gigi+reading+journal

__1st Reading Journal__
===The website I check out everyday is [|www.youtube.com]. I guess everybody knows about youtube. It's a website for people to watch vedios and for vedio makers to upload and share their vedios. It's also a platform for people to show their talents or to express themselves. Vedios are usualyl classifed into differet types, like music, news and so on. I usually go for funny vedios. For recommendation, I'll suggest nigahiga. I think his vedios are really funny and awesome. I can't stop laughing when I'm watching his vedios.===

__2nd Reading Journal__
===‘Twins’ is a mysterious story. I think this story is quite confusing. It does not give a clear image about the murderer. From ’”It’ll work, all right. It’s going to work.” He pulled the trigger once, twice, three times,’, I suspect that the writer is the murderer. He planned the whole thing from the beginning till the end. His wife had fallen into his trap and got killed by him.===

===After I have read the story for a few times, I’m still not very sure about what the whole story actually is. I don’t understand who killed who. I’m so confused, especially for the last two paragraphs. I thought the writer killed his wife, but it turned into she killed him. It doesn’t make sense at all. So, who killed who?===

===Mysterious story is totally not my type. I hate guessing. I prefer the writer writing out all the information. After a few hours of guessing, in the end I don’t get any answers. It’s kind of wasting my time. There’s one more thing I don’t like about ‘Twins’. That is there’s no ending. I feel like I don’t know the story if there’s no ending. No matter how the ending is, I just want an ending.===

__4th reading journal__
===School is a place for you to be knowledgeable, it is also a place for you to grow into a better person. In school, we will learn different things. In my point of view, I think it is alright to teach murder stories. This kind of stories reflect out real life. People do kill. Sometimes they are forced to kill under certain circumtances. Like in Twins, the wife was forced to kill, otherwise she will be the one lying in the coffin. As we are reading, we also learn. We know what is right and what is wrong. It is our own choice to choose to do the right thing or not. We are mature enough to make wise choices.===

===Of course stories can also causes an impact to out life. It can be good or bad. We read it, we know that killing is illegal. So, we will not do it. Though in Twins the wife was not arrested in the end, I believe that lie will be exposed one day. Some people might get too into the story, they lose control. They thoguht they are the character inside the story. They try to follow what the character did in the story. This will be a very bad impact.===

===Everybody imagines. As we grow other, our imagination is getting narrower. It is good to read imaginative stories like Twins. This give spaces for us to imagine. There is no fixed answer for the ending of Twins. We have to imagine by ourself.===

The topic of our story is “The invisible magic paperclip causes trouble in Hamilton”. It is a fantasy and the sub-genre is suspend. Our presentation will be done by filming.
===To begin with our story, we have to create our own world. A world that is different from reality. It has its own law, own geography, own animals, own people and so on. Since the story is a fantasy, magic will be a significant element. We have to create the rules for the magic, of what is the required action and what is the possible action. Only by creating rules we will make our story believable. Our story consists of 2 different worlds. We will have to create a map for our story. Map helps lend depth to our story as we write. Besides, the detail will be more grounded.=== ===I am the newspaper writer. My headline is “ “5” Big Chaos in Hamilton”. It is a mystery related to “5”, and people in Hamilton could not find out the reason to explain. They mysteries began with a sun eclipse. A descendant of a witch claimed that the mysteries are related to the magic paper clip.===

On the top the website, it tells us what a newspaper is. We have to know what a newspaper is before we could write a newspaper. It clearly explained the function and basis of a newspaper.
===In the middle part, it provides the information about the purpose of writing the newspaper, types of newspaper articles, the structure of newspaper, the language used, the language features and the visuals.===

__7th reaing journal__
===I am the newspaper writer. Writing a newspaper is not an easy task. There are a lot of rules to follow when writing a newspaper. A newspaper should be informative and report facts. I think it is quite hard for me to make up things, as all the things I wrote are not real. In addition, I have to write it like reporting something which seemed to have happened. The hardest part is that I have to combine the 5 chaos in one article, which I think is challenging.=== ===I quite like this job. This job requires a lot of imagination. It’s a challenge to me, as I’m a convergent person. I enjoy learning to be more divergent. It is my first time to write a newspaper and I enjoy writing it, especially coming up with ideas.=== ===As this is a practice to prepare the Macbeth project, I hope that next time I can do even better. This is a very good preparation for the Macbeth project. It is more important to learn from experience than learning from an informative book.===

__9th reading journal__
===Both Boo Radley and the man in Tom Waits' //What's He Building Down There? //are mysterious. Nobody knows the background of them. They have no friends. They live in a house and no one knows what they do inside the house. There are legends about them, but we do not know if that’s real. This makes people feel scared about them. Dill was attracted by the act of Boo Radley. The more bizarre he was, the more curious he was. He wanted to explore and know more about Boo Radley. Tom Waits keep on repeating the line “what’s he building down there?”, this is just like Dill. They felt very much interested to know what is actually happening. ===

===I think he’s building a secret basement to hide himself and guess Boo Radley looked very scary. Long white hair on his head, and they were very messy. He’s very thin and tall. His clothes were torn. ===

===The worse thing I ever experienced is that I was lectured by the vice principal in my old school. That day was cold. I went to school wearing a jacket which violates the school rules. It’s very unfortunate that I met the vice principal when I entered the school. She asked me why I was wearing that coat. I said nothing, because I thought answering back is a very rude thing to do. But then I was wrong, she scold me for not answering her and said that I was rude. I was asked to go into her room and listen to her lecture for half an hour, and I got something like acts in CIC. My parents just think that my school is very stupid. Even on a cold day they don’t allow students to wear jackets. ===

===Scout was being scold because he knows how to read and he’s not afraid to talk. It’s not her fault to be too smart. I think it’s very unreasonable. Miss Caroline kept on pinpointing scout. No matter what she did she thought it’s wrong. I think Scout’s experience is worse than mine. She sees her teacher everyday whereas I just seldom meet my vice principal. It would be a very hard time for Scout to pass through. ===

===**In chapter 3, Burris mortificated Ms. Caroline by calling her a slut in front of the whole class. My old school is a very traditional school .If we say one bad words deliberately, I reckon we will get a demerit immediately. It is an illicit thing to do. We have to be very polite and greet every teacher when ever we meet them. We even have to bow to the principal. It’s like making yourself falling into a gouge and you can never go up again if you say a bad word.**=== ===**One time, one of my schoolmates A was talking with schoolmate B. “Let’s go to the beach, ‘ya hear?” A said. A teacher passed by and thought A was saying B was a bitch. The teacher was very mad with A. A tried to explain to the teacher, but the teacher didn’t listen to A explanation at all. The teacher just thought that A was trying to get rid of this trouble. At last A got a demerit for this.**=== ===**Burris scolded Ms Caroline publicly, but he didn’t get into any trouble. In my old school, the teachers didn’t even listen to the student’s explanation, which I think is unfair. I hope teachers can be like Atticus and look at things on both sides before judging.**===

__**Reading Journal 11**__
===My old school is a catholic school. I especially hate my religion studies’ teacher. I’m atheist. I don’t believe in anything, but I respect her religious belief. I don’t know why she has to force me to believe in God. Every time when classes start, she forces everybody to pray. If you don’t pray, you’ll be asked to pray alone after everybody finishes their prayer.=== ===But if I’m her, I think I’ll do the same things as what she did, since I don’t want to get fired. Rules are rules, we have to follow it, no matter how much we dislike it. I’m being paid, so I have to teach my students about Jesus. That’s my job.===

Boo Radley:
===My family seldom went out. We didn’t even go to the church on Sunday. As I grew older, I started to want to go out. I acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum. We hung around the barbershop, we rode the bus to Abbottsville on Sundays and went to picture show. We attended dances, and experienced stumphole. People said I’m with the wrong crowd, but it seemed my parents never knew about this. I broke the rules, I want to get attention from them. One time, I was charged on disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female. I was released, but my dad had to make sure that I made no further trouble. This was the first time I got some attention from my dad. After this incident, I was locked up in the house. I hated my parents. They only cared about me when things happened. I’m not angry, but I’m sad and disappointed. One day, I lost control. I stabbed on my dad’s thigh. I am not an animal, I don’t want to be locked up. I stabbed on him because I want him to know that I will rebel him. I won’t just knuckle under him so easily. The more he want me to listen to him, the more I want to be against him.===

===When we are born, we are all good person. We know nothing about this word, we are as pure as an angel. As we grow older, we have more contact with this world. We know more about the reality. Sometimes even we know something is wrong, we’ll still do it. We have a desire to break the rules. This is the evil in everybody. If you can’t control it well, it’ll come out and do evil things.===

__Reading Journal 12__
===Children are naïve. When they say the words “nigger lover”, I think they are just making fun of the black because of their different skin color. They didn’t really understand what racism is. They might think that they were from a different world; they didn’t want to play with someone that’s different. So when Atticus was defending a Tom Robison, the children made fun of it. Whereas for Mrs. Dubose, she’s very mean to the black. She seriously disliked all the black. Even when the moment she died, she still hated the black. I think she might have some misunderstanding with black before, that’s why she hated them so much. For me, I’m fine with everybody. I don’t discriminate anybody. I even would love to know people that come from different country.===

Reading Journal 13

Ms Dubose showed much courageous through out chapter 11 because she knew that she has a flaw and she was not trying to conceal it, but to face it.. Ms Dubose took Morphine as a pain killer for years and she was addicted to it. “Something had happened to her. She lay on her back with the quilts up to her chin. Only her head and shoulder were visible. Her head moved slowly from side to side. From time to time she would open her mouth wide, and I could see her tongue undulate faintly. Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own. It worked separate and apart from the rest of her, out and in, like a clam hole at low tide.” (Harper Lee, Chapter 11). It is very hard for a morphine addict to resist taking drug. Ms Dubose tried her best to resist it before she died. She asked Jem to read for her, so as to distrat her. She knew it was wrong to take Morphine as Morphine is a illegal drug. Once in china, a man tried to stop the tram with his bare hands promptly to save people on it as it was about to crash with another coming tram. He lost his arm at last. Everybody was obliged to him. In my point of view, I think both of them is a hero. They faced difficulties with confidence, resolution and a firm control of oneself. Even though Ms Dubose was not a femine lady, she attributes courageous. She made a great amount of self-confidence to controll herself from resisting Morphine.