I tell it like it is...

Jack-

Jack I loved your animoto! You did a really good job of introducing the book without giving a whole plot summary. This is something I struggled with when I tried to make my own animoto. I know blogging is not your favorite assignment, but did you enjoy making this animoto? The music you picked seemed to go very well with the book you had picked. Both the music and the background seemed very exotic. Also, the pictures you chose to use flowed really well with everything else. Did you trick Jared in to being in this? If you did it worked out well. I liked how you used Carl who is French himself, and quite worldly. Coincidence?!? I hope I get to see more of these that you make!

Jacob-

In the famous words of Will Ferrel "Capture the Dream". If I could get a slow clap going for you right now I would Jacob! If your really set on fixing the problems you had last quarter, then capture that dream, and do it! For starters I would have to agree with the man who tore my hearts to shreds when he said I had no soul. You need to start capitalizig, and do some more gramatical things correct. Besides that though I love your charisma! I would agree with you that creativity is one of your strong points. However, you have so much of that creativity bouncing around in your little head of yours, it seems like it over powers your writing skills at times. This is not because it is bad at all, but at times it just get to busy. I love the fact that your creativity is so apparent in your writing though, it makes it much more appealing to read than others! Keep it up Jacob and "Capture the dream".

Stevie-
Stevie, I thought your first quarter blog was very well written. I'm surprised you didn't get a very good grade. Anyways, I'm glad you are more optimistic about this quarters blog. Are you excited to start following kids from another school? Do you think this will get you more interested in blogging? I agree with you that your links blog was very good. All of the links gave me a really good idea of what your book was about. I'm even thinking about reading it next semester. What book are you reading this quarter? Also, which one do you perfer?

Another Blog Another Day

     Hello everyone! Here we go again, round two of blogging! I know all six of my lovely followers are pumped for this.... Or not whatever, I'm pretty excited. Blogging is so much more appealing to me than writing a research paper. Today was the day my class got their blog grades back. While most  of my classmates weren't to thrilled over the grades they received, I got an A so I was thanking the Lord!  I did a number of things right on the first part of my blog, but to be honest we all know there are some things that could be improved! I'm assigned to tell you what all I did good on my blog, and of course what I did that, well sucked!     
     To begin, I had a pretty good intro to my blog. This was actually pretty important to me, to start things off right. I wanted to give my readers an inside look to the book I was taking on this blogging journey with me. Also, I wanted them to get a look into who I was. My favorite blog however was the vlog. While everyone else was freaking out about this assignment it was actually the easiest to me. I'm much more comfortable talking about a book and being on camera, then trying to write about it. I hope we get to make more of these in the future. The one thing I had going for me through the entire blog was my ability to make personal connections. This comes much easier to me than trying to analyze the content of a book.
     However, I did have many down falls. Apparently I had trouble staying focused in paragraghs...my socks are blue... I on the other hand could never see how that would happen. I need to work more on developing paragraghs, and back up my statements more than I originally had. Also, I had originally thought that paragraghs only had to be four to six sentences. I realized that now I need to start maturing in my writing and bump up the paragraphs to ten to twelve sentences. This is something I really struggled with in my first quarter blogs. On my music blog I really struggled. I had a hard time connecting with the classical music, and getting the mood I wanted. I needed to develop my thoughts and content more than I previously had.
    The book I am reading for the second quarter is The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. This is a story about a girl name Lennie Walker and how she was able to find herself. After her beloved sister died suddenly, Lennie's life seemed to take a complete turn around. Since Bailey, Lennie's sister, use to always be the center of attention, Lennie use to find happiness in the shadows. But now that Lennie is exposed she is able to really find out who she truly is. She even allows herself to fall in love. This quarter I hope to do more vlogs. I feel like these woule give a better look into the book.

WIllow Animoto

Untitled Project

continuation to blog #6

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=river+by+a+park&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=491&tbm=isch&tbnid=Ndqzr-qHGoJ3cM:&imgrefurl=http://the-crazy-one-xp.deviantart.com/gallery/&docid=Xvn1rAqUETix-M&w=150&h=113&ei=XcuLTqnWHMqAsgKX5OyWBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=437&page=13&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&start=114&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:114&tx=24&ty=60This website leads you to a picture of a park bench by a river. When I think of the end of the book when Willow and Guy are sitting by the river and Willow lets go of the Razors this is what I picture. This moment in the book is so monumental because it is the moment she decides to quit cutting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKgq_yZJnyA
This is a great visual book review. This gives another look onto Willow and her relationships in the book. The reviews opinions are very honest and open about the book.