wrap up

well its time to  wind down the fourth quarter blogs and the last of the year. it has been fun to blog and relate with other on the same book instead of just reading a novel and typing a paper on it like we have had to do for years. i really enjoyed it and i would like to thank mrs hayes for giving us the opportunity to experience something knew in terms of education. also being able to integrate technology more was really fun and i think that every class should try to put technology into their curriculum. thanks again good bye Blogger!

oddness

the book i am furniture is the novel i am reading as the final book for the year and the final blogs of the year. this book to me is almost imediatly interesting because of the title, i am furniture, that is just odd. who and how is this person furniture? well dont take it so literally silly!!! its a metaphore for being invisible and getting sat on in a way. anyway i need to go ill see you on the next blogs.

blocked again!

hello again fellow bloggers, again i have blog block but this time i think it is because i am hungry, have a sore throat, and a fever of 101.7 so im not in the best condition to be blogging. though it hurts my head and eyes to look at this bright computer screen i will try and blog a bit more because it is after all my grade. as i keep rambling about worthless things i guess ill tell you about how my mom is bring me steak n shake and its about be sooo good i finna smash, i havnt really eaten much in the past 3 days. anyway i will think of a better blog post for the next one peace out home ddawgs

4th quarter into

Hello fellow bloggers it is now the fourth quarter of the school yea and its time to wrap up the year with a book called i am furniture. Its not a hard read but it certainly has an impact seeing what the main character had to go through. I have many friends readig the same book and they all say it was a good book. I wouldnt put it up there with harry potter or anything as famous as that but it was pretty good. I reccomend reading this book if you are bored over the summer and need somthing to read or do. Ill talk to you later friendos!

My Animoto Video

My Animoto Video

sparknotes are worthless

im not saying i cheated but i did try and look up sparknotes on my book just to see how it would be summarized
and what do you know my books not even on there! along with not having every book like you would think sparknotes takes away so much value of a good old fashioned book. how are we suppose to learn if we read how some random person summarizes the book? anyway i think sparknotes as a light and dark side. it could either help learn or it could just completely devalue the point of reading. in the ways that it could help learn is it could give a second opinion to someone who has once read the book then read sparknotes  to get a second summary. it could also devalue the book by those who dont read the book and get the full enjoyment of it and instead look up a summary that could possibly leave out a lot of details to the book. so what do you think about sparknotes? good or bad?

blog block!

so im sitting here trying to think of what to do another blog on and nothing is comming to me! i think its because im ready to go outside and play with my dog in this great weather. anyway i think its funny how people associate old school terms and integrate the modern day ways into those terms and by that i mean "writers block" has now become "bloggers block" and its an actual definition! we honestly integrate technology into everything now adays and its just crazy! id like to do some old school schooling but this is our society now, technology based, so i guess its time to cope! anyway i might have an idea for a new blog but well see!

family

Family never seemed so great, after reading this book an seeing Salvas journey to find his family it really sheds some light on just how important it is to have a family. a lot of the time people can take their family for granted but after realizing that families can be ripped apart so easily it makes a guy realize that every moment of every day should be shared loving and caring for family and friends for that matter. there is so much hate in the world but in the end what is the point of it? to hurt and to loose sight of what god intended? life is meant to be filled with love and compassion and lived to its fullest every day, thats Gods plan. This book really can show people a lesson and teach them how to love and not hate because in the end hate does no good and it isnt what we as a human race are intended to do. we are here to be tested in the ways of God, we are all a reflection of the lords image and that sure is not to hate and kill and torture and just have anger, so man up do good help each other and love your family as well as every moment of life because its shorter then you may think.

courage

 for a short scene in the book, "A Long Walk to Water" the main character Salva is tempted to join the rebellion to fight in the war around his country. there are enlistors where he ends up at one point and though hesitant he decides to try and join, but is shot down by one of the enlistors for being to young, the enlistor claps him on the shoulder and says, "dont be so quick to grow up." this showed courage in Salva that though young and though he dint really want to do it he tried anyway because its right for him to fight for his freedom. this heroic act reminded me of someone very close to me, who without i would not be alive. my grandfather, was seventeen years old when his brother joined the army to go fight in world war II and service his country. being stubborn and not wanting to let his brother go my grandpaw enlisted under a false age and became a tail gunner in a B32 bomber. he served his country well due to his love for his brother and the courage he had in order to serve at such a young age. salva did not get away with enlisting but my grandpaw did and this story just reminded me of grandpaw though it was a very short scene in the story.

3rd quarter blog intro!!!

hey gals an pals! its 3rd quarter and here we are on thursday january 12, 2012 kicking off the first blog to the new quarter. this time i am reading the book "a long walk to water." this book takes place in africa and is a very thrilling and scary book knowing its based on a true story and that things like this happen every day. a lot of people take living in america for granted but in other places of the world, like Africa, its hard to even learn or do anything because there is war going on all around. after watching movies and what not involving this kind of place i never really thought of it to be so serious but as iv grown up an started looking at the world in a new light i understand that this is very real and some extremeley messed up stuff takes place in our world and everything isnt just rainbows and butterflies like a lot of people think. i feel as though this book could open the mind of those who built a barrier around themselves and assume everything is perfect. this book may shed a new light of evil and rip them from their pedistool they perch so high on. i would recommend reading this book for those who would like to have a taste of what really happens in our world and what you may just be kept away from, and im not even done with the book!