Ten things:

1. Luciento wants to marry Bionca but can't until her sister is married.

vs.  When Cameron pretends to be a french tudor to get closer to Bionca.

2. Katherine is a shrew vs. Biancas older sister who acts like a shrew.

3. Luciento (cameron) and Hortensio who is Joey fight over Binaca.

4. Cameron and Bianca end up together in the end of the movie and book.

5.  Petruccio who is Patrick agrees to marry and date Katherine who is Cat.

6. Bianca likes Luciento who is Cameron.

7.  In both the movie and the book, the younger sister is liked.

8. Katherine is in a way like Cat

9. Both the fathers in the movie and book wont let Bianca date until her older sister does.

10. Bianca chooses Cameron (Lucianto) in the end.

Oh Brother where art thou?

I really enjoyed this movie. I have seen it several times before and know all of the songs, but never understood the real meaning of it all, and why it took place and how it was based off the Odyssey. I just thought it was a creative film with a neat backdrop etc....

I enjoy the first 30 minutes or so, because of George Clooney's weird behavior and his dialog. I think the director chose really great actors for it. They all seem to fit into the character they are supposed to play in the movie very well. And I think they really know a lot about how they are supposed to act and what kind of personality they are portraying in the movie. 

Epic Simile: So many moments

The leaves dance around me in circles as the falling petals caress my soft shampooed hair. I can see the sun setting in the distance, moving so slowly only a cat can watch, a cat waiting for a mouse in a field so careful not to move or blink, so patient, as a stream flowing through a quiet forest. The rain starts to pitter patter on the cold gray cement next to my feet. I can feel my sweaty palms clench into angry fists. The soft bed of grass is now a muddy stream of wet dirt under my still body. The fresh sent of flowers drifts by me as the rain begins to pour. I raise my hand to wipe the dripping makeup off my cheeks. I turn my head to the side, eyes still closed. I can hear dogs whining for the last meal of their day. I hear parents yelling at a child for a careless mistake. This moment is just one. Just one in a million, one in a day. If they were all to be counted what would a day be. So many moments, so many memories. Just one life. 

Project checkpoint:

Taylor and I are making a movie, well a preview for Mice and Men. We will film some of it around my neighborhood and his.. and maybe film some in a more interesting setting like Lincoln Elementary, or somewhere with trees and life. We plan on having other people be in our film (family members, people from ms. Gilman's class, people from other classes, or schools and or random people we might meet off the street) 

I plan to edit the movie and create something that will be interesting and creative to everyone who watches it. We haven't had a ton of time to talk about who will be playing what sorts of rolls yet but Taylor will be starring as one of the main characters (Lenny or George) Our movie will be classy, fantastic, creative, interesting, meaningful and educational! Some possible setbacks may be the timeline (it's very short) or one of us not being able to commit completely to a few hours every couple of days. Or maybe sports (for Taylor), really there are quite a few things that could stop us from making this movie the best it possibly can be, but we will both try our hardest to accomplish what we set out to make.

Romeo and Juliet, movie post.

I chose this video because, it wasn't a scene from the movie, and it was very creative and cute! Haha I think watching different interpretations of Romeo and Juliet is really fun and changes the way you think about the book or either of the movies, because having already seen various scenes from both movies it all makes sense. Even when it's made out of lego's!

Romeo and Juliet

 

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I think this picture relates to Romeo and Juliet because of her expression. You can just see in her face that she is completely unconditionally in love with this man. And that's how it is in the book too, because even though Romeo killed Juliet's cousin she is head over heels for him. Also the setting of this picture reminded me of Romeo and Juliet because it is kind of old and romantic.

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Romeo and Juliet: scene 2

Something that really stood out to me in scene 2 was, when Romeo went back to see juliet and they declared their love for each other, and Juliet asked Romeo to say "those three words" and told him if he wanted to marry her he should send a letter the next day and they would wed. I found all of this quite interesting because they had only known each other for a day before they decided they were in love with each other and wanted to be married. 

I think it will affect the future of the book because, they will maybe look back on it and all the possibly careless decisions they made, and maybe wish that they had waited longer before getting married. Obviously, I have never been in  a situation like the one that Romeo and Juliet are in currently. 

Juliet!

I am choosing to describe Juliet, because I feel like if I were to relate to one character it would be her. She is a very polite obedient daughter, and a loyal friend to everyone who lives around her. And she is everything Romeo could ever want! She has a lot of personality, that she expresses to the ones she is really close to.

I think if I were to meet her in person, she would be really interesting and I would just want to hang out with her all day because there would be so much I would love to ask her, and just find out about her as a person. I think I can relate to her in a few ways, some that I can't explain very well. Just the way she is sometimes reminds me of myself sometimes.

Premonitions~

One time, a long time ago I had a dream and I was in a rain forest making ham sandwiches and all the sudden this baby popped up out of know where. At first I was really confused, and then it started talking to me. It hopped up onto the table where I was cutting an onion and stared at me for a long time. Than it threw up all over my pants!! It was disgusting.

The next day my brother got sick and threw up all over the floor, which was also disgusting. I don't think there was anything I could have done to stop what happened to my brother though. He gets sick a lot and it's always disgusting. He's a boy, boys stick their dirty hands in their mouths and never take showers. It's no surprise to me that he got sick that day.

movies!

I love the movie She's The Man because it is based of the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. In the movie it is more modern, and Viola (the main character) plays soccer but her boyfriend thinks she can't play better than any guy, so she decides to impersonate her twin brother and attend his school to be on the soccer team to prove to her family and friends she is capable of the challenge. When she arrives Olivia starts to fall in love with him (her) but the guy Viola is rooming with, has the biggest crush on Olivia. Meanwhile Viola is in love with Duke who has a crush on Olivia. It's a really long confusing movie with a twist of modern comedy.

I think it relates to Shakespeare because of the love octagon, and all the little things that happen on the side just make it more funny. I like when people make movies based off of older movies that used to be really popular because teens always want to watch the newer ones. That way we can learn about what used to be a really big deal a long time ago but in a more fun way version.

Shakespear!

When we first started A midsummer nights dream, I really didn't understand how they were talking and the language Shakespear created. But once ms Gilman told us that the whole movie and they way they talked was because it was all one big poem. Once I had that in my head it was easier to understand what they were saying. And it really isn't that complicated they just use a lot of "thy", "thou", and "the."

I really likes the movie though, the story was really interesting and a little bit hard to follow which made everyone pay attention. After about 30 minutes of the movie I really started to understand the love triangle, it's so confusing though if you don't pay any attention. I liked the plot because the movie wasn't very predictable, which made it more interesting to watch. I am really excited for Romeo and Juliet, because I have heard so much about over the years from my mom, teachers, friends, and family. 

The worst part

To me, the saddest part of Animal Farm is that all the animals listen to Napoleon. Because, I know he is supposed to be the leader but in a situation like the one they are in (running the whole farm) I think it is important to have sort of a decision maker but not someone or some animal that has that much power and influence over everyone else on the farm. I think that all the animals pay to much attention to what Napoleon wants then what they want, which might have caused them to do some of the stupid things they did. 

Another sad thing about the book is when the windmill got destroyed. The animals spent almost two years building it and to have in be completely destroyed would be so frustrating. I cannot believe they had it in them to rebuild it, two times. All in all I think Animal Farm is a pretty sad story but very well written.

Freewrite

When I started Animal farm, it took a long time to get to an interesting part. But then once it did, I really started to enjoy it. I especially like how all the animals talk and have their own personality.  I think the animals talking and taking over the farm and creating their own life and running mr. Jones off the farm makes the story so interesting.

If I were writing this book I would have had mr. Jones stay on the farm but the animals just control him and everything that happens. Also I would have some of the animals be plotting something interesting within the main story of Animal Farm. 

My expectations for high school...

As soon as I started elementary school I couldn't wait to get to middle school. And in 8th grade I couldn't wait to be a freshman. And I had heard stories, some good some bad, but I didn't know how it was all going to be in real life. It all just kept getting more exciting. And now, I am finally here. I feel like I've worked my whole life, and done everything, every test, every math assignment, every writing prompt to get here. to high school. And I love high school just as much as I thought I would...no, even more. 

On my first day, I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the 10 minute break, in between second and third period, I fell in love with all the hustle and bustle throughout the whole school in the morning. I fell in love with the fresh-plopped-on-a-pan-straight-out-of-the-package-and-stuck-in-the-oven-cookies, I fell in love with the orange peels strewn across the cafeteria. I fell in love with all of it, and I feel really satisfied inside, because I know that if I didn't feel this way about high school, I would need to push myself to do my homework and find some way to just keep going. But I am already doing that, I am motivated. I am motivated to become more intelligent, become more creative, and be eligible to get in to a top notch college by the time it's my senior year.

When, I came to high school I expected all my teachers to be boring, and loud and so uninteresting that I would fall asleep in every class (by the way, may I just point out that I have only ever fallen asleep once in my Spanish class,) and I expected my teachers to stand at the front of the class and take roll with an almost hypnotizing expression and their eyelids slowly falling. I expected high school to be like Farris Bueller's Day Off. I expected there to be so much homework, I stayed up all night every night trying to finish it. I kept picturing my teachers yelling "pop quiz" every other day.

What I expect to get out of high school, is a really great education, to become a better singer, and be apt to sing in front of my peers, and to find myself, and figure out who I want to be for the rest of my life. That's a lot to accomplish in just 4 short years. But I'm not worried because I know I can do it. And I know that these 4 years of high school, will end up feeling like 40.

Poetry out Loud

For poetry out loud, I chose to memorize a poem called The Orange. I chose this poem because I thought it was really cute and creative. And I will be honest I also chose it because it was not as lengthly as some others, but also it made me feel relaxed and comfortable reading The Orange because it is pretty short but also it has a very creative mood. I feel pretty good about memorizing this and reading it in front of the class. I usually don't have a problem with reading in front of people and I have memorized quite a bit of my poem.

 I can relate this poem to some poems I have written. I like to write shorter fun poems that give me a good feeling. It's hard for me to explain just what that feeling is, its kind of a feeling of hope and happiness in being where you are in your life, and thats what this poem brings to me.

Three poems!

We read The Road Not Taken today in class. And I think it really speaks to me. It is about someone who is choosing which path to take with his or her life. Deciding if they want to take the road that they don't know much about, the road that is uncertain, and mysterious, undecided and unfamiliar. He or she is trying to chose which will be best. Robert Frost is writing about a big decision someone is going to take, if he choses the road that is calling to him, his body feels he wants to take it, or the road that most people take because they know this is the safest and most sure road they can take without any problems or unpleasant encounters.

"Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear." The relates to me because, I am always wanting to do other things that sometimes other people think are really dumb, or stupid and pointless. like art, I do a lot of art and poem writing because it helps express myself!! and  I love to be creative, I think I am a very creative person, but people look down upon the things you love.

The Movie

The scene that really stood out for me is when Jem and Scout find Dill in ms. Maudie's garden, because it is just so different then I pictured it when I was reading the book. When I was reading the book I had imagined Dill popping up from inside a patch of cabbage or something! It was just so much different in the movie. It was different from the movie because in the movie he is really sort of full of himself and is bragging in an obnoxious sort of way. Dill is such a cute little boy with huge horse teeth sticking out of his face, so it is just so surprising to see him with so much self confidence. 

I think also in the movie Scout is a very whinny little girl, where as Jem is much different then I imagined as well. Jem is not very nice to Scout it seems, and is snotty to her because she is his little sister of course. Atticus was very much like I imagined except for he didn't seem so old in the book to me, in the movie he seems a little bit out of things and not very down to earth as I thought he would be. Over all the book is quite similar to the movie in many ways but has some differences, most of them minor and unnoticeable (except for the fact that there is no Aunt Alexandra in the movie ) I loved the book! and I am loving the movie too! its is very fun to read and great to talk about.

The book that changed my life!

Well I guess this book has changed my life in many ways. Every time I am getting ready to argue with my mom about something (or my brother) I think about how the issue looks from their point of view. And I put myself in their shoes for a while. When I first started To Kill A Mockingbird, honestly it really didn't interest me at all (maybe because the font is so tiny, and there are so many words on one page!!) but I knew I had to keep reading it, and as I did it pulled me in and then I was reading more than what was asked every night!!

I also learned a lot from this book. I learned to be happy with what you have, to be aware that others have much more harsh lives that we are aware of. Also I agree with a lot of what is in this book, and I feel like in a way it relates to me, "She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl." It's true there is so much skill!!!

Life Lessons

Jem, as we recently read, was at court with Atticus, without him knowing about it. But while he was there I really think he got an earful about racism and how black people were treated very unfairly. He observed the judges side with white people on every subject. He observed Tom Robinson  being treated very unfairly, and with no respect what so ever. When Jem found out about Tom Robinson being shot form trying to escape I think that just said it all. Also i think that Jem could have understood a lot better if he had heard what Tom said when he said "I am really tired of white men's chances, and I prefer to take my own."I think that really showed Jem that there was a lot more to the world that what he had known. 

I think this is a very important lesson to learn because, we are taught in school about racism. There are books, movies, documentaries, and stories, that we are taught. But I think it is really important to know how segregated we used to be. different bathrooms, drinking fountains and stores. We should feel really lucky how different is is now. There are still some ways that this country, and this world are in some way segregated. But we've made a really big change, and it's important to know about the past. And the history of the world.