Poetry Out Loud!

For Poetry Out Loud! I chose the poem Famous. I initially looked at this poem because of the title, it just sounded interesting. When I read it, it had a deeper meaning. My poem talks about how the speaker wants to be famous, for different reasons than being a celebrity. She wants to be famous to men walking down the street, or sticky children in the grocery store. She wants to be be famous for smiling at them, and being kind. For being--useful.

I'm really excited for the Poetry Out Loud classroom competition. I am looking foreward to hearing everyone recite their poems, and to hear the way they interpet them. I am nervous that I'll forget apart of my poem, or not interpet it correctly. To prepare for the competition, I plan on reciting my poem every night, and practice how I'm going to say it. I've marked up my poem on how I want to phrase everything, now it is just a matter of memorization, as well as memorizing how I'm going to recite it. This should be a lot of fun and I am very excited!

The Road Not Taken

The meaning behind The Road not Taken, by Robert Frost, was that there are choices, and decisions to make. Decisions that you won't ever get to make again. They could be the one that many other people have taken, or one completely different. Whether that different road is good or bad, you don't know until you are there. And you don't get to start over. Once you're on that road, that's the road your on.

It's kind of like choosing which college to go to. Or picking what sports you are going to do in highschool. You can't go back to your freshman year and decide to do volleyball when you have already done soccer. You can't be graduating from WSU and try to switch to Harvard. It just doesn't work. Once you have picked your path to be on, it's almost impossible to get off of it. And hopefully, you don't have regrets. Or reasons to want to go back in time and fix everything. Hopefully you have gone on the path that lesser people have been on, the pristine nice one. Hopefully.

The Movie

In the court house, when Mayella gave her statements, were the most vivid to me. She was wearing a nice looking dress, and her hair was brushed with her bangs in front. However her poka-dotted dress, that might have been ironed, did not compliment her unwashed, greasy hair and unbrushed teeth. She was talking to Atticus, the last thing she was saying.

It was exactly how I pictured it. Her screaming at Atticus, and the court. "Now you can go ahead with your ma'am'in and your Miss-Mayellerin' but it don't come to one dang thing!" That is what I remember. With her crying, and screaming. Then when she burst into the court, and tried to run, but had to sit down. It was the only scene, that distinctly remember picturing. I really enjoyed this movie. :)

How the book impacted me

Honestly, this book has impacted my life by making me think a little bit more. I think about other people, and their lives, and what they must be going through. What their reasoning might be. How to sit in their shoes and just try to imagine the situation from their persepctive. Which is really what most of Atticus' lessons entailed.

As completing one sixth of my freshman year, I believe highschool in general has impacted me. But from English this year, and in reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I've really tried not to judge. I watch myself to not say "Ew, brown with black? Gross." I have learned, for the most part, not to judge. Which I feel is one of the most important lessons, a person can be taught.