blog #10

Character Conflict Story

It was about 10:30 and I couldn’t fall asleep. I could hear the wind knocking on my window as I watched my favourite tree, with my tree house in it, sway side to side. I’ve had that tree house since I was six when I helped build it with my dad and grandpa before my grandpa passed away in the summer of 2006. I was scared because if the tree did fall it would probably damage the house and I would be devastated. I was startled by the opening of my door. It was my brother Logan checking if I was awake. When he realised I was and he ran in. “Scarlett! I’m scared!” he said to me as he jumped on the bed, “me too.” I gave him a reassuring look thinking that everything would be alright when all of a sudden there was a huge gush of wind followed by a loud crack. Logan and I looked out the window and saw that our tree house was visibly cracked and our tree house would be on the ground soon enough. My mom and dad ran to our room to see what happened. My mom said that a hurricane was starting and my heart dropped.  I have never experienced something like this before and it was frightening. Suddenly a million thoughts and concerns ran through my head about what was going to happen to my house and the community and even my friends and family and their houses. As my mom was comforting Logan because he was crying he was so scared, I heard a big crash. On the ground shattered into pieces was my tree house. I didn’t think that I would get as upset as I was. I felt so bad because it was a memory of my grandpa and Logan and I spent so much time up there. I wanted to run out to get the pieces but my parents said that I had to get to sleep and that we will deal with it when it’s safe to go outside. That night my brother and I couldn’t get any sleep and we kept waking up because of all the noise outside.

blog #9

Just as she circled the last answer on her grade 10 social studies test, the bell rang and Scarlett was forced  to hand in her test to hand in her test to Mr. Macintyre without it being looked over. Scarlett had always had trouble with social studies and she tried her hardest to do well on tests and assignment but this test was especially hard. She opened her locker and threw her books in, as she glanced in the mirror she saw that her light brown hair had been messed up from running her fingers through it all day. At this point she didn’t care. She was already late to pick up her brother from elementary school. She drug her feet through the whole school still mad at herself because of the test. As she got outside she was hit by the warm California heat. She got into her silver car and drove off. As she waited for her brother Logan to come out of the school, she saw her white iPhone light up from a text message. It was from her best friend Louise. The message read “hey! How did you do on the test?” Louise had helped Scarlett study all weekend because Louise is in the same class but period 2 instead of 5. “Well I’m not sure!” she didn’t want to tell Louise that she thought she did badly because Louise had probably done really well. As Scarlett pressed send, Logan hopped in the car. They said their usual ‘hi’ and ‘how are you’ but other than that it was a pretty awkward car ride home. Scarlett and Logan had always had a very good relationship but today she didn’t feel like talking. Scarlett pulled up in the drive way of their parent’s medium sized home and they both ran in. Logan ran to his parents to show the paper he had in his hand and by the reaction of his parents it had to be something good. Scarlett looked over her dads shoulder to see that Logan had got a 100% on his social studies test. She was furious because in elementary they have it so easy and it’s not fair. It was reaching around 5:00 and she had dance at 5:15, her favourite thing to do. Dance was always something that she could do to take her mind off of everything and she loved that. After coming home and having a shower Scarlett threw her hair long hair into a bun and put on some sweats. After having a long conversation with Louise she felt a lot better. They compared answers and most of them matched up. Louise told Scarlett to stop second guessing herself which was something that Scarlett did a lot. She studied lot and did all she could do and that’s all that matters.

blog #8

Creative Writing

After a long hard day at school I love to come home to my favourite place, my bedroom. My room is located at the back of the house in between my brothers and parents. My room is medium, square sized and has a colour pattern of ivory, a light pink, silver and oak. As soon as you walk into my room you are overwhelmed with smells. At the moment my room smells quite fresh and summer like. With the spring air, perfume, flowers and a hint of lemon oil that my mom uses to clean table tops, so I guess sometimes it has a weird taste as well. I have hard wood floors in my room and they always seem to be cold. I really don’t like them; I think that carpet in a bedroom is best because it’s more comfortable. My room has a very warm feel to it because of the colours. The first thing that you see is my bed. It is a double bed with an ivory comforter. I have 4 sleeping pillows and 3 decorative pillows which are pink, beige with brown accents and a sequence pillow. I also have a light pink blanket at the bottom of my bed,. Right beside that I have my bed side table. It’s made of oak and has two drawers.  On it is a white and silver lamp, a silver photo frame, a pink and silver lava lamp and a silver dancer figure. Above my bed side table I have a decorative mirror which is round and has a silver boarder. Next I have a cabinet, which is also made of oak and has shelves and two drawers at the bottom. In there I store clothes and other random things and on top of it I have my black TV. Next I have a black picture that has a whole bunch of words on it like laugh, love, sing, dance etc.  Then I have my closet which had two big mirrors on it which really comes in handy. It’s a fairly big closet but not a walk in. Then I have my chalk calendar which I love filling out at the beginning of every month so I can stay organized. Coming back to a full circle, on top if my bed I have my window with ivory curtains, which are pretty thick so my room can go fairly dark at night time. Last but defiantly not least in the very centre of my room I have my chandelier. At the top there are 5 lines of around 10 little crystals that hang down to meet a round base which is followed by some crystals hanging down with a big diamond in the middle.  My room is usually clean, but during the week when I am super busy, when I say I cleaned my room it usually just means that I made path from my door to my bed. Cleaning and organizing my room usually takes place on the weekend when I feel more up to it. I really do love my room and feel like it’s a place where I can just relax.

Blog #7

Puck

The character that I have chosen to play Puck is Jim Carrey. He is a Canadian American actor, comedian, and producer. He has played in movies like Yes Man, Bruce Almighty, Mr. Popper’s Penguins and many more. I think that he would fit the character of Puck the best because Puck is a very miscevious, funny guy and that’s exactly what Jim Carrey is. In the book puck is constantly playing jokes on people and is funny while he is doing it. Jim Carrey is always the funny guy in his movies and he has never played a serious role where he can’t be silly and goofy. In act 3 scene 1 Puck turns bottom into an ass. Bottom did not know about this and that’s what made puck laugh. This seems like something that Jim Carrey would do because Puck did it to humor himself and that’s what Jim Carrey likes to do.

 

 

 

 

Titania

The character that I have chosen to play Titania is Angelina Jolie. She is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She has played in movies such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Wanted, Gia, Salt and many more.  Angelina is often playing a very strong and powerful role. She is one of the top 10 powerful actresses. I think that she will be a good representation of Titania because, to me, Titania is a very strong and powerful character, but she can also be very sweet. Although Angelina is a strong actress she is also very sweet and she has a family with 6 kids and she seems very kid friendly just like Titania. Titania, in act 2 scene 1 when Oberon wants to take care of the boy from India she states “and for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not part with him.”  This is something that Angelina would say to protect her kids, because she wants the best from them and loves them very much. Lastly just like Titania is having problems with her husband, Angelina was having some problems with her husband Brad Pitt. The movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith was kind of a representation of the problems that they were having because both Angelina and Brad Pitt stared in the movie. I like the picture because Titania is a very earthly woman and I think that Angelina’s dress in the picture represents that.

 

 

 

 

Helena

The character that I have chosen to play Helena is Kate Winslet. She is an English actress and singer. She has played in movies such as Titanic, The Holiday, Carnage and many more. In 2009 Kate won best supporting actress at the Golden Globes for the movie The Reader. For me, in A Mid Summers Night Dream Helena is played as a supporting actress for the main characters who are Lysander and Hermia. I thought that Kate would be a perfect role for Helena because she won best supporting actress for a movie that she was in. In the movie Helena plays a very determined character. First, she is very determined to always love Demetrius and never let him go. Then when Lysander and Demetrius say that they love her, she is very determined that they are just playing a trick on her. Kate Winslet, in Titanic, plays a very determined character. She is very determined to stay with Jack (Leonardo Dicaprio) forever and to save him and to be with him for the rest of her life.