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**//Write thoughts of the week//** 

Hints on what to journal on:

GO SEE KICKASS
 * Did you like it? Why or why not?
 * Can you compare it to something else you have read, seen, or experienced?
 * What makes it work? or not. ex: setting,pace (as in the build up of suspence),any startle factors, surprise ending etc..

The first week definatly gave me an deeper look into the coarse iscream. I thought that iscream was goin to be more boaring and not as in depth with so much of the modern type of horror. I am still having trouble with the project i want to do i cant decide what i want to attempt. The video we watched in the library seemed to give an idea into what i want to do. I dont belive to much into ghost but whatever floats your boat. Any class that start out with cupcakes and things and a movie is ok in my book. The movie we watched was good again i am not to much into ghost but i enjoyed the pov factor about this movie. How do we know were are not the ghost living in a world were no one can see us but feel our presence, it makes you wonder maybe were the intruders. All in all its going good so far hopefully the rest of the year will go this smoothly.

Week2: This week we started reading dracula. I have never read this book before i am pretty excited to read it because i want the original view of vampires and not todays version of vampires like what you see in sub par movies like in certain movies of today. In the book we read the first few chapters. I have a thought, i wonder about those wolves that plauged the carige. I wonder if they are the same wolves that are at the counts castle. Also whats the deal with the man who steals the lugage, whats up with him? Also how about the man who drives the carige. I think he is a ghost or has some type of strength or power the same as the count to be able to fend off those wolves, Maybe he is also dead. Well i enjoy the book so far and hopefully it can only get better.

dracula drives the carrige!! Ms. G.

Week3: It makes more sense now that I realize he was driving the cariage but at the time it was confusing. This week was very scatered for me i missed a day of school so things became a little crazy but anyways, this book just keeps getting wierder the more and more you read. Sucking blood off of the floor and eating living things thats just crazy talk. To think that someone thought of this stuff even back then is mind blowing. If I was reading thins back when it was first written I would have been so scared I proably wouldnt not have finished. For the next week coming up I need to think of what my project will be, i am thinking about finding a grave site or a rundown house and take pictures. hopefully that we could see some thing but if not thats what good ol photoshop is for! Best of luck to everyone on gettin their projects all squared away.

Im excited to get the projects started it should be fun and interesting to see what creative ideas people come up with. Jarrod's idea sounds like a very interesting idea and would be fun to look at and compare pictures of real and ones that have been photoshopped. Mike Smith

Jarrod, your project idea sounds awsome! Ms. G.

//week4: I was really intigued by the sene with renfield. Dracula killed him with one blow basicly. Thats amazing thats awsome power that one man poses. Also dracula has this ability to escape from any situation it amazes me. I always think what it would be like if I was reading this back when it first came out because this stuff even today is creepy. I mean just imagine the headlines in newspapers and looks on peoples faces when they read this for the first time. I am sure there were some people who were not to happy with the book at first and probally had it banned. I mean finiding a man in a cold dark cell suronded in a pool of blood its just very creepy stuff. O well only a few weeks of school left yay!

13 days left of school! But anyways yeah dracula is very strong like unbelievably strong and basically killing reinfield in an instant. Mike Smtih

jrod you read the ending yet lol?..if not, do it..its a let down :D i love being justified to trash words of literature lol.-joey

week5: This week is hectic me and heather are trying to finish up our project. We took pictures in the graveyard last night late, it was farely creepy. we picked up some creepy sstuff and i am excited to show the class what we found. This week is senior trip and i have to find a way to watch the blair wich. I am not to fond of the Blair Wich project the girl seems like she is trying to hard to get to be like normal acting. She is like almost to normal she is not normal. There is no way i would go into the woods knowing that stuff was going on, its just crazy talk, i am not saying i belive in ghost but there is no way i would go.

jarred, this is supposed to be about the final chapters of dracula, ms. g.

**Well i am asumeing this is suposed to be about the blair witch project movie. Well i am not to fond about the movie it just seemed forced and like it was almost to real it was fake. I found that i was mos creeped out about the part where the guy was standing in the corner, i belive thats because when the man was killing kids he would have one stand facing in the corner because he couldnt stand them to watch him. At the begining of the movie i found myself wishing for like false hope saying to myself that they were goin to make it out of the woods but they never did. Also about witches, the first witch book i read was not hansle and gretle it was sandwich. This book was about teaching a boy a lesson about not always putting himslf first. Even as a young kid a book like that dosent seem creepy till you get older and realize what its really about.** //

Well my good friend, your assesment of blair which was spot on.. i dont know anything bout this little "sandwich boy lol. im at a loss for words after that...-joey

i also thought they would have found thier friend in that abandoned house in the middle of the woods and have escaped the woods at the end but even though thats what i was thinking would happen i wouldnt want that to happen i dont really like happy endings happy endings are overrated.- chad cleveland