7th: things fall apart, midsummers night dream
8th: the pearl, Frankenstein, animal farm
9th: summer - life if pi, to kill a mocking bird. School year - Romeo and Juliet, (book of choice) long walk
10th: summer- count of monte Cristo and love in the time of cholera .. Right now we're reading things fall apart (again...)
We're reading to kill a mockingbird currently, and it's the only book we've done so far in 10th grade. last year, we did: 5 people you meet in heaven, flowers for algernon(novel), 12 angry men, life of pi, and romeo+juliet.
Life of pi is probably 3x as good as the movie; the book was really good.
I read flowers for algernon I think because my grandpa was telling me how his college professor was writing it when he attended Ohio state
Also.. Do you guys think its that important to do a sport (and get into a top school... Possibly Princeton)? I couldn't do any sports for the past few years because I had chest pain while vigorously exercising (anything involving jumping/bouncing; jogging).. The doctors said I'm fine so I picked up running (having trouble keeping up with it) ... But joining a sport is a ton of work... Especially since it'll probably be practice get home for a little bit babysitting for 3 hours, hw, bed, most everyday of the week.. I really want to (mostly because of college) but I'm already wiped at the end of the day..
Location: Kicking the Heat's arse------>Go Spurs GO!!!!!!!
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Okay Hobbit:
#1 Dont pee your pants onstage
#2 Dont Faint
#3 Dont mumble
#4 Dont be that shy kid who everyone spends 10 minutes looking for
#5 Dont say stupid jokes
Follow the 5 rules to give a great speech and youll do fine
(From my Debate Class: the 5 high rules to speeches)
Location: You'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just makes them dead.
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UK (unofficial) rules of debating:
1. NEVER mention Hitler
2. Never mention god (except in a religious debate)
3. No foxing, squirrelling or badgering
4. No countering POI answers
(I'm in a really good mood because I just got back from a set of exams and interviews for a school to a letter from WESTMINSTER school saying I did well in the exams and am getting and interview!!!!!)
I honestly think the flu shot is somewhat of a hoax; I've never once gotten a flu shot (or the nose spray thing) and I have never in my life gotten the flu (neither had either of my siblings or my mom).. My mom never let us get it because she had a young teacher get the shot and die from the flu a few weeks later.. Just thought I'd put that our there..
