Free Post 11/18

The Episcopal boys cross country boys team has won their eighteenth straight championship. To me, that is incredible, takes a special person to run cross country. Who wants to run for fun? There are many different sports I like, but running for fun is something is respect. Plus, winning eighteen state championships in a row is difficult to do.

During football practice, all I hear is Coach Dupe yelling at them about winning state and encouraging them to get better. I ran cross country this year, and he is one of the best coaches I have ever played for. He is friendly to you when the times is right, but when it's time to work, he gets serious. Before races, he tells us jokes to relax us before our race. Hopefully we make it to twenty!

Blog Prompt

What are your opinions on Lord of the Flies? 

I think that Lord of the Flies is an interesting book, with lots of symbolism in it. Each Chapter I learn something new about each character, and they is usually a clever quote with some sort of meaning or background to it. Even though I am not a big fan of reading, this sort of stuff makes change my opinions on some things around the world. 

I do think that Lord of the Flies is a week written book; however, I feel as if the class is moving to fast on trying to finish it. I think that we should take three chapters a week, and have group discussions where we clarify things we didn't understand in the first place. I do not like how we have to cram in more than three chapters a week. 

Reading Times:

27 pages in LOTF - 60 minutes

30 minutes wrapping up short story

30 minutes making corrections to literary analysis

Free Post 11/11

English 1 has been very tough for me this year. I did get a B the first nine weeks; however, the assignments are very difficult. Some of the projects we do are very complex but I know that they will benefit me later.
For example, the literary analysis was very difficult for me to understand. After three days of asking for help and looking at examples, I finally got a basic understanding on how to write a thesis, and a literary analysis. I have never written one of these in my life, and I know that I will need to know how to write one later in life.

Deserted Island

On Friday when we said that our class cars handed on an island, there was a lot of talking a first. Everyone was voicing there opinions at the same time, but very calmly. It took a while to actually get things going. We elected a leader a five minutes, and split into groups. After a couple of ideas shouted out about things, we started to loose focus on trying to survive on an island. Then, Parker started to loose his mind, which lead other people to shout out things they would do.

If this actually happened, I think that we would have been a lot better focused on surviving. We may have had one or two people faint or pass out. As a group, we would have taken the surviving thing a lot more serious.

Reading Times:
LOTF Chapter 1 - 40 minutes
Writing Literary Analysis Rough Draft - 100 minutes

Reading Times 11/4

Detailed Outline - 120 minutes
(It actually took me two hours and thirty seven minutes)