Over the course of this year, I have learned many boring and not so boring things. Knowing how to write an essay with the fill in sheet bubble box thing helped SO much. Knowing that the thesis came after the hook. Knowing that you really do need to cite things correctly...or else. Knowing that with every essay, there is something that you can make a metaphor of your own out of the idea. Considering these facts, I have determined that I have learned quite a lot about essay writing this year. I guess you could say an essayist would be me...but i think that that only applies to people who REALLY enjoy writing them. Not the definition of me! But sure, I've learned enough about the structure and body of the essay that you could call me a Gessayist (gilman taught essayist). One of the main things I learned was to EMBED QUOTES CORRECTLY. Main point.
The main things I usually use points for are either not explaining one of my quotes sufficiently to the text I am using it in, or not citing things correctly. Generally I have "good original ideas" that get my essay rolling although the putting it together part is sometimes harder. Like a puzzle...if you don't have all the pieces it's hard to put it together. So far, I am pretty satisfied with my essay. At first I had this one idea and then it wasn't working. I had an epiphany for a new idea to use. The next thing I knew the essay was pretty much writing itself! (not literally...) Of all the essays we've had to write, this has by far been the hardest. Something about the concept and the characters just couldn't seem to relate to me enough! But, as it turns out, I think that everything IS falling into place just like a puzzle. Like my own metaphor?
Friday, May 21, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Reading in the summer? Nah...just kiddin'
I love summer. Everything about it, from the warm sun to the swimming and just the hanging out. Sadly, I will have to read The Good Earth, but also a few other books of my choice(which are nearly ALWAYS better than books we have to read!). Also the book for AP World...Hopefully, nothing that I ever pick will be something like a book where in the end pigs stand up and "turn into" humans-ahem. Animal Farm=an embarrassment to literature(OK...not really but you get the point)!
The following books are on my POTENTIAL reading list:
First, a very short read, which is the book One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke. Generally in the summer i enjoy doing nothing, running around(not meaning actually running... but the sense of it like hustling around slowly doing things with friends), playing soccer and funny and good books, and OF COURSE laying in the hammock. I love hammocks. I just wish i lived in a tropical place with palm trees, hot sun, waves crashing, soft sand...OK back to the subject. I think that this book will hopefully cover that since I have gotten recommendations from several friends. Also, I love books about non-real, or "book life" because they have it so much easier than us. In some fantasy novels this is how THEIR life might go. In the morning, they get up and a robot makes their breakfast, makes the bed, cleans the house, does their homework. And then, they get in their little modern flippy car thing that flies them to their school while they are eating a chocolate milkshake. How good is that. I'm not even going to START about real life...but anyways, sometimes i wish i could just live in a book! Another book I would like to read, is Tomorrow, when the war began, by John Marsden. I have always enjoyed multicultural novels and novels with high action such as this one. When seven teens from Australia return from a camping trip to find that their country has been invaded, the must hide to survive. The plot of the book sounds like a great story! I always thought it would be kind of cool to have to hide to survive. Very, ya know, crazy and...suspenseful! I guess not if you actually had to, but in most books cases the story is told through someone as if they were living in the moment so technically, they would have had to live to tell the tale.
The following books are on my POTENTIAL reading list:
First, a very short read, which is the book One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke. Generally in the summer i enjoy doing nothing, running around(not meaning actually running... but the sense of it like hustling around slowly doing things with friends), playing soccer and funny and good books, and OF COURSE laying in the hammock. I love hammocks. I just wish i lived in a tropical place with palm trees, hot sun, waves crashing, soft sand...OK back to the subject. I think that this book will hopefully cover that since I have gotten recommendations from several friends. Also, I love books about non-real, or "book life" because they have it so much easier than us. In some fantasy novels this is how THEIR life might go. In the morning, they get up and a robot makes their breakfast, makes the bed, cleans the house, does their homework. And then, they get in their little modern flippy car thing that flies them to their school while they are eating a chocolate milkshake. How good is that. I'm not even going to START about real life...but anyways, sometimes i wish i could just live in a book! Another book I would like to read, is Tomorrow, when the war began, by John Marsden. I have always enjoyed multicultural novels and novels with high action such as this one. When seven teens from Australia return from a camping trip to find that their country has been invaded, the must hide to survive. The plot of the book sounds like a great story! I always thought it would be kind of cool to have to hide to survive. Very, ya know, crazy and...suspenseful! I guess not if you actually had to, but in most books cases the story is told through someone as if they were living in the moment so technically, they would have had to live to tell the tale.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Astrolololology
To me, Astrology signs have always been rather, well, I don't know how to put this nicely-pointless, annoying, i don't know, non-purposeful. Sometimes when I look in a random magazine I pick up( because i don't understand why you would want to read some of the magazines being published now), I see my "monthly horoscope". Of course in February, all of them for every single month have to do with, "oh! you will fall in love and everything will be happy and pink". Stuff like that. Seem like me? I didn't think so...Sure, sometimes they can be true-but sometimes what they say could be true of anybody. Over the years, some horoscopes have said that my sign is Scorpio while some have said Sagittarius- i don't really know how that happens, but anyways. One goes from October 23-November 21(Scorpio), and the other one (Sagittarius) goes from November 22-December21. Although I highly highly doubt it, someone could believe that this could be an "influence" on my no good decision making skills...I really really hate making decisions. One horoscope website said that the following was my horoscope for may 4th...
Tue May 4: Maternal Moon
- The ties that connect you to your family should be especially strong today while the maternal Moon zips through your fourth house of home and family. Intuition is strong, so pay attention to any hunches you might have now. The past has a funny way of influencing the present and the future, so take a good, long look at yours. Where have you been and where would you like to go? Beneficial colours are pearl white and teal. Lucky numbers are 11 and 17.
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