One night John and Jenny were in bed and Jenny says “It’s probably nothing.” John is wondering what she is talking about. She explained to him that she has missed her period and was wondering if she was pregnant. Jenny says she had a sip of wine and was disgusted by it. They go to the store at 11 o’clock to get a test. They come home and follow the direction and sit and wait. Jenny went to go check the strip and it was “as blue as the deepest ocean”(Grogen 35). I think Jenny and John will have this baby and start to grow their family. After taking care of Marley or a while they were ready for their first kid.

Laura Lee McHugh Prediction

I am doing pretty well with my plan. It has been hard not listening to the radio because I listened to it everyday. I usually listen to country music because it keeps me calm and relaxed. The one this is is that I know all the words to almost every song so I begin to sing instead of do my homework. Giving up listening to music has changed my mood. I was doing homework one night and i was getting frustrated because I did not want to do it. I took a break and turned on music for a little bit to calm be down and got right back to work. I want to pursue this experiment to see if I can actually do it. To some people “it is easy in the world” to give up thing, but this is very difficult for me (Emerson Self-Reliance). Giving up the rut is good for me to try something new and to focus on my school work. I have realized that it is hard for me to work in a quiet environment. My parents have com into my room and are star struck that there is not music playing.

Laura Lee McHugh

I have failed my Walden Plan. Honestly I failed the day I walked out of class. It is very important that I re commit myself to not cursing. Every time I told myself I was not going to curse, I always broke in and did. Giving up in the past on trying not to commit my rut has effected my life in a bad way because I have gotten in trouble with my parents, and I have been called “ignorant” by a few people. I admit that cursing is not attractive, but a habit is not supposed to be. A habbit is something you struggle to break. I am going to re do my rut because I KNOW I can not curse. Everyone I hang out with curses, I believe everyone in the world curses. I do not want to be like everyone else. These words that Emerson said are the reasons why I want to be an individiual and continue doing my rut. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with sweetnessthe independence of solutide. . . .”

The book im reading is the Mark of Athena. So far the group of people were going into italy and heading for Rome. I predict that annabeth will be scared to go by herself because she has many nightmares and isn’t able to fall asleep. She is scared becasue the nightmares she has been having is becasue she thinks that something bad is going to happen to her so she wants her friends to be with her and try to protect her if anything happens while she tries to sleep or until they are able to reach Rome. When she wakes up i believe that the city of Rome is going to be destroyed because the titans, and the evil gods have heard that they were going to be on their way tot Rome and tehy killed everything that was in their way just to get annabeth.

Prediction- Luis Teran

Percy had seen frank surrounded by cannibal ogres watching him because they though t he look good to eat and big because he was a giant. I predict that percy is going to try to protect frank but later on he kils most of the ogres and suddenly an ogre comes out behind him and stabs frank many times then he falls and thanks percy for all the things that he has done for him and to protect his family. Then Percy gets really mad and tries to kill that ogre but then the ogre unleashed the god of death, Thanatos.

Prediction- Luis Teran

the reading strategy that i am going to use is prediction. I can predict that the character in my book will be very stressed out during his life. i predict that because he father is a drunk. his father sometimes goes to bars, and comes home very late. some nights he might not even come home. This effected the character in my book because he really loves his father, but he doesnt feel like his father loves him back. One day while his father was drunk, as usual, the boy decided to ask his dad for money. so the dad looked at him and said “No! your worthless”! that really hurt the boys feelings.

Gregory Benjamin
12-12-12
My Walden plan is pretty much going as I expected it to, and I expected it to be very difficult. I don’t believe that me just drinking water for this week had a very large effect on my life just yet. I believe that it will definitely help me in the long run though. The quote that Emerson said that helped me overcome the temptation of drinking soda was “The first wealth is health.” I like this quote from Emerson because this shows the importance of health. I feel very accomplished because, in my opinion it is a very hard “rut” to overcome. \people did not believe that I would be able to give up this “rut”. But so far I have been proving them wrong. They would try to tempt me to drink soda and juice by waving the juice or soda in my face, and just drinking it as if it was the best drink they ever had. But I did not let that faze me.

I was doing well with my plan although Tuesday I took a nap for about 45 minutes. Giving up my rut has encouraged me to find other things to do. On Monday I read instead of nap but on Tuesday I did not feel like reading and I had nothing else to do. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”(Emerson) I feel good about giving up my rut because me napping made me feel lazy which I rather not be. Other people have been surprised about me giving up my rut.

My rut is watching television. Television distracts me on doing homework. I watch TV while doing homework and it takes me hours to finish. It will make my life less simple because i can finish my homework and have time doing other things in my spare time. Its going to be difficult breaking my rut because it just comes naturally. I just turn on the TV and thats it. Its something i have to do every day.  This experiment will help me be the person i want to achieve because i will succeed in school and bring up my grades. With my spare time i will do more school work and actually do something. I hope to learn how difficult it really is to stop a habit you have and actually stop the habit. The quote that relates to me is “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”. It makes me feel like my room is the woods. Without the TV on its all silent and there i can do what i want.

This week in my book I read about the times when Nick (Valerie’s boyfriend and murderer) and his older friend, Jeremy hung out. The narrator of my book, Valerie describes Nick as a very good guy with a dark sense of humor at times. Then when Nick hung out with Jermemy she described him as “a totally different person” (Brown). Leading up to the days of the school shooting Jeremy would take Nick to these places that Valerie could never get any info about. I think that when Jeremy and Nick were going to these mysterious places that Jeremy was maybe helping Nick plan who he was going to kill. I also believe that maybe Jeremy even supplied Nick with the gun that he used because Jeremy was old enough to purchase a gun.

Tiarra Andrews-Owens- Evaluation