Deserted Island

I thought the simulation went ok. I felt like too many people were giving ideas and trying to take control. When people would try to be a leader they would be shunned and other people would try to be the leader. I think that we also forgot about the first graders that were supposed to be with us.

In real life I think that we would all die within a week. I think this because all of us would be in so much shock that we wouldn't be able to think or move. The class did a good job of making a plan, but it took to much time because so many people were talking.

LOTF 55 minutes (in class)

Literary Analysis 2 hours

Free Post

Basketball practice has been going well over the past two weeks. Coach is saying that we are practicing very hard, but I don't feel like I am playing to my best ability. We have done many drills that involve shooting. I love it when we do shooting drills because it gives me an opportunity to improve my jump shot. We have also worked on defense. To me this is one of my weakest points of my game, but I feel like I am improving. The thing that I am most proud of is the shape I am in. I am not in the best shape of my life, but I haven't been in good shape in maybe two years.

Reading Response

I read The Sniper By Liam O'Flaherty. I enjoyed this story because the story was about something that I was interested in. The story is about a sniper in a civil war that is trying to kill the other sniper with other obstacles going on around him. All guns are pointed at him, but he is able to pul through.

Reading:
Same Kind of Different as Me- 1 and a half hours
Pages read- 42

Reading Times and Questions

Personal Questions: How can I push myself as a reader? What kind of writing styles do I like most?

Reading/Working Times

Short Stories: 1 hour 
Reading: Same Kind of Different as Me: 1 and a half hours 
Pages read: 35

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.