Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Assignment #9

1. Happiness is a feeling that overwhelmes you with joy.
2. Happiness is being around my friends. When I'm alone, I always feel more lonely than I should. Happiness is coming home and eating food. I love coming home from school and making a pizza. It feels so good after a hard day of school. Also, happiness is sleep. Sleep feels so good, and when I'm lacking it, I'm never happy.
3. People in my life that influence my happiness the most are Steph and Mimi. I think that if I didn't have those two, I would honestly be a different person. If one of them is mad at me, I feel terrible. Other friends influence my happiness too. Pretty much anyone does. Like, if someone IGNORES me I take it really bad. :]
4. I impact my mom's happiness. I can tell when I yell at her she probably gets sad. When I'm super nice to her, she's happy.
5. My greatest need in life friends. If I didn't have any friends I would probably kill myself.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Assignment 8

BRAINSTORM!
-friends
-family
-camp
-mystical creatures
-make up a fairytail
-personal experiences

Aissignment #7

1. I really enjoyed getting into groups and passing our notebooks around writing poetry. It's really fun to rhyme, especially trying to rhyme with someone else's words. I also really like reading what we have put together at the end, because it usually doesn't make alot of sense.
2. I think that poetry is my strongest because I'm really bad at writing stories. I just feel like it's easier to write poetry because it's shorter and you don't have to have a whole plot to it.
3. Throughout the quarter, I found that I need to think alot before I think of something to write about. I have to be really into what I'm writing about. For example, for my first short story I didn't really know how to write it and I didn't really have that great of Ideas. For my second short story, I was really into it because it was about my personal fears, but about someone else.
4. I think it would be really fun to write a memoire. It's easier for me to write about myself than to make something up. I really don't want to write non-fiction because I hate doing reasearch.