I love this song, How To Save a Life, by The Fray. It reminds me of something I’ve tried before; losing a friend. But I don’t want to get further into that, because who knows who will read this. Oh well, if you want to know more then click on some of the links I left you earlier.

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I’d love you guys to check out my website where I post my pictures. I love taking pictures, and I’m hoping to be a photographer when I grow up.

Hope you’ll enjoy it.

I just found this quote here, by Henry Ward Beecher, and I really like it.

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

We talked about why writing is important and we and Mr. R, came up with these four reasons: communication, expression, reflection, and thinking. Trough writing you can communicate with people and talk with them and tell them about problems or good things in the world. You can also express your feelings, ideas and opinions. Another thing you can do is reflect on something that is happening and make people think about a certain topic that might touch them or maybe it’s a topic that is big problem right now, like Global Warming, or poverty.  We also talked about why it is important for us to do this activity “Today in class…”, because it will make us listen more, because we have to take notes of what is being said in class to be able to do this activity when we get home.
The second thing we talked about was poems. The title tells us basically what the poem is about, and it is important to read a poem out loud because it will sound different than when you are just reading it quietly to yourself. Some questions you can ask when you have read it is, can you figure out the meaning of the poem? Is it a realistic or a symbolic poem?
I learned that no word in a poem is accidental. Every single word is well thought out, so a real poet will probably use a long time, if they are always changing words to get the right ones and then changing them back anyway.
I daydreamed about what I was going to do on the weekend, but I didn’t come up with anything interesting.
I didn’t really have anything I wanted to say, which I usually don’t have anyway.

This is some of the scenery we would encounter during Week Without Walls.

The Goal:

• What do I want to accomplish?
  I want to post and share as much of my work on the blog as possible and probably also post other stuff like youtube clips, pictures, lyrics, etc., mostly related to class.
• This will be my body of work - what do I want to see here in June?
  I want to see a bunch of poems and writing assignments as well as projects, etc.
• What am I working towards?
  I am working towards a page where I can share my work and have many people comment and give feedback on my work for me to use later on.
• How do I envision it now?
  Right now I am just getting started, so it’s a bit hard to envision how it is exactly going to be, but once I get started posting my work on here, it all will make more sense.