~*~ Blondes the new Pink~*~

Its finally the end of my junior.. .taking the next step in life. Its a bit scary, but I have to think to myself look at all the people that have made it. In our english class we have been writing blogs, and getting insight from other bloggers. Mr. Sheehy asked a few questions about how our year went.

What was your favorite thing that we studied this year? Why was it your favorite? 

-My favorite thing that we studied this year was probably, “Of Mice and Men.” I loved the story which made it even greater, but we also watched the movie. The reason it was my favorite was because the book interested me, and watching the movie helped visualize the story.

What thing did we do or study that you disliked the most? Please explain.

-The thing we studied that I disliked the most was the story, “The Devil and Tom Walker.” It was hard for me to dig through the story and pick out little symbols that mean something great. Another reason i didnt seem to like the book is because, the story seemed to have to many plots… such as Tom Walker’s stange dissaperance of his wife, and the greed.. just confused me a lot.

What advice would you offer one of my students next year?

- Have fun, and make sure you do your reading, because if you dont you will be so far behind.

- I enjoyed assignments when we would just read a short story and than we would have a short blog also.  The reason I liked it was because I could get great insight with other bloggers, and also it was fun to just get things done fast.

- During the first semester, when we learned about, “the Old Man and the Sea.” I learned how to pick through reading material even if it was harder to understand, and find the really important details and sort out the minor ones. I believe I was successful in this because we read the story as a class, and went into the themes and plots together.. which helped me understand.

- It is so much fun, you learn things fast and at your own pace. If you read you will do well, if you dont… good luck.

- I really liked the class so there isn’t anything I would really change, this is probably the best english class that i’ve had during my school years. I have learned a lot and also i have found some new things about the internet and how you can use it to express your insight to others.

 Mr. Sheehy asked us in one of his blogs to write about our blogs . Starting out in this class, I was pretty happy when I found out that half the class all we do is blog. I personally became interested in blogs  this year.  I think this year was probably my tech peak.  In our English class we blogged mostly about our views and relations on the story we were reading at the time.  We also did a lot of personal views, and some of our blogs were just about maybe how we were feeling that day to start us up as a warm up.

My favorite subject to blog about was probably the personal relationships with the books that we had. I like to blog about my own feelings, instead of having to go into insight and looking for the plots or themes, I could just openly express how I felt about the story and where I thought it was going. I think that not only other peoples but also my blogs would have probably been more interesting if we would have used pictures more.. and made a visual of what we were thinking in our blogs to explain it.

Blogging to me is self resource that helps you open up your mind and expand your ideas to not only yourself but to others using the Internet. This year using the computers so much I learned that there is so many ways to use the blogs, not only to right but also for school assignments, and open minded discussions.  When we used these blogs for literature, I think it helped the students out, because they didn’t have to write what they thought about the book in like essay form, they could do it informal and just write what was on their minds in order to explain how they interpreted the book. When I would write about something, I think it helped me with my writing skills, and also made it easier for me to put down my ideas. I didn’t feel like I was forced to write this big long essay or report, I could just share my own feelings in the best way  I could.

Things that I have done well with the blogs, is probably  just be as open-minded as possible with not only my ideas but others. I think that my open-mindness is probably the best quality of writing I have done, because I can take my feelings then read someones elses thoughts and then think back and see if maybe thats how im trying to say it. 

Writing in blogs is completely different than other English classes, because when we are reading a story, we can just go onto our blogs and write about what we think is going on that day, and then in future references we can go back into our old blogs and recap what we thought back in the beginning of the book, instead of just getting a essay assignment at the end of the book, and having to remember everything from the beginning to the end.