My name's Mayna Tyrrell, and I'm a 16-year-old junior at CCHS. I'm invovled in mainly music related activities. Marching band, along with other bands, takes up a lot of my time, along with choir and speech. Yeah, I'm one of those artsy people. I also actively play both the piano and horn outside of school, taking private lessons almost every week. I also participate in the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra. The horn is my main instrument, as I intend to go into music, having something to do with the horn I hope. Although, I suppose that what you're most interested in is my English past. I consider English to be a very interesting subject, especially when looking and delving into different books, trying to find meaning behing each story. As far as blogging goes, I'm not so experienced, other than the short story blogs I did in Mr. Dunn's class last year. I hope that this is a fun experience, as well as a nice change from the norm of analytical essays.
The purpose of this blog is to approach discussing a book in something other essay version. Rather than us all reading a book together and then writing an essay on it, we are each reading our own books and writing multiple blogs progressively as we read the book. Whatever book we choose has to be a part of Read for a Lifetime. I found the book selection to overall be suprisingly good. A lot of the books sounded interesting, and while I was at first going to choose Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John, I ended up getting Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride. I'll be honest, it was my second choice book after the first was gone, but I geniunely thought it looked good. For one, I've always been a fan of fantasy, and stories about death can be really cool. Also, it seems pretty humorous, which is always a good mix with darkness. Dark humor or serious humor can definitely turn out a good book, so I have high hopes for this one. Hopefully, this'll be an enjoyable blogging quarter.
While I'm sure you have ideas of your own for the quarter, I suppose ideas from the class could be quite helpful. As far as ideas for blogging, I have very little. Overall though, I would want to stay away from too specific things, such as talking about symbolism or metaphors that affected the story. I would rather talk about general ideas and have more freedom to write what I felt. I think it'd be better if we just had the same kind of thing every week. We could write the summary of what we read, and then talk about new characters brought into the story as well as character development, along with plot development. At the end we could discuss foreshadowing that we saw, along with possible ideas for the future. Within all that, I'd like to add interesting things I found in the text, with maybe some favorite quotations and possible deep meaning that I found in a statment. I can't say I have many more ideas, due to liking broad ideas in general. This project of sorts should be an interesting and fun way to explore our books no matter what we end up blogging about.
