I'm so tired. I'm 100% ready to go home. This week has drained me off all my energy and that's because my 4th and 5th hour is stressing me out like crazy. I'm happy I got everything done in English so I can just read or write. I started 1984 by George Orwell and It's pretty interesting so far. This week I got to really know Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God and I answered my big question through her eyes. I don't read even a quarter of what I should, but when I do, I've found that I really enjoy taking the time to know the characters. Sometimes when a character catches my interest enough, I'll start to come up with different scenarios and question how they would react to or deal with them. I often question the ending of the book too. I didn't really like how T.E.W.W.G ended. The excitement finally built up and was tumbling ahead at the speed of a freight train then basically just slammed into a brick wall that was known as the ending. I don't know how but I would have changed it to give it a bit more of a clean, finished ending. I'm quite excited to get into 1984 and see how "Big Brother" is and how it is going to end. I hope it is overall an interesting book.
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Week 7! Time has seriously flown by this marking period. This past week we chose a big question and then a book to answer said question. I chose Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I chose this book because the main character was a mixed woman living in the 1930s and though I'm not living in the 1930's, I am mixed and every single history class I've ever been in that taught us about African Americans, I've always wanted to know... well what about people like me? So before I started reading this book I thought it was going to be like The Color Purple which in some ways it was but once I started reading it... it kind of chased my interest away unlike Alice Walker's book did. The dialect was so strange to me, they use ah instead of I and lak instead of like and I spent the first couple of days on the first chapter trying to decipher what they were saying. I got fed up with quitting and just forced myself to focus and I found myself not able to put the book down and I ended up finishing it really quickly. It was honestly a very good book and I recommend it to anyone looking for a challenge and a good read. I hope to find more books just like this, and I am determined to read them and analyze them thoroughly the way in which I did with this book. The next two books I want to read are Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright.
Week six. It's friday and the end of the marking period. We've been doing a whole lot of creative writing all week which I love. I've had some pretty bad predicaments this week and I feel like our big creative writing project has helped me mentally deal with and understand what happened. I really do enjoy writing probably more than any other activity in the world (besides painting, ceramics, or anything art). To me writing is an art. I haven't found anything that helps me sort things out/communicate more than writing. I'm not very focused today so please forgive my incessant rambling.We've been doing a lot in class with learning about what you need to incorporate to make your story appealing. I've been trying broaden my use of vocabulary both in my writing pieces and within my verbal communication. I have also noticed the daily poems in which we are read, have brought back my desire to express my feelings in that form.
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