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This week is homecoming week. I'm really excited about all of it, but at the same time a little stressed out. I have to practice for the pep rally coming up on Friday and I also have to cheer for that game. We are doing hard stuff in the pep rally so practice is extra long and difficult than normally. I also have to have costumes for each day at school so I had to find all of my costumes and that was challenging because the halloween stores are so picked over already. Thursday is Halloween, cheer practice, powder puff game, and homecoming decorations at school. I won't get home until like 9:30 or something so that will be hard. Plus I have to get all of my stuff together for the actual dance on Saturday.

Its all really exciting but verrrryyyyy stressful too.


reading times-

45 mins- A Worn Path
25 mins- The Sniper
15 mins- Araby
1 hour 23 mins- short story draft

3 annotations response

The 2 1/2 stories I read were "A Worn Path", "Araby", and "The Sniper". I didn't finish reading and annotating "Araby". I liked the story "A Worn Path" because it was different than every thing we have read. I liked how the author described all the different places that Phoenix walked to and through. The way she was described as a character too.

I didn't like "The Sniper" as much as I liked "A Worn Path". It didn't have as much details and the ending really through me off. I liked the story but it wash't a good choice for a literary analysis.

2nd quarter personal questions & weekly reading log

My new personal questions for this quarter are:

• What would it be like to live in a world without adults?
• How much does friendship impact our lives?
• What would happen if my parents just vanished one day?
• What makes me not like reading?
• What new genres should I try and explore?

Reading log:

Gone -45 mins 

The Return- 30 mins 

re-read And of Clay We are Created to study for test- 45 mins 

Reading log 120 mins

Gone- 30 mins (20 in class, 10 outside of school)

Short stories:

And of Clay We are Created- 45 mins
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses- 20 mins
The Waltz of a Fat Man- 20 mins

Writing my short story- 15 mins

130 mins