Reading Interest Survey

Reading Interest Survey

On your blog, please post a response to the following:

Imagine you are walking through a bookstore and are interested in buying a book. What does it take for a book to get your attention? What are some examples of books that caught your attention? Why? Labels: Reading, Survey, TMD

50 word minimum

It takes a good title and a really good cover to get me to look at the book. The cover of the book needs to get me to want to know more about the book. I read the book a million little pieces, a brothers journey, and cut. A Million Little Pieces caught my attention because of the cover. The cover made me want to know more about the book. The cover is a picture of a hand covered in jimmies. It made me interested in what the book was actually about. These are the things I look for that make me pick up a book.

Semester Reflection

On your blog, please post a response to the following:

You are 1/2 way through the year. What went really well for you this past marking period? What do you think you could have done differently? Where are you now, at the start of the 3rd marking period? What do you need to do to be successful from now until June?

50 word minimum

I think that what went really well for me was the themes. I think that i still need to work on doing more homework and making more of an effort to read and analyze the book. At the beginning of the third marking period I am starting to get excited for college. After being accepted to the school I want to go to I am not really as worried as I should be about high school and more worried about next year at college. I need to still be focused in school and out of school in order to be successful. I need to keep up on homework and classwork.

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat....Because, Mr. Norton, if you don't know where you are, you probably don't know who you are." (Ellison, 577)

Reflect on these statements in regards to:
1. the Narrator and his journey for self-realization
2. your own search for self and identity

100 word minimum & an image

In the Narrators life he was being controlled. If in life you are controlled you cannot find your own identity, but if you live your life the way you choose to live it you can create your own true identity. You need to know where you want to go in life in order to be able to define yourself. The Narrator throughout the book didn't know where he wanted to go and did not control his own life but allowed others to control his life. This made it difficult for him to find himself and his true identity. Also it states that humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat. This shows that even when the Narrator was at a loss or when he was defeated by others around him he still continued to try to succeed. After failing the Narrator continues to get back up and try again creating his own journey for self realization. This quote says that you cannot allow others to control your life because than you do not have your own identity but rather one that has been placed on you from your peers.