BLOG REFLECTIONS

       This year in ELA, we used a blog to keep track of all our reading, and we did one per week. As I did the blog posts, I have learned as a reader, that its better to keep track of your reading because then you can explain your thoughts on paper (or on a blog). It helps you feel what you read teaches you what you can do to an idea. But blogging can be hard to keep up. Like you can forget about it easily. Some ways I benefited was how it got me more into the books i read. Like when I thought more, then I actually got into some of the good books. Writing is different online because then you try to impress the reader that might go on your blog all the time. Also when we write on notebooks, we might get too lazy to look up better words for cleshay words such as "good" or "bad". While blogging, we have the whole internet on other tabs. Looking for better vocabulary and others. I also feel like people work harder online rather than in the notebook. Blogging doesn't necessary limit you but can be hard to keep up. Like you have 10 different tabs and one of them is blogging and you might forget. I think being online, we create more personalities and try to create online identities  Maybe we might not be proud of who you are and try to change that online. Or creating online identities. Some may keep online identities real, while keeping the offline ones unreal, to fit in or something like that.
       People may create online identities and do things on sites like Facebook. Some may truly abuse the power that is given over certain sights. Like they may feel like they are totally free on the sites and do things they wouldn't do in real life. But you aren't really free anywhere, because they are doing it to someone. Also we may try to improve ourselves on sites like that. I think it could be a good or bad things depending on what the teenage does. Like for example, it can abuse someone with words and that could turn out bad. However, when spreading the word for a good cause, that is a good way to use the power.
     I can totally find myself creating a blog and keeping about reading, or maybe even continuing my blog and making it better. Because I feel like I engage in my reading more, when I keep my blog. Overall, blogging is very helpful but the fact that its on the internet can get distracting and stuff. Like you can have so many diffident tabs and things like that.

Beautiful by Amy Reed

I am currently reading beautiful by Amy reed. This book is about a girl named Cassie who moves into a new town knowing anyone.  Before she moved in she was a perfect girl who had perfect grades and did things that would benefit her and cause good. However, when moving into town, she didn't take any cautions. 

In the second day of school she met Alex. She is the kid that gets into trouble all the time and out of school she does things to hurt her body and does drugs. She made Cassie into something else. She influenced Cassie into something bad.  Maybe it's the fact that humans are followers and not leaders, Alex got her influence from other people as well. Therefore it is a long chain of things. Humans don't just learn by themselves, they learn from someone or thing else, or else the human race would be very different. We have so much to learn and think we have all the time, but really the time span is really little. We may think we know so  much but the learning doesn't stop. Cassie thought that she knew a lot and did the things she did and followed Alex into the things that she did. It may have started out as a normal friend, but it really wasn't a friend it was more of a partner and they used each other for loneliness. I don't why the human race needs a friend, but it isn't right because a friend isn't someone who would want to hurt you, because this isn't a friend. 

Overall, I thought this book taught me about what a good friend shouldn't be. Other than that, I hated the book. It had barely had a plot and meaning. The book would have been better if there was a plot. It was building up to something and then then there was no climax. The book also seemed very unreal. I mean its the second day she moved into a town and stayed ou

SPOILER ALERT Book 1, Series of Unfortunate Events

        I am currently reading book 1, series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket. This book is about 3 kids, Klaus, Violet, and Sunny with a foster parents because their parents had died. They go through some really hard times together. In the end, Count Olaf ( their foster parent) wants the money and nothing else. Count Olaf tries to get the money my marring Violet in play pretending like its a play but really, the papers are actually marriage papers.
      Count Olaf may have his sneaky tricks by trying to get the money. At first he tries his bad treatments, but then when the kids complain, he tries to act better. while the kids may have not know him for such a longtime, they now him long to understand what Olaf's next move is. The kids are very smart. They use every resource around them to get to the truth. Like his neighbor, Justice Strauss. She is a judge, and has a wide variety of books, especially law books. Therefore, the kids could look at how Olaf would get money from the kids. Klaus used his skills to outsmart count Olaf by following his ever move.  He never gave up on Olaf. Because his guts told him that Olaf was evil and was only up to the money.  Violet at points didn't really know who to trust.  Because Olaf didn't try to do evil to them, but just showed that he tried.  Sunny is little and didn't really know what's going on, but she could feel that things were getting bad. Olaf doesn't try to stop even if the kids are behind his back, he just continues to get the money. But it isn't really worth it, because he just ends up failing. Instead he looses more than gaining it. The kids can only trust themselves  because they can only tell each other anything and not be afraid to talk. Like even justice Strauss thought that Olaf was all good, even when the  kids confronted her.  Overall, family is the only people you can trust when times become hard because everyone in family has a connection within.

As Klaus would think he would think that once our guts say something, we should stay with our guts unless proven or given some evidence. You can't fully prove something. It's all the way you want it too be. Like you can't prove that Olaf is evil, evil is different to everyone.