Week 8 Comments

Kolin- Writing Center
http://kolin-english1.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-writing-center.html#comment-form

Sa'Veon- Symbolism
https://saveons.blogspot.com/2016/11/symbolism.html?showComment=1481842585461#c8070327796895359484

Writing Center

When I went to the writing center my writing fellow didn't show up, but someone else came in a helped me. I read my paper out loud which helped me see careless mistakes I had made. She help me feel a bit more confident with my writing and feel like I might do ok on this paper. I made some changes to it and  I still have some to work on but might do better on this paper.

Wish to see myself in the future

I the future I wish to see myself working on a tv set, filming.  I want to be a Director of Photography or D.P. I want to see myself filming a action tv show with stunts and many different camera angles. Many people in the movie business don't want to work on TV sets because they have long hours, but I want to because then I would get to know my co workers and make great friend in the business who I can look to.

Comments week 7

Sophia- How to
https://sophia-english1.blogspot.com/2016/11/how-to-survive-life-with-younger-sibling.html?showComment=1481236839518#c5704080334770275196

John N- Free Post
https://thegoat2323.blogspot.com/2016/12/free-post-christmas.html?showComment=1481237004117#c8841112792532337985

Cinematagraphy

Many people are trying to figure out what job is going to be. I want to be a cinematographer. The things I want to work on are action tv show and the occasional movies. Tv shows have long hours but I feel like you get to know everyone in the crew and cast better and create long time friends in the business.  My dream is to become a Director of Photography or DP.  I don't want to be a director because I don't think that I could see and imagine each scene the right way and do it justice. As DP I feel thing I can be able to view the best location for a camera to be and how and which direction it should move.

Literary Analysis

The hardest part for me is trying to get the quotation format correct. I hope I got it correct or only have a few mistakes. I also had some trouble coming up with a good conclusion. I didn't have any other struggles on it.

Comments week 6

John Honeycutt- How to
https://johnhenglish1block3.blogspot.com/2016/11/how-to-study-for-exams.html?showComment=1480688836072#c5045343825003687469

Jett - Symbolism
https://1025jett.blogspot.com/2016/11/symbolism.html?showComment=1480688932856#c3887572608364212964

Symbolism

I love the barn. It is were I feel safe and wanted. I meet one of my best friends at the barn. At the barn I there are two horses I love deeply, Elvis and Woody. They are my babes, I love to go see and love and take care of them. The barn is a place where I can enjoy life from all other problems like school and stress. I do what I love there, and with people I want to be around an to have the time of my life. If I didn't go out to the barn I don't know how my life would be, I wouldn't have the same friend of the amazing life I have right now.

Symbolism- To me the barn is a second home, it serves as a place I can go an enjoy life with no worries. I meet my best friend there and my life is great and complete with it.

How-To

Brush off a horse

You first get a hard and soft brush, curry comb, and a hoof pick. You star off with a curry comb and brush in circles to try to get the dust off. Then you use the soft brush to smooth out the hair on the horses body. Afterwards used the hard brush to brush off your horses legs. Final use the hoof pick to get the dirt out of horses hooves but don't use the pick part on the frog of the horses hoof.

Comments

Sa'Veon- Free Post
https://saveons.blogspot.com/2016/11/free-post.html?showComment=1479494903062#c67569928569448967

Ian B- Free Post
https://ianbsblogs.blogspot.com/2016/11/free-post.html?showComment=1479495125027#c4553146944295894534

Team Show

This Saturday November 12, I went to a team horse show. The team show is were teams come together with some horses and the names of the horses are given out randomly to each person. The horses we rode, we had never ridder before. The rule of the show are weird. We can pet the horse before we get on so we are familiarizing ourselves with the horses. When we get on we can just the tack, just the stirrups, and we go the the practice area and get to jump two jumps in 60s and then we walk to the show ring and do our course. It was different from any show I have ever done but it was a lot of fun. I got to know some of our team better, like this one girl Mak she is new to the barn and on the team so I got to get to know her better. I am excited for more of the shows we are going to.

Piggy's Death

Piggy's death was important because to me it symbolizes the loss of civilization and reason. Piggy wore glasses were the only piece of civilization they had left, so Piggy saw through civilization. Once the glasses broke part of civilization was gone. Then the savages took the glasses from them and once they were completely broken civilization was gone. Another thing part of Piggy's death was Roger with the huge rock. That the being of the book Roger threw small rocks then he had to stop, so civilization was holding him back. Once he joined the savage he had no one holding him back from throwing rocks. Then the huge rock came in, civilization was gone, no one held him back. He pulled the lever and it hit Piggy and that was the end of him.

Week 4 Comments

Sophia- High School Experience
https://sophia-english1.blogspot.com/2016/11/write-about-your-experience-with-high.html?showComment=1478794852194#c8127226702510378692

Ricky- Write your own prompt
http://rickyenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/11/write-your-own-prompt.html#comment-form

Ralph's Walk

Ralph had to get away from everyone. There was to much going on so he had to have time to think of by himself. He started to see the way that his life worked. Watching his feet step one in front of the other. He started to realize how gross and disgusting he has gotten over the course of the time he has been there.

This walk Ralph goes on has him thinking deep thoughts. Life to him is just walking along trying not to fall on oneself. He started to remember what life was like before the island and how it has changed and how he changed. From clean to dirty can symbolize the way the life was before the island and how they have changed. At fist their clothes were clean and the boys had an organized system of doing things. Now their clothes are dirty and torn. Their way of doing things has torn like their clothes and dirty like animals hunting, and the have killed people and pigs and turned savage. 

Woody

A couple of weeks ago I went to a horse show in Folsom,Louisiana. The show was an A class show called the Elite Show. Most of my barn went to the show. We had about 11 horse out there out of many more. I ride a horse named Woody, he is a chestnut thoroughbred that is 21 years old. We competed in four shows and in most of them we got second.

Woody did so good at the show. Since he is slowish at the barn, I was hoping \he would realize he is at a show and get excited, and he did. We were going through the course very fast, we had a great time to cause us to place up high in second. I  love Woody I treat him like he is my horse, I try to take care of him with his fungus and his cut on his withers.

Q2 Week 2 Comments

Ricky-Human Nature
https://rickyenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/10/human-nature.html?showComment=1477578219072#c3407791231424104808

Danny- Human Nature
https://english1danny.blogspot.com/2016/10/human-nature.html?showComment=1477578292286#c5257374969383850863

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies so far is a very good book. My favorite part about is the word choice and how it is British. Before we started to read Lord of the Flies I had heard of it before and been like this is not a book I might not want to read, now I want to continue. The strange thing about the book is it's reference to pigs, with the pink island with tail, Piggy, all of the pigs on the island and who Jack wants to kill pigs. Another thing it who fear is shown. Fear is show through words and through things that they see or how they act. The snake-thing and the creeper flying the air looking like snake is all strange. I feel like this book will get better as it goes on.

Human Nature (Flawed or Perfect)

To me human nature can be flawed. It all depend on how someone was raised. I someone is raised right they will have a right nature, but there are some who are raised wrong. Those people who are raised wrong think that wrong is right because they weren't taught what is right. It can be confusing to understand but it depends on how a person act when they get older and how they treat others. The flawed part of human nature is the way that we have to put label on everything, black, white, gay, and straight. Why can't we all be people? We are all the same except for the ways we view each other. When someone hears someone say they are gay, they start to view that person differently, like they are not the same person they know, but they are they are the exact same person. Only thing different is that person who said they were gay became even stronger, for someone to say that it might be hard and doing that right create a different view on them but they have to have the guts to say it.

What lead me to believe this is that see ad hear about it everyday. During chapel on Friday we talked about it. How people are bullied just because they aren't like everybody else. They are an LGBT which is a label I don't like, it is an unnecessary label that does not need to be around. In chapel people stood up and said different percents of people who are bullied and it only takes one to stop a bully situation. Be that one and stop the bullying of others.

Q2 Week 1 Comments

Jack- Response to Waltz of the Fat Man
https://jackcenglish1blog.blogspot.com/2016/10/response-to-waltz-of-fat-man.html?showComment=1476740014101#c3329837656366918355

Guatam- Fall Break Post

https://gautamenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/10/fall-break-free-post.html?showComment=1476740103934#c4181890346328517421

Reading Response

I like the book Lady Midnight but it is very long. The book it about six hundred pages long. I am at a good part with the characters are trying to find out information. I am trying to not give anything away for those who want to read the book. It is every good  book but if someone wants to read it, they should read The Mortal Instruments series first, if not they would be very confused because they talk about the other series and events that happened in the series.

Fall Break Post

The first day of fall break I was at home pretty much the whole day. We had a guy come over and redo my tub area in my bathroom, so my mom and I had to stay here while a guy was doing that. I did homework and entertained my dogs because they were stuck in my parents room. That night I watch the season 12 premiere of Supernatural, which I have be waiting for a long time. It was so good and I am not going to say any more about for those who are starting to watch Supernatural or those who haven't caught up.

The next 3 day my mom, grandmother, and I went to Alabama to see my great aunt. We drove up Friday and it took about 3 hours to get there. In the car I practiced taking motion videos and I worked on a script I'm writing. The next day we all went to the Tanger Outlet. Everybody got something, I got some things from Hot Topic and  Zumiez. We were there for about 3 or so hours. The last day we spent some time outside and then we drove back home. When I got home I played with my dogs some and then I started to write this blog.

Comments Week 7

Ricky- Should We Abandon Louisiana?
https://rickyenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/10/should-we-abandon-louisiana-in-some.html?showComment=1476370550261#c366760564769978186

Kaelyn- Reading Response 
https://ksenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/10/reading-response.html?showComment=1476371316613#c6775199410920405354

Should We Abandon Louisiana?

The people of Louisiana should never give up of their state. After all of the natural disasters it can be hard to come back from that but now that I see how the people of  Louisiana come together we can get through this together. The one football field of land we lose, some people don't know that but if we were all to come together we could slow down the process. Those things outsider were saying about Louisiana, like the schools are fail and how New Orleans is dysfunctional, some of it is true but we fight to the end and don't give up. That idea of bulldozing New Orleans is insane because you can just destroy a whole city, there are people that live there and people who can't afford to move or travel. People of Louisiana will stay here until there is no more, we will never give up.

Week 6 Comments:

Kolin: Dear 13 Year Old
https://kolin-english1.blogspot.com/2016/09/dear-13-year-old.html?showComment=1475707309569#c8725976730240690289

Hudson: Autumn Flash Story
https://huds0ngenglish.blogspot.com/2016/09/autumn-flash-story.html?showComment=1475707470615#c6058033156927088185

Elvis

I love Elvis, and no not the sing, the horse. Elvis is a horse I ride every now and then. He is picky on how he behaves with others. He can be stubborn, persistent with others but with me he does want I tell him to do, most of the time. Not many people like him because of that, but with him being stubborn people learn more. On him I have done two show one  was better tenth other, but that doesn't change my view of him. To me he is one of the sweetest horses at the barn. I love him dearly.

Reading Response

The book Lady Midnight is book written by Cassandra Clare. It is the 11th book she has written about Shadowhunters.  She is such a goo written to be able to write 11 books and have 3 different story lines. One of the series was turned into a TV show. I love her books especially Lady Midnight.

In the book the characters are arguing about how their brother is not the same anymore. They are trying to find out who is killing all of the people. The book is over 600 pages long and it has a lot of detail. Each chapter gives you something new and a new problem.

Comments Week 5

Sydney- The Woods
https://sydneysenglishonework.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-woods.html?showComment=1474915652662#c8127022711645759427


Sydney- Dear Five Year Old
https://sydneysenglishonework.blogspot.com/2016/09/dear-five-year-old.html?showComment=1474915724813#c2232753976820906809

Possession

March 9, 2012

I remember it like it was yesterday when the darkness came. It was late at night I hear a noise in my house and went see if it was my parents walking around, no one was there, so I went back to reading. Then I hear it again, the lights started to flicker, I get up and see if it was my brother trying to mess with me. I go out into the hall and then everything went dark. 

Next thing I knew was I woke up in a dark room and my hands covered in blood. I around and I see a man in a chair covered in blood. I walk over to him, he is not breathing, I don't know what had happen. 

“Did I do this?, I asked myself

I ran out of there to find help, before I got out I saw there were more people, blood, and symbols of some sort every where. I need answers but how am I going to get them.

Harris Bergeron

Harris Bergeron was a really well written short story. I wanted read more after I finished. The writer could had written a whole series of book about it. I bet a lot of people would had read it, I also wanted more background info. 

The story had a society of people who all wanted to be equal and equal is the same as the dumbest person. The smarter you were the more handicaps you would have. You would get and earpiece and a bag to make you also physically equal. The way the society ran things was not good.

Comments Week 4

Lathan- Dear One Year Old
https://jamaicanenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/09/dear-one-year-olds.html?showComment=1474558369743#c4921374935825040432

Hudson- Der Thirteen year old
https://huds0ngenglish.blogspot.com/2016/09/dear-thirteen-year-old.html?showComment=1474558447645#c1646544765798558202

Lady Midnight

I like the book Lady Midnight a lot so far. The author could create a twist that make me hate it. I hate it when you love a book and then all of a sudden bam they turn it all on the character you love. I am like why did you do that.

The book introduced new/old characters, they were in another series that goes with Lady Midnight, the character has changed a lot so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Also they mention other characters from the other series which is cool to hear how characters I loved ended up.

Dear 11 year old,

Dear 11 year old, 

Don't care what others think of you. You are perfect the way you are. I someone tells that you are ugly or weird say thank you, let them know that you don't care what they think of you. You love you and never forget that.

There will be time when it its hard but you can push through them. Just think "I can get through this no matter what." You can get though life and school a lot easier when you push through everything no matter the difficulty. You will make it through school even though it seems so hard. 

Week 3 Comment

Casey- Hurricane Katrina
https://casey1205.blogspot.com/2016/09/hurricane-katrina.html?showComment=1473964674411#c1892654462471021136

Alex W.- The Book I'm Reading
https://blogsgotjokes.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-book-im-reading.html?showComment=1473964838571

9/11

9/11 2001 was the most tragic day in New York City’s history, over 3,000 people were killed including 400 police officers and firefighters. That day 2 planes were flown into the World Trade Center, on at day many people lost their lives. The first plan crashed in to the first building at sometime around 9. When it crashed in it kill a lot of people instantly. Immediately people started to evacuate, some couldn’t because they were trapped on the higher levels above where the plane crashed.

 The second plan crashed into the other building a few minutes later. It went into the building and broke through another side. When that building fell it created a huge cloud of dust and rubble.  Later the building the first plane crashed in fell with a cloud of dust. The surrounding building caught of fire killing more. It was the longest day in New York City.

Lady Midnight

In the book Lady Midnight, the author, Cassandra Clare, uses a lot of emotion to show how the characters were affected. Emma’s parents died and she can’t stop looking to find out what happened. Cassandra Clare shows Emma’s emotion through hate and confusion towards the Clave it reacting. She also shows emotion through how Emma relies on others to help her.

Cassandra Clare gets the readers action through introducing a new world to people. She created a word with faeries, vampires, werewolves, demons, and shadowhunters. All of these things together created something people wanted to know about and learn about.

Week 2 Comments

Caroline G.- Thirteen Reasons Why
http://caroline-english1.blogspot.com/2016/09/thirteen-reasons-why-reading-response.html#comment-form

John N.- About Me
http://thegoat2323.blogspot.com/2016/08/about-me.html#comment-form

Pit Bulls

Pit Bulls the most misunderstood dog breed. Pit bull stereotype is aggressive, mean, and them bitting people. They are actually very nice and kind. The mean pit bulls that people meet were trained to be that way, they aren’t born that way. When people are a dog parks or there places where you can pet and meet pit bulls, they never attack anyone. They are also very forgiving.

It kills me to hear when some say pit bull and what say is the stereotype. Pit bulls are used for illegal dog fighting and other horrible things. When people adopt or take in one from the pound they have no clue what that dog has been through or seen. Every time is see pit bull in a shelter I feel so bad for them, it is so sad to see how badly people treat these dogs. When all they want to do is live a good life and make you happy.

Fostering

I have always wanted to foster dogs. Fostering to me was a way to help the community and save a dogs life. The dogs at the shelter have gone through my different things, that people couldn’t image. If a dog is at the shelter for too long the could be put on “death row”, that is where they put down a dog because no one has taken it. For me it was important to give a dog another fighting chance. One thing I found out is that dogs are more forgiving than people. Some of those dogs have been through hell but when they get reduced they are very joyful.

I have fostered 3 dog, i want to foster more but its hard for my parents to bring and get the dogs from the adoption house. What got us first fostering when a brindle boxer, greyhound mix showed up at our house on Christmas Day. We could tell that she had been owned because she was well groomed and she was in ok shape. We went looking for her owner but no one claimed her, so went went to adoption house and asking if they could take her. Every place we went said we would have to foster her, so we choose the organization we like the best, Friends of the Animals (FOTA). We fostered her until she got adopted by a good family. After her we fostered 2 more, one named Jenny who was a hound mix, and the other was a small terrier that was named Skippy. I loved fostering but it was hard to say good bye.

Shadows

There are things that are hiding in the shadow. Demons and spirits are every where. When I, Chase, look at shadows I see them and no one else sees them. There are a lot of us, we are normal people, but we know the truth about the world. We are hunters. We hunt things hiding in the shadows for a living. When I go on a hunt I have no idea what I am dealing with and what's going to happen. 

In hell there are many things. There are spirits, demons, and there are vampires and werewolves. All of those things are an evil as evil gets. They kill people just for fun. Demons posses people and they do horrible things. The people that get posses are a where how what they are doing but they can't stop themselves. 

 The Last Thing I Remember was about a boy, Charlie, how woke up in a random place not remembering the last thing that happened to him. What I like most about was the way who the author, Andrew Klavan, wrote Charlie's thoughts.  He wrote Charlie's thoughts to make it feel like you were Charlie. Charlie had a couple mind braces he was trying to remember what happened to him. Every now and then there would be a flash back to his life and the transition from present to past was very well done.

I also liked how descriptive the author was when describing Charlie's situation and what was happening around him. When Charlie escaped from the police was so well described that it felt like a movie. This book described Charlie on the run, when he was on the run many things were happening. There were thoughts being said and what is happening around him at the same time. The author knew how to blend the two together very well.