Short stories 4/29/08

1. I think that stories are so important for kids to hear because they allow the child to think in a different way and dream of things that could never happen. It allows them to think beyond their everyday life. They learn about conflict and how they can resolve things.

2. I think that older people read because even at an older age people want to be able to understand or learn different things that are happening in today world it may not be the truth but I think that even made up things keeps the reader reading. Maybe older people things that are fun and silly to bring that back to their childhood days. Older people that read actually stories do it because they are able to learn new things and are able to apply it to their everyday life.

3. I think stores are so important in our nation because people in the US want to hear more about anything really. People these days want to read everything and anything. Many things that writers write have to do with what is going on or what they think will be going on in the near future, this causes people to run out and buy them and read them so that they also have the knowledge that the writer has and any one that has read the book. That is why the books that make it on the New York Times list are the top books because they have to do with what it happening and keep the reader entertained.

4. I really don’t remember that many stories one that stands out the most is Good Night Moon and I think the only reason why it stands out is; my nanny used to read it to me everyday sometimes for than once and she just gave me a copy of it for my birthday so I will always remember the days that she would just sit and read it over and over.

In Character

1. Barbie has had a huge impact on our culture. Until the last couple of years Barbie was one of the only toys that young girls played with. I remember when I was younger I would beg my mom to buy me the new and coolest Barbie. I thought that she was the best thing it was something that girls could dream of becoming like a doctor of even a princess it was so much fun to think that you could actually be this someday. But Barbie also had a bad impact on culture many women’s rights group said that Barbie should not just be a nurse or a flight attendant because it was showing that women were second in the work force and men were always the main part. Well the creator of Barbie reacted to that and made Barbie into doctors and pilots. The character is so fascinating because there is so much to her, she could do anything and be anything you wanted her to be. All you had to do is dream.

2. The Cookie Monster was the best he brought so much to young kid’s minds that you didn’t need the fancy cars or clothes all you needed was a cookie and you could keep on living your life just as happy as anyone else. He wanted kids to know that they didn’t need to be like the rest to fit in, come on he was blue and only wanted cookies I think that says enough about who he is and what he stands for. When words spread that the Cookie Monster was going to be replaced with a Veggie fans when crazy they wanted their Cookie Monster back.

3. Kris Furillo from Wildfire I think she is important to our culture because she rides horses!!!! She brings awareness to our country about horseback riding and how it is such an amazing sport but there are many downfalls to it; a horse may get hurt and you can’t run the race or the horse may just quit on you and you have to find a new one. Well first of all she starts out being in jail and ever since she left she has been trying to make her life better and trying to get back on track.

Poetry Critique

i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


1. I decided to read this poem because I thought that the name was really cute and I thought that it was going to be a love poem.

2. The title was the main point of the poem that he or she thinks that their significant other is the way that they live their life, they live it for them and do everything for them because they help them grow into a new person and they will always be together as one.

3. I really don’t know what I would like to learn about I enjoyed poetry and wish I could have been in class everyday to absorb everything.

4. The author used a lot of image in their poem they mentioned on how the heart was like the sun helping a tree grows, which it is also a root of the tree to keep it strong. I think the reader’s tension is on the image that the author is trying to portray.

5. The tone is trying to be more of the love and happy area saying that this person is everything to them and they will always be with them because their heart is always with them and always will.



http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings/poems/14130

Writing Territories

I really hate to say this but I have never enjoyed writing and reading I just feel that it is a hassle and for the first month in this class I didn’t know what I getting my self into but once you were our teacher again. You made it a fun class to be in and very relax. So as of now I kind of like anything and everything that we are doing in class, as far as reading I really enjoy reading short stories but they have to interesting like something to do with people that are my age and what they are going through or anything with horses, I could read anything like that forever. I enjoy writing the same thing because I feel like I could go on and on about it because I am that age and I do ride horses and love being around them. I do not write when I am out of school these days, I use to when I was younger but it would just be a lot of random stuff. But now I just don’t have the time. I’m sure I could make time but I never seem to put the effort into trying to make any.

The teenage years are the hardest time in a young girls life. Maddy and Lauren are in the middle of their senior year. Hey Lauren what should we do tonight? Well I don’t I think Mitch is having some people over if you want to go there. Yeah that would be fun. I’m so stressed right now. Why what is going on? I have applied to all of these schools and still have not heard anything and I have no idea what I am going to do next year. I am sure you are going to get in don’t worry about you are so smart and did well on your ACT’s. I just hope that I found out soon you know. Yeah I know what you’re talking about.

#7

1. I have really enjoyed writing about the daily prompts, it makes me think back to when I was younger, and it helps me remember things that I have forgotten or that are just to far back in my memory. Its fun to think of my younger days, I think that it is crazy that I am already 18 and heading off to college. This class has made me realize everything that has happened throughout the years.

2. I really enjoy writing short stories about things that have actually happened and switching it up a little bit. I don’t know if that is my strongest area of writing, but it is the one that I enjoy the most.

3. I feel that I need a lot of structure to get me going. But I only think that because I feel otherwise I will be doing it totally wrong and get a bad grade on it. Also I am not very good at grammar and never no how to do thing correctly.

4. I really don’t know what I would like to learn about I enjoyed poetry and wish I could have been in class everyday to absorb everything.

#6

This weekend was far from fun. I have been having a wonderful time in FL for the last couple of weeks. Being away from school was wonderful, I was able to get most of my school work done within a two hour time period I did question why I even went to school when I was able to do it all on my own. Being able to ride my horse’s everyday and get lessons was amazing it was amazing experience and I learned a lot. Another plus was being able to go to all of the shows while I was there. Well this weekend started out great everyone from team Chiacchia was placed well after the first day. We were all having so much fun together; we knew it was going to be a fun weekend. Well we were very wrong. Saturday morning came around it started out well, my trainer Darren Chiacchia went out to the warm up on his first horse Baron Verdi. This was a very young horse that was very new to the sport. Darren was very nervous about this ride because the course was very difficult. Well Darren and Baron came up to fence five and Baron did the unthinkable he chested the fence which caused him to do a rotational fall onto Darren. Darren’s chest was crushed. He was then airlifted to the nearest hospital for further treatment. Everyone from the team was so scared to ride we were not sure what to do. But we knew if we didn’t compete Darren would be mad at us so we decided to go for it. Later that afternoon Jon Holling went out on his own horse Direct Merger while jumping fence 8 “Monty” had a heart attack and collapsed and died. It was so sad the watch this happen. Monty was everything to Jon and he was hoping to make the Olympic team this summer. When we thought that the day couldn’t get any worse it did my friend Missy Miller was the next up to go out on the course on her own Leprechauns’ Rowdy Boy. They were looking amazing! She came down the hill to this huge water jump and while going over the first element Rowdy Boy had a heart attack and crashed into the second fence, and flew Missy into the water. Rowdy died instantly. Hearing Missy scream “Get him” “not my Rowdy Boy” was horrible he was the love of her life and her best friend. Team Chiacchia scratched all of the horses from the rest of the competition and went home. We were not willing to risk any more of our horses or riders getting hurt. I hope that Darren makes a full recovery and will be back in the saddle soon. It is going to be very weird at the barn for awhile without him and Monty and Rowdy. They will forever be missed.

#6

This weekend was far from fun. I have been having a wonderful time in FL for the last couple of weeks. Being away from school was wonderful, I was able to get most of my school work done within a two hour time period I did question why I even went to school when I was able to do it all on my own. Being able to ride my horse’s everyday and get lessons was amazing it was amazing experience and I learned a lot. Another plus was being able to go to all of the shows while I was there. Well this weekend started out great everyone from team Chiacchia was placed well after the first day. We were all having so much fun together; we knew it was going to be a fun weekend. Well we were very wrong. Saturday morning came around it started out well, my trainer Darren Chiacchia went out to the warm up on his first horse Baron Verdi. This was a very young horse that was very new to the sport. Darren was very nervous about this ride because the course was very difficult. Well Darren and Baron came up to fence five and Baron did the unthinkable he chested the fence which caused him to do a rotational fall onto Darren. Darren’s chest was crushed. He was then airlifted to the nearest hospital for further treatment. Everyone from the team was so scared to ride we were not sure what to do. But we knew if we didn’t compete Darren would be mad at us so we decided to go for it. Later that afternoon Jon Holling went out on his own horse Direct Merger while jumping fence 8 “Monty” had a heart attack and collapsed and died. It was so sad the watch this happen. Monty was everything to Jon and he was hoping to make the Olympic team this summer. When we thought that the day couldn’t get any worse it did my friend Missy Miller was the next up to go out on the course on her own Leprechauns’ Rowdy Boy. They were looking amazing! She came down the hill to this huge water jump and while going over the first element Rowdy Boy had a heart attack and crashed into the second fence, and flew Missy into the water. Rowdy died instantly. Hearing Missy scream “Get him” “not my Rowdy Boy” was horrible he was the love of her life and her best friend. Team Chiacchia scratched all of the horses from the rest of the competition and went home. We were not willing to risk any more of our horses or riders getting hurt. I hope that Darren makes a full recovery and will be back in the saddle soon. It is going to be very weird at the barn for awhile without him and Monty and Rowdy. They will forever be missed.

Toward the future from the past

1. Wow I never thought that I would ever write a play! Well I’m not quiet finished with it yet there is still some editing to be done, since I was gone last Thursday and Friday. Some things that I frustrating while writing the play is to not just ramble on about whatever you feel like even with having to explain a lot of things with the scene direction, I still felt like something was stopping me from that. Yet some things still surprised me I found that it was quiet an easy assignment to write a play. I tired to just make it seem as real as possible. but I also feel that it was not what it should really be and that is what would stop me from going on and writing more screen plays and more drama rolls.

2. I would tell a 10 year old that first of all take advantage right now of not having to be in school every day while you’re young because once you’re in high school you need to be there. Also that your friends will change everyone seems to go through really hard times with them selves and people around them and the people that are willing to help you are your true friends the people who don’t care if you have money, the people who don’t care what you look like without make up, people that you can just have fun with. Don’t judge people by their outside appearance it’s the inside that truly matters. Have fun while your young be apart of school activities and get involved with your school. Everyone makes many mistakes that is how we learn to do the right thing next time so don’t be afraid to make them. You will end up forgetting about that little thing because something bigger will happen later in your life. I would give them this advice because it is more of the real world things that have happened. Yes good grades and good ACT scores and going to college are wonderful but what if you could never get there because you were afraid of doing something wrong or you were too worried about the little things.

3. What I think that causes literary works to live forever are the people that appreciate older work of art. people keep on changing over time each generation is different there may be one that does not appreciate the older works of art but the next one could and I think that is how things can keep on living because someone can always go back and reintroduce it into the world that we are living in today.

1. I think that theme is very important in writing. Without a theme we would not understand the main purpose of the writing, and we would be able to question why is this piece even being written. And that is not good if we are able to do that, it shows that the writer has not been taught the correct way to write and be able to catch to readers attention. On the other hand I could see people not being able to have theme in their writing, because they may feel that they do not know how write with a theme. I know that I have had a hard time writing with a theme even though I know it is bad to be like that.

2. I was thinking of doing some kind of theme of learning your lesson for somethings that you have done wrong I have no idea as of right now how i could do that but i was thinking of having a group of kids do something wrong and they get caught for it. Then they have this nig learning thing. but im not sure what I would call the theme that i am trying to show maybe something like learning your lessons.

3. I think that I would write about an internal conflict with the main character trying to find out who they are and what they should be doing in life. I think I would have them be a young person in their teenage years, because I feel that this point in time is the hardest. Most kids get lost in the decisions that they need to make and they worried about getting into the right college and they do not want to make the right mistake. I think that with a conflict like this the reader will be able to stay tuned in with what is happening and actually be interesting. But I also think that the play would have to be directed towards a younger audience for it to be a success.

I am a thinker

1. When it comes to reading and writing I think that they play a huge role together, without one you can’t have the other. One example is you can’t read anything if there is nothing written and another is why write if no one can read it. I think other people think this is important because I feel that this is how they may learn more and figure out what they think is the right thing to think and this maybe how they express their own personality. Also it allows other people to find other peoples personality.

2. Something I think that is wrong in our country today is obesity. I fell that this a big factor in why many people die so young. It really bothers me seeing larger people, I wish that there was something I could do for them to try and make their life better in any way. I come from a family who is a little larger than most, they are not huge just out of shape, and when I ever I see them go to a fast food place or make food that has to much oil and grease in it I always wonder if they are making the right decision.

3. One movie that has inspired me is the Olympics from 2000 where a former trainer of mine won individual gold. He has always been a great leader for me and I look up at him and hope that I can be like him someday and follow my dreams of being an Olympic gold medalist. David O’Conner is one of the best horse back riders in world he trains young riders to become the best that they can be and he puts his own dreams in them, once he decided to retire from competing his new dreams became his students. He wants all of them to succeed and become better than he ever was. If I could ever be the way that he is now I think my life dream would be completed.