This is the map I chose to represent my hometown, Johnston, IA. There isn't much included in this map besides, the state, and a few towns labeled, Johnston, Lincoln, Omaha, Cedar Rapids, and Sioux Falls. The blue outlines on each side of the state represent rivers. A lot of stuff is not represented in the map. It is very vague and not much detail. It doesn't show roads, interstates, or highways. It doesn't include lakes or show elevation. When i clicked on this website this picture was found, it was a web page about the city of Des Moines an Johnston. The photo does a good job representing the town and the placement of it and it was a good picture for the web page, to inform people where it is located. I don't think that it goes too much into detail because it's more of an informative web page about the state of Iowa, rather than getting into depth about just the city of Johnston.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Hometown Map
This is the map I chose to represent my hometown, Johnston, IA. There isn't much included in this map besides, the state, and a few towns labeled, Johnston, Lincoln, Omaha, Cedar Rapids, and Sioux Falls. The blue outlines on each side of the state represent rivers. A lot of stuff is not represented in the map. It is very vague and not much detail. It doesn't show roads, interstates, or highways. It doesn't include lakes or show elevation. When i clicked on this website this picture was found, it was a web page about the city of Des Moines an Johnston. The photo does a good job representing the town and the placement of it and it was a good picture for the web page, to inform people where it is located. I don't think that it goes too much into detail because it's more of an informative web page about the state of Iowa, rather than getting into depth about just the city of Johnston.
Questions for Bass and Williams
What or who inspired you to be a writer?
How do you think of the topics and ideas that you write about?
How do you think of the topics and ideas that you write about?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Johnston, IA Middle School
This is a picture of the 8th/9th grade building in Johnston, Iowa. This is where I attended grades 6-9. The year i was going into 8th grade the school decided to change it into an 8/9th grade building only. I attended this school four years, the longest I had attended of any of the elementary and high schools in Johnston. This image shows that my hometown was fairly large. Since it had to be changed into just an 8/9th grade building shows that it was overly populated with no room. After this made into the 8/9th grade building there was a 6/7th grade building being built. Our town was growing very rapidly, with just over 400 kids in my graduating class. This is represented to be a place of learning, I belive it was also a great place for social and sports interaction.
Terry Tempest Williams; Reading Like a Writer
-Find specific examples of absract and concrete language. What are the effects?
I found an example in the book using specific details; on page 740, she explains an experiement she recalled doing at the school she attended. The description was full of detail and is important to the text because it shows an analogy of the cup and water she did her experiment with to relate to the Great Salt Lake. The author gives a lot of good examples using abstract and detailed sentences. For example, when she is talking about the birds with their prey before them she says, "Adult burrowing owls will stand on top of the mound with their prey before them, usually small rodents, birds, or insects. The entrance is littered with bones and feathers. I recall finding a swatch of yellow feathers like a doormat across the threshold-meadowlark, maybe. These small owls pursue their prey religiously at dusk."I chose this paragraph to represent good absract ideas. It is a very detailed sentence, and paints a picture for the reader's mind.
I found an example in the book using specific details; on page 740, she explains an experiement she recalled doing at the school she attended. The description was full of detail and is important to the text because it shows an analogy of the cup and water she did her experiment with to relate to the Great Salt Lake. The author gives a lot of good examples using abstract and detailed sentences. For example, when she is talking about the birds with their prey before them she says, "Adult burrowing owls will stand on top of the mound with their prey before them, usually small rodents, birds, or insects. The entrance is littered with bones and feathers. I recall finding a swatch of yellow feathers like a doormat across the threshold-meadowlark, maybe. These small owls pursue their prey religiously at dusk."I chose this paragraph to represent good absract ideas. It is a very detailed sentence, and paints a picture for the reader's mind.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
100 Word Photo
Stacks of large corpse, not all but the head. One piled on another, dead, lifeless, helpless animal. Hunters watch without remorse. Maybe they kill for food. Show no courtesy, stand on top; king of the hill. Middle of nowhere, only few people surround, to show off their work or to others their a dissapointment. Stacks and stacks of nothing but death. Sad air; foggy and gloomy. Nobody can help the helpless buffalo now. Ground looks soft, fertilized and clear for hunting or storing. Lifeless, laying there like nothing. A huge graveyard of dead animals. But, what for? For what purpose?
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