Blog #9

Field Day

 

 My earliest memory of playing was when I was five, I was in kindergarten and it was my very first field day. We spent the entire school day outside playing different games, there were water balloon tosses, silly string fights, softball tosses, races, long jumps, tug of war, and my favorite was the rainbow parachute. All of the kids would grab a handle, lift it up and quickly bring it down all at once so it would be a huge bubble that we could all sit under. I can remember playing that game so vividly, as if it was just yesterday. My grade school has changed so much since I graduated. The field that we played the games in is now covered with a parking lot, a new school building, and a retention pond. Now the children play in the field behind the school building, and in the soccer field. Some of their classes have been canceled like art and music but they are working very hard to get them back.

Image from: jennifersuarez.com

Blog #4

Free writing-Project Room!

 

 

About two weeks before school started back up I decided that my room just had to change! I have had the same furniture, carpet, and wall color since I was young. Since I am starting all over and going to a new school, I thought my room could start all over also. So my mom and I drove up to Wal-Mart to pick out some paint, a light pink for the walls and a darker hot pink for the baseboards, the door, and the closet doors. I started painting the walls first, then I went back to paint the baseboards. When I got to my closet doors, I thought I would try to be artistic and paint the flat parts the same color as the baseboards and the grooves the lighter pink. It took so much more time than I thought it would; I had to tape certain parts, paint, and then do it again. Did I mention tape freaks me out for some weird reason? So when I finally finished the closet I still had to do the main door so I just painted it all the darker pink because I was so done with painting! The next step was to find a new bed, and we got very lucky and found the bed at the first store; it has a lot of storage and does not take up a lot of space.



Blog #3

"Mother Tongue"

The tone of "Mother Tongue" was informative about the lives and hard ships of an immigrant that can speak the language but not perfectly. I think the theme is to show that if you work hard you can do anything, and to respect others. I think that the purpose is to show that just because someone cannot speak a language fluently and perfectly doesn't mean that the person in unable to understand. Her mother was not treated very well when she went to the hospital or when she was trying to sell her stocks; her daughter had to get on the phone with them before they would take her seriously. The message that I got from this reading was to show that her mother is a person just like everyone else. When she said that she writes so that her mother can read, she was not putting her mother down; I think that she wants everyone to be able to understand her books. Last year I read her book "The Joy Luck Club" and it was a very well written book and easy to read.

Blog #2

"Once More to the Lake"

This week I read "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White. In the whole story the narrator kept saying how time is standing still there and that time is somewhat repeating itself. Everything that he would do with his son seemed to be exactly what he and his father did when the narrator was young. The narrator was having trouble keeping strait who was who. was he the little boy or was he the father. I think the theme of this story is life is repeating and to remember who you are. The tone was somewhat informative. I think the author was trying to let us know that we are not all that different from our parents even if we like it or not.

Blog #1

"The Champion of the World"



 

As I was reading this selection from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, I thought that it was inspiring that a whole race of people were looking to one person to help save them from slavery and from being looked down on. I think that it was meaningful that the author felt that because Joe Louis won the boxing match they are no longer lower than the white man. Since they won the match it shows that they can work together to work for the civil rights movement. When I was reading I felt that the tone was tense and suspenseful as you were listening to the fight on the radio, and as they were describing the people that were packed in the store and outside it listening. It was a big deal for Louis to win and to show how meaningful it was to their race to win as a whole. I think that the author's message was that even though the odds are against you it is possible to succeed and overcome your obstacles; Do not give up and have faith in what you believe in, because if you work hard enough you can achieve your goal.

tone- tense and suspenseful
theme- don't give up; have faith. when you are not sure about what is going to happen
purpose- it was a big deal for the brown boxer to win to and to show how meaningful it was to their race to win as a whole
message- even though the odds are against you it is possible to succeed and over come your obsticals