Month: January 2021

 

I expanded my growth in recording my voice. I have never done anything like that so it was hard for me to get out of my comfort zone and record my voice so. It also helped me slow down and read a lot slower and more fluently so I wasn’t rushing through my reading.  It helps me play through my recording to hear if there was any mess ups that i could fix or if there is anything in my writing i wnna change because it didn’t sound right.”Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes”.

 

Using a video editor like WeVideo helped me also get better at creating videos so if i wanted to ater down the road I could mke videos. It helped me get use to the website and now if i ever wanted to edit a video or make a video for something i could use thr website and already be use to using it.”Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies”.

 

Thinking like a writer. Doing this made me think like a writer. It made me wanna think about storys that I have never told anyone and tell. It made me expanded those stories longer to create a better story for the audience. I also replaced smaller boring words with bigger and better words when i was writting my story. “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics)”.

The total number of pages that I have read this marking period is 336. I probably read about 30 or more pages since my book doesn’t have a lot of writing in it. It’s usually because it makes me a better reader. I can’t read that long all at once because I get distracted easily so I will read for about 15-20 minutes. My reading has changed this marking period normally I can’t read for that long but I have gotten used to it.

 

I have been reading the book, Hugo, this marking period. What I love about this book is there is so many pictures it makes the stories about the character go by much faster in my head and then when there is reading parts in the book there is a couple of pages filled out. I like that because I don’t get distracted as much if I were to read a regular book with a bunch of reading. I can also remember pictures better than if I were to read a bunch.

 

I get most of my reading done here at home and I do most of that when I’m in my online English class. I don’t do any reading really when I’m in class at school because I take all the trade classes. I hope to finish the book I’m on right now and then start another book just like it. These books are pretty big so they take me a while to go through them. My goal is to get through this book and through a whole other one before the year is over.

 

I have learned that I am not very patient as a reader and I can’t sit very long when reading. Since I am not very patient as a ready I plan to read more and try to sit for long periods of time while reading to see if that helps me extend my reading goals so I can get through 2 books before the year is over.

 

 

 

 

         It had been warm the past couple of days and deer don’t normally move that much when it is. My brother and I headed to Crystal to where my property is and we were late to the stand and as I was walking in and I was climbing up my stand there was a baby deer staring at me when I was climbing up my ladder stand.

        It didn’t run off, it just stared at me. When I got halfway up the stand a small buck came running in chasing some does. A bigger buck heard the smaller buck chasing the does so it came up to the buck to closer to me and once it came into range I pulled back my bow and waited for the deer to stop and once it did I pulled the trigger on my release and I watch the arrow fly to the spot where I was aiming and made a loud whacking and thump sound as the arrow went through the deer with ease and then into a tree.

         The deer immediately jumped up in the air and kicked which normally means you put a good shot on the deer. I got down once all deer had cleared out to go check my arrow and sure enough, there was blood right where I shot the deer. So my brother and I tracked down my deal by looking at the huge piles of blood and sure enough, we found my deer. 

 

Revision Decision 

I did the normal editing like spelling punctuation but I also wanted to add some words in there so the readers would know what I was hearing when I shot the deer. For example, when I shot the deer I heard a big whacking and thump sound so I put what I heard into my writing. I thought those words would give the readers an idea of what I heard when I shot the deer so it would kind of put a sound in their mind of what it sounded like.

 

Words from the author

I chose this creative writing because I thought it was my best one and I love to hunt and tell stories of what happened and what I saw in the woods. You won’t know the trill of hunting until you do it. There have been times where I could have touched deer. There is nothing more exciting than being able to get close enough to a deer without them being able to see you then pulling your bow back and shooting the deer that you have worked so hard for to get because sometimes it could take years to shoot your ideal buck. So that’s why I chose to use this story because in my opinion there is nothing more exciting than being able to see all the deer up close than be able to shoot a deer that you have worked so hard for.