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