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Sunday, February 13, 2011 F. Scott Fitzgerald //Flappers and Philosophers//

My book was a collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first story was "The Offshore Pirate." It was about a spoiled character named Ardita. She was on her way to visit her uncle when her ship was captured by pirates. After he threatened her and the other people on the boat and took them captive, Ardita fell in love with their captain.

Another story in this book was Bernice Bobs Her Hair. Bernice was an unattractive girl, at least by what her cousin, Marjorie, thought. Her cousin gave her lessons on how to flirt with boys and how to seem more attractive. The lessons worked very well and she was sought after by all the boys. Even her cousins boy was interested. Marjorie got very jealous and tricked Bernice into bobbing her hair. She went thru with it without realizing she was being tricked. When she went out after getting her hair chopped off the boys lost interest in her. She was very upset and she planned to leave on a train the next morning at 1 am. Before she left she went into her cousins room and cut off her pigtails. When she was on her way to the train station she took Marjorie's pigtails and threw them on the porch at Warrens (Marjorie's boyfriend) house.

There were other stories in this book but those were two of my favorites.

Friday, February 4, 2011 F. Scott Fitzgerald //Flappers and Philosophers// 25 pages read

Not much new has happened in my book. They have arrived in a cave under the island. No big events really stand out to me as exciting. I'm getting kind of bored of this book already... but I'm not giving up on it yet! As for ideas for my Death of a Salesman Test Project I have a couple different songs in mind. I think I will do a theme that has something to do with lying, second chances or mistakes.I'm very excited to use the Animoto website because my mom has made some pretty cool videos with it. I'm also excited to use pictures to help me describe things instead of using words.

Monday, January 24, 2011 F. Scott Fitzgerald //Flappers and Philosophers// 20 pages read

The book //Flappers and Philosophers// is a very descriptive book. It started off by talking about a girl on a boat. Her name was Ardita. She is on this boat with her uncle when the ship gets taken over by "pirates". These pirates are a singing group that turned bad and decided to go steal a yacht. Ardita's uncle's yacht was the first one they happened to run across. When they come on board they tell her she has a choice to either row back to shore on their row-boat or stay on the ship and be kidnapped along with the crew. She is a very stubborn young adult so she tells them she's staying. She believes her dad will be able to run cables and find the boat. Once they get to her destination she realizes they are hidden in a cave and is not so sure about her rescue anymore. The main character so far is Ardita. She is a strong-willed girl with blonde hair and gray eyes. She believes she is very attractive and that no one can resist her. I think that I'm going to like her a lot because she will be entertaining. :)

January 13, 2011. Today i created my Wiki account and joined this amazing Wiki, woohoo! :)