My Christmas Tree

There's not much too it haha

TMNT

A fitting throwback to when me and the boys dressed up as TMNT for Halloween. 

Thinking about dialogue.

1. Me and Colby went to the gym, followed a few people around up stairs and listened to some people in the power mech hallway. We listened the gym people for about 5 minutes, the people we followed upstairs for about 5 minutes also and the people in power mech hallway for a brief minute. The conversations were between 3 groups of different people we didn't know. It felt like we we shouldn't have been listening but at the same time it was funny. 

2. Some people like to use sound effects while talking, example "just whip the ball at him like whoosh" and when regarding a sock conversation you can see how boys who normally wouldn't care about it they would love to hear it from a girl. 

3. Creeping on people and hearing them talk helps expand your dialogue because not all people talk the same as you. 

4. Personality and character are revealed through conversation because most of the time you can judge how someone will speak by the way they look, but in some cases that is not true at all. 

5. The conversation becomes less intimate and becomes people trying to be more funny or show of rather than showing their feelings through a personal one on one conversation.

6. There tends to be a leader/leaders in the conversation and everybody else seems to talk about what the leader is saying.

7. Texting people tend to let there feelings out more, maybe this is because they don't have to see the persons facial expression which could lead to them getting hurt. 

Huskies lacrosse.

Pretty depressing photo, that game we lost in the provincial finals. It was the last quarter of the game and it was tied. There was about 10-15 seconds left on the clock when the ball comes rolling to me and I put it in the net and we were sure that we won.. The other team West K calls a stick check where they look at the stick that scored the goal and see if it's legal, I knew my pocket was fine but the only thing I didn't have was a butt end. Something covering the end of my shaft.. The goal was disallowed, them we lose in the 3rd overtime. One of the most devastating things that's happened to me for sure. I will always hear butt end jokes from the guys I know on the other team and the occasional from my own team.  

Huskies

Team photo of the hockey team

Imagery paragraphs

1. Why did you select this passage?

I picked it because it immediately made me imagine what it would look, feel and sound like. 

2. What type of imagery is most common? 

For the quotes I picked I think kinesthetic  was the most common although I see it as the most challenging to write about, I can feel exactly what they were describing. 

3. what is the best snippet of imagery within this passage? Why is it so effective?

I think the kinesthetic imagery when it says how Noah's arm was probably numb and I knew exactly what it meant and I could relate to it right away. 

4. Is the imagery positive or negative? How do you know? Give some words as examples to support this. 

I think most of the text is neutral because I couldn't find any words that support a negative or positive effect. 

5. What mood/emotion is being created by the author? How do you know? 

The author is trying to make us feel bad for Sadie (Plath) because in the full quote she was having a bad dream about her dead family. 

6. What is the purpose of this piece of imagery? The purpae of this piece of imagery is to give more detail to Sadie's dream and give the reader a better understating of it. 

Quickwrite - alien stick up.

"Don't tell them where you are" whispered the blue man. I had no say in what to do because he was pointing a gun straight at me. I was talking to my family on the phone and the only thing they wanted to know was my location, I simply told them to not worry and that I'll be home soon. I couldn't figure out why the blue man had kidnapped me and what he and his monkey wanted with me. The monkey smelled horrendous, like it was bathed in dirty water and wiped down with dirty clothes. This blue man and his gun was nothing like I've ever seen before, and whenever he talked it's like the movement of his mouth didn't correspond with what I heard. "Let's go now" he demanded. I didnt know where we were or where we were going but we all left the crowded phone booth, I wasn't sure if it smelled worse than the monkey or not. So we started walking, it was a rainy night and we seemed to go on forever. We were in the middle of nowhere, and finally the man yelled "STOP, now start digging". This was it I thought I'll never get home to my family. Well I knew I was gonna die, I decided to try and go out with a fight. I swung my shovel at the monkey and struck him in the face, it hit the ground hard and wasn't moving. Now I had to try take out the towering blue man, but he was already gone. I was sitting in the middle of the desert alone, I look over to the monkey and it was also gone, I made my way home and me and my family moved towns and I tried to forget what happened. 

Reading Assignment #6

Book: BZRK Page (226) Tweets from Keats (Noah), Plath (Sadie), Nijinsky, Ophelia, Caligula and Vincent.

@Keats: Seeing through my biots eyes #disgusting
replied by: @Plath: I know I haven't gotten used to mine either!
replied by: @Nijinksy: You two shouldn't publicize the ways of BZRK or I will get @Caligula.
replied by: @Caligula: I've already been looking at this, refrain from this.

@Nijinsky: #RIP Renfield, you were a great fighter down in the nano.

@Plath: Reading poems from #SylviaPlath
replied by: @Keats: I was also checking out my poets poems #VeryGood

@Keats:   @Plath, you should tell me your real name..
replied by: @Plath: you know we can't share that information, its against BZRK rules.
replied by: @Keats: well I won't stop till I find out! #Determined

@Nijinsky: I'm the brain and the heart of the New York BZRK organization #Blessed
replied by: @Ophelia: If your the brain and the hear that makes me the soul.
replied by:@Vincent: The brain?? I'm the smartest one around here!

@Plath: Finally figured out why @Nijinsky dresses so well!
replied by: @Nijinsky: Keep to yourself Plath.

@Keats: So no one has met our leader named Lear but we all follow his orders? #Questionable
replied by: @Plath: I was thinking the same thing ! But I wouldn't question it or @Caligula will visit.
replied by: @Caligula: You know I will be visiting if you wonder anymore Keats..
replied by: @Ophelia: Now let's not be intimidating the new recruits Caligula..

@Vincent: Not being able to feel pleasure is something I love and hate. #NotCool

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Quickwrite - Island

It was a beautiful island! We never got to meet the people who sold it to us and me and my friends Ashton, Dirty Dan, Colin and Colby all decided to chip in only a dollar each to buy the place! It was weird they only sold it to us for 5 bucks but who can complain? It's a freaking island I mean that's pretty neat. We were finally all heading out there in order to check it out and have a little vacation, It was pretty far out in the middle of no where with no cell service. We were finally getting there and it cost us 00 times more to get there than it did to buy it so we were ready to party. At first the island seemed pretty nice, lots of trees and some creepy caves for exploring, then we started notice some strange things a lot of our stuff was going missing.. No matter we were having fun! Then while we were all just walking around when we notice a cute little monkey! Colin stepped up and tried to feed it a banana, then without all of us thinking it would happen the monkey ate Colin's hand. Soon more monkeys come from smelling the blood, the next thing we know he's dead. Didn't matter though the rest of us got away safe in my helicopter.

Quickwrite -Minions

If I had a set of minions for a week I would try and live that week up to the fullest, I would live like a king! I would make them do the basic things in life for me, feed me, bathe me, and maybe even do my homework. I don't know if they would be very smart, based on the movie I would say they aren't too intelligent but that doesn't matter as long as my homework's done. On day 1 we would all go out and have fun on the beach. On day 2 we would go to an amusement park for the whole day! On day 3 we would just have a loaf day and just watch movies. On day 4 we can clean the whole house. On day 5 we would go to a big sporting game. On day 6 I would let the minions do whatever they wanted. On day 7 I would throw a HUGE going away party for the little minions, they would realize they love me so much and stay forever. The end.

Six Word Memoirs Debrief.

What did I learn about storytelling?
I learned a few things about storytelling through six word memoirs, I learnt its actually really hard to think of a solid story in only 6 words. I usually had over 6 words and it had me thinking of coming up with the same sentence but shorter and still getting my point across. I also learned that instead of  coming up with a 6 word story then matching it with a photo, I  found a photo I wanted to use and then just tried to think of a six word memoir that worked. It was a very long process making 8 different ones but it made me a better storyteller.
Where did i show my knowledge about using storytelling skills?
I used my knowledge of storytelling skills through my punctuation and when I had to use a comma or a period to make it more powerful. The power of the punctuation and how it can alter the sentence and how you interpret it. I used it really good on my 7th memoir "If your not first, your last." it controls the way it separates being first and last.
What did i learn as a reader, writer, thinker and storyteller? 
As a reader I learned that 6 words can be the difference between a good story and a bad story, it can show many different ways of telling a story. I learned as a thinker that it literally takes a lot of thinking in order to making a decent story. I learned as a writer that I can't half ass it and to take some time to actually think about what I'm trying to say.

A lax photo from last month, we didn't do entirely well but it was a solid tournament towards a really good cause. The tournament was in Minneapolis and me and Colin went it was fun.