Something Personal

Something Poetic

 

 

This boy

This man took everything I had to offer, he saved me

Made me feel whole in a way I had'nt.

He's perfect, but.

There's a never ending feeling, a feeling in my mind

That craves more, of what?

I couldnt tell you.

This boy

This man, gives me all I should want

Yet I want more.

Asha

Someone is having a harder time getting out of bed on this snowy morning then I. 

Writing Reflection #4

 

 

Six Word Memoir Response #2

 

 

 

By the time I finished the project I realized it may seem like and easy project, but in reality it isn’t. Writing a poetic six word story and then taking pictures to back it up to make it easier for the reader was difficult. I still had a blast though, it was fun to challenge myself to a new form of writing and if anything I liked it more then I disliked it. I found writing in a microform style was easy and a challenge and it really opened up a person’s creative side. All though I liked taking pictures and editing them I preferred the text more than the photo part of the assignment.

We can all be creative it just depends if we want to reach deep down and find it ourselves, projects like this really help I think personally in the creative parts of ourselves.



Writing Reflection #3

 

 

Six Word Memoir Reflection.

 

 

 

I liked doing this project it was pretty easy, except half way through editing my pictures and such, I lost my phone.... Not very fun. So I had to start editing and taking photos again, which kind of explains the lack of creativity in some of my photo choices.

At first doing my project I took pictures at home by myself, and then I got my friend to help me out with taking pictures. I did a bit of work by myself but I truly feel like this was a group project.

A lot of things were made clear during this project, one apparent one is I like straight forward writing, or if I don’t do that Its most likely a piece of writing that has a deeper meaning or needs to be decoded.

All together I had a blast doing the six word memoir photos!



Reading Reflection #6

 

 

Digital footprint.

 

 

 

 

Reading Reflection #5

The House of the Scorpion #4

 

Book: The House of The Scorpion

 

Author: Nancy Farmer

 

Pages Read: 40-62

 

The House of The Scorpion

 

 A lot has happened. I went on a little bit of a reading rampage back at the beginning of the month, and since we haven’t really had time to do any book reflections I’ll try to do the best I can with this one. With everything that’s going on in the book we learn a word, this word is brought several times by younger kids in the book, and each time its in the worst contexts ever, “Ejit”. I predicted this word was obviously bad, my first thought was that it could be some kind of swear word, but then I realized they were referring to something, someone. The next few pages in we have an answer to our prediction. An “ejit” is a dirty word for a clone. With this now in the front of my mind I make a text to text connection. In Harry Potter, they have a dirt word for a none magical person (mudblood), to me this is a connection that helps me understand the significance of the word.

 Much like I predicted before, Matts getting into trouble. The boy learns he loves music, he discovers this by spying on a woman who is playing piano. While spying he hides in a closet, one day Matt was listening to the mesmerizing music and discovers there is a back door to the closet. This leads Matt to a secret passage way that takes him all around the house. As soon as I read the words in front of me warning signals go off in my brain. What kind of trouble is matt going to get into?

 In this novel, there are a lot of names and family connections, for example. A while back we met a character called Mr. Alacran (for now lets just call him Mr. A). Mr. A is married to the woman I mentioned above, the musically gifted one, her name is Felicia. For the past few years Felicia has been very ill, she is always tired and very unsatisfied with her life. Another family connection to Mr. A is his father who is called “El Viejo”. When we are first introduced to this man we learn that he has cancer, knowing this it leads me to a prediction and a question. I believe El Viejo will play a huge part in this book, even though he might not live for very much longer, I have a feeling he will set off an event that will either hurt or help Matt. My question is how?

 

 

Till Next Time. C

Weekly Reflection. #6

Weekly Reflection #6

 

 Question 1- We talk about how so many of us have a digital footprint. Well I hope that my blog will be a good way for me to put some positive stuff out there on the web about myself. I plan on using this blog to enlighten whoever it may concern about me. After this course I hope to pick it up and start putting more personal things up on my blog. Such as personal pictures, information on what my plans are after high school, information on where I work, what I want to do with myself in life, and what I am doing with myself. This all, I hope, will reflect positively on the person I am, and the person I hope to become. I want to use my blog almost like a journal as well. As I’ve mentioned before I do write quite a bit on my spare time, to showcase this I’ll be posting some of my own poems and such on a regular basses, keeping up with this blog could really help my further in life.

 

Question 2-    The first comment I posted was on Miranda's blog. The reason why I posted a comment is because, her Rambling Autobiography was touching and deep. It reminded me a lot of mine and that’s what sparked my interest. What she wrote I thought was brave and insightful, to post something like that on the world wide web is no easy feat. My comment was encouraging and I hope it instilled a feeling of pride in her work. The second comment I posted was on Elijah's. His digital foot print doodle was very cool to look at, the color he used was creative and showed the effort he put into his work. I also liked how he used the world as the main idea in the doodle. It leads my brain to start really thinking globally about our digital foot prints and the impact it could have around us because the web is worldwide... and I think sometimes we forget that to easily. Last but not least my third comment I posted happened to be on Sam's blog. I chose another six word memoir to comment on because I can really relate to them. Especially one of Sam’s. Lately with the pressures of graduating it's hard to have a feeling of belonging and you almost crave a sense of security that you know will have to be left behind in a matter of months. It's hard to know where you're going in life, and I think there's already so many different ways life could take you, good or bad. This would create a feeling of being lost which Sam talks about, I relate to this feeling to a T.

 

 

Comment#1-  http://mirandatamikohouston.blogspot.ca/2012/09/rambling-autobiography.html?showComment=1350914937560

 

Comment#2-  http://elijahtomas.blogspot.ca/2012/09/this-is-of-my-digital-foot-print.html?showComment=1350916085357

 

Comment#3- http://samscreativethoughts.blogspot.ca/2012/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-ca-x-none.html?showComment=1351088148561

 

 

 

Question 3-  I left comments on my friends blogs, my comments consist of positive constructive, motivational comments. I believe all of these are characteristics of a good comment. When people comment on a blog saying "good job" or "this is nice". I truly think this is a comment that moves the readers and writers backwards and not forwards. I like commenting on other peoples blogs! It’s fun to surf through other people’s pictures and posts and sharing compliments and thoughts, I love these projects!