Friday, January 20, 2012

Answer the following:

1. What did you think of this narrative?
It kept me interested because it is so unbelievable that she could do this.

2. What was most interesting or engaging about it?
The fact that she was capable of this. As i was reading i just kept thinking "how?"  I would be way to mad to keep going and fighting like Helen did.

3. What surprised you?
Her positive attitude.  She never seems to let her situation get to her.

4. Did this change your outlook on Helen Keller at all? Why or why not?
No, because I had already heard these kinds of stories about her.

5. Copy and paste three examples of vivid detail and imagery that helped enhance the story
-There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away.
-I was keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet.
-Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?

6. How can a narrative be more engaging than something like a biography? Why is it important to get someone's personal perspective?
Make more suspenseful moments.  Because everyone has a different view.

7. Make a bulleted lists of some things you could write a narrative about
-Family vacations
-School
-Work
-A funny situation
-Really anything story you could explain in great detail






Thursday, January 19, 2012

Where I'm From

I am from the sauerkraut and beer of Germany,
to the pastries and berets of Paris.
I am from the parades and Bicentennial of Worthington.
I am from the tee that's made up from Hawthorne and Poe.
I am from cops and robbers, kickball and kick the can.
I am from dirt pies and made up worlds.
I am from trying on sports like clothes.
I am from learning how to do your hair with a fork from Ariel,
I am from puddles of water turned into oceans.
I am from times of crazy,
and times of hope.
I am from the glass half full.
I am from the middle of two sisters,
pulling hair and laughter.
I am from a home without dust,
and where you have to count your steps.
I am from distant family,
and strangers for Grandparents.
I am from the Bernard family tree
All these things make up me, 
I am Lauren