Final Post of the Year...

For my last project, I chose to read a book called "Kissed by an Angel," by Elizabeth Chandler. In the book the main character, Ivy, fell in love with Tristan, the best swimmer on the swimming team. After an unexpected car accident, Tristan was killed and Ivy was left in the hospital. In the book there was a twist. Even though Tristan had died, he came back as an angel, and he had to do a mission before he went officially to the other side. Before the crash, Ivy believed in angels, and she even had several statues of them in her room. After the crash though, she didn’t believe anymore, so she couldn’t see Tristan. Phillip, Ivy’s little brother, still believed, and he was able to see Tristan most of the time he was around. As the story continues on, Tristan figures out that the car accident was not a true accident, someone had planned it. When Tristan was driving, the car kept going faster and faster, when he tried to use the break, it went to the floor every time he pushed. Someone had cut the brake line, so no matter how hard Tristan pushed down, the car would not stop. As the book goes on, Ivy begins to believe in angels again because of Phillip’s stories, and then finally she can see Tristan again. When the book ends, they find out who tried to kill Ivy, and Tristan finally goes to the other side, leaving Ivy in peace and the ability to love again.



random

So for the past few days in 20% time I have been doing random stuff, I started out doing the old fall back ACT prep then after that i worked on my presentation for the end of 20% time, next I did some work on fast web and applied for a scholarship, and now I am blogging about it. for scholar ships I had to read and under stand exactly what the instructions say and the for the writing part I had to write stuff to make me look good which is challenging to do.

P.S. 40% Gay 

Pedo Bear

Columbine

My reading standard is 11.R.5.1. I have summarized this on a different document. I got tired of doing the Fearbook, so I decided to move on to school shootings. I chose this topic because bullying has been an effect on school shootings. I did the first one that came into my head, and that was the Columbine Massacre. Columbine is located in a suburban town called Littleton in Colorado.

Dylan Kelbold and Eric Harris seem to be like normal students at Columbine. They became best friends and they were both really intelligent with technology especially with computers. From their acquaintances, they were being picked on by jocks because Dylan or Eric weren’t able to fit in a clique. It seem like the boys were going through depression due to the bullying from their peers. Eric kept a journal and he wrote how much he hated life or other subjects in his life and why.

They wanted to prepare for the massacre. They wanted it to occur on April 20^th, which they knew was Adolf Hitler’s birthday. They research on how to build bombs and they also went to the shooting range to get a little “practice” with their shooting skills. They wanted to enter the cafeteria where 500 students will be for the first lunch period. On April 20^th, 1999 at 11:15, the boys set duffel bags full of explosives near a cafeteria table. No one notice the bags or they thought that it was nothing. The boys waited outside for their explosives to go off, but the bombs malfunctioned. They set up two more explosives several blocks away and once when those explosives went off, they began firing at students outside the cafeteria. At 11:19 the Columbine Massacre happened.

Students inside the school thought that it was a senior prank. No one started to panic until Eric and Dylan shot at least 4 students. Teachers put students in rooms and lock the door and hid. Numerous of students were trapped in the library where Eric and Dylan did most of their shooting. As they were walking through the school, they just threw pipe bombs and just kept shooting. After killing thirteen innocent people, twelve students and one teacher, Eric and Dylan committed suicide somewhere between 12:02 to 12:05 in the library. Columbine Massacre went on for 47 devastating minutes even with the entire world watching this.

10 years later: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm

Here is the link to read more on USA today.

In USA Today article, the police say that Eric and Dylan didn’t start the shooting due to the bullying that they had. They just wanted to pick on the freshmen and “fags”. The boys didn’t target the jocks, blacks, or Christians. Both of them were on antidepressants and that seem to play a major concept in the investigation. They weren’t normal kids; they just had severe psychological problems. 

Post the Last

For my 20% Time (and most of those previous as well) I made a blog where I reviewed books I had read. You can find the link to the blog here.

Crazy Horse continued...

For my 20% blog time I decided to extend the idea of my research paper (the indigenous Indian tribes in the 1800-1900s) by researching more about this new Native American culture. I read many quotes of both chiefs and modern Native Americans, watched pow wow videos and listened to music, and unfortunately read and saw the devastation affecting reservations. However, for my presentation I plan on explaing who Crazy Horse was, and why there's a 600ft by 530 ft (ish) unfinished sculpture collecting dust in SoDak.

Indicator 5: Students can access, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate informational texts.

 (Analysis) 11.R.5.1 Students can analyze factors that influence the credibility of informational sources.

I will be synthesizing information from probably two sources, and expanding on what I comprehend about how this monumental sculpture is a symbol for the new assimilated Native American culture, which is an indirect follow-up to what my junior research paper was about.

I accomplished exactly what I wanted to with this small project, and I plan on expanding on this idea over summer by attending Native American festivals or pow wows.

Friends

The last time I posted, I wrote about a person who was very close and meant alot to me. I decided to stay with the same theme. I am writing a story about how my friends have gotten me through many of the rough times. As I don't have my sister to give me advice; I go to my true friends. They are true friends when they will deal with my attitude and problems. This doesn't exactly show my appreciation for them, but it is just a tid bit of how much they truly mean to me. I will continue to write my story over the weekend and will share tidbits in class on Tuesday.

Indicator 1: Students can recognize and analyze words.

 (Application) 11.R.1.1 Students can apply context clues to extend vocabulary.

This past week I have been reading The Hunger Games. I saw the movie in theatres shortly after it came out. I thought the movie was pretty good, so I decided to read the book. I haven't made it very far, since I just started, but it's definitely a work in progress. So far, the book is pretty good and I plan to finish the series and see the other movies as they come out as well. If you like reading, I would suggest this series! :)