End of Stargirl

In the course of two weeks I finally finished the book from Jerry Spinelli, titled Stargirl. To refresh our memories, our chose a book, and reading them. We already finished our third conversation/ discussions with our group. We read about 46 pages.

After Leo told Stargirl about the truth of she just being normal like everybody else. When I read this part I was really surprised that he said that to her and was thinking. What will happen to her? Will she come back? I kept on reading and observed that Leo found Stargirl, but she wasn't the Stargirl that everyone knew, she was Susan. I was so surprised that she changed just  because of Leo talking to her about being a normal girl. 

I knew that this Susan has the same inside personality as the Stargirl we knew from the very beginning of this amazing book. At this point Leo has just realized that he is officially Susan's Boy Friend. And big event is happening in this end of the school year. Called the State Contest, all the contestants give speeches and sees you is the best. The winner was Susan, she was very happy indeed. 

Three pages before she won she kept saying words like crowds, cheering etc. When I read that I was like, will it happen? They went to school and just found three people cheering for her. Which is way off from her expectation. 

The school year of this years has finally finished. Sadly Leo and Susan never met agian after summer. Leo keeps going to the school just to get the memories back, and he notices that now everyone was happy and cheerful and knew it was from the effect of Susan/Stargirl. It was Leo's birthday and he saw a present with a porcupine necktie.

I think the author did a very good job on ending the story. When he said 'porcupine necktie' all the readers knew that is was Stargirl, the girl that is different form everyone else. It makes me want to read more. So overall I think it was a very good book.

Entry Of Betrayal

Right now I have continued with the book and arrived about 3/4 of the book. I am right now, in page 138. I think the author did a very good job, so we could feel more tense to continue on with the book. I call this area of the book the 'Betrayal Land'. I call it this way because in my experience every book has a area that contains this subject.

So far I have found two symbols that make up this story. The first one is The ukulele. The second one that I am going to tell you is not really sure able, but it always pops out every now and then. It is the landscape of the desert and mountains. I chose this because when Stargirl and Leo Goes out their first destination is this place.

 Their friend relationship became even stronger every time they hang out. Leo now knows a lot about the girl that he is following everywhere. Both of them had an 'adventure' through the houses, and played games, but of course accompanied by their good friend Cinammon. Leo realizes that weekends is the most precious thing.

Days passed by and now almost everyone rarely talks to Leo. Because they saw a phrase saying Stargirl loves Leo. Since that day Leo felt different and wanted to tell the truth to Stargirl. He said that she never cares about what another people are thinking, and he told her just to be like everyone else. Stargirl likes to be different, and Leo told her that They hated her because of that. Then about 2 days later Stargirl Vanished.

Entry 11-19

I continued to read Stargirl from page 47-100, lots of important things happen in this area of the book. Key events in the book will open up and every secret will be unlocked. Currently we already finished our first meeting of the book and I heard many good thoughts from my partners. We discussed of how this Stargirl changes and her characteristics through out the first eleven chapters. 

Stargirl kept being herself by cheering for the other team, but this time for the MAHS basketball team, also called, The Electrons. She kept doing that for a long time until the team breezed thought the season undeafeated. Leo noticed that Stargirl's reactions to the team and the team on the opposite side, made the people around her annoyed to Stargirl's happiness.

One of the symbols I found through this story is the Ukulele. This object plays an important role in the story. In my opinion, every time she feels happy or is in a good mood she plays her ukulele. When after people got annoyed to her happy reactions she didn't play her ukulele anymore.

Leo is also a very important role for this book. This guy is like a shadow because he has neither side of Stargirl's nor The people. When Stargirl gave Leo the note saying, 'I Love You' he felt shaky, and wanted to know her more. Then he realized that deep inside his heart he wants to be closer to her, know her more and know stuff that other people don't. 

Leo and Stargirl became very good friends. After a while Kevin, Leo's best friend, found that He and Stargirl were hanging out s lot and  told him that there was something wrong with Stargirl. Leo is still confused why. And after that day no one ever interacted with the both of them agian. I think one time in the book it will show how this change will be benefit for the future.

Entry 1-11

Right Now, our class is focusing on discussing on a certain of books. We all a book from the options our teacher gave us, including Pigman, Stargirl and Mr. Breavery. From these three book I found the title Stargirl really interesting to me, and I've made my choice to read this for this unit. And she divides us into Groups and we have a meetings after we've read a certain amount of pages.

First thing that happened was in a school called Mica Area High School. Everyone there was having a normal life then storming through the hallways, there were rumors that there is a new girl at school, and everyone is already suspicious by her name that people call Stargirl. Every lunch break she would bring her ukulele and sang happy birthday, she would do different thing than others would, she is like a red leaf upon piles of orange leaves. A girl named Hillari Kimble doesn't really like Stargirl, because I think she gets all the attention rather than her.

Then there was a football game where no one rarely comes, but there were some people including Stargirl, while it was halftime of the game she acted like no one is watching her, running, dancing. She made smiles on people's faces, since that game everyone inspired themselves to go to be entertained by Stargirl, now thousands came to football games just because of one.

Day by day she made the whole school more excited to go to school to see what Stargirl is up to. She changed the whole school in a positive way, and now everyone is talking about her and is popular. But there are some few things that she has change that might lead to bigger problems, including The Pledge of Allegiance, the Girsdale Funeral and the Danny Affair. 

All About the Hand

This project we created a art project that our class called 'All About the hands'. We started by drawing blind contour drawings with a duration of two minutes each. We made approximately 6 hands, but he had to pick our 3-4 most favorite hand. Then we traced the hands, and started on our background for this project. We placed value into play in this project, combined with shapes of our interest.  We mainly focused on drawing dark to light which makes is more 'alive', and the importance of lines, but lastly the way we use color. 

            

  When I completed my final product, I realized that the green lines next to the blue circle made the 'nature' side more nature. And also, I am glad that I put the lighting strike next to the green triangle on the left top corner. 

           

  One of the thing I would change is the line that sperates the two dimensions, I should've left the line with no geometric shapes. Another thing is that I could've made the lighting strike more spread out.

12"*18"                     Color pencils, Graphite on paper

Art Expectations

Art is a very important ingredient of life. It can express feelings without words, and people will inspire your artwork. In class we will have to respect all the materials and belongings of the class, also your classmate's stuff. We should bring all materials to art class. We try to do risky things to always get better and push ourselves. We have to accept criticism from our classmates and learn from the mistakes we've made. But the most important thing is to have fun.