This weekend

This weekend I didn't really do anything special i went to my dads house on Saturday and slept pretty much all day. Then on Sunday i went back to my moms house and she was sick so we just sat there all day.

Jack London's Tragedy

Have you ever been in a life or death situation? In this story, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, it is a story of a man struggling to stay alive while he is in the Yukon and it is 75 below zero, and the only thing with him is his dog. This story is a tragedy.

The main character in this story is called “The Man.” The man is trapped up in the Yukon in 75 below weather. He doesn’t know what to do, in the story it says,” He was without imagination.” Then the dog is there and he is smarter than the man, “This was a matter of instinct.” The symbols in this story are the cold, because that symbols death and danger. Then fire for warmth and survival, and the dog for warmth and natural covering.

This story is a tragedy, the conflict is that it is 75 below zero, and the man is traveling in it. The rise to power is how he built his first fire and that he was making good time. The tragic flaw was that “He was without imagination” meaning that he could not imaging the good or bad things that could happen to him. Then the tragic fall was that he built a fire under a tree but it went out. Then the death was that the man freezes to death.

Jack London's tragedy tells you that you should listen to people sometimes that give you advice and they know what they are talking about. Like how the guy from Sulphar Creek told him not to travel that way. And that you should always be prepared for any circumstances.

Red Midnight

Has your village ever been burned down and you family murdered? Probably not, but in this story that is what happens to a 12 year old boy and his sister when the soldiers take over.

In this story, a 12 year old boys village is burned down and his family is dead, the only person left is his little sister. So what he does it he is on his way to the USA but on the way he has to hide from soldiers and ride across the ocean in a small boat that is like a kayak, it is called a cayuco.

When was football invented?

There are different types or meanings of football, America is the only place that has the meaning of throwing a ball and trying to get it into an end zone. Other places it means soccer, and it can also mean rugby, but American football is probably the most common meaning for it.
American football has its origins in a soccer-like game that developed in the middle of the nineteenth century. McGill University of Canada helped to change American football to a game more similar to rugby. Walter Camp helped to standardize the rules of American football and make it more like the game we know today. Football is a competitive sport; it was first invented or established around 1873. The point of football is to catch the ball, which is kind of shaped like an egg, and try to run it across the other goal line, while you are running it the other team is trying to tackle you.
Football has been around for a long time it has gone from soccer, to rugby, and to what it is now as American football. Although it has been through all of those names all of them are still played all around the world (who invented american football).

Bibliography
"who invented american football." 29 April 2009. electromech.com. 13 January 2011 .

Bluffs Poem

The buttons are white,
looking like crystals.
From the sight,
it looks kind of mystical.
After we're done,
we all have to listen.
To our instructor,
When we are finished.
Done with this piece,
to the next station.

Snowboarding Gear

Snowboarding is a sport that you obviously do in snow. To go snowboarding, you will have to have a snowboard. It is a wooden board that goes from 5 feet long to about 6 1/2 feet long, depending on how tall you are. They measure it by centimeters so it goes from about 130-160. Most of the boards have a thin piece of metal that boarders the edge of the snowboard.

There are many different types of gear you will need. With many designs on the board, some brands are Burton, 686, Forum, Ride, and Rome. These are just some of the brands there are probably about 50-75. My favorite is Burton, Burton makes snowboards, boots, bindings, clothes and plenty of other things. Snowboarding boots are specially designed to fit into bindings, the go about half way up your shin, the main reason for that is so it is stiff that way your ankles cant bent and possibly break. The bindings are screwed into the board. They have two straps that go over your boot so they stay in place when your riding. They also have an about 8 inch back on it so your feet don’t slip out.

Snowboarding is a great sport. They have it in the Olympics and they have a lot of other competitions. So you will need the right gear to go. With many different varieties and brands you wont have a hard time choosing what you want. So sometime you should get out and try it.

Speak

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, There are plenty of examples of symbolism. The main character is Melinda, everyone hates her because she called the cops on a party at the end of summer.

In this book the symbols are the couch, the mirror, the bedroom, the trees, and the mascot. The couch symbolizes having two different sides. The mirror shows that Melinda doesn’t like who she is, so she covers it up. The bedroom also shows that Melinda doesn’t know who she is because it is about what her friends like. The trees remind her about bad memories that she has had. Then mascot keeps changing at her school so that shows that the school doesn’t have an identity.

Melinda is a teenage girl in high school who called the police at a party where everyone was drinking at and she got a lot of people in trouble. When school starts everybody hates her and she becomes an outcast. In the book Melinda seems to be depressed and has no motivation in life. She says that she would rather sleep than do homework.