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I finished the nonfiction short stories! To checkout my thoughts on each story by clicking the link.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f0h1Rjn5VfBI4avpIcjD-RdtjdvJYIkUqHpaypVTVtg

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For one of my nonfiction starts I read “Why "20% Time" Is Good for Schools” to gain a better understanding of the CAA program. It is interesting. I agree that it helps others to express their creativity.

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“The Leyend of Sleepy Hollow” was hard at first to get into, but once I did, I enjoyed it. The only question I have is what really happened to Ichabod?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MKYPcIeWf2sfcK9kc4Hrta5nVz4bi86f0aQJwE5Anow

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The people that write this myths are very creative! “Why the Owl has Big Eyes” tells of why the rabbit and the owl are the way they are today.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/121oxqAs01vLEaR7nk62RtBaf7ZFylGecIpOoFQSJ0Z0

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“The Devil and Tom Walker” is intriguing story. To learn about it, follow my link or read the story!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VFLQjHg8PEZ76Olt5sl1EGCaZrTWOqKAnd5nXG4Z_Sk

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“The Earth on Turtle’s Back: Creation Story” is a beautiful tale of the beginning of Earth.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EVZFOHX1Tc2ycCPym_otfbf3F7AisbYAo5Es-rkuDlQ

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I read “When the Grizzlies Walked Upright” and it’s an interesting myth. Now whenever I think about the Native Americans, I think of this story.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hr7T-yLgZafQ6HOtnbm08y0gkg1rSTUCwKr1JLkebYU

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I finished the Turtles' Back assignment. I had to do it on the iPad because I currently did not have a printed. It's a little rough, but you get the picture.

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I have read all of  the stories and now I just need to do the assignments.

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Along with the SSU, I will be working on the Myths and Legends Unit (MLU) and the Research Paper. I'm almost completed with the Research Paper and halfway done with the SSU.

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I'm finished with the Fiction short stories. Here is a link to my task cards.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LaXQYIslxDgvJ8WOy4A5BZ-4IpBwO4FyKTnWuwHRVIc

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I'm four and final book of the fictional short stories was "Out of Sorts" by Anton Chekhov. The story was a little confusing. Leo Pustiakoff seems to have a gambling problem, of sorts. He's extremely angry about losing some money. In the end he decided to take it out on his son, Vania, and whipped him.
Here's a link to the plot.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KcCbYi2u0nrvmS9WLBPatrJcTl_2JqJuoYtFwaE27vk

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It's a helpful source for writing. I struggle with commas so I read an article on commas.

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My third story was "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov. I honestly expected the story stories to be boring, but they are actually quite interesting. In this story a man decides to accept a bet that if he is imprisoned for 15 years, he will be giving two million dollars. This is was to prove that imprisonment is better than capital punishment. The man xpcan read and he learns a great deal, but at the end of it, he resents freedom. I found that extremely ironic given his situation.
Here's a link to the plot.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ghRYl5IMfMI51PDMa2Uztl-c6yVyJ-cKgh0w4-HJpHg

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Regret is a concept that everyone at one point in time faces. My second story I read was "Regret" by Kate Chopin. The main character, Mamzelle Aurélie, never faced the strong grip of regret until an unexpected day came along and showed her everything she missed in life.
I found it surprising and a little amusing that she did not realize that children do not response well when someone talks to them in a raised voice.
Here's a link to the plot.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bxx1W4lWtmnF2x1tMgG1B_vmoHhQkvNiUJjuVTjvE7k

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"The Story of an Hour" was composted beautifully. In only four pages, Kate Copin wrote one of the best stories I have read. The most surprising twist was that she was overjoyed because her husband died. When she decoved her not-so-dead husband she screamed and died. Other believed she died with joy at the sight over her husband, but in reality it was the opposite.
Here's a link to the plot.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VvfA7nFBmYzICHXiCJDybBk7q8LOj3VneuLqpCUZmSk

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Venerable- calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments
Vigor- physical strength and good health
Speculation- risky investment
Mendicant- beggar
Gout- disease that causes painful swelling of the joints
Divers- several
Gentry- people of good social position
Festooned- a chain hung in a curve as decoration
Visage- a person's face
Roubles- Russian money
Trifle- a thing of little value or importance
Avarice- extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Spendthrift- someone who spends money without care

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I'm starting the short story unit. The first story I'm going to read is "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.

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I finished the Critical Analysis for my book project. Here's the link if you would like to read it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16URHmY3YT7WEfILjgLEslxgEvPLPKAW-4fmtBBxOqfk

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I finished the book. Now I'm going to do my book project as my research paper. The reason why I haven't been posting too many Padlets on this book is because it's fairly easy to comprehend and for the plot of the book, I recommend you pick up a copy for yourself!

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Dorothy returns in the last book!

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The Land of Oz has a surprising ending. I would have never saw that coming. Who knew that a children's story could surprise me! I'm extremely impressed.

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I finished the first book. Now I'm onto the next book! The moral that I found, is the Tin Man, Cowardly, Lion, and Scarecrow didn't need the wizard to give them what they sought because they already possessed them (although the book never states this, there is plenty of evidence).

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Dorothy is the main character. She was taken, with her dogToto, to the land of Oz by a cyclone. She embarks on an adventure with her new friends to go the the Wizard of Oz to find a way home.

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The Tin Woodmen wants a heart from the wizard because he loved this girl and wanted to marry her, but a witch cursed him and he lost his heart because if it
(I recommend reading his story because it's very touching).

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The Cowardly Lion crosses their path and ends on joining them to see the wizard of Oz because he would like courage because he is supposed to be the king of all animals but he is cowardly.

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In the first book, the scarecrow is the first friend Dorothy mets in the Land of Oz. He wants to se the wizard of Oz to ask for brains, because he believes brains are the most valuable thing someone could have.

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TWLO has three books. They are The Wonderful Land of Oz, The Land of Oz, and Ozma of Oz. TWLO is at a lower reading level, but the reason it counts as my SD choice is because it is a longer book (760 pages) and it's three books all together.

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I was reading through the critical analysis assessment and I learned that when applying ellipses, there must be a space between each period. I knew about using ellipses to omit a part of a quote, but in order to be grammatically correct, it needs to have the spaces. To omit an entire line in a poem, a person would use an entire line of periods.

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This is a picture of my siblings and me at Storyook Land

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For book project, I'm going research what the different symbols of the mean. I will also go intro the history at that time so it can act duality as my research paper.

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For an update on the book project, I decided to do your critical analysis as the project instead of the movie.

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I chose The Woderful Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum as my South Dakota Choice book. I'm very exicited to read this because I have watched the movie and visited Story Book Land. Now all I have left to do is read the book!

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I'm finished with No Red Ink!! Yay!!

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I finished the book. It was surprising but at the same time I suspected it. I had doubts that the author would do it, but, sadly, he did. It was a beautiful ending, even though I didn't like it.

For the book project, I'm going to do a movie and book comparison.

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I did not know that was the term for a group of people/things. Collective Nouns are singular even though their are multiple people. Because I liked this definition, I screenshot it a inserted it below.

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Seasons are not capitalized unless they are in title.

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I love the way McCarthy describes things. It's simple to understand and not overly used. That is how I believe good books should be wrote, because too often authors try too hard to describe something that they loose the beauty and leave the reader confused.

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This book highlights the different characters of people. When it comes to survival, there are very few good guys. It's disturbing what the people do to other people in this book.

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It seems that all of the animals are extinct. How did only some humans survive?

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The talk about carrying the Fire. The say that they are going to make it because they carry the fire. What is the fire? I have a feeling that there was possibly a fire that wiped out so many lives, but wouldn't they make the fire bad? That wouldn't make sense because they say they are the good guys.

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The book never reveals the man's and child's names. I think I like it better this way. It gives you a sense that it's not the names that are important, but their lives.

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I believe the boy was born sometime during the apocalypse so his only memories before are through his father. His mother had committed suicide, so it's just him and his father. They are eachother's reason from living. If they didn't have each other, I don't think they would have a reason for living. I think the boy is somewhere between six to ten.

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Verbals are words that pretend to be verbs. They may look like verbs, but they do not act like them. They can be very tricking when looking for the real verb. Some big red flags that the word is a verbal is if it ends in -ing, -ed, or -en.

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It's not always the best idea to use vague pronouns. For example, if I were to say, "Kate and Sara ate a lot of ice cream, so her stomach hurts." You would have no idea if I was saying Sara's or Kate's stomach hurt.

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Prepositional phrase placement is very important. For example, you would not want to say, "The dog found its bone leaping in the leavings." Instead you would say, "Leaping in the leaves, the dog found its bone."

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I learned how to correctly cite a quote from a book. You take the author's last name and page number (in that order) and put it in parenthesis. You need make sure it is in front of the punctuation unless the punctuation is in a quote. In those cases, you would place the cite after the quote and add a period after it if it's the end if the sentence.
Here are a couple made-up examples:
Max explains that the book said "the cat was under the couch the whole time!" (Kartwell 54).
97% of trees lose their leaves in fall (Carmen 34).

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They find an abandoned grocery store while they are traveling and the dad finds a Coke. He gives it to his son because it might be the last he gets to drink. The son didn't know what it was. How long has it been that he doesn't know what a soda is?

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The father and son are traveling to find a safer place. The father is keeping his son's hope up even though he doesn't have much of it himself. The only reason he can find for living is his son.

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I'm a little nervous about getting this book done because I'm going to read it in two weeks, but it seems like a fast-past book, so I think it is definitely doable.

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The book is mostly dialogue, but the dialogue is not in the traditional quotes so it can be difficult to tell who is talking and when they are talking. Some times I have to go back and reread a few paragraphs to figure out who is speaking.

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I chose the The Road by Cormac McCarty for my Pulitzer Prize book. It is a book about a Father and son in an apocalypse. Some pre-reading questions are...
1. What caused the apocalypse?
2. How did they survive?
3. What is their plan for survival?
4. What did the apocalypse do?
5. How long has it been since the beginning of the apocalypse?
6. How old is the kid?

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By Cormac McCarthy

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The Pulitzer Prize was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, who was a ewspaper publisher. To learn more, please watch the video below.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-the-pulitzer-prize-definition-history.html#lesson

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I learned about hyphens and where to place them. For example, for example you can say, "That girl is too faced." you would not put a hyphen but if you say, "That two-faced girl." you would put the hyphen because the description comings before the noun. If the description has a hyphen, it is a compound noun. If it does not have a hyphen, it is a verb plus a preposition.

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Book talk:
https://youtu.be/gO5sf2uY7yM

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I finally finished the book. I'm without words to describe the book. At first, I didn't think I would enjoy the book, but now, as ever good book should, it feels like a part of me. I strongly recommend the book for yourself.

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Ominunously- giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious
Allocation-the action or process of allocating or distributing something
Prodigious- remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
Verity- a true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance
Sanatorium-a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders
Cannier- careful; cautious; prudent: a canny reply
Pseudonym- a fictitious name, especially one used by an author
Chit-a short official note, memorandum, or voucher, typically recording a sum owed

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The main character (I don't want to reveal her name) and her captor, von Linden, form a sort of strange bond over literature. The book also gives a little bit more insight into his life. It makes the reader like him a little bit, even though you know they shouldn't.

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On page 176, I finally learned what the main character's name is. Talk about suspense! I've never read a book were I didn't know the character's name in the first few pages. The most I read this book, the more I fall in love with it. It's full of surprises. I have. I have no idea how it's going to end, and normally I can tell how a book will end. That is why this book is so great.

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M-Make connections

A- Ask questions

R- React to text

S- Summarize

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Albeit- although (Who knew there was another word for although! Interesting)

Agog- very eager or curious to hear or see something

Opium- the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (often used as a drug)

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The author, Elizabeth Wein, breaks the text at one point in the book. She fills the reader in just incase they didn't quite catch on. She does it in a unique way that makes me love the book even more. If you want to know how she does it, pick up Code Name Verity for yourself!

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I have mastered paralllel structure and when to use the different forms of these words: alter, altar, prejudice, latter, later, and bais.

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At first I didn't like how the author didn't tell you much about the main character, but after I got into the book, I realized it only makes sense to do that because character is writing for the Gestapo. It's an interesting way to tell a story though. I'menjoying the book.

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Asphyxiated- kill (someone) by depriving them of air

Aerodrome- a landing area, especially for private aircraft, that is usually smaller than an airport

Cotillion- a formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are presented

Aviatrix- a female pilot

Anti-semitism- hostility to or prejudice against Jews

Cordial- warm and friendly

The Mosleyites- A supporter of the English Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley or his policies

Pram- baby stroller

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I already knew how to annotate, but I love this app because I can take a picture of my book and draw and annotate the page without ruining the book. I used it for my Bible Study lesson I'm doing.

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Video of tower collapsing
https://youtu.be/mHjH1sl1o9

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September 11th of 2001 is a day that will not soon be forgotten. It was a tragic day on history that has affected the security of the United States. 9/11 took many lives.

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Voices from inside the towers (9/11 documentary)
https://youtu.be/BFOTneNSy3g

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I have mastered appositives and capitalization. I also know when to use quotes and italics when dealing with short-form and long-form work.

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I can now use a comma without worrying if it is incorrect! I have mastered the comma.

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I like the last video (Copyright and Fair Use Animation)

the best because it seems more up to date and I liked the wayit  was presented. Plus, that video had all of the main points of the other videos.

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I'm starting the booknCode Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. It's a fictional book based in the time of WWII.

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I didn't know about fair use. For example, you can create a parody of a song and you do not have to pay for the rights to the actual song as long as you don't make money off of it.

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I have mastered active voice, passive voice, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverbs in no red ink.

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In the beginning of the book, it's not entirely clear what is happening. As you read more you jpget a little bit more of the picture, but I would have wished there was a little bit more information at the beginning. It seems to drag on a bit, but other then that, I'm enjoying the book so far.

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The author, Elizabeth Wein, uses more of a conversationlly voice because the book's view point is in first person.

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The book starts out with the sentence. "I AM A COWARD." It's an interesting "hook" or attention grabber entence, but it did the trick. I'm interested to see where this book will go.