To Abbie Weil:
Dear BESTIE,
We are reading the same book! Yay!! I loved your 20 pictures blog post. It totally brought out your sense of humor! I especially liked the one of the two boys cheering. They look familiar? What do you think of the book so far? I know that for a book as cheesy as a plot line of long lost triplets, I thought it was well written. I definetly think the emotions the girls were feeling was well potrayed. What do you think? Sometime in your blog I think you should mention how freaked out you would be if you found out you were a triplet. I think that would be entertaining! :)
LOVE,
Sloan :)
To Laurel Stewart:
Hola mi mejor amiga! This book looks darling, and I'm really considering reading it for next quarter! This book fits your personality perfectly. I know how much you love animals, and especially dogs. :) I love the message sent across in this book. We always hear about these tough Army men and how emotionally distraught they become and a result of war. Its precious that this sweet puppy is there way back to healing, or forgetting, back to normalcy.
Catdaddy,
Sloan
To Stevie Dailey
Hey Stevie! Your blog background is super cute. I love the hummingbirds. Anyways, I really thought the plot of your book sounds really good. I can kind of relate, and I bet you can, to how busy life gets and how things get really hard at times! I feel like this book could maybe be an outlet to these feelings. You did a great job summarizing your plot, maybe I will read this book next quarter!!
:)
Sloan
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Swans Through Music
http://www.classicalconnect.com/music/5214
I chose a piano piece titled Nocturne by Arno Babadjanian. I wanted to chose a piano piece because not only do I love piano but also I believe it to have a certain feminine touch to it. This book is about three girls, so a feminine sounding intrument suited well for the plot. The piano in this piece is very..busy sounding. A lot seems to be going on in the piece. Many different keys and tones are being played and it portrays a scene of busy people, and their busy lives, and drama in my mind.The piano goes from deeper to lighter keys and tones throughout the song. It pauses in between these changes from deep and light sounds giving the listener a chance to collect thoughts. Although the pauses simply represent another set of deep and lighter sounds, the sections of these still have a slightly different beat while still holding that busy characterstic to it.
The book begins by introducing the characters of Claire and Missy. They are best friends that happen to be cousins. Everything begins happy and simple until Missy puts on a hoax for her science class pretending that Missy and Claire are long lost identical twins who just found each other. It's all fun and games until both Missy and Claire see the video of them putting on this hoax. They both start to think that maybe they are twins. This is the first dark, or deep part of the story. Just like the book, the piece I chose begins happy sounding with light sounds and keys. Then, the darker and deeper sounds come in, representing the confusion that followed the hoax. The music slightly pauses. The music increases to a slightly more complicated piece for the piano player, which represents the growing complexity or drama growing in the girl's lives. The next part of the piece is just fast piano playing. I think that this shows the whirlwind of emotions and events that take place from when the hoax was made up. The video of the two go viral. Everyone has seen it, and both Claire and Missy start having major suspicions. Another set of starting out simple and happy music starts, and then soon gets complex and deeper. This is Genevives life. She would have never found out she had twin sister's, and she was the third, is this video hadn't been made. Her life was simple, she had it all figured out. Then the video hits, the music grows more complex, and everything she knows is torn to shreds. This is the overall theme of the book Three Black Swans. Things are simple, then get complicated. Things slow down, then get more complicated again. Finally, things are at a constant medium of the two. The girl's lives would never be the same, but they now know where they came from and have a better grasp as to who they are. As mentioned earlier, each section of light and deeper sounds was just slightly different. This is representing that each girl lead a very different life. Each was raised differently, had different interests, and had a different personality. However, they were still the same in the sense of genetics and fingerprints and all the wonders that goes along with identical twins or in this case, triplets. The music is all piano, but the sections are just a little different everytime.
I chose a piano piece titled Nocturne by Arno Babadjanian. I wanted to chose a piano piece because not only do I love piano but also I believe it to have a certain feminine touch to it. This book is about three girls, so a feminine sounding intrument suited well for the plot. The piano in this piece is very..busy sounding. A lot seems to be going on in the piece. Many different keys and tones are being played and it portrays a scene of busy people, and their busy lives, and drama in my mind.The piano goes from deeper to lighter keys and tones throughout the song. It pauses in between these changes from deep and light sounds giving the listener a chance to collect thoughts. Although the pauses simply represent another set of deep and lighter sounds, the sections of these still have a slightly different beat while still holding that busy characterstic to it.
The book begins by introducing the characters of Claire and Missy. They are best friends that happen to be cousins. Everything begins happy and simple until Missy puts on a hoax for her science class pretending that Missy and Claire are long lost identical twins who just found each other. It's all fun and games until both Missy and Claire see the video of them putting on this hoax. They both start to think that maybe they are twins. This is the first dark, or deep part of the story. Just like the book, the piece I chose begins happy sounding with light sounds and keys. Then, the darker and deeper sounds come in, representing the confusion that followed the hoax. The music slightly pauses. The music increases to a slightly more complicated piece for the piano player, which represents the growing complexity or drama growing in the girl's lives. The next part of the piece is just fast piano playing. I think that this shows the whirlwind of emotions and events that take place from when the hoax was made up. The video of the two go viral. Everyone has seen it, and both Claire and Missy start having major suspicions. Another set of starting out simple and happy music starts, and then soon gets complex and deeper. This is Genevives life. She would have never found out she had twin sister's, and she was the third, is this video hadn't been made. Her life was simple, she had it all figured out. Then the video hits, the music grows more complex, and everything she knows is torn to shreds. This is the overall theme of the book Three Black Swans. Things are simple, then get complicated. Things slow down, then get more complicated again. Finally, things are at a constant medium of the two. The girl's lives would never be the same, but they now know where they came from and have a better grasp as to who they are. As mentioned earlier, each section of light and deeper sounds was just slightly different. This is representing that each girl lead a very different life. Each was raised differently, had different interests, and had a different personality. However, they were still the same in the sense of genetics and fingerprints and all the wonders that goes along with identical twins or in this case, triplets. The music is all piano, but the sections are just a little different everytime.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Three Black Swans Through Pictures
Claire and Missy reveal hoax on newscast
Claire's dad is waiting for her, she questions even more.
Claire finds out her dad just got layed off.
Rick, the interviewer, puts the news broadcast on YouTube.
Missy is the talk of her school.
Crowds of people harrass Claire with questions.
Missy reveals to her science class it was a hoax.
No one believes her, and they are angry.
Missy gets in big trouble.
Meanwhile, Claire's high school soon finds out about the video.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Blog Title Numero Uno
Ciao! My name is Sloan Catherine Winters. I'm 16 years old, I play soccer and golf, as well as participate in Lifesavers, Freshman Mentors, Key Club, and Student Council. When I grow up I want to be a Pediatrician. I have one brother, Luke, and he is 13 years old. This summer I traveled to Europe including Italy and I miss Italy very much, it was amazing. I hope I get to there again sometime in my life. I don't seem to have much time to read on my own too often, but when I do, I enjoy it. I like books on topics that have a historic background such as the Salem Witch Trials, the Holocaust, and Yellow Fever. On top of that, as any teenage girl would enjoy, I love reading sappy love stories. My favorite book is The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch which is a true story about a man who is dying of cancer and he writes this book as a guide to how he lived his life to the fullest, and it is dedicated to his wife and children that he ended up leaving behind. My mom is quite the avid reader, and I hope that I become more like her in that aspect as I get older.
Enough about me though, this year in English I'm excited about the Read for a Lifetime program blogging assignment. In the past two years of high school, I've wanted to get involved with the program but never really had the motivation to continue reading the books. Now that it is an assignment, I know I will finish it happily. I often have a problem finding books on my own that I would enjoy so now that there is a list to choose from, I think that will help a lot. I love that the list is a mix of old classic novels, true stories, and teen fiction. For the first quarter I chose the book Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney. This book is a fiction book about two best friends who happen to be cousins in the beginning of the story that put on a hoax in one of the girl's school claiming they are long lost identical twins that were seperated at that just discovered each other. Turns out, the hoax ends up being on them when they discover they truly are twins, all these years, no wonder they had that sort of connection. To put even more of a twist on the situation, they have a third sister-triplets-that lives only 20 miles away. I chose this book because I think that if something like that happened to anyone, it would be quite tramatic and life changing. Also, I've always wanted a sister and having a twin would be so interesting. I have twin boy cousins that I love to death, they are the funniest, sweetest things ever. So my whole life, I've been captivated by the idea of twins. They are built in best friends. I even have always secretly hoped to have twin boys of my own someday.
Having blogs in relation to your feelings on a book is always a good way to analyze the book. As for this class, I'm not exactly creative, so I don't think my suggestions will be that helpful. But, I think one good blog prompt would be something along the lines of what the book reminds you of personally so far. Has something ever happened to you that something in the book reminded you of? Of course there is always the "Be honest, what do you think of the book so far?" question that always seems to pop up one way or another. Another question could be if I would suggest this book to someone else, and if so, what age group or what kind of person would enjoy this book. Another question could be something like, if something like this happened to you in real life, how would you handle it? A prompt could also go something like picking apart the book more technically--rising action, climax, falling action, protagonist, antagonist ect..
Having blogs in relation to your feelings on a book is always a good way to analyze the book. As for this class, I'm not exactly creative, so I don't think my suggestions will be that helpful. But, I think one good blog prompt would be something along the lines of what the book reminds you of personally so far. Has something ever happened to you that something in the book reminded you of? Of course there is always the "Be honest, what do you think of the book so far?" question that always seems to pop up one way or another. Another question could be if I would suggest this book to someone else, and if so, what age group or what kind of person would enjoy this book. Another question could be something like, if something like this happened to you in real life, how would you handle it? A prompt could also go something like picking apart the book more technically--rising action, climax, falling action, protagonist, antagonist ect..
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