January 9-17th 2012

Because These classes we did basically the same thing every day, I decided to compile all of these blog days into one massive post.

Due to the steady approach of the dreaded midterm exams, we have been constantly reveiwing everything we have done so far in History to keep all of us prepared for the testing. We received a helpful study guide which helped to show us what things we have learned will be targetted on the test. Although this study guide is not excact in what will be on the midterms, it narrows everything we have learned this year down to about 40 event chouces, 2 choices of memorizing documents, and the one lengthy developed essay topic. During these lovely days we were given to reveiw, I noticed that something i would have to prepare for an excess amount of hours would be for the essay. On the past History tests, the essay portion has been the portion of the test i have lost many points on so I plan to figure out all of the examples and points I would like to include in my essay before the actual midterm in order to ensure that my essay is better than ever. I have also used m classtime wisely by creating event flashcards for EVERY SINGLE EVENT that is given to us on the study guide. Although this took quite a while, I completed them and feel they will be most helpful in remembering specific details and why these events are significant. For the document memorizing portion we are eaither going to be given the preamble to the constitution or the beginning portion starting with "we hold these truths to be self eveident" of the declartion. I plan to only briefly look over these doctument portions because I feel I have these thoroughly memorized.

In English, we have more focussed on the completion of our notebooks and Integrated English and History assignment with a couple days of midterm reveiw. I feel as though these notebooks have been the hardest to complete ytet not only because i have procratinated quite a bit, but because we were assigned a lot of long writing excercises in this notebook that require us to look at the novel in depth and explain and locate many quotes from the book. I found the questions of this notebook quite easy however, because I did do all of the required Huckleberry Finn reading so I knew the answers at once. For my Integreated English and History Assignment I have partenered with Shannnon as usual and we are creating a song to the tune of Ludacris's hit single "Runaway Love". For our project we are going to title it "Runaway Huck" because we will be writing the song about the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and telling the story of Huck and Jim running away on the raft. We plan to include how they run away and meet on Jackson Island and everntually meet the duke and king, and then how the duke and king sell Jim to the Farmer Silas and he is stuck by himself in a shed, with nothing left to do but wait for his good friend Huck and accomplice Tom Sawer to take the heroic measures to save him. Our song will be mostly rapping with a short singing postion in between the different verses. We will also be recording our song project using an app on my iphone called "I am T-Pain" which autotunes your voice and makes it sound slightly robotic and just generally better that it normally would. We also received a study guide in english and will be having our midterm shortly.