Week 5 Comments

1) Alex Wilson: Harrison Bergeron
https://blogsgotjokes.blogspot.com/2016/09/harrison-bergeron.html?showComment=1475110498919

2) John Honeycutt: Flash Story
https://johnhenglish1block3.blogspot.com/2016/09/flash-story.html?showComment=1475110942408#c6933454008380322646

100-200 Word Story

  Phil woke up at 6:45. After Phil turned off the alarm clock he stood up and said “I’m gonna get the promotion at the bank”. He walked to the bathroom were he showered and brushed his teeth. After Phil got out of the bathroom he walked to the kitchen to eat his breakfast which was a chocolate pop tart. Phil woofed down his pop tart and got in his car to go to work. He arrived at 7:58, two minutes early. He got out of his car and met eyes with his rival, Gary. They both walked in together and Gary said “may the best man win” because the promotion was between them too. The manager, Brennan, called everybody's attention to announce who got the promotion. Brennan said that Gary got the promotion and Phil became very jealous. When Gary walked to Brennan to shake his hand a robber burst through the door and pointed the gun at Gary, when Phil saw this he didn't know what made him do this but he ran towards Gary and took the bullet for him. The robber ran away but Phil would be remembered as a hero.  

Harrison Bergeron

  "Harrison Bergeron" is a short story about a fourteen year old boy whose name is Harrison Bergeron who tries to become a emperor of a society. The society that Harrison tries to become Emperor in is a equal society which is a society where everybody is made equal. The rulers of the society made everybody equal by giving people handicaps. For example, if someone had better eye-sight than the average person that person would have to wear blurry glasses so their eye sight would be equal with everybody else. Eventually Harrison is killed by the ruler of the society and since people have handicaps on they don't remember what happened.

  I liked how the author thought of this story and how he played out all of the details for the people and how Harrison was killed. Overall I thought this story was very weird and I am glad a society of people being equal to each other does not exist in the world.

Message for six-month year olds

  It was always fun to be a six-month year old. People would carry you around everywhere. People would feed you. People would also change you. This is why being a six-month year old is awesome.

  If you were a six-year old, you could throw up on people and they wouldn't get mad at you. You would never have to use a toilet. You may not like people feeding you carrots or making you learn how to use a toilet and thats why I'm telling you guys not to do those things. Keep letting people carry you around and feeding you because you may want that one day when your older so keep being lazy as long as you can.

Reading Response

  This week I got to chapter 18. I had just gotten to some of the drama and mystery parts of the book. I started getting more detail about the town that Nick is in.

  A thing that happened in the book was that Eli died. I like how the author did this because in an earlier chapter Eli was talking to Nick about how weird a place this town is. When Nick was thinking why Eli died he thought back to that conversation they had and he was starting to piece together why he had died. This is what I read this past week.

 

Fake Id Reading response 2

  This week I got to chapter 11 in my independent reading book. I started getting into some of the more interesting parts of the book. I started getting into some more detail of what Nick's Dad's job is and what he is doing. Also, Nick is trusting Eli more instead of not really talking to him at first. 

  Something that I liked that the author did was that he made the book more interesting and mysterious by making Nick's Dad's job mysterious. The author keeps making Nick's Dad more and more mysterious by writing that he isn't at the house that much and he never says where his Dad is going. This is what I read this past week for Independent Reading. 

Hurricane Katrina

  On August 23, 2005 Hurricane Katrina formed in the Bahamas. Katrina is ranked as the third most intense United States landfalling tropical cyclone. The death rate was from about 1,245-1,836 people. The total damage in dollars was $108 billion, which is the most on record.

  Hurricane Katrina affected the Bahamas, Cuba, Louisiana (especially New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. New Orleans was the most affected out of all these other places. The main reason New Orleans' death rate was so high because the levy had broke and caused mass flooding. This is why Hurricane Katrina is one of the most deadliest tragedies in America history.

Trip To Chicago

 This past labor day weekend I took a trip to go see the LSU v.s Wisconsin football game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I checked out early on Thursday and headed toward New Orleans with my Mom, brother, and my Mom’s friend and his children. We had to go to Atlanta from New Orleans then to Chicago from Atlanta. We arrived at the Omni Hotel at about 10:30 and went to bed at 12:00 waiting for tomorrow. 

  On Friday I woke up waiting for the day to start because today I got to go see a Chicago Cubs game with my brother and Mom. After I ate I went back to the room and cited till it was 12:30. Once it was 12:30 we got in the car and headed off to Wrigley Field. it was a good game. The Cubs’ starting pitcher John Lester threw a great game only allowing 3 hits in Cubs’ win 2-1. After the game we went back to the hotel and went in the pool to play football. After that we all went to go eat at a restaurant. After that we went back home waiting for the big game tomorrow. 

  We had to get up early and head to Green Bay to make sure we would get there in time for the game at 2:30. We arrived at Green Bay at about 1:00 so we walked around the stadium a little bit and when it was time for kickoff we all were very excited but I didn't leave the stadium very excited because LSU had lost to Wisconsin 16-14. 

The next day we just walked around Chicago site seeing and went to Dave and Busters for dinner. On Monday we woke up and flew home from Chicago. 

Fake ID by Lama Giles

  The choice book I am reading right now is Fake ID by Lamar Giles. I am only on chapter 6 so far so the book hasn't gotten to the main causes to the story. All I’ve gotten to is the characters names and some of the backstory of the main character (Nick Pearson).  

  Somethings that stood out were that Nick’s father is in the secret services and they have to keep moving from city to city trying to  ind the guy Nick’s Dad is after. Since Nick’s Dad has taken to long to find the person he will be fired from the service. This is what has stood out to me from the first 5 chapters.