Animal Farm Theme

Animal Farm is a book that has a lot of different things going on at once so there are a lot of different themes that I could list. But I think in Animal Farm the most important theme would be to not let people get in your way and don't let people have too much control over you, and don't always trust everybody. I think this is a good theme for Animal Farm because when them animals sent Mr. Jones away, the animals said that they were all going to be equal but that didn't happen. When Napoleon started to be in charge the animals thought that it was normal to for Napoleon to act the way he did, they thought it was normal for him to take away privileges. I think if the animals would have known that this is not normal behavior for a leader to have, they would have done something about Napoleon. I think the animals would have trusted him a lot less if they knew what was actually going on. Not always trusting people would be a really good theme for this book because in Animal Farm, you can see where trusting everybody can lead you down the wrong path. 

 Photo By Scott Maxwell

What I am thankful For

Thanksgiving is the time of the year when you really look around and see all the wonderful things that you have that other people don't have. I am thankful for a lot of things including my family and my friends. I am so thankful for my family, they are with me through everything and I would not be at the place that I am without them. I am also beyond thankful for my friends, I would be absolutely nowhere without them. Another thing I am thankful for is my school, I have been at DCA since I was in kindergarten and I would not want to be anywhere else. Thanksgiving is A wonderful time of the year, I love to give to the less fortunate people and I love being able to thank God for all the things that I have.

Modern day actors in Julius Caesar

There are a lot of actors that could replace the characters in Julius Caesar but there are a few that I think would fit best. I think Jim Carrey would play a very good Cassius just because Jim Carrey has a kind of powerful but fun type of personality in his movies and I think he would play Cassius very well. I have thought a lot about who i think could play Brutus and I think the best fit for him would be Will Ferrell because in most of Will Ferrell's movies he is powerful and laid back just how Brutus is. As for Antony, I think Jack black would be a goof fit for him because in the Jack black movies that I have watched, he always has a friend that he is loyal to just like Antony was loyal to Caesar. Last, for Caesar I think his best fit would be Al Pachino because in all of his movies, Al is very powerful and gets what he wants most of the time, but he can also be down to earth at times.                             Photos by Henry Stroud

                                                                                 

Battles in Julius Caesar

I did my project on the Battles in Julius Caesar. I did my project by researching the maps of the battles of Philippi. After I researched those maps I put information on the board about why the maps look the way that they did and why they took the routes that they did. I also included information about what happened at the Battles at Philippi. I learned some things from this project that I didn't learn from the book, such as when Cassius killed himself, some people thought it was because he couldn't deal with loosing the war but it was actually because he thought Tinnitus had been captured. I think this project helped me learn more about The battles in Julius Caesar and i think that everybody else's project helped me learn things about Julius Caesar and the ancient Roman times that I have never known before.

If there was such thing as a demon pig

If there was such thing as A demon pig, I would imagine that it would be walking around it's farm all the time trying to kill people. I think its owner would pick up on the fact that it is a demon one day and he would set it free. After the owner sets the demon pig free it would go wild in the woods and kill everything in its path. After it gets done killing everything in the its path people would not be able to hunt and every time people would try to hunt, they would be attacked by the demon pig. After a sometime of the demon pig killing people in the wild, the population of that state would go down and the animal population would go down a lot. If that happened then someone would have to risk their life to kill the pig. if they succeeded then there would be nothing to worry about but if the person trying to kill the pig didn't succeed, then there would be a demon pig running in the wild for the rest of eternity, and that is why I think the demon pig is the most scary animal combination.

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Friendships

Friendship is something that everyone should experience all the time. I love my friends. First, I got to know a lot of new people that came to Dca. My friends are the reason I get excited to come to school everyday. Friendship is rough sometimes but every type of relationship is going to have it's bad times. I love to have my friends around me all the time, because they make my day one hundred times better. Every time I have a bad day my friends are always there for me. I would say Friendship is an awesome thing. 

photo by Redenchilada 

My favorite Bible Verse Romans 8:28

My favorite Bible Verse is Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things God works for the good of those that love him, who have been called according to his purpose." This is my favorite verse because it explains why God helps the people that he does. If you love God then he is working for you because you work for him. This is also my favorite verse because it tells you that everything will work out if you love God and believe in him.

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Summer Reading

While the class was going over the Literary elements for The Outsiders, I learned a lot about how the book was written. It was written in 1st person because there was a narrator actually telling the story. I never understood that before. I also learned a lot about 3rd person and how that means that someone is telling a story about the main character. I'm glad that I learned those because they will be very useful in high school.

My School year Accomplishments

This year in 9th grade I would like to accomplish a lot of things. First of all, I would really like to get great grades.Honor roll is my goal. I have always had the goal of Honor Roll and I hope this year in 9th grade I can achieve it. I would also like to make a lot of new friends. I have a ton of friends but there are people that i'm not close too that I would like to be close to. Friends are what make school fun, that's why I want to have a lot of friends. I'm not quite sure what my spiritual goal is for this school year. I always want to be closer to God. The reason I want to be closer to God is because he helps me a lot through stress and it makes me feel so much better to be closer to him. Hopefully this year he will guide me to be closer to him.

Photo by Sal Falko