I believe the theme in the book I am reading is that despite a crappy start greatness can be achieved. Young Abraham Lincoln starts life on a small rundown farm where he lives with his family of 4. He experiences death at a young age when his younger brother Thomas dies before he was a month old. His mother dies short after that sending him into a dangerous depressed rage. He finds the culprit of her death is a vampire and vows to kill as many vampires as he can. He kills the one responsible for her death and realizes it isn't as impossible as he thought. He begins training himself in preparation to fight the undead creatures of the night.He gets his behind kicked by an old lady vampire. after many years he becomes the vampire hunter he dreams of. Later he becomes president of theses great United states. He is the ideal that humble starts can lead to greatness.

SSR book part 2

I am still reading the book "Abraham Lincoln, vampire slayer. this book started off without much promise, after finishing the first page i figured i was in for a boring book that i wouldn't want to finish. but i was pleasantly surprised when the book started climaxing, my imagination was sparked with tales of vampires and the endeavors of former president Abraham Lincoln as he hunted the horrible creatures. After the death of his mother, he realizes the cause of her death was a vampire he vows from that day forward to kill every vampire in America. His first kill doesnt hold the joy he thought it would, it proved a simple task to young Abe. After years of training himself he goes on the hunt when he hears evidence of a vampire nearby. He attempts to kill the creature but is easily overpowered, upon the threshold of death someone saves him. When he wakes he is in a dim room restrained to a bed, he finds out it was a vampire that saved him and he is enraged. but his fleeting emotions proved useless because the vampire was a freind and meant to hel him. Abe went back home where he would occaisionally receive letters from his new freind Henry, containing the whereabouts and identities of vampires nearby. Young abe would then hunt them down and return home as if nothing was amiss. this book has proven itself very interesting and  I am glad i picked it off the shelf.

Education

The problem with education is pretty much everything.From the long tedious hours to the crappy course selection,students are filled with day after day of mind numbing things that they will most likely not use in their career.What use will the majority of students find in Spanish class or Gym class? I sit through 3/4 of my classes without learning a single thing so I assume that most other people don't learn much either. If education were to  find a way to be interesting while still instructing students in what they need then the system wouldn't need reforming. The system could use a change with the hours as well, no student wants to spend 7-8 hours every day feeling like they have accomplished nothing.Dan Meyers explains that students don't learn any real math, because students can decipher the text book without learning a thing. He explains that maybe if students were interested in the subjects they were learning that they would be more inclined to learn it.
 The main problem would be the fact that curriculum doesn't know the meaning of interesting, if teachers could find a less conventional way to bring the students mind into what their learning.

  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html

the book i am currently reading is called "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire slayer" I haven't really gotten much time to read this selection. But from what I have gathered it is an okay book and i should enjoy it, i haven't even finished the first chapter and I already have a lot of questions. The intro raised a lot of questions because it barely gave any information on the main character and it gives very little background. The background that has been given is not put together very chronologically and it doesn't make much sense to me. This book is challenging to read due to the fact that it is putting twists on factual knowledge so it bothers me that the author is trying to re-write history to his own twisted little fantasy land with vampires in the civil war.