Martine's prompt: What is a book that has made you think or changed your mind.

       The best book and the most influential upon my life has been The Fault in our Stars. The characters are young victims of cancer and its negative effects on the lives of others, however it's a book more about what can happen if you go and live your life, what happens when you go out into the world and make mistakes, learn lessons, etc.
       While there are some very inspirational and sincere moments about what it means when you try to live and be lively in a condition where you know eventually your body is going to give up, there is reality, and the book is fairly sad. But this too influences me and teaches me that no matter what sad happens, life does go on, and you have to go find more things to be happy about. Overall, this book really has told me about life. I would recommend it to anybody.

Writing Center

       My experience at the writing center went very well. I went during tutorial and by the end of the period, I had a better idea of what I wanted to do in my literary analysis, and I figured out what I needed to change in my paper. Before, I had been suffering from severe writer's block throughout the beginning of the paper and formation of paragraphs, I arrived to the writer's center with about half of a paper and not the best idea of what I needed to do. During my appointment, I actually was pointed out to other things I needed to fix.
      Another thing that made the writing center a great experience is that I got in and they were very nice right off the bat. They made sure that I knew who they were, they told me positives and negatives and then they made sure I knew how to fix the negatives and focus on the positives. If I have problems with another paper, I would go back to the writing center regardless of the class requirements.

Lord of the Flies, William Golding
12/2- 1 hour and 25 minutes, pages 140-154
12/3- 1 hour, pages 154-164
12/4- 1 hour and 40 minutes, pages 164-182
12/7- 2 hours and 5 minutes, pages 182-202
Total- 6 hours and 10 minutes, 62 pages

Reading Times

Lord of the Flies, William Goldberg
11/19- 2 hours, pages 66 - 94
11/20- 1 hour and 45 minutes, pages 94-114
11/21- 1 hour, pages 114-123
11/25- 10 minutes, pages 124-126
12/1- 1 hour and 45 minutes, pages 127-140
Total- 6 hours and 40 minutes, 74 pages