Using my no post for this

- french reading 30 minutes - 40 min in the writing lab - Wake 90 minutes

What I want most in the world

What I really want most in the world is really simple yet impossible for most people. Some people have this ability and when they do they usually don't like it. I want to be able to eat everything and anything without getting fat. I have the metabolism of a dead elephant. It's unfortunate really. Some people (mostly guys) can an entire pizza and not gain a single ounce. For those of you who can do that here is a message: I hate you. Most guys who can do this are always complaining about how they can't put on weight. Oh you poor thing. Could this be classified as a super power? If so, why isn't Marvel making a super hero out of it? Or they could make it into a villain. Someone who shows up to parties, inhales all the food, and leaves. But seriously if there was a pill or injection I could take to obtain this power I'd so do it. NASA should do it. I'd be their guinea pig. I volunteer as tribute hook me up NASA. I'd pay a lot of money to get that injection if I had a lot of money. Do you understand how happy i'd be? I'd have DQ blizzards for breakfast lunch and dinner. I'd be walking around like what is this thing you call salad? What is healthy?

Song

For this blog assignment I chose the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Yes I know it's very professional. This childhood classic does in fact have an author who's name is Jane Taylor. Through research I have found that the well know song of our childhood is actually a lot longer than what we know it. But i'm going to do the version that we all know. Twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are I noticed that each line has 7 syllables. The pattern is stressed and unstressed which is trochee. This makes it a trochaic septameter. I also noticed that the last and first word of each line compliment each other. In the first line it ends with "star" and the first word of the second line starts with how. Star is kinda stressed and how isn't. This contributes to keeping up with the trocaic septameter. The song is very soothing. It doesn't have any sharp sounds in it. All the sounds are soft and calm. This contributes to the song being a lullaby. It has the same tune as the Alphabet song and Baba blacksheep. If you want to see the whole version of the song click the link http://www.elyrics.net/read/j/jewel-lyrics/twinkle-twinkle-little-star-lyrics.html

Reading response

Last week I read for about 30 minutes of Wake. It's really good so far. The book was boring at first, but now it's picking up a lot more. Things are actually happening now! Yay! I feel like she spent to much time on the whole suspense part because I was getting really bored. I'm glad I kept reading the book though. That's one of the things i'm bad at when it comes to reading. I get bored if there isn't a lot of things going on, and I read really slow. It's a big problem. The length of time it takes for me to read is abnormal. I also reread Split in preparation for the book discussion on Thursday. I noticed things that I didn't before. It's not a real big thinking book like Nervous Conditions so the things I noticed weren't that important. Maybe I didn't notice something new, but I just forgot it and than noticed it. I don't know. I also read a bunch of magazines at the beach if that counts for anything. Reading times 30 minutes- Wake 3-4 hours- Split 1-3 hours- magazines

Writing

I think i'm going to choose my literacy narrative to revise. Out of all my essays i'm must say that my literacy narrative is the weakest. I don't know if it's because I was callow back in the days, but man is that paper bad. I've gotten a lot better about comma splices and fragments, so basically sentence structure was not my forte. I also need to make my points a little bit more clear, and improve the end and beginning. I chose this essay because in the comments Dr. D said I had "the bones of a strong story." All I have to do is improve upon it, and now I know exactly how to do so. In my literacy narrative I had numerous run-ons, comma splices, and just stupid errors. To be honest before Dr. D's class I didn't know what a "comma splice" was. I actually never even heard of it so I bet my middle school essays are chock full of them. I didn't choose my research essay, because most of the errors was in formatting. And my literacy analysis had some sentence structure errors, but not as many as my literacy narrative. But my analysis is also possibly a good candidate for my portfolio.

Jane Goodall's New Book

I can't believe someone as experienced as Jane Goodall would mess up like this, or that she's 78 years old. I don't know wether to blame the editor, her, or the publishers. I would think that a professional book like this would go through a series of edits and they'd probably catch it, but apparently not. She also had a coauthor so you'd think that one of them was bound to catch it or remember to site the information. I wonder if she did it on purpose, but wether she purposely plagiarized or not she still did it. From what i've learned in high school plagiarizing is a serious thing and comes with harsh punishments, and this is just high school! What she did is serious. She probably has to pay a bunch of fines, but I don't think she'll have to go to jail or anything. She IS a 78 year old lady. The authors and publishers already apologized, and said they were going to fix new issues of the book. Wow this is so troublesome. I'm in yearbook and whenever there's a problem it's like Panic Mode Activated. I think they should apologize in person to the original sources that they stole from and not through email, fix the book, and make the apology extremely public like at a press conference or something. I've never been in this position so I don't know how anyone feels, but I think that would be appropriate.

NC yes or no

Wether or not we agree with Nervous Conditions being in the 9th grade syllabus it's still going to be in it. I think it should be in the syllabus. First of all it was a good book, and it was fairly easy to read. Second of all the theme of the book helps answer our question of the year. How does community and culture affect who we are? I have only recently realized that most of the books we've read has to do with this question. Nation was the first book, Lord of the Flies was the second book, and now it's Nervous Conditions. I think this book really helps answer the question because we get to see how people act corresponding to where they live. We all know that different places all have their own culture and way of life, but when a person relocates does their culture come with them? The answer is yes. They take their cultures with them, and this is called cultural diffusion. But does living somewhere else change who you are? In Nervous Conditions we see how Nyasha is greatly affect by moving to England and letting "the englishness" take over her, but she wasn't the only one. Babamukuru also was affected by "the englishness" but in a different way. I guess how moving to a new place changes you is how you let it. Babamukuru and Nyasha were both affected by moving, but they were affected only by their choices. Baba chose to model his house after an English one, and Nyasha chose to let the social society impact her life. This book is a great way to bring new ideas when it comes to answering the million dollar question.