1 hour and a half- Gossip Girl
1 hour- Biology textbook
1 hour- History textbook
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Outside Reading - Magazines
This spring break was different for outside reading. I actually didn't read any books this time, but rather magazine articles. The reason I read magazines is because I went to the beach (Sandestin.) Whenever I go to the beach, I love to lay out on my beach chair or towel and read magazines. I brought 4 magazines and got 2 more at a store in Sandestin. The magazines I brought or bought were any of 17 Magazine, Teen Vogue, and People.
I read a lot of good articles from these magazines. My favorite articles from 17 Magazine was one about Jennifer Lawrence, one that talked about embarrassing moments from random teenagers, and one that was about fun things to do in the summer. The articles I liked from Teen Vogue was one about popular clothes of 2012 and also one about the new movies of 2012 that teens might like. My favorite article from People Magazine was an article about the 10 best celebrity quotes of the week because some of the quotes were pretty funny. My favorite magazine out of these has to be 17 Magazine because they have tons of fashion, make-up, and hair pictures, tips, and facts.
~1 hour and a half of magazine articles on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
~1 hour of reading poems and the song
I read a lot of good articles from these magazines. My favorite articles from 17 Magazine was one about Jennifer Lawrence, one that talked about embarrassing moments from random teenagers, and one that was about fun things to do in the summer. The articles I liked from Teen Vogue was one about popular clothes of 2012 and also one about the new movies of 2012 that teens might like. My favorite article from People Magazine was an article about the 10 best celebrity quotes of the week because some of the quotes were pretty funny. My favorite magazine out of these has to be 17 Magazine because they have tons of fashion, make-up, and hair pictures, tips, and facts.
~1 hour and a half of magazine articles on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
~1 hour of reading poems and the song
Paradise by Coldplay
For my poetry assignment, I'm analyzing the song "Paradise" by Coldplay. ( Lyrics - http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/coldplay/paradise_20980626.html ) The first few lines of this song talks about a girl who wants to be in a better place. She wants her own paradise but she can't have it. So the song says that she "ran away in her sleep," meaning that she's going to dream of a better world. The second verse is all about how reality is hitting her about how life is hard and violent. It says that "she expected the world" but "bullets catch in her teeth." It seems that she is a girl growing up and realizing that life isn't a world full of happiness and dreams coming true. "Bullets" makes me think of reality hitting her sharp and fast.
It then says "life goes on, it gets so heavy" and "the wheel breaks the butterfly." I had to think hard about what "the wheel breaks the butterfly" meant. I'm pretty sure its a metaphor and it's using a butterfly as a symbol of a little girl's innocence and unawareness of the world around her. And then the wheel breaks the butterfly, symbolizing the brick wall she hit when she realized that life isn't what she thought. Then the song says, "in the stormy night away she'd fly." She'd fly as if she was the butterfly that would fly into a peaceful place. She escapes reality in her dreams, going to a world of paradise. The rest of the song is mainly singing the word "paradise" showing the flow of her dreams as she's in her paradise. It makes me think of a little girl running in a field of flowers and butterflies.
It then says "life goes on, it gets so heavy" and "the wheel breaks the butterfly." I had to think hard about what "the wheel breaks the butterfly" meant. I'm pretty sure its a metaphor and it's using a butterfly as a symbol of a little girl's innocence and unawareness of the world around her. And then the wheel breaks the butterfly, symbolizing the brick wall she hit when she realized that life isn't what she thought. Then the song says, "in the stormy night away she'd fly." She'd fly as if she was the butterfly that would fly into a peaceful place. She escapes reality in her dreams, going to a world of paradise. The rest of the song is mainly singing the word "paradise" showing the flow of her dreams as she's in her paradise. It makes me think of a little girl running in a field of flowers and butterflies.
Monday, April 2, 2012
"The Whipping" by Robert Hayden
"The Whipping" by Robert Hayden
The old woman across the way
is whipping the boy again
and shouting to the neighborhood
her goodness and his wrongs.
Wildly he crashes through elephant ears,
pleads in dusty zinnias,
while she in spite of crippling fat
pursues and corners him.
She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling
boy till the stick breaks
in her hand. His tears are rainy weather
to woundlike memories:
My head gripped in bony vise
of knees, the writhing struggle
to wrench free, the blows, the fear
worse than blows that hateful
Words could bring, the face that I
no longer knew or loved . . .
Well, it is over now, it is over,
and the boy sobs in his room,
And the woman leans muttering against
a tree, exhausted, purged--
avenged in part for lifelong hidings
she has had to bear.
The first feeling I get from this poem is darkness. It has a really depressing feel to it; which you could predict by just reading the title. This poem describes the perspective of a person watching a boy get beat with a stick by a women which has happened not just once, since it says "whipping the boy again." I'm predicting that the narrator is a child, because he/she seems helpless. They're watching a boy get whipped and describing it in detail as if they were disturbed and can't do anything about it.The author first uses the phrase "crashes through elephant ears" to give the readers a sense and image of how loud the boy was screaming. The boy is also helpless, because he is begging her not to hurt him while he stands in "dusty zinnias." It makes me think of flowers that are supposed to be pretty, but are made evil as they are dirty and the boy must be whipped in them.
In the third stanza, it starts with, "She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling boy." The author repeats the word strike to make us imagine a women repeatedly beating the boy. The poem even says that the stick breaks, which gives us an idea of how hard she was hitting him. She also uses a metaphor, describing the boys tears like rainy weather. It makes me think of the scene as dark and stormy, as well as a mass flow of tears running down his face. The next scene is about his struggle. The poem says that he trys to break free, but the fear is seen in his face. This makes me imagine the boy with a red face, scared eyes, and falling to his knees trying to escape.
The author then takes a small turn, saying that the fear seen in the boy is even worse than seeing the boy being beaten, The most disturbing part is not that he is being whipped, but it is that he has lost his identity. All that is left is for the boy is to cry alone. The poem ends saying that the women is even tired from beating him, suggesting how much physical abuse it was. I imagine her against the tree, flushed with anger, knowing what she's doing is terrible but she must keep it a secret. She pretends like she really is a good person. Even though, her reason to whip him is that he did wrong.
The old woman across the way
is whipping the boy again
and shouting to the neighborhood
her goodness and his wrongs.
Wildly he crashes through elephant ears,
pleads in dusty zinnias,
while she in spite of crippling fat
pursues and corners him.
She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling
boy till the stick breaks
in her hand. His tears are rainy weather
to woundlike memories:
My head gripped in bony vise
of knees, the writhing struggle
to wrench free, the blows, the fear
worse than blows that hateful
Words could bring, the face that I
no longer knew or loved . . .
Well, it is over now, it is over,
and the boy sobs in his room,
And the woman leans muttering against
a tree, exhausted, purged--
avenged in part for lifelong hidings
she has had to bear.
The first feeling I get from this poem is darkness. It has a really depressing feel to it; which you could predict by just reading the title. This poem describes the perspective of a person watching a boy get beat with a stick by a women which has happened not just once, since it says "whipping the boy again." I'm predicting that the narrator is a child, because he/she seems helpless. They're watching a boy get whipped and describing it in detail as if they were disturbed and can't do anything about it.The author first uses the phrase "crashes through elephant ears" to give the readers a sense and image of how loud the boy was screaming. The boy is also helpless, because he is begging her not to hurt him while he stands in "dusty zinnias." It makes me think of flowers that are supposed to be pretty, but are made evil as they are dirty and the boy must be whipped in them.
In the third stanza, it starts with, "She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling boy." The author repeats the word strike to make us imagine a women repeatedly beating the boy. The poem even says that the stick breaks, which gives us an idea of how hard she was hitting him. She also uses a metaphor, describing the boys tears like rainy weather. It makes me think of the scene as dark and stormy, as well as a mass flow of tears running down his face. The next scene is about his struggle. The poem says that he trys to break free, but the fear is seen in his face. This makes me imagine the boy with a red face, scared eyes, and falling to his knees trying to escape.
The author then takes a small turn, saying that the fear seen in the boy is even worse than seeing the boy being beaten, The most disturbing part is not that he is being whipped, but it is that he has lost his identity. All that is left is for the boy is to cry alone. The poem ends saying that the women is even tired from beating him, suggesting how much physical abuse it was. I imagine her against the tree, flushed with anger, knowing what she's doing is terrible but she must keep it a secret. She pretends like she really is a good person. Even though, her reason to whip him is that he did wrong.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Outside Reading
This past week I started reading the book "Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters" by Natalie Staniford. So far, the book kind of reminds me of the Clique books. It's about a very rich family with very snobby girls who have their own tight cliques. All the girls are really pretty too and they have a really big house. Even the front cover reminds me of the clique because it shows the 3 sisters wearing girly outfits and in the clique one of the covers shows the 3 girls wearing really girly outfits. Also, the book starts off with drama immediately just as the Clique.
In this book, I'm predicting that each of the sisters are going to fall in love with the guy that will help them stay happy. And I think that the Dad might get a better job so that they can start getting the money that they lost after their grandma told them that she is going to die. I think that it is going to turn out to be a good book. I really hope that it has a happy ending.
1 hour Sullivan Sisters Wed. & Thurs
30 minutes of poem Sunday
1 hour history textbook Tues and Wed
10 minutes "Adrienne Rich: Resolution Amid The 'Turbulence'" Sunday
20 minutes Bilogy textbook Monday
In this book, I'm predicting that each of the sisters are going to fall in love with the guy that will help them stay happy. And I think that the Dad might get a better job so that they can start getting the money that they lost after their grandma told them that she is going to die. I think that it is going to turn out to be a good book. I really hope that it has a happy ending.
1 hour Sullivan Sisters Wed. & Thurs
30 minutes of poem Sunday
1 hour history textbook Tues and Wed
10 minutes "Adrienne Rich: Resolution Amid The 'Turbulence'" Sunday
20 minutes Bilogy textbook Monday
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Outside Reading
This week I have ready a variety of things. I have ready 30 minutes (25 pages on Tuesday) of my book called "This Lullaby," by Sarah Sarah Dessen, 30 minutes of my history text book (Friday), and hour of my Biology text book (Wed), and 30 minutes of Hunger Games articles (Sunday). I also read 10 minutes towards the poem we had to read for homework (Sunday). The reason that I didn't read much of my book is because I'm not really getting into it. I really did think it was a going to be a good book, and it's not bad, but I like a book that has my full attention. Maybe I will read a survival book, mystery book, futuristic, or action book.
My mom got me a book from the library that is a chick flick. It looks pretty good. It's about the confessions of these high class sisters. I might read that, I just hope it's not boring and that it's engaging. One of "The Hunger Games" articles I read was called "Secrets of the Hunger Games." It was in People magazine and it talked about each of the main characters and how they got their parts. I LOVE all of the characters; Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson. I'm kind of in love with Josh because I love the character he plays and apparently he really relates to that character. He's cute and has a good personality. Anyways, I hope I find a book that I like.
My mom got me a book from the library that is a chick flick. It looks pretty good. It's about the confessions of these high class sisters. I might read that, I just hope it's not boring and that it's engaging. One of "The Hunger Games" articles I read was called "Secrets of the Hunger Games." It was in People magazine and it talked about each of the main characters and how they got their parts. I LOVE all of the characters; Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson. I'm kind of in love with Josh because I love the character he plays and apparently he really relates to that character. He's cute and has a good personality. Anyways, I hope I find a book that I like.
The Hunger Games Movie Premiere
On Thursday Night/ Friday morning, I was at the Hunger Games premiere! First, my sister, her friend, Katie, Sicily, and I all went out to eat at Kona Grill at about 8:30 at Perkins Rowe. After we ate our delicious food, we walk over to the line. The line was extremely long and we weren't planning on the length of the line. My sister spotted her friend in the front of the line, so we slipped in with her. You had to get a stamp when you got in the line, which we didn't have. The doors of the theater were finaly opened, and they asked to see everyone's stamp. I just hid my hand and got in. I had to save seats for Sicily, Katie, and Katie's mom and her friends. Sicily was waiting for Katie's mom to bring her her ticket. I was tired of waiting so I just took my sister's ticket stub and went out the theater, handed it to Sicily, and we went in without them noticing.
It seemed like forever until the movie started. Sicily, Katie, and I just talked and listened to music until the moment finally came. When the movie started, we were all unbelievably excited. We sat through the movie, enjoying every second of it. The movie was much better than I could ever wish for. They depicted a futuristic world perfectly. The acting was perfect and the characters were EXECELLENT. The actual hunger games was so perfect. It felt like everything I had imagined in my head while reading those books were being played on a screen, excect better. It was an amazingly awesome movie and I can't until the next movie comes out.
It seemed like forever until the movie started. Sicily, Katie, and I just talked and listened to music until the moment finally came. When the movie started, we were all unbelievably excited. We sat through the movie, enjoying every second of it. The movie was much better than I could ever wish for. They depicted a futuristic world perfectly. The acting was perfect and the characters were EXECELLENT. The actual hunger games was so perfect. It felt like everything I had imagined in my head while reading those books were being played on a screen, excect better. It was an amazingly awesome movie and I can't until the next movie comes out.
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