poem

i am from cross

from woods and nails

i am from blood,

from blood cells and veins

i am from tears,

from pain and wounds i never knew as a child

i am from the shepherd

as one of the lamb,

I am from the star

from sky and darkness,

I am from the fig tree,

from its berries and seeds

that have filled me long since.

I am from the farmer,

from the fields and seeds,

I am from the love,

from death and life,

from every droplets of love and care for each lamb in the herd.

pearl reflection

“If this story was a parable”.... This statement from the introduction got to me before I started the story. I was kind of looking through the book, and that statement in the beginning of the book pulled me in before the story. It had me going thinking. What would we learn from the story that makes this story a good parable? I’ve been thinking about that question as I’ve been reading the story.
The first part of the story was similar to the other common short stories. The main character and his family is poor, but they’re having a good life. They get mistreated, but there is always people somewhere to cheer him up. And one day, they discover something really good. I could relate myself to the story, because whenever I’m facing trouble, people are always there to help me cheer up and go through the hardships. And there follows something so good that I’ve never expected, which seems perfect for a while.
The huge pearl that Kino found can be reflected as a good happening in a person’s life. They seem so good and perfect the moment we discover and interact with it, but its side-affects comes rampaging towards you in a blink of an eye. When Kino found the pearl and the news became the hot issue of the town, it seemed like every goods were coming to him. The auction held didn’t satisfy him, because of his greed. If he let go of the pearl at that time, it wouldn’t have caused more bad things to him. But he kept holding on to the pearl, until he became attached to it that he said that the pearl is part of him. He couldn’t throw the pearl away when someone tried to steal it, when his house was burned down, and when his canoe was destroyed. And finally, the pearl causes his loved one’s death, ended up Coyotito being killed.
As people live throughout their life, they come across hardships often, and when they come across something really valuable, it seems like they’re trying to compensate all the hardships that they went through. They keep seeking for more values which seems impossible to satisfy, which finally causes failure. People could’ve been satisfied and be not greedy, but their greed ends up making them can’t stop and think they can get more than what they have, so they seek for more and more. It’s like how gamblers be addicted to gambling. They seek more money and more fortune, so they risk more money toward the pot, and they end up losing their money, not even able to get back what they started with.
We, as people should learn not to be too greedy, because a little greed might be a good motivation in my opinion, but too much of those can result in a destruction of their lives.

qw

This was a total chaos. Coming to this party was a mistake, Jim thought. He didn't know what to do. He came to the party to see his crush, but after he saw him he did not know what to do. "What should I do? What if he thinks I'm weird? OOO! I shouldn't have come here!" he thought. Then a girl from a upper grade came to Jim and asked his phone number with asking him to dance with her. Jim said no flat out. He never had any interest in girls. Only guys attracted him. He wanted to ask his crush to dance with him, but he didn't know how to get that guy to dance with him.

qw

It was a gloomy, wet day when Frodo and the Felloship was journeying through the Moria. The Fellowship were all tired, hoping to get a rest. They were stuck in the Moria, lost until Gandalf remembered the way out. When they were having a short break along the way, Frodo saw something far off distance. It's shape was like a small man, like a hobbit, except that it was so thin and looked desperate to catch up to the Fellowship. When Aragorn and Legolas were disturbed and went down to hunt it down, they saw its nasty appearence. It had huge eyes that didn't fit its face, and its hair was almot gone. It smelled foul, as in no shower for decades or even centuries. Its fingernails were full of rottene skin and its body was overall filled with wrinkles

quick work

You just won 259,000,000 dollars.

how do you feel?
I feel like a feather-I think I'll just blow away with a slightest blow of wind

whats going through your mind?
How will I spend all this thing

what will you do with the money?
I dont know what I'll do specifically, but I think I'll satisfy my wants enough and then maybe donate some money for charity

Do you think you'll change? How?
I dont think I'll change unless there is a big influence externally. I think I'll still donate some money after satisfying my wants first, Iguess.

warm up

I think my parents have affected me in my life the most. They teach me new things everyday without even breathing. My parents are generally quiet even when they are disciplining me since they have a calm personality, but when I do something real bad, they get angry like a grumpy old man. I have never beaten them in arguements, escpecially my father because he uses words that creates chaos and makes my head explode. Arguing with him just makes me go angry, so I now know better than to create fire between him. But he is always nice and generous to me and he talks me into thinking I'm the incorrect one.

clue 5

1a. What is the theme of "About Effie"?
How Neil's opinion toward Effie changed over time(How time can affect a person's mind).

1b. Who is Effie waiting for?
Jesus

2a. Find a verse from the Bible that relates to the theme of "About Effie" and include it in your written response.
Exodus 14:31 tells how the Israelites changed their attitude toward God and Moses after they saw the Red Sea split in two, creating a path for them away from Egyptians.

2b. This story contains a lot of Christ imagery. Write down three separate sentences from the story that might symbolize Jesus and explain why Timothy Findley might have written into his story.
a. "She just called him "him," and sometimes it was even "they," as if there were a thousand of them or something."
b. "There has to be thunder, or he won't come."
c. "If there was ever thunder and lightning and music, then he'd come.
Maybe Findley was trying to tell the readers about Jesus and how Christians can affect nonbelievers. But he might've also wrote that to criticize Christians by showing how vain their waiting is.

3. How can non-Christian authors reveal truth about God's world?
I don't think non-Christian writers would ever try to reveal any stuff about God's world.
Instead, they would try to make them look ridiculous and not right since they disagree with believing in God. If they reveal truth about God, it would be out of mistake, or it could be because readers comprehended it in a wrong way. If they do reveal something about the truth of God, they might be a non-Christian, but they do think Bible says the right things.

clue 4

1a. Who is a "character in your life you admire? Why do you admire this person?
I don't actually "admire" this person, which is my father. I have more respect toward him than I admire him. I like how he is so calm usually, believing that he has nothing to be afraid of, since he believe in God. He often said good things to us even when I do bad things, like saying everyone makes mistakes. But he is very serious and sincere when he is disciplining me. He talks to me into making me think I did the wrong thing in a way so I won't be so hurt.

1b. What specific clues can setting reveal about the theme of a short story?
Since the setting is introduced at the beginning of the story, I think the setting has a big affect to the theme of the story next to the title. The setting creates the mood for the story, depending on the words the author use to form a specific atmosphere. And the setting also gives hints toward the plot of the story that's going to happen in the story.

2. How does an author drop clues about characters and how their actions lead you to the theme of a story?
The author gives clues about the theme through the story in some ways that the reader can easily catch. The writer gives information about the character's personality by dialogues and the scenes the character goes through. These passages help the reader to determine the personality of a character, and relate the personality to the setting and evaluate the theme that reader expects.

3. What is the strongest setting you have ever encountered in your own life? Describe this place and ponder if God revealed anything about Himself or His truth in this place.
I think the place that had impact in my life so far was USA. The US was a whole new thing for me, especially the culture difference. It taught me about how cultures differ so much from one another. I thought what I learned from Korea and its tradition was common to all other countries. In my opinion, I think God revealed to me how wrong my view was by giving me new experiences with new people and place.

two kinds reader response

1. At top of p. 90, the mother encourages her son. My parents often do that if they think I'm depressed.

2. In the last paragraph of p. 90 the narrator states her mother brought up issues in the magazines about remarkable children. My mother used to compare my brothers and I to some of child prodigies and said that we can be like them if we try like them.

3. At top of p. 93, the main character's mother kind of forces her daughter to take piano lessons even though the character doesn't want to. I was once "forced" to take violin lessons when I was young, but I finally gave up violin in 3 years.

4. On page 95, the character's mother brags to her friend about Jing-mei's talent that she really doesn't have. I've never seen my parents ever do that, but I once overheard one of my parent's friend saying stuff like that about their child.

5. The main character is disappointed in herself after messing up her performence. I messed up once on a talent show performence once, and now I have stage fright.

6. In page 98, Jing-mei yells at her mother for making her what she is not. I remember being mad at my parents because of their high expectations.




I think similar events like this happen in almost every family at least once. Every parents have imaginations to make their children into prodigies even though they have other talents other than one specific thing. I guess this type of thing is typical because parents have high expectations on their children.

clue 3

1a. Literary theme is what the story’s subject is talking about.
1) You’ll ruin your life if you think like a frog in a well.
2) Showing how tiny causes can mean enormous outcomes.
3) Giving up the final hope that’s just around the corner.

1b. In order to figure out the theme in a story, there could be various ways. But what I think the best way is starting out with the title. The title is usually related to the text in a way, which can be ironic or literal. I think the title is the best choice to build a structure for starting out to figure out the theme of the story, because it sometimes summarizes the whole story in a word or a phrase. Then the next step is to read the story. The theme of the story usually doesn’t come to me by reading the text once. After reading the story few times to know exactly what’s happening, I concentrate on the first paragraph to look for the theme. This is the similar reason why I looked into the title. The first paragraph plays the similar role, but it gives more clues to what the theme is than the title has.

2a. The theme of “Utterly Perfect Murder” is how Doug’s plan of revenge basically became unworthy for him right before he was about to make his final step towards the payback. This kind of thing usually doesn’t happen to me often. But occasionally there are cases where I set up plans with effort, and the perfectly seemed plan turns out to be a vain by an event that I would’ve never expected.

2b. What I think is the theme of my life is like a whole process of learning. I bet at least few people will agree with me if they are a student, because learning and being taught is what students’ main part of the job. But I guess this is too early to decide what my life’s theme is, because I’m just getting started with my life. So I guess I can’t really state firmly what my life’s theme is as I see it now, because I still have a vast range of knowledge to reach for.

3a. Moral and theme can be similar in a way, but it can also differ from one another. Both are obviously related to the story, and they need to be thought out in order to be figured out. But these two words have a different notion. The moral is like a lesson the writer is trying to teach to the readers, but a theme is like a combination of main idea and moral. So the moral can be defined as only one or two things, but a theme can be concluded in a totally different way based on how the reader comprehends the text.

3b. As a Christian, I can’t even dare to think what God’s plan for this world is, but I do know that God has a plan for this world because he loves each and every single one of us. So I can come up with only one conclusion. Maybe the theme for God’s plan is to have as many of our spirits in his kingdom to be beside him. God is beyond everything, so I have no idea of what and how God’s plan can be for this world. Nobody knows for sure what his plan is and how he’s going to make it happen, except God himself.

4. Every Christian would know that John 3:16 summarizes the whole bible in a single verse. It states that anyone who believes Jesus as their savior will gain eternal life. Statement like this lets me know that there is a cause and effect for every affair. The cause part of this verse is where it says for anyone who accepts Jesus as their personal Christ and the effect is where it says that person will gain the eternal life. It can sound more like a hypothesis if you look in a different view, but as for the text, it relates more as a cause and effect. I concluded like this because I know for a fact that God plans every single event that happens in our life, and he knows every result of it. In a same way, the truth that I might find in the literature will be based on the moral of the story, which is taught by a cause made by the character and the effect they intake.

Clue #6

1a. Define a metaphor and a simile.

Metaphor - comparison of two unlike things without using like/as.

Simile - comparison of two unlike things using like/as.



1b. Why do authors use figurative language?

Authors use figurative language for basically one reason. They use figurative language to elaborate and make their text more interesting. It could make the reader understand the text better, but it can also make them more confused by using a figurative language that the reader has no idea about. Without using figurative language, the text can turn boring. Using vague and plain words in a writing can make the paper turn into a piece of paper with ink. But with the use of figurative language, the writing turns into more interesting and figurative. Figurative language makes the text seem more energetic or serious depending on the usage of them. I bet no authors would want their readers to be bored on what they wrote, so they use figurative language to help them pull the readers into their writings.

2. List 3 metaphors that you think are really beautiful or interesting.
-Life is a maze
-Time is a thief
-Race against time

3. Find a metaphor for Jesus in the Bible and list the Bible verse.
John 1:14 - And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

4. What does this metaphor reveal about God's world and your understanding of it?
In this phrase, Word is a metaphor for Jesus Christ. The Word means the prophecies that have been written by the prophets in the Old Testement. This means that the Word, which is Jesus, had finally been incarnated and came to us. Jesus came to us like the Old Testement had told us so by the prophets, and we witnessed his glorious presence. He was unlike any other people, because he is the only Son of God, who is the Lord of all. This tells us that God never lets down his promises toward man, for he is the truth. When I first read it I had no idea what it was saying but when I thought about what could the 'Word' be, I only came up with Jesus. For he was in the Old Testement in a written form, he came to the people as the prophecies had promised us.

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Clue #2

1. Please label a picture of a plot graph, using a mountain as your central image. Label all parts and get creative.





① The flat surface that rises up to a mountain is the exposition of the story, where the reader can have a basic idea where the story is leading up to, like a mountain climber would choose a route to conquer the mountain.
② The rising hill in the mountain represents the rising action of the story. The text mystifies the reader, making the reader wonder what would be the climax be. This is like where the mountain climber faces hardships and problems hiking up the hill.
③ The peak of the mountain is the climax of the text. The reader begins to understand the whole story within a second and figure out what was the problem, similar to the mountain climber who finishes his hardships and look back to see which route was the most challenging.
④ The falling slope of the mountain is the falling action in a story. While in this step, the reader is able to unravel the problem and head to the end, like a hiker would have a bit strenuos time going down the mountain but not as much as hiking up the mountain.
⑤Where the mountain ends, it's the conclusion part of the text. The reader finishes up his connections and responses, as the hiker would look back the mountain he reached.





2. Why do stories need to be structured?


Stories better be structured if the writer is planning to give clarity to the readers. For this question, I would say that a story is represented as a building. The reason for that is the building won't start getting build without the design and plan made out by a good architect, as in like a story won't get started well if there isn't a fine and interesting base. We, as humans, need things like evidence to believe a state, like how we would understand a story only with a good structure. We need to construct an understanding so that the second person can learn from our understandings and maybe even sum up more clarity to it. If we don't have an understanding about a specific thing, at least some of us will go after the unanswered question to figure out the knowledge found and share with others.



3. After you lookes at the plot graph and structure of "Marigolds," what new things did you see in the story that you didn't see before?

I had perfectly no idea what the story was trying to say when I read it for the first time, as well as the second time. After I read it for the third time and drew the plot graph to see the plots for the story, it helped me undertand the story better than just reading it. Before I made the plot graph, I couldn't figure out what was the climax and the rising actions of the story, but when I drew out the graph and saw the different parts of the plot I was sure of which was which. I couldn't decide which action was the climax, more likely I couldn't find any actions that seemed like a climax. But when I saw the plot diagram, I figured out that the part where Lizabeth destroys the garden is the turning point of the story, and that she realized that her innocence has ran out for her entire life.



4. What is the theme of Marigolds and how does the structure of the story make that theme evident?

I think the theme of this story is that a small action made by you can impact a whole lot to another person. Lizabeth was so confused and frustrated because she saw her father cry so she destroyed the marigolds that Ms. Lottie had put time and effort to. After Lizabeth was back to her mind, she realized that she had done, she regretted and tried to convince Ms. Lottie to grow those back, Ms. Lottie didn't even bother. Ms. Lottie's final hope and will to live was just crushed by Lizabeth's small action. Lizabeth had destroyed another person's life completely, and she had lost her own innocence forever. This showed how a person's action can destroy another person's life in a second without notice. Lizabeth's destruction shocked herself, but it didn't have a horrible impact like it did to Ms. Lottie. You see, without the plot diagram to help figure out the structure of the story, I couldn't have recognized the theme hidden in the text easily.

Clue #1

1. In your own words, please summarize what Reader Response analysis, and what steps are involved.


I think a Reader Response analysis is somewhat like a personal connection. It's your own response toward the text from what you feel while reading it. I think there can be two ways to start making a Reader Response. The first way of, you read the whole text and understand the sentence well enough . Then you skim through the text again looking for whatever connection you can make out of it. The second way can be that you carefully read the passage patiently, making the response as you read on. And if you were to do it with another person, share it with another. Compare the responses that you and the other person have made, and discuss how each responded to the text. Suggest each other if there is a misunderstood connection made. I think this could help both to make a more precise connection.





2. How can Reader Response open our eyes to more truths as we read?


Responding to the text throughout while reading it can help the reader know the text better. If there is more response made to the text, there is also a better understanding. This can let you realize the small meanings hidden in the text that's not easily visible. Also as the reader gets to know the text more, the reader can comprehend beyond what he or she is looking for, and sometimes they might solve the text more than what the writer had intended for the readers to realize.





3. Why is it important for you to interact/connect with the literature?


I think interacting with the text is a really crucial part in understanding the literature. That's because making a connection with the text actually lets you become part of the literature and think about yourself one more time. Also the past experiences similar to the plot of the story, which helps you know how differently a character acted in the similar situation and got results that varied from your action and the outcome. From my perspective, this question is really similat to the question #2, but somewhat differnt. Such as in a way that making connection with the text lets you understand the text better in a personal way that reader response could not.



4. Reflect on a book or story you have read recently and what new truth about the world you learned from that narrative.

Only stories that comes to my mind right now is the "Marigolds" and "The Utterly Perfect Murder." Both of those stories taught me something new that I wasn't perfectly aware of. While reading the "Marigolds", I knew Ms. Lottie had almost given up her life, but she was attatched to the flowers in a way that wasn't convincing Lizabeth. Reading the part where Lizabeth destroyed the garden of marigolds, I wondered how she could be so crude to the old lady that she knew almost had no purpose for living. I also realized that after Ms. Lottie's long-term hobby was so easily destroyed by a mere child, and how shortly Ms. Lottie wasn't able to continue with her life. From this story, I learned that one single action can totally destroy one's plan. In "The Utterly Perfect Murder", I learned how a person's emotion can change so suddenly from what the person sees, like how Doug's rage that seemed like it can anyone calmed down after seeing how ruined and deserted.





If I put beauty in my own words, it would be something "pure" maybe, since beauty can mean an object without any flaw. It's basically the outer view of a person. I think this is very similar to what most people would say and agree, but God sees diffently. He said that in 1 Peter 3:3–5 that "Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight", meaning that the God sees everyone's outside as same, but what he really cares is that the heart and the pureness of their spirit that worships God. And in Ecclesiastes 3:11-14, God says he made everything beautiful as same when starting, so he sees everything that he made beautiful, especially the inside of a person. This conflicts with Lizabeth's action against Ms. Lottie, becuase she thought she and her life wasn't beautiful. But I'm sure that if they were real people, God saw Ms. Lottie's inside purer than Lizabeth's, because considering the pureness of the spirits, I thought Ms. Lottie's spirits was obviously purer than Lizabeth's.

utterly perfect murder

I think just based on the topic that this story will be about someone seeking for a revenge or it might be a friend's joke. Yes, I have wanted to revenge someone because that person pissed me off so often, so I made a fool out of him and felt like heaven at first. But later on I regretted behaving in a such behavior, I went to apologize to him and that person and I became close friends.

connection to character

from Chronicles of Narnia, Edmund. He is the third child of the family, and I though he received the least love of all four children, since he's just stuck in the middle. I know how it's to be in the middle of the family because I happen to have an older brother and a younger brother. I can't do anything in between them because if I do something to my older brother, I get scolded for "behaving so rude." And if I let out my anger to my younger one, I get yelled at for being so mean to my "young" brother. I thought Edmund was being treated like that between his siblings.

Clue 2

The Christ was first prepared by the witness of light, John, and came as the true light who gives light to every man. He came to what was made through him-world, but the world failed to realize that light was the light they were waiting for. - Exposition&Rising Action

Though the world did not let him as their Lord, he gave them a chance to be a God's childre, by believing and receiving him as the Lord. And he became as one of us and he showed us that he is the One and Only. -Climax

Personal Connections

1. In the second paragraph, Collier wrote that she remembers Marigolds at the most strangest times. I occasionally remember things that were a huge shock or delight to me in the most random/special events.
2. Also in the second paragraph, Collier says that she and the other African Americans were waiting for the prosperity which would come soon, even though they knew it wasn't true. I tend to think every other commercials such as cooking machines or skin solutions really work as they do in TV when I know that those are all exaggerations.
3. Collier describes in the fourth paragraph about a zoo-bred famingo who doesn't know how to fly. Everywhere I move to, I meet quite a few people that waste their talents without knowing how much they can accomplish more by applying those gifts.
4. In pg. 78, the author wrote that she and her friend were wore out from having nothing to do. This occurs to me too often. I wait and hope for an easy day with no work, but when I reach there, I get more fatigued and even frustrated with having no plan whatsoever.
5. Collier provides us an information about how the narrator's emotions changed when she thought of Miss Lottie. When I think about something that I believe is wrong or sick, I have a foreboding feeling that makes my mind go blurr, gaunt, and for some reason, offended.
6. Collier tells us how she felt whenever she saw the marigolds in Miss Lottie's lawn. Everytime I come face to face with occasions or observe situations that has a flaw in the whole nice scene, I begin to think negatively because of that tiny scar. Vice versa, when I see a ruined painting with a minor good left, I become in contact with a strange expectation wishing that insignificance will purify the ruined.
7. The writer says that she felt two feelings one after the other(child & woman). Few, but meaningful experiences have taught me to not only think about my view. When I view everything from my aspect whenever I have a conflict or argue with another person, I fit and mix things around to make it seem right to me. But when I visualize it from the other person's view, I realize that all the mixing and fitting stuffs make it even more nonsense that it was before.
8. Collier told us in the text about Lizabeth listening to the conversation her parents had. I often think like Lizabeth's mother, thinking and wanting to see only the okay parts and avoid to think about the shadow that lies within the lightened.
9. At the very first sentence in pg. 83, Lizabeth is confuse because she doesn't know where she should fit in her family picture. It's unusual, but I get totally lost when it seems like I don't fit in a specific event, like an alien.
10. Collier describes the rush of emotions that narrator felt in the climax of the story. I also say and do things which aren't what I mean when I'm pissed or become challenged knowing it's not right and that I'm going to regret it.
11. At the very last paragraph, Colliers describes the resolution of the story and Lizabeth's future, like planting marigolds. Whenever I commit something faulty, once in a while I leave a symbol reminding me the wrongs I've committed to help me prevent doing things like that ever again.

story plot assignment

Exposition
I really loved taking a trip to big cities from time to time. Actually, I think that was the favorite thing I liked to do when I was young. I have almost no more memory left in me to help me remember that was the favorite thing I liked to do, but I do remember why it's no longer my favorite thing. I can't remember exactly when it was, but I do remember I was 9 years old. It happend in a hot summer vacation.

Rising Action.
7 years ago, My family had been living in China for almost 3 years. For the last two summer vacations I had in China, all I did was staying at home and occasionally playing with my friends. When the third summer vacation arrived, I was expecting to be informed by my parents yet again that we will be staying in Yanji. But despite my boredom, my parents asked my two brothers and I whether if we wanted to visit Beijing to celebrate our vacation. My parents asked my older brother first, and he gave the usual answer-yes. He never really cared where my parents took him, and he still really doesn't care so much. Then they asked me, and since I was terribly bored, I said it would be exellent if we went there.
It was a fairly long trip, because I remember spending a night in a train. I couldn't sleep well since I was too excited, but the excitement wouldn't stay in me for long.
We made it to Beijing finally. There were few other families those who came with us, and we as a group got a tour inside the city and skimmed through the city.
My family were set free from the group like everyone else and were given our own time. My dad suggested visiting a museum of some kind, and we all agreed.

Climax
Most of my memories in Beijing are gone, but I have a faint memory staring at a big statue in a shape of a man. Then, it happened. I lost my interest in the statue and bugged my dad to go somewhere more exciting by pulling his shirt, and I looked up to see my dad's reaction but couldn't find any from my dad because the shirt that I pulled on wasn't my dads. It was some random Chinese dude that looked like he was going to kidnap me because he had a sly smile on his face. So I freaked out and shouted for my mom and dad, but there was no reply. My legs loosened up and I fell on the ground crying outrageously. In a second this huge crowd circled me around and few people came up to me asking what's going on, but all I did was wailing and flailing.
Then I finally got a grip and stopped crying. I went to the highest point I could find, and searched through the crowd. When I was about to give up and let myself be stranded on Beijing, I saw my parents.

Falling Action
I ran toward them and hugged my parents tightly. I felt like I just exitted a cave with vast, endless darkness and meet the sun again. I was so happy to see them that I followed my family around with no complaints in that trip.

Resolution
Our family safely made it back to Yanji, and we were all satisfied. I was probably the one that was most satisfied from all the thrill I've experienced. I found out a disturbing fact later on, when my parents told me one day that they never knew I was lost. They had been thinking I was with them all the time, and they were suprised when I came up and hugged them with tears pouring from my eyes.


ThE eNd


conflict - I was lost in middle of one of the biggest city in the world, which completely ruined my vacation

Myself as a Reader

1) How I feel about reading

2) Last 5 things I've read

Bible
Magazine
Novel
Online article
Comic book

3) What I like to read

The first genre that I look for if I go to the library is usually adventure or mystery, because to tell the truth, other genres usually bore me easily. It depends on my feelings when I read, but most times I look for adventures or mysteries first. My favorite authors are J. K. Rowling and James Patterson.

4) Reading habits

When I read, I usually read in bed, because I don't know why but I can't concentrate as well when I'm reading in other places like desk. I usually don't listen to music but when I here other noises that annoys me, I plug my ear into the music so that I can't here anything else. Somehow, I can't read when I'm eating, probably since I'm watching the food instead of the book.

5) Do I think books should be made into movies?

I don't think it matters, because it depends on the reader or the viewer's opinion on whether they want to watch it or not. But I knew more people wanting to see their favorite books made into a movie more than those who don't. However, I give more support on making the books into movies since movies usually give whole new scene from what the readers were seeing when they read their books.

ESLRs

thinker

principled

balanced

caring

communicator

knowledgeable

First Stab at Essential Questions

1. What are my current reading skills?
My current reading skills are quite average, because I haven't being enjoying reading as much as I have before. My reading skills actually differ from which book I'm reading, since I can't even understand a really simple book if I don't have any interest in it. But when I'm reading a good book that entertains and really pulls me in, I understand it and finish it quicker than I usually do.

2. How can I improve and grow as a reader?
There are several ways to improve and grow as a reader from my view, but what I think is the best way to improve as a reader is to just read more. When you read a lot, your reading skills gradually increase. You will be seeking for a better book each time and that eventually results in seeking higher-leveled books.

3. What purpose can literature serve in my life?
Literature could be my best hobby if I really loved literature, but since I don't really get entertained from reading or literatures, I don't know what it will do in my life right this time. But what I'm strongly assuming is that literature will have vast impacts in my future because literatures like reading and writing feeds your mind. So what I think literature will serve in my life would be the best manure to raise up my mind and thoughts.

4. What resources can I find in the library that will help me in this course and other courses?
Some of the resources that I might be able to find would be mainly books about detailed explanation of how to improve my knowledge, because unless it was written in complete nonsense, I can have a general idea of what this guy is trying to tell me. And if I read many books like these, then I can have information about how lots of people got through successfully and probably mix those causes of success to make my own unique way of helping me through hardships.