I'm reading

In the eighth blog post of A Blog I will be talking about a book I have been reading. It is not my grade level and it does not have a lot of words in it, but is does have funny pictures of cats. The book is called 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad written by Jim Edgar. The title says what it is all about and how funny this book is. In the book is pictures of the cats that look funny, wearing clothes, or making a weird face. Then it says beside the picture what they would say if they could talk. The cats interests and what its hobbies are then the age. Finally it shows the name of the cat.

The first one that I thought was funny was a cat named Chuck he is 3 years old. The picture is driving a car. He collects Beach Boy albums and he saying “As soon as the light turns green lets see what this baby can do”.

The second cats name is Peanut he is 1 year old. He is yawning and he had a stuffed toy of Kermit the Frog with him. His hobby is internet dating and he is saying “Never mind it’s a joke only frogs and cats would understand”.

The third funny cat is a cat named Dotty he is 8. He is wearing a wrestling mask at least that is what I think it is and a cape.  His hobby is watching Silence of the Lambs on DVD and  he is saying “Relax I’ve done thousands of these procedures”.

The fourth and final picture am going to talk about is a cat named Scooter, he is 8 months old. The picture is him smiling on a window sill. His hobby is crank calls and he is saying “take the freakin picture already”.

A History Lesson

Today I am going to talk about what I learned in school today. Mainly just in my first class Civics and Economics.  We learned about the American Revolution, what went on, how did it start, outcome,battles, who won,  and how it ended.

The first thing the class and I did was watch a video. It was a remix of a song Apologize that dealt with King George and how the Americans are not going to take it him bossing us around any longer. So the Americans set up this fighting tactic called guerilla fighting.

The second thing was a compare and contrast chart between the Americans and the British. I didn’t get everything on the British side because my teacher went on ahead because we were out of time. But I will try my best to remember what I wrote. But that is all I wrote down in class.
    Americans                                British
- slow destruction                            - break the colonies in half
- guerilla tactics
- alliance with Great Britain's enemies

The third thing we did was take notes and do definitions. For example: more British soldiers died than American soldiers, but the British still won. The battle of Lexington and Concord was considered the shots heard around the world. Saratoga was the turning point of the war and Cornwallis surrenders.

We learned what the definition of a loyalist and a patriot was. A loyalist is a person that supported and helped Great Britain win the war. A patriot is a person who supported George Washington  and wanted America to win the Revolutionary war.

After all the assignments and notes for the class the teacher told us we could work on our project. The teacher all assigned us one of the thirteen colonies ( I got New Jersey) and it is an individual project.

I read this in class today

Today I am going to talk about what I read in class yesterday. The class, the teacher, and I read this story together to prepare for the Compass test. The article was called Of Brainiacs and Billionaires. It was a very professional piece of writing and some of the words in it were extremely difficult to understand. For example: adolescence and cognitive. But it also somewhat helped me more in understanding what they were and what their definition was.

The article started out with a line from a song by Bruno Mars. Saying he wants to be a billionaire but doesn’t everyone. Then it talks about how the nation is too obsessed with being rich and famous to get by someone elses social status. It talks about how it is ok to be not as good in math as someone else. But we do need to be better than ok in math, science, engineering, and and technology if you want to be a billionaire so bad.

It also talks about IQ and where you are if your IQ is higher or lower than average. For instance above 100 is scintillating than average. People who score between a 125 and 137 on an IQ test is in the top 5% of the ample IQ. There is also people who has scored over 200. A professor at UCLA at age 8 he scored a 760 on a SAT. 18 year old kids don’t even score that high.

To make sure that a little of the billionaires are the brains, two people from the Johns Hopkins University set up an experiment. The outcome was Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were in the top 1% of the little Billionaires only 2 were in the top 1%.

Dorkis the Snake

I am going to talk about my second favorite animal in the world, my pet snake Dorkis. He is a Pastel ball python and there are only a thousand like him in the world. The reason why we named him Dorkis is my step dad (Daniel)’s old teacher was a herpetologist and his last name was Dorkis. But we also call him Cookie like Cookie Monster because he has a Cookie Monster face in his pattern.

He was born approximately a month and a half ago. He was about a foot and a half when we bought him from a guy who breeds them. He is now two feet long, but he is nowhere near what is going to get. The guy we got him from said is is going to get about five to six feet long.

Lately Dorkis has been acting weird for example he hissed at my mom and tried to bite my sister. But this morning we found a snake skin in his tank and know we know that why he was acting out like he was.

But before we were all responsible snake owners. On the second day we had him me and my mom decided to take him out of his tank. We started to play with him on the recliner couch so he could have more room to roam around. He fell right into the arm of the couch and we could not get him out. So we called Daniel at work and he came home but by the time we could call him back to say we got him Daniel pulled into the driveway. It took four hours to get him out of the couch. We even put a heating pad to fish him out, we finally found him wrapped around a cord in couch.

School

On this fourth blog post I will talk about what I learned at school today and what happens at school.The first thing when you get to the school is we go into the school, meet up in the auditorium and we get divided by grade level and then we are dismissed to first period. In first core, Civics and Economics the class and I did a Chapter one cross word puzzle, took notes, did definitions, and took a test on Chapter one. In second core I went to my early college class and the entire class randomly chose a book from the teachers bag. Then if we didn’t like the book we all switched and wrote about in our blog if we did not do it yesterday. Then in third core, Geometry I took a test and made a 92% then made test corrections and made a 98%. After the test and the corrections the class went to lunch and we all bet my friend 41 dollars that he wouldn’t drink pickle juice, mustard, mayonnaise, grape juice, orange juice, chocolate milk, pickles, apple sauce, a grape vine, doritos, sun chips, and bits of ham sandwich. In fourth and the final core, Public Speaking we presented our “me bags” which is when we put five of our favorite items and write a speech about it. I presented six items though and they were a paintbrush, a Pokeball, a Yu-Gi-Oh card, a Magwa wallet from the movie Gremlins, Chewbacca’s head from Star Wars, and a Batman cup holder. The class and I also had to write a review about each person and how they did during their presentation. After all the classes at the end of the day everyone meets up in the auditorium and the principle says the announcements and dismisses us.

What I Read

Lately I have been reading a extremely good book series called Warriors the fourth apprentice.But I am not finished with it so I am going to just write about what I have read so far. This first book of the series is about ninja cats all from different parts of the land. So each part of the land has it’s own clan. For example there is the Shadowclan, Riverclan, Thunderclan, Windclan and the Starclan. The Riverclan is frustrated about all the other clans taking their fish. But now that all the other clans are out of a certain kind of food that only that clan eats. So they are all after the Riverclan food and that is how all the little battles break out. After the fight between a Riverclan warrior named Reedwhisker and a Thunderclan warrior named Graystripe. So all the leaders meet up in one place and discuss the situation of all the fighting. Then all of them disagree and they all go into a war. So some of the warriors go into battle a little bit at a time. While fighting small battles the rest of the warriors prepare for the real war. I have read this book before but I turned back into the public library planning to check out the second book. But most of this story is not true and I made most of it up. Because I barely remember the book but I did finish reading the book last week. The only things that are real are the names, clans, the title, and the cats fighting. Even though I made most of this story up, from what I remember this book was very cool and I also liked the names of the cats.

What I read in class today

o Make It Any Clearer It Wants Everyone To Leave. In this story the tone is very satire and also the earth can talk. The article is about the earth and how it is trying to get rid of the 6.9 billion people polluting and destroying it. So the earth has been creating tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, diseases, blizzards, tsunamis,volcanoes and also trying to crush people so we would leave. Now the earth is tired of trying to make us leave because we still do not get what the earth is trying to do. So the earth has been continuing to deploy disasters and hope we finally get it. Also they earth knows that we have invented a technology that will leave the earth. But we show no intention of leaving soon. The only people that are kind of getting what the earth is doing is a little group of scientists. Now they have theories about what the earth is trying to say, do and why the earth is doing it. Scientists also believe that the earth has been trying to get of us for at least if not more a millennium. Even though that is their theories they still are not 100% sure of what the earth is trying to say. They think the earth wants us to leave now and never come back. So some people said do not believe the lies of the scientists. Also we will never leave and we do not have to listen to a celestial body. Then the earth sighed and that caused many tectonic plates to shake and rumble causing earthquakes on 5 continents. After the earthquakes the earth incinerated a series of wildfires.

About me

On this first post of A Blog I will talk about myself, family, pets and what I like to do. My favorite thing to do is draw, paint, read, and play video games. I like to draw anything for instance people, still life, cartoons, or even landscapes. I paint the same things as I draw but I do not paint as much. I like to read action, adventure, and also weird and unusual book like Series of Unfortunate Events. I have many games but I only have three favorite games out of the entire game series and they are Resident Evil 1, Final Fantasy 7, and The Elder Scrolls 5 (Skyrim).My favorite TV shows are Naruto, Bleach, The Walking Dead, MXC, Heroes, Ridiculousness, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Avengers and Afro Samurai. I do not have many favorite movies but there are some for example Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Star Wars, Anchorman, Hot Rod, The Other Guys, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, The Pick of Destiny, Zombieland, and Naruto. I like a lot of bands and different kind of music like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, White Stripes, 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, Tenacious D, Smashing Pumpkins, Bloc Party, Slayer, Clutch, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Pantera. have four pets, one for each person in the family. My mom has a cat named Duncan, my sister has a cat named Freeway, my step-dad has a dog named Rocky and my two foot python named Dorcas. When I am done with the early college course I plan to transfer to a four year university and continue to go to school. After school I will go for a degree in game design or animation. If I choose to go into animation I want to work for a major company like Dreamworks. A am planning to also to get a job when I turn sixteen to save for a car.