Blog #7 Movie Trailer (The Notebook)

Blog #6 Readicide

Is Readicide a problem in schools? I do think that “readicide” is a problem in schools. Almost all of the books that we have to read for school are books that are considered classics and have not been written recently, most not even in this decade. A lot of them are sad or very serious stories that normal fifteen, sixteen year olds would not voluntarily choose. I think that’s one of the main reasons that kids don’t want to read at school or outside of school. We associate reading with having to do essays and stopping to take notes every couple of pages and topics that we aren’t interested in. If we were able to choose some of the titles or even were able to read more updated books and ones that we as teenagers could relate to, I bet so many more kids would actually read and enjoy the books assigned in English class. Some might even start to read outside of class too because they liked the ones that they read in class so much. It’s really an easy fix someone just needs to step up and show how “readicide” is an actual problem and that it isn’t a hard thing to fix. What should a 21st century English class reading list look like? It doesn’t have to be fashion magazines and sports stories and stories that only teenagers want to read. It should be a mix of everything maybe one or two classics that many people love, a romance or mystery, and maybe even a fantasy. Something like the Hunger Games, which practically everyone loves or the Divergent trilogy. You want kids to want to read. You shouldn’t be bombarding them with notes and essays and tests and putting them to sleep every time that they have to read a chapter. The reading lists for 21st century English classes should be intriguing to the students and recently updated. It shouldn’t be made up of stories where a whole family gets killed and the story is told by the killers and it shouldn’t be about a firefighter who starts fires or a bunch of kids that got stranded on an island and have to learn how to survive. (Which all were old stories.) It should be books that appeal to teenagers.

Post 5: The Notebook

I think that the hardest part with making The Notebook into a film would be going back and forth with the flash backs bcause sometimes people have a little trouble following them. They do help explain the story and it makes sense in the book but I would think that it might be a little difficult to transfer that into a movie. You would have to find more actors to have the younger and the older versions of them and even change their styles that would evolve through the years in the story. The first scene that I would not want to be left out of an adaptation would be when Allie and Noah meet during the summer when she is visiting for the summer and Allie goes to the carnival with a girl that Noah and his best friend Finn knows and they end up meeting and they hang out at the carnival. Then later that night Noah asks Allie on a date and that is the start of their epic love story. The second scene I would want to include would be when they have dinner together after fourteen years and Allie tells him that she is engaged to be married but that she had to come back and see him one more time. They both expect to just become friends but they fall in love with each other all over again and it's one of the major turn points in the story. Adding to the previous my third scene that I would want to include would be a day after their dinner when Allie's mother comes to Noah's and tells her that her soon to be husband was in town looking for her and she was going to have to make a decision. Leave Lon and be with Noah who she had always loved or never see Noah again and stay with Lon. I chose that as my final scene I would keep beacause you never know for sure what her decision is your kind of left there wondering for a bit. There are two parts that I would leave out in the movie adaption. The first one would be the first 50-100 pages because it is mainly just Noah explaining parts of their everyday life then when they are much much older which isn't entirely as important. Or at least doesn't need that much detail it could just be a quick couple scenes instead of almost half the book it seems. The second part I would leave out would be when Noah is working in New Jersey right before the war because it didn't really contribute anything major to the story that was needed it was just sort of added in. When it probably could have just been mentioned in passing.

Post 3:Book 1 Book Review

I did end up liking the the book 13 Reasons Why but not as much as I expected. I had heard so many talk about how good of a book it was and that they loved it so I had pretty high expectations you could say. I will say that I still thought it was good but i was a little disappionted it didn't turn out to be as good as I had hoped. Death being the narrator made parts of the story cinfusing because at times it would take a second for me to figure out who they were talking about. The other thing I didn't love was that it was so sad, yes they were talking about and dealing with a suicide but I think there are many different ways that it could have been a bit more upbeat. Other than that I liked the novel 13 Reasons Why.