My Short Story Plot

My story is about a man who is challenged to do the gallon challenge. The gallon challenge is when you drink an entire gallon of milk in one sitting. My character accepts the challenge and spends an entire day training for the gallon challenge. I think I am going to use some of the plot devices we learned in class, but I don't know what I am going to use.

The rising action will be when my character will be challenged by the campers across the lake. I haven't figured out what my climax will be, but I think it might happen while he is training for the challenge. The falling action will be when it is time to complete the gallon challenge, and starts drinking the milk and then throws up from all the milk in his body, but still keeps drinking. The resolution will be when he decides that he can't finish the challenge, but then his dad, who he hasn't seen sense he was twelve will show up and finish the challenge for him. The morale of the story is that you should always help somebody when they are in the time of need.

Short Stories Review

The short stories we have read have been great in some part, but awful in the others. They are good because it helps understand reading that we don't see everyday. When we go over the stories in class it helps a lot when I didn't understand the story before.

Some things I do not like about the stories is that we have to annotate them in a certain way. I understand why we have to annotate them, but it bothers me when we have to annotate a certain way and I don't know how to annotate in that way. Another thing that bothers me is that we have to read a different story every night, if we read one story every other night, but then read a story in class the next day that would ease off the workload a little bit. Overall I am not a big fan of the short stories, but I hope that I will come to want to read them.

Short Stories- 2 and a half hours

My Short Story

Hi my name is Barney Ed Canson. I am 22 years old and I live on a lake. Across the lake there is camp currently going on. I went for my daily swim of 10 laps around the lake, which adds up to around 30 miles, but that was just a warm up.

On my last lap a couple of little campers stopped me. They tried poking me but I couldn't feel it because my body was so numb from being in the water so long. They finally got my attention and challenged me. They challenged me to the gallon challenge. I proudly accepted the invitation, and was going to get ready for a hard day of training, so I can do the challenge successfully.

Short Stories

I enjoy the short stories to a degree. They can be very creative and fun to read, when you know what the writer is saying. In every short story we have read so far I have not understood. I would have to read each paragraph maybe three or four times.

Once I go back over my annotations I can understand the reading a little better, but when I really start understanding the reading is when we go over it in class. When we do this all of the points that I never thought of get pointed out. I really think going over the stories in class help a lot.

Short Stories- 2 hours

Literacy Narrative

I feel like my narrative is very easy to understand once you start reading it. I don't need to take away anything from my narrative. It would be cool to add the picture of my book to it or a link to a website where you can buy the book. I have used Wordle before and I liked it a lot, I think it would be great o add in the narrative.

Literacy Narrative 1 hour and 45 minutes

Reading Response 5

I have finished catching fire. It was a great book. However I really don't like how it ended in a cliff hanger. Now I have to get Mockingbird and read that so I can get the full story.

I still think the first book was a lot better because it had more action to me. However Catching Fire had great parts to it like the twists it has about Katniss going back to the hunger games.

Interview Dialogue

Neil Everette is interviewing Zach Mettenburger on his game against University of Alabama-Birmingham.

"Zach, How does it feel to break an LSU record for most touchdown passes?" asked Everette

"It feels great, I couldn't have done it without the help of Cam Cameron. He put more confidence in me."

"How do you feel about the play of Odell Beckam Jr.?" said Everette

"I have to take credit for his performance. Without me he would never have had a game like that because I am the best quarterback in the SEC." snarked Mettenburger

"Thats all the questions I have, good luck this season." Everette said.

Mettenburger replied "I'm too good for luck."

Literacy Narrative

     My literacy narrative is my grandfather impacting the way I look at LSU. So far I have completed my first draft, and I think it is okay. I think I can improve on it a lot.

     I have touched up on my first draft a little bit, but I am going to do some major editing for my second draft. I like this assignment because it helps you realize how important reading and writing is and how it can affect your life.

Literacy Narrative Draft 1- 1 hour and 45 minutes

I Have a Dream

     The "I Have a Dream" speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963. This speech was given in Washington D.C. while the march on Washington happened. The amazing part about that day was even though he was talking about black rights, white people were there. This is an example of what life should be today. We are all brother and sisters.

     The speech itself is considered one of the greatest speeches of all time. To me this speech sums up the whole meaning of peace. What I got from this speech was that we should not be fighting amongst each other, but giving each other a hand when we fall down.

Reading Response 3

     The first part of Catching Fire was great. I could not stop reading because so many unexpecting thing happened. The most unexpecting part of the book so far is Katniss' mind set while she is going back to the hunger games. She thinks that she will not survive because it is her fate to die in the arena.

     Now Katniss goes to the hunger games. Something is very different about the hunger games this time. Katniss finds out that there is a way to get out of the arena. Now she is trying to figure out how to escape the hunger games arena.

Catching Fire- 104-210 1 hour and 20 minutes- 8/30/13