Month: March 2020

Roots 

 

My literacy roots start back when I was a kid and my mom would read to me before I would go to bed. My roots have grown a lot deeper into the soil. Now that I am older and I look back I would have to say that school was a big factor to get me to where I am today. I took a lot of reading classes in middle school that helped me get to where I am today. Having a phone is a big factor too because I am constantly reading and writing on my phone everyday.

 

Reading Survey 

I have had a lot of experiences in and out of school. Some experiences i have had in school would be English class you have to read a lot in order to do your work. Sometimes we have to read a book and then write about it. My current reading life is all on my phone. I read books sometimes on my phone and I read articles on my phone all the time. The ways I read are on my phone and I read books at school. Reading on your phone and reading a book are the same thing you just reading off a device instead of a book. I am a more on and off again reader. I get caught up and get busy and sometimes don’t have time to read a book. The only things that keeps my reading alive is the stuff I am interested in knowing about or learning about.  I am a slow reader. I don’t read books fast, it can take me a while because I get busy sometimes so it can take me a long time to get through things. Things that hold me back when I am reading is I am a slow reader and I wont read things if i’m not interested in them. I have had a hard time finishing books because sometimes I lose interest in them. I don’t have a favorite author but I like comics that’s about the only thing that I will read because it interests me. I learn the best by reading off my phone. Things that pull me into reading are the new topics that I haven’t heard about and want to learn about them. Reading can make you think differently about the things you just read about. That’s why it might make you write different things.  

 

Writing survey

Things that shaped me as a writer was writing essays in the classes I took, and texting people on my phone. The only writing i do as of right now is on my phone and in English class. I do a lot of writing about books and that’s what we do in school. My relationship is on and off again with writing. I don’t do a whole lot other than in my classes and on my phone. Writing on my phone is the only thing that keeps my writing alive. I am a writer who doesn’t write all that much unless I have to. It takes me a long time to write and I am not that good of a reader so it takes me some time to reflect on my writing to fix it. The Challenge I struggle with is being able to keep my writing moving on instead of talking about the same thing. I like writing about the books I have read. I learned best writing through school and on my phone. Things that pull me into writing is wanting to tell about the things I have done. Your writing can influence you on what you want to read.

 

Goals

As a reader and writer I want to move forward in reading more books before the trimester ends. I would like to be able to finish three full books before I am done with this class this trimester. I would like to finish three full books without stopping and starting them again. I need to stop putting books down and then picking them up again. I would say that my worst habit. As a writer I would like to be able to write a whole page without stopping and starting. I wrote creatively in my English class last trimester towards the end. I think that I could stretch my writings out more and go more into depth. I would not like to write for real audiences. I don’t really like to share my writings. I just like writing about my stories sometimes and maybe share it with one or two people. I have never considered any form of publication and I think I would ever be interested in that. I would like to be able to write non stop and stretch my writings out.

Final Exam Essay 

 

The goals that I chose for myself to reach this trimester was to read more, write more often, and lengthen my writing. Every english class I think is just stupid and a waste of time, but Andy my teacher taught me how to suck it up and just give it a try for once. Now that I have had a whole trimester to reflect on what I have been doing in class I realize that yes it did suck at some points but it wasn’t bad. All the reading and writing that Andy made us do helped because it taught me how to keep with a book and finish it. Normally I just read a couple of pages and drop the book and then when it comes time to write about what we read in class I just put down a bunch of random bull shit. This trimester I finished a whole comic book and then when it came time to write about what we were reading, I knew what to write instead of putting a bunch of random shit down that didn’t make any sense. I told myself that I wanted to lengthen my writing because I didn’t like writing at all and would just short paragraphs in my other english classes. Before I said that the only writing that I did was on my phone. Now in Andy’s class I am doing creative writings everyday help because I didn’t write that much and at the beginning of the trimester I didn’t write that much during the creative writings, but towards the middle and end of the trimester I got use to writing I felt comfortable about writing and I just would write and tell a whole story were before I would be so tense and wouldn’t want to write so I would just write a couple of sentences. So did I meet these goals? I would most definitely say that before I would never read a book and now I am starting to read more books not just in school but out of school too. I definitely met my writing goals. I write almost every day now in Andy’s class and I’m not just writing small paragraphs I am writing a lot bigger paragraphs. 

Hunting on halloween thats was my last blog post but I would say it’s my best one yet. Why do I think it’s my best one yet? Because I told a whole story of mine with out stopping becuase I thought it was to embaressing or it was stupid. I put all my stress and emotions aside and just wrote. That’s what I think I improved in the most was just putting all things aside and just writing. Before I wouldn’t write at all and if I did it would have been very short and sweet. This class has taught me to just let loose and do what I felt was right. So yes I think that hunting on halloween was my best blog post because I just let loose and told my whole story about me shooting a deer. That was the blog post that stood out the most to me because I wrote the most compared to all of the other blog posts that I had written in the past. 

 

I think I put most of my efforts into my creative writings. The impact it had on me was huge in my opinion because I never wrote before and these showed me that it was ok to write in here and open up about things. It definitely taught me to proofread my writings  because before I would just write something and then turn it in. When I would get my writings back from my teacher Andy they would just be filled with comments saying that I had to fix this and that. So the next writings that I did I was trying to go through them and make sure that my stuff was right so my teacher didn’t have to do as much work. I also thought to myself that I wasn’t gonna have anyone to proofread my writings when I get older and out of school so I might just want to start doing them myself so I can just get used to it now.  

Which intellectual risk seemed to have the richest reward?  I would have to say the reading that I was doing in class. I read two comic books and those help me a lot. When I read those books I had something to write about for my writings in class. How did it shift your approach? This shifted my approach about picking a book in school and out of school and reading it. It showed that books aren’t always bad and that it doesn’t hurt to pick one up once in a while and read it. Ever since I have been reading I have been able to lengthen my writing more so I have something to talk about, where before when we were doing writings about the books we read I would just drag on about something random because I didn’t know what I was talking about because I didn’t read any books that I was suppose to read.  

 

What do I think I am adding to my overall literacy repertoire? I think I am adding way more reading and writing. I write every other day in english class and out of school I sometimes write too. I also have been reading more and more in and outside of school. At the beginning of the trimester I didn’t read or write for shit. If it wasn’t on my phone then I wouldn’t care. Now that it’s at the end of the trimester It has opened my eyes to read and write more and more and that it can help you. I didn’t realize how much information that books can have and that not all information comes off your phone. So yes I would most definitely say that I have added a whole ton more reading and writing to my literacy repertoire.

               It was a warm halloween I just got out of school and hoped in my truck and race home. I go home to grab my bow and arrow and hunt for clothes and then hop in my truck and speed my way down to Crystal Lake which is about 35 minutes away. When I get there I check the wind so I can decide what hunting stand I want to sit in.  Once I get all of my clothes on and decide what stand I want to sit in, I get my bow out and start walking to my stand. Once I get to my stand I climb in and hook my harness to the tree. So I didn’t fall out by accident.

              As i’m sitting there I see a couple of does pass by and then about 30 more minutes later I see a very small yearling’s for walking right towards me off the path, as I am looking at the doe I look up and see a very nice 8 point buck locked right on the doe that was coming right for me. And the small doe kept walking towards me the buck had his head down and was coming right for the doe which was coming right to me. The small doe stops and the buck keeps walking right towards me and as soon he gets behind a tree I stand up and turn my boddie so I can pull my bow back to shoot the deer, and for me being left handed and the deer coming to me being on my left hand side I had to turn. So as he kept coming closer and closer until about 15 yards he stopped and was eating some grass on the ground. I pulled my bow back and got on his shoulder and then I let the arrow fly hitting the mark that I aimed right for.

                I hit the deer he turns right around were he came from and starts to grunt and his breath becomes heavier and heavier as my arrow lodges deep and deeper into his body and blood starts to flow into his lungs until he can’t breathe no more then he falls to the ground and lays there until his organs start to shut down and then he stops breathing.  I use a 2017 hoyt defiant bow pulling back 70 pounds with a full metal jacket arrow with a 100 grain 2 inch expandable blade. so as soon as the grim reaper arrow head his impact 3 2 inch blades open up. these blades are meant to break bone and and cut anything that gets in its way. so shooting a deer that at 15 yards can put a lot a damage on something. My arrow didn’t go all the way through the deer but go through on both sides. So as the deer kept running the kept logging the arrow deeper and deeper until everything shuts down in his boddie.

Words From The Author

Those who hunt would know the thrill you get when you go hunting because everything comes down to a split second and you have to make a split second decision or else you can mess u your whole hunt. But those who don’t hunt you should know the race your heart gets when your about to take an animals life. Your mind goes through so many things at once when your about to take another animals life, like am I going to make a good shot or, is this animals big enough, or should I let it go till next year. There was so many things going through my mind until I pulled my bow back and pulled the trigger. All that nerves emotion when away and turned to me being excited when I saw the placement of my arrow.

Revision Decision 

A couple of things that I changed in my writing was the spelling and making the writing longer than what it was before. I tried to make all my writings longer because I don’t like writing so when I go back and look at things I see that I can make some adjustments by putting in better words or telling more about the story that I left out before.