Three Stories

I think that the main way the books and the movie are similar, is that they are both rebelling against something.
In Across The Universe, they are rebelling against the war that is going on. In Johnny Tremain they are rebelling against the British, as they were in Ishi.
I think that watching the movie Across The Universe was a good idea. It gave a good picture of what it was like during that time period, how far people were willing to go in order to get what they wanted, and it was nice to just be watching a movie during WASL.

Reading the two books also helped. Because it shows how things worked back during that time period from different points of view. There were some pretty brutal things going on back then. I think that watching the movie was better though.

spring break

I climbed the bluff on Thursday and Friday of the spring break. I was climbing with my cousin Zack on Thursday, and i climbed with both Zack and Elli on Friday.
I've climbed the bluff many, many times, but i had only ever climbed up the first bluff. on Thursday, i only climbed that high because we didn't have enough time. And on the way down I almost smacked my head in to a log that lays over the trail. the trail is pretty steep - you have to crawl in some places - and it's covered in clay, and the clay was wet on top of that.
On Friday, we climbed to the top of the second; all the way up to the tree's and where the rope is. it was really fun climbing up. Zack brought a box to use as a sled to slide down the bluff. Elli and I wern't stupid enough to try going down the bluff in it, but Zack was, well not stupid enough, but daring enough i guess you could say. he didn't get very far in it; he slid about a foot - not going very fast - and then it just stopped. So that didn't go as we had planned. the view from the very top is amazing.
That was really the most exciting thing I did all break. I went to the beach a lot, but not much els.