Changed senior project!

Some weeks ago I decided to write about the environment for my senior project. When I sat down to find facts and stuff to write about, I just couldn't come up with anything to write about. The last two weeks I have been thinking about what else I can write about, a theme that I actually can find good facts about. So now I finally decided to have my paper about Sarah Palin! I will look into how she have affected American politics before and after the 2009 presidential election.

Group work day

Last Tuesday in class we did something different from what we usually do. We divided the class in groups, with about 3-5 people in each of them. Our teacher had made a list of assignments for each group to complete. Some of the groups were connected together in a way that made them co-operate. For instance; one group found the facts, then the next group wrote notes for the rest of the class, then a third group used the notes to make a glogster.

In one way it worked. At least for me. I wrote about the American Government and how the power is divided in the three branches. So I learned a lot about that. But I have no idea what Anne Sofie wrote, unless I read her notes(which probably does not take that much time), but for the other groups who didn't write any notes, it will take some time to learn all the five pages of notes my group wrote. And when you write the notes yourself, you learn it way better. You have to concentrate to find out the exactly fact then write down our own sentence.

So all the other groups that didn't write anything, will have a lot more work to do before the test, because they didn't do the same work as for instance, I did. To do this in a different way we could have made the all the groups write notes. Then all the members in the groups could tell the rest of the group about their notes after writing them. Then everyone would know a little bit about all the material.

The Road

"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave". This is good explanation of how the world have become in the novel "The Road". It is written by Cormac McCarthy, also the author of the book "No Country For Old Men". "The Road" is a story of a man and his son wandering towards the coast in The USA. It is a post-apocalyptic story, where almost all life on earth is gone. He tells the story without letting the reader know anything about what happened to the earth. On the road they try to avoid people. They can not know if the people are "the good guys" or "the bad guys". Several times through the story they meet these bad people. Their way of surviving this world, is to eat other people. As the story goes on, the fathers coughing get worse and in the end he dies, leaving the boy to himself. Luckily an other family finds him and they take care of him.

This book was written very well! It stands out compared to other books. There were no chapters, no commas, and included words I couldn't find in my dictionary. In some way that is an agent that implies that there are no breaks, not in the book, and nor in the story.

In November the adaption of this book was released in theaters in the US. In the trailer I can se that John Hillcoat has interpreted the book like it was a natural disaster, which I do not like. In the book you stand freely to make up your mind about what happened, but not in the movie. Anyways, I am looking forward to watching this movie! Hopefully we will be able to watch it with the class.

Here is a link to the trailer of the movie.