1/2- 8.
420 Characters
Writing Standard:11.W.1.2 Students can write a document analyzing how a work of literature mirrors the themes and issues of its historical period.
Reading Standard:11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
Writing a detailed story in around 420 characters.
Drip … drip … drip that’s all I hear tonight, besides all the screaming and moaning. I feel insecure and feel like the walls are coming in on me. They treat me like a wild animal in a cage, holding me back from everyone next to me, from beating me. He brings me to a room, dark room with a chair, he grabs my arms like toothpicks. Brings me, tenuous, sits me down and straps me in for a rollercoaster and watch my life fly by. I see my family’s lifeless bodies look at me when they are hoping to stop it and I see the fear.
I had difficulties trying to figure out what to write about but once it came to me it seemed like it just a came to me. Did some creative thinking and read others, and I would repeat this project.
Reading Standard:11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
Writing a detailed story in around 420 characters.
Drip … drip … drip that’s all I hear tonight, besides all the screaming and moaning. I feel insecure and feel like the walls are coming in on me. They treat me like a wild animal in a cage, holding me back from everyone next to me, from beating me. He brings me to a room, dark room with a chair, he grabs my arms like toothpicks. Brings me, tenuous, sits me down and straps me in for a rollercoaster and watch my life fly by. I see my family’s lifeless bodies look at me when they are hoping to stop it and I see the fear.
I had difficulties trying to figure out what to write about but once it came to me it seemed like it just a came to me. Did some creative thinking and read others, and I would repeat this project.
Guitar.
Indicator 2: Students can comprehend and fluently read text.
(Analysis) 11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text.
(Application) 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
(Analysis) 11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text.
(Application) 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
For the second portion of 20% Time, I decided to change my project. I am learning how to play guitar now, but I will also play video games with Edward and continue on with that blogging. I am teaching myself how to play guitar, but I may acquire someone's assistance if things aren't going as planned (Noah, Adam, Ellie A, Mark F, etc). My goal of learning how to play guitar started when my parents bought me one for Christmas.
To start off, I have looked through several online guitar lesson books to get familiarized with the notes and frets. This link is just one of them that I found and it is a very basic one for anyone to follow (http://www.ashleyintl.com/SpectrumInstruments/AB-Guitar-booklet.pdf). Hopefully next, I will learn the scales, and then from there, progress onto learning more advanced songs. I know a couple songs already: Smoke on the Water and Hey Ya.
Checkpoint: War Diaries.
Indicator 4: Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.(Analysis) 11.R.4.1 Students can analyze a text within cultural, geographical, and historical context.
For the past couple weeks, I've been writing journals set in the time of the Civil War. I wish I would have gotten farther than what I wanted. I wanted to have a lot more journals and led up to a bigger climax. I didn't run into any difficulties because it's all of my creative writing. I think I'm going to put this project on a pause because I often have writers block, but maybe I'll come back to it.
For the past couple weeks, I've been writing journals set in the time of the Civil War. I wish I would have gotten farther than what I wanted. I wanted to have a lot more journals and led up to a bigger climax. I didn't run into any difficulties because it's all of my creative writing. I think I'm going to put this project on a pause because I often have writers block, but maybe I'll come back to it.
Here's a link to see what I've been up to... .~*
Remembering You
For my next project, I have chosen to write about a person who is very special to me. She isn't just my sister, but she is a mother of two, and an aunt. I chose to write about her, because I don't want the slightest feeling that she is being forgotten. She is progressing slowly and I wanted to show her that I will always be thinking of her. The story will then be put
People and time spent together are sometimes taken for granted until they are gone. I have a second chance to change the way I spend time with others, and I have. I used to just leave like I would see them tomorrow, but now I will hug them and remind them how much I truly care. There is always the possibility that one of us won't be here tomorrow.
There is no reading standards for this, because I'm writing the story instead of reading it.
People and time spent together are sometimes taken for granted until they are gone. I have a second chance to change the way I spend time with others, and I have. I used to just leave like I would see them tomorrow, but now I will hug them and remind them how much I truly care. There is always the possibility that one of us won't be here tomorrow.
There is no reading standards for this, because I'm writing the story instead of reading it.
Clothes for a Cause
Reading standard
Indicator 2: Students can comprehend and fluently read text.
(Analysis) 11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text.
(Application) 11.R.2.1 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
Writing standard
Indicator 2: Students can apply Standard English conventions in their writing.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.1 Students can edit text for the correct use of independent and subordinate clauses.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.2 Students can edit for correct use of verbals and verbal phrases.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.3 Students can edit for correct use of semicolons and colons.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.4 Students can edit for correct use of parentheses, dashes, hyphens, and ellipses.
Nicole and I started a project together. We chose to donate clothes to the Children's Inn in Sioux Falls. In the process of setting this up, we made flyers to hang around the High School and the community of Baltic. We also found facts that dealt with a few things the Children's Inn takes care of. For example: battered women, families in loss of a home, children with disabilities, etc. We also made a goal of 150 items to be brought to the High School office by Friday, February 10, 2012. We hung up the flyers today and our project is under way! Please help if you can! Thanks!
Indicator 2: Students can comprehend and fluently read text.
(Analysis) 11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text.
(Application) 11.R.2.1 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
Writing standard
Indicator 2: Students can apply Standard English conventions in their writing.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.1 Students can edit text for the correct use of independent and subordinate clauses.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.2 Students can edit for correct use of verbals and verbal phrases.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.3 Students can edit for correct use of semicolons and colons.
(Evaluation) 11.W.2.4 Students can edit for correct use of parentheses, dashes, hyphens, and ellipses.
Nicole and I started a project together. We chose to donate clothes to the Children's Inn in Sioux Falls. In the process of setting this up, we made flyers to hang around the High School and the community of Baltic. We also found facts that dealt with a few things the Children's Inn takes care of. For example: battered women, families in loss of a home, children with disabilities, etc. We also made a goal of 150 items to be brought to the High School office by Friday, February 10, 2012. We hung up the flyers today and our project is under way! Please help if you can! Thanks!
Life As We Know It ... 2
Indicator 1: Students can recognize and analyze words. Indicator 2: Students can comprehend and fluently read text. (Analysis)
11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text. (Application) 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
I am continuing to read in Life as we Knew It. For some reason I cannot put the book down! I didn’t think that I would be that into it because it’s kind of a sci-fi book, but I wanted to try it out just to see if I liked it…and I did! They are finding more and more out about all the deaths in other places and things going on in other places besides where they are now. They found out their favorite baseball team is safe and doing just fine, because they got away from the coast just in time before the big happening. Mom does more shopping, even though they don’t need it. She stocks up on warm clothes for the winter, even though it’s only almost summer. She says she’s not letting her kids go cold this winter, and if they end up not needed it, at least they had it.
It was beginning to be normal to not have electricity at all during the day now. Normally just a few hours here and there, just enough to get laundry going and catch up with new stories on TV and the internet. Miranda’s brother will be coming soon, which makes he feel a lot better and that everything will be okay. All her worries have been about him and if everything is alright down where he lives. School is going to start being closed off now, which disappoints Miranda. It was the only thing normal still going on in her life. But they were running out of food to feed the children (without electricity to make anything or back up food stored).
I will continue reading the book, whether it is for 20% or not. I’m not sure what I’m doing for my next project, but I have a few things in mind. I guess we’ll have to wait and find out! :)
11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text. (Application) 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
I am continuing to read in Life as we Knew It. For some reason I cannot put the book down! I didn’t think that I would be that into it because it’s kind of a sci-fi book, but I wanted to try it out just to see if I liked it…and I did! They are finding more and more out about all the deaths in other places and things going on in other places besides where they are now. They found out their favorite baseball team is safe and doing just fine, because they got away from the coast just in time before the big happening. Mom does more shopping, even though they don’t need it. She stocks up on warm clothes for the winter, even though it’s only almost summer. She says she’s not letting her kids go cold this winter, and if they end up not needed it, at least they had it.
It was beginning to be normal to not have electricity at all during the day now. Normally just a few hours here and there, just enough to get laundry going and catch up with new stories on TV and the internet. Miranda’s brother will be coming soon, which makes he feel a lot better and that everything will be okay. All her worries have been about him and if everything is alright down where he lives. School is going to start being closed off now, which disappoints Miranda. It was the only thing normal still going on in her life. But they were running out of food to feed the children (without electricity to make anything or back up food stored).
I will continue reading the book, whether it is for 20% or not. I’m not sure what I’m doing for my next project, but I have a few things in mind. I guess we’ll have to wait and find out! :)
The Beach Club
11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.
- For the past two weeks ive been reading The Beach Club by Elin Hilderbrand. This book has been something I just happened to pick up over brake and haven’t had much time to read it with all the ENGLISH homework. ;) Just kidding. So far, my plan is to continue this cycle until the book it finished. The book has been pretty decent so far, kind of slow really. But I like the way the words are displayed and how smooth they read. The chapters are long, so what I have been doing is splitting one chapter into three days of reading.
Book review: http://www.amazon.com/Beach-Club-Novel-Elin-Hilderbrand/dp/0312979649
Thank you Publishers Weekly!
Day one:
- The owner of a beach club gets letters every year from a mystery person offering to buy the beach house and hotel and pay one hefty price. The owner however, doesn’t see the value in the persons offer and every year declines it. Therese Elliott is perhaps the mom of the resort. She listens to everyone’s complaints and problems in attempt to save them from their aiking selves. Nantucket attracts many people, one in particular is Leo. His wife left his with his children as he was perusing his career. The only reason why he kept going with his life is because the docter said it was normal and what his children needed, even if that meant his son CRIED all the time. Leo, to bond with his two older sons invited them to play tenis. But they wanted to play doubles so they asked the “mom” of the resort to play with them. They will be meeting at four.
Day two:
- Mean while, Tetherese takes it upon herself to mentor Leos family. Before playing tennis though, she teaches a new girl how to clean hotel rooms. The girl just about quits because she has to stick the pinky in the toilet in order to check the temperature. Finally four oclock rolls around and they all get to playing tennis; they hardly speak a word to one another, as if they hadn’t ever talked in their entire life. During tennis hot topics come up. One son admits he is gay and the other tells Leo he isn’t interested in going to law school anymore even though he just finished his four year degree at Harvard Law School. In Leos warped way of thinking, he takes his two older sons out to dinner and tells them that if they were put together into one man… They would be Leos perfect son. Ouch right?!
Day three:
- Twenty eight years ago, in this book, was Memorial Day. The day the owners of the club found out their son died in the womb at eight months. The janitor of the hotel relived his experience of finding out his parents died, he also told us that he puked in his moms car. I wouldn’t expect anything less after finding out your parents had died. A young boy after work stopped by and had cheese and crackers with Lacy. Lacy was eighty and with in the past year and a half her husband had died in his sleep. They married late in life and that was Lacy’s excuse for not having children. Also her husband, Max, was really against adopting kids. So in the end she is lonely with out anything to her name in her eighties.
- For the past two weeks ive been reading The Beach Club by Elin Hilderbrand. This book has been something I just happened to pick up over brake and haven’t had much time to read it with all the ENGLISH homework. ;) Just kidding. So far, my plan is to continue this cycle until the book it finished. The book has been pretty decent so far, kind of slow really. But I like the way the words are displayed and how smooth they read. The chapters are long, so what I have been doing is splitting one chapter into three days of reading.
Book review: http://www.amazon.com/Beach-Club-Novel-Elin-Hilderbrand/dp/0312979649
Thank you Publishers Weekly!
Day one:
- The owner of a beach club gets letters every year from a mystery person offering to buy the beach house and hotel and pay one hefty price. The owner however, doesn’t see the value in the persons offer and every year declines it. Therese Elliott is perhaps the mom of the resort. She listens to everyone’s complaints and problems in attempt to save them from their aiking selves. Nantucket attracts many people, one in particular is Leo. His wife left his with his children as he was perusing his career. The only reason why he kept going with his life is because the docter said it was normal and what his children needed, even if that meant his son CRIED all the time. Leo, to bond with his two older sons invited them to play tenis. But they wanted to play doubles so they asked the “mom” of the resort to play with them. They will be meeting at four.
Day two:
- Mean while, Tetherese takes it upon herself to mentor Leos family. Before playing tennis though, she teaches a new girl how to clean hotel rooms. The girl just about quits because she has to stick the pinky in the toilet in order to check the temperature. Finally four oclock rolls around and they all get to playing tennis; they hardly speak a word to one another, as if they hadn’t ever talked in their entire life. During tennis hot topics come up. One son admits he is gay and the other tells Leo he isn’t interested in going to law school anymore even though he just finished his four year degree at Harvard Law School. In Leos warped way of thinking, he takes his two older sons out to dinner and tells them that if they were put together into one man… They would be Leos perfect son. Ouch right?!
Day three:
- Twenty eight years ago, in this book, was Memorial Day. The day the owners of the club found out their son died in the womb at eight months. The janitor of the hotel relived his experience of finding out his parents died, he also told us that he puked in his moms car. I wouldn’t expect anything less after finding out your parents had died. A young boy after work stopped by and had cheese and crackers with Lacy. Lacy was eighty and with in the past year and a half her husband had died in his sleep. They married late in life and that was Lacy’s excuse for not having children. Also her husband, Max, was really against adopting kids. So in the end she is lonely with out anything to her name in her eighties.
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