Morrie blog

4/28/16
Book: "Tuesdays with Morrie"
Prompt: Based on the 6 Tuesdays you have read about in Tuesdays with Morrie, choose which topic (The World, Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, or Emotions) that has had the most impact on you or inspired you. On your blog discuss the importance of this topic with your own opinions, including textual evidence (direct quotes) from the book.


          The "Tuesday" I picked was the first one. "We Talk about the World." I picked this one for a variety of reasons. The first reason I picked this chapter was because it had almost all of the life lessons in the other chapter. It talked about how death made a person finally cry for another person. Also, when it talked about how to learn how to give love and bring it in. Another one is how Morrie crys for half the world. When he started to talk about what was happening in Bosnia he almost started to cry. This shows that we should be like Morrie and at least show some compassion towards the people that are suffering. 

          Mitch said that the death of a person could finally make a person cry for another person. "Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another." This is true. I don't want to believe it because we should always show compassion towards other people, but this is true. The death of someone that you have held close to you can make you shed a tear for them or maybe even a stranger. This is one of the things that impacted me in this chapter.

          Another thing that impacted me was when Morrie said that you should learn to give out love and bring in love. "His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. 'Love is only a rational act.''" This impacted me very much because it is I have never really thought about love like that. That if we let it in we will become soft, but that isn't always the case. I think "Levine" is right. He did say it right. These are the things that have impacted me the most throughout the story so far.

Tuesdays with Morrie - Bucket List

4/20/16
Prompts:
1.) What are your initial reactions to what you have read in "Tuesdays with Morrie" thus far?
2.) One of the main themes developing in "Tuesdays with Morrie" is not to take your life for granted. Based on this premise, what is your bucketlist?

          I have had many thoughts during this book. It has made me think about the small things in life and to step back now and then and see the big picture. Also, not to take things for granted. What caught my attention the most was the way Morrie speaks. His words hit you like a bulldozer, but as you make sense of them they become clear and understandable. You have to step back for a little and see the big picture. He has his own sort of language like a mix between figurative language and the regular way that someone else would talk. He is a very powerful speaker.

           Something that astonished me was how he was so open. Morrie isn't closed off. He is unique and some of us would consider him weird. I also liked how he advised 9 million people that they shouldn't close themsleves off from the world. They should accept that they are going to die and share it, talk about, laugh with it, mourn with it, be happy with it. You shouldn't just give up, you should not just contine you your daily life but add somethiong extra to it. He talked about his death and death in general. He talked about that he is not just a wave in the ocean, he is the ocean. He says that he will die, but will live on in a different way. Morrie is a very inspiring person and he was right. He stills lives on one way or another.

          I haven't really thought about my bucket-list before except going sky-diving and a few other crazy things. I have taken my very life for granted. Morrie says that you shouldn't take anything for granted. So I guess here goes my bucket-list:

• Sky-diving
• Be one of the few people to go into space as a traveler
• Bungie jumping
• Play in the US Open
• Meet the president
• Meg Messi
• Visit all 50 states of the United States
• Visit all 7 continents 

         

3rd Quarter Reflection

Nicolas Fuentes
4/8/16
Prompts:
1.) In what area do you think you've made your biggest improvements in English Language Arts?
2.) What is something that you have accomplished this quarter that you are proud of?
3.) What has been the most challenging part of 3rd quarter for you and what did/can you do to help overcome this?

          I personally think I have improved in many different areas in English Language Arts. The one that I think I improved most on was my vocabulary. Instead of using words like big and good I use words like supreme and excellent. I use better words to express myself in a more profound way. This helps me like in the narrative paper that we wrote and the argumentative paper that we wrote. This is what i think is my biggest accomplishment in third quarter.

           Something that I have accomplished this quarter that I am proud of is writing my argumentative paper. Even though it was the most challenging for me I am still very proud of it because I put a lot of effort in it. A lot of time was put it in. I extracted facts and details for it and that was hard for me, but I took lots of time to choose correctly. This is what I am proud of.

           The most challenging part of 3rd quarter for me was having to write the argumentative essay. It was hard for me because first off, we had to really investigate our topic. We had to pull key facts that would aid us in writing our research paper. Then, we had to write a argument for the other side and that was like contradicting what I had been researching for days. Finally, we had to piece all of the research together and develop it into a argumentative paper. It was somewhat confusing but then I was able to understand how it all worked. This is what was the most challenging part of 3rd quarter
for me.