Today in class we learned about fanfiction which was not something I was familiar with. Fanfiction is when fans of certain TV shows, books, movies write their own fiction versions. Today in class's we got to write our own ending to Dracula which was pretty interesting. We made ours pretty suspenseful with Mina running away with Dracula because his power had fully taken over her. It was a lot of fun to write our own version and make it however we wanted to.
here is a link to some fanfiction of twilight!
http://www.fanfiction.net/book/Twilight/

We had our Vampire Symposium last week! It was fun to do something different with our projects. I really enjoyed the trivia and we got candy. I also enjoyed the projects because I learned a lot of interesting facts about vampires and the history of them. All the the history has influenced how much people are so interested in vampires today. It has even got to the point where people are starting their own vampire community. It was also neat to see how vampires have turned from such ugly creatures to desired ones. I'm glad we did the third project like that, it was a good idea.

We are going to give our presentations this week. We have been discussing different ways to improve  presentations and being able to present. We want to keep the audiences entertained and not bored. We need to make sure that our information is organized and correct. We are going to practice presenting to also improve the organization of the presentation. This will make everything feel more prepared and easier for us to present. Here is an article on how to improve your presentation skills!
http://www.inc.com/guides/how-to-improve-your-presentation-skills.html

We have started our third project and we are going to do a presentation instead of a paper. I really like this idea because it something different than just a regular comp paper and gives us an opportunity to have the experience of doing presentations. Me and my group are doing Religion,Folklore, and Voodoo influence on vampire craze. We came up with the idea of doing a vampire time line and how the histories of vampires have influenced their popularity today. One main interest we have are the people who actually consider themselves real vampires and how they use the history to influence the way they. Here is a short video of some people who follow this belief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knKCKvJ-icE