Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Hellen Keller

1.  I liked the narrative because it was very insightful..
2.  What I found interesting was how fast she learned her first few words and how she was able to just pick it up how she did.
3.  I was suprised that she learned so much from her teacher just making signs on her hand.
4.  It did not change my outlook on her because I have read about her before.
5.  I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten--a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me.
I was keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
6.  A Narrative is more engaging because it is a specific story of something that happened to you in your life instead of just a summary of your life.
  • Going to Tennessee for work camp.
  • Going to Georgia for work camp.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

I am from long days in the sun,
Gallons of aloe gel soothing and cooling my back.
I am from Vacations at my Grandparents Florida house,
Driving and flying twice or three times a year.
I am from the backyards of my neighbors,
From trampolines to driveway basketball courts,
From breaking my elbow after flipping off of the trampoline,
and from broken ankles on the basketball courts at the park,
I am from rough blistered hands from monkey bars at Worthington Park.
I am from countless hours spent on ski lifts,
Coasting down the mountains with all my friends.
I am from days and nights spent in hospitals after all my injuries and broken bones,
I am from the Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster,
I am from orange slices at halftime of soccer games,
from the coldest morning games to the hot day games.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

1. No I do not enjoy english classes because they usually involve reading and writing and those are my two least favorite things to do.
2. Comic strips, Jokes
3. Comic strips, magazines
4. Everything I had to do in Contemporary Voices
5. 8
6. I enjoy class discussions because I think I learn better from different peoples view points.
7. I like to contribute what I have to say about the topic because it keeps the discussion going.
8. I work at Ocharleys and i also play lacrosse and football.
9. Over the weekend I was at Kyle Dineens house making eggs and he was talking back so I hit him in the face and told him he better not do it again, then he finished cooking my eggs for me and made me toast to go along with it.
10. none
11. Do we have to read alot?