Erik Johnson
Mrs. Palmer
Honors English
5 November 2013
Friday, September 6,
2013 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
I am just beginning to read the book called Moonwalking with
Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by John Foer. In this non-fictional book, the
author John is on a mission to research and study people with advanced
memorization skills. This book also shows the reader many memorization
tactics/ practices that people use to enhance their mind capacity to remember
things (haven`t gotten to these parts yet, they are in the summary). Overall I
hope that this book is a good read and also helps me/ teaches me ways to
enhance my memorization skills in the future.
Sunday,
September 29, 2013; Heat: Character Analysis
About the Character
In the book Heat by Mike Lupica, it is a story of a young boy
from Bronx, New York. This young boy`s name is Michael Arroyo, he is a 12 year
old baseball player who is great at what he does (playing baseball), Michael is
from Cuba and has a brother named Carlos. Michael`s dad died and has no real
parents to care for him and his brother, but Michael overall is a nice, young,
smart kid and is very well known and nice to the people throughout the Bronx
community. Since Michael has great athleticism and skills in the game of
baseball, he is the best player on his team and one day wishes to make it to
the Little League World Series, but with his skills at his age it creates a
large conflict that lasts long throughout the story.
Characters Relation to Story
Michael created the conflict of
this selection, Michael and his team made it to the Little League World Series
and some of the coaches could not figure out the age of Michael because of his
great skills in the game of baseball as he throws 85 miles per hour. Since the
coaches could not figure out the age of Michael, they mad him present his birth
certificate, but since Michael`s parents were both dead he would not be able to
get his birth certificate from Cuba. This would then make him ineligible to
compete and finish the tournament.
QUALITY
OF MY WRITING
During
the first trimester at Mason High School as a freshman we started a blog. In
the act of blogging I have made much advancement in my blogs. The quality of my
blogs since day one has been greatly progressing (which is shown in my two
blogs above). My quality has increased because the length of my blogs has been
longer than my earlier posts, my grammar has strengthened, and as I began to
read more and more the more I felt comfortable about blogging so the longer and
more structured my blogs have become. I am able to support these states I have
mad based on the two blog posts above. As shown there has been an increase in length
of my blog from the later date to the most recent date. Also shown is the
amount of knowledge I have of the book and how I interpreted it into my blog
has shown an increase from the later to the most recent date of my
blogging (Shown by highlighter). In
conclusion we are able to tell that my skills of blogging have greatly
increased over time.
MY
EXPERIENCE
While
blogging, I experienced many struggles and one of them was finding time to
create a quality blog with sports and other activities I had going on outside
of school. I was able to overcome these struggles by setting a specific time
for blogging each week and working efficiently when we had blogging time in
class to get my work finished. I also had much strength while blogging. One strength
that I had is that I have a lot of knowledge of my books because I read a lot
during this trimester which helped me produce quality blogs. Even though I read
a lot, I was not able to reach my overall reading goal and in the process of my
reading I don’t remember ever using the Goodreads website to track my reading
progress. But in conclusion I have improved greatly as a reader because I used
to never want to read before this trimester, while sometimes now I greatly
enjoy reading a good book.
