Poetry Experience

I'm not really a poetry fan, well learning about it anyway. I do like to read it every once in a while. I love reading the Shell Silverstine books they are my absolute favorite ones. I think the best experience I've had with poetry would be reading the little kid fun poems, or the really deep meaning full ones. My all time favorite poem would have to
  The Googies are Coming by Shel Silverstein in Where the Sidewalk Ends

The googies are coming, the old people say,
To buy little children and take them away.
Fifty cents for lean ones,
Fifteen cents for dirty ones,
Thirty cents for clean ones,
A nickel each for mean ones.

The googies are coming, and maybe tonight,
To buy little children and lock them up tight.
Eighty cents for husky ones,
Quarter for the weak ones,
Penny each for noisy ones,
A dollar for the meek ones.

Forty cents for happy ones,
Eleven cents for sad ones.
And, kiddies,when they come to buy,
It won’t do any good to cry.
But—just between yourselves and I—
They never buy the bad ones!

 

 i love it because its humerous, fun to read and people of all ages love it. I think it impacted my life because it keeps me having fun.

The conclusion

    To reflect on this whole year long blog I would have to thank Mrs. Gilman for always being there when i have questions and helping me through every assignment even when she got frustrated, through writing all these blogs I think in a way it has helped me to like writing a little bit more, all though it is my worst subject and my least favorite, this assignment has helped me to see the fun in writing, and that it doesn't have to all be about work. I think the most fun blogs were the ones that we got to put in a little story about our self, these not only help us understand what we are comparing our life to, it helps Mrs.Gilman and our classmates get to know us a little better by reading them and maybe they can relate with their story and you would have never known you had something in common.  I don't think writing these blogs has necessarily made me a better writer but it's made it more fun and a lot easier as well. When I look back at all of my blogs throughout the year I have found that I can relate something from my home life in every one, I think when we write about our home life, or past it makes writing so much more meaningful and easier to do because when you write about you, or your life, nobody can tell it better than you can.
   Over the year I sorta lost track along the way and thinking that i could just breeze through school, well I thought wrong, I've missed a lot of blogs even though I try to make them up I should have gotten them done an had them on time in the first place. I find that this year was actually really challenging for me because I've always been a very organized person and always on top of things making sure they're done, but my worries get the best of me, home life gets stressful my grades start slipping and I stop caring, well now I'm seeing how big of a problem it is to slip behind even just a little because, I'm in high school now. These blogs have actually showed me how hard it is to get caught up then it is to do your work in the first place so you don't have to worry about it later. I know i really didn't like these blogs but honestly I'm glad we had them. So thank you Mrs.Gilman
  and you really are my favorite teacher I hope I have you for English my junior year ! (because we all know I won't be taking honors)

memorable assignments

writing has always been something i have struggled with, but this year during the finals i thought i worked really hard and did my best to write a really good paper, even though i only got a C i felt that i had done a really good job. This was memorable because it made me work really hard and think.

ROmeo and Juliet its Everywhere

So in modern culture we like to use romeo and Juliet references alot in almost every love story. For example Shrek the movie. fiona is locked away in a tower and then shrek has to go save her well in romeo and Juliet romeos family and Juliet families are enemies but then they fall in love anyway. Shrek and fiona are kinda like that shrek is an orger and fiona is a human not the best couple, but they see past that just like romeo and Juliet did.

isn't that the cutest thing you've ever seen besides me(:

Connecting With Romeo and Juliet

Reading the scenes at home and then in class helps me so much in understanding the language. I have my own interpretations when I'm by myself and then at school I can see it as something completely different (in a good way). The old time language can be difficult and is difficult most of the time, only making the book harder to read. Sometimes I'm having a hard enough time trying to understand what's going on that it's hard to see imagery and metaphors let alone any annotations. It really helps to come to school to have Mrs. Gilman not only tell you what's going on, but reword it into modern English.
 Reading this play has been difficult. At times its really hard to understand what is going on, but if I go back and re-read the part that I am confused about and look at the other side of the page for the words i dont get  I usually can figure it out or i just text kayla adderley and ask her(:
   GILLY IS THE BEST

wrapping up great expectations

  Great Expectations. I feel very satisfied and accomplished reading a book this difficult. There are so many messages in this book that it is hard to choose just one but the main message of the book for me was that money isn't happiness. This message, in my opinion, relates both back then and today. For example, Pip and Miss Havisham have lots of money to spend are not happy with their lives. Today, some of the happiest people there are have little to nothing. This always makes me wonder why rich or wealthy people are not happy. I always come to the assumption  that all of their stuff and the things they have don't fulfill their needs. Money is not a friend you can talk to, share thoughts with, or have a conversation with and a friend is. Stuff is not the answer to your problems, people are because they can listen and be there for you. At the end of the day, you need friends and family, not money. Happiness is  something money cannot buy.

I never really had a select day to start my "chain" or started developing the person I am now, but I think when I started this "chain" was when I was little, my most memorable times was in soccer, soccer has given me my friends and has shown that if someone doesn't have teamwork or friendship, they won't really succeed in life.

This quote was really confusing, but the message is that Pip is referring to life. He looks and sees every aspect of it. As if it were a series of links in a chain. He compares his to Miss Havisham's. He sees how illiterate Joe is compared to Miss Havisham and he decides that he wants to be educated and not a poor dumb child always embarrassing himself. This is definitely a turning point in his life because he grows up and matures. He sees that he will not get far if he continues in his childish ways. The links made of iron and thorns represented Bad moments in his life, which might include the choices he made, the fact that he could barely read or write.

2nd stage

In the second stage of the book Great Expectations Pip begins his life in London. He meets up again with the pale young gentleman who turns out to be Herbert Pocket. Pip meets many new characters who could possibly have a role in the future in the book. Pip also gets a visit from Joe who Pip has almost grown a loathing towards. Pip is annoyed at Joe for calling him sir all the time and how he doesn't have the manners a gentleman should. Pip really does not want any connections to his old life except for maybe Biddy and most definitely Estella and Mrs. Havisham. Pip is not proud of his old life.

 

This relates to what we have been talking about in class because Pip is on his way to becoming a gentlemen. He has the sponsor, the money, the place to live, and the clothes but he still doesn't know the basics. I believe that Herbert will be the one that will be guiding him through all the basic manners.

great expectations question

Citation: "You'll drive me to the churchyard betwixt you, one of these days, and oh, a pr-r-recious pair you'd be without me!" (Mrs. Joe Gargery pg. 9)

My book has different page numbers, but it's on the second or third page of Chapter 2.

 

 Question-

 I have a few questions aobout thuis passage.

One is what in the world does the word betwixt mean?  its mentioned more than once before this and i just want to know what it mean!

  

new and revised paragraph

Well, the only thing i have currently not changed anything in my paragraph exsepct the word bunbury so that its not repeating. other than that my paragraph hasnt changed. i wasnt too sure on what word i should use instead of bunbury so i changed it to words like him, it, and he. i think it sounds much less repetitve now.

untruthfulness

        In my opinion Wilde is saying dishonesty can make or break you. Lying and having alter egos has yielded some pretty positive results in the story so far, like Algernon being engaged to Cecily. I am, however relatively certain that all the deception will catch up with everyone. For example, Gwendolyn is in love with Ernest, not jack. However, I don’t think Victorian society could function without people occasionally going “Bunburying”.  
 
         There is a lot of dishonesty in The Importance of Being Earnest. There is dishonesty for pleasure, humor, and relating back to the title of the book. Algernon and Jack both create fake people to go get away and avoid situations. Algernon has a good friend "Mr. Bunbury" who always needs visiting when he is invited to dinner with Lady Bracknell. Jack's brother "Ernest" lives in the city so Jack goes to the city to visit him every once in a while. They both fall in love with girls under the name of "Ernest", a name which both girls absoultely love.

Extra Credit

T his year my resolution is for me to get better grades. This would benefit me in more ways than one. One way it would better my current life is that it would impress my parents, and they would probably give me more freedom than what I have. Since I will be 16 next year I need to start worrying about getting a car, and along with a car I need insurance. The better my grades are the cheaper my insurance will be, and as they always say, cheaper is better!
Once I get to be a junior/senior, college is something I need to think about. If I have higher grades, I have a much more vast choice of possible schools I could attend, and more schools would want to accept me. After college I need to put my life together, and if I get good grades in high school and college, more places would want to hire me.
Not only would getting good grades improve how adults view me, but it would also make me feel better about myself, and it's always good to feel that.

Above is the university of Arizona, one of my colleges of choice!

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