ATDPTI Response 2

I think that the story took a good turn. I love how Junior finally made a friend and an intelligent friend on top of that. I also love how his name is Gordy. I used to have a friend that had that as their nickname. But I feel sad that Junior and Rowdy aren't getting along. They were friends, but the problems of race and poverty got in the way. But the big bang of this reading session was the metaphorical boner and Penelope puking the bathroom. Both of these things are very related to my life. Not that I puke in the bathroom or anything, it's just that sexual references and racist comments usually come from my closest people.

Blog Comments Week 15

I commented on Sutter's Blog:
https://sutterenglish1.blogspot.com/2017/02/absolutely-true-diary-of-part-time.html?showComment=1486068083466#c8283092369078046238

I commented on Bea' blog:
https://beassblogg.blogspot.com/2017/01/reading-response.html?showComment=1486068401161#c4563371354784374873

Falling Through the Colors

I was falling. I felt the lungs inside me failing. My eyes were closing. I felt like I was going to die. But if I was about to die, why was everything so bright and colorful during the process?
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I looked in the mirror. It had been exactly 4 months since I have worn a bathing suit, and my family didn't like it if I showed off too much skin. But here I was, with a navy blue one piece. I walked to the edge and had my back face the depths. The space behind was shifting back and forth like crystals, one second blue the next silver. It looked so beautiful, I often wondered why people couldn't stay forever in those depths. Then I wondered, what's stopping me from doing that? I allowed myself to fall backwards, and suddenly I was hidden in the colours. I kept falling to rock bottom, and after a moment I started to hurt. I was falling. I felt the lungs inside me failing. My eyes were closing. I felt like I was going to die. But if I was about to die, why was everything so bright and colorful during the process? As the light turned brighter, I started to hurt more. The light then became too much, and I was then pulled out of the shifting colors. Something pushed against my chest, and I stopped hurting. My mother was staring at me with a worried expression.

"Don't you ever drown yourself in the pool again, Megan."
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Blood and Gunfire

In all of my years of reading, I have never read a book like this. Never was a book never exciting, nor intriguing. Alexie really puts reality in the book. The book starts with a kid with a disorder, then the father comes to kill his best friend. On top of that, there are limits to where the Indian folk can live and learn. To me that's not living, that's surviving. The kid, Junior, has an abusive friend and goes to a run down school. This is because he was born an Indian. My response to this is America is not all it's cracked up to be, and that the only way to make your way to the top is to benefit others and do what they say. For example, when Junior went to the school, he started a fight and was given a weird look. But when he blended in with the girl Penelope, Junior got some recognition.

Week 14 Blog Comments

I commented on Danny's blog:
https://english1danny.blogspot.com/2017/01/post-2.html?showComment=1485374874832#c2832975859158928665

I commented on Alex Wilson's Blog:
https://blogsgotjokes.blogspot.com/2017/01/being-in-high-school.html?showComment=1485375080025

I commented on Charles' Blog:
https://20charlesl.blogspot.com/2017/01/research-topic.html?showComment=1485375273446#c7776585919920809159

The Research Process

So far my research process is coming along well. I found better sources to replace my terrible ones, and I made 35 notecards for my outline. I also found more interesting facts on my topic. If you don't already know, my topic is the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution isn't a specific event, but it was very important. It happened around the 14th century, when Nicolaus Copernicus countered Ptolemy with the heliocentric system. More ideas started the pop up, and soon people started to see a change of nature in the physical world. Two more events happened during this time, and they were called the Renaissance and the Social Contract. The Renaissance was an event in which artists spread their ideas to the outside world, mainly Europeans. The Social Contract was an event in which the people gave up free time to make governments. I believe the Scientific Revolution was important because different scientists left mankind to stare at different objects with a different perspective. I find that watching men and women learn, to see their gears turn is interesting.

How I Improved

When my first semester started, the work hit me like a brick. I didn't know what to do, since I rarely ever went to the teachers in middle school. I learned that asking the teachers for help is a good thing. I also learned to adjust your schedule to make the work and play fit in, and to study more than play. My tests at first came back as terrible, so I learned to read over the study material slowly. Now my tests and grades are better than the ones from middle school.