Outside Reading!

IBoy- 1 hour and 45 min
Biology Textbook Chapter 16 - 30 min
Poetry - 20 min

Reading on the beach

Over my spring break I was at the beach and it was the most relaxing place ever to read.  It was nice because you could tan while you read so it made the time go by so much faster!  The book that i am continuing to read is Catching Fire.  Catching Fire is so good and i am really enjoying it.  The plot is thickening so much more from The Hunger Games and the book is getting really hard to put down.

I think the main reason that i am liking Cathcing Fire is because i think its cool how the book is presented. The whole idea is so random and i just love it!  Its something that I've never read about before and it just manages to keep me interested the whole time!  I recommend this book to everybody.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

In the song Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole', Israel is talking about how he is imaging a better world on the other side of the rainbow.  He repeats several times how it would be a “wonderful world.”  Isreal uses lots of repetition by singing the chorus over and over again in his song, which I particularly like!  Rainbows have always been associated with happy things and so I think that Israel is saying he see a better world ahead and he wants to dream on.  In the song he is talking about dreams and how dreams will set you free.  A metaphor that he uses is “Where trouble melts like lemon drops” and in that metaphor I see that he is talking about how he wants happiness. 

Another thing that Israel does in the song is that he talks about colors a lot.  With him singing about the colors of the rainbow, red roses, trees of green, blue birds, clouds of white, and skies of blue you can see that he is trying to give you lots of visuals and represent things.  I think that this song is inspiring and I really like listening to it! 

video-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

lyrics-

http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/i/israelkamakawiwoole6157/somewhereovertherainbow239745.html

keep on flipin the pages

For my outside reading this week i have decided that i am going to put down Someone Like You and move onto Catching Fire.  I read some of it in the beginning of the year and now that The Hunger Games is such a big hit again i just had to pick it up and read it again!!

The past week Someone Like You has been good and i have really been enjoying it but i am LOVING catching fire right now! Its amazing and I'm glad that i chose to read it again.  Also for some reading i have read some poetry, which i am actually enjoying this unit that we are doing.  ANd lastly for some reading i have had to go back and read some of the Nervous Conditions book for my project.                                                              

"My Fathers Song" by Simon Ortiz

In the poem "My Fathers Song" by Simon Ortiz we see that the poem is written about a son and his father. After reading the first stance we can see that the son misses his father by describing "his voice" coming from "his thin chest."  As you go on to read more you can see that the poem is about a song and I'm guessing that the song resembles there relationship.

As i went on to read more of the poem I stared to think that the way the son is talking about his father that possibly the father is dead.  And while the son is saying how they caught some kind of animal and let it go off off of an edge or in the warm sand that maybe the son means he is "letting go" his father and is going to move on.  Then when i go back and read the whole thing again i see that there is a lot of repetition in this poem and also the wording the very similar and rhymes a lot.