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Final Blog The boat was suppose to bring supplies but it was late coming and then everyone realized nobody was coming. They noticed that everytime someone died, one of the ceramic figures would disappear. Nobody could be trusted on the island and everyone became mad. Only one person was able to leave at a time and slowly one by one people started to die. After a couple weeks the police find the island and can't figure out who was the killer. A fisherman later finds a bottle that has a confession written by Wargrave telling that he killed everyone and that he killed himself. I thought the independent reading was alright. I'm not real big on reading but I got through it. I did like the bloggin thing. Use technology is good.

Blog#2 I think Hamlet is a weird kid. Although he is weird he is also clever. I think that it's cool that he thought to trick his uncle into revealing that he killed his dad like the ghost said. The Hamlet movie is hard to follow because they talk so fast but it gives a pretty good visual picture of what stuff was like. I like the right side of the book where it translates the Shakespeare part into something we can understand. -Conner Larson

Blog #1 I'm reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. I chose this book because it was recommended to me by Makenzie Anderson. I got this book at the Erickson Public Library. -Conner Larson

I'm reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I chose this book because it was on the list of recommended books given to us in class. I got this book at the Erickson Public Library. -Conner Larson

I'm reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. So far the book opens in London in the Central London Hatchery. The Director of Hatcheries is giving a group of students a tour of the factory. He then explains to the students how humans are made in test tubes now. Surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized and incubated to simulate an actual pregnancy. The Hatchery then predetermines each fetus for different parts of the world. The eggs are shocked and instead of producing just one embryo it produces 96. This cloning process is part of the tools that the World State made for its motto, "Community, Identity, Stability." -Conner Larson.

The director continues giving the tour to students of the Cental London Hatchery. The students were able to watch an experiment conducted on Delta babies. The babies are givin books and flowers. As the babies get ready to take the books and flowers they receive a shock and alarms start ringing. The director explains that after hundreds of repetitions of the process the babies will have a natural hatred for books and flowers. The Hatchery instills this in the lower classed people so that they dont try to "decondition" themselves reading books. They also dont want the lower classes exploring the countryside with all the flowers because the World State wants them to increase the consumumption of goods. The director talks about hypnopaedia which is "sleep teaching." The Hatchery uses this technique on children at a young age so that they are classically conditioned to do certain tasks. -Conner Larson