What Happens Next?

I think what makes a story compelling is the suspense, and I think many people agree with that too. Because a lot of the time if there's suspense then the story has a good plot, or it's just good overall. The characters play a big role in making a story compelling too, especially when you don't know what kind of character they are yet.

Notes on Le Mis

After reading we talked a bit about foreshadowing and guillotines. Foreshadowing is about warnings or an indication of something that will happen. When talking about guillotines and how they were used, it was kind of interesting to know that sometimes it didn't fully work and they had to keep chopping on the person's head. Then we were asked if we thought that the death penalty should be acceptable. I said yes because there's a reason they should be dead, there would be no point in keeping someone alive if they did something that bad.

So long as there shall exist...

As long as there’s diversity in our society, there will always be problems being created. And as long there’s using work as an exploit, poor people, and making childhoods weaker, it will never be solved. So as long as there’s still bad in this earth, this book will be useful.

Rolling up my sleeves

What I think is just I hope this isn’t a big waste of time and actually teaches us something. I just expect something that we’re not used to and we’re going to do something completely different.

Literature Analysis #3

1. Old Yeller is about a kid named Travis Coats that is put in charge by his about to leave father named Jim Coates to take care of his family on their Texas ranch. He and his mother and little brother find a dog named Old Yeller that ended up messing up their field. At first they try to drive it away, but later on keeping and taking care of the dog. After spending a lot of time together, the dog gets rabies and Travis ends up having to shoot Old Yeller.
2. The plot of Old Yeller has to do with Travis going through adulthood and having to make responsible choices.
3. It doesn't really specify what time he sleeps but it's probably a mix of early most of the time and late sometimes depending on his chores. He probably eats a nice small breakfast meal, know that it was the mid-1900's, it was simple. When it talks about him in the morning it usually just explains the chores he's going to do during the day.
4. The climax took place was when Old Yeller ended up getting rabies. What was also observed was that the story was told from a first-person point of view. There was some foreshadowing when people started to talk about an outbreak of rabies going around. There were flashbacks to when Travis first found the dog when he ended up having to shoot Old Yeller. The resolution was before and after Travis had to shoot his rabid dog.

Thoughts on today's reading

While I was reading there was a part of the book that had to do with another familiar book. At one point he brings up the cheese touch from The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, there's nothing really special about it but the thought about it is cool. I've never read a book that has a reference to another book, especially one like this. Something else I read about had to do with him dealing with his problems and how he tries to get along with people.

Thoughts on today's reading

I'm posting this to Wednesday's reading because I forgot to post about it. When I was reading, most of the time was spent talking about how the main character was being bullied. It just had to do with one kid always trying to bring the main guy down by talking about his face condition. My question was if he was actually concerned about his face condition or was he just dumb enough to ask that type of question.

Literature Analysis #2

1. First of all the book I am reading is Wonder by RJ Palacio. The plot has to do with a boy named August Pullman, his nickname is Auggie. August was born with a facial condition that made his life challenging to live. Because of the condition, he was homeschooled up until the 4th grade. Once he entered the 5th grade, he started to attend Beecher Prep. He was bullied by the kids at that school, but mainly by a boy named Julian Albans. He did end up making new friends though that helped him get through the bullying.

2. I would include the theme "don't judge a book by its cover" but I feel like it's very cliche. So my next choice would be courage. No matter what happened he was still able to stay positive and progress through the school years never giving up.

3. It isn't explained as much if he sleeps late or early, but i'm pretty sure it's early. He gets up and gets ready for school like any other kid would, breakfast before going to school. Most of the things read were about what he was thinking.

4. One would be that he makes friends with his bully at the end, another would be first-person narration because his thoughts were being explained by him. Some satire was used when Julien was being made fun of. There was a bit of foreshadowing throughout the book. And there were flashbacks when August was thinking about his past.

Thoughts on Today's Reading

So far I've been reading the book Wonder, I have read it before but back in like the 5th grade (somewhere around there). I don't really have any questions for this book nor do I misunderstand anything so far. I chose to read it again because it was an interesting book and I don't really remember that much of what happened. I think the only actual thought I had of this while reading was that no matter how much different you look, The same type of thoughts could be shared.

The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online

To sum up the art of hosting good conversations, it has to do with hosting, obviously. One of the main points that are talked about is what online hosts want to achieve, basically what the host should be doing to making everyone feel good and how the mood should be set. Then there are good online discussions, where you want to make sure there is something to talk about and how everyone should be glad to participate. Next is what a host is, this specifically talks about how the host should act and what the host should know, basically how he/she is in charge and that they should have a reason for people wanting to be there. After that is what a host does and how a host tries to grow, what is said here is basic rules that should be talked about and what your community should be based around.
 Next is the host's behavior, this is one of the most important parts to being a good host. This part is all about you and how you want your community to be. There's a lot to talk about on this part and it's really divided so basically, act in a professional way but don't be a person that won't be liked to talk to, get along with people and make them feel wanted.

Vocabulary that we need

Meme - a humorous image, video or piece of text

Virus - Piece of code that is capable of copying itself  and harming a system

Viral - Something that circulates rapidly around the internet

Blog - A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group

Wiki - A website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users

URL - The address of a world wide web page

Website - A location connected to the internet that maintains one or more pages on the world wide web

WWW - The world wide web, a combination of all resources and users on the internet that are using the hypertext transfer protocol

Internet - A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols

2.0 - Used to denote a superior or more advanced version of an original concept, product, service, etc

Open Source- denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified

My readers speak & today I learned from an author

When discussing each other’s stories, my parter and I noticed that our stories were kind of similar. Yet our stories had very different plots, one was about a dumb kid and one was about motivation. But when we questioned each other, our answers were almost the same.

To read or not to read

The conversation after and during the reading helped me understand the story a little bit more. While reading I didn’t understand what was going on as much. It’s like that book you can read totally fine but you still don’t understand what’s going on.

Investing in me

I don’t really have any plans of fundraising after high school. When it says fundraising I don’t know just gaining money or fun raising in general for something. I guess the best I could say is saving when I have a job. Every check I get I could save some of it. I’ll probably find other ways of fundraising in the future but right now I can only think of a job.

The biggest book IM going to read

Seeds of a Revolution

The country was in a financial crisis and the peasants knew this, they tried their best to help the king change but nothing worked so they made up their own laws and fought against the king