Weekely Writing Response #8

News Paper Black Out Reflection

I really did enjoy this project, by this time it was a while ago we finished our newspaper blackouts but I can tell you I still feel connected to mine. When writing my poems at first I couldn’t really see much in them but of course all revels itself in time. I wanted my poems to be more than the easy reads, picking out words the grammatically fit together but have no meaning behind them. So I looked and picked out what was highlighted and easy for me to read. Now I do agree some of my poems wouldn’t make sense to just anyone looking and reading them but I had a connection and meaning behind every word I picked out. This of course was one of the difficulties. Making something new out of something old is of course never an easy feat, but I do think it’s also an advantage on a level because it causes for creativity, and after all this is a creative writing class. I found given time almost any student could successfully finish this project, obviously some on other levels then others but it was a fun way for everyone to make their mind work and see the possibilities in writing. As for myself I learnt in this project I like to be out of the norm. I prefer confusing put together of words that for me have a sense of urgency behind them. My thought behind poetry is that it should make you think, and at first glance you should understand words but I feel a true poet has a sense of mystery that takes the second glance to look deeper into the meaning of what is written.

After all isn’t that what poetry is, writing with deeper meaning

Reading Reflection #8

 

Book: MockingJay
Author: Suzanne Collins
Percent Read: 1% to 66%

So It begins. Over my winter break I was able to knock of the first two books in this wonderful trilogy, The Hunger Games, and Catching Fire. MockingJay is the third and final story that ends Katness Everdeen’s adventure in her escapades against the “Capitol”. This young woman at 17 is thrown into a battle for her life when her name is called for this first time is the seventy-fourth hunger games in the first novel, but as the books continue her story becomes more then her own need to survive. Katness is now responsible for not just her own life and the well being of her district, but also for the safety and protection of the remaining 11 districts. At the beginning of the novel you’re already hungry to know more. When she first wakes up dazed and confused in a hospital bed I right away predicted she would be on her way to Districts 13. In the previous novels it is clear that this destination was “No longer existent” but this is why my thoughts expand and come to the prediction that the story of Katness Everdeen is so much more than the typical. As I read on I find out her home in district 12 has been bombed and destroyed and she is heading to a rebellion camp in none other than the supposedly un inhabited district 13.  This sets of a huge turn in events since now these novels are much more than a bloody battle… It is a political warfare… This makes me come to the huge conclusion that the rebels hidden in District 13 will concur over the capital, but at what cost?

Till Next Time, C

Weekly Reading Reflection #7

Book: Go Ask Alice
Author:Beatrice Sparks

Pages Read: 1 to 192 

I left the house of the scorpion and moved on to bigger better things. The idea of people being grown in the womb of cows and bread to harvest opium was interesting at first but my mind was to unfocused to keep up with this novel, so on to the next one.
I managed to knock of the whole novel Go Ask Alice in a matter of days without forced reading, this meaning it was a very easy read. So unfortunately I'm unable to give you any predictions because... well I'm finished the book. So I'll have to give you a summary and thoughts review. I realized in this book, which was about a teenage girl I'm interested in self conflict books. Not because I have any specific connection to the adolescent drug addicted girl featured in this novel but because going through the ups and downs of a character really makes me want to read more. I didn't mind this book all though it was not one of the most interesting things I've ever picked up and read but it did keep my mind entertained for a few day until I had time to pick up a more serious novel. The Hunger Games.... I'll get to that in another post. I will say though that this book had a lot of unpredicted turns and I didnt find my self asking a lot of questions but I was curious as to what kind of trouble the main character was going to run into next and after all a book that leaves you wanting more is a book well written.

Till Next Time, C

Bucket List.

Here is my Animoto video! Please enjoy!



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Bucket List

One thing I need to do before my days are over is walk the "Strip" in Las Vegas.



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Stepping Into Digital Wonderland

Creative writing, when I first walked into Mrs.McLauchlan's class this semester I wouldn't have thought we'd be using technology to the extent that we have exploded as the semester has passed. As we moved our way through blogs, newspapers, watching, reading, and writing, by far my favorite digital project was when we expanded into Twitter. When I first heard we'd be using twitter I was surprised and thrilled, as a heavy user of Twitter on my own time it was easy for me to use this form of technology. Unlike my blog and etc.; I adapted quickly and with ease to our twitter assignments.

As we learnt about new forms of writing and getting ourselves out there positively on the internet, it really opened my eyes and surprised me to how big the internet really is. Now of course I understood the depth of how big the connection to the World Wide Web is around our globe but, before this class I never really thought as my digital foot print being so global. This was one of the many helpful realizations I have picked up in this course; Safety when using the Web.

 Although this was a fun semester that rarely had any backfires or sudden collapses of the system, one thing would have made the class, myself, and my teachers job relatively more easy... this would be Wi-Fi. We managed without it, but I don’t think I could stress enough how much easier it could have been if we had access and cooperation with the schools Wi-Fi. Never the less my digital exploration in this class  has been an adventure that has challenged me in a positive creative way.

Something personal

Find a away to be creative everyday, something that helps you grow and inspires you to think endlessly. Think... nothing is impossible.