Sunday, September 29, 2013

mapping out my plot

Exposition: a girl that's amazing at sports, gets all of the guys, has a perfect family, loved by everyone, and has a bunch of friend, but what they don't know is that she hates almost everything about herself. 

Setting- Athens, Georgia
Characters (as of now)- Belinda and friend

Rising action-

  • starts getting called names as "jokes" but she takes it more seriously now because it's gone on too long
Climax-
  • starts to starve herself- loses a bunch of weight
  • starts to cut, but she doesn't think that it stops the "jokes"
  • she has thoughts of suicide
Falling action- 
  • a friend stops her from the thoughts 
  • helps make her life a whole lot better
Resolution-
  • goes to camp for 4 and a half weeks and comes back a better person
  • loves more about herself


Post 1

The short story I mostly enjoyed was the A & P. Some reason I was able to get a lot out of  it by, reading it, taking notes on it, and then talking about it in class with everyone. A & P is the main one that I actually processed and was able to get the most out of it.

I think it was the most interesting one. From creepy Sammy to the girls about my age. They really pulled the story together and made me think about whats going on and how everything works together to make it make sense.

reading: Zoe Letting Go By: Nora Price time/dates: 9/24- 10 minutes, 9/26- 10 minutes, 9/27- 1 hour
short stories: 1 hour

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Belinda (voice of character)

               Hi, my name is Belinda and I'm about to fall asleep, but I just have to write a few things down that are going on in my head before I pass out into a deep sleep.
               I love playing volleyball and I have played since the third grade. It's a big part of my life, but I have also played basketball, soccer, and softball in the last few years. This year I really want to focus on volleyball and school work, but my mom doesn't want me to say that because she wants me to play her favorite sport to watch which is basketball. I don't want to play because one, I'm already stressed out with school and two because I hate getting knocked around by girls that are much larger than me(height and weight wise).
              Lastly, I hate school. I don't like most of the girls in my grade because I feel like I have to act fake around them, it's not fair to me or to them. Most of the guys are okay, but I hate when they make "jokes" about the way I look. Even though they say "it was a joke, Belinda. chill out!" doesn't mean I wont take it seriously. I am very self conscious, by the way. I've had many of problems in the past about my self consciousness. Not too good.. anyways my eyes are starting to close.
              Man, I need to talk to my mom!

reading response

I have started a new book called "Zoe Letting Go" By: Nora Price. So far my question would definitely be what majorly is going to happen and where is Zoe? The book gives really good description about everything. I'm just confused on where Zoe is going because her mom told her to pack enough clothes for six weeks and no more information.

When she finally got to where they were going she met a lady named Angela, who is the head of the facility. The first time they met Angela said "Patient", and Zoe had no idea what she was involving herself in. They wouldn't tell her what was going on either. She walked through and there were five other girls there too, but they obviously seemed to not like her... girl drama and they don't even know Zoe yet.


Reading: Short Stories: hour and 30 minutes and Zoe Letting Go: 30 minutes dates: 9/17-20/13

Sunday, September 15, 2013

E-Book

I don't think I have any concerns towards my narrative because I didn't put many different people in the paper. I should be good on that aspect of the e-book. 

If I could choose the formatting of my paper I wouldn't do the heading. I personally am not a fan on it, I don't really have a reason.

This is Water/reading Response

In "This is Water", it talks about the difficulties in life. By this I mean, when you get off of a long days work you want to go home and rest up and unwind, then go to sleep earlier than normal. That's what you would want to do, but in reality you would get home after being in rush hour traffic and from your job. You soon notice that you don't have food in your house or apartment. You have to go back out into traffic and get food from the store, or you have to get off of work and get into that awful traffic go to the store, walk through all of the aisles of food trying to pick out what you want. Then after you have picked out what you want you have to stand in a long line full of pestering people. When you finally get to the front of the line and the casher checks you out and says, "Have a nice day." Then you have to get back into traffic and drive home. 

I really liked this video because it was so interesting to realize how the mind works because the way he describes it is actually how it works. I really liked how everything came together. It's like the muscles and bones, if you hurt your ankle and start limping and your ankle feels better, but then something else will start hurting. It's all connected in someway.    


Reading: time: 2 hours worked on my literacy narrative

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Dialoge

"hey, what's up?"
"nothing."
"are you okay?"
"I was a few seconds ago."
"what's wrong now?"
"I'm not feeling well.."
"Well what happened to make you feel bad?"
"My stomach, head, back, and throat hurt really bad."
"Did you eat something different today?
"No, not that I know of.."
"Have you been to the doctor lately?"
"NO!"
"Why do you say it like that?"
"It's an awful place!"
"No it isn't! They make the things that hurt, not hurt anymore!"
"Well I'm still not going!"
"Why not?"
"Okay, the real reason I don't want to visit the doctor is because they always give me shots and I hate shots!"
"You should get the numbing cream they have! It's great!"
"Wow, I didn't know they had stuff like that! I guess I should go to the doctor then!"
"Yeah, you really should! I promise it won't be as bad as you think!"
"Okay, well I'm making my appointment today! Thanks!"
"Any time! Hope you get well soon."
"Thank you! see you soon!"
"bye"