advisory094

This year was an interesting year for me in advisory. For one thing, I haven't ever heard what advisory class was until I started going to this school. Overall, I wouldn't say that advisory is a bad class. Most of the time we would read and other times we would use the computers to go on this website. Mondays are really helpful as well because we have free period and that gives me time to work on some homework. One downside of advisory though, is right after advisory I would go into the next class feeling very sleepy and such.

I finished reading Catching Fire, the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. This story takes place after the Hunger Games and follows Katniss through the Victory Tour and her relationship with Peeta and Gale. There is a twist in the story that may shock some people but this adds suspense to the book. Like The Hunger Games the book was suspenseful and filled with romance and action. It was also a page turner and kept me interested. I would recommend this book to anyone who finished reading The Hunger Games book because it is the sequel so it makes sense to read the books in order.

In the past 3 weeks or so, my advisory has been discussing HIV/AIDS and generally sexually-related topics. I'm sure we all know a lot about sex already, given our often immodest culture; a lot of controversial and often uncomfortable issues have been brought up in class. But, generally I think that it was good that we received this curriculum. We learned many important things, and managed to keep our talks civilized and professional (at least as far as high-schoolers can be).

In school we had just finished the HIV/Aids curriculum in school. We do this week to two week long program every year, of course as we get older the information becomes more complicated. I think that it is a good thing to teach every year because it helps kids become aware. One of the main ideas that is always repeated every year is that a person should choose to stay abstinence in order to have a good chance of not catching an STI or possibly HIV, that along with not sharing needles is repeated. However, this year, a new addition was added that I think helped us learn.

We've just finished the HIV/AIDS unit and i've learned a few things. Before this unit that is pretty much repeated every single year, I didn't really have the most specific facts about HIV and what it really does. I knew it attacked the immune system and that it made people more susceptible to the disease but I was taught about the actual process of virus infections and antibodies. It actually really informed me even though I thought it wouldn't because I've heard HIV and protection and all that stuff every year.

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I am now up to page 221 in Hourglass by Myra McEntire. So far the book has already taken a supernatural turn in events. At first the readers are fed with the information that Emerson might just have some psychological problems with hallucinations. We discover that she actually sees people from the past, her plus a few other things could enable her time travelling into the past. She is now pretty much staying at the school, and housing affiliated with the Hourglass, an organization that provides a safe haven for people with special abilities like herself.

So far I have been reading a book that was normally given to us for Humanities to read a little part of it but I am very interested in this. It really is crazy to see what is going on. For example: The History of Mary Prince is so interesting and really reaches the bottom of your heart. She's a slave who was sold into slavery by her mother and she goes through so many problems in her life. Just seeing these short stories really makes you feel thankful for the life you have now which is very important.

This book was incredibly confusing from the start. Octavian was a boy raised in by a group of philosophers and researchers and scientists who were trying to study everything they could about life to find his meaning. He was raised in a well-off fancy childhood but he and his mother, who was an exiled african princess, were followed and observed and recorded as if they were both part of a giant secret science experiment. Octavian understands almost nothing about the people he belongs to and he never asks questions about why they do the things they do to him.

I have finished reading the action-adventure spy novel, "Alex Rider: Snakehead", by Anthony Horowitz. It has 388 pages, and I already have made one response regarding the novel.

I had just finished the book "Massive" by Julia Bell yesterday. I thought that this book wasn't all that great, almost annoying to be honest. It just goes on and on about this girl's mother refuses to be fat so she doesn't eat much or any food everyday. It starts out with the main character, Carmen, who is at first rebels her mother by sneaking in food in her room and eating candy and whatnot. The mother finds out and is disappointed and after this happens they go out to move to the mother's parents where Carmen's whole lifestyle changes.

Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been how art is incorporated into fashion. I remember my friend Lydia talking about it last advisory period when we were going through a bunch of fashion blogs on our laptops, but there was actual work to be done instead of trawling the internet. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that may people feel that the worlds of art and fashion have been mainly separate.

Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been the evolution of art forms over time. I remember my mother (who is an art historian) talking about it when i come with her to the museum she works at, but at that time, I was more focused on just looking at the art than observing how the styles and techniques changed over time and from different regions. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that may people feel that . From what I have heard, it takes years of study and research to really get into the details about the field of art history.