Wednesday, August 27, 2014

"You Can't Start a Fire without a Spark"

The classroom is empty and I just finished grading the first round of blog posts. It's great to see all the people who really want to use their blogs for rambling, so here is some to get the rumblings started:

Voice-
We recently talked about voice from Boyne's novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and everyone had some really great input about his own voice. 

My voice, is strange. It's loud, naturally. It uses big words that have been picked up from years of writing and reading brilliant Harry Potter fanfiction all throughout my high school years. My diction is accessible and my sentences are sometimes too long. 

I love using words that are dark and lolling that flop off tongues like liquid lugnuts. Malevolent. Say it 5 times and you might know what I mean.

Until next time, my minions.


Thursday, August 14, 2014

Ground Zero - The Year Begins




And with the bell, begins another year nestled on the slope of Kalaepohaku. I await anxiously as my homeroom (a gaggle of bedraggled seniors), drifts slowly out the door and into the last cold stream migration of their lives here.

Period 1.

Go.