Why hello there my fellow bloggers! My name is Josh Darling, and i am a junior at Carbondale Community Highschool. As of now, I am taking English 3 with Mrs. Hayes! Obviously, based on the fact that I am introducing myself, this is my first blog. Here is some information on myself. I am 16, and ready to finish up with school, and graduate (even though im only half way through). I enjoy lots of different activities. I love to chill with my friends, play basketball, play guitar, drums, and almost any thing else that has to do with music. I could always go for some late night video gaming,or eating. I play Tenors and Snare on the Carbondale Drumline, and have also played the drum set in the school plays. Thats all of the stuff that i can think of off the top of my head, so lets move on to this blogging stuff.

I am blogging here today because of schoolwide system called Read For a Lifetime. I rented a book called "Half Brother" and quite honestly, I thought, out of what I read, it was extreamely BORING. So, i'm going to pick up a book called "The Boy Who Dared". Its about a German Teenager of about seventeen. He is locked inside a German work/concentration camp, because he was accused of distributing enemy propaganda. The story is told through flashbacks of his life before he was arrested, and how he was accused and sent into the camp. It seems like a much more interesting and intense book. I am looking foreword to it. I think that the fact that it displays a real life situation in WWII will make it much more enticing and easier to appreciate.

I think that over the course of the year, blogging is going to become a big part of our scholastic life when it comes to english. I think that we should try to incorporate as much enjoyment into the prompts as possible. Otherwise its just going to become a nuisance and no one will want to ever update their blogs. Truthfully when I heard that we were starting a blogging assignment, I wasn't all that excited, but i think that if we really try to make each assignment unique, creative, and fun, this assignment will be much easier. I think we should base prompts around comparisons between the real, modern world, and our books. We could also just do prompts about things that we go over in class. But like i said before, we gotta make it interesting and unique. Alright thats all i got for now. See Ya!