pre-sleep thinking

I'm Aiden. Living in small town Tennesse at the young age of 15. My best friend is my own brother, Jesse, he's 17. 

Today was just like any other day, waking up at an early 5am to take care around the house, walk to school and spend it with my classmates who don't know much of anything, come home, and well now I'm here. I know I'm only fifteen but I'm saving up as much as possible to get out of here. 

when. when. when. will I get out of here? 

This year Jesse is a senior in highschool,

What am I going to do without him around..?

He's been my bestfriend since I was born! He's planning on going to an out-of-state college. He doesn't even know which one but, him and I have the same mind set. Anywhere but here. 

It'd be easier if mom was around to help us out.. 

It'd be easier if that woman were supposed to call our 'step-mom' too would just scadaddle.

I hate thinking so much before I go to sleep, cmon brain. I love to try and wrap my mind around uncomprehendable topics such as,

how far does the universe go?

I don't know that's just me.

Time to catch some zz's. Nite. 

Reading Response

The book I'm finished Wake by Lisa McMann. The main character is a 17 year old girl in her senior year. She's not like all others teenagers, she can see into other people's dreams. I'm really enjoying this book and it's really easy to read. I'm almost done with it and I read about a good amount pages within 10 minutes. I'm most likely going to finish it today, so yah cool.

Reading times:
2:20 hours
pg. 100- pg. 210 finished

E-book

I'm definitely not very confident about putting my literacy narrative out there on an e-book. I know we have to but, I'm not what to change about it but there are some changes that need to be made. It would be nice if I did have some more peer proofreading just for a confidence booster. Other than that I'll be fine. I don't have an idea for images to put in there maybe a picture of a composition notebook? I still don't have an idea for a title but the layout/design we could do something like a journal of some sort? That mite be cool. E-booking timeee.

Reading Response

Reading Wake by Lisa McMann-
2 hours 54-101

I've really been enjoying this book. It's easy to keep up with or follow what the author is actually saying; not many sudden jumps to some other situation.

Working on literacy narrative-
3 hours- September 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th

Interrogation

officer- "Where were you on august 13th?"

suspect- "Well.. as far as I can remember I was at home. By myself."

officer- "Alright. If you want to play this the hard way we can, your decision. Now tell me, WHERE were you tuesday august the 13th around 6 pm?!"

suspect- "I told you, at my house alone."

officer- "Well then how is it that we found YOUR DNA on the victims clothing?"

suspect- "Like I would know.." he remarked snooty

officer- "Well we sure do have enough evidence in the back to arrest you but, is there any objection or reason I shouldn't you'd like to tell me?"

suspect- "I didn't do it... or maybe I don't remember doing any such thing like that."

officer- "Excuse me?"

suspect- "I mite have done it, maybe I just don't recall.."


^^related to an interrogation between a police officer and the suspect in a crime. I've heard of instances of where the suspect claims to not know if they did the crime or not so..

Reading Response: Update on literacy narrative

I am very proud of my literacy narrative. This is one of the first times I think I gathered and organized information into one and wrote a good 'essay.' The selection I made for the topic was how I became the writer I am today. It did take me awhile to think of a situation applying to this but I finally got it! Judging by my feedback not including errors on turnitin.com I think my writing does of course need tweaks. There are some confusing and awkward sentences I will have to fix but, who doesn't have that in there rough draft!



reading times:
Wake by: Lisa McMann
9/7- 2hours pgs 1-54

This is Water

I watched the 9 minute video called "This is Water." It is safe to say that I really liked it and finally someone in this world is bright enough to understand that we are not the ruler of the earth as one person, and we are not free to judge people just by their appearance or actions. I've experienced situations like these within the supermarket, mall, restaurant, anywhere you could think of were you have to guide yourself into thinking positively and putting yourself in other people's shoes. I know for a fact and completely agree we all have the moments where one single thing can set your temper off. I try as best I can to get another perspective on what other's are going through. Even take a look and see what other people do, because I sure do know no one knows exactly what I've been through or am going through so why should I be the judge of them if I don't want to be judged either? I tell people to not only think of the possibilities like the video said but also to just imagine a day of living in the other person's mind. For example when someone bases a person's whole character after one bad day no one knows what is going through that person's mind, they could have lost their grandparent the week before and just the memory of it brings the person to a bad and depressed mood that is given off on that day. I try to live like this wether it's hard sometimes. Also, I know I'm basically summarizing or maybe even repeated what the video was talking about. I'm just glad there are people out there who aren't quick as others to judge.

Reading Response/ Log

Reading Response- A Scrap of Time
I finished the book that I was reading and to be honest I wasn't that into it. As much as I adore non-fiction World War 2 books I didn't care for this one. I'm guessing because in my distracted head of mine I can't keep up with a book that changes every chapter with words that are unfamiliar with my grammar.

Reading Log-
doing wordly wise vocal- 1 hour 8/31/13
reading- 30 minutes 135?- 150
blogging- 30 minutes for both blogs