Second quarter reflections

Michael Hoover
Second quarter reflections blog
1/21/16

Of the books that I have read this quarter my favorite has been Jack the Ripper written by Patricia Cornwell, the reason that this is my favorite book is because while you read it the slightest noise will make you fly to your feet and be on end, it was hard to stop reading until I could not lift my eyelids then when you finally put the book down there was so much to think about. I would get tired of thinking, wanting to tell my sister about it but I also did not want to walk through the Erie darkness to her room contemplating what was there in the dark waiting for me even though subconsciencely I knew it was nothing.

One thing that I believe that I improved on in quarter two in langue arts was the vocab quizzes that we take almost every week on friday. Last quarter I was getting a lot of twos on my quizzes which was not so good, then second quarter came and I guess I got better at remembering the words probably because of how much coffee I drink, I started getting more threes and fours even though I think I did a bit mediocre on my most recent and last test of the quarter.

Something that I think that I improved on this quarter was using the Tiqa format. I did not really use it in the beginning of the school year and first quarter and then, quarter two I started using it and my writing got a little bit better and everything was a lot more organized and clean and much easier to read.

To kill a Mockingbird Comparsion blog

Michael Hoover
To kill a Mockingbird  comparison analysis
Prompt:
What is the purpose in having different versions of a story? Think about how different versions contribute to the overall understanding and interpretation of that piece of work. Use specific concepts to support your opinion. 

 How would you prove or disprove that one version of To Kill A Mockingbird is more affective in delivering its message than the other? Be sure to provide specific pieces of evidence to support your opinion.

1/21/16

The main purpose for having multiple versions of a story is to make sure that every body can understand the story like little children. This is because if you do not understand the original book there may be an easier version of the story or a movie about it which is usually more common to see. A good example of this happening is with the Harry Potter books because they got such a huge fanbase that there was a younger audience that started reading them and then some of those children  could not understand what was happening overall in the book because it was made for an older audience so an easier one to read was published. "The Harry Potter 1-6 easy to read version." This book was made for the first through sixth grade groups, this new version of the book has less graphic content and the word choice of the book went from Discombobulated to suprised or spaced out.

The way that the written version of To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee delivered it's message better than the movie version is because of the way that it was portrayed throughout both. Throughout the book the author Harper Lee could explicitly state what the main purpose or lesson of the book was by making someone say, the character that she made say it was Atticus when he got Scout and Jem guns which she wrote for him to say "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird..." This is An explicit way to prove that the book got its message across better, in the movie you can't explicitly state something it's usually that you have to interpret it based on what you watched.

The reason standing that the movie did not portray the message which is "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird..." Is because 

Michael Hoover
To Kill A Mockingbird Blog
Prompt: What three
 characters are you
looking forward to
see the most in the
 second book Go Set
A Watchman.

If They are in it.

 The first character in the second book " Go Set A Watchman" that I look forward to seeing the most is Atticus, The reason being it is Atticus is because it takes place about 20 years into the future and I want to see how Atticus has changed with his age. Mostly because I heard something about him being racist and possibly joining the KKK which is really surprising. I just read this on a website so it may or may not be true. (I really hope it's not)

The second person that I look forward to see the most is Jem mainly because I feel that I can relate to him the most out of the book because he is more of  a person that likes to look out for other people, not just himself, for example when he tried to get scout to run when he was getting attack by Bob that was really nice and showed a bit of his character and how he really is. I think that a lot of people would not have acted in that same way but I don't know because I have never been in a situation like that before. Another reason that I look forward to seeing him the most is because I want to see if his view on African American colored people has changed or what he works as.

The last person I hope to see in the second book is Scout because she was a hold in the first book and I want to see how much she had changed throughout the years and if she ever went to live somewhere else besides Alabama and if she still visits.