outside reading 3.19-3.25

                             This week I continued reading Funny Boy.  As I kept reading, I began to get a little confused about the names of the characters in this book, I had the same problem with Nervous Conditions too. But I made a list of the character’s names and it helped me a lot.

                             This book talked about race, gender, and marriage, which is similar to Nervous Conditions. Arjie’s family are Tamil and his grandmother doesn’t like Sinhalese because her father—Arjie’s great grandfather was killed by a Sinhalese.

100-200 3/24

District Literature Rally

                    Last Saturday I went to the District Literature Rally. We first meet at school at took the school bus to the Southeastern Louisiana University. We arrived at 8:40. The Southeastern Louisiana University’s Rock and Roar Fest also took place on last Saturday.
                     There were many activities such as health fair, dance camp, face-painting, pottery booth and so on. There were also a lot of food booths such as Jambalya, hot wings, curly fries, hamburger and so on. I really enjoyed the fest and had a lot of fun.

outside reading 3.12-3.18

                         Last week I started a new book named Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai. This book is also a post-colonial book just like Nervous Conditions. I chose this book because this book is a novel in six stories and I have never read a book like this before. So I think this book will be very interesting for me to read.
                         This book took place in Sri Lanka. It's about a boy who lives in a upper-middle-class family. The boy's family is a very big family, he has many cousins. When I first start reading the book, I thought the boy is a little wird because when he likes to play with his girl cousins and act as the pride when they play pride-pride. But as I kept reading ,there's more comflict and the book became more interesting and makes me want to keep reading.                 

Last week

                  Last week we started talking about the world issue research project and the Nervous Conditions project. I started thinking about both project and I had some ideas on what should I do my projects on. I started doing my project last weekend and I will keep working this week.
                  Last week was was great because Caesar came back! He came back for the robot competition. He only stay in school for one day. Last week was also fun because wednseday was pi day and we had diigits of pi reciting contest and pie-eating contest. It was really fun!

outside reading 3.5-3.11

                    This week I started a new book named The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, the same author as The bride comes to yellow sky. The story happens during the civil war. It's about a boy named Henry who dreams of the glory of battle that he has read about in school. But when he became a real soldier, he realized that the real war is not the same as what he read in the books.
                    The book talked about Henry's fear of battle and how he became more and more mature as the story goes on. I think this book is a good book. The word choice, the organization and the voice of this book is very good. The Red Badge of Courage is not onky a novel about war. It also talked about how a boy grew mature and learned during his experience of the war.

3/10 page 1-145

The last week of third quarter

                    Last week is the last week of third quarter. We finished reading Nervous Conditions and took the test on the book. I can't belive it's already fourth quarter now. Time past by so fast! There's only 10 weeks of school left and we'll have summer vacation. Freshmen year past by so quickly and I can't believe that it is almost over.
                     I hope I can do well on the last quarter and has a good grade on my final exams so that I could finish my first year of high school with a good grade. High school is so different from middle school. We need to work a lot more harder than we did in middle school but no pain no gain, I belive all the hard works will pay off.

150 minutes outside reading + NC

           
            Last week we finish Nervous Conditions. We read four chapters of Nervous Conditions this week and we are taking a test this week. The book got a lot more interesting in the last few chapters. In the last few chapters the family discussed about wether Tambu should go to college or not. At last, Tambu goes to college. At the end of the book Nyasha went to see a psychiatrist and rest in a clinic for several weeks.
            When I begin reading Nervous Conditions I don't think it's a very interesting book. But when I keep reading, the story gets more and more interesting. There are a lot of conflicts. I learned a lot about what were the life like and what were the socity like back then.

Last week

             Last week is the first week of school after we came back from Mardi Gras Break. I think last week was a busy week because we had a lot of quiz and tests last week and we needed to read 4 chapters of Nervous Conditions. I read Nervous Conditions over the weekend.
              I think this week will be busy too because this week is the end of the third quarter. We need to finish up a lot of things. We are taking  the Nervous Conditions test this week. This test will last for two days, it's the same as the short story test we took last semster. But there's only one part in the short story test and we spent two days finishing it, but there's two parts for  the Nervous Conditions test.