Murder

In latin class, we are reading a story called, Murder. It is in chapter XXI, 21, in our Ecce Romani book.
The story Murder is about two guys, Aulus and Semptimus, who take a trip to Greece. One of which stays at a friends house, the other stays in a inn. Back then, staying in an inn was like sleeping on the streets, very dangerous. While Semptimus was asleep at his freinds house, Aulus appeared to him in a dream. In the dream Aulus said that he needed help and that the innkeeper was going to murder him. Semptimus woke up panicked, but then remembered it was only a dream. He quickly fell back to sleep and again Aulus appeared.

Aulus said, " You are to late, I am dead and the innkeeper has hidden my body."

Semptimus soon woke up. He went to the inn in the morning to see Aulus, and come to find out he had been killed. Gruesome, but true.

After translating this story, I noticed something that caught my attention. That was the stories creativity and vividness. Although it is in Latin, I have  realized that they use adverbs such as, slowly or gently, to describe a characters movement. This really helped me picture the scene of the story, and what was really going on because after all Latin is difficult to understand.

Reading Record

Hate List, Jennifer Brown
9-9- 10 min.  , 9-10- 10 min., 9-11-15 min. (Worked on literacy narrative for 20, 9-12- 10 min. (Worked on literacy narrative for 30), 9-13- 10 min., 9-14- 10 min, 9-15- 20 min.
Total= 136
Pp. 202-226

Let's play 20 questions

It was a dark stormy night. Thunder shaking the wooden house, and lightening brightening up the sky. George and Kyle are home all alone and are as scared as ever. To get things off there minds George has an idea.

"Let's play 20 questions," George screeches.

"I don't think that's a very good idea George," Kyle manages to say while turning on his flashlight.

"But Kyle it's better than sitting here and having to be silent," exclaims George.

"Well if we're silent whoever's out there can't hear us," Kyle says under his breath.

Angry, George drops his flashlight, and it hits the floor with a kaboom. Kyle rushes to the scene and yells, "Good one dummy, now we defiantly blew our cover."

Persistently,  George whips his head around and says, "Well now can we play?"

"Sure...Sure. I guess so. You start." Kyle shouts in a "whatever" kind of tone.

"Yes, okay. What is your all-time favorite movie?"

"That's a tough one. Probably..Umm..."

This went on until the boys parents finally came home, and told the boys they had hung some clothing on the line and it looked like someone was standing out there. In relief, the boys went right to bed, still a little timid to sleep with both eyes closed.

Reading Record

Hate List, Jennifer Brown
9-2- 20 min.  , 9-3- 15 min., 9-4-15 min. (Worked on draft  for 30), 9-5- 10 min. (Worked on draft for 30), 9-6- 15 min., 9-7- 10 min, 9-8- 20 min.
Total= 135
Pp. 168-202

First Literacy Narrative

This week we had to write our first personal literacy narrative. Yay! At first I was really excited, but then I heard the length of the paper had to be at least 2 pages going on to three. My first thought was at least we get to double space it to make it longer. Dr. D also told us the format of the paper had to be MLA, and that format is super boring. In the beginning, I was really struggling about what to write about. We're y'all? I had to think about all different writing  assignments that I did in the past. Finally, I decided to chose my first writing assignments in fourth grade to write my literacy narrative on.

After I chose what I was going to write about, I got to writing. I typed some things and then some more and on and on. At first, I didn't have the proper format, so when I did put it in MLA format my paper was three pages long. I was SO excited. I didn't think I could write that much, and I was shocked to find out when I did write three pages it wasn't as hard as I thought. It came to my attention that maybe I could be a decent writer.

Reading Record

Hate List, Jennifer Brown
8-26- 15 min. (20 min. on 2 lit. narratives) , 8-17- 10 min., 8-28-15 min., 8-29- 20 min., 8-30- 20 min., 8-31- 15 min, 9-1- 25 min.
Total= 120
Pp. 135-168

I have a dream speech

What made the "I have a dream" speech, spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest speeches speaking moments of all time? 
I feel that the components that make up the "I have a dream" speech are very powerful. King had a good way of putting his words into Americans hearts and minds. One small but great thing I noticed was that King's voice while giving the speech is quite calm and inspiring. I also couldn't help but notice his words were rolling off his lips like he knew exactly what to say next.

Martin Luther is a phenomenal leader, and a outstanding roll model. He shows qualities all leaders should have such as commitment, trust, and responsibility. He was a liked and appriated man, and the "I have a dream" speech is legendary.