behold: the finale

Throughout the whole year, thick and thin, wet and dry, good and bad, hard and easy, if I have learned one thing, it would be how to write a good gosh darn blog. From Great Expectations all the way back to them Importance of Being Ernest days I've been bloggin'. The meaning of all these blogs I believe would be to show a students comprehension to the lessons being taught in class, whether it be poetry, rhyme scheme, themes, or anything along those lines, the blog always ends up refering to one of those things to show the students comprehension towards them. the significance of this whole blog deal, I think, would be to practice the lessons learned in class and to have an idea of what to expect in the future. One thing I think that was really good about blogs was the fact that they were completely different from all the other homework that i received in not only English but any other classes as well. With the blog we at home on the computer doing homework. One thing that could have been improved was NOTHING!!! BLOGS ARE AWESOME!!! With out these wonderful blogs, learning in english may have been much slower and compreension of the lessons may have not been fully developed leaving the year unfinished. An example of the enhancement of a students learning could be myself and the essayist blog. There, I show how I've learned the proper techniques for writing a flawless essay and it turns out, after practicingg and really learing the deep meaning and skill of essay writing, I was able to reel in a nice fat juicy A on my essay really showing how practice makes perfect. Another example of how the bolgs enhanced the comprehension to lesson in class was when the blog was about Great Expectations and things we didn't understand. With that blog, students were able to share ideas on tricky reading sections in the novel and overall come to an understandment and get a further comprehension of the book. Another example of a blog that really played a part in the class work that we did was the skit blog. In that blog, we were able to all brainstorm on different ideas leading to the final choices of what skits were to be acted out. In the end of that section, Kasey, Sam and I were able to come up with a great skit that ended up getting us the teachers award for the most original and well written script. One more example of a really really great blog idea was the blog about the team essays. This allowed the groups to collaborate and share ideas of what they were doing on their part for the essay. A final example of great blog ideas was the poem critique. This was a good blog because it was variety from most of the other ones and good practice for the Poetry Outloud competition. This really helped on poise during the competition leading me to get 5th place, and just like Shakespeare said, "Be great in act, just like you have been in thought."-William Shakespeare

Behold: essayist

At the beginning of this wonderful year, I felt very weak in the area of essay writing. I was unsure on all aspects of it, literary analysis, all that jazz. As the year progressed and we worked on analyzing literature, as well as writing some assisted essays, I felt my skills grow stronger and I could comprehend things I would have never imagined comprehending back then. I learned the purpose of essays was to express your opinion and feelings on a topic and really prove a point about it, whether it be about nature, cars, the best food in the world, anything, as long as there was a point proven. The rewards of all the essay writing was a developed skill in analyzing literature, and a way to get comfortable with your writing.

According to the rubric, my paper and just my writing may in to a high "B" range because the weakest point in my writing skills is transitions. Transitions are key to essays and without them, the essay may become very weak. As well as no transitions my papers often are bountiful with errors, whether it be speeling... just kidding spelling or grammar. If I continue to work on these flaws in my writing and get them down, I believe I will have many "A" papers.

behold summer readin'

This summer, there are two particular books I intend to read. he first book I want to read is, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas. For the summer assignment for 9th grade I almost read that book but got dicouraged by its mammoth of a number of pages, where I decided to read Catcher in the Rye instead. I want to read The Count of Monte Cristo because it seems like it would have lots of suspense action and it'd be a great way to learn about the times back then. The second book I want to read is, This is Your Brain on Music. This is more of a written documentary than a book but it seemed very interesting to me. I started it in seventh grade but my reading level was not mature enough to finish it so now I hope to come back to it with a vengence and learn about the neurological effects of music on the brain. Both these titles are on my summer reading list because they both have something I could learn so i wouldn't just be brain dead the whole summer and both of them seem very interesting. Well... theres my list. peace out

behold all that jazz

Well, I've got to say that English... honors English... with Mrs. Gilman... in room 501... has been pretty......... BOSS!. Despite all the oral presentations, and and Max's bad jokes, I think it's pretty fair to say that I have thoroughly......... very thoroughly.......... enjoyed being in honors english. Basically, the highlights were definitely pie, just pie. I like pie. Some lowlights were probably reading the poetry outloud and any other oral presentations because my voice cracks a boatload...... no me gusta. The people in the class for sure make it a much better time with all the jokes. By the way I just invented a new word for oral presesntations: presentorals.

It is one word and I did a great job.

P.S. are we aloud to ask for extra credit over blogging or do we still get docked points??????? I would actually like a response to this on monday please, or sometime this upcoming week.

P.S.2. Can you tell this is me... Quinn... one of your students... in our class... in room 501??

behold skits

Three parts in the novel I would like to see become skits are first, when Magwitch reveals who he is to Pip in Pip's house/lodging. This is a good part but there are limited parts for people to play. Another part, is the case of Jaggers when Jaggers is defending Molly for the murder. This is also a good part but sort of limited although people could play the people in the jury. One last part for a skit could be when Pip meets Miss Havisham for the first time in her manor. This is a good part because the acting could be really funny(Havisham) but then again there would be very limited parts

behold another question

This week, I became confused with a certain character who is still unidentified to me. He was the man in the corner of Pip's lodging, hidden in the shadows, who Pip tripped over. This is when Abel, or "Provis," is at Pip's lodging as well. This occurs on page 326 at the first page of chapter 40. Thank you

behold the question about great expectations

There were two questions I came across. One, was who was the Avenging Phantom, this was answered. The second question I came across was who is Mr. Waldengarver. I was confused about this because the narrations were talking about Wopsle, and what Woplse was doing, then all of a sudden out of the blue there is this Mr. Waldengarver. I was very confused at this point. "We made all the haste we could downstairs, but we were not quick enough either. Standing at the door was a Jewish an with an unnatural heavy smear of eyebrow, who caught my eyes as we advanced, and said, when we came up with him: "Mr. Pip and friend?" Identity of Mr. Pip and friend confessed. "Mr. Waldengarver," said the man, "would be glad to have the honour." page 256 chapter 31 This part confused me because suddenly Woplse (I thought) disappeared and this new man, Mr. Waldengarver, had appeared out of the blue.