entry # 6

Your assignment for today’s blog entry is to explore London’s Globe Theatre. Take the virtual tours and allow yourself to imagine the theatre experience during Shakespeare’s time. Write a short blog entry (minimum of 250 words), describing your impression of the theatre. Do you think you would enjoy seeing a play at the Globe? Where would you like to sit? Why? What is the most interesting thing you have learned about the Globe?

I would not have enjoyed watching a play at the Globe Theatre because of the smell. I don't think there is anyway I would be able to stand the smell of the theatre with that many people down on the courtyard. My first impression of the theatre was that it seemed fairly large for the time it was built.The higher class seating looks like it had a good view of the stage. If I were to watch a play at the Globe Theatre I would of like to sit there. I found it interesting that the stage had a trap door to do stage effects. I also thought that it was interesting that the best seat in the house is above the stage. I would think that if I was paying that much to go see a play that I would actually like to be able to see the play not just having everybody be able to see me.

Entry #5

I experienced from the October Sky novel study was that if you continue to do what you believe in it could change your whole life. The novel study schedule seemed like it was a good amount of time. The reading was hard to keep up with but in the end I finished the book on time. I didn’t like writing the journals; I found that they didn’t help me understand the book anymore then if I didn’t write them. The group work projects where we went over chapters 10-15 wasn’t a very good experience because the group I was in over half the people had not read that far into the novel. It made it difficult for the rest of the group members to do that project and to summarize the chapters. The final science fair project was difficult. Having the website only on one computer made it hard for the rest of the group members because we had to wait to put it on or send our portion to that one computer. I enjoy doing group work but when some group members don’t help out or don’t do their part I get frustrated because I don’t think it is fair that they get a mark even when they don’t do anything.

The October sky novel study was like no other novel study I have done before. In the other novel studies that I have done, we answer a lot of question for each section of reading. I liked not having to answer question but instead reflecting in the journals. In some of the other novel studies I have done we did worksheets and used different ways to read the story. I have had people read the story to the class or I even listen to the novel on a tape once. I liked reading the book to my self because I find that when other people read it out loud I lose concentration.

Friendship

Friendship is an important quality in life. It brings joy to us and happiness. Friendship's requires ground rules, so you are on the same base with your friends. You need to understand each other, respect one and another and have certain traits, for example loyalty, forgiveness, liability and a trustworthy attire.
An excellent example of great friends are Homer Hickam's friends: In the book Ocotober Sky, Homer Hickam (Sonny), relies on his friends to aid him in his dream and experiments requiring the rockets. His friends, being loyal, at the beginning when they were being made fun of for what they were doing. His friends weren't entirely into the rockets like how Homer was, but they stuck with Homer any way.
The rockets also allowed Homer to make more and new friends, like Quenton. If Homer never had found a interest in building rockets he would have never befriended Quenton. Homers friends didn't even like Quenton, they thought he was an outcast, still they were loyal and kept with Homer.
There are reasons to be friends with some one. You could be geinuiely interested in them, or actually like them for who they are, like O'Dell, Roy Lee and Sherman. They liked Homer for who he was. There are also the wrong reasons to be friends with someone. You could use them for something they have, to be popular or cool. Homer used Quenton at first, because he knew Quenton knew lots about science, though they did become real friends. After Homer became more famous for his rockets and more succesful, more and more people thought he was cool and decided they wanted to be his friend. They were using him a bit, which is wrong. Homer had to be careful on how he chose his friends. You would not want to pick some one who is superficial and only like you for something you were or something you had and not care about who you are as a person. Friends also help create you as a person. You wouldn't want some one who you don't like. Though sometimes when it comes to people like Quenton, you had a wrong veiw of them.
People depend on friends and having that social life. They help you through hard times and complicated issues. They are always there when you need them. You must choose them wisely and not always go for the popular, obvious choices.