A Secret Loss

So I didn't really feel like writing about some boring topic, so instead I wrote a flash-fiction. Here we go.

                                               A Secret Loss

     Brown. The color of my all-time favorite teddy bear. His name was Mr.Brown-I know real original, but hey I was 5. I had Mr. Brown from the time I was five to when I turned 10.

   Everyday I would get picked up at the carpool line, and my mom would ask me how my day was, who I sat with at lunch, did I have any quizzes or tests, if not did I get any back, and did I have a fun day at school? I hated those thirty minute car rides, they were pure agony. All I wanted to do was sit there and listen to my music but sadly I couldn’t.

   When I got home I was greeted by Mr. Brown. He always said, “Hello, how was your day at school?” and I would reply with “good. How were the animals today?”  Mr. Brown sat in the special “study corner” of my room.. I had a little desk, pencils, some pens, loose leaf paper, a little chair and Mr.Brown. I never once sat on that pink and purple chair, always preferring to sit on the comfy brown plush. When school ended I would be sad that I had to leave my friends but then I would remember how Mr.Brown was waiting for me at home. Until one day he wasn’t.

   I had just entered the 4^th grade, and my mom thought I was getting too old for Mr.Brown. So one day when she made a stop to Goodwill, she made a giant, brown, fluffy donation. I didn’t talk to her for a week.

Reading Times

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Includes reading and annotations)
11/8-Pages 8-31 (40 minutes)

Literary Analysis
11/5-20 minutes
11/6-30 minutes

Size 12 is not Fat by Meg Cabot
11/9- Pages 201-279 (60 minutes)

Total Time: 150 minutes

Simulated Island Exeperience

    In class on Friday, we spent the first couple of minutes pretending we were the characters in the book, Lord of the Flies. We had to figure out how we would run the island,  look for food, find shelter, make S.O.S. signals and live. It was a disaster in my class. We wouldn't have made it past the first week.
   We all would of died. Nobody could decide on anything. Some people wanted to go off on their own, some wanted to be cannibals and some wanted to split up jobs. We didn't have a regulated order of how to do things, and nobody was interested in making one. We would have been faced with all the daily obstacles we do now, but instead of just going to the fridge for food we would slowly starve to death instead.

Reading Times

Size 12 Doesn't Mean your Fat by Meg Cabot
10/31-Pages 151-200 (45 minutes)

Thesis and Barebone Outline
10/31-35 minutes

Detailed Outline
11/1- 40 minutes

Total Time:120 minutes

Short Stories Analysis

For my Free short stories I chose to read Araby by by James Joyce,Sucker by Carson McCullers, and The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty. I chose to read these three short stories because they all had interesting one word titles. In each story, the main character starts off pretty good but as they continue in the story, something goes wrong, contributing to the eventual down fall of the character.
  For my Literary analysis, I think I am going to analyze Araby for setting because there is a lot of hidden patterns and themes that I can work with. I am very excited to begin working on my literary analysis because I haven't written something like this before, and it will be something to add to my repertoire of writing styles. No questions come to my mind about literary analysis but if any come to mind I will be sure to ask you them.

The Comfort Zone Issue

      This week we were told to write a free post. Well I had trouble coming up with a topic for this one because I haven't really done anything exciting enough to write about, I haven't read any interesting books, like Alligient in the Divergent Series, and nothing embarrassing has happened to me. So I decided to write about something really exciting.. My first Journalism publishing.
      This semester I chose to take a class called Journalism, for those of you who don't know what that class is, it is the class that publishes the school magazine, the Boulevard. About each nine weeks we have to make a publishing of our magazine. Making a magazine is a huge responsibility, you have to decide on the topic, assign people articles to write, find pictures to go with the articles, get permission to use pictures, edit all the pages and finally get approved for web-publishing. This nine weeks, we are writing the Comfort Zone Issue. While I can't tell you a lot about the articles, I can tell you it comes out this week. Including in the magazine, is a scavenger hunt, for those few lucky winners who complete the hunt first my class will bring you a meal of your choice to the class of your choice at the time of your choice. SO GET EXCITED!!

Reading Log-10/28

Size 12 is not Fat by Meg Cabot
10/21-Pages 1-22  (15 minutes)
10/22-Pages 23-47  (20 minutes)
10/23-Pages 48-60  (10 minutes)
1024-Pages 61-90  (25 minutes)
10/25-Pages 91-120 (25 minutes)
10/26-Pages 121-150 (25 minutes)

Total Time: 120 minutes