Monday, December 7, 2009

Authors Visit the class

First off I'd like to say YAY! I'm on time with my blog! Hopefully doing the 2 I missed will help my poor grade. So this week we talked about the story "Family Gems". Great book! I really enjoyed reading it and I consider buying it for my mom for Christmas! FYI my favorite holiday! The book is hilarious and I can think of people in my life that relate to the characters. I was so excited that the authors came to our class. A lot of things really surprised me. I was surprised when they said which one was Ruby and which one was Jewell. I also had no idea that they wrote the letters. The whole time I thought the letters were wrote by the really people and that everything was true. WHAT A SHOCKER. I wasn't however surprised when they said it was difficult to get the book published. I had a feeling. They talked about either writing a prequel or a sequel. I think I like to read a prequel. I think it would be better to here about what happened when they were all growing up together. I mean to be honest I think they are a little old and I would hate to hear that one of them die in the sequel... to depressing. There wasn't much in the news but I did hear about the math teacher that got murdered. That's so sad and scary. The only other news I have is that the Zhu Zhu pets that are so popular this year are safe! haha, good news to me because I'm getting my niece one for Christmas. Well, that's all. See ya in class tomorrow.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

This is for Nov 30th b.c no class on the 24.

Well I had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and I ate lots of yummy food. I also began reading the book "Family Gems" Its a really cute book and I'm glad we are reading it. It's about two sisters that are writing back and forth about whats going on in their life. One lives in a trailer in Kentucky and the other lives in a condo in Arizona because of her husbands medical condition. They basically talk about drama and their family. It's funny because my family and I are alike is some ways. The book really caught my attention when the first line talked about someones pussy freezing off. haha! Another thing that was funny is when they talked about the new dog they got and how he has an alarm clock. The other sister said something like, I didn't know dogs could tell time. That was hilarious. I also liked the part where they talked about the paper towels and how whats her name wets her pants sometime and she said they were the "quick picker upper" haha! The book is very cute and I'm sure my mom would enjoy reading it. I'm really excited that the authors are coming to our class. I think it will be really interesting to here what they have to say. I haven't really watched the news lately but I do keep up with the drama on Tiger Woods. I also recall us talking about the Argentina passing away because of butt implants. WOW... Well have a good day.

This one is for Nov. 16

This week we started on the Family Gem's book and we were to also read part 11. My group met at the house on Tues and we took a quiz on it. I had to talk about the "Fundamentalism on the Rise". In this article they talk about the two levels of fundamentalist religion and how they are a problem to women. They talk about how "men dominate women and control reproductive decisions" and "issues of women's rights and position in society becomes the battlefield on which power struggles over cultural identity". The problem for women is that fundamentalism is a on the rise worldwide. They are reasserting male dominance and evolving into tools for civic repression, suite control and violence. Fundamentalism is "a religious movement that demands a strict adherence to a set of basic principles". A few things that I remember that fundamentalist movements did to women are that women's freedom, education, political positions, access to abortion and birth control is denied. They also talk about the methods the fundamentalist movements use to gain power and that is education, media, and political power. This was an okay article to read. I really learned a lot.