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Over the past weekend I did many things. On Saturday morning, my parents left with a few of their friends for the LSU vs. Auburn game in Alabama. My parents realized that three girls wouldn't want to be alone in our big house all day and we needed to be able to get places because none of us can drive yet. So right after my parents left, a girl named Alex, who works at my dad's office, came to stay with us. We then had to get ready for Anna Scot's soccer game that started at ten, which meant we had to be there at nine. So we loaded up the car and watched her team lose terribly 8-0. Anna was down because she knew that she had another game after that. So we had to eat really fast at Chick-fil-a and rush back to the soccer fields. Thankfully her team won this game 8-2. We were all very pumped because she scored her first goal of the season, because she usually plays defender. 

After the soccer frenzy, we went back home and had fun watching TV and being lazy. Alex then had to leave because we were spending the night with our family friends. The next morning, we were forced to do homework and study. Soon after we started, our parents got back so we went to eat brunch. It was delicious. When we got back home, we had to finish our homework because our parents were mad we hadn't finished it already. We rushed and finished with time to spare. Because all three of us were finished with our homework, my parents let us buy a movie and watch it. My weekend was full of laughter, joy, and homework.

Reading Response/Literacy Narrative

This week I read and wrote my Literacy Narrative for class. I finally finished my book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. I was really fascinated by how it turned out that Hannah just misinterpreted some of the things that happened to her and didn't realized how the other people felt too. I think that if Hannah had given some of the people a chance to explain she would have still been alive. I would recommend my book to anyone who likes to read books about the effects of bullying, because it is filled with many valuable lessons.
My Literacy Narrative is coming along nicely i think. At the beginning, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write mine about. Now that my first draft is finished, I have gained confidence in my writing and believe my story is better than I thought it would be. I really liked the day when we had the group and we read each other's stories. I got some constructive feedback that helped my revise my draft. 

Monday-37 min (book)
Tuesday-62 min (paper)
Thursday-29 min (book), 24 min (paper)

Total: 66 min, 65 pages
           86 min for narrative

My Literacy Narrative

    When I read the example literacy narratives assigned to us, I was immediately excited to compose my own narrative. But then I realized I had no idea what to write mine about. Since I never really had any realizations or anything about reading or writing, I was pretty lost. Now I have a few ideas and still am not quite sure what to write about. 
    The two ideas I can't decide between are from when I was in kindergarden and we were learning about the alphabet or from first grade when everyone made their own picture books.  From the handout we received about the assignment all my questions were answered, so now I am ready to write my first draft.

Reading Response

    This week I continued to read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. My book has really picked up the pace by revealing some of the shocking misfortunes that happened to Hannah. I think that this book is a fantastic read and nice to get caught up in. Even though this book is mostly creepy, it has a really important story line that affects every person. I am really excited to find out what the last person on the tapes did to Hannah and see why she built everything up for the last part or finale. I feel that what will happens will be unpredicted and tie everything in the story together in a weird and unusual way. 
    There have been many loose ends, which makes it hard to follow sometimes. Every chapter has an unexpected twist that leads to another person's individual story with Hannah. Even though I am super close to finishing this book, it is still hard for me to process why any human being would torture or ridicule another person the way various people have to Hannah. I really enjoy in this book how the author tells and lets us live Hannah's experiences and troubles with her. It is fun to imagine the scenes and people in the town form all the explicit detail written by Asher. I hope that the end will be even better than the beginning.

Tuesday: 23 minutes
Wednesday: 34 minutes
Thursday: 17 minutes
Friday: 26 minutes 
Sunday: 54 minutes
Total: 154 minutes 212 pages

Comments

    The comments I have received have been very helpful and caring. The posts from Dr. D have been helpful in my writing because I now realize some of the things she corrected me on. Also, my classmates have been sweet in their comments on my blog and sincere in how they are in their  constructive criticism. I like having these blogs because it gives me an opportunity to get better in my writing, even if these posts aren't essays. 
    No body has posted any questions or been confused from one of my posts so far. I am excited to see what kind of comments and ways to improve my writing to come in the future.

Reading Response

    This week I am still reading Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. So far, I have learned through five tapes and eight of the thirteen people that affected her life. I think that some of the things that happened to her, which was mostly bullying, are so sad and wish they never happen to anybody. I feel so bad for Hannah and glad that she still saw the positive in everything after the things that happened to her. A question I kept asking myself was why anybody would want to hurt Hannah when she was one of the most liked people at her high school? A few things are confusing to me in this book.
    I also read this week all five of the literacy narratives assigned to us for homework because I wasn't sure which three of the five I would enjoy the most, so I read and annotated all of them. I enjoyed all of the narratives and learning about each persons struggles or realizations that they were writing about. I am excited to write my own literacy narrative in class.

9/5-15 min  9/6-40 min  9/8-37 min  9/9- 74 min
Total: 166 min and 188 pages

Reading Response

I finished reading The Return: Nightfall, by L. J. Smith. The book really surprised me because I had no idea that some of the characters would betray each other. The book I recently started is Thirteen Reasons Why, a novel by Jay Asher. In this book, a girl named Hannah Baker committed suicide because she was bullied. To get revenge on the main people that pushed her over the edge, she recorded these tapes before she died that told her story and delivered them to these people.
Even though I just started the book, I think the story line is sort of scary. Who would want to randomly receive tapes one day with a recording of a dead girl that tells you that something you did made her want to kill herself? I would freak out if I received any tapes like the people in this book. I am excited to find out what happened to Hannah Baker.

8/27-36 min 8/29-49min 8/30-28min 9/3-58min
total: 17min and 283 pages

Hurricane Isaac

During the week of no school, due to hurricane Isaac, my family and I had loads of fun. even though we were bored most of the time, we found ways to still laugh and have fun in the dark. One night we didn't have power and my little sister was scared to sleep in her room by herself. Therefore Kate, Anna, and I all decided to sleep on the floor together in the front, so we all got blankets and pillows. By this time, it was already dark and we needed to use flashlights to get around. When all three of us were running down the hall with blankets and pillows in our arms, Kate accidentally stepped on Anna's blanket that she was dragging and she fell forward and hit her face on a chair in the hallway.
Kate and I screamed so loudly because we were so frightened. When Anna finally stopped wailing and crying, we looked at her face and realized it was nothing more than a busted lip. We all were truly relieved that no one had to go to the emergency room during the hurricane. Anna is better now, but we learned not to run down the hall at night time when it is dark.