The Briggsy Awards

Most interesting part of this class: I think the poem unit was interesting. It was neat listening to everyone’s poems.

Most boring part of this class: Midweek worksheets. I didn’t really like doing those each week.

Hardest I laughed in this class: When we were filming our movie. Dustin kept messing up and we had to start over a lot.

Thing that I learned that will be most useful to know in the real world: Good leads for papers. I was never good at doing that before this class.

Best thing about Brigs as a teacher: He is really funny and he makes his class enjoyable.

Things Brigs can do to make this class better: I can’t think of anything. I really enjoyed this class.

Your Top Films

I love to watch movies! Here are some of my favorites.

Comedy: Mean girls. I can watch this movie over and over again. It always makes me laugh.

Action: Hunger Games. This movie was amazing! I went to the midnight premiere and loved it.

Drama: Titanic. My sister and I love to watch this movie together. I sing My Heart Will Go On as loud as I can when we watch it.

Chick Flick: The Lucky One. This was a pretty good movie. Zac Efron is the main character so that makes it even better!

Science Fiction: Men in Black: This is another movie I can watch over and over. I want to go see Men in Black 3.

Disney: Cinderella. I love all the princess movies but Cinderella was always my favorite.  

A Wrinkle In Time

We all wish we could re-do something. I’m only 18 so I can’t think of any majors choices that I would like to do over again. I do wish I was a little more outgoing in high school. I was always really shy and only did cheerleading. I always wonder about how many different friends I would have if I did a different sport. This year I was a little better about being shy and I have made some new friends but now that I’m graduating I will have to tell them goodbye soon. I’m going to learn from this and try to be more outgoing in college.

Casting Your Life

In the story of my life I think Anne Hathaway would play me. When she was younger in the Princess Diary’s she had fluffy hair like mine. My parents are important to me so they would have to be in my movie. George Clooney would play as my dad and Kelly Rutherford would play my mom. Ashley Kennedy is my best friend and we always joke about how she looks like a young Lindsey Lohan so Lindsey would have to play Ashley. This movie would show all the fun times I have with my family and friends. It will make you laugh and be a fun movie.

I'm So Sorry

I’m so sorry. I usually don’t get mad or upset at people, but when I do that anger stays with me for awhile. I don’t yell or confront the problem I just walk away. There are two sides to every story and I’m sorry I never gave you a chance to explain your side. We won’t be as close as before, I won’t tell you my secrets anymore or hangout on the weekends. I will make an effort to be nice and talk to you but understand you hurt me. We will be seeing one another soon and I hope I treat you better than before.

Snopes

When I was young I remember teachers telling me that if I swallowed my gum it would stay in my stomach for 7 years. I never did it again after that. I didn’t want a seven year old piece of gum in my stomach. Thanks to snopes.com I now know that this old wives’ tale is false. I still don’t think I will swallow my gum though. I liked looking around on snopes.com. Some things were about movies, music or food, I learned that Belle from Beauty and the Beast showed up in the movie Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Love Stories

My Grandpa always tells me the best stories. He was a fire fighter and the father of 6 kids so he always had something to tell me. My family is very close and we get together almost every holiday and on Halloween we sit around a campfire telling stories. Each year my grandpa would tell this story.

One dark night when the sun was bright

Two dead boys got up to fight

Back to back they face each other

They drew their swords and shot each other

And the deaf police men heard the noise

And he got up and shot the two dead boys

It never made sense to me because everything was opposite. How can they be back to back and face each other? This is just one of the many stories my grandpa tells me.