This is Water

A person's perspective on things, could change their entire life. After watching the video, "This is Water," I learned a couple of things. First, is that choosing is very important to fully understand. You have to male conscious decisions, and you have to know what to think about. Its hard to explain, but these decisions are going to come up every day, and if you make the wrong decisions, your going to be infuriated.That is what life is about; making the right decisions. A person may think that other people get in the way of your choosing and thinking, but you never know what that person may be going through. 

This leads to my next point, which is to always assume that any person that gets in the way of you thinking, is in a worse place than you. You never know if the women holding up the line, screaming a her kid is battling cancer or just lost her job. It's not likely that is the case, but it's not impossible. If a person thinks and chooses like this, then they will achieve anything. Anybody can have the ability to really think, and it is so helpful in life.

Reading Response 3

Ali and Torey now have Christopher's diary, which gives them a lot more evidence. They were looking through the diary and found Isabelle's phone number, so they called it and left a voicemail. Isabelle was Chris' old girlfriend. The next day at school, Ali, Torey, and Bo tried to act normal until Chief Bowen walked up to them. Chief Bowen wanted to talk about the phone call, but Bo said that he didn't make the phone call, then Mrs. Creed started to yell at Bo. Torey tried to make things better by telling chief Bowen that he made the phone call, but he didn't believe Torey. Mrs. Creed brought Ali and Torey into her office and asked them what they thought about Christopher. Torey and Ali both said that he was different, because he would never go out with anybody or anything. Mrs. Creed insisted that she let Chris go out. Torey told Mrs. Creed at that moment, that he made the phone call, but she denied it, and continued to blame Bo. Isabelle called Torey and Ali back, and told them that they could come over, so they did. Torey and Ali, approached a messy house, and entered through the back door. When they asked Isabelle about dating Chris, she said that it never happened. One day he asked her to walk on the beach, and he acted like it was a date. So, Isabelle took Christopher to her psychologist aunt, who told him that he would die in the woods. Lately in this book I have noticed that if people do not have the right answer as to what happened, then they make up something that could hurt other people.
 Torey and Ali went to her aunt, and her aunt said that it is true. The next day, Torey and Ali went into the woods. They were freaked out because of what Isabelle's aunt said, but were looking for Creed's body. Torey heard a scream, and saw Ali almost get crushed by two rocks. Torey looked underneath the rocks, and found Chris laminated treasure map, so they left the woods. Alex wanted to meet Torey in the woods the next day. When they talked, all Torey did was fight with Alex and Renee. Alex left Torey in the woods, and he found a body. A that moment, a rock fell on his leg, and was having emotional trauma, and was in the hospital. The doctors tried to get him to eat and talk, but they didn't have any success. Torey's mom came in and talked to him about the body. She said that it was Bob Haines body, and that Torey is suffering a broken leg and trauma. Alex and Renee have to learn to control themselves. Renee told the police on Torey because he was friends with Bo. Bo told everyone in town that Renee's dad had affairs with a lot of people. So instead of trying to work things out, Renee gets mad, and blames everything on Torey.

8/29- 30 minutes-Pages 150 to 169
8/31-60 minutes-Pages 170 to 211
9/1-30 minutes-Pages 212 to 232

EHS football scrimmage

On Friday, August 23, 2013, the Episcopal Knights faced the Tara Trojans, for a scrimmage. It didn’t count for our regular season, but the football team needed to face another school for practice. It was a bright, sunny, and hot day on Friday. Both teams stretched, then did seven on seven, which was basically everyone except lineman, (wide receivers, running/wing backs, quarterbacks). While seven on seven was going on, the linemen did separate drills, to get into the hitting mood. Then, the receivers did a couple of one on one drill. After seven on seven, we headed to the field to start scrimmaging.

When we began the scrimmaging, people showed up to watch, but not a full crowd.  During the scrimmage, there were officials, but we didn’t keep score during the game. Episcopal started on offense first, and got about fifteen plays. We scored, and then were on defense for about fifteen plays also. Their was constant hitting, banging of heads, and tackles. Tara gave us a good fight, and it was a good game. Tara was a higher classification then us, but that didn’t stop us from giving them a good fight back. After the scrimmage was over, both teams shook hands and told each other good game.

Reading Response 2

In The Body of Christopher Creed, the main character, Torey Adams, had a schoolmate who was recently gone missing. Nobody knows if he committed suicide, ran away, or someone killed him. The only things people do know, is that they have a note he wrote, and they blame the goons. The goons are the bad kids, who smoke, drink, and do every bad thing possible. Ali Mcdermott lives across the street from the Creed's and used to talk to Christopher a lot. She found out that his diary is behind a painting in his room. Alex, Ryan, Renee, and Ali, Torey's friend, believe that his mother either killed Christopher, or hated Christopher which made him leave.
Bo Richardson, Ali's boyfriend, has a record eight miles long because of him constantly lying to officers, or breaking into houses. The police and Christopher's mother, blame him for it, but they don't have evidence yet. Bo knows that everyone thinks he killed or hid Chris Creed, so he decided that he wanted to get Chris' diary, to know the truth about him. To get the diary, he had to break into the Creed's house which made it worse. Bo got the diary, but one of the neighbor's said that she say Bo run from the house. After a hectic night, Torey's mom cleared things up, and Bo only got minor charges. My book is a good book, and keeps me wondering what happens next.

Saturday 8/24/13
Pages 78-97: 30 Minutes
Pages 98-115: 30 Minutes
Sunday 8/25/13
Pages 116-133: 30 Minutes
Pages 134-149: 30 Minutes

Reading Hours

I, David Tatman, am reading The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci. I read for thirty minutes from ten twenty four a.m., to ten fifty four a.m., on Saturday. I read page one to seventeen.(August 17, 2013) On Sunday, I read thirty minutes from two thirteen to two forty three, pages eighteen to thirty-five. On Sunday again, I read thirty minutes, from six o'clock to six thirty p.m., pages thirty-six to fifty-six. Then, on Sunday I read thirty minutes from nine o'clock to nine-thirty p.m., pages fifty-seven to seventy-seven.(August 18, 2013).

Free Post 1

I am new to blogger, and also this school. I am expecting blogger to help me out a lot with reading. Reading never was one of my strong points in school. I don't know why, I just haven't liked reading for a long time, but I apprehend to become a faster reader, and read for fun. I only have one main concern about this course, and that is that there is going to be a lot of homework and reading involved. I know that this will be difficult for me to read, because i'm going from reading four books a year, to two books a month. After a while, I predict that I will get use to it, and i'll slowly start to like it a little more every time I open a book.
This course will be challenging, but with hard work and dedication to reading, I will prosper and grow into liking to read. My goal at the end of the course is to reading twice as fast as i did before, but still be able to comprehend what's happening. I also hope to expand my skills on comprehension, vocabulary, and creativity. I am eager for this course but also little nervous of what will happen during the class and work. I want to become a completely different person when it comes to English and reading at the end of the course.

Reading Response 1

I wonder why Charles wanted to approach the Justin, or as known as the man without a face. Nobody in the town likes him or talked to him, and out of the blue, Charles asks Justin if he can coach him in school. Justin didn't to anything wrong, but everyone made up horrible rumors in the town about him, and no one dared to step foot on his yard. There is something he really wanted from Justin McLeod, because this doesn't happen every day. After Charles begged for him to coach, he agreed. Their friendship got a lot stronger, and they started to trust each other. That is usually what happens when you meet someone new, but this relationship was different.
 It was more of a father and son relationship because Charles was fourteen, and Justin was over fifty years of age. They were more of a family, like father and son. Also, The town's biggest mystery was how Justin McLeod got a face like his-a scar as big as half his face. The answer to that question didn't stop Charles from leaving Justin ether. Justin killed a boy Charles age in a car crash because he was drunk. I then realized that could be the reason Charles asked him in the first place. All  Charles really wanted to do was know why he got that and get tutored. There relationship didn't go as he exactly planned however. Beside that, the overall point of the The Man Without A Face, is that it doesn't matter what you look like, it matters what inside. How you act, treat other people, and your character is what really defines a person.