My first question to everyone is how was your Freshman Year? Did you like it? Did you hate it?

To me Freshman Year was a tough year, but some parts of it were still fun. Some of my favorite classes were Drafting and Intro to Tech (Woodshop). In those classes you had to work hard, but you often had fun and could talk with other people as long as you were working on what you were supposed to be working on.

Drafting is a fun class because as long as you draw the drawings out the book you can still talk to friends. Its a little complicated, but after using commands over and over you get the hang of how to do the drawings and if you need to fix something, its no problem.

Woodshop is another fun class. You have to make the three items he shows you, but you have that class everyday and you get to work on things. After you make those items and get ahead a little, you can start making whatever you want. I have made at least two of everything we have made all year. That classes is really good for later in the future and it is fun. You get to make things out of wood and then take them home when you are finished to have for yourself or if you have made it for someone.

Those are major classes too, but they were a lot more fun than actual subjects. Civics was also another fun class with Mr. Hein. Even though it is tough to understand sometimes with government and how it functions, he always made class fun. Freshman year was a fun year, but a lot of hardwork and sometimes it can be disappointing.

Some classes are more fun than others and thats just the way it works. That is why before this year I chose carefully of what I was going to take and I am happy with what I took because some classes that I took were really fun, but no matter what you have to take English, Math, Science, and a type of Social Studies. If you didn't have to take those classes, I think everyone would agree with me, that nobody would take them.

The most important thing is that you have to do your work. I slacked off a little from time to time and I still have good grades, but I could be doing better if I stayed doing all my homework. I am not telling you to do your homework once in a while because it might cost you some grade points and that could be the difference from passing and failing.

Those are some of the bad things along with a few others because if you don't stay on top of your work, you will get behind, there is no doubt. Freshman year is not like Jr. High; the teachers don't help you to get your work. You have to go to that teacher and ask them yourself.

There are some good things in your Freshman year, but in my opinion there is more bad things. I have already told you about the bad things, but some good things are is a bigger talent show. If you choose some minor classes instead of all major classes you will have a lot more fun. Plus, it is not as much work as a major class and it is also a lot more fun. Intro to Tech is a good example. Making things in woodshop, its a good skill to have and its not as serious as regular, boring, major classes.

Your first year in High School is tough, but if you do the things you like and have fun in school, then it shouldn't be much of a problem, but in order to do well you have to apply yourself and your skills to get through the year.

Sincerely, Tyler

What song refers most to Romeo and Juliet. "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straights? "Prepare the Masses" by A Change of Pace? or "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult? In my opinion the song "Prepare the Masses" by A Change of Pace is a good description of Romeo and Juliet.

Most songs just use Romeo and Juliet to say their love for each other, but this song actually talks about Romeo and Juliet's love and not just a boy and girl in love. Just like a boy and girl in love; it describes two people in love, but in the song it uses parts of the book to show how they describe Romeo and Juliet.

Out of the list of songs to choose from, I think this one was the most accurate of "our Romeo" and "our Juliet" because in some parts it uses lines from the book. It also mentions other parts of the book (not openly stated like some lines) if you know what their describing. The accuracy is very good for this song using quotes from the book and you can tell they are showing the real Romeo and Juliet.

That is why I think, out of the songs given to us, that "Prepare the Masses" by A Change of Pace is the best descrition of Romeo and Juliet and is also very accurate.

What kind of music do you like, what genre, rock, country, or maybe you like the new music coming out like dubstep and sceamo?

I got the idea to write about this blog at my friends house. I know it seems a little weird but we were listening to music pretty much the whole time I was there. Now I like a whole bunch of kinds of music. I used to like just rock and classic rock and I still do, but my friend had showed me a bunch of different songs, so I don't like just one kind of music anymore.

Plus music is something everybody can relate to, its not just for some people, every person can find  something they like. Everybody usually likes something different and that depends on your personality a little. Most people like a lot of different kinds of music and different artists, but it all depends on your personality and what you think about a song and how it sounds.

Comment and tell me what your favorite type of music is whether it's rap, rock, country, hip-hop or a combination of all of them.

What branch of the military is your favorite? Do you like being on the ground, in the air, or underwater?

The USAF (United States Air Force) is my favorite branch of the military. I think flying an F-16 would be a lot of fun. The reason I like the Air Force the best is because I think they are important.

ARMY

The army and national guard are usually just stationed around the U.S. unless of a natural disaster, when the national guard would help out which would be ok, but in other branches you get to go overseas and see the world.

COAST GUARD

The coast guard is part of the military that protects the ocean. They are stationed in the U.S. to protect and guard the ocean or who might be coming.

MARINES

The marines are our first line of defense in war, so if we get in a war the marines are the first ones sent out. I wouldn't want to be in that branch because in war they are first sent out and shot at.

NAVY

The navy is always underwater and in an enclosed space. I know the navy is usually the toughest people in the military, but being underwater, I think, wouldn't be a whole lot of fun and plus you can't explore.

AIR FORCE

I think the Air Force is the best because you have to fly and even though that might make you sick like on a submarine. In an airplane though you have to focus more on what your doing when in a sub some people just sit for the ride waiting to get to the destination. The Air Force I think is the most helpful too. They support ground forces and tell where the enemy is. They also fight other enemy planes who are trying to do the same thing we do, give the enemy our position.

That is why I think the Air Force is the best branch of the military. "I know all this because my uncle told me about all the branches of the military".

http://www.todaysmilitary.com/service-branches

Comment and tell me what your favorite branch of the military is?!?

A historist would celebrate the movie Saving Private Ryan by Robert Rodat.

One reason a historist would celebrate Saving Private Ryan because this movie shows how war is hell, and what it can do to a man. Even though it may not be for a younger person, there is a lot of swearing because war is a place where no one wants to go. It is a great example of historicism because it really focuses on the story's setting.

Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has never truly been there before.                                                -Larry Reeves

Another reason a historist would celebrate Saving Private Ryan is because the setting of the movie is just like the setting of real war and what happened back then. This movie shows great historicism because it emphasized the importance of history and it was based on a true historical event. The movie was about a battalion who go to rescue Pvt. Ryan after all his brother were killed in action during the Allied invasion of Norway on June 6th, 1944.

In conclusion, this is why a historist would celebrate the movie Saving Private Ryan because the movie showed how war can effect someone. The movie also showed what happened on that day and it was based on a true historical event during World War II.

Which way do you learn the best? Hand-on, seeing, or hearing? I learn best by doing things hands-on because you also get to actually do something while your learning.

In woodshop, we have made a heart shaped stand. The stand took us six weeks to make and I know that seems like a long time, but we only have forty-five minutes a day to work on our projects. Some days we even have less time because of Wednesdays. As you all know on  Wednesdays we have a shorter day, which means shortened periods.

With the heart shaped tables or stands, our teacher had to teach us how to use a new machine in the shop. We learned how to use the Radial Arm Saw. The Radial Arm Saw is a combination of a circular saw and a track arm execpt the radial arm saw does cut the wood all the way through. It cuts dados in the wood creating a small arc to put the screw in to attach the legs and the heart pieces together.

Making this project requires a lot of knowledge with power tools. You have to know how to use a power drill, a jigsaw, radial arm saw, and a power sander. When your table or stand is all done you have a decision to put on a coat of stain to make the wood darker, or you can just put on clear coat. A stain makes your wood darker and a clear coat just brightens up the project.

If you plan on making something like a stand or table it will take a lot of practice. Making something look good is easy, but actually making something good is the trick!

A snowboard. Some snow. A mountain. What's your first instinct? Mine is snowboarding.

Thursday on the twenty second we went on a ski trip to sno mountain. We had a lot of fun on our trip. We started off in a group with a bunch of friends, but then over time we started to go on our own. Every once in a while we would run into each other. It seems unlikely on a huge mountain, but on this trip it was close to fifty degrees so there was only five slopes open. Obviously your going to see someone in your whole group.

On this trip, I went on my first double black diamond which is one of the hardest trails. I convinced Chris to go down the first one with me and once we rode the ski lift back up there was another trial. I told Chris that that one was steeper and I wasn't sure we should go down the slope, but then Chris convinced me to go down that slope. The second double black diamond was a lot harder because it had moggals and it was also steeper. In the end we all had fun, but a lot of people were sore the next day including me.

Why is Mr. Dark  looking for Jim and Will in the library?

3rd Person Omniscient

ThereTyler was on his couch watching TV on a Sunday morning, when all of a sudden Tyler saw a bear outside. Tyler thought "Well I would like to get a better view of the bear, so I will go outside".
When the bear looked in the house and noticed Tyler coming outside, he thought "I hope this idiot just leaves me alone because if he doesn't I would beat him in a fight nine times out of ten".
Going out the door very slowly Tyler got a better view and when the bear looked at him, Tyler ran back inside.

Limited Omniscient

There Tyler  was on his couch watching TV on a Sunday morning, when all of a sudden Tyler saw a bear outside. Tyler thought "Well I would like to get a better view of the bear, so I will go outside". Then the bear noticed Tyler coming outside. Going out the door very slowly trying to get a better view of the bear, he was right there looking at me as if he already knew Tyler was coming out. When he looked at him, Tyler ran back inside.

Dramatic

There Tyler was on his couch watching TV on a Sunday morning, when all of a sudden Tyler saw a bear outside. Tyler decided to go outside and get a better view of the bear. The bear noticed him coming outside. Slowly Tyler went out the door and he looked at me. When he looked at me Tyler ran back inside.

Tyler B

English 9

Miss Transue

7 December 2011

A Fish or a Girl?

            Many people like to choose one thing over another just because it seems to be better than that one other thing, but in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, the narrator chose to try and be with Sheila Mant than the bass he had caught that day. In the end he decided to go with her, but I think he was wrong to do that because in the story Sheila was mean to him and since the narrator loves fishing more than anything else, he should’ve have stuck with fishing instead of trying to impress her throughout the story. I think the narrator was wrong to choose Sheila Mant over the bass.

            Sheila was mean to the narrator in various ways, but the narrator didn’t seem to realize it much because he was trying to catch a fish at the same exact time. When they went out in the narrator’s canoe, Sheila didn’t care about the narrator because she would always talk about herself because she thinks that she deserves a bunch of attention. While she tells him about what she likes and hates, the narrator catches a bass. It was the biggest one he has ever caught and when he has it on the line, he tells her that he loves fishing and she tells him “I hate fishing, it so boring and stupid”. At the beginning of the story, when the narrator asks Sheila Mant to go with him on the boat ride she was hesitant to even go with him because she knew that he was younger than her and that he liked her, but she didn’t want to be mean so she said yes.

            Another reason why I think the narrator was wrong to choose the girl over the bass is because the narrator is really good at fishing and has done it his whole life. The narrator is always practicing and trying to get better at fishing even though he is good at it, he tries to get better. When he catches the bass it happens to be the biggest one he has ever caught, but he is trying to impress a girl so he keeps it hidden in the water. While he is trying to hide it, Sheila says that fishing is boring and stupid. The bad thing in all this is that he loves fishing and he is with a girl he likes and that hates fishing so he has to choose, the girl or the bass? In the end he chooses to go with the girl and he lets the bass go.

            Some people say that the narrator made the right choice, going with the girl instead of keeping the bass because having a relationship is more important than catching a fish. If you love to do something, I don’t think you should stop it just because you want to impress someone else or because you like something that they don’t. If that person doesn’t like it, then maybe they shouldn’t be around you. In the end of the story the narrator tried to be nice to Sheila and impress her so that she would like him, but she left him after the canoe ride because she had already had a boyfriend waiting for her to get there. In the end I think the narrator should’ve chose the bass over the girl.

            That’s why I think the story should have ended differently and the narrator should have chosen the bass over the girl. Sheila didn’t even like the narrator, she just wanted to be able to meet her boyfriend so she could be with him and that was a way to meet him so she decided to use the narrator. The narrator wanted to be with Sheila because he liked her so he tried to impress her, but he found out she doesn’t like fishing and that made everything change since he has done it his whole life and he wasn’t about to give it up just because some girl didn’t like what he did for fun.

Why did Jim and Will go to the Theatre after going to the library.

What is your favorite class in school? What makes that class fun? What is your favorite thing to do in school?

After being in woodshop for the past three months, I have been working on a clock. I would have finished it a long time ago if I had a longer class, but we only have class for forty minutes and the teacher has to take roll and talk about what we are going to do shop today. That takes about ten minutes so we only have thirty minutes to work on our project. Over the course of the year we work on four different items, but my first one was the clock.

It took quite a while to finish for everyone because every person had to plane and joint all the wood that they got from the garage. After that you had to cut two different pieces of wood because later you would glue them together and have a thick clock. Then you have to sand every piece down to the equal measure. Once you have finished that you have to make a base for your clock along with the four pegs on the bottom that your clock will sit on. This part is important you have to drill press the back of your clock so you can fit the battery back there. Now you will be at the end when you can put a stain on it to change the color of your clock. Once done with that, you put about 3 coats of finish on it to make your clock look shiny. Lastly you get your dial and my was a cards dial, but then you put the dial in along with the battery and put in the nuts and bolts so it is held secure in place. Now you have a well built clock that will last a long time.

Now I am currently working on a stand. It has three shelves and they are all heart shaped shelves.

What do you think the funnest thing to do in the winter is?To me the funnest thing to do in the winter is snowboarding because you can have a blast.

If you don't know me you have to know that I love to go snowboarding in the winter and that's why I am a part of the Ski and Snowboard Club. I got my first and new snowboard on October 9th at The Ski Corner in Dickson City. This is what it looks like. I think it looks great.

When I was younger I would always just snowboard down my hill or my grandparents hill, but now that we have the Ski Club, we can now go on serious mountains, go through terrain parks, and also hit jumps. When I got my snowboard I want to test it out right there and then, but just one problem there was no snow. The only reason we went was because of the huge sale they were having that weekend. My board originally cost around $500, but with the sale I got it for $230. With that I also got bindings and a helmet.

Just before ski and snowboard season though I am going to get boots and a bag for my snowboard. Going to The Ski Corner was a lot of fun, I got to see how many different boards there were and I got to check out all of brand names. If you are looking for a new board or need anything that has to do with snowboarding,skiing, blading then I would advise you to go to The Ski Corner in Dickson City.

Who would want to live in a place with smog? Who would want to live in a place full of crowded areas? Who would want to live in a place with a bunch of drug deals? If I were to choose where to raise a family it would be in rural areas because I have lived in rural areas all my life, urban areas are too crowded, and there is more open space for land.

Hitting. Paddling. Spanking. Those are what schools did to bad children before outlawing corporal punishment. I think schools should not re-institute corporal punishment because it could be known as child abuse, it violates school rule of PDA, and it would make more work for the teachers.

The Ski and Snowboard Club for the school is really fun and I think everyone should join and give it a try. First off you get to decide wether you want to ski or snowboard. Personally I am a snowboarder and I think it is way better than skiing. I know a lot of people who would agree with me that snowboarding is the best and I know a lot of people who would tell me that snowboarding sucks and that skiing is the way to go. Either way I would choose the one that you have more experience with, but there are a lot of trips that we go on so if you want to you can try the one your not so good at and maybe you will like it better.

 The Elk Lake Ski Club is a lot of fun but you definetely want to be careful because last year a few people got hurt like hospital bad so you need to be focused on what your doing and pay attention to your surroundings and watch for other people. You will get hurt the first two or three trips, I guarentee it. I remember my first two trips to the mountain, I did terrible and fell every five feet. So if you like playing in the snow and having fun with friends try the Ski and Snowboard Club, it's a lot of fun and after the first year of going on trips and going on slopes, I guarentee you won't be able to wait for the next year to do it all over again, riding down slopes on your skies or snowboards (Which ever one you prefer).

My name is Tyler and soccer is my favorite sport.

For my meaningful quote on my binder, I chose a lyric from the song Simple Man by Shinedown. My quote was "Take your time, don't live to fast. Troubles will come and they will pass ~Brent Smith. It means take your time in life and troubles in life will come, but you have to push through them and get by.

My favorite band is Shinedown. I listen to that band everyday before school and I like there songs Simple Man, Diamond Eyes, and Sound of Madness along with a few more.

My personality is that I am smart. I usually pay attention and I get good grades most of the time. My picture is of a face with glasses because most people would think of that as a nerd.

My most memorable book was the book Bedtime Stories and the story "The Gingerbread Man". It was read to me a lot when I as little. I had it read to me almost every night before I went to bed.

The anything I want picture was my snowboarding picture. Snowboarding is a lot of fun for me and I like snowboarding anywhere I go. I go on all the ski trips with the school with Mr. Good and we get four to five hours of snowboarding whenever we want.

If you want to know anything more about me just ask me.