Literary Bolg Nuber 8

I am partners with Sahmara and during our brainstorm session we came up with some ideas. Some of our ideas are:

1) You follow a bunch of different types of schools without them knowing and have a bunch of hidden cameras and their is someone who is disguised and they take a walk through the school and see which school helps them out the most and give them a good time, every week a school gets disqualified and the school at the end that wins gets a choice of renovations, money, school supplies or so gym equipment. We chose it because we have never really seen a reality TV show about schools.I think the TV show would probably be on a channel like TLC. This show would probably be shown on a Monday night during Prime Time. I think more moms would find this show interesting because then they can see what kind of schools are out there.

2) There is a group of teenagers that get chosen and they have to design outfits of the judges choice for their model and the models have to wear exactly what the teenagers chose, the teenager then has describes the outfit to the  judges and the judges give them a mark out of 10 each so a total mark out of 50 and the teenager with the lowest score gets disqualified. The show would start off with 15 teenagers either girls or guys. The show would probably last about a couple months. The winner would win a cash prize and a chance to meet their favourite celebrity. This show would be targeted towards more teenagers and be on probably on a Sunday night also during prime time.

Literary Blog Number 7

    The TV show that I relate to Tori by design is "90210". IN the show "90210" Annie moves from Kanas to the big city of Beverly hills just like Tori moves from a small place to New York. Tori and Annie are alike because they both start of as friends with these boys and then starts to fall in love with them even though they are both already dating people. A difference between them is the drama, in Tori by design the drama is more with her family about the baby coming but in "90210" the drama is more about their relationships as friends. I think Annie and Tori are very alike because they both over react about stuff they find out about that is a shock to them. Both "90210" and Tori by design are full of drama but "90210" is more of the adult drama and for the teen ages but Tori by design is for teenagers but not for adults to read. It is more for just teenagers to read but "90210" can be for teenagers or adults to watch. Some more differences of the two are Tori by design has fewer characters then "90210". Also, in "90210" all the characters have different relationships and all know each other cause they all go to school together and have the same group of friends, but in Tori by design all the kids don't know each other and they all don't have relationships with each other.

How google docs can help you

     Google Docs can help us because if people are busy and can't get together as a group then when they have free time they can do their part and everyone can see what they did. Also, you never know what people's comfort level is about going to people's house that they don't know. This way everyone can do their part of the work and it is visible for everyone in the group to see it. you can write comments and chat with them so if you make a change in the project you can write them to the rest of your group and let them know what you did so they are aware. Also, it would help us communicating with our teacher. If you need to show your teacher something you can attach it to Google docs and send it to your teacher and if they have any advice to give you they could write it and you could see it.. It is one way that also helps save paper. It would help me personally because it is a very easy way to work with your group without actually getting together. It's easier then getting together because you need to find times that you can get together and a place you could go. With Google docs you can do your work whenever you have a free time and you can see what everyone else is doing and give them some tips or if you see a spelling mistake, they could do the same for you.

New Book

I have finished reading Dear John and I have moved on to a new book called Tori by Design by Colleen Nelson. Its about a girl named Tori and she makes her dad apply for a job in new york because she wants to live there. Her dad gets the job and they move from Winnipeg to New York.. but it is really different from what Tori imagined it to be. Colleen Nelson is from Winnipeg so in the book she keeps going back talking about Winnipeg.. Colleen had an assignment that she had to do for school and it was to write a chapter of a book. Later she had her first book published. I like the book because when she talks about some of the tourists places in Winnipeg I know what she is talking about. Anyone that likes drama kind of books would really like Tori by Design.

Literacy Blog Assignment #6

Today I commented on the following blogs:


Sarah Baxter's Library- Sarah Baxter
Jessica's Blog- Jessica M
Kylagymnast- Kyla D
SydneyMoreau98- Sydney M
Infinity- Emily H
Marial Arts98- Sahmara F

Literary Blog Number 5

     My favourite scene in the book is when Savannah is with all of her friends at the pier during the day and her guy friend knocks her purse into the ocean and she starts freaking out. So, John dives into the ocean to retrieve her purse for her. John had just came back and he is on leave from the army and he is visiting is dad, Savannah is in Wilmington working with a group of people on a house while she is on her break from University. I like this scene because we get to meet Savannah and John together and see how they act around each other. At first John isn't sure whether he should or not but then Savannah starts yelling at her friend that knocked it in saying all of this valuable stuff that she has in it so at the moment John decides to jump in. While John and Savannah start talking I could tell that at that moment they would fall in love. I like that because then right away the book gets better because it starts right away not 10 chapters into the book but the first chapter so you get an idea of how the book will play out and you can make better predictions because you know more about the character. Making predictions for a book once you read the first couple chapters is hard because you don't always know all of the characters but in Dear John their are 3 main characters that we follow through the story and those characters are John, Savannah and John's Dad, we meet all of the characters and learn about them all in the first couple chapters.

Literary blog assingment number 4

     The author of my book is Nicholas Sparks. Sparks uses different kind of styles, depending on the character some of them use slang when communicating with each other but most of them speak more business- like. For example John and his dad speak more in formal when talking to each other, because John's dad speaks in very short sentences like only one word answers " I'll probably be sleeping." " I didn't mean it literally ". ( Sparks, 104 ) When you see Savannah and all her friends talk they talk in short sentences but more of a high vocabulary of words. Sparks chose to write Dear John in first person point of view. The book is organized into chapters but with three parts, Chapters 1-12, Chapters 12-16 and 16-20. I am just finishing Part 1 so I think that their would be a reason for splitting it up into 3 parts but I have not gotten their yet. I think Sparks decided to write it how he did so far because he doesn't think and love story is written in formal and because he wants to get it across to young girls to read it. I think it helps people understand love and the many ways it can go. The way the Sparks wrote the book really got across to me, I like love story and romantic novels but not all authors I like. I thought Sparks did a very good job of writing the book, it doesn't go into to much detail but enough detail for us to understand.