poem

last week i memorized the poem catch a little rhyme by Eve Merriam. one of my favorite lines is when she talks about it stretching into a whale. i dislike the poem because she just makes it rhyme and talks about something that she doesn't even identify what it is that is changing into whales and cats. i think that the whole point of this poem is stupid because it makes no sense and just rhymes. the tone of the poem i think is just to appeal to little kids and give them something to say for enjoyment but on a adult scale i think that it is just pointless. all she talks about is something that changes into something then she chases it and watches it turn into something else. then it finally blows away and the torcher is over even though it would be interesting to find out what it is that keeps changing but that is all i have to say about that poem.

I set it on the floor

but it ran right out the door

I chased it on my bicycle

but it melted to an icicle

I scooped it up in my hat

but it turned into a cat

I caught it by the tail

but it stretched into a whale

I followed it in a boat

but it changed into a goat

When I fed it tin and paper

it became a tall skyscraper

Then it grew into a kite

and flew far out of sight ...

the holidays

Every year on Christmas morning my family and I have a big breakfast before opening our gifts. My family doesn't eat bacon the whole year until we have our Christmas breakfast. Then after our breakfast we all sit down by the tree and give our gifts from us to the family. after opening all of our gifts we clean  up all of the paper and then do whatever it is we have planned for the day. Then usually a couple of days later we take a flight up to Boston to meet up with cousin's and other family. my family and i usually stay up there for about a week. It's a good amount of time to go snowboarding and some party's. then when we leave and come back to Florida and finally get home and unpack our bags that's when we all have nothing to do. So we all just sit around hoping to find something to do. Then when school comes along we all go back to the way things were before. that's the way my family and i spend our holidays.

take away

one thing i would take away from of the storys to the odyssey. i would actually not take away anything because i feel that every part to the odyssey has a reason. every little thing that happens even if it sounds stupid it plays an important role to the outcome of the story.

odysseus

Odysseus must have gone through so much hell. just to even imagine what he had gone through. he had to leave his wife Penelope to go to war. now to leave Penelope to go risk his life in war not knowing if h was gonna make it out of that war dead or alive. also on his way back he had to slowly watch all of his men dye from monsters and mythical creatures. imagine if you had landed on an island that you have never seen in your life, and you go into a cave for shelter and then you see a cyclopes. just to even imagine that would be kinda freaky, but then he starts to eat your men. now that's insane! but then after hard thinking you find a way off the island. but while you where leaving you made a god angry. that is not very good, and because of that he got stranded at sea and had to go many places. by the time he had actually got back to his home land it had been 20 years. through those 20 years he had no chance of knowing weather his wife Penelope had chosen another man or not. also he had not seen his son either, and when he sees his son Telemachus all he does is not believe it is his dad and almost attempts to kill him. but he talks to him and then Telemachus realizes that it is Odysseus and then they fight together to clear out the house and get his beautiful wife back. i think that Odysseus is a strong man to be able to live knowing and to have seen all that he has seen. 

class Expectations

i think that the g period English class has reached a lot of the expectations so far. i think that Mr. Parsons has went over the instructions to anything we have ever done, especially on the exam very well. i have not been confused really on what to do for an assignment really. also i feel that we have been learning at a very good pace. i feel that Mr. Parsons waits until we fully understand what he is trying to teach and then decides to move on. but i think that the expectations for the students are okay the only thing i think that happens a lot is that we tend to get off track a little bit. but its not so bad that it doesn't really effect our learning. i also think that we come prepared so that is always a good thing to see out of students. so coming from my view i think that the expectations have been fairly met and i think that we all did a pretty good job on meeting those expectations.   

why greek mythology is interesting

Greek mythology is interesting to me. of course i think the stories are cool and all that. but the way they where able to come up with so many stories that have all the explanations of why this is in the world or why that is.