Pay It Forward Book Review

ATTENTION: SPOILERS Title: Pay It Forward Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Pages: 261 Genre: Realistic Fiction I recently finished reading the novel, Pay It Forward. I started reading it to get more inspiration for my purpose project for GHEnglish, because my project revolves around random acts of kindness and the power of kindness. To learn more…

Purpose Project Accomplishments & Struggles

The end of the school year is quickly approaching, which means we don't have much time left for our purpose projects. I've been posting a RAOK everyday, with a few exceptions, due to a busy schedule. I recently created an Instagram account for my project, and added a new page on my website, called "Sharing…

Purpose Project Update

I've made a great amount of progress with this project. I created a website with my own logo, and pages for research, daily random acts of kindness, an explanation behind the random acts of kindness that encourages people to post about their experience, and an "about me" page. After being inspired by http://www.clearpathchiropractic.com/guelph-random-acts-of-kindness/ , I recently decided…

Purpose Project: The Power of Kindness

My GHEnglish class was assigned something called a purpose project. For this project, we have to figure out a message that we want to share and get people to understand. We then have to figure out a way to share this message, and conduct research on our topic. Surprisingly, my idea came to me right…

Blog Post #2 To Kill a Mockingbird By: Harper Lee

Final Thoughts On The Novel TKAM was a powerful novel that I would rank very highly compared to other realistic fiction books. It had characters that you could really connect with and themes that were strong and still apparent today. One conclusion that I reached after finishing the novel was that human beings wouldn't be…

Blog Post #1 To Kill a Mockingbird By: Harper Lee

While reading the first nine chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) by Harper Lee, I felt myself gradually getting more intrigued. Something that particularly interests me, is the mysteriousness of the Radley House. Secrets and "secret lives" are my english class's main focus while reading this book, and I definitely sense a great amount…

The Sun is Also a Star Book Review

ATTENTION: SPOILERS Title: The Sun is Also a Star Author: Nicola Yoon Pages: 344 Genre: Realistic Fiction I just finished reading the novel, The Sun is Also a Star, by Nicola Yoon. I first came across it on the summer reading list, but never got a chance to read it. My friends gave it very…

Reimagining Education

I found Joshua Metcalf's podcast on "Living That Life of Purpose" very interesting. He was very enthusiastic and felt very strongly about his thoughts on the current education system. He mentioned that there are two types of experience- "experience through doing and experience through knowledge." He believes that the current school system revolves around experience through…

Haroun Project Reflection

When given the task of teaching other readers of HATSOS the importance of seeing the novel through the lens of satire, my group quickly came up with a solution. We decided to make a political campaign video, posters, and flyers. After we came up with what we were going to do for our project, we…

Blog Post #3: Haroun and the Sea of Stories By: Salman Rushdie

The ending of Haroun and the Sea of Stories surprised me. I was expecting a clear happy ending, in which every knot was tied, but that wasn't necessarily the case in my opinion. I was a little confused if Haroun was actually happy at the end. I know he was happy that they conquered Khattam-Shud,…