Forgotten Players 10/24 45 mins 10/25 30 mins 10/26 10 mins 10/27 45 mins 10/30 20 mins 110 pages
For my three optional short stories, I chose Araby, Sucker, and The Catbird Seat. My favorite one of these stories was Sucker because I could relate to it and it made the most sense to me. To make a general thesis for all three of these short stories, it would be that each short story has an antagonist.
The antagonist in Sucker is Maybelle. Maybelle ruins the relationship between Sucker and Pete, making her the antagonist. The Antagonist in Araby, is Mangan's sister. The narrator falls so in love with this girl that he simply doesn't know what to do with himself and gets lost. She is the antagonist because I feel like she ruins the narrators confidence as well as his feelings. The antagonist of The Catbird Seat is Mr. Martin because he plots to kill one of his coworkers. Even though he doesn't accomplish this goal, he is still the antagonist because he is the bad guy throughout the story and is planning to kill.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
"To Build a Fire"
In To Build a Fire, by Jack London, I really recognized the literary element, setting. The setting in this short story was so descriptive it truly painted a detailed picture in my mind of the snowy trail. The way the setting is described really helps the story because I get a glimpse of how snowy and freezing it really was. "He knew that the coldest snaps never froze these springs, and he knew likewise their danger. They were traps. They hid pools of water under the snow that might be three inches deeep, or three feet. Sometimes a skin of ice half an inch think covered them, and in turn was covered by the snow." This description really gave me a picture of how dangerous it really was out there and it made me begin to fear that the man would soon fall through the thin ice and drown.
When London describes the dog he says, "The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath." This description really allows readers to know how freezing it is, and when I read this it made me put myself in that situation and think of what I would do. The description in this story really helped it out because without the descriptiveness in it, I believe this could have been a very boring story.
Class Participation
Mockingjay 10/9 1 hr 10/11 1 hr 10/12 15 mins 10/13 15 mins- 116 pages
My general procedures in class this year I believe have been pretty good for the most part. I have done the simple things well such as bringing my materials to class, and going to the bathroom between classes and not during them. Also I consistently check the website for homework as well as checking my email. During lectures, I think I do a good job of taking notes and paying attention. I try to participate as much as possible and try to answer as many of the questions brought up that I can. We have not done that much group work, but when we do I try my best to take charge and do as much as I can. Also I try even harder because I don't want to be held responsible if the people in my group make poor grades.
The things I can improve on would be to take out my notebook and free reading book without being asked as much as I have been. I also think that I can be a better student if I participate in less side conversations and pay more attention. Lastly, I need to try to participate more in class by paying attention even more than I have had been so I can talk more in class discussions and answer questions more often.
My general procedures in class this year I believe have been pretty good for the most part. I have done the simple things well such as bringing my materials to class, and going to the bathroom between classes and not during them. Also I consistently check the website for homework as well as checking my email. During lectures, I think I do a good job of taking notes and paying attention. I try to participate as much as possible and try to answer as many of the questions brought up that I can. We have not done that much group work, but when we do I try my best to take charge and do as much as I can. Also I try even harder because I don't want to be held responsible if the people in my group make poor grades.
The things I can improve on would be to take out my notebook and free reading book without being asked as much as I have been. I also think that I can be a better student if I participate in less side conversations and pay more attention. Lastly, I need to try to participate more in class by paying attention even more than I have had been so I can talk more in class discussions and answer questions more often.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
I am a writer...
I am a writer because I love being creative and expressing my creativity through words. I like coming up with stuff to write about because it really gets me thinking and I often have fun with the topic. I write because it is an enjoyable as well as a relaxing thing to do in my free time.
I am a writer because I love to tell about events that have happened in my life, and to inform people more about it, and what I have been doing. I also write to educate people on certain hobbies I have such as playing sports and hunting. I do it because I like to entertain people with stories or essays that I have written. Lastly, I always get a good feeling whenever I get a good grade or when people tell me that they like my paper. That feeling pushes me to continue to write and to try my hardest to make each paper a success.
I am a writer because I love to tell about events that have happened in my life, and to inform people more about it, and what I have been doing. I also write to educate people on certain hobbies I have such as playing sports and hunting. I do it because I like to entertain people with stories or essays that I have written. Lastly, I always get a good feeling whenever I get a good grade or when people tell me that they like my paper. That feeling pushes me to continue to write and to try my hardest to make each paper a success.
Catching Fire Plot Structure
9/23 10 mins, 9/25 1 hr, 9/27 1 hr 20 mins 118 pages (Mockingjay)
The plot structure of Catching Fire uses the Freytags Pyramid because of its action and sequence of events. The story starts off a little slow but quickly gets into the rising action. The action rises for a while before the climax, falling action, and resolution take over and occur very close together.
It starts off describing what had happened in the Hunger Games and tells about the characters. Also, it explains the setting and how there are different districts in which the tributes that must participate in the games are from. The rising action starts when Katniss finds out she will participate in the games again because of the Quarter Quell, an event in which all of the previous winers of the games must return to the arena to fight again. The climax of the story is when Katniss shoots a wired arrow at the force field that encloses the arena, trying to break through. She blows up the whole arena and wakes up in a hospital. The falling action is when she wakes up in the hospital and walks around with a syringe trying to kill her love, Peeta, before she thinks he will be tortured. She walks around until she overhears a conversation between the game makers and her mentor, Haymitch. The resolution of this story begins here, when they explain to Katniss that it was all a setup for her to blowup the arena because the game makers disagree with the whole Quarter Quell idea.
The plot structure of Catching Fire uses the Freytags Pyramid because of its action and sequence of events. The story starts off a little slow but quickly gets into the rising action. The action rises for a while before the climax, falling action, and resolution take over and occur very close together.
It starts off describing what had happened in the Hunger Games and tells about the characters. Also, it explains the setting and how there are different districts in which the tributes that must participate in the games are from. The rising action starts when Katniss finds out she will participate in the games again because of the Quarter Quell, an event in which all of the previous winers of the games must return to the arena to fight again. The climax of the story is when Katniss shoots a wired arrow at the force field that encloses the arena, trying to break through. She blows up the whole arena and wakes up in a hospital. The falling action is when she wakes up in the hospital and walks around with a syringe trying to kill her love, Peeta, before she thinks he will be tortured. She walks around until she overhears a conversation between the game makers and her mentor, Haymitch. The resolution of this story begins here, when they explain to Katniss that it was all a setup for her to blowup the arena because the game makers disagree with the whole Quarter Quell idea.
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