Blogging Assessment #1

Blogging Assessments #1

So after staying at Tom's house for quite a while, they decide to head on and leave the safety of his home and they start to head into the Barrow-Downs. It is like a giant graveyard where a battle was held but most of all of them dies so they buried them in mass graves. Most people avoid the Barrow-Downs for they think that it is haunted. While Frodo and the three other hobbits with him start to make their way through the Barrow-Downs, after a while all four of them fall down a hole into one of the mass graves I mentioned earlier. And while in the hole one of the ghosts of a former warrior that fought in the Barrow-Downs comes to life and tries to kill Frodo but Tom came into the hole right when Frodo was losing consciousness and stops the ghost. Tom then escorts them through the rest of the Barrow-Downs without any harm.

The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie. Which it could've been in the movie but got cut as a deleted scene, because there were a lot of those, but it was not in the original movie so it was seeing something new that I would not expect. One quote in the book is, "Suddenly, resolve hardened in him, and he seized a short sword that lay beside him, and kneeling he stooped low over the bodies of his companions. With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt. There was a shriek and the light vanished. In the dark there was a snarl." The tone of this quote was gloominess, and fear. The situation of having no light and then there being a snarl in the darkness makes it gloomy, with fear put into it. (Blog Post #4)

 

1.    I generally use common words with a couple of advanced words thrown in, like I said gloominess but I also say simple words like mentioned. I use these words or phrases so that it is still easily able to read my blog without going over what happened and having to re-read it. You don’t have to stare at my blog trying to decipher what it is trying to say. But still these words can affect the reader and how they think, but maybe not as much because I don’t use the big advanced words which would have more meaning on the reader.

2.    The diction I am using in my blog posts is mostly low/informal diction. It’s not fancy, big words where sometimes you have to look up the meaning. I use words that are low, that most people can understand. Textual evidence in the story is, “The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie.” Anyone that looks at the sentence can tell what its saying. The sentence length I use is long. My post above may seem very long with a lot of sentences but it’s not; it has long sentences. Textual Evidence is that the post above is only 11 sentences but it seems very long.

Krista Ramsey Post

Krista Ramsey Article

The article I read about from Krista Ramsey is The Very Poor Case for Arming Teachers. The article was about, like the title says, the outweighing negatives about arming a teacher in case of a school shooting. In the article it suggests questions like how would a Police Officer know a assailant from an educator, or making a teacher, a person in regards with education become an arms bearer.

My favorite line that she says in the article is, "It's unrealistic and, in fact, insulting to think people who entered the profession of education should be turned into teacher-law enforcement hybrids." That's the quote that spoke to me the most; how do we make a teacher, who is meant for educating, become a person that has to hold a gun and be trained to use it in the correct situation. I like how she said hybrid as a choice of diction like the person is some sort of mutant that wasn't supposed to be. She also says that it is oblivious to think that people who entered one profession, has to do a profession totally different.

The writing style, is that she tries to use emotions to try and persuade or affect the reader. Like here, she tries to persuade the reader that arming teachers has a very poor case. In the other articles, like the dog one sitting out in the cold, she uses sadness to affect the reader.

Three Questions:
1.What got you interested in writing columns?

2. What drives you to write for these people that do good deeds, or live through tough times?

3.How do you decide on which ideas you should do for your stories.

Post #4

So after staying at Tom's house for quite a while, they decide to head on and leave the safety of his home and they start to head into the Barrow-Downs. It is like a giant graveyard where a battle was held but most of all of them dies so they buried them in mass graves. Most people avoid the Barrow-Downs for they think that it is haunted. While Frodo and the three other hobbits with him start to make their way through the Barrow-Downs, after a while all four of them fall down a hole into one of the mass graves I mentioned earlier. And while in the hole one of the ghosts of a former warrior that fought in the Barrow-Downs comes to life and tries to kill Frodo but Tom came into the hole right when Frodo was losing consciousness and stops the ghost. Tom then escorts them through the rest of the Barrow-Downs without any harm.

The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie. Which it could've been in the movie but got cut as a deleted scene, because there was a lot of those, but it was not in the original movie so it was seeing something new that I would not expect. One quote in the book is, "Suddenly, resolve hardened in him, and he seized a short sword that lay beside him, and kneeling he stooped low over the bodies of his companions. With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt. There was a shriek and the light vanished. In the dark there was a snarl." The tone of this quote was gloominess, and fear. The situation of having no light and then there being a snarl in the darkness makes it gloomy, with fear put into it.

Blog post 3

So now in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is trying to escape the shire with the ring and make it to The Prancing Pony, an inn located in Bree which is a town owned by men rather than Hobbits, on the way there they have to go through a forest called the Great Woods and when there they decide to rest and sleep by a big oak tree. The tree comes alive and sucks Pippin into its roots and so they have to pull him out but they fail until a man named Tom Bombardil comes along and commands the tree to let Pippin go, the tree obeys Tom and they go to Tom's house in the Great Woods for a safe place to rest.

I am liking this book right now even if it is really long and some chapters are 40 pages which is annoying but it is still a good book, I am recommending it to whoever would like a challenge with reading. I predict that Frodo and his group will have to get to the Prancing Pony after resting at Tom's house for a couple days and get ready to leave again. But they will have to be challenged while getting there like one of the wraiths catching up to their trail.

So far what is happening in the Lord of the Rings is that Frodo found out Bilbo disappeared from the party using a magic ring. Then Gandalf tells Frodo that the ring belongs to Sauron and that when 9 rings were made for men, 7 for dwarves and 3 for elves, Sauron made this one to destroy all other's. But during the Battle of Mount Doom long ago, Sauron was killed by Isildur and the ring was lost until it was found by Gollum. Gollum kept the ring for 500 years, the ring giving Gollum unnatural long life. But the ring fell away from Gollum and it was found by Bilbo who escaped with it. Now Sauron, a phantom of his former self has sent the 9  men who possessed the original rings, now wraiths, to retrieve it.

I predict that Frodo will be forced to flee from the Shire to escape the Ring-Wraiths chasing after him and that he will need to go far away with the ring to make sure it doesn't get into Sauron's grasp again. I'm liking this book so far, the author goes into real depth about every detail as if you were there in the story looking or feeling what he was describing. Some parts get confusing but ultimately you can still understand it. It's a good book in my opinion, there's some parts that aren't in the movie which is like reading something I wouldn't expect.

New Book

   For my 2nd independent reading book for English 1B, I will be reading Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring. I've seen all the movies and read the Hobbit so I decided to read this and see if it was good. I only read a little bit of it so far and they're at the part where they are getting ready for a party for Bilbo, if you've seen the movie you would know what I'm talking about. I haven't really read enough to judge the book but I'm hoping it's as good as the movies.


The story follows a Hobbit (a humanoid that is about half the size of a human) named Frodo who is awaiting the arrival of his friend Gandalf, who is a old wizard. Then during the party, Bilbo shuffles around with a ring in his pocket then he says goodbye to the party and he disappeared. Everyone at the party was confused where he went except Frodo and Gandalf.