Kayla Edwards 2/16

Today in class we celebrated National read out loud day. We first started by coming up with reasons why it is important to read out loud to children. What we came up with was that it is important for them to hear the pronunciation of words, because they may not be able to read but they still know the meaning of spoken words, for fun, and to help teach them to read and educate them. Mr. Rivers then read out loud to us from B.J. Novak's book, One More Thing. BJ Novak is also known as Ryan from the Office. The section Mr. Rivers read was about a rematch between the tortoise and the hare. In the rematch, the hare obviously wins to prove that slow and steady does not always win the race. I recommend you read it, or have someone else read it aloud to you because it's very funny. Next, we assigned each other roles from the play, "12 Angry Men". This play is about 12 jurors who have to decide to give a man accused of murdering his father by stabbing him in the chest with a knife the death sentence. We didn't get very far, but so far, all but one juror has voted to give him death sentence and they are all arguing why he should be put to death with juror eight, who believes he's innocent. My part was Juror two who is timid and shouldn't be on the jury because he couldn't even provide reasoning for why the man should be given the death sentence besides that he thought he did it.