Opening Hunt

     This past sunday, I made my first debut in the duck blind of the 2012-2013 season.  I was so thrilled to be back in the blind with my dad after an offseason that seemed to have lasted forever.  Although we're just in teal season, It is still very similar to the regular duck season which opens in November.  Teal season is the preseason of duck hunting.  The first birds to migrate back south from Canada are a species called teal.  There are blue-winged teal and green-winged teal, we mostly kill blue wings but a green wing will come up every now and then in teal season.  Another difference between teal season and the regular duck season is that the limit in teal season is altered from 6 ducks per man to 4.
     I woke up bright and early sunday morning around 5 o'clock looking forward to a great hunt.  My dad and I  arrived in the blind and could hear the whistles from the teal, we also could see the dark blurs and hear the quick flutters of the teal's wings as they quickly buzzed over the pond.  I kept checking the clock on my phone, highly anticipating 6:29, which happened to be legal shooting time on that morning.  It was finally that time, and the blue wing slaughter began.  Our limit of 8 teal was reached very quickly and we had a great time obtaining that limit for the first time since last January, when duck season ended.  We had a very fun hunt, and had a great kickoff to the season!

Literacy Narrative (Outside reading)

     Last week, I spent an hour typing and editing my first draft and 35 minutes on my second.  My draft focuses on me being infected by a staff infection and learning from reading.  I spent days in the hospital and really took advantage of my free time all day to read.  I read multiple small children books and started to enjoy reading for the first time.   This lead to me reading more and more books and I began to understand the valuable lessons that these books taught.
     I had to brainstorm some different ideas before I think I got onto something with my paper.  I spent a lot of time editing my paper and making grammatical corrections.  I also have been adding more details and have been more descriptive to try and make what I think will be a successful paper.  I'm going to keep on working and try to continue to be more descriptive details to make an A on this paper.
    

Catching Fire - Mockingjay

9/11 1 hr, 9/12 30 mins, 9/14 30 mins 9/15 30 mins

I really enjoyed the ending of Catching Fire, and would consider this book one of my all time favorites. The way the book ended really surprised me because I was sure either Katniss or Peeta was going to not survive the games for the second time.  The book ended with Gale telling Katniss about the warfare going on in their home, district 12.  This lead me to opening up the third book in the series, Mockingjay.
     District 12 is completely destroyed and there is warfare everywhere.  Planes are violently bombing the district and are killing tons. I believe that the rebellion was caused by the capitol's frustration with Katniss beating the system in the games for the second time in a row.

Literacy Narrative

     For my literacy narrative, I am not 100% sure on what I am going to write about yet, but I came up with a few ideas.  In middle school, I remember writing about what I would do with 1 million dollars.  I think this would be something really fun to write about.  I also remember writing about my first day of middle school and how nervous I was.  My last possibility would be a narrative about the interview of my grandmother that I made.  This was a project in 7th grade and I remember it being very interesting.

     I also might write about some books that I have read in the past.  I might consider the Outsiders by S.E Hinton, this was one of my favorite books in middle school.  I also might write about The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  I really enjoyed this book as well as the movie.  My last possibility for the narrative would be Catching Fire, the second book of The Hunger Games.

Comment response

     In my last post about Catching Fire, I received multiple comments about the Quarter Quell.  Every 25 years, the game makers of the hunger games do something special for the anniversary.  This year, they are requiring all previous winners of the hunger games to return to the arena to have another fight to the death.

     Katniss and Peeta both must return because they were both previous winners of the games.  Although they have a slim chance of survival, I think that they have a slight advantage due to their young age, and the shape that they are in.  I disagree with this Quarter Quell because I don't think that it's right that they have to fight again while there is tons of others who have not fought at all.

Catching fire

9/2 1 hr, 9/4 45 mins, 9/7 45 mins= 120 pages

     Katniss is currently fighting in the hunger games for the second time and looks to be doing great.  I am really excited to see how Katniss survives if she does and what strategies she will use to do so.  I am also curious to see if the game makers allow Peeta, Katniss' close friend from their first hunger games, to survive as well.

     I really hope that Katniss and Peeta will be able to both win the games as a team.  Although I hope this can happen, I predict that only one of them will be able to survive and it will possibly come down to both of them alive and a situation occurring where one of them will have to kill the other.  I really have enjoyed this book and I look forward to finishing it and reading Mockingjay, the 3rd book in the series.

Catching Fire

8/26 1 hr, 8/27 30 mins, 8/29 30 mins, 8/30 30 mins= 122 pages

     In Catching Fire, Katniss was chosen to return to the hunger games because of the Quarter Quell, organized by the game makers.  The Quarter Quell is an event where all of the previous winners of the hunger games have to return to battle again in the arena.  Katniss is fighting in the hunger games and has an advantage because she is the most recent victor, and in good shape.
     I strongly disagree with what the game makers have decided for multiple reasons.  I think that the Quell is completely unfair to all of the previous victors.  I really think that Katniss will pull it off though like she did in her first hunger games

Hurricane Isaac

     Hurricane Isaac really affected my family, our house, and especially our yard last week.  Isaac was one of the worst hurricanes we have ever experienced in my opinion.  The storm made us lose power as well as it cut out a lot of work for us to do the upcoming week.  The well anticipated Isaac sure delivered what was expected from it.
      I woke up Wednesday morning to look outside and see the branches shaking violently in the wind and the water pouring down in buckets.  At first, I was kind of nervous but quickly went outside to really feel the power of Isaac.  The winds were so strong and rushed through the air, howling, and even forced some small trees as well as multiple branches to collapse in my backyard.