Rolling Thunder

Clouds that create an ominous fear

As the thunder makes one stop and hear

A curtain of rain comes into sight

The blue sky is now as black as night

Though there are no stars to break the black

Lightning is the only thing that brings the light back

But the light is so quick and fleeting

That thunder is heard as the lightning is retreating

This great booming noise fills the air

Causing everything to stand on edge even ones hair

This is one of the beauties of nature

But it is also one of its deadliest creatures

Thunder follows a great flash of light

And gives many children a fright

But we know that there is always an end

A rainbow greeting us like an old friend.

The Light of the Night

The Sun slowly creeps out of sight

Reds and oranges bleed into the night

A bright black is falling upon the land

As the moon rises above the reddish orange band

This is the time where the night is brightest

Because the darkness cannot fade the lightest 

Part of the day, where the light is slowly going away

When white turns to gray

But gray turns to black

This black corruption takes the night back

To its dark state of no sun nor light

It creates the darkness of night

Where the owls hunt and cry

While we sleep to try 

To avoid the dark murky

 Color that covers the sky.

reading

150 min of portfolio

Music

For this post I chose the Ac Dc classic highway to hell. I saw a lyrical base of a trimeter which was anapest. This song begins with liv-ing easy, liv-ing free so you can obviously see the anapest trimeter there. It continues throughout the song. This shows that this sang is meant to be sung quickly and evenly.

I found that there was a pattern of consance throughout this song. This I believe gives it the rough feel that the lyrics entail. The relation of Hs gives the song like  a hissing sound that you would hear from like a car engine. And the song is about highways and cars and such. This repletion of hs gives it the mode that fits.

Portfolio Project

For my portfolio project i  chose my literacy analysis. I chose this project because i saw small changes that i could make to make it a better paper over all. I also like writing this paper. This made me want to revisit it.

Also i saw many comments that said i'm confused and that is something i would like to change. This topic i wrote about i thought was a great one and one that i though could use a little more elaboration. This Paper will be the most polished one i have done all year.

Jane Goodall

The problem of plagiarism is a big one. Yet there are certain scales that people's plagiarism is placed on. These scales are determined by the person accused. You have the student scale based by grade. You have the adult scale based on educational background. The biggest and worst scale the famous author. Jane Goodall lands on the famous author scale.

Jane Goodall is a famous Primatologist who has writen a book, that has had some problems with plagiarism. She plagiarized websites like Wikipedia. This is a fairly major offense. Plus to add insult to injury she basically copied entire passages without giving credit. Overall Jane Goodall's offense was a bad one.

Nervous Conditions

This book was a good eye opener. I believe that I should be kept for many years to come. It could teach many people at this school not to take things for granted. This book also bring us into African Culture and expands our horizons.

This book could use some tweeking though. I think that the work was jammed into a short period of time. Because personally it took much longer to read one chapter of this book than it did to read three of Lord of the Flies. This is becasue the book is boring. Also we did the projects and they should too.

On the other hand the projects are too close together.They need to be more dragged out. Like have one project due every week so that the students have more time to read. I also think that there should be more little quizes. To even out the points.

Finnally i think some of the work is tedious and could be modified. Like the play list could be shortened a little. Finding a song is hard enough but having to write a paragraph about it. And the essays should be more points.

Tambu's Expectations

Tambu at the mission is expected to be more civilized. This is because the mission is the civilized so students are expected to civilized. She is also excepted to act civilized so that it will rube off on Nyasha. This is because Babamukuru thinks that Tambu is how a daughter should act and he believes that Nyasha isn't how daughters should act.

She is also expected act intelligent. This is because she is at the mission so people around her tink becasue she is going to school she must act intellegable. This is also taken out into the community when she is back at the house she is expected to be intellegent like Maiguru.

While when she is at the homestead she is supposed to act like the other women. She is supposed to take car of all cooking and clean all house jobs. She also doesn't get any credit for it either. She is supposed to act like this because this was how women where treated in 1960 in Rodesia.

Finally She must act up to everyones standards. Her whole family expects her to do everything and do it well. This is one becasue her father is lazy and doesn't work and when the work isn't done well he beats her. Also Babmukuru expects her to do well in school and act like a perfect child so that it rubs off on Nyasha. So over all she has to cat perfect.

Babamakuru's Thoughts

   I am so glad that my nice is entering the mission school. This will benefit my brother's side of the family greatly. Though he may not like the idea of his daughter going to school. I need to help my niece to become a better student but to also keep her in line so she doesn't become disrespectful like my daughter.

   My daughter must be taught a lesson she cannot disobey me like that. She isn't allowed to be out that late with boys and she is definitely not allowed to disrespect me in that way. I am not sad about what i did. I think she deserved what she got.

Project so far

    My work ethic on this project has been less than stellar. But I am trying to change that this c layer. Plus this book doesn't help my work ethic. I beleive that I have been procrastinating and haven't taken it seriously.

    I Can fix that by seting aside a certian time every night to sloley do anything and everything Nervous conditions. The thing that killed me was the disscusion questions. After I read I couldn't think of any. So what I think I'll do is write them as I read.
Reading time 150min Nervous Conditions.

Reflection

1. Summarize your writing process on this paper, pointing out what you found most difficult, most useful, and least useful.  Is there anything you would do differently next time?  Is there anything you think I should do differently next year in preparing students for this assignment?
I did a lot of research and preparation for the essay. But when it came to the actual essay i crammed. I believe that students next year should have more time to research.
2. What feedback did you receive (from peers, me, or anyone else), and how did you respond to it?
I received many grammar fixes and a people telling me they didn't understand. I made corrections.3. Using the traits of good writing and features of strong research papers, what are the strongest and weakest aspects of your paper?
Conventions and sentence fluency are probably the worst part of my paper. And the best is probably the voice, ideas and orginization of my paper.
4. Is there anything else you would like me to know as I read your paper?

Reading times

1/28 Research- making notecards- 20 min
1/29 Pendragon 8-20min
1/29 Reasearch-making notecards-40 min
1/30 Reasearch-making notecrads- 40min
1/31 Outline- 40 min

My Research

For my paper I chose a topic that i found interesting. I always thought that the american revolution was an interesting topic. I was always wondering what the tactics where and how the weapons were different. So the Topic i chose was How does the tactics of the Americans and the British affect the outcome of the Revolutionary War. So far i have found many article review major battles and giving a brief insight into the tactics. Through how which side defeated another.

How did the Tactics in the Revolutionary war affect the outcome? This question is one that has be asked many times. Most americans believe that the militia out fought the British. But truly they out smarted them. Ib the beginning of the war the American's were losing the battles yet they were not losing numbers like the british were. Why did this happen? The British military deployed a tactic that placed their men in ranks and within the ranks they stood in strait lines. This tactic allowed them to fire constant rounds at very high rates in to a small area. Yet it lead to venerability that caused many soldier to perish in battle. This cause a depletion of british troops affecting their strength in other encounters ultimately causing the british to falter and for the Americans to take what they thought to be their's.

150min of research.

Research update

My research is going steadily and slowly. I find about 1 or 2 sites very day. But i have to cross reference them. so far i have 8 sources. But only 5 are annotated. I find it hard to write about the reliability of the sources.

I hope to finish my research before friday. But that means that i need to pick up the pace. I need to begin to annotate right when i find the source. I still haven't found a primary source yet.

book response

I finished The Rise of nine finally. But don't get me wrong i loved the book. But i wanted to finish it so i could move onto another series that i have been dieting to finis the Pendragon series. I like this series because its is Si fi like and is very action filled. For todays post i wanted to talk about other wolrdy stuff like extraterrestrial life and what i would be like.

Every one says that life on other plants would be like life on earth. I say that no life on other planets would not be like human life on earth. I think it would be different but it may share similarities. And people who say that extraterrestrial life is smarter than humans aren't necessarily correct. My logic is that if lions who aren't as scophisticated as we are can live as long as we can then less intelligent life forms on other planets can. But i do think that there is a chance of extraterrestrial life in the universe.

reading times
1hr 45 min The rise of nine
The pilgrims of wayne 45 min

Book response

In the trilogy so far i have began to see a pattern at the end of each book some main character dies. But i haven't finished the third book yet so i don't know which main character dies. so for this response i wanted to give some logical reasons as to why the author kills off these important characters.

My first thought is that they do it for the audience to add suspense into the book. My second bought is it is a marketing ploy to get readers to by the next books. Third i thought that it would have significant meaning later in the series. finally the last reason is that the author just wants to add some spice into the series.

THe power of nine 2 hr

the little prince 30min

Free Post

For this blog post I wanted to talk about new years resolutions. Every new years a person can decide weather or not to make resolutions for the new year. Personally i believe that the goals that you make should be set high to make your self strive for the best. To strive for the best is well simply what you should want to do.

You should also attempt to cover your entire being: school, home life, spiritual. and social. What i mean to say is that you should try to make your entire self better if  it is a smudge it is a smudge in the right derection. I also want to state that people who tell other people that their goal is implausible to achieve are just hurting the person they are talking to. So please be respectful of that person's goal.