LotF

My reading focus is fear in Lord of the Flies. At first, there was little to no fear. But as the book goes on, there seems to be more and more frequencies of fear. The first real occurance of fear was when the boy with the birthmark mentioned a Beastie. He dissapeared later without a trace and did not show up again which increased the fear on the island.

In chapter five, Beast from the Water, fear plays a big part in the events taking place. The boys are really scared and they think that a Beastie is watching them. Everyone is frightened out of their wits at the meeting that they have. Piggy tries to talk sense into them but they will not listen. The boys all go to sleep with an unsettling feel hat something might some out of the sea and eat them all.

Reading time:
lord of the Flies by William Golding
11/23/12 pgs 77-80  -  15 mins.
11/25/12 pgs 80-99  -  25 mins.

Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
11/22/12 pgs. 345-501  -  60 mins.
11/24/12 pgs.  501-513  -  15 mins.

Midterm

After the break, everyone will be talking about exams. Wow, they're already here. For English, i need to go over summer reading for sure, because I don't remember most of it. The literacy narratives need a little it of refreshing too. As we have gone through out thee year, it really hasn't seemed very long at all. Maybe some of the days and weeks have been long, but not the first semester over all. I can't believe it's already Christmas. I think the year flew by.

All of the stuff that we have learned is pretty much new, but some it is review. I think that everything needs just a little review, but, like I said, the summer reading needs some. As well as the literary analysis, because I need help on those. I was wondering, are the short stories themselves going to be on the exam? Do we need to reread them?

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Chaos Among the Classroom

When Dr. D told us the situation of being stuck on an island with first graders, someone imedietly yelled out, "Eat the first graders!" At that point, I knew this would be an interesting class time. As usual, the class did not do anything, and I mean anything, in an orderly way. I don't know about anyone else, but I was trying to problem solve. I suggested that we build small houses with the spare plane parts, and build a boat.

When we 'elected' leaders, I decided, why not? I never really get up in front of the classand I was feeling confident. While the other two guy leaders argued about which sport would be our national sport (fantasy football) I was trying to explain my point to at least some of the class. I'm sure that not everyone herd me. It eventually became so loud hat i could not hear myself think.

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Lord of the Flies

My first impressions on Lord of the Flies are good ones. I thoroughly enjoyed the first chapter. As well as the second through fourth ones... I like to read the book before everyone else so i know what happens in our class discussions. I realize that I got a little bit ahead. Well, the first chapter was kinda like the first episode on any TV show. An introduction to the situation and all of the characters. Pilot.

So far my favorite character is Piggy. He reminds me of Chunk from "The Goonies," and he seems to know what to do, if only a vague idea. He seems to act nicer and cares more than the other boys on the island. If I were stranded on an island, I would not be as calm as they are. I would imedietly start to gather supplies like water, and build huts. Then I would take a census and start to signal for help. I've seen many survival movies and TV shows... I am prepared. (yeah, right)

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Reading Reveiw

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan is (so far) a very wonderful book. It definitely fits up to his other books and takes the story even farther. Percy has met back up with his friends from Camp Half-Blood and they met his Camp Jupiter friends. There they embarked on a quest to defeat Gaea and find the lost statue of Athena. I'm not quite done so I'm still not sure of the ending yet.

I'm getting along well on my thesis statement too. I have one ready to turn in and I think it will be alright. My short story is The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty. I did it on the characterization that he uses to portray war through his main character. I hope it going to be a good one.

Reading Time
The Mark of Athena: pgs. 331-441 2 hrs. and 35 mins.

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Hotty Toddy! Well, maybe not this weekend. Because the Rebels lost to Georgia 37-10 this Saturday. We made the first field goal and touchdown, we just did not score after that. But Ole Miss is definitely getting better. But enough about them, how 'bout them tigers? I'm kinda mad that they lost, but being an Ole Miss fan, it doesn't really effect me.Now please, please don't tell me off about how great LSU is in the comments, I get enough of that already from my Mom and some of my friends. I take a great risk being in Tiger Country when I am a Rebel myself.

I really don't see why we hate each other (LSU and Ole Miss) that much. Maybe I just haven't done enough research, but no one seems to know why. We just simply hate each others guts. Every time I go to Oxford to watch a game, some one always has a "Go To Hell LSU" sign and people shout it randomly even though we aren't even playing LSU at the given moment, but don't act like y'all don't degrade us too. I'm just sayin' that maybe, just maybe we could cool down the hate for a little while. There is really no need (until we acually play each other).
   
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