I knew I was gonna forget this! (Sorry Mrs. Ramirez... my brain never works right during playoffs!)
I actually enjoyed the beginning of A Doll's House, because the characters were all so quirky. Their different personalities kept it interesting, and actually having different people represent the different characters made it SO much better than just reading it on my own. I find Nora rather annoying- she's too immature and naive.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Week 21, I'M. SO. BEHIND.
I can't believe spring break is already over! I can't believe it was here so fast. SO much to do, so little time. It's all downhill from here!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Week 19, Outside Reading
What did everyone pick for their LAST OUTSIDE READING of high school?!
I'm reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Has anybody read it?
I'm reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Has anybody read it?
Week 18, It's Been A While
Hey blogger, it's been a while. Saying senior year is hectic is definitely an understatement.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Week 17, East of Eden
I love Steinbeck's attention to detail as he introduces the setting of the novel. This particular passage stuck out to me:
"The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable. The whole valley floor, and the foothills too, would be covered with lupin and poppies. Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is mre blue than you can imagine. And mixed with these were splashes of Calfornia poppies. These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of those poppies."
He doesn't just say the poppies were gold. He doesn't stop there. He talks about the poppies just how he remembers then, and he takes his time to describe them perfectly. I don't see any foreshadowing in the first chapter and I'm not completely sure what the book will be about, but the first chapter has my attention.
"The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable. The whole valley floor, and the foothills too, would be covered with lupin and poppies. Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is mre blue than you can imagine. And mixed with these were splashes of Calfornia poppies. These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of those poppies."
He doesn't just say the poppies were gold. He doesn't stop there. He talks about the poppies just how he remembers then, and he takes his time to describe them perfectly. I don't see any foreshadowing in the first chapter and I'm not completely sure what the book will be about, but the first chapter has my attention.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Week 16, Will beauty save the world?
Our group had two drastically different ideas in the beginning, one focusing on children and one focusing on the elderly. After hearing every single group in our class talk about how their project was going to focus on one group of children or the other, we decided to go with the elderly. They have so many interesting stories and views on life, and they are often forgotten. They usually don't have much family, especially the ones who are stuck in nursing homes.
I love the freedom and open ended-ness (that clearly is not a word... excuse my lack of good grammar) of this project and our ability to take an idea and get creative with it.
I love the freedom and open ended-ness (that clearly is not a word... excuse my lack of good grammar) of this project and our ability to take an idea and get creative with it.
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