When Twigs Dance: Emily's Favorite Laura Cooper Story

When Twigs Dance: Emily's Favorite Laura Cooper Story: "One afternoon after a long day of school my parents called and said they'd be home at 7:30 and to clean my room. It was 4:45. So I was clean..."

Culminating Writers Profile
1. I have to have a higher expectation for my writing in the class. I need to add more detail to my writing.
2. My stength is imagery. I have a good sense of how to make my writing come to life.
3.My weakness is starting and concluding an essay. Its like I have tasty penut better and jelly in a moldy bread sandwhich: my intrduction and conclusion are terrible, especially compared to my body paragraphs.

Evaluating Your Writing Process

1. I would use a better structure to my esssay to make it make more sense.

2. The easiest thiong for me to improve is my overuse of some words.

3.I need to stop using so many "to be" verbs.

Evaluating Your Successes

1. I am very successful in having a strong thesis for my essay.

2. I used some parrallel structure oin my definition essay.

3. I found that my audience was very defined after I wrote it ( after reading it, it somehow made the audience to be more for girls... I do not know how it happened, but it did.)

blog 7

What really makes people happy. There is always something we use to try to feel the void inside of us. No matter if it's money, power or acceptance, it does not completely fill us and makes up trully unhappy. Scott F. Fitzgerald uses this concept in "The Great Gatsby". The characters are high class socialites in the 1920s. Gatsby is a rich man, but realizes he is not happy. What makes him happy is the woman of his dreams. The thing that makes everyone trully happy is love.

nobodiness blog 10

You see them walking in the halls. They have their oods on and their heads down, almost looking depressed. The sad thing is that everyone sees them, but no one knows their names. That is because they are nobodies. But it's not their fault.

The truth is that we are to blame for these nobodies. We have become complacent with our cliques and usually refuse to let people in. These people really have no chance to make something of ourselves. If we were more open to other people, there would be no nobodies.

tuesdays with morrie blog9

Tuesdays with Morrie is a great book. What I took away from the  book is a new perspective on death. Morrie says " when you learn how to die, you can learn how to live." We only start to think about our lives when we are aware of death. We should live our lives like we could die at any moment. We should live our lives with love and care for each other, so that we could live on in other people.

Home- Blog 8

House and home are basiccaly the some thing. They are places where people live. But the connotation of home goes deeper than this meaning.

A home is somewhere you feel comforable at. It is more special than a house. It has a permanent special place in people's hearts. It has a deep sentimental value to it.

A home is not neccesarily where you live. It could be anyplace that makes you feel comfortable and has great meaning to you.

blog 6- depression

People see deprssion as a bad emotion. When people see others depressed, they naturally try to cheer the person up. However, sometimes it's alright to feel depressed, and people should let the emotion be.

Everyone gets deprssed. It is a natural emotion. You can not be happy all the time. The difference is the way you deal with it. If you try to ignore depression, it only becomes worse.

I get deprsessed often. Sometimes the world becomes to much to bear. Sometimes I cry, or sit all by myself and think. I find that after doing this, when I am not deprssed anymore, I feel better than I did before.

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Love and hate ( blog four)

      There is an obvious difference between love and hate. If you say you "love" something, you show a great positive emoton for it. But if you hate something, you show a great dislike of things. But everyone knows there is a thin line between love and hate. That is because they have some simularities that tie in to each other.

 One simularity is that in order to like or hate something, you must have them on your mind. No matter what, the people you  love as well as hate are the ones you think about the most. The fact that they are on your mind can make you grow to love, love them more, hate them, or hate them even more.

     Also in order to love or hate someone, you must have a deep emotion for them. The simple truth is that the people you love and hate always make an impact on your life. Sometimes the impact they make can make you change the way you feel about them.That's trully the reason why there is a thin line between love and hate.

non ficion literary history (blog 2)

The following are the nonfiction books that I have read:
Diary of Anne Frank (Diary)
Hellen Keller (biography)
Hellen Keller was my favorie nonfiction book.I read it in the fourth Grade, and can still remember a lot of the details. It shows the struggles of not only Helen, who is blind, death, and due to both, can not speak, but also her parents and her teacher. It was really interesting and well put together.

I read the Diary of Anne Frank in the eighth grade. It was about her life while she was in hiding from the nazis. Anne Frank was relateable, escpecially when she argued with her mother. It was an interesting way to show us what happened during those times.

Conformity: Good or bad (Blog 5 for ap language)

People always say that confoming means you are weak minded and you will do whatever makes you seem "cool". However, its ok to sometimes do what everyone else is doing. It has to do with being open-minded. Sometimes, the things people do can help you learn different ways to do something or solve a problem. As long as you can tell if something everyone else is doing is dangerous or not, you can make the right choices to do what you want or conform. Ironically, conformation is up to you!

Blogging not so bad....

Im not gonna lie, I thought bloggers were weirdos and random college kids,but i must admit its pretty fun! Thanks Mrs Moe! I like my rainy background too.

All About ME

I've lived in Vacaville for most of my life. One of my favorite things to do is play the cello, which I have been playing for about six years. My favoeite subject is math. One of my biggest struggles was being diagnosed with Diabetes. My strength in writing is imagery, and I hope it will show through my blogs.