That reminds me, Osama Bin Ladin is dead!

So it's official, he's dead.  But that's not why I'm posting another blog.

WHY DO YOU GUYS WAIT TO POST UNTILL SUNDAY NIGHT!?!?!?!?

I wanted to give some comments, but there were too scarse and not diverse enough.  Please just post a blog response-thingy in the middle of the week, that way I can get this over with faster and not stay up so late.

Research paper

Im really not looking forward to this research paper being due
friday, but im hoping that once i start writing my rough draft it will
just start coming naturally without to much difficulty. Im having a
hard time with my essays for the quizzes... sometimes i and to general
and other times i dont develop a certain idea enough, and im kind of
confused on when i should do which? I am excited to read the color purple
though, im really hoping i can get into the book being the last one i will have
to read for high school ever!!.. and it makes the assignment that much better(:

I don't really know...

So I'm not sure about how I did on the quiz... I'm hoping it went okay overall, as I took some advice and tried to use a different method while going about the quiz. I guess that no matter what the outcome is, I will have to be okay with it. I enjoyed the Poisonwood Bible as a whole (I prefer the reading just for the enjoyment), but I'm glad it is time for us to move on. I'm looking forward to the next novel(s) and I can't wait to see what lesson will be coming at us next.
As of the project, I am a little worried, but I am confident that it will all turn out, as it always has in the past. I know that I am farther behind than I should be, but if I manage my time properly I shouldn't have too many problems. I am glad that we, once again, get to have rough drafts to hand in before our finals, and I really hope it will help me understand everything more clearly.

Great Golly Miss Molly!

So this uh...this project...I should actually stop procastinating. But that just happens to be my biggest problem! I cant seem to work unless a deadling is fast approaching. Which means that this week will be absolutly crazy and a bit stressful. My topic is arts in education so its been I'really fun to research! I happen to be a band geek which I'm sure most of you know so I think the arts are really important! Its actually been really fun to look up the different effects (affects??) that music and the other arts have on the brain. Sometimes I just want to kill Mr. I. for the weird time signatures and crazy hard pieces he throws at us but through my research I've realized that the awfulness actually helps with my math..another awful thing I might add! Its also been proven that students that work in the arts have better problem solving skills and do better on tests like the ACT and SAT. Researching has been almost painless...the hard part comes when I have to put it together and make it make sense when its not just floating around in my head...ruhroh raggy...

The Poisonwood Bible was a really good book, but at the end I was slacking off on the reading and just kind of fell off. Therefore, I am excited we will begin a new novel. If I am correct there are three options and we get to read as many as we want. I know for sure that I want to read The Color Purple, I heard that it's very controversial and interesting.

New Book

So I'm looking foward to the second chance that this new book is giving me. Hopefully I enjoy the book so it isnt torcher when I read it. Cuase Ill be reading it. Well I would blabber on about the poisonwood bible, but were done reading it. Darn. Its been real. See ya!

Culture Challenge

My topic for our senior projects is Cultural Dynamics, in other words i'm researching the impact cultural diversity has on schools and if a cultural bias has formed in curriculum and standardized testing. Coming from a small school I didn't feel that culture could have much of an impact on learning. That was until I came across the Oakland Ebonic's controversy. In 1996 the Oakland school board approved the use of Ebonics(otherwise known as "ghetto talk") to help their students learn standard english. The school board approved the use of Ebonics since 52% of their students were african american, and african american students accounted for 80% of the school suspensions and 71% of them were classified as having special needs. Also the average GPA for these students was a D+. I was shocked when i found this out. This has open eyes, I see now that culture plays a crucial part of learning, and our school system does not do enough to assist culturally different people. And with our nation becoming more diverse every day this is a problem that has to be dealt with quickly.

A New Favorite :]

Well, I spent a wonderful weekend in East Lansing and part of that was a Sunday afternoon in Barnes and Noble. I decided to check out some of Barbara Kingsolver's other novels and I found a good one!!! Prodigal Summer!! I only read the first chapter but I know already that from the way I loved The Poisonwood Bible and how this new one is starting, I really like the style of writing Kingsolver does. It's entertainig, intelligent, and makes you connect multiple things in one idea. I kinda want us to hurry up and read The Color Purple so I can start a new Kingsolver one...cause I don't dare start a good book when I know I have a required one coming over the hill. That's just not a good idea.

The Office

I'm sitting at home right now watching The Office. Strangely, it is reminding me of the Poisonwood Bible. It has stories of different characters, wrapped up in one greater story. I'm not really sure why this show is funny...

Anyways, I'm excited to be done with The Poisonwood Bible. It was a rather lengthy book, and I feel very accomplished to have finished it. I really don't read a lot at all, so reading as much as we are these past couple of trimesters makes me feel really good.

I took a copy of The Color Purple home on Thursday or Friday, I don't remember which day, and it seems like it is going to be a good book.

A new name!

My research paper is about the importance of foreign language classes in public school systems. I was wondering if one of you creative people out there could help me come up with an exciting and interesting title!