Family Crest Ring

There is nothing that I want more than anything else in the world, because I already have everything I could ever really want or need.  The only thing that I remotely want is a ring that has the Weaver family crest on it.  My mom is a Weaver and I really like the family crest.  I want it because I really love my family and it would be a constant reminder of all the people that I love and I will have it with me forever.

I would not to anything to get this ring.  I would do simple things though.  I might raise money so that I could buy it myself, but I would rather it come from my grandmother so that it has more meaning and value to me.  I could help her clean up her entire house, clean up my house, or something simple that is not dangerous or anything that I might damage in some way.  I would not do anything for it because I would think of my family often anyways, but it would be nice to have a physical object that I can hold that could remind me of my grandparents, my mom, my aunt, my siblings, and the rest of my family because I love them all very much.

Reading:

I have started studying for the AP world history exam that is coming up kindof soon.  I've been reading the AP Prep book to help me prepare.

Kaplan AP World History
116 pages- at least 5 hours (annotating and combining notes too) 

Calloway Gardens

Twelve hours in sitting in the car
I finally get out and look up to see the stars.
I look at my brother,
His face facing away from me
looking at our cottage.
We are all excited.

We walk towards the chapel,
standing in the middle of the forest.
The boys have made toys out of sticks
and are sword fighting with them.
Suddenly, we stand stunned
by the beauty of the chapel.

We walk off the path towards the creek.
My brothers seek something to climb on
They crossed the creek quickly on the log.
We all got wet.

I remember this trip really well.
We all had a swell time,
and can't wait to go back again soon.

Assonance
Alliteration
Sibilance

Reading

The Clockwork Princess is the third book in a series by Cassandra Claire.  It is about a girl and her life as a shadow hunter (sort of a shadowhunter).  The biggest and most interesting part of this book and the series that ties the whole thing together is the love triangle between Tessa, Will, and Jem.  It shows how love can help or hurt you.  

In the book, love plays a big part as to how the characters act.  Love influences how people act all over the world.  If someone cares for someone else or something else, they would protect them and try to make them happy.  If someone hated someone or something, they would not try to please them, or depending on how much they hated them, may try to hurt them.  Love and hate influence how we act and who we are with in our daily lives.  You would not hang out with someone who you dont like.  Both influence our lives everyday in everything we do.  

The Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Claire

358 pages; around 4 hours

Life is a Highway

Life is a highway is an upbeat song about how life and how it is the highway to heaven, including all the good and bad things that happen along the way.  It has a trochee pattern because it has a /-- type of two syllable metrical foot rather than the other type of two syllable metrical foot, an iamb.  This song is a trimeter, meaning that it has 3 feet per line.  These things are important because they help the listener be able to hear the rhythm of the song and that can help give to song something that words can't completely do.

The importance of the metrical feet is because they help tell a story inside a story or add something to the story that is being told throughout the song.  The metrical feet in Life is a Highway help have that fast paced feel that you would get while driving on a highway.  This is achieved by having the rhythm be fasted pace along with fast metrical feet.  The sound each syllable makes and when it makes it gives the feel of the highway. This helps get the feel of the song and the meaning across as well.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/life-is-a-highway-lyrics-rascal-flatts.html

Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts

Re-written paper

The paper that I am going to rewrite is going to be the literary analysis.  I wrote about my history as a reader and how i have developed as a reader over time.  I think that this paper was good, but that it could be written even better.  I am going to correct my ideas mainly, and strengthen my word choice. I know that if I do this, my paper will become much better. 

In the comments on this paper, they were mainly focused on my ideas and how the paper name and assignment was not as focused on in my paper as it should have been.  I think that I had a lot of good things in my paper, just not the correct ones.  I am going to correct this by putting in the correct information that is actually required.  I am going to correct and strengthen my word choice by putting in more descriptive and words that are not so repetitive.  I know that by the time that I am done, my paper will be fully developed and much better than it originally was.  

Jane Goodall

I think that this book has some major plagiarism issues.  I think that it is extremely hard to not plagiarize  while looking directly at a source.  I feel like this is a sign that she is getting a little old to write books.  She is 78 and still writing, which is really amazing, but if she plagiarizes in her writing and doesn't notice it, she needs to rethink how she does things. I think that it would have been better for her if she had put less information about the plants that came from sources, because her sources were not cited correctly. I also think that her editor should have caught the mistakes that she made.

I think that Jane Goodall and her co-workers should fix this as soon as they possibly can.  I think they could do this very easily.  They should first start by removing all of the errors in her books and correcting them.  They should reprint the new correct copy and put it out to the public in place of the old one that had all of the mistakes.  I then think that she should then apologies to the public for the mistakes that she made.  I feel like this would show everyone that she really did care about her mistakes and would try not to make them again.

Reading Time:
City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, by Cassandra Claire (reread these for the discussion thing)
around 9 hours total

Nervous Conditions Thoughts

I think that Nervous Conditions should be included on next years syllabus.  I personally did not find the book in my "Best Books of All Time" list because it seemed like nothing interesting happened until the very last chapters.  I think that the main layout for how we worked with the book was good, although sometimes it was overwhelming at times.  If everything was balanced correctly, everything would go quite smoothly.

I think that it should be included next year because it answers the questions that we focus on during the year very well.  There were many examples as to how to answer the question thoroughly and answering the questions were extremely easy.  I think that this book represented the answer to the question that we have been asking all year the best.  I think that this is important for how we view the book and how we answer the questions.

I think that when you give them the options of choosing what they do, you should make sure they understand the purpose of all the assignments.  For the annotating assignment, you should make sure that the kids realize what the point of annotating is and how it is supposed to help you.  This can help people who do things like me not spend 4 hours on just the first C layer.  I think that this partially happened to me was because I did not completely understand the point of the annotations.  I just wrote down what was happening in the book.  After you explained to me the purpose of the annotations, they helped me more during the rest of the book.

I think that the way that we worked with Nervous Conditions was good because it gave us some choices in what we wanted to do and what we thought we could do the best in.  I think that the fact that there was some variety made things a little bit more interesting for us because in most classes, we don't get to make a playlist for every chapter we read. I liked the way that this was done and I hope to do it again at some point.


Time spent on A and B layers: 2 hours and a half total (includes movie and writing time periods)