First of all, I want to say that I loved my first quarter grade of 95. Because of this grade the list of what I did wrong will be very brief. I was told that my blog was very well organized and I showed the clear ideas of what i was trying to accomplish. My content and ideas were pretty good too besides my links. My pictures, music, and video related to my novel really well and was interesting to listen and look at. My conventions and usage were definitely my worst parts. I had little grammar mistakes but my sentence structure would sometimes be hard to follow or understand so I need to work on that. Altogether though I did really well and kinda like blogging now.
Now I like blogging but I can not say the same for the beginning of the year. I was skeptical of this blog when it was first proposed but it was better than writing papers. At first I didn't know how I would do the assignments in the time we were giving because I am normally a procrastinator. But after a while I got into the groove of doing them and didn't complain as much. Now, starting the second quarter, I am looking forward to doing the blog. I will probably incorporate a lot of the first quarter blog prompts but slightly tweaked to make it different and entertaining. I am for sure doing the Animoto again because of the way it turned out and I've always enjoyed doing movie type things like that. I have some ideas about some different things for this quarter but I haven't decided on them yet or I would tell them. I'm looking forward to this quarter and my new book though.
My new book is Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel. This book is about a kid named Ben. His father was a renowned behavioral scientist that adopts a chimpanzee named Zan. Ben's father is trying to see if Zan can learn a more intelligent language such as sign language. Soon after they get Zan, Ben becomes his favorite. His father tells him to not get too attached to Zan because he is just and experiment but Ben doesn't want to believe his dad and tries to protect Zan from an unimaginable fate. It's a story about families, humanity, and choices. It seems really interesting but I mainly chose it because it had a monkey in it and monkeys make me happy. I can see a lot of humor coming from this book too so I think the blogs will be easier and more fun to make. I am kinda excited to start this quarter's blogs.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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This is just a brief description of what I think of the book. It also promotes the book somewhat and I don't give away much so you'll have to read the book to see what I mean.
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