Monday, February 28, 2011

2-28 Diction Exercise

"The Summer I was Sixteen"
By: Geraldine Connolly

Part A: turquoise, screaming, sunbathed, dreamsicles, drowned, gobbled, kisses, shadowed

Part B:
1.formality-Middle: plain, simple, detached, featureless, dry
2.connotation-Literal: actual, real, genuine

Part C: The featureless, genuine tone on Geraldine Connolly's The Summer I was Sixteen alludes to the pleasure and liveliness of being young

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Reading Blog

Feburary 27th 2011
Elizabeth Chandler-Dark Secrets 1
Page# 1-97

Im trying a new book, that is completly different than anything that I have read before. It is about an adopted girl Megan that gets a letter from her grandmother saying that she wants her to come and stay with her for a few weeks, she does not know her grandmother very well. She goes and stays with her in the huge house. She arrives and her mothers old friend picks her up at the airport and takes her to the grandmothers house. While Megan is exploring the town she talks to some people that say the mansion that the grandmother lives in has a ghost in it. Megan thinks this is weird because she is told that the gohsts name is Avril and when she was taking a walk one day she saw a ttombstone that was for Avril, she died when she was 16 the same age as Megan. Megan is kind of freaked out by this because she has had weird dreams about a dollhouse and a girl. Also, in the time that she has been living there her grandmothers bible has misterously moved places. Her cousin that she has never met before, Matt, is also living there. He does not like her at all, and she secretly has a crush on him. Megan asked her grandmother about the ghost thing and she freaked out and got very angry.
I think taht this book will be interesting, even though it is not my usual girley books that I normally read it seems interesting to me. I did not want to put it dowm when i was reading. I want to find out who this Avril is and if there actually is a ghost in the grandmothers house.
until next time....

Thursday, February 24, 2011

You Tube

So I was browsing on You Tube today and I found a new artist and I think he could be my favorite...his name is Sam Tusi. He has some of his original stuff and he also mixes songs together...check him out hes great!

Reading Blog

Feburary 24th 2011
Sarah Dessen- That Summer
Page# 155-198

This is my last reading of this book! Haven was starting to get really stressed out because her sisters wedding was in three days! She went into work at the kids shoe store, and it was a summer sidewalk sale so there was really low prices on shoes and they were all just thrown into boxes. One lady got very angry because she thought one of the prices were still way too high. The lady was a real jerk, and threw the shoe at Haven. Haven got so angry that she ran after the lady and threw the shoe right back at her and hit her right in the head. She didnt know what to do so she just took off runing out of the mall. She stayed at a playground in the neighborhood and then went home. Her boss must have called her mom becauase her mom asked her what had happened. She just said she didnt want to talk about it. She woke up and it was on e day before the wedding and Ashley had a talk with her about her attitude and being selfish, Haven got very defensive and just left the house. She was walking when she heard Sumners car, he was going to the nursing home. She went there and they danced together for the last song. Sumner said that he needed to take her home but she didnt want to go. She was very emoational and he insisted on taking her home. She refused and got out of the car and ran as it was thunderstorming. She ran and ran and got lost off of the path. Finally, she heard Ashley yelling her name. They were so angry at eachother and Ashley finally came out and told her that Sumner had cheated on her with another girl and broke her heart. They all just went to bed with out talking and at the wedding the next day as Ashley was walking down the isle Haven began to cry, Ashley just hugged her and cried also. And that was the end.
I was greatly dissappointed with this book. I thought it was going to end much diferently. I thought that Sumner and Haven would end up together and I never expected Sumner to have cheated on Ashley!
until next time....

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Reading Blog

February 23rd 2011
Sarah Dessen- That Summer
Page# 95-154

The family all went to the dress place to get fitted for the dresses for Ashley and Lewis' wedding. Of course the lady commented about how tall Haven, and said that the dress would not be able to fit her. After the dress fitting, Haven and her mom went to lunch and her mother told her that she is going to be selling their house. Haven and Casey, her best friend, were watching T.V and heard the her father and Lorena are expecting a baby. She was shocked. The next day Casey and Haven went to the mall to watch the fall preview fashion show. The clothing was very unexpected and gaudy. Ashley had her bachlorette party and got wayyy too crazy! Haven found her on the front step drunk with underwear around her head. Lewis was so angry at her and said that he could not even be with her at the moment.
Alot happened in these chapters, the incident between Ashley and Lewis was crazy and defiantly not a positive in their relationship, I will be interested to see how they work things out. And how the wedding goes
until next time....

2-23 Diction Exercise

Part A- cruddy, bubbles, kill, take-backs, mercy, concentrate, shut up, bash

Part B-
1. formality=low- abrupt, tense, homespun, dull, chatty, vulgar
2.connotation=poetic-figurative, obscure, grotesque, symbolic
3.sound=cacophonous- discordant, jarring, caterwaul

Part C- Lynda Barry's homespun, jarring diction depicts the bleak, disheartnenment felt by Roberta Rohberson.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Reading Blog

Feburary 21st 2011
Sarah Dessen-That Summer
Page# 63-94

     These chapters start out with Haven going out to dinner with her dad, which is something that she has done every thursday night with him since her parents have gotten divorced. Her father works for the news station so everyone in the town knows him so she dosent get to spend that much time with him cconsidering people are always walking up to him saying hi. Someone walked over to grind pepper on Havens food and she recognized the voice. She looked up and realized that is was Sumner, Ashley's ex boyfriend. They sat in a booth and talked about everything, Haven even told him that he sister was going to be getting married to Lewis. Sumner was so happy for Ashley and he sent her congrats. When Havens dad took her back home after dinner, they saw Lewis and Ashley sitting in his car and Haven knew they were in a fight. Later she found out that Lewis had not been very nice to her when she was having dinner with his family. She told Lewis to leave she just needed some time. Haven saw Sumner again at the mall where she worked the next week. He picked her up on the golf cart and they sped around the mall together.
     Im not sure what the outcome of the book is going to be yet, but I predict that Haven is going to start to like Sumner. Even though she is alot younger than him and he dated her older sister, I can still see her liking him alot.
until next time....

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Reading Blog

Feburary 20th 2011
Sarah Dessen-That Summer
Page# 27-62

     The boko goes backa forth of the present and future. So Haven will talk about what is going on and then go back and talk about something that happend in the past. She tells the reader about a trip that her family took to the beach when her parents were still together. Her older sister Ashley took her boyfriend of the time, Sumner. Haven loved him, he was the only boyfriend that Ashley had that she liked. Then the story goes back to the present and Haven is waking up to another one of Ashley and Lewis, her fiance, wedding crisis'. A woman named Lydia was the family's neighbor that came to be besst friends with Havens mom. One of the bridesmaids, Caorl, said that she could not make it to the weddin because her husbands family was getting together that night. This was after she made Ashley change the dressed because they were not as "conservative" as she would have liked. Haven waited till the fighting was over to go downstairs and head to the mall where she worked at Little Feet, a shoe store. When she got home after work, she helped Ashley pick out what she was going to wear to have dinner with Lewis's family.
     This book has been kind of slow so far, im not really sure what I think about it yet. Also, I can not figure out what time period that it is set in. Sometimes it seems like it is set in modern time but then they talk about things and then it dosent so im not really sure.
until next time....

SHOW CHOIR

We had a competition last night at Lafeytte Jerferson High School. Our call time was 5 a.m becuase it is a little over a two hour drive to the school. We prefromed at 2 p.m then awads were at 5. We made finals! we were so excited because all of the schools were really good that were there. We preformed again at 8:30 p.m. and then waited till midnight for awards. We ended up getting 4th runner up, but we were still very proud because we know that we did our best. I got home and into bed around 3 a.m. It was a longgg day, I was up for 23 hours.

http://www.showchoir.com/
This is a link to show choir.com which shows all the rankings for schools and up comming competitions around the country.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Close Reading Picture

Close Reading

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Feburary 16th 2011
Sarah Dessen-That Summer
Page#1-27

Im starting this new book, and im really excited about it mostly because it has a cool cover of a girl doing a cartwheel on the beach half way into the ocean. The main characters name is Haven who is 15 and has a 21 year old sister named Ashley. The story starts out with Haven, Ashley, and their mom in their kitchen. It is the day of their fathers wedding. He is getting married to his co-worker named Lorena Queen. Her and the girls father work together at the news station, so they nicknamed her Weather pet. Both of the girls are going to be in their fathers wedding. The girls mom was invited but she decided to stay home because that would just be awkward considering that the dad had afair on the mom with Lorena and they got divorced a year and a half ago.
I think I am really going to enjoying this book. I can somewhat relate to it bacause my parents are also divorced and I can relate to some of the things that Haven weth though and is going through. I will be interested to see how the whole wedding plays out.
until next time....

Monday, February 14, 2011

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY :)

Just wanted to say a Happy Valentine's Day to all the bloggers in the Lunch Bunch! Hope everyone is having a great day with that special someone.

Reading Blog

Feburary 14th 2011
Zoey Dean-The A-List
Page# 206-243

Anna woke up and realized that she had food poisoning, and had been throwing up all over the place since being at the pier. In her room stood Dee and Sam. Anna talked to her dad about how she wanted to just go home and how bad of a father he had been, he promised that he wanted to change and he would. Her father told her that the internship that he had arranged for her fell through and now she would have to go to Beverly Hills High School. On her first day of school she ran into Adam from the New Years party. He showed her around, then right as the bell was about to ring she heard someone calling her name. It was Ben! He told her he could explain why he left that night on the boat, but she wanted nothing to do with him. She said he had five minutes to explain, he said that one of his friends had over dosed and he went to take her to the hopsital. He said sorry a million and one times, but for her that was not enough. She left him and said to leave her alone.
I am sooo proud of Anna! she told Ben off , which he deserved. He was a jerk and even if a friend did need his help, still Anna deserved a phone call to tell her what was going on. This book turned out to not be that bad after all. A different read then i would have chosen, but still decent.
until next time....

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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Feburary 13th 2011
Zoey Dean- The A-List
Page# 172-205

The night after the New Years party and Ben leaving Anna on the boat, she woke up to a pounding on the door. It was a guy named Monty, Sam's assistant. Anna had forgoten, but she told Sam that she would help feed homeless people on New Years Day. Monty reminded her of the commitment, so she quick threw on some clothes and grabed something for breakfast and got in the car with Monty to go to the pier. When she got there she saw Sam and realized that Sam wasent doing this to be night, she was doing it for her school community service. Anna took a walk with Parker who she had met at the wedding because she did not feel well. Anna was freezing and her stomach was killing her, her and Parker went back to where everyone else was so they could find her some water. When they got back all they had was warm orange juice, and that was not going to help her stomach. Parker showed up a little later with water, Anna sipped it. She started feeling awful, when she opened her mouth to say something she threw up all over her Cammie, the girl that hated her.
I thought these chapters were hilarious. Anna sleeping and totaly forgetting about the feeding, Monty just showing up and Anna's house, and Anna pukeing all over Cammie. I will be very interested to see what cammie's reaction to the vomit will be and what will happen with Ben because nothing else has been said about his dissapearing the night of New Years on the yacht.
until next time....

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Reading Blog

January 8th 2011
Zoey Dean- The A-List
Page# 149-171

Anna woke up from what she thought was a wonderful night with Ben, she called his name and he did not answer. She yelled his name, but still no answer. He had left her! On the boat by herself. She wanted to cry and cry. She didnt know what to do so she called Django, her fathers assistant to come and get her. When she returned home her father was angry with her for being out so late and not telling him.
I cant not believe Ben!! What a jerk, after saving her on the plane then taking her to the wedding and having her deal with all of his friends he would do that? They had such a great New Years together, and Anna had so much fun. What was she going to do now?
until next time....

Teenagers, Friends, and Bad Decisions

The article was 100% true. Scary, but true. I know that when people are in the car with me I am more distracted than if I would be alone in the car. When I first got my license I thought it was so dumb that I had to wait six months till I could drive someone in my car. After reading the article I realize why they have that law in place. There would be so many more accidents if there was not a law restricting the passengers. It only takes a split second for something bad to happen. Think about the students at Homestead that have gotten killed. That could be you if you are not careful and pay attention to what you are doing. This article was about other people being in the car, I can not imagine the statistics if it was over texting and driving.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Cabaret Night 2011

Friday night was Cabaret Night for Homestead Show Choir, its our biggest fund raiser of the year. There is a silent auction and a live auction. Then, at the end of the night both show choirs preform for everyone that came. We earn alot of money from this night. The picture is of some of us show choir girls at the silent auction trying to get people to bid.

Reading Blog

Fuburary 7th 2011
Zoey Dean- The A-List
Page# 116-148

      The group of friends including Ben and Anna went to the party at the Warner brothers, Cammie, San and Dee were all still being nasty to Anna becuase they were jealous. San came up at the party and stole Ben to dance, she is in live with him, but wont tell anyone because her best friend Cammie dated him and now Anna is with him. Cyn, Anna's best friend from back home called her to wish her a Happy New Year's. She loved this! Ben told Anna he had a surprise for her and took her to his yacht, well actually his dads yacht. They shared a romantic night on the boat together. Cammie got drunk and like every year went to the cematary to visit her mom and wish her a happy New Years.
      This book is deffintanly growing on me alot. The world that these teens live in is a world that none of us know. They have no worries and they have no rules. They basically do whatever they want with no parenting at all. Anna spent the night on the boat with Ben! Her father had no idea where she was the entire night and he did not even care, my parents would be freaking out.
  until next time....

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Reading Blog

Feburary 5th 2011
Zoey Dean- The A-list
Page# 86-115

This book seems so unrealistic that it is almost interesting. These kids are complete spoiled brats its funny. Ban and Anna are at the wedding, and of course it is way over the top because the rich can only have the best. Anna and Ben got seated at the table with Dee, Cammie, and some of their other rich friends. The entire dinner they gossiped and talked about other people. Talk that Anna was not into at all. When Anna and Ben got up to dance Cammie stepped on her dress and it ripped and you could see everything. normally she would be so embaressed but she had to act cool to show to Cammie that she didnt care. When she went to the bathroom to fix her dress she saw Sam, the daughter of the man getting married. She was crying and Anna helped her fix her make-up. Sam asked anna to leave the wedding and come to a party with her and her friends. Anna said she would go if it was ok with Ben. Anna's dress was totaly ruined and she did not want to stop home, so they stopped in quick to a store on their way to the party.
This totaly is not my kind of book at all. Something about it though keeps me wanting to read more. Like why Sam is being so nice to Anna. Also, I want to find out what Cammie is going to do next to Anna to try to ruin her and Ben's relationship
until next time....

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Reading Blog

Feburary 3rd 2011
Zoet Dean- The A-List
Page# 1-85

Well im starting a new book. Which was recomended to me by a friend. Basically the book is showing the life of the "A-List" teens in California. The main character Anna Percy flies to L.A. to spend some time with her father whom she has not seen in over a year. On the plane ride there she is sitting next to a total jerk. He keeps hitting on her so, the guy across the isle Ben saves her, and they end up talking and Anna drank too much so they hooked up in the bathroom on the plaane and got in trouble (scandelous!). Bes asks Anna to come with her to a wedding and she agrees. She gets off the plane to find her father mia and his assistant there to pick her up. Her father never showed up for lunch and when she came home she found him under the gazebo asleep after smoking weed. Ben picks Anna up for the weding, when she gets there she in introduced to Cammie, Dee, and Sam. Cammie dated Ben so she already hates Anna and the other girls just go along with it because they are like the three muskateers. As they are all talking a guy walks up and talks to Dee, turns out he is the jerk on the plane that would not leave Anna alone! Cammie is planning a way to ruin Ben and Annas new love interest, she has just not though of a way yet.
I think I am going to enjoy this book. Im usually not in to this "girley" of a book, but i think it will keep me wanting more to find out exactly what Cammie and her two best friends are going to do to Anna.
until next time....

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

BLIZZARD OF 2011

This blizzard is going to be crazyyy!... my mom said we will be lucky if we even have school this week. Im sitting here as I type this, listning to the wind howling outside the window. When i look out the window all I can really see is white because it is blowing around so much.