Reading Log 11/18/13

Lord of the Flies

11/12- 60 min.

11/13- 60 min.

Pages 32-57

Lord of the Flies Journal

11/15- 15 min.

Short Story Final

11/17- 30 min.

Total: 165 min.

Write Your Own Blog Post Prompt: Portal

Prompt: You are digging holes to plant flowers in your backyard, when a portal appears. You walk through the portal. Where are you? What do you see? What happens? How do you react?

       I stepped in the blue and white swirled portal. All around the room started spinning, and when it stopped I found my self standing inside a resturant. Where was I? The place looked familiar like I had been there once when I was younger.  I took a quick glance around. A group of high schoolers walked into the door. Where had I seen these people before? The guys were wearing all black with slick leather jackets on top and the girls each a pink jacket on. They looked so familiar. Wait a second, Pink Ladies! I knew were I was; I was inside the movie Grease. That wasn't good, I had to figure out how to get back.

        Pause! Who was that? The girl in the middle of the group looked exactly like my best friend. I'm pretty sure it was her! What in the world was going on! I couldn't think. Our eyes met and we stared at each other. She acted like she didn't know who I was. Well I had to get back, whether she was coming or not. I started working on building a portal back, when I saw Sandy. She was happy to help and we finished the portal before the end of the day. I returned safely to my backyard, but when I walked out the front door I saw a girl that looked exactly like Sandy chatting with my BFF.  Beep, Beep, Beep! Something suddenly interrupted my thoughts. What in the world is that? Oh its just my alarm. 

The Weekend: Free Post

The whole week everyone always looks forward to Friday's for the weekend. Truth to be told the weekend brings more stress and work for me. I always say that I'm going to get ahead on some subject and cram all of my homework on Sunday night. I always start out the weekend having spirit to finish all my homework Friday night, but I end out watch in Awkward all night long. Then on Saturday I will take out my computer and start working on some big paper due on Monday. After about 10 minutes I start online shopping and waste my whole day looking at things I will most likely not be buying. 

This weekend I had a lot of homework, especially in World History. Most of the work was my fault because Mrs. Harper had given the assignments about 4 weeks earlier and I was waiting the weekend before to complete them. Anyway I had about 6 assignments due the week before Thanksgiving in World History and also had to study for biology. This weekend was an exception from the rest because I didn't have as much time to complete my homework. Sunday afternoon, I spent 3 hours at school working on my geometry house and at dance rehearsal. So on Saturday, I had to finish at least half of my homework and complete the rest on Sunday morning. I ended up completing everything thankfully, except for studying for Biology. Even though everyone thinks the weekend is fun and they can't wait for it; the weekend is basically torture because you always have stress due to the fat you have to go back to school on Monday. 

Looking Forward to Next Week! (Free Post)

I can't wait for next week, because I get to see Hunter Hays in concert and Thanksgiving is coming around the corner. Over the summer, I bought tickets to Hunter Hays the minute they went on sale and ended up with 5th row seats. The excitement is piling up, and yesterday I got a big poster of him in the mail. I guess it came with the tickets. Anyway the concert is on next Thursday, in Lafayette. The only bad thing is I think all my teachers may try to give us a bunch of quizzes and test before Thanksgiving, and I definitely need the time to study.

The craziest thing this holiday season is that the stores and 96.1 are already playing Christmas songs, and it's not even Thanksgiving yet. Thanksgiving is going to be so much fun, and I need the break to catch up on my work. My family is going to drive up to Houston to hang with all my cousins. The thing I am most looking forward to is Black Friday shopping, it is going to be so much fun. Hopefully they will have good sales this year; they weren't spectacular last time. I did get two pairs of boots though. This year I really want to do midnight shopping, because my mom wouldn't take me that early last year.

Stuck on a Deserted Island and Reading Log 11/11

On Friday we began an adventure to explore into our new novel, Lord of the Flies. We traveled to a world where the world war started. Our class was trapped on a plane. The plane crashed on a deserted island,among the forest. Luckily no one was injured, but we were stuck with a group of first graders. All the grownups had died in the crash. Thankfully the island had the basic necessities for life, because all we had were the clothes we were wearing.

 Our class decided to have a meeting to discuss our plan for survival. We came up with the idea to split up into small groups that were each assigned a special job, for example daycare, hunting, gathering, or building shelter. Each group would accomplish their assigned task, and then we would scope out the highest point of the island and try contact someone to come and save us. In real life we all probably would of died from nature, or a big war we had between each other. We might have a slim chance of surviving, but the weak would eventually die along the way. My class did a good job of making sure the first graders were taken care of and splitting up responsibilities. Some of the people could decide they didn't want to do their responsibility and rebel. I thought the plan was logical, and it could potentially be a good option for survival. 

Literary Analysis-
11/5- 30 min.
11/6- 60 min.
11/7- 60 min.

Lord of the Flies-
pp 7- 31
11/8- 45 min.
11/10- 60 min.


Total- 255 min.

Reading Log 11/4

Peer Review
10/29- 90 min

Detailed Outline
11/2- 120 min

Total - 210 min.