Plot of My Short Story

Exposition- Introduce Rebecca and her new boyfriend Timothy

·      They have been dating for a month

·      Describe how each character looks and how crazy they both are of each other

Rising Action- Rebecca is cooking dinner for Timothy. He is going to come over to her house and eat with her.

·      She goes to grocery store.

·      Rebecca is extremely nervous.

·      She is distracted and buys wrong ingredients.

·      She burns the dinner and it is ruined!

Climax- Timothy arrives at her house and smells the burning food.

·      Rebecca is extremely embarrassed.

·      She is on the verge of having a breakdown.

·      Timothy smiles and sweetly offers to order pizza.

Falling Action- They order pizza and make milkshakes and watch a movie.

·      They share many laughs about the disastrous meal.

Resolution- Timothy goes home after a great night. 

Reading Response to Short Stories and Class Notes

            For the past unit on short stories, I have really enjoyed the way we have focused on one main aspect of literature for everyday for each different story. It really has helped me fully understand the aspect of reading we focused in on. For example, when we read and discussed the story about the old man, Dr. d discussed setting. That really helped me to understand both the setting of the story in which we were reading AND what setting focuses in on. Also relating to setting, I found it interesting the depth of the setting of a story. I had always been taught that setting was time and place, but in this unit I have learned otherwise!

            An Old Man with Wings was an interesting story that surprised me multiple times. For example, the title was quite misleading. I had no idea it was going to be about an angel held captive! Also, it surprised me greatly when the family decided to sell visits to see the angel. I thought that that was extremely cruel and uncalled for. Another surprise was the ending. The angle was able to recover and fly away like nothing even happened.

Reading Log:

9/23- 15 mins
9/25- 30 mins

9/26- 10 mins

9/27- 65 mins

I commented on one of Allie’s and Kennedy’s blogs about their character’s thoughts.

Thoughts before I sleep (My Character)

Hmm, I am really nervous about the Spanish test tomorrow. I studied a lot though.

Ugh, I need to clean my room so Mom will let me go to the party on Friday. It’s not even that messy and I cleaned it last week!

Spanish test….spanish test…..spanish test

The cupcakes I baked tonight were really good, except next time I will use a different type of flour. The brand of flour that was used tonight was a bit lumpy. I will get some from the grocery store tomorrow after school.

Ugh I have to clean my car.

I wonder if Timothy noticed me today. My hair looked so good today oh my gosh!

I need to run tomorrow; I had to many cupcakes.

What is Rebecca doing her science project on? She is so creative; the product is going to look so good.

Spanish test…..spanish test……

Buddy (her dog) needs to move over. He is laying on top of my leg and it kind of hurts!

How should I do my makeup tomorrow? Hmmm.

John (her little brother) needs to quite coming into my room. He is so sweet though it’s hard to tell him to stop.

Why do I have to clean my room AGAIN?

Rebecca was so funny at lunch today! She better come to the party on Friday with me.

Along with flour I need to get some more conditioner at Albertson’s. Hopefully they sell that brand there.

Well I might as well review Spanish again. 

Reading Response

Many interesting events have happened in my novel throughout the past week, which has caused the atmosphere to change quite a few times. When Abe’s wife was killed the mood of the story shifted from a romantic, joyful setting to a gloomy, almost cloudy one. Lincoln thought of death; he even wrote a poem about suicide. This section of the novel was quite upsetting. The atmosphere changed again though. After months of desperation, one of Lincoln’s friends dragged him to a dinner party and introduced Lincoln to a sweet, petite woman named Mary. He again fell madly in love. The couple soon became engaged, and Abraham is overjoyed and extremely in love. Here, the mood swings back to a “giggly,” romantic setting.

            The question I am pondering throughout this novel is, “What makes the idea of a vampire such an interesting topic?” I really focused in on this question this week as I read and came to conclusion that vampires make such great topics because they are so interesting. Vampires are far different from human beings in so many obscure ways, but they are partly human! I also decided that when writing about vampires, because vampires are not real an author has the ability to add new exciting detail on his or her perspective of a vampire. This author of this story adds interest by vividly describing the gory battles between Abraham Lincoln and the vampires in which he is hunting.

Reading Log

9/16- 10 mins

9/18- 20 mins

9/19- 30 mins

9/20- 60 mins 

I commented on Eli’s blog about he and Joseph and on Camille’s blog about her literary narrative.

Class eBook!

         I think it is a great idea to make an eBook. It will be an interesting way for the class as a whole to learn about the unique style of each individual student. Also, it would be a great learning experience especially for those like me who have never made one or assisted in making one before. Posting our eBook publicly also is a cool idea, but in order to for the eBook to be public, I think we should edit our literary narratives a tad bit more.
        First, I think we should have another day of peer reading. Peer reading is very helpful, and if we successfully edit our classmate's papers, we make our literary narratives better in grammar and add vivid. Also, I think that we should not publish the eBook with any of our last names on it. If we put the first letter of the each student's last name, we would protect identity but still be able to identify whose literary narrative was written by whom. Lastly, I think that everyone should include two pictures or videos in his/her narrative. Pictures and videos add so much detail; they could help expand on the vividness and amount of detail in each story.

Reading Response to NRA article

In AP World History, I have recently been working a project on the rights and responsibilities involving the Second Amendment and the federal government. In order to research this topic, I have learned a few new things. Firstly, I have learned how to use noodle tools! Noodle tools is a website that assists in the citation of resources. Also, I have learned about the different databases and places available to do research on because of the features of the library webpage. In one of the encyclopedias listed on the webpage, I read an article about the National Rifle Association of America.

            The article explained to me what the National Rifle Association of America, also known as the NRA, is. The NRA is an organization that supports and encourages the use of guns in America for hobbies involving guns and sharpshooting. The NRA opposes the government restrictions of legally owning guns; the organization believes that banning the rights to own and use guns in America is unconstitutional, for it does not agree with the terms of the Second Amendment.

            I found it interesting that the article I read was bias. It explained why the NRA does not want the government to ban gun rights; it did not explain why the government wants to ban the right to own and use guns. If the government’s reasons for wanting to ban the ability to own and use guns were explained, I am sure that the article would have explained the material from a different perspective.

Reading Log

9/11- 30 minutes

9/12- 35 minutes

9/13- 30 minutes

9/14- 25 minutes