Journal 56: Lost in the Woods

In the book "Hatchet", Brian was lost in the woods in Canada. He was lost and no one could find him or rescue him if he didn't try the best to survive. If it was me that was lost in the wilderness, I would try my best to stay alive too. Staying in the wilderness without anybody accompanying you would be very scary and dangerous. In the wild, I may not survive because every animal is trying to stay alive by eating each other and finding food for themselves. I believe that in order for me to survive I have to work very hard and try to find food too. I would try to remember everything I've learned for survival and use it while I am trying to stay alive. I think that in the wild, everything is dangerous and you're on your own. In order to survive, we will need a lot of things and we will have to fight for own lives.

Journal 55: Personal Assets

In Hatchet, Brian has to survive in the wilderness. In order to do this, he has a lot of things to do. For example, he has to stay optimistic and keep himself alive so that he believes in the rescue plane will come someday. If he was pessimist, he would not have prepared  fire or signal for a plane that flew by. If he was pessimist, he would have been sad and desperate that he had a plane crash and he would have just done nothing. I believe that the assets Brain has in order to stay alive were being optimistic, trying to stay alive, and the knowledge he learned from before. Those assets helped him stay alive by giving and telling him what to so when he faces danger, he can overcome the fear and survive. My assets are very different from Brian's. My assets are, for example, my temper and my grit. When I do things, I won't give up easily. Although this may turn into stubbornness, I still believe that if we have grit, we won't give up and we will succeed at last. Having a good temper is also very important, because if we have a good temper, we are usually optimistic and we can handle things more easily.

Journal 54: Solving Problems

In the book Hatchet, Brain was going to visit his father. When he was in the flight to Canada, the plane which he was in crashed because the pilot had a heart attack. Brian was trapped inside a forest in the Canadian Woods. While he was trying to survive in the wilderness, he learned that everything needs food to survive. He learned from the television that turtles lay eggs on land. Because of this, he found food. He also found food on the trees that were beside the lake he had fell in. In my life, I have met a lot of problems too. When I solve these problems, I use the information that I have experienced. Some time these information are from television channels I've seen, the newspapers, or even movies I've watched. I use these information and put them together to solve a problem. From these information, I can know what I should do and shouldn't do, and I will not make the same mistakes that someone has made before. Another way to use these information is to use them in real life. For example, if we know that certain types of plants are edible, we can eat that in the wild and we will not die that easily. This is how I use information in movies, books or television to help me solve my problems in real life.

Journal 53: Triolet

I like basketball

And it's fun to play

Basketball is harder then volleyball

I like basketball

In basketball, you must be tall

Or else it would be hard to play

I like basketball

And it's fun to play

How do we write a poem

We write it in rhythm

And it should be awesome

How should we write a poem

When I wrote this poem

Nothing rhymes with rhythm

How do we write a poem

We write it in rhythm

Journal 52: You and Nature

I believe that nature is the world that people hasn't build human technology on yet. Although buildings are all around the world now days, I believe that nature is still everywhere. When I think about nature, I think of a huge green plain with grasses and some trees that express peace. In my nature, everything is very peaceful. No evilness is expressed by anything and everything shares and protects the same thing, which is the land they live on. In nature, I have seen a lot of things such as the trees, the birds singing in the trees, or even the little bugs that live inside the trees. Some of these things make me happy. For example, new lives in nature are born during the Spring time and they make me feel happy because they will soon grow into the nature I believe in. Some of the things in my nature make me feel open. For example, when little birds are singing and young animals are playing with each other, they make me feel that they are innocent and pure. This makes me feel that my heart is opened. Others of the things in my nature makes me feel that everything is in a cycle. For example, in nature, everything goes in a cycle. An animal eats the plants to grow up and when they die, they turn into fertile soil for more plants to live on... , when Spring and Summer end, Autumn and Winter comes and when those end... These things are always in a cycle. These are the things of what I think about nature, and I wonder: Can human be a part of nature?

Journal 51: Limerick

I am a good child.

 That is never wild.

Not in a fight,

That no one is right.

I am very mild.

There was once a young man named Bill,

Who was an assassin that kill.

He took out his gun,

pointed at the sun

Bang, killed a person on a hill.

Once I wrote a poem about strong.

The poem was a little bit long.

Read in a tone,

It was well-known,

My poem was like a song.