I didn't do very well on my essay. I didn't do any of it well. I could have done better if there had been a different prompt.

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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My Plan

My plan to show the information I have learned about my modernest author is to do a prezi. I hope to add audio and interesting images as well as odd facts to make my presentation all that more interesting. My plan is to portray all the information I have learned through research in such a way that students will be interested in reading a piece of the author's work or at least to think twice about a piece they have previously read after learning about the author as a human being.

I AM HERE.

    My smart goal was to keep up on my grades and I have made progress. Paying more attention in class and catching up with homework I hadn't done. I still haven't quite deciding where I want to go with my life outside of high school. It's overwhelming how many things there are to do as a career and how it will shackle me if it's not something I love. I feel like I did pretty well first semester. I also know that I am capable of much better. I come up with all these ideas with good intentions but hardly ever come through with it. Oh the irony, considering you've taught us time and time again about integrity and how we should have more. 

Essay Post Game Analysis

When I walked into the class I felt pretty confident in myself and prepared for the essay. When I started to think about the prompt however I started to get writers block. In my essay I included lit terms well. Aside from that I wouldn't give myself a very generous grade. The deeper I got into the essay and the more time began to pass gibberish ended up covering my paper. I can improve by asking myself more questions while reading the book and taking active reading notes.

Pep talk

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Literature Analysis #1

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 1) In the story, the main character is Charlie, a freshman in high school who is very curious but quiet. Charlie’s best and only friend, Michael, committed suicide sometime in the year before hand. His aunt had also passed away on his seventh birthday when she was out buying him a Christmas and birthday present and he makes reference to him missing her often. He has trouble making friends and letting go of Michael and the fact that many people have changed over the summer. He does however find a companion in his English teacher, Bill. He ends up making friends with two seniors, Patrick and Sam, who introduce him to the world of sex and drugs. Charlie begins to fall in love with Sam, who teaches him how it feels to be "infinite".When the holidays come around he seems uncomfortable with the thought of spending so much time with family. His dad and his aunt were beat as children and his Aunt Helen had been molested by a family friend. The grandpa is a drunk and the only reason why they even get along this year is because they're all so proud of Charlie's brother playing football on tv. For Christmas Charlie gets a type writer from his secret santa in his group of friends and he aspires even more to become a writer. Charlie's sister who was secretly dating a boy that hits her gets pregnant. When the boy argues that it's not his kid, she talks Charlie into taking her to get an abortion and from there on out their friendship strengthens.Charlie starts dating a girl in their group of friends although he is not actually interested in her. They break up when Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room and kisses Sam instead of Mary Elizabeth.After that Charlie is asked to keep away from the group for a while. During this break Patrick was seeing Brad, who wasn’t openly gay, and the two were caught by Brad’s father who didn't accept the two. Brad ends things with Patrick by calling him a faggot and starting a fight in the cafeteria , after Charlie steps in for Patrick they become close friends again and soon the rest of the group follows suite. All the seniors were getting ready for prom and graduation and Charlie was beginning to let it sink in that all his friends were leaving. While Sam is packing for college Charlie and her admit their feelings towards each other and when they start getting close Charlie begins feeling ill. He remembered that his Aunt Helen molested him when he was a child and ends up in the hospital. After months a mental hospital he gets better with a new perspective of life in mind. He decides it is important to participate in life and not be shy or introverted. It ends off with him on the back of Sam’s pick up truck feeling infinite.  
2) The theme seemed to be how he finds himself. Throughout the story he feels lost and knows that something is missing. Although he goes through times of happiness it slips through his fingers right when he begins feeling comfortable with it. Once he goes through his hardships and finally opens up he remembers what it was that has shut him up for so long and he can finally appreciate life and the people in it.

3) The tone seems to be loney and sometime hopeful.

The Peeved Pedestrian

Solely from what I have read from Fahrenheit 451 I haven't discovered a purpose in the book. I just came back to school and started the book today so I know I'm behind everyone else and their opinions on the story. Although I do know that the inspiration for the book came from Hitler who had burned books around the age that we are now. Also that the Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that books burn. What I've taken from the book so far is that it seems to be a prediction of how technology may take over. 

SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE

Can we consider music to be literature? How do we define literature? What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?
    • Music can be considered literature because lyrical music delivers a story. Music different from other literary generals because it is more rhythmic and is set to musical instruments, sung, or with a beat. The definition of literature in literal since is a written work. Stories that are told orally can still be considered literature. The difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony is they have a different approach directed towards different audiences.