The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture is a book I just started to read today. I'm on chapter eight already and I've learned a lot. It's made me think about some of the choices I've made in life. Most of them were made with no reason, I went with what I want. I will remember the one line "Never sit around and wonder, open an encyclopedia, open the dictionary, open your mind." I used this once already today, I didn't know what a word meant. Instead of asking and taking guesses I grabbed a dictionary and found out for myself.

I am reading the book "Copper Sun." Sydney recommended this book for me and so far it has been good. I think this book is very interesting so far. It is mainly about one person who goes through slavery. She has not yet been sold because I am only on page 70, but I am guessing she is going to get sold. This book is very graphic and describes exactly what the white men do to the slaves.

Rangers Apprentice Book 8

Horace, Halt, and Will now work together and gets to go on adventures all over the world. Later in the book Halt mentions that a cult named The Outsiders are trying to rebuild what they lost back when they still had power, but later on now lost there chance when they tried to trick Halt's brother who later on dies in the end. They fought there ways on how to encounter The Outsiders so they don't succeed there plans.

I am reading "The Lost Boy" and it is an exceptional book. It shows that although foster care often gets a bad rap, not all homes are bad, and they are usually better than the conditions that children were facing in their biological parent's home. Some of David's actions are also wrong, which considering his past, isn't surprising. I don't know if rewriting the book he realizes he was wrong at the time, although looking at my own past I don't know if I've been wrong and still believe I'm right. (doubtful)

Topics are everywhere. . . you just have to look, listen, & think

I've spent a good part of my weekend contemplating the upcoming week's classes (not just Independent Literature, but certainly including Ind Lit). So, what about this blog business. . .

Blogging is your opportunity to explore your thoughts and share your higher level thinking. And it is so much easier than you think it is.

Without much thought, 3 potential topics for my own post have surfaced:

• Rereading

 

• Libraries

• Lit to screen:

After letting the prospects simmer for a while, I've decided to focus on the idea of Literature to Screen. 

I binge watched 13 episodes (roughly 13 hours) of 13 Reasons Why this weekend. Really enjoyable; I recommend. I read the book several years ago. Typical of my reading experience, I remember I liked the book, but almost nothing else. Watching the television show was almost like experiencing the story for the first time. As I watched, I couldn't help but wonder about the role watching a screen adaptation plays in comparison to reading. Is one medium better than the other? 

Part of me (probably the English teacher part) screams the book is better. But really, I think it is an idea needing exploration. 

And one I'll come back to, but for the moment, I have a goal to keep this post short. As you consider the seed of thought I've planted, I'd be interested in knowing your thoughts on visual v. textual.