Short Stories

I think I have learned a lot after reading these example short stories. A lot of the short stories and both confusing and sometimes long. I have to reread almost every sentence to actually understand the story but it ends up being worth it in the end. My annotations are not always the best but they help me understand the story. I am very interested in learning more about short stories and reading the different types of stories.

Settings, Characters, and point of views are all hard topics to understand. The more I read and take notes on them the more I understand though. Writing my own short story seems very interesting! I’m actually looking forward to the challenges I face as I struggle to write my own. I like the struggle, because it makes it that much better when it becomes a success. 

My story

I have yet to come up with a title for my story so for now it is just "My story"

exposition:
setting: Shimmer Willow
situation: Chanter runs away from her parents with leif
important characters:
main: Chanter Pepperfrost
Hemlock Heartfly
Petal Moonweb
Bindweed Beamshimmer
Cherry Hailglitter (sis)
Juniper Pepperfrost (mom)
Thorn Pepperfrost (dad)

rising action:
1)Chanter meets Leif for the first time and instantly falls in love
2)realizes he and Hemlock Heartfly are a thing
3)Chanter has a falling out with her parents

climax:
I have no idea yet

falling action:
chanter is not welcome back to Shimmer Willow

Resolution:
I don't know yet

Reading Log

reading log:

-short story: A&P- 45 mins 

-short story: Dry September 1 hr 13 mins 

-Gone: 16 mins 

= 134 mins 

Crystal

I didn't talk to Leif today. I wanted to so badly. Just so he knows who I am at least. If Hemlock wouldn't have cast her love spell on him, I know he would be mine. If I can just get Petal to reverse Hemlock's  spell then I know I would have a chance with Leif.
His eyes are so beautiful.  I really need to go to sleep so I have enough energy for the day, but I just can't. They way they standout out against his clothes make me get all tingly inside when I see him.
I hope making snowflakes won't take long, even though we have to make a lot to prepare for the big winter frost coming in only a couple of days now. If I can get off the hook tomorrow maybe petal and I can sneak off and go try and find Leif. I hope Juniper doesn't catch us trying to sneak off because I know she will punish me. I can't wait to see Leif tomorrow... (fades asleep)

Reading Response: A&P

I read and annotated the short story A & P in the short story analog book. I thought that the story was really weird actually. The main character Sammy works at a small ton grocery store 5 miles away from a popular beach. One normal day 3 girls in only bathing suits walk in to the store. Sammy thinks that this is really odd because things like this never happen. Everyone in the store is really interested in what is going on with these three girls in just swimsuits just walk in. They all stare at them with confusion. When the manager of the store Lengel asks them to be better clothed and embarrasses them, Sammy gets mad that he called them out and quits his job. After Sammy quits his job he realizes that life is about to get a lot harder than it just was. 

I thought that this short story was good because the way it was written was very descriptive and I felt like I was almost watching the story if that makes sense. with the details of the characters I felt like I knew who they were almost. I thought that the story had a weird ending with Sammy just quitting. I thought that this story was weird but I liked it a lot. I liked it better than Harrison Beregeron and better than Da-Duh. 





Reading Log: 9/16- 9/22
short story: A&P 45 mins 
Gone: 10 mins
Gone: 40 mins 
Literacy narrative: 25 mins 

e-book

I do not need to change anything in my literacy narrative if it is published on the website. 
Before it is published I would like another proofread just to double check on everything. If we could I would like to change the format, or at least the font and color. The MLA is so boring! I would like to make it more fun so people would be more attracted to it! 

reading log

this week reading log:

-30 mins literacy narrative 

-10 mins literacy narrative 

-40 mins literacy narrative 

-45 mins literacy narrative 

**125 mins literacy narrative** 

reading response

I am still reading The Fault in Our Stars, but when I forget my iPad at home and I have to read a book from Dr. D's shelf I like to read Gone. So far I have made it to chapter 2(: The first 2 chapters have been really good. It is about how these kids are at school then all of the sudden the older kids and all the adults vanish in mid air. No one has any idea of where they are. They try to call them but the calls don't go through They try to turn on the T.V. but nothing comes on, just static. Everyone starts to panic. The kids all start leaving the school to try and go home to find their parents. Then I have left off there.

I can't even imagine if this ever happened in real life. I don't know what I would do. I wouldn't have any money so I would go to my dad's office which is down the street from school. If he wasn't there I would have to walk home with my sister, but first go to my little brother's school. Then we would all walk home. It takes me 30 minutes to get to school from my house so it would be an awfully long walk. If we all got home and my mom wasn't there but her car was is when I would start to panic. If there were no adults then no money, no money then no food, no food then you die. There would also be a ton of other terrible things that would happen with no adults.

Another possibility if this was real would be I disappear. In the book it says 14 year olds and up disappeared along with the adults. Where would have gone? Why did we disappear? It would be super weird.

Ordering at Cane's

Cashier: "Chicken chicken what combo you pickin'?"

Mom: "(laughs) I would like a number three combo, with a large sweet tea pleeaseee."

Cashier: "Alrighty m'am so you have a number 3 combo with a large sweet tea?"

Mom: "yes"

Cashier: "Okay your total $7.17. Please pull up to the second window."


Cashier: "Your total is $7.17."

Mom: "Here you go."


Mom: "Thanks so much."

Cashier: "No problem. Here is your food. Have a great day."

Mom: "Thanks so much have a great day."

reading log 9-8-13

My literacy narrative: 65 minutes 

The Fault in Our Stars: 55 minutes 

Literacy Narrative update

We just turned in our literacy narrative rough draft and I have mixed emotions about it. I feel like I could have done a lot better. I don't think I wrote my best. I know I could have pushed myself harder and wrote in  a lot more detail, and I know I should have. I don't really know why I didn't try harder. The reasons are most likely because I didn't use my time wisely enough in class so by the time I got home I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it. I also am such a bad procrastinator. I take too many breaks and lose my train of thought and then it just goes downhill from there.

The good part is that it was only the rough draft. I have this whole week to work with my writing circle (I forgot what the little discussion group is called) and get feedback from them. I also will get my paper back from Dr. D with comments and corrections on it so that will also help me. Another thing that could help me is going to the writing center and let the writing fellows help me. Since we have to go once a semester I might as well try it out now since I don't feel too good about my rough draft, and if I like then I will know to go back throughout the year!

Reading Response #3: The Fault in Our Stars

So far I really like this book. I can tell the ending is going to be sad, but I want to keep reading. The relationship between Augustus and Hazel is so sweet. They aren't quite sure how they feel about each other, well they are but thy won't admit it. She likes him but doesn't want to hurt him like his last girlfriend. She explains why she does't want to kiss him and he understands. But then her lungs start messing up her brain. Augustus waits at the hospital with her after she was rushed there. 

I really like how close of a relationship Hazel and Augustus have with each other, and how John Greene writes about it in the book. I really like the book and can't wait to keep reading. 

Weekly reading

 Field guide/ literacy narratives: 

*55 mins (annotating)

*10 mins in class 

*10 mins in class 

The Fault in Our Stars 

45 mins 

Reading Response #2: Literacy Narrative

In class I read some literacy narratives. They were out of our Norton Field Guide book. I think that the examples I read in the guide are really good. This week, we are going to have to write our own literacy narrative. I honestly am a little confused about how to write one! I don't understand how to relate writing and reading to my life enough to write a couple of paragraphs about it. I think I need to have a lot of details and develop my sentences well. 

I think I should go to Dr. D for some advice of how I can write a good one. The mentor texts and the ones I read in the guide were really good and I feel like I am not going t be able to even compare mine to theirs. The ones in the book had great side stories about their past life that helped to relate their main point about reading or writing.