We're making an Ebook!

 This topic we are suppose to write about our concerns for the publishing of our narratives in an E-book, but since I don't have any I am going to talk about the things I am excited for! I am excited to finally be in a school publishing! I tried to be in a school publishing at my old school but they said I was too young. Being able to compare my work to my other classmates is kinda exciting because I have always wanted to but its kinda rude to be like, "Hey, Can I see your essay to compare it to mine?".

  To enhance my writing, I am thinking of getting some pictures of my journalism class, so people can actually put warm bodies and faces to my story. I might also just publish it in a pretty font, you can never go wrong with Handwriting-Dakota. Changing your font is a simple way to grab peoples' attention and make your piece stand out! I am very excited for our class to work together and pull off a fabulous E-book.

Reading Response-September 16

This week I have been a little slow on my reading, because I have been writing a Literacy Narrative for class. Aliteracy narrative is a paper, that tells a story about reading or writing. For my literacy narrative I am writing about the time when I realized how serious writing is to me. Since this was a recent time, it has been pretty easy to write about, which is a good thing because some of my classmates are struggling with a topic-let alone the essay-. I am very proud of my story so I can going to give y'all a sneak peek.

I roll my eyes thinking how I do the exact same thing. After a couple of minutes a group of about five girls walk in. They all automatically sit next to the girl who had been texting. Following them, a giant boy walks in a pulls up a seat next to me. I automatically nickname him “the Hulk”. He’s about 6’4, tone, brown hair-light on top; dark on bottom- he has a stern look in his eyes. Probably trying to be sweet and nice to me, he pulls up a chair next to me. We are about to start class as one more senior saunters into the class and of course the only seat available is the one on the opposite side of me.

“Ma’am, I am so sorry for being late. I didn’t know where to go, so I went to your office but you weren’t there so I started looking around and finally found y’all.” He says in a deep almost country accent.

His accent is so twain and deep that you could barely understand him. The only way to describe him is by saying he was born and raised in Pier-Part, Louisiana. He is given the nickname country bumpkin boy.

Dialogue Sequence-A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

“Sixth place goes to Heart N Soul John, Jacob, Caylie and Marybeth.” Said the announcer guy.

“We won we won we wonnn!!!” Caylie screamed in our ears while jumping up and down. “It only took us four years to get here, but we finally placed and it is AWESOME!”

We  shimmy around all the other teams excepting high-fives, pat on the backs, leg grabs, applause and just praise from every jumper. We get through the crowd and run up to the man holding our ribbons, and then dash to stand behind the sixth place sign.

“We are now officially as cool as the big kids, with our ribbons, and our sign and our pose.” Maybe one day we can be staffers.” John whispers to me.

“God, I hate that pose. Just think about it we will now be remembered as the choo-choo train group. Whyyy??” I say.

“ That pose is what got us here so just hush it up and smile for the camera.” Caylie said.

 We don’t really listen to the other names being announced as we are to excited to care. We all just stand there thinking about our journey, and how maybe if we hadn’t missed on that quad, or that switch, we could of placed higher maybe even win overall. But nobody dares to say because they don’t want to bring us down. Finally they finish with the places and we scurry back to show off our ribbons.

“Congratulations.” “Good job, guys! Way to go! Congratulations.” Our teammates said as we sit down in our little team blob. “I am so proud of you guys. With all of that fighting, arguing and last minute routine changing, none of us thought you would qualify or make a full routine for that matter.” Coach Ann declaims.

We all sit down and just think about the struggle it took us to win, and Caylie,our group leader, says “Do you guys realize we placed with only like half of the practices some non-winning teams use? We can totally win this thing next year…. If we practice more.”

Reading Response

     This week I continued the Lorien Legacies series. Last week I read I am Number Four, this week I read the second book in the series, The Power of Six. This series is about a race who planet was lost at war and so they shipped a set of 9 Loriens, people with powers, and 10 Gardes, their gardens. The race of aliens, Mogarions they lost their planet to are invading Earth in search for these 18 aliens and nothing will get in their way to stop them.

    I enjoy reading this series because it gives me a chance to think about what would happen if another race existed and they were hiding among us, isn't it creepy to think about?! The author does a really good job of setting up scenes and then writing them to all their glory. She also has a knack for explaining things to either their importance or not explaining them because they are useless and unimportant. I hope to write like he does when I write a novel.

Reading Log-9/9

The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore-
September 2-Page 1-42 (30 Minutes)
September 3-43-65 (20 Minutes)
September 4-66-89 (20 Minutes)
September 5-none
September 6-90-120 (20 Minutes)
September 7-121-140 (15 Minutes)
September 8-141-167 (25 Minutes)
September 9-168-179 (10 Minutes)

Total Time: 140 Minutes

Upon This Rock Review-Response to Extra Reading

   This week in Journalism we had to read Upon This Rock,an immersion journal piece, by John Jeremiah Sullivan. I am going to share my thoughts on the piece for my response to a piece of writing I read. Let me start off by saying, I don’t think the author will want to read my thoughts anytime soon. For Starters, this article was more like a drawn out research essay instead of an immersion journal. It literally took me three days to get through this 15-page article on how this guy went to a festival called Creation and was suppose to write about what he saw. The idea was excellent but the execution was poor. If he had cut down the length to maybe six, seven or even eight pages, it would have been so much better. I felt like there was too much detail in every paragraph, after reading-and sleeping- for a while I just had to go do something else so my mind could process all the adjectives and understand what he was saying. Every time he referred to his RV, he wrote “the twenty-nine-footer”. Looking through his paper, I realized he referred to his “twenty-nine-footer”17 times. Seventeen times its mentioned in a fifteen page story where about three pages is John’s back story, two pages is his intro, two pages is about him getting to the festival and parking his RV, and about half a page is spent describing Christian Rock and what it is all about.

    My over all opinion of this immersion article, is it was too drawn out. If he had cut down everything he wrote about to half it’s size and took out a lot of adjectives then it would have been the right length, maybe even make you want to experience a festival like this. But after reading this article I feel like I can’t even fully grasp what they do at these events.

8/28-Upon This Rock (15 minutes)

8/29-Upon This Rock (10 minutes)

8/30-Upon This Rock (10 minutes)

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Late last week I finished reading I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. That book was amazing! I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for a fast read. This week I decided to switch gears and read a romance novel, I choose Eleanor & Park by rainbow Rowell. I started reading this book because my book chat partner read it and said that it was really good.
 Eleanor & Park is a romance novel. It isn't one of those novels where you start and by page five you already know the outcome so you just skip a couple pages and read the last chapter or two. This book will literally have you begging for more. I feel like every chapter it throws you for a loop and then sees how far it can pull on your heart until it breaks-let me tell you it will break a lot. The book does move it focus around from chapter to chapter, it will always come back to the journey Eleanor & Park have embarked on. I hope that when we start writing fiction stories I can use some of the writing techniques Rainbow did. For instance, one of the things Rainbow is really good at is setting up for a big scene and then making sure the length of it isn't too long or too short.