Extra Credit: Reflection

This year has gone by much faster than I could ever imagine. There is a lot I have learned this year in english- it is one of my favorite classes. Toward the end of the year I started caring more about my grade and raised it by quite a bit. All the assignments we did this year were pretty easy. My favorite though was the map of Odyseous' journey. It was fun and relaxing because I love to color! My least favorite assignment was probably all the five part paragraphs and then having to pick one and edit it. I get how to do five part paragraphs so it was a little boring for me.

Last year in english I definatly didn't learn anything, in fact, i think i might have gotten a little bit dumber. But this year made up for it. Thank you Mrs. Gilman for being a great teacher! I'm not trying to suck up but you really make class fun, even though you seem to yell instead of talk but that's only because our class is so loud. I hope next year in english is as good at this one.

O Brother, Where Art Thou

This movie so far has been decent. I can see how it relates to the Odyssey pretty well. One of my favorite parts was when George robs the bank and tells everyone his name, like in the Odyssey when Odysseus tells the cyclops his name and where he lives. It wasn't that funny but it made me kind of laugh because of how dumb people can be! Also, when he ran over the cows- that was pretty random as well. It made me laugh when he ran over that one cow because they didn't even think anything of it and just kept driving along.

Epic Simile

After i've been in my french class for five minutes, I feel like a little kid stuck in a room with nothing to do, just sitting there, with plain white walls all around me, wishing to get out somehow.

Worlds Fair

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Of Mice and Men: Project

So i haven't really started yet... but i am going to this upcoming weekend. I am doing a powerpoint on the world fair. I think it will take me a few days, so it won't be too difficult.

I don't think there will be any setbacks because I am pretty good at making powerpoints and such. Though, I have physical therapy a lot, that won't really have any impact on the project. If I stay with my schedule of working on it, it should be done with plenty of time to spare.

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Romeo and Juliet, what a book. I think act five, scene three was the best part because it was action packed, tons of ironic things happened. Well, we all knew that Romeo and Juliet would die in the end, but who knew Lady Montague would? I think it's weird how they bring her back up into the book again since she hadn't been mentioned in a long time. Though, my favorite part of the book is when Romeo and Juliet first meet, and in that part most everyone is happy. After that, everything just seems to go downhill.

Yes, this play has had an influence on pop culture. When a love movie or book comes out, people can always relate it to Romeo and Juliet. I think that people have used bits and peices from the play to write their own story as well. Everybody knows who Romeo and Juliet are, I don't see how you couldn't. I enjoyed this book. It was definatly better reading it in class, i could understand it a lot better than if i had to take it home and figure out what it means by myself.