http://moose.learnerblogs.org It's just a bunch of writing... Fri, 25 May 2007 15:42:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Before I answer the question of how I learn best, I want to know how you, as my 9th grade teacher are going to be able to teach a room full of 30 kids, each of who learns a different way. You have to be versatile. Willing to push ALL ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/05/25/how-i-learn/ we are in the last 20 days of school, and i am really stressed out. I just don't have time for everything. The teachers are putting on the pressure to get my grades up (not that they can really get that much higher) and i have lots of stuff to ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/05/01/stress/ Sorry I didn't post one last week, but when your computer at home keeps on crashing every time you log in to learnerblogs or even writetomyblog, then it's really annoying and stupid. Okay, so here is this random post about a pretty amazing song by Switchfoot. Awakening Face down with the LA curbside endings With ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/04/24/sorry-2/ Sorry I didn't post one last week, but when your computer at home keeps on crashing every time you log in to learnerblogs or even writetomyblog, then it's really annoying and stupid. Okay, so here is this random post about a pretty amazing song by Switchfoot. Awakening Face down with the LA ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/04/24/sorry/ Mooseism  This is my amazing belief...it took a long time and is very long, so if you don't want to spend a long time reading something, don't read this one. http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/04/10/mooseism/ The following list is of all of my favorite bands and some of their best songs, make sure to check out the links, they'll take you right to their sites My Chemical Romance (just for Greta) -Welcome to the black parade - House of Wolves AFI -The Missing Frame -Love like Winter -Miss Murder  Taking Back Sunday -What's it ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/04/03/mooses-music-its-not-actually-mine-but-i-like-it/         At the beginning of today's class, Mr. Wilkoff said that our blogging was about the writing, not the technology. But I am wondering if that is true or not.         Last week, I spent about 10 minutes writing my Substitutes post, and about 50 minutes trying to fix the computer and get ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/20/technology-vs-writing/ Why are they so mean to us? And why are we so mean to them? Why is it, that when our real teacher isn't there, we feel like being the worst class ever? It's cause we're amazing like that!     No, really, like last year, where our math class had ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/15/substitutes/ You ask me what more you can do for me? Well, you can just Let Me Be. Leave me alone to ponder, to question, to drown in my own misery! you don't understand that I don't want to share my deepest thoughts and secrets, You don't understand that I love you more than anything, but ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/27/sisters/ I like all of the points that Mr. Wilkoff makes, but the one thing that I really hate about this whole thing, is that the district thinks we don't use google video enough! I mean really, have they ever seen our blogs? they just don't understand that technology is our ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/20/the-case-for-google-video/ This is the story of tar the bar of soap, donitioner the conditioner, danpoo, the shampoo, and bob...the loufa.  They set out one day for adventure. They were tired of watching people take showers, day in and day out, so they decided to venture out to the beyond. They trecked for ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/13/soap/ It is so annoying that people keep on calling me anorexic and or bulemic. I'm not! and I'm not fat either *cough TIM cough* gosh, it is way annoying so just stop it, I'm fine how I am, I'm not too skinny, I'm not too big, and if anyone ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/06/annoying/ The other day, grace and vivian and I were talking about colors. How do we know if we all see the same colors? So say one day in kindergarten, you teacher points out a color to you, it is called blue. But what you call blue, is really what someone ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/06/colors/ Well, when you have to take a lot of tests and boring things like that, then I always forget what I've just learned, so really I haven't learned anything. But with this, I can see what I have learned, I can look back at the things I have written and ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/06/write-on/ What do you do when you don't have anything to write about, but your teacher makes you because it's for a grade? Well, you write about boring random stuff that happens in your life. for example: Last night my sister and I were fingerjousting, and she had me pinned and ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/31/funny-things-that-happen-in-my-oh-so-boring-life/ I just read this Discovery guest blog, and decided to write about it.  I like the fact that parents love their kids enough to try to protect them, but we still need some breathing space! Don't get me wrong, i love spending time with my family and love them, but ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/23/parents-and-their-children/ I just saw this movie and I couldn't believe how GUILTY I felt! Here I am sitting in a nice warm theatre, when everywhere in the World people are dying of hunger and living on the streets. the character was so desperate. He had $7 left, and yet he was ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/16/pursuit-of-happyness/ co·in·ci·dence   /koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[koh-in-si-duhns] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1. a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance: Our meeting in Venice was pure coincidence. 2. the condition or fact of coinciding. 3. an instance of this. [Origin: 1595–1605; coincid(ent) ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/10/coincidence/ Everyone says that money can't buy happiness, but is that really true? I mean, you can buy a lot of stuff, games, a big house, and you are pretty happy. being poor and struggling through life doesn't make anyone happy, so does that mean that money can buy happiness? i ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/02/can-money-buy-happiness/ 1. I want to look at coincedence and how people view it.  Does everything happen for a reason, or is it just a coincedence? 2.I want to thing about character traits. What makes a bad character bad, a good character good. Why are funny characters funny? Etc, it would be interesting to look at ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/02/personal-curriculum/ #5: That Easy Button commerical for Staples where they think that if they push someone else's easy button Tom (or whatever his name is) will get sucked into a black hole, so they push it anyways and Tom disappears, and 5 seconds later he falls out of the closet. That's ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/31/top-5-best-commercials-ever-and-why-do-we-have-commercials-anyway/ Everybody thinks I'm an overachiever. I hate it!!!!!!! Because it's not true. Everyone thinks that just because I get good grades it means I am an overachiever. Well they must have some stupid disease that makes their brains messed up. An overachiever is a person who TRIES too hard. I don't ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/31/overachievers-and-why-i-am-most-certainly-not-one/ Can time stop? i know clocks can stop but can time stop? Like in movies where you see the guy and the girl see each other and everything stands still, does that really happen? I need to know because I am not um...smart enough to figure it out. and in ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/31/this-is-a-really-important-question-that-you-need-to-answer-for-me-and-if-you-dont-im-gonna-be-really-mad-about-it-and-stop-calling-me-an-overachiever-while-youre-at-it/ I was in bed, tossing and turning, I couldn't sleep. My dog was coming tomorrow! I was sooo excited. The door bell rang at 3 in the morning...ding dong! I raced down the stairs but my obnoxious little brother had gotten to the door first! ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/31/scavengerhunt/ we are in middle school...8th grade to be exact. And i have noticed how weird middle schoolers are. Some of us are totally Immature (I won't name names but you know who you are!!!) and some of us are silent, some of us are a little emotionally corrupt and ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/31/middle-schoolers/ Chapter 1 In which you meet five children, and a strange island “Come on guys! Hurry up!” yelled Andie, giggling as she hopped across the rocks. “Slow down there champ,” called William, shaking his dirty blonde hair out of his eyes and following quickly.  Andie and William Sanders were brother and sister, to ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/14/i-need-comments-on-this-story-postshould-i-continue-it/ It is a rather depresssing song as well! the children make the snowman and he comes to life. they become attached to their new little friend, and then, when getting chased down by the evil adults and police people it gets too hot outside and he melts (AKA HE ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/12/frosty-the-snowman-is-the-worst-christmas-song-evercont/ Frosty the Snowman is the worst christmas song ever, because it is so overated and annoying! there are about eighteen different versions of the same song, all by some...person who hasn't had a singing lesson in twenty years! I know it is a classic song, but it's has ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/12/frosty-the-snowman-is-the-worst-christmas-song-ever/ What does it take to have faith? To be able to jump into the unknown and just trust someone to reach out and catch you? Well, it takes courage and hope and faith. It takes trusting someone to remain with you no matter what happens. You know that ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/05/faith/ In Maus we talked about how trains were used as torture. I've been on trains loads of time going from England to Scotland or York to London, but never for weeks at a time. In the book Maus is stuck on in a train for animals. he ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/05/trains-as-torture/ "Hey mom, what's up?" said little Johnny goldfish "you need to go to school Johnny," "Okay mom," said Johnny, and started off to school. when he got home he looked around the house. "Mom??? Dad??? where are you?" He started to panic...and then suddenly the evil rabid sushi men came and took him away. he was ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/28/sushi-from-the-fish-to-the-table/ the following song by the Newsboys is one that not many have heard. My sister got me into it sometime last year and i fell in love with it. if you read the lyrics you will realize that they are talking about their dead friend and all of this other ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/21/the-breakfast-song/ One day, a man was walking down a long, dirt road. He noticed three people talking loudly by the side of the road. He slowed down to hear what they were saying. "I heard, that Tom was an evil, killer alien who killed Monica," Said one girl. Antoher said, "Well, I did ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/14/fancy-schmancy-parable-thing/ I am watching Aladdin at the moment. A lot of people have seen this movie and an equal ammount of them know about the little dude flipping you off at the beginning of the movie. Now, what I am wondering is why? Why do we care about stuff ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/10/10/aladdin/ Chapter II James Peterson awoke to find a note attached to the front door of his small French cottage. The note read: Dear Mr. Peterson,I believe that you are acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Devlin Manyard. I have a favor to ask of you involving the Manyards ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/10/02/this-is-the-second-chapter-of-my-book-that-i-dont-have-a-title-forplease-read-it/ Today is a bad day. They come every now and then. I don't know why it is a bad day. But it is. My mind is flooded with thoughts and memories from bad times Of death and sadness, of sunny days and relentless heat. It is suppressing me, taking up all of my mind space, closing ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/10/02/bad-days/ I was reading a Traveling Magazine today by National Geographic and there was a big packet that was titled EGO EMISSIONS LIST...2006. I decided to make my own. Each one is labeled with two things. The Object and it's ego...1 being no ego and 100 being a huge ego...Are ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/24/mooses-ego-emissions-list/ I have officially realized that I didn't write anything about 9/11. I read this post by nextmj1 and wanted to continue his post or give you my 9/11 story. I walked down to breakfast. I had just turned the corner to walk into the sun drenched kitchen when I saw my mother. ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/19/comment-building911/ Today in class we talked about two speeches. One made by FDR after Pearl Harbor, the other made by George W. Bush after 9/11. I thought that I would address the "speech-making" quality of the two presidents. In FDR's speech, I noticed how he paused after what seemed like ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/19/10/ Why do some people hate reading? Why do some people like reading? Why are people who can't read considered stupid? Why is reading so important? Why do we read only because people make us? Or stop because people make us? Why are some of us slow at reading and others ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/09/why-reading/ Their bleak white walls stare back at you, meaningless and bland You hope to find comfort in the happy art work on the walls but find none, only hoplessness at what will not come You enter the room to silence, nothing but pure, hard silence. silence so quiet, it echoes back at ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/08/hospitals-suck/ Chapter I “Ouch!” yelled Jane, “That was my foot!” A thick white plate had dropped to the floor and onto Jane Manyard’s foot, shattering as it hit the highly polished wood floors of the Manyard family basement. “Are you all right dear?” asked a concerned Devlin Manyard, Jane’s handsome husband. ... http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/01/weekly-authentic-this-downt-have-a-title-yet-though/