Quick Write - Robot

If I had my own personalized robot servant I think I would want it to act human though not look human because having something that looks so human but isn't around me all the time would be creepy. I would want it to have a changeable button for gender because sometimes I would want a girl to talk to who would understand my thought process, but let's be honest girls can be annoying and guy best friends are way better. That how I would want m robot to be, my best friend that would do whatever I wanted. It would most definitely clean my room and do my laundry, help me with my homework, be the best gossiper out there but also the best listening ear whenever I needed. I would also like to have the option to turn off my robots feelings because I wouldn't want it to get angry at me for always bossing it around.

6 Word Memoir Debriefing

What did I learn about storytelling?

While working on my 6 word memoirs I actually had a lot of trouble. I have never been someone who was good with words but I do have a lot to say. I found that having to get my point / idea across in exactly 6 words was quite difficult. I always seemed to finish with 5or 7 words instead of the mandatory 6. I eventually did complete all 8 and learned a lot about storytelling. It is about quality not quantity. You don't need to write a novel to allow your story to be heard. You don't even really need words. You can tell a story with something as simple as a picture. Though you can also use your picture to enhance your words, along with font size, style, colour, etc. 

Where did I show my knowledge about using storytelling skills?

I used my knowledge about storytelling skills a lot through out this assignment

-word choice

-picture choice

-punctuation

-font

Everything was choose purposely to help further describe my story because of the small limit of words I could use.

Where I think I used all there skills the best was in my first 6 word memoir of my friends and I at last years husky classic. 

I wanted the words to look faded as well as the photo to make it look old and weathered because of how it complimented and helped convey my message of missing something once it's already gone. 

What did I learn as a reader, writer, thinker, storyteller?

I learned to look at storytelling in new, untraditional ways. To "break the rules" of what we have always been taught about reading, writing, and storytelling. 

I learned that you don't have to be good with words to get the story you want out your can use other tools to enhance your story, such as pictures and font. 

Lastly I learned to not put so much thought into everything, to just let the words, and stories come to me. 

Thank you for finally understanding John Green

6 word memoirs

This picture is one of my favourite pictures of me and my friends at our schools Husky Classic hockey tournament. 

Yes, we all complain about school, waking up early, homework, etc. Though I'm sure all us grade 12s will look back on high school a year from now and think "wow I miss it". So why not enjoy it while we still can. 

After high school we will all realize that it really wasn't that bad.

My mom always came up with the most creative Halloween costumes, me and my sister never had to worry about being dressed as the same thing as someone else when we got to school. In my life I remember being from Sam I am to electrocuted and everything in between. But this one, this one she took to a whole new level. 

This is a picture of me and my older sister Vienna, this is the Halloween of 2002. In this picture I am currently in grade 1(age 6) and my sister would have been in grade 5(age 10). Yes that is right, we are Boo and Mike from monsters inc. And yes my mother hand made these costumes.

This is one of those memories me and my sister can't help but look back on and laugh. 

I choose this picture to go along with this memoir because I can't even count how many times I have said this to my mom. I know she means well and at the time I'm sure I loved it but looking back sometimes you just can't help but to think.. Why?

I can't complain though, at least I have a mom that cares enough to put that much effort into something for us.

I choose this font because it looks like a child's hand writing and I wanted to show what I would have said if I was in the same mind set as I am now, back then. 

I feel as though a lot of kids I know have gone through something in there life that had made them all grow up so much faster than they should have had too. 

Even kids I don't know, actual children, not teenagers, are trying so hard to grow up with the way they dress, the way they talk, the things they do. Why is everyone in such a rush to grow up? What's so bad about being a care free kid?

I choose this picture of one if my best friends, Alana and I because of something that happened that I feel had made me and her and all our friends have to learn to grow up and deal with real things. 

My grandpa is probably on of my favourite people in the whole world, he moved to Newfoundland about 6 years ago and since then I have seen him about 3 times, yes it is hard but he is still with me everyday. 

I choose the bold writing because I wanted my message to be clear and to stand out. 

I also choose to add the arrow because when I was little, about the age I am in this picture our favourite game to play was Robin Hood, I'm not really sure where the game came from, but I guess we played it once and it just stuck. 

I may not see him much but I think about him every day. 

I hope one day you and I can learn to get along. I hope we grow up and look back on all the stupid fights we ever had and regret all the time we had wasted. I hope now that we are getting older we can make up for lost time and at least pretend we like each other. 

This is me and my sister, we have never been those close sisters that I have always wished we would be but I know that with every year that passes we get a little closer and someday we will be.

Because Vienna, you are stuck with me so you might as well get used to it. 

If you really think about it, yes we are so close to being done high school but after high school real life is just beginning. 

To me this is a scary thought, I don't feel old enough to have to already be figuring out what I want to do with my life. 

We thought high school was tough? Wait till we hit the real world of university, full time jobs, and actual responsibilities, but for now, we can just stay positive and focus on that fact that we are so close. 

This is Lucky boy, he was the very first pet I ever had. My sister and I got him from "Santa" when I was one and she was 5, for that reason my sister obviously got to choose his name. She said "I am a lucky girl for getting him and he is a lucky boy for having a home" and that is how Lucky got his name. 

He was the most loyal and loving dog you would have ever met.

He was 13 when we had to put him down so I know it was his time to go, but it was still one of the hardest things in my life to this day. 

I choose this picture to go with my six word memoir for the obvious reason that I miss him, but also because losing him truly was my first heartbreak. 

The writing is placed upside down because that is how Lucky loved to lay and I wanted everyone to turn the picture to get a good look at just how cute he was. 

I could not think of anything for my last memoir because well I've never been good with words exactly like it says. I know it's only 6 words we had to think of though that maybe have made it even harder. Exactly 6 words every time, not 5 not 7, 6. 

I choose a completely unrelated photo that I took at my grandpas house in Newfoundland to show that things don't always have to make sense for them to look good together. 

I choose the fancy writing to once again just make it look nice, I wanted more the writing and picture to be the focal point then the what the writing actually says. 

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Reading Survery

• How do you decide which books you will read?

When looking for a new book to read I usually first of all look for familiar authors to see if they have any other books, or any new ones. If there is no luck there I will just move on to looking at the covers and reading titles. If something interests me or catches my eye, I'll read the summary on the back or inside cover of the book and decide from there. Though most of the time the books I read I hear about or see them through social networking and friends. A lot of books I have read have come from reading a tweet or seeing something on tumblr.

• Who are your favourite authors?

My all time favourite author is Ellen Hopkins. I love her style of writing, the way she breaks up her stories up to make it seem like they are all nice light reads. Though her topics  at the same time are so interesting and intense. Ellen Hopkins writes the kind of books that you can't put down until you finish, even though most of her books are around 600 pages in length. I have read all of her books and I could read them over and over again.

One of my new favourites though is John Green, I kept hearing about The Fault in our Stars and decided I had to read it. After that I was hooked. I love the way his words cause you to become so attached to the characters as if you know them personally. I just bought Looking For Alaska, and I can't read to see if it measures up to tfios, but I think I am going to save it for in class reading on Fridays. 

• Have you ever re-read a book? Why do you enjoy them?

I have re-read every single Ellen Hopkins books at least twice, they are just those kinda of books that it's like every time you read them they get better and better. Also every once in a while the new books connect to some of her old ones, so I always like to re-read the old ones before I read the new one, just to refresh my memory. 

It's sometimes hard to find new books that interest me so when I find something I like I tend to just stick with it. 

• Do you have a smartphone with Internet access? Tell me about it. 

I have a white Iphone 5 with unlimited data, so yes it always has access to the internet, whether it be wifi or i actually find a place in the school with enough service. 

• Do you have a twitter feed? Tell me about it.

Yes I do, I'm not really sure what to say about it though. I would describe it as a typical teenage girls twitter. 

• Do you have a blog? Tell me about it. 

Yes I do, I have a tumble blog. It doesn't really have a theme and I very rarely post my own stuff, I mostly just re blog things I like that show up on my dashboard.