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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

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