In The Rescue, it seems like theres subplots within the story. The main conflict right now in the story is that there is a single mom (Denise) who has a son (Kyle) that has learning disabilities. The subplot was in the beginning of the story was that Denise got into a car accident and almost died, and on top of that Kyle had disappeared and was lost! The resolution of all of it is when Taylor saves Kyle by finding him in a deer stand off the highway. There also starts to be a relationship between a volunteer fire-fighter named Taylor McAden and Denise.
The way it would go in Freytag's pyramid is the car accident when it all happened would be the rising action and Kyle being lost would be the climax and falling action when everyone started looking for him. And the resolution of Taylor finding him and everyone being okay.
My Reading For This Week:
Monday: 25 minutes
Tuesday: 15 minutes
Wednesday: 30 minutes
Thursday: 30 minutes
Friday: 20 minutes
Saturday: 15 minutes
Sunday, September 30, 2012
I Am a Writer Who...
I am a writer who enjoys writing about personal interests. When I write, there are certain things that you can tell I enjoy because of my descriptions and words or the events or things. For example, when I wrote the literacy narrative, it wasn't like I didn't enjoy writing it, but it was more difficult for me because it wasn't something that I think is the most interesting. Last week for one of my blog posts I wrote about my cross country experience, and it seemed like there was just more spark to it; like there was a different feel to it than it would be to some of my other pieces of writing.
I am also a writer who enjoys writing more creatively than directly. In songs, a lot of writers know how to say things that don't directly say something, but you can tell by their other choice of words what they say or how they feel. For example, the singer/songwriter Lady Gaga is a very deep, emotional person who has gone through a lot in her life. She is a very passionate writer, and you can tell by her songs. Sometimes it might not sound like it makes sense, but once you put it all together you get how she feels or what she's trying to say.
I am also a writer who enjoys writing more creatively than directly. In songs, a lot of writers know how to say things that don't directly say something, but you can tell by their other choice of words what they say or how they feel. For example, the singer/songwriter Lady Gaga is a very deep, emotional person who has gone through a lot in her life. She is a very passionate writer, and you can tell by her songs. Sometimes it might not sound like it makes sense, but once you put it all together you get how she feels or what she's trying to say.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Free Post
This weekend was our 3rd cross country meet! It was in Robert, Louisiana for St. Pauls. Compared to Highland Road Park meets, it was pretty small with only about 29 teams I think. I love meets that are out of town because the team gets to take a bus ride to wherever it is, and it just seems like everyone kind of bonds during the time; 20-30 girls talking, laughing, and just having fun all while our hairs blowing in the wind from all the windows down. The only bad thing about the meets and the bus rides is the heat! It gets extremely hotter as the day progresses from 7 in the morning, when its only about 60 degrees, to noon when its probably hotter than 90 degrees.
Along with all the heat, everyones tummies are flustered with butterflies as we wait for our race. Luckily, the varsity girls was first and we got to run as soon as we got there instead of waiting until the sun came up high and got hot.
All the girls line up on the line as we wait for the official gun to go off to start the race. Everyone is saying their cheers for each team, and all the teams are saying their last wishes and prayers following with their cheers of "GOO KNIGHTS!". I get my running stance as I listen for the shot and take my starting pace. The adrenaline kicks in as if I feel like I could just sprint the entire race, until I reassure myself that I have 3 miles and have to pace myself. The feelings that I have at a meet are a range of emotions. Anger, sadness, happiness, and relief. You can never tell which one though, because it feels like all of them put together.
My Time for Literacy Narrative this Week:
Monday- 1 hour
Tuesday- 15 minutes
Wednesday- 0 minutes
Thursday- 30 minutes
Friday- 0 minutes
Saturday- 0 minutes
Sunday- 1 hour
Along with all the heat, everyones tummies are flustered with butterflies as we wait for our race. Luckily, the varsity girls was first and we got to run as soon as we got there instead of waiting until the sun came up high and got hot.
All the girls line up on the line as we wait for the official gun to go off to start the race. Everyone is saying their cheers for each team, and all the teams are saying their last wishes and prayers following with their cheers of "GOO KNIGHTS!". I get my running stance as I listen for the shot and take my starting pace. The adrenaline kicks in as if I feel like I could just sprint the entire race, until I reassure myself that I have 3 miles and have to pace myself. The feelings that I have at a meet are a range of emotions. Anger, sadness, happiness, and relief. You can never tell which one though, because it feels like all of them put together.
My Time for Literacy Narrative this Week:
Monday- 1 hour
Tuesday- 15 minutes
Wednesday- 0 minutes
Thursday- 30 minutes
Friday- 0 minutes
Saturday- 0 minutes
Sunday- 1 hour
Literacy Narrative Processing
This week for my literacy narrative, I think I learned a lot of things that will help me with my literacy narrative, along with writing for the future. My group and I have come up with good ideas to help each other and to improve our writing skills.
Myself personally, I worked on my look for my paper this week. I needed to change and look at this more like how some certain books changed me instead of how I liked the book so much. It seems like I can go off topic about the book more often than I need to. Others in my group had really good ideas for their topics. I know Lily's paper had a lot of good choice words, and I think once she edits it more and finishes up the paper, it will be an amazing paper! Same with Matthew, because his paper is very detailed and knows how to bring you to the scene. His story also sounds very passionate because I don't think he's a bad writer at all, he's actually very good!
I'm still working on my 2nd draft, but I think it's going to turning out pretty good! I can't wait to see the feedback for it!
Myself personally, I worked on my look for my paper this week. I needed to change and look at this more like how some certain books changed me instead of how I liked the book so much. It seems like I can go off topic about the book more often than I need to. Others in my group had really good ideas for their topics. I know Lily's paper had a lot of good choice words, and I think once she edits it more and finishes up the paper, it will be an amazing paper! Same with Matthew, because his paper is very detailed and knows how to bring you to the scene. His story also sounds very passionate because I don't think he's a bad writer at all, he's actually very good!
I'm still working on my 2nd draft, but I think it's going to turning out pretty good! I can't wait to see the feedback for it!
Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Rescue
The book I'm reading now, called The Rescue, by Nicholas Sparks is a really good book. I haven't been able to stop reading it now because I like it so much! I like how its not like all the other books Nicholas Sparks has written, but still has that love romance to it.
The book it about this woman named Denise, who is a single mom on her own with a son who has some sort of communication issue (they aren't sure what it is though, because they have gone to multiple doctors and they all say something different).
So far in the book, Denise has been driving around when all of a sudden, a huge storm comes and starts to go crazy! Denise sees a deer on the road in the middle of nowhere and, BOOM, the next thing she knows, she's waking up to a man seeing if she's dead or not. But (gasp) she turns around and sees that her son is nowhere to be found! She is looking everywhere for him, but can't seem to find him in this terrible whether. Where her car crashed was right by a swampy area, so everyone is worried sick that he will get hurt, or even worse, die. While Denise is looking for him, people realize she has a concussion and has to be rushed to the hospital.
Reading List
Sunday- 15 minutes, 12 pages
Monday- 35 minutes, 27 pages
Tuesday- 25 minutes, 19 pages
Wednesday- 25 minutes, 20 pages
Thursday- 35 minutes, 28 pages
Friday- no read
Saturday- 18 minutes, 14 pages
The book it about this woman named Denise, who is a single mom on her own with a son who has some sort of communication issue (they aren't sure what it is though, because they have gone to multiple doctors and they all say something different).
So far in the book, Denise has been driving around when all of a sudden, a huge storm comes and starts to go crazy! Denise sees a deer on the road in the middle of nowhere and, BOOM, the next thing she knows, she's waking up to a man seeing if she's dead or not. But (gasp) she turns around and sees that her son is nowhere to be found! She is looking everywhere for him, but can't seem to find him in this terrible whether. Where her car crashed was right by a swampy area, so everyone is worried sick that he will get hurt, or even worse, die. While Denise is looking for him, people realize she has a concussion and has to be rushed to the hospital.
Reading List
Sunday- 15 minutes, 12 pages
Monday- 35 minutes, 27 pages
Tuesday- 25 minutes, 19 pages
Wednesday- 25 minutes, 20 pages
Thursday- 35 minutes, 28 pages
Friday- no read
Saturday- 18 minutes, 14 pages
Literacy Narrative
I'm not positive on what I want to do my literacy narrative on yet, but I have some ideas that I think all would go great with it!
I know when I was in fifth grade, we read the book Where The Red Fern Grows in Mrs. Boudreaux's class. It was a very good read because it was the first book that I actually felt like I was there in the book, with the main characters and all. It was the real first book that I felt the sorrow for like when the dogs had died and it actually put a tear in my eye. I guess since then I have read many more books that have also put me in that "tear in my eye" because the reading levels have gone up and a lot of the authors are more experienced for more older books.
Also, I remember when I was in sixth grade, we were doing our reading for the class one day and I didn't know what to read, so Mrs. G had suggested the book I Have Lived a Thousand Years to me. It was a book about a girl, around my age, who went through the holocaust with her mother and brother. After I had read that book, I was obsessed with books about the holocaust or just world war 2 in general.
Continuing from that book, in eighth grade I read the book, Sarah's Key. It was another book about world war 2 and how a little girl had to go through it without her little brother, who she loved very much. That book is now one of my favorite books ever because I loved how it went back and forth from the little girl in the 1940's to a woman in present day doing an article about the war and all the people that went through it. I guess it was sort of like a suspense book too because throughout the book this writer is trying to find out clues about this girls past and what she did during this hard time in the 40's.
All these books are very memorable to me, so I know it will be a hard decision to choose which one I write about for my Literacy Narrative!
I know when I was in fifth grade, we read the book Where The Red Fern Grows in Mrs. Boudreaux's class. It was a very good read because it was the first book that I actually felt like I was there in the book, with the main characters and all. It was the real first book that I felt the sorrow for like when the dogs had died and it actually put a tear in my eye. I guess since then I have read many more books that have also put me in that "tear in my eye" because the reading levels have gone up and a lot of the authors are more experienced for more older books.
Also, I remember when I was in sixth grade, we were doing our reading for the class one day and I didn't know what to read, so Mrs. G had suggested the book I Have Lived a Thousand Years to me. It was a book about a girl, around my age, who went through the holocaust with her mother and brother. After I had read that book, I was obsessed with books about the holocaust or just world war 2 in general.
Continuing from that book, in eighth grade I read the book, Sarah's Key. It was another book about world war 2 and how a little girl had to go through it without her little brother, who she loved very much. That book is now one of my favorite books ever because I loved how it went back and forth from the little girl in the 1940's to a woman in present day doing an article about the war and all the people that went through it. I guess it was sort of like a suspense book too because throughout the book this writer is trying to find out clues about this girls past and what she did during this hard time in the 40's.
All these books are very memorable to me, so I know it will be a hard decision to choose which one I write about for my Literacy Narrative!
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Its a Wonderful Life vs. 5 People You Meet in Heaven
After seeing Elizabeth's comment about how 5 people you meet in heaven and its a wonderful life, I realized they are a lot alike, but also very different.
First, In both books it talks about how both main characters sort of look back at their lives from when they were very little to present day. But the difference is that in It's a Wonderful Life it goes exactly back to those days when they happened and they re-watch it. In 5 People You Meet in Heaven, he meets people who were in his life at some point that reminds him of his past, and then they just recall the story, not go back to the complete day. Also, in both books they are in like an alternate universe where only they and the people they are with can't be seen. They can see the people but the people can't see them back. But the difference in them is that in It's A Wonderful Life the mans not dead, he just goes into this stage where he's not there. In 5 People You Meet in Heaven, the main character dies form being squashed by a ride at an amusement park.
I haven't read the book It's a Wonderful Life or seen the movie, but I did see a play on it when I was in 5th grade.
First, In both books it talks about how both main characters sort of look back at their lives from when they were very little to present day. But the difference is that in It's a Wonderful Life it goes exactly back to those days when they happened and they re-watch it. In 5 People You Meet in Heaven, he meets people who were in his life at some point that reminds him of his past, and then they just recall the story, not go back to the complete day. Also, in both books they are in like an alternate universe where only they and the people they are with can't be seen. They can see the people but the people can't see them back. But the difference in them is that in It's A Wonderful Life the mans not dead, he just goes into this stage where he's not there. In 5 People You Meet in Heaven, the main character dies form being squashed by a ride at an amusement park.
I haven't read the book It's a Wonderful Life or seen the movie, but I did see a play on it when I was in 5th grade.
Reading Response
Reading response
This week, I have finished my book 5 People you meet in heaven and started a new book by Nicholas Sparks called The Rescue.
The 5 People you meet in Heaven was a very good book. The main things it helped me to remember is that I only have one life, so I have to live it to the fullest and always act like its my last day to live. It also taught me about other things, like to love people with my whole heart and that if I ever have some grudge over something or have something bothering me, to not just keep it unresolved my entire life. I thought this because it seemed that Eddie had a very bad vivid memory of when he was in the war, when he was catching that camp on fire. He said he could've sworn that he saw a child in the fire, but he didn't have time to save it because his friends were telling him to come on. It bothered him so much, that when he got back from the war and was in a good place, he had nightmares that would wake him up in the middle of the night terrified for the rest of his life. He felt so guilty, because he wasn't sure but he would always tell himself that he had killed a child.
I'm not that far into my new book yet, but I am very excited because I have read Nicholas Sparks before and I always fall in love with every story. Really all I know so far about this book is that the main character is a fireman who has never found love. I can't wait to get into this book and found out everything that happens!
Sunday- 20 mins. 20 pages
Monday- 30 mins. 33 pages
Tuesday- 25 mins. 23 pages
Wednesday- 30 mins. 29 pages
Thursday- 20 mins. 18 pages
Friday- 15 mins. 13 pages
Monday, September 3, 2012
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
5 People You Meet in Heaven has definitely opened my eyes to some of the ways to look at things like death and heaven itself. It has taught me to have an open mind about things like what heavens going to be like and who I will see there. I know in Eddies case he didn't even personally know some of the people who talked to him (blue man), but they still had a big part of Eddies life to remember. Eddie had no clue at all what impact he had on their lives and how he had done things which he didn't even think he did. Like when the blue man told Eddie that he had killed him, Eddie thought that he was crazy, because Eddie had never killed anyone outside of the war. Then he realized that just by dropping his ball in the street, it sent a trigger into that blue mans life and later killed him. It made Eddie realize how precious his life was and how such little things could mean so much to someone, but yet he didn't even know that himself.
This book so far is very fascinating and sometimes very hard to put down. I am not quite finished with it yet but hope to in the next few days!
This book so far is very fascinating and sometimes very hard to put down. I am not quite finished with it yet but hope to in the next few days!
My Birthday
Hurricane Isaac was very unexpected and came very quickly (until it hit land and decided to slow down to 8 miles an hour.) When I found out that it would hit on my birthday, the same day as Katrina did seven years prior, I was very amazed. When the day came, I was surprised to wake up with the electricity still on, and barely any rainfall. But not much time passed until it started to get very windy and be raining deliriously! The power went out at about 10 A.M. and soon enough it was started to get very hot. I discussed with my mom and dad when would be a good time to have the birthday celebration (which was just my entire family having cake and ice cream and me opening my presents) and we decided we have it after lunch before it started to get too dark. When the time came, I was so excited to see what presents I got and what the cake would look like.
At last we got the cake out and started singing happy birthday and eating. Afterwards when the time came to open presents, I was astonished to get a new running hat and a water bottle! My parents knew it wasn't what I would have expected, but they barely had any time to shop and get any presents and just told me that we would be able to go look for other things after the storm had passed when all the stores were open. I knew that it would be okay if we didn't get everything because I was happy with what I had already gotten. Finally, after we finished eating, we just had a nice, relaxing day of sleeping, watching movies, and just walking around outside finding out if anything had fallen or broken around the neighborhood. It was my second hurricane birthday. I also found out something pretty cool, that I was born in 1998, and when I turned seven that it was the day of Katrina. And seven years later it was hurricane Isaac! It will be funny and mysterious if I have another crazy hurricane on my 21st birthday!
My Free Read
Listening Is an Act of Love
My free choice book this year was Listening Is an Act of Love which was edited by Dave Isay. This book is a collecting of stories from all over the nation that are about things from families to struggles and incidents that happened. Most of these stories were things like highlights of peoples lives that might have happened when they were very little or recently in their present lives.
Some of the stories that I liked were from work and dedication. A bus driver named Ronald Ruiz was driving his public bus in the city of New York one day when an old woman came on and said that she needed to get to a restaurant to meet her friends but wasn't sure which one. He let the woman on the bus and told her that he would check the restaurants on the street for her. As he got to each restaurant he would get off the bus and go check in and see if it was the one she was needed at. At the very last restaurant he found the one she needed to be at. Instead of just letting her out to walk there, he took the bus around and kneeled it so that it would be easier for her to get off. Once he helped her off, she told him, "Today I was diagnosed with cancer, but you made me feel like a princess today."
It was a very emotional story for me personally because many people in my family have had/died of cancer. And even though this bus driver had never met this woman before in his life, he treated her like he had known her his whole life. He stopped the bus at every restaurant just so that this old woman wouldn't get lost. This is kind of like an inspiration to me to always be nice to people because you never know what could be going on in their lives in that time.
My free choice book this year was Listening Is an Act of Love which was edited by Dave Isay. This book is a collecting of stories from all over the nation that are about things from families to struggles and incidents that happened. Most of these stories were things like highlights of peoples lives that might have happened when they were very little or recently in their present lives.
Some of the stories that I liked were from work and dedication. A bus driver named Ronald Ruiz was driving his public bus in the city of New York one day when an old woman came on and said that she needed to get to a restaurant to meet her friends but wasn't sure which one. He let the woman on the bus and told her that he would check the restaurants on the street for her. As he got to each restaurant he would get off the bus and go check in and see if it was the one she was needed at. At the very last restaurant he found the one she needed to be at. Instead of just letting her out to walk there, he took the bus around and kneeled it so that it would be easier for her to get off. Once he helped her off, she told him, "Today I was diagnosed with cancer, but you made me feel like a princess today."
It was a very emotional story for me personally because many people in my family have had/died of cancer. And even though this bus driver had never met this woman before in his life, he treated her like he had known her his whole life. He stopped the bus at every restaurant just so that this old woman wouldn't get lost. This is kind of like an inspiration to me to always be nice to people because you never know what could be going on in their lives in that time.
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