Essay

The quote stated by Barbara Tuchman, “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent; literature is dumb, science, thought and speculation at a standstill” means that’s you need books in every aspect of life whether its history, science, etc and without books you wouldn’t learn anything. In the book HIT THE ROAD by Caroline B. Cooney it relates to Tuchman’s quote.
In the book HIT THE ROAD by Caroline B. Cooney, Brittany an inexperienced driver who only had her driver’s license for 11 days is forced to driver her grandmother and her friends to a 65th college reunion. Nanny couldn’t drive herself to the reunion because a couple weeks prior to this event Brittney’s mother took her car away and she ripped up her driver’s license because she was getting too old to drive. So when Brittney’s parents dropped her off at nanny’s for the week while they were away on vacation she was forced to drive nanny and her friends to the reunion cause she wasn’t going to risk her grandmother to drive so they both went on adventurous road trip.
After the two pick up grandmother’s friend Flo, all three of them tried to kidnap another one of their college roommates Aurelia, from a nursing home which her crazy son Aston has committed her. On their way to to Maine to the reunion Brittney got an unexpected phone call from a boy named Cooper that she had a crush on but they were having a conflict for six months and they were distant from each other. At first Brittney was annoyed for having to drive her elderly passengers but once she got behind the wheel and they were all in the car they were all having laughs and talking about their six decades of friendship. Brit was determined to do whatever it takes to get them to their reunion.
The message this novel was trying to make is even if you are in the situation you aren’t really comfortable in it might turn out better then you thought you expected it. Brit was put on the spot to get these girls to their reunion and even if she wasn’t experienced at driving she still had to do it anyway and it turned out for the best because they all had a fun and laughable road trip and they got to their reunion safely and Brittney was glad that she got to do it.
I think this novel was interesting and how Brittney was put on the spot like that it was very brave of her to take the risk like that to driver her grandmother on the highway because on the highway if you are inexperienced at driving it is very dangerous and she was willing to do it for her grandmother and her friends. This novel could reflect life by any person could be put in a situation like this, maybe not the same exact one but similar to one like this and you might have to drive somewhere you aren’t very comfortable driving but it would be better for you to drive then maybe your grandmother or grandfather or someone that is elderly and not a very good of a driver anymore. So it is safer for you to take the risk of driving then them because you would be a less risk of getting hurt then they would.

Reflection

My progress with the blog this year has been good towards the end of the year. When we first started with the blog in the beginning of the year I didn't really have that much on it but as the year went on I was adding more things on it and I was putting the things I didn't have on the blog put on. I had a tough time on the sonnets and the mythological projects with the blog because I was to lazy to do them so at the end of that quarter I had to add them because i found out this was going to be part of our final. After those two assignments I usually kept up with the tasks we had to and I was doing them on time.

The blog was a good idea this year because it seems like an easy way to grade the students assignments and I wished I had this throughout all of high school.

Unsolved Crimes

The case of a 13 year old girl named Milly Dowler:

she was a 13 year old school girl who was walking home from school on march 21st, 2002 and that was where she was last seen. Surrey Police arrested the 57 year old man who was the suspect and he is currently held at the police station in the county. Six months after she was missing her body was found in the woods at Yately Heath, Hampshire. They arrested the 57 year old man because of suspicion of the abduction and murder of Milly Dowler. In September of 2002 she was discovered by a couple picking up mushrooms in the secluded woodland about 25 miles from her home. Days later the investigation detectives wanted to talk to a aged man 45-50 carrying a shovel where the teenager's body was discovered.

I think it was the man who was carrying the shovel who murdered her and buried her b/c why else would he be carrying a shovel where she was murdered. They arrested the 57 year old man b/c he was at the scene of the murder and i think he had something to do with the murder but he isn't telling the police what he saw.

My Daughter and I

by Phil Gardner


This is a story about a father who must have re-united with his daughter and she brought him to her mother and her mother gave the father a speech saying he better not hurt her daughter and the mother says all men are the same and they break girls hearts.

Theme: That all men aren't the same and some do care about how girls feel
Conflict: a mother who doesn't trust her daughters father
Characters: mother, daughter, father

After Hours

This story is about a person that says if they close the door the night will always last forever and they would never see sunshine again. They wish the people that she was dancing and having fun like all the other people in the story but the door is always closed for this person.


http://curveballconspiracy.blogspot.com/

Conflict: the door is never open and she can't do anything about it
Theme: you should have the opportunity to follow your dreams and the door should always be open.

This is about a man named Nathan who had a bad dream in the beginning of the story and he had road rage. He cut off a two men a 4x4 truck so they got out and they started screaming at Nathan and they got into a fist fight and Nathan ended up killing the guy and threw his body in the water.


Characters- Nathan, Nurse, two men
Setting- hospital, and on the road
Theme- that if people cut you off on the road bad things can happen and people can get out of hand.


http://storymask.wordpress.com/tag/7-flash-fiction-micro-fiction/

This story is about a family where the mother complains a lot and the father really doesn't care and he still just does what he wants too. The daughter named Debra that is telling the story loves to eat ice cream and she is eating throughout the story while she is telling it. Her little brother named Mark got poked in the eye with a sword by a dorky kid named Malcolm and had to go to the emergency room. At the end of the story it says how Debra bought her own jeep because that was what her father was driving when he was around and the first thing she bought when she got it was ice cream.

http://www.consideration.org/flash/icecream.html