short story

“He must have missed his plane,” is the one thought that keeps recurring in my mind.  “He got held up at the airport and will be home tomorrow.  He may even get home before I wake up and we can play tomorrow morning”.  I keep forcing this thought through my mind because if I don’t the truth will dawn on me.  I know that if I allow my-self to dwell on the thought that he did not come home tonight, I will realize that he is not coming home.

I don’t know what my mother and I will do if he does not come home.  He makes all the money for the family.  He pays the rent, the bills, and buys all the other things we need.  If he does not come back, we will lose our house.  My mother can’t work, she has anxiety issues and is not educated.  I won’t even be able to get to school.  I will have to go to that terrible little public school down the road, I don’t think I could do that with the stories about that place.  “He must have missed the plane, Dad will be home tomorrow morning,” I hurriedly push through into mind as I fall asleep staring at the celling.

A&P

I thought that the short story A&P was extremely confusing.  There were a lot of spelling errors that I noticed.  There were some silly mistakes like the writer forgot a space or a comma.  They made the story very confusing and hard to read.  There were some confusing irrelevant parts. 

                The story was interesting even with the errors.  The thoughts that were going through Sammy’s head were fun to read about.  It is an abnormal occurrence to have girls walk into a grocery store in their bathing suits.  I understand Lengal’s reaction but think he was kind of harsh.  It was funny to me that Sammy quit on the abstract thought that the girls would thank him and think would thing he was a hero.  If he wanted them to be thankful, he should have said something when lengal was yelling at them.

I have read 30 minutes in class, and have spent 1.5 hours annotating short stories I spent 1 hour of free reading

blog response

i read Jacob’s vivid detail blog and thought it was amazing.  I love the way he used the vivid details.  I think I would be a much better writer if I could write like that.  He took an average moment of his week and turned 

it into a major event.  I felt like I was almost there.

It took me a few seconds to figure out what he was even talking about.  When I figured out he was talking about running on the Dupe Trail, I was amazed he could put that much detail into it. If any of you reading this have not read his post, I highly suggest you do.

http://englishunoblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-was-running-through-darkness-tripping.html

eBook

I think I would need another proofreading before my literacy narrative goes public.  I need someone else to look at it for spelling mistakes that I don’t catch.  I would also like to revise it one more time considering I have already noticed mistakes.

Over all I am very excited about the eBook.  I can’t wait to read everyone else’s story.  I saw some really good narratives and I would love to see some more.  I am also excited and nervous to have mine published.  I can’t wait for people to read it but I am nervous about criticism.

I am very excited about my literacy narrative.  I am extremely happy I was able to think of my topic.  It took a while and I got worried I would not come up with something.  I think this is a great topic that relates to my writing.

I wrote about my 4^th grade experience where I accidently wrote about a fight my dad and I had that morning.  I can’t wait to get further into this project.

work time
1 hour in class working on literacy narrative--1 hour reading on bus--30 minutes working on literacy narrative at home.

dialog

Carl: hi.

James: how you doing?

Fine.

How has your day been?

It has gone well.

What have you done?

I had an easy math test and rain canceled practice.

You did not wait for the rain to end?

No, too much lightning.  It was raining very heavily.

Really? Why didn’t I hear it?

Probably listening to music.

What makes you think that?

I am just guessing. See you later.

Will you?

independant reading

I am nearly finished with the book I am reading the rise of nine.  I have read one hour on it this week.  I watched the video for the other post for 20 minutes (I watch it twice).  Finally, I spent 40 minutes working on class work.

I like the book and cant wait to start the next book I will read.  the author is very good at describing battle scenes.

I watched the second video, this is water and thought this is not what I thought it would be based on the title.  instead it was all about thought and how you choose to see other people.  It mentioned the everyday life of a normal person to get us interested.  then, it goes into how we choose to see the events around us.

it states that everyone naturally thinks they are the center on the world and everyone else should do what they can to help your problems.  then the narrator says that we can choose to think about what has happened to others to make them the way they are.