My experiment for the Chris Mcandless project was going to the movies with my friends in my pjs.  People reacted in many different ways some thought it was funny and cute while others gave us strange looks and thought we were weird.  Are parents all believed it was weird we wanted to go out in are pjs.  At first I felt weird and out of place but after a while I was happy and very comfortable so that was nice during the movies.  I wasn't really suprised by others reactions we all kind of expected the reactions from the random people.  What I did wasn't really that close to the drastic measures Chris took but I did feel free, because usually I feel like I have To dress like everyone and I don't feel like comfortable standing out. I am never going to do anything drastic as Chris.

Personal Quote

my personal quote is "Forget all the reasons why it wont work and Believe in all the reason why it will work". I chose this quote because I think it is a good quote to live your life by. The quote represents my beliefs because when ever I am unsure or nervous about doing something I always think of all the positive things that will come from it.  Living by this quote opens up so many opportunities.  I believe if you live every second of my life  the quote it could get me far in life but inn some aspects I think it could get me into trouble, because sometimes telling your self nothing is to hard and everything is possible you might wast your life on something impossible.

Into the wild

   "no man ever followed his genius till it misled him through the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher  principles. if the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,-that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated.  We easily come to doubt if they exist.  we soon forget them.  They are the highest reality....The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little  star-dust caught caught a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched"(Henry David  Thoreau).  I chose this quote because  because I think it relates to me because everyone is always 2nd guessing them selves and never go with there gut, so you need to  go with your gut feeling for once and not worry about all the things that could go wrong or your not going to go far in life if you let everything hold you back, In other words you only live once so take chances and fulfill your life.  I believe this quote is a good quote to live by.  I think this quote represents my life choices and actions because I get to nervous to try new things but if I convenience myself to conquer my fears I am happy and feel like I achieved something just like Chris.  life would be crazy If I lived every moment of life by the second and maybe dangerous but when your old and telling stories about your life I think you would feel extremely proud that you lived such a busy fulfilled life.

Starrett 1

          Emma Starrett

Mrs. Belden

Honors English 1

October 7, 2014                                                                                     

                                        Our Love Story

As I looked my Fiancée in the eye, it made me think of our story all over again. He had found me in at the worst period of my life. He had been the one who saved my life and I had fallen head over heels in love with him.  Our love story was a story that you believed only happens in movies and the kind you would have dreams about. It all started my sophomore year.  I had just moved to the Big Apple, I recently lived in a small town in Georgia. That year was the worst year of my life my dad just left my mom, sister and I for his Barbie doll girlfriend. I was stuck leaving all my friends behind and starting a new life.  My sister and my mom were all I had left.  I left my small town life, a place in which everyone know your name, was a big family and everything was slow moving to a life in which in skyscrapers towered over me, everyone scurried to get to where they needed to be, and a place that never stopped moving. Everyone was too busy to say a simple hi or flash a simple smile. All these changes happening so fast that I had an extremely hard time adjusting I wasn't exactly what you would call popular- I was actually anything but that.

 I still remember going into my new high school on the first day. It was extremely scary and the school was bigger than the whole state of Texas.  Everyone had already had their cliques so I became known as just, Alyssa, the girl who was too timid to talk and always had her face in a book.  Not having any friends became so hard, and my home life was getting much worse. My mom was struggling to pay rent so she was working all the time which lead me to become my sisters caretaker I was in charge of doing her homework,making her dinner, and all the stuff that normally kids take for granted.  Since taking care of her was my job I couldn’t get involved in after school activities.  

All the stress and loneliness I had developed lead to depressions which soon lead to self-harm. I started cutting myself.  I promised myself for the sake of my family that I only would cut just to see how it felt, to see how it made me feel, but, it became an addiction. An addiction no one could understand they thought it was easy to stop. I was crying for help. No one would reach out.  How could my life just change so fast? To think a year ago I was with my friends my dad was still with us, I still will never understand why he left us.  Where we not good enough for him?

 Eventually things got worse. My grades dropped and I was failing half my classes. I was going down a dark path and my cutting became frequent.  I would constantly think of ending my life,   but there was a voice inside me saying keep on fighting for the sake of your family.  I could never sleep because of my depression and anxiety. I had changed so much in that year. I had gone to such a bright happy positive girl, to a deep dark depressed teen.  To be honest, I hated who I had become.  If someone, anyone, would just give me a chance that was all I needed.  I was an ant in a big city trying to stay alive, trying to survive. was I really that bad?  Why would no one even say hi or give me a simple smile?

 One day at school I was eating my lunch alone- just like always I still remember this day so vividly because it left scars in my heart.  One of the popular foot players walked up to me and asked me if I would give him my number.  Of course, I said yes, thinking they finally noticed me, but then I saw all the boys laughing hysterically.  It was all a joke! how could I have been so stupid? It was a stupid dare!  I left the lunch room crying. I felt so worthless I was planning on ending my life that day.  As I was walking home crying, I felt a hand wrap around my shoulder. Thinking it was just another football player I swatted it off.  It was not, in fact, it was a rather tall lanky teenager who ironically I was going to fall in love with.  He told me that he saw what happened at lunch and it was uncool. He called me beautiful and said he would love to take me on a date.  He made me feel so special and loved he didn't realize it and he didn't know until we got closer,but that day he saved my life.

The sniper PQ corrections

    I choose D because I forgot a simile could have like or as I thought it could have only have like and i knew it wasn't a metaphor or personification.  So I believed it was situational  Irony because I didn't know that definition of it.  I now know the answer is   C which is simile because they said "as if his arm had been cut off" the key word as since they used as I know it is a simile.

    I choose dramatic Irony for the question about excerpt 3 because I was like this excerpt is pretty dramatic so I thought it would be dramatic irony.  But it is stituational Irony because the reader did not expect it to be a familiar face everyone was surprised so it is situational irony.

Most Dangerous game performance quiz

  Rainsford has written a book, and Zaroff has read the book is not an example of dramatic Irony, the reason I said dramatic irony was because knew it was not a personification nor was it characterization, so I  ruled them out and then I ruled it down to flashback and dramatic irony and between those I had to guess. I know this is flashback because they use past tense words and it cant be any of the others because they do not match the description. So that is why the answer is D.

  Condone in this passage does not mean commit.  That was  a silly mistake I said it because first thing that comes to my head when I think of murder is like who committed it if I would have re read the question several times I think I could have gotten it right.  When I was going over this I re read it several times and that was when i realized condone means to accept.  I double checked the definition and that is how I know now that condone means to accept.

  I can not believe I got number 9 wrong I was rushing through and I circled the the first answer I saw with the word imagery in it.  I know the correct answer is the one that has personification and imagery in it.  Because it is very descriptive and also compares the night to thick blackness on a yacht which is personification.

    I thought B was the answer because it was the only one not compared to a animal I am still a little confused with that.  I know this is wrong now because it has simile in it,  I now know D is the correct answer because that only has a personification and does not have a simile.
 

And than there were none

     In in than there where none I think from my rough draft to my final copy I improved A lot.  Somethings I changed where my punctuation I changed that because I made a lot of common errors so it was a wise Idea go over it several times with several different people.  I believe peer editing was the most helpful because when I was done  it was easier for both my mom and my sister to check it.  I think it would be really helpful if we kept om peer editing I believe it is fun to get to pick your partners but also be assigned them so you get a input on your writing from everyone and different perspectives.  Throughout the year I want to continue to work on my punctuation and how I word my writing.