Free post- Thanksgiving time ▶

This week is the last one before Thanksgiving break.
Thanksgiving is coming up and who wouldn't be excited?
I'm happy to be able to spend it with the ones that matter, family. Not all about the food even though it's good but, you have to realize it's about being grateful. I mean, it's in the name. I sure am thankful for my family, friends, opportunities, and my full life of happiness. I remember the awakening I had one day in class for being grateful.
Our class was watching a video of poverty in West Africa. I don't usually watch videos like that because I'm sappy when it comes to those but this one, it had an impact on me. The daily life was heartbreaking to me. Have you ever seen something and just wanted to jump right in to help, that's what I wanted to do. The children, adults, and living conditions of the country was so eye-opening. It was so unbelievable how grateful they were for having so little. In that moment I had some self-evaluation. Be grateful, it's not about what you want. It's basically about what you need. And those people they didn't even have what they needed. Now I know sometimes we're all greedy and selfish but; next time you find yourself complaining about some shirt that you wanted or a different color of shoes. Take a second and just think. You know you're not intentionally being grumpy it's just what you want. Now think, how grateful am I being and how can I show that I care. I think it'll help bring out the true attitude of Thanksgiving.


Have a Happy Thanksgiving (:




Work/reading times-
LOFT w/ annotating- 1 hour 30 minutes
Vocabulary- 30 minutes

What is a dream? ☁

I've often catch myself pondering random philosophical questions and I'm sure others have too.
One that I've been thinking about lately is,
What is a dream? Why do we have these dreams?

Almost every night before I fall asleep, thoughts and imagination explodes all throughout my mind. Ask anyone, dreams are awesome. I love them of course. I used to not have them as often as I do now, which is weird. The fact that they're so unique and changeable each time is so fascinating. Dreams are just so crazy in general.
I wonder why we have nightmares. I used to have nightmares ever so often when I was a child; but now, I never do. Even when I watch a scary movie like in my last post; I'm terrified of scary movies yet, I never have a scary based dream.

Ya know those dreams where you have the world or you are the hero to some specific person? Maybe those are some confidence boosters to your real life. I think dreams are there to comfort you, make you feel better. Or maybe those nightmares are too keep you cautious and on your toes about what's going on around you. I think dreams and emotions are mutual to each other, like mood effects dream and dream affects mood.
I know that this post is about such a broad topic but, who doesn't like to think about big questions like that?

Happy dreaming☁

Free post- Scary movieee

Well, this past weekend Alyssa and I watched The House at the end of the Street. That movie.... I just don't have any words. Honestly, as much as I try to seem fearless I am such a scardy cat especially when it involves scary movies! But it was probably the best horror movie I've ever seen! A really nice plot till the very end!! The entire time Alyssa and I were so into it and scared. It stars Jennifer Laurence and of course everyone knows her, The Hunger Games duh. I recommend to whomever reads this free post to WATCH IT. We were finishing it up during tutorial and we had earphones in even other people started watching when there wasn't any sound! It does have about maybe 2-3 good jump-scares but other than that you'll be on the edge of your seat!!

What if we were stranded?

When we first arrived to class we were instructed to sit on the floor. Floor time is always fun so everyone was quick to go and sit. Once Dr. D told us that we had been, 'in a plane crash' the entire class was rambling. When Dr. D mentioned that there were sixteen first graders with us everyone freaked. I found some of the ideas to manage the children really odd; I personally would have paired each one with one of us and kind of 'parent' them and guide them. First, we conducted a leader. In my opinion I felt like it was realistic and we were stranded we would need a better and more efficient way of choosing a leader. Mainly because the leader is the biggest role and needs to be the responsible one at all times. After that, we split up into three groups; Three groups were for the three main needs to survive which was food, shelter, and water. Since our class wasn't actually stranded on an island we didn't think much. With all the chatter about the roles and yadayada our leader decided to use a tape dispenser to symbolize a 'talking stick'. I thought that was a really good idea, they also did that in LOTF.

If we were actually stranded on an island, without any adults I don't think we would manage very well. A bunch of 9th graders running around with 16 first graders, well just a recipe for disaster depending on the people. With my specific english class I think there would be a lot of situations with survival issues and such just because we're just a leadership type of class. We all like to get stuff done and do it right.


Work times-
Literacy Narrative- 1 hour
LOFT- 1 hour

just work stuff

10/29-
30 minutes- planning outline for literary analysis
45 minutes- writing peer reviews

11/3-
1 hour minutes- writing outline for literary analysis

11/3-
30 minutes- vocabulary cards