Doc Hill

http://animoto.com/play/LUAMoG5Kjw2SvovvGPUb8g

Andy the Night Watch

http://animoto.com/play/IzqYI8Di1qFS3bO99OUYBg

I googled Libba Bray and this is what came up

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/going-bovine This is a link to a book is by common sense media. The review I think is a good one because it shows why parents would show concern, why kids would like it also includes a summary.
http://libbabray.com/ This a link to the authors website. This provides info such as a biography on her along with just misc. info about Going Bovine and other books she wrote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libba_Bray This a wikipedia page about the author. This contains everything from when she was born to anything put on before wikipedia prevented edits
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/gemmadoyle/ This a link to Libba Bray's most popular series if you liked Going Bovine these probaly won't be the books for you.
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Bovine-Libba-Bray/dp/0385733976 This a link to purchase the book if your addicted to online shopping. Or just plan afraid to go outside.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Bovine This is a link to The book Going Bovine.

TThe upside of those "classic" novels

Honestly the only reason I ever look forward to reading a classic novel is that fact that i don't have to legit read it from cover to cover. SparkNotes is reading without really reading thats how I think is the best way to describe it in my own words. I think SparkNotes is a good idea for reading incredibly long novels and you can not follow what is happening in the book. But you should only sparknote a few chapters if you are behind on reading. Sparknotes should be used used along with the reading to help you better understand the text you are reading. Sparknotes only focus on the main points in the story not the novel as a whole.


SparkNotes take away from the experience of reading the book for yourselves. Sparknoting is good in the way it can help you focus on the main points of a chapter. But is also bad because of that same reason because that is the only thing you get from the spark notes. Sparknotes take away from the actual reading because you just have the climax of the the chapter and very little or nothing leading you up to that point.

THE WEEKND THAT OVO AND THAT XO

For this blog post like all of the other ones. I added some music that represents the general feel of a book to me, usually when I add music to a blog I choose music from my personal itunes library songs where I interpret the theme ,mood ,and the overall feel of the song most of these songs are either by artists that people are either unaware of or have never been heard of by people who only listen to mainstream artist. The artist I am going to mention in this blog is The Weeknd he is an up and coming artist from Canada who as gained big time fame when he and Drake collaborated for OVOXO.  The song that i'm chosing to add is Heaven or Las Vegas off of the mixtape Thursday. http://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo/the-weeknd-heaven-or-las-vegas
[Verse 1]
I'm paying for all my father's sins
So I will thank him for you
I'mma thank him for you
My serotonin's got a while to go
Girl, it's gone cause of you
It's been gone cause of you

[Hook]
They say, they want heaven
They say, they want God
I say, I got heaven
Well I say, I am God

[Verse 2]
I never prayed a moment in my life
Girl I'm rewarded with you
I've been rewarded with you
So baby let me kiss your inner thigh
Let me kiss it for you
I can kiss it for you

[Hook]
They say, they want heaven
They say, they want God
I say, I have heaven
I say, I am God

Play Heaven or Las Vegas

Turn on Rap Genius Radio

Next song

The Weeknd’s closing track to his second mixtape, Thursday. Explores the hedonism so common to his songs, with dark, drug-filled undertones The Weeknd similar to the character of Cameron in the way he takes things for granted also similar to Cameron he has father issues. And in the hook I believe that is a direct connection between the book in a way that Cameron want to be the true controller of thier destiny

 

What is up with blogging?

     My view of blogging when the year first started was a few couple sentenced post. Boy was I wrong blogging has become probably became one of my least favorite parts about my English class. I have no idea how I gained the impression that blogging would require less than a paragraph. I am in a top track English: I just think it is honestly that pre-senior senioritis. I have no idea maybe it is my lazy side that wants to take over whenever I try anything school related whether it be homework,essays,or any school related project.

      Anyway to be honest I do think that blogging is a good alternative to the traditional writing papers because the blogs themselves take very little research such as just reading a book as opposed to  the extra articles you are required to read when you are writing a research paper. I personally think that anyone can find a topic to write a blog about which simplifies the assignment by a large amount. And is what I think makes blogging favorable assignment.

     

The Even Newer Book

I decided to take time out of listening to OF Tape Volume 2 just long enough to start reading my fourth quarter blog book and download OF Tape Volume 2 off of itunes best $14.99 I spent in a while. Anyway The book i'm reading this quarter is Going Bovine by Libba Bray. This book I honestly just picked up because it had an interesting cover. I know shouldn't have done that the whole "don't judge a book by the cover thing." But that is what usually motivates me to read a book. I don't care about the fact that it is on the New York Times Best Seller list. I am the reader that would like to read the book either before it becomes popular or years after it's popular. I got a Hipster mentality avoid mainstream society at every chance possible.Anyway the book Going Bovine is about this 16 year old kid named Cameron. Cameron has a normal life average grades in school a job at a fast food restaurant, the occasional pothead. A normal life for a teenager, that is until Cameron finds out he has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or more commonly known as the human form of Mad Cow Disease. So Cameron has to travel across the country to find a man known simply as Dr.X, who is the only one with the cure to Cameron's disease. Along the way Cameron meets this dwarf named Gonzo who follows him on this quest. And along the way Cameron battles fire Giants, escapes a bowling happiness cult, and face a mysterious foe the Wizard of Reckoning. I wish i could say more but....

Conflicting interest

The book Please Ignore Vera Dietz contains many examples of the literary element : conflict .

Conflict is in between multiple characters but mostly between Vera and some other character . "Is it ok to hate a dead kid? Even if I loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay to hate him for being dead? In this quote Vera has a conflict with Charlie post-humous. In my opinion conflict is the important part of a novel. Conflict adds excitement to a novel.

Picture book minus the book

the book

death of a friend

Vera's way of coping

Vera's Job

Her mom was a stripper

Charlie had a habit of writing notes to himself and burning them not allowing others to get a chance of seeing them

the setting of this book takes place on the california coast

Link Up

http://www.as-king.com/html/vera.php
This is the link to the authors website. This link gives exerepts from the book and information about the author.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665671-please-ignore-vera-dietz
This link provides a summary about the book. This link also provides you with websites to purchase the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1c4d5kSX6c 
This is a link to a book trailer on Youtube.
http://www.cmlibrary.org/readers_club/reviews/tresults.asp?id=7798
This is a book review by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Libary.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/please-ignore-vera-dietz-a-s-king/1100290601
This a link to purchase the book from Barnes and Noble's website.
http://thebooksmugglers.com/2010/11/book-review-please-ignore-vera-dietz-by-a-s-king.html
This a book review by the Book Smugglers. The Book Smugglers review mostly young adult literature
http://www.foreveryoungadult.com/2011/01/18/please-dont-ignore-vera-dietz/
This contains yet another book review. This review gives a little more in depth information on the main and supporting characters.This site even provides who the author of this this article would want to play the characters in a film adaptation.
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/196759/please-ignore-vera-dietz-by-as-king
A link to purchase the audio book.
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/teacozy/2011/02/17/review-vera-dietz/
This is another book review. I particularly do not think this should be the review before you read the book because it gives away key details on the plot.
http://www.thecompulsivereader.com/2012/01/cover-talk-please-ignore-vera-dietz.html
This link show the difference in the two covers of the book Please Ignore Vera Dietz. The cover with the lighter I think is more visually appealing.

Some Musicial Help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6frJ5IEA2Q&ob=av2nThe song that I chose to represent the book Please Ignore Vera Dietz is Sooner or Later by N.E.R.D.
This song has a said tone to it but an uplifting beat throught the song. This is similar to the book because the characters are showing sad emotions but do not show them on the outside. And this song actually states "its over leave it" which is opposite of what Vera does concerning Charlie.

The New Book

This quarter I am reading The book Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King. This book is about a girl named Vera Dietz who is your average High School senior  with a not so average life. This is because her best friend Charlie Kahn dies mysteriously. And Vera knows it has something to do with the new crowd Charlie began hanging out with. This book consists of many flashbacks to times when Charlie was alive.That is all the information i'm willing to disclose on the book.

SparkNotes is not a substitute

SparkNotes is reading without really reading thats how I think is the best way to describe it in my own words. I think SparkNotes is a good idea for reading incredibly long novels and you can not follow what is happening in the book. But you should only sparknote a few chapters if you are behind on reading. Sparknotes should be used used along with the reading to help you better understand the text you are reading. Sparknotes only focus on the main points in the story not the novel as a whole.


SparkNotes take away from the experience of reading the book for yourselves. Sparknoting is good in the way it can help you focus on the main points of a chapter. But is also bad because of that same reason because that is the only thing you get from the spark notes. Sparknotes take away from the actual reading because you just have the climax of the the chapter and very little or nothing leading you up to that point. In conclusion sparknotes are not a substitute for reading the text but they are an aide in helping you understand it.

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes This the wikipedia page for Langston Hughes

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83 This gives a bio on Langston Hughes similar to the wiki

http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html Another bio and list of poetry

http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/ Apperantly all of Langston Hughes' poems

http://www.kansasheritage.org/crossingboundaries/page6e1.html Most of these are biographies

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes bios gallore

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes Hughes' best poems I will let you be the judge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance The Era Langston Hughes helped make great

http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance Background info on the harlem Rennaissance

http://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htm Possibly Langston Hughes most famous Poem a Dream Deferred

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_subj.html A short profile on Langston Hughes

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/langston.html a selection of Langston Hughes Poems

http://www.nsm.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/hughes_langston.html List of Langston Hughes Poems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou Was influenced by Langston Hughes

Musical inspiration

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This link is a to the song Strawberry Swing by Frank Ocean. This Song represents the theme of the The DreamKeeper because it has that soft spoken light and happy side to go about life to but a smile on your face even when things are looking down thin is seen especially in the 2nd verse Say hello, then say farewell to the places you know
We are all mortals, aren't we? Any moment this could go
Cry, cry, cry, even though that won't change a thing
But you should know, you should hear, that I have loved
I have loved the good times here, and I will miss our good times

The Artist sings these lines so well you can't help but smile

21st Century schzoid man

I personally like the concept of the 21st Century English classroom that consists of blogging, tweeting and, facebooking because it keeps students realitivly interested about what they are doing,opposed to just writing papers and reading books. English is probaly my least favorite subject because of all the papers and reading. But I am what I believe to me a semi-active user of Twitter and Facebook so when I heard we would be blogging I figured that would mean a "post here a post there" But I forgot this was an English class. I wish that the blogs were more of the Twitter set up where you are limited to a certain number of characters.         I believe that the Twitter and Facebook help with a students understanding because the students use these sites everyday. The main diffrence about the way i approched the novel when ever i had free time is when i would read. This is diffrent than the the way an English teacher would assign a chapter they would want you to .

Blogging Comments

JamiesonDeamer said...

Cody you made this book sound much more interesting than it already was by just giving background info on the it. And to my knowledge this is pretty popular read for a lifetime book at our school.I am considering reading either this or Please Ignore Vera Dietz and it will probaly be the latter. And why are not on Facebook or Twitter what are you Amish. I will try to talk you into using either one the same way i talked you into listening to OFWGKTA.

JamiesonDeamer said...
           Pierre you are reading the Great Gatsby this was also one of the books i was planning on reading. Hey you have to read at least one classic book while doing this assignment. I thought most of your blogs had there strengths and weakness so i understand why you got the grade you receieved. I have a question and a comment for you why did you switch from Hold Me Closer Necromancer to Gatsby. And My Comment you are missing out on werewolf sex.

What I thought about my Blog

             My First blog earned a C but i believe that is because I was not focused on the assignment. I also believe I got this grade because I missed lab days during the class periods. I was happy with grade I received even though I was missing bits and pieces to my blogs. One way I can improve on this assignment is by it more seriously and not trying to cram all my blogs together on the last day. I think I understood the blogs there and the prompts very well but just lacked content wise in each blog. My best blog I think was the one that explained myself as an English student. My worst blog was probably the one where you select a song because the book i was reading Hold me Closer, Necromancer was a book that was somewhat dark but had a light and playful side made it a hard book to choose music for. In summary I did a decent job on my blog.
          The book I chose to read this quarter is The Dreamkeeper which is a collection of poems by Langston Hughes. I chose this book because I thought it was an easy book to have and relate to. I was wrong this book consists of many poems some that are easy to relate some that I am complety clueless on being able to explain them. This book I chose it because it has a wonderful selection of poems that just make think about things.
         My goals for blogging are just staying on  focused on blogging. I can do this by taking advantage of  all the days we have in the labs. Not putting off the work until the last days. Actually reading my book when I spare time. And just taking the assignments more seriously. 

Comments

 

JamiesonDeamer said...

Nick So you randomly grabbed a book and decided to read it I like that mentality. And you rope cattle that is something I had no idea you did, besides that i'm surprised you did not mention your dislike of people taller then you, and your love of Gears of War you. Or your obsession with a certain person.

JamiesonDeamer said...

Cody it seems like you don't want to be involved in this project and want to be involved in social media even less.

JamiesonDeamer said... Pierre I am interested in more than just your book by what you listed in this post. You animate you are in clubs you are on youtube.And you also make your book sound interesting. Hopefully you keep blogging and keep them interesting