Reading Response

         Over the break i read a book called The Nigh Thoreau Spent in Jail. It was actually interesting. There is this guy named Henry Thoreau and he teaches kids in jail. He stands up for what he believes in and is very eduacated. He went to Harvard. Ηis mom though is very protective. She thinks that Henry is going to end up in jail one day because of his big mouth. Henry does what he wants and when he wants to. For example, Henry got arrested for not paying his taxes. His own friend Sam, is a cop/sheriff , and had to arrest him becasue he was arguing with one of Sam's boss.
         Henry's damily wanted to bail him out. But he wouldn't let any of them bail him out. Except for his aunt who bailed him out. But Henry refused to leave the cell , but he had no choice because he was leggally bailed out. This book is about standing up for what you believe in and that's what Henry did.

Reading Response

The book that i was previously reading was called, Access Denied. This book was about a girl named Erin Swift and how she's in the seventh grade and is a normal teenage girl. She goes to middle school and has an overprotective mother. Her mother checks up on everything, if Erin would want to go to the movies her mother would go online and check if its G or PG or PG-13 or R. She would only allow her daughter to see G and PG. Erin also has her first boyfriend. Her mom isn't to thrilled about it but Erin doesn't really care. But at the same time dating her boyfriend, Erin has a crush on a boy named Mark. Eventually, at the end Erin had quit the seventh grade year.

Response to My Papa'sWaltz

My Papa's Waltz


The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.


We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.


The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.


You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

When i read this poem i thought that this poem was about a father abusing his son. When we talked about this poem in class a one or two kids thought that this poem was about a father and son playing around. But i don't believe that. I think that this poem is about abuse. For example, when the poet says The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; i think that means that the father was beating his son on the hand. which means that his father was abusing him.

3 other blog response

Amani: I love how Amani goes into great description. Every single post she writes, I can tell she really puts a lot of time and effort into it.
Emma: I like how emma has great ideas and comes up with things out of the ordinary. I liker her creativity and the way she puts things together.
Isabella: I like how  she gives what she truly feels in her blogposts. I can tell she deeply thinks about what shes typing.

Poem on an incident

Sitting
Falling
Hurt
Tears
Hopsital
Broken
Damaged

Response about a poem read in class

One poem that i read in class was Photograph of the Girl. The first time i read this poem i thought she was homeless and pregnant becasue the way Sharon Olds described it sounded and i could've imagined that too. And she also just so happen to be homeless. Because sometimes when teenage girls are prgnant the parents don't approve and could kick them out of the house. But the thing i was wrong about was her being pregnant. I thought that she was pregnant because it said, 'Deep in her body the ovaries let out her first eggs.' But it just so happens that she got her well....Best Friend for the very first time. I realized that she was pregnant when it said, 'Hunger and puberty are taking her together.' This poem was very open and it had a lot of detail and I could've imagined exactly what the girl looked and probably felt like too.

Observations, inferences, and interpretations

Observations: Use different colors, textures of shades of the same colors
                      Half of the painting is one color and  the other half is another color
                      There is a man and a wman underneath an umbrella
                      Half of the painting is like fall and the other half is like winter
Inferences: The man and the woman could be on a date
                  It could show how long the man and the woman are together
                  The man could be the father and the girl could be the daughter or wife or niece or cousin
Interpertations: They both are probably on a date since there both avout the same height and look about the same age from the back and, from what it looks like, are arm in arm.


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