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Sunday, February 19, 2017
poem
Love is like a picnic.
It's terrible when you've been waiting for food for ages,
and your stomach starts to make an abnormal sound.
gurgle,
roar.
It's the same sound your heart makes,
when your waiting for love.
Yet it is amazing when you finally get what you've been waiting for.
Even through all the pain, and struggle,
the wait was worth it,
because what you get is more amazing than anyone could ever imagine.
simile
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
Friday, February 17, 2017
vocabulary.com words story
When our character arrived at their home today, they noticed that something was off. Nothing that anyone could see, but something he could feel. Let me introduce myself before I continue in this story. I am Hank, your narrator. And my job is to tell this story to you. Anyways, back to the story. So when our character looked around the home, he suddenly felt idiotic and realized what had been wrong. His roommate was not their to greet him today. He thought it was strange, but thought nothing more of the matter. "Perhaps," he thought, "she went out to go shopping or maybe she will surprise me with something." Now, rather that being afraid, he carried on with his regular activities: finish up some work, make dinner, eat, shower, and then go to sleep. He was all ready for been when the doorbell rang. He immediately assumed it to be his roommate, but he thought, "Why would she be ringing the doorbell?" When he opened the door, the only thing there was his roommate with a bullet through her head. This was the demise, or end, of his life undercover.
Yes, you read that right, our character is an undercover agent who had been living in disguise with a roommate who was also undercover. This event let him know that they would come after him next, and that they know that him and his roommate were undercover agents. Our character then proceeded to take the bullet out of his roommates head. I know this sounds disgusting and possibly unnecessary, but by taking out the bullet, he would know who shot her. When he got the bullet, he looked at it closely and that gave him the wisdom, or accumulated knowledge, of who had shot her. It was the rebel spies, and they were about to see the worst side of him.
Yes, you read that right, our character is an undercover agent who had been living in disguise with a roommate who was also undercover. This event let him know that they would come after him next, and that they know that him and his roommate were undercover agents. Our character then proceeded to take the bullet out of his roommates head. I know this sounds disgusting and possibly unnecessary, but by taking out the bullet, he would know who shot her. When he got the bullet, he looked at it closely and that gave him the wisdom, or accumulated knowledge, of who had shot her. It was the rebel spies, and they were about to see the worst side of him.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
reading response
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is getting quite interesting to me. First of all, Junior officially moves to Reardan high school and on his first day, he meets Penelope. At first she seems really nice and Junior is really attracted to her, but then she gets feisty. Junior tells her his name is Junior, but when the teacher calls roll, she finds out his real name is Arnold. She gets really upset over this minor thing that wasn't even a lie because everyone called him Junior. After School started for him, he started to get bullied by one of his classmates, Roger, and he gets tired of it so Arnold punches him in the face. He expected to get beat up, since that's how things worked at his old school, but in turn Roger ran off and after that day, he started to respect him.
At school, Arnold hears a puking noise coming from the girls bathroom. He waits outside and then figures out that it was Penelope and she is proud to be bulimic. Since he knows this about her now, they become closer in a way. He then befriends Gordy, the school genius, and they have a nice discussion about how happy books can make you. He also teaches Arnold how to truly read a book and other smart things. They became friends, but not as close as Arnold and Rowdy were. When Arnold gets home, his parents tell him that his sister, Mary ran away and married some Indian in Montana. Mary sends Arnold an email, telling him all of the amazing things happening in her life and that she is truly happy in Montana.
At school, Arnold hears a puking noise coming from the girls bathroom. He waits outside and then figures out that it was Penelope and she is proud to be bulimic. Since he knows this about her now, they become closer in a way. He then befriends Gordy, the school genius, and they have a nice discussion about how happy books can make you. He also teaches Arnold how to truly read a book and other smart things. They became friends, but not as close as Arnold and Rowdy were. When Arnold gets home, his parents tell him that his sister, Mary ran away and married some Indian in Montana. Mary sends Arnold an email, telling him all of the amazing things happening in her life and that she is truly happy in Montana.
research
So far in my research, I have become more comfortable with conducting research and I have gotten fairly good at figuring out if the source is reliable or not. I think I have learned a lot through my research project. Specifically, I have learned that it is really important to make a good and specific outline so that actually writing your paper or rough draft is a lot easier since all of your ideas are laid out in your outline. This taught me just how important each step of the writing process truly is. Another thing I have learned is citations. I have always known what citations were and briefly how to do them, but now I have learned a lot more about exactly how to write them. I previously thought you had to put the entire citation in the parentheses after every sentence, but now I know you only put the authors last name or the title of the source you are using, like so (Smith).
I may have learned a lot through this research project, but there are also some things that I still don't quite understand. One thing I still question is when to put a citation behind a sentence. I know you put them after quotes and if you were influenced by that source, but would you also put it behind like dates that are found on multiple sources? For example would you have to put a citation behind like the date of when World War II occurred? Also, I still don't know what else I could add to my conclusion. Right now it does sum up almost everything I talked about throughout my paper, but it's only a few sentences long. Does it need to be longer than that and if so, what else would I add?
I may have learned a lot through this research project, but there are also some things that I still don't quite understand. One thing I still question is when to put a citation behind a sentence. I know you put them after quotes and if you were influenced by that source, but would you also put it behind like dates that are found on multiple sources? For example would you have to put a citation behind like the date of when World War II occurred? Also, I still don't know what else I could add to my conclusion. Right now it does sum up almost everything I talked about throughout my paper, but it's only a few sentences long. Does it need to be longer than that and if so, what else would I add?
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