http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JSUXaY-tw&ob=av3n
The piece of music that I picked to go along with my book was "You're My Best Friend" by Queen. It seemed like a good song to relate to the book because of how Lava becomes Jay's best friend. I wasn't sure if I was going to use this song or not because it is about a guy being in love with a girl and how they are so in love that she is his best friend. But this song is also almost perfect in describing the Marine and his dog's relationship. In the book, From Baghdad, With Love, Lt. Jay Kopelman falls in love with this dog named Lava and wants to do what ever is necessary to get him back to the U.S.
A line in the song that I thought related to the book was actually the first line of the song "Ooh you make me live, whatever this world can give to me" It is Lava that gives the Lt. more hope to go on while fighting in the war and Lava gives all those soldiers something to look forward to doing and taking care of when they get back to there housing complex. Also it relates to "whatever this world can give to me" because when you are out in war you don't have much of anything so in this case you can say that the world gave the Lt. the dog. Another line that I thought could relate was "You're the first one,when things turn out bad, you know I'll never be lonely, you're my only one, and I love the things, I really love the things that you do, you're my best friend." This section of the song can relate to the relationship between the man and dog because when things get bad out at war the Lt. comes back and has Lava who is basically is best friend, and since he and the other troops have Lava they will never be lonely. In the song when it says I love the things you do, that can relate to the Marines loving the little cute things Lava did while he was still a pup.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Animotoooo
http://animoto.com/play/A7Pm98Qp6NoqLvvCZF8lgg
This is a vlog i made with the pictures i already had or just took recently. It summarizes the book a little bit and tells what might have to happen but there is only so much you can do with 30 seconds while trying to make a trailer for a movie that seemed like a journal. But I had fun making it and there were some misspellings but that was because you can only use a limited amount of characters on Animoto so I had to put a couple words together, but oh well I hope you enjoy it!
This is a vlog i made with the pictures i already had or just took recently. It summarizes the book a little bit and tells what might have to happen but there is only so much you can do with 30 seconds while trying to make a trailer for a movie that seemed like a journal. But I had fun making it and there were some misspellings but that was because you can only use a limited amount of characters on Animoto so I had to put a couple words together, but oh well I hope you enjoy it!
Video of Author and Lava
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLIzyAM5qrQ
This is a very good video if you want to find out about what the author and the dog are doing post-war. I will warn you it spoils the book, just encase you were wanting to read it. But I feel like it is possible to understand the author's point of view better now and I also really enjoyed finding out about what they were doing post war. It's not a very recent video because it was posted in 2006 and the book takes place during 2004 and 2005 so I am not very sure what this dynamic duo are up to now but I'm sure Lava is happy! But if you haven't read the book already and you don't care about finding out what happens to Lava and Jay through the book then this is an excellent video to watch!
This is a very good video if you want to find out about what the author and the dog are doing post-war. I will warn you it spoils the book, just encase you were wanting to read it. But I feel like it is possible to understand the author's point of view better now and I also really enjoyed finding out about what they were doing post war. It's not a very recent video because it was posted in 2006 and the book takes place during 2004 and 2005 so I am not very sure what this dynamic duo are up to now but I'm sure Lava is happy! But if you haven't read the book already and you don't care about finding out what happens to Lava and Jay through the book then this is an excellent video to watch!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
From Baghdad, With Love
This quarter my Read for a Life Time book of choice was From Baghdad with Love by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth. I wasn't so sure about getting this book at first because I could see how it might be boring or not as cool as some of the other books. But I have enjoyed it a lot since I have started reading it because I myself am a dog person. I have both a dog and a cat at home and I like both of them but I really couldn't see there being a book about a cat in the military... anyway. I highly suggest reading this book because it has been very intriguing and actually kind of funny what the dog does. There are some sad parts in this book of course but it does have a happy ending.
This book is about a dog named Lava and a Lieutenant named Jay Kopelman and his military team. As they walk down a hall way in a housing facilities where the U.S. Marines are staying they hear an unusual noise, when they go and check it out they are still a little wired from there day of fighting and patrolling and all of the sudden they see this little ball of fur that is a little puppy. They name the puppy Lava off of the military group in Hawaii named the Lava Dogs. As time goes on and they continue to break the rules of having a pet in the facility, Jay and everyone else becomes really attached to Lava and wants to make sure he gets back to the U.S. This mission is a very hard one because it is a dog they have found in Iraq that they are not even supposed to have in the first place. Does Lava get to return home with Jay or will they be forced to part when Jay goes home? You will just have to read the book and find out!
This book is about a dog named Lava and a Lieutenant named Jay Kopelman and his military team. As they walk down a hall way in a housing facilities where the U.S. Marines are staying they hear an unusual noise, when they go and check it out they are still a little wired from there day of fighting and patrolling and all of the sudden they see this little ball of fur that is a little puppy. They name the puppy Lava off of the military group in Hawaii named the Lava Dogs. As time goes on and they continue to break the rules of having a pet in the facility, Jay and everyone else becomes really attached to Lava and wants to make sure he gets back to the U.S. This mission is a very hard one because it is a dog they have found in Iraq that they are not even supposed to have in the first place. Does Lava get to return home with Jay or will they be forced to part when Jay goes home? You will just have to read the book and find out!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Letters About Literature
Jack Bryant
1301 E Walnut St.
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Dear Jules Verne,
Hello I am currently a student at Carbondale Community High School. This year in English class my teacher our teacher has assigned us the task of having a blog and keeping up with it weekly. This is what brings me to be writing you a letter at this time. As a little added extra to the blogging assignment our teacher told us we were to write a letter to the author of one of the books we read this quarter and I enjoyed your book more out of the two. The book made me catch myself thinking that I would enjoy doing something similar to Phileas Fogg. When I read this book I think of Phileas just having the life, being an inventor who is very wealthy and can just do what he wants when he wants. The reason this sounds interesting to me is because I myself would like to become so sort of engineer or inventor. Through my childhood I have always taken much joy into putting things together and building things whether if it was from my imagination or from the set of instruction that came with the appliance that I was allowed to put together. But this is what probably makes me so interested in the book itself.
Something the book showed me about the world today that I have never taken much thought into was how many advancements in technology we have had. Before reading this book I’m sure any kid would think, “Wow, 80 days? That is forever! I could get around the world in 24 hours in an air plane.” But they forget to think about how fast 80 days really is for that time period. In your book you speak of how Phileas travels around the world by all different types of transportation, including the train, steamer, carriage, and even hot air balloon when really all of those things today have a bigger better form of that transportation or just have major improvements. The train has gotten much faster and it can travel much farther than what it used to be able to. The steamer has been replaced by the luxury cruise liner. The carriage has of course been replaced by the car and the blimp by the air plane. So the world of transportation has changed dramatically which I don’t usually think about.
What really surprised me about myself while I was reading this book was about how interested I was in a book written over 100 years ago. I am not a big fan of books as it is so I wasn’t sure how I was going to like a book. So I was unsure about how I was going to like a book that did not speak modern day slang but it was quite the opposite. This different form of English actually kept me more interested in the book because in a way it was more entertaining to me. Sometimes around the house, my brother sister and I go around saying “Indubitably” to everything and so it was funny when I actually read words like that in the book. So thank you Mr. Verne, for writing such a good book that kept me entertained and interested.
Sincerely,
Your reader
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
My Feelings of the 21st Century Classroom
Over the years there has definitely been some changes. Most of these changes were of course for the best but they effect more than just what people think. With the inventions of blogging, tweeting, facebooking, and skyping, the modern English class itself has changed. I'm sure ten years ago there were not many classes (if any) that were assigned to just go blog about a book that they got to pick out themselves and read it when they wanted to read it. But with this assignment, my teacher gave us the option to post our blogs on Facebook or even tweet about them to get extra credit for our blogs. I really enjoy this activity of blogging because mostly every week we get to get out of the classroom just to go blog, which I am getting more and more comfortable with. I have never enjoyed just sitting down and reading because I was forced to do it all through grade school which was not very fun. But now I can choose a book from the Read For a Lifetime list and read when I have the time to.
The activity of blogging overall is great. Every week in the first quarter we were given a different blog to do that required us to go more in depth with our blog and we had to truly know what we were talking about. This quarter was not that much more different except that after the first two blogs we got to choose what we wanted to do for our blogs which I enjoyed because it made me feel like I had more freedom then just following this weekly assignment for my blog. This assignment is also different then if we would've been just doing something boring like sitting in the class room and reading aloud because then you are forced to read something you might not want to read. Also, this quarter we had the ability to Skype a completely different school across the state. Unfortunately we never did this activity which is alright but it would've been something different. As time goes on I'm sure the English classroom will continue to change just hopefully for the better with different activities like blogging.
The activity of blogging overall is great. Every week in the first quarter we were given a different blog to do that required us to go more in depth with our blog and we had to truly know what we were talking about. This quarter was not that much more different except that after the first two blogs we got to choose what we wanted to do for our blogs which I enjoyed because it made me feel like I had more freedom then just following this weekly assignment for my blog. This assignment is also different then if we would've been just doing something boring like sitting in the class room and reading aloud because then you are forced to read something you might not want to read. Also, this quarter we had the ability to Skype a completely different school across the state. Unfortunately we never did this activity which is alright but it would've been something different. As time goes on I'm sure the English classroom will continue to change just hopefully for the better with different activities like blogging.
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