Informal Diction

Oh my god guess what! Last Saturday before we went to the Rutledge Cornmaze, my friends made me watch Shutter Island! It was like so freaky!! Leanardo de Caprio was amazing, of course, but I wanted to close my eyes the whole time. I mean it was like crazy scary! It's about this dude that goes to this criminal mental hosptal on a island then turns out to be crazy himself! He like shot his wife after she drownd their kids then he goes really insane to keep himself from realizing it then he gets some sanity back after they explain to him but pretends to stll be crazy so they can do brain surgery on him so he dosnt have to remembr.

After totally freakin' me out, we go to the scary corn maze and when things are jumpin' out at you when it's super dark out with strobe lights and sound effects, you get pretty freaked out. Then since its so friggin' wet I slip in the mud and get mud in my eyes and mouth and my nose felt like it was frikin' broken! It freaken hurt like hell! Oh yeah, I forgot to say I was bein' chased by a freakin' chainsaw dude! i stll have a scab on my nose and it's still sore and red. Like what the frick?! I still had lots of fun w/ my friends. Although I had a nightmare bout crazy people with chainsaws and islands and mud in my face....
Best freakin' night ever!
Alena
P.S. This was deffinately my favorite blog assignment ever! I really hope I did it right, though..

My Passion for Poetry

Poetry is deffinatly my thing. I enjoy reading, reciting, and composing poetry. My real passion in life is for music, and I suppose that is what peotry is. Reading in a rythem. Thats what songs are aren't they? Clever lyrics, read (or sang) in a certain way that makes it appealing to listeners.

As a sixth grader my block class consisted of sixth graders through eigth graders. So we had a pretty wide range of skill in writing. But my favorite assignment was with poetry. First, we had to recite a poem of choice. I am proud to say I memorized the longest, and in my opinion, the most interesting peom. Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath. The best part was I didn't just memorize it. I really got to know the peom and it's deeper meaning and could therefore present it in a way that was much more entertaining to the audience. My class really liked it.

Afterwards, we wrote our own poem or riddle. I had, or course, writen poems before, but now I decided to try my hand at riddles. The guidelines were pretty loose, which is much better for me. I always write better quality when I have more room to be creative. I must say that I got really into this riddle. Many, many drafts and rewording. I counted out sylables, made stanza's rhym, and went back and did it all over again to make it even better. I know riddles shouldn't be really long, but mine ended up being a few pages long. I was pretty impressed with myself, and that doesn't happen too often. If I hadn't lost it I would copy it to this post, but I did, so tough luck. The answer was a shadow, if you were wondering.

This project was one of my favorites because I really enjoy peotry. Also, I worked really hard on it and made it amazing, so what's not to like?

Alena

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is deffinately an interesting book. The tone is pretty rough, so it makes it a different read than what I am used to. However, it is refreshing as a good way to spend spare hours reading. The protagonist has an interesting view on life, and although I haven't read very far, (or more specifically am allowed to write about) I can tell that he has a pretty tough life and some trickey situations to deal with.

 

The setting of this novel is in New York city, out on the streets. The protagonist pretty much runs away and lives of his street smarts in the city. He also drinks as a minor and finds many ways to get around his age difference to do this. The people he meets so far are not the cleanest, more educated, and most polite by far. He is learning to deal with new kinds of people and react to them in the new situations in the book.

 

This novel reminds me of the book Crank. Kids out on the street, illeagly doing drugs. Just like how the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye drinks under age. Both tell how innocent teenagers become mature in the sense that they no longer act as young teens.  They are not adults, in the way they act, but loose some inocence. Similar to To Kill a Mockingbird, also, in that way. I think it's really sad, when good kids turn to alcohol and drugs, like they do in The Catcher in the Rye and Crank.

 

I would really enjoy making a poster with a scene to describe the theme of the book symbolically. Although I am not the greatest artist by any means, I think it would be fun and interesting to see other people artwork on their novel.

 

Alena