Outside reading

Today, what I have read most recently is my American Sign Language Text Book. I learned about the importance of facial expression while signing. Facial expression can not only change the mood of the conversation or emphasize a word, but it grammatically changes the whole context of what is being said. If you are asking a yes or no question, you must raise your eye brow and lean forward. If you are asking what is called a wh question, you lower your eyebrows. A wh question is responded with a statement and the question contains a word starting with wh, such as: what, where, who etc... I have learned a lot from this text book and will learn more from it quite frequently as the school year goes on. Already I have learned so much and I will get to enjoy learning more about this unique language every day this year.

Double Bubble

Christy

Christy is one of my favorite books of all time. This book is about an upper class girl, who lived a very comfortable easy life style as a child. Latter in life, she is inspired at a church service at her local church and the course of her life begins to change dramatically. She has the desire to teach in a society that is extremely impoverished. She has great trouble gaining the children's respect when she first arrives at the school. She gets very involved, and tries to help the town for the better. This book is inspiring, and is a great reminder on how to help others, because we have is pretty good here at EHS. It also shows us how radically your life can change if you work for it. I highly recommend this book, and i hope you can check it out.

Hall of Fame

Anna C graduated from the University of Minnesota. She majored in art and design. Later, she opened a small art studio for middle school and high school students. This art studio became very successful. It expanded dramatically and now is a visual art University located in Switzerland. Today, she lives in Switzerland and is frequently seen in the University checking up on everything. The University has graduated several famous artists and will most definitely keep that up.

Artistic

The adjective “artistic” would be a very accurate way to describe me. I am an artistic person because of my love to paint. I both oil paint and acrylic paint but my preferred choice out of the two would most definitely be oil painting. I like to oil paint because the paint stays wet longer so I am given more time to blend in shadow and light to my picture. Some high quality oil paints, usually in warm colors like red and orange can stay wet for up to 3 weeks. I take a year round art class downtown in the Itasca building every Tuesday. My favorite unit in that class is the painting unit but it also includes oil pastel still life drawing, figure drawing, landscape drawing, clay, mask making and printing. I like to paint when I can, even though I do not usually have very much free time, this is one of the reasons why the art class is so nice to have because it assigns time in my day to do art. I find painting extremely relaxing and expressive. You can usually tell what type of mood I am in by looking at the painting. I love to paint and I hope I can be artistic in a future profession some day.