Day 7

Day 7 of to the woods. Today was an interesting day. We began the day by having Kris, a senior, explain to us what a vignette is. A vignette is a brief literary sketch over a picture or a illustration. The reason why she explained it was because we had to describe the character we found at Cox Arboretum. We started by doing a practice vignette about a mountain and bears. I made that vignette a poem.That vignette is...

The bear looks up soundlessly, with its brown fur shining in the sun.

I can hear the roaring water of the waterfall like it is a thunder storm.

I can taste the cool spring water as it splashes on my face.

The brown and orange autumn leaves are slowly falling in a trance as if they want to enjoy their time in the air.

The mountains are going as high as the clouds with the little snowflakes making at the top of the mountain be completely covered with the white powder.

The trees are as high as you can imagine. With thick brown oak in which they are home to many critters.

 But my character, which is a Gartner snake, was in a paragraph form. Honestly, the snake was pretty boring. I tried to make it interesting by describing the bite and the fangs. The vignette is...

The snake was all coiled up. But it was still ready to strike, giving you a false sense of security like the calm before a storm. The snake deceives us. The snake has black scales with two white lines on the side, the trait-mark of the Gartner snake reminding us that it is not venomous. But that doesn’t mean that there bite cannot hurt us. There fangs are like needles piercing the soft skin, blood quickly squirting out. The white fangs locking their jaws into the flesh. It is better to just stay away. The red forking tongue hissing in and out of the mouth sensing the world all around them.  

After we had finished our vignette's, we had to find eight pictures to put in a miniature scrapbook. When I found the pictures I gave it to my teacher for her to scan. Then we started a movie. The movie was called "Never Cry Wolf." The movie was about a man who went and lived in the wilderness for 6 months studying wolves. After about 40 minutes into the movie went and ate lunch. The movie was pretty slow at the beginning, but when we came back from lunch and finished the movie, it started to become interesting. He ended up staying in the wilderness for the rest of his life which I think is a very foolish mistake because I would want to be around my family. After the movie we started working on our blog.

This is the Gartner snake I wrote my vignette about.