Semester 2 goals

Peaches
Dream Factory
Born To Run
Lord of the Flies

   These are all book I have read in first semester. I feel that my reading pallet is really limited to chick-lit, besides the book my dad made me read (Born to Run). I tend to like non fiction girly books because they give me a story I can relate to. For second semester I want to read so more fiction hopefully. I like the ocasionall fiction book I just could never read all fiction.
   During second semester I am going to read a book about math mr. John gave me. He has been nagging me to read it forever so I am going to set this as my goal so I can hopefully get it read by finals.

Survival ch. 11 focus

    In chapter 11 Ralph loses what minimum control he has left of some boys and Piggy is killed by Jack, Roger, and the tribe.Ralph doesn't have anything to say while the tribe is stoning piggy to death because he personally doesn't want to be stoned to death. Which is understandable but sad because piggy got him through most of the assemblies by helping out with his leadership role.
   With Ralph dead, there is no more education or civilization left on the island. Piggy symbolized being civil and with him gone there is none left. Piggy was smart and helped Ralph lead the island. Now Ralph is all alone on leading the island because everyone likes to do what Jack and the "tribe" do.

reading times

Lord of the Flies
11/30- 120 minutes (page 95-168)

Science Textbook
12/1- 30 minutes (250-255)

Pass..

Im passing on blogs because we had the book discussions.

Biology Book 35 min (page 190-213)
"The Boulevard" 35 min
Lord of the Flies  80 min (page 31-94)

LOTF activity

   When Dr. D set us up for Lord of the Flies, I thought that sense we were somewhat mature ninth graders we would be able to handle this activity well. I was wrong. We all acted like we knew what to do, but we were acting like four year olds. We were yelling and somewhat had an idea or some sense of a structure.
    If we were actually in this scenario If someone didn't take charge soon we would be dead. Nobody seemed to be agreeing so I sacrificed my bod for food so I killed myself. I also didn't want to deal with the chaos of them. Yeah, so I would appreciate it If I was never actually stranded with you guys.

"The Boulevard" 11/8- 50 min
Matched 11/10- 60 min
Lord of the Flies 11/11- 45 min

Total- 155 min

_Matched_ reading post

   What I read in Matched this week was really good. Cassia the main character has been challenged by her grandfather to look beyond what her society consists of.She is just like any other girl there. Cassia is just living her life like any other girl until one day she catches the eye of a special boy. She is blinded of ho her community is so dysfunctional and this guy opens her eyes.
   This happens in many communities today. Although, I think in our present lives it happens the other way around. Where the girl has a boyfriend and he blinds her of noticing her society and its problems. Girls feel like they are falling in love they are blinded by real struggles and things that are happening in their society.
 

Babysitting

   Having younger siblings has its pros and cons. One minute your just watching TV and your little brother and sister are in another room. Then your moms voice echoes through the house.. "we will be back in a couple of hours". It dawns on you, I have to actually pay a little attention to them now. The job starts out fun and playful then when you start to get annoyed they are bouncing of the walls. You can't get them to calm down.
   5 hours later when your parents get back the house is a reck and you and your siblings have all fallen asleep. If this was another family, different kids, different house, different parents, the house would be spick and span. As the parents walked in the kids would be asleep and they would have their money out ready to pay you. No, instead it's your family, your parents, your siblings so you don't care. There is no money for you at the end of the night so why bother cleaning up.