Purssuasive Project: Become a Mentor

Was my project purssuasive enough to make you consider becomeing a mentor or telling other people about becomeing one?
	It made me want to become one.
	It made me want to tell other people about it.
	I was not convinced.
	I liked the project but do not want to become a mentor.
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What I Learned in English 9/10 Second Quarter

This year as a sophomore I have had lots of fun and also a lot of learning. We are in our second quarter of the year and moving on to our third. In this second quarter I have learned many things in my English 10 second quarter. We have learned about many things in literature like; voice, theme, plot, irony, and ambiguity. In Ms. Priester’s Class she likes to call it, “a paperless classroom”, because that is exactly what it is. In our class we don't use any paper, we use computers. I have learned how to post things online, how to use a blog, how create fun projects, and how to record comments of your voice online. I have learned a lot more about technology in her class by using Google docs, Glogster, and Blogger websites. We also read stories and create graphic organizers that help us organize our thoughts and ideas of the stories we read. Sometimes in the beginning of class we get to watch fun rap videos that talk about the weekly news and the world events going on. Without this class I would have never known about how to use technology this good. I have learned how to convert videos, make URLs, and how to embed things into my blog. I have grown a lot in this class because I am constantly learning new things like online study tools, also as my class moves on every year we mature together and learn new lessons. I cant wait till the next quarter, and until we can all start our junior year.

“Notes from a Bottle” SPA Flood Message in a Bottle – Organization Tool

Day 1
--Raining extremely hard.
--water seeping into house
--ruined furniture
--worried about house
--hopeful that the rain stops soon

Day 2
--students had to evacuate to cafe
--roads closed
--houses covered in water, objects floated to surface.
--scared that we will be stuck there for a while
--sad because our things are ruined.

Day 3
--had to move even higher up to the water towers
--sleeping in emergency tents
--missing kids
--worried for the missing kids
--scared that we might not be able to be saved

Shop 'til You Drop Extra Credit

At Shop 'til You Drop I ahd a lot of fun. When I walked in I was greeted by Joan Scott the leader of the Friends of San Pasqual. I got a bag and a nametag. Then they told me to just go and pick out somethings I like. So I went and got some pajama pant, a little notebook, and some new socks for basketball. There was this couple there who were super generous to us all, they spend their own money to buy all of us each an Ipod. They were the new Nanos, and mine was silver. There was even a photo booth there where all the kids could go in and take pictures with all their friends. I took pictures with amy and Breanna. We had a lot of fun. We also got stockings that were full of candy and other nick nacks. they were cute. I am really greatful to the Friends of San Pasqual for doing this for us every year.

"A Lamb to the Slaughter Graphic Organizer"

"Lamb to the Slaughter" - I'm the Detective

If I was a detective investigating the murder of Patrick Maloney in “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, I would have never excepted anything from Ms. Maloney. If I were the detectives I would never had took the wiskey that she offered to them, and If I was serious about my job and I knew it was wrong i wouldn't of eaten anything in the house, expecially if no evidence had been found yet. While looking for the wheapon I would have asked Ms. Maloney more questions and considered her for a suspect. just because I knew her I would not treat her any different then i would any other qeustion.

Lamb to the Slaughter

At the end of “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney begins giggling because she killed her husband with a frozen leg of a lamb, after he said that he was leaving her. She hit him in the back of the head with it a smashed his skull. Then she put the leg in the oven to cook. When the police came, they sent hours looking for the weapon. Mary began giggling when she convinced the policemen to eat the lamb and while they were eating it they were saying that it was probaly right under their nose and it really was. She was luaghing because they never suspected that she was the murderer of her husband. She could have also been giggling because she knew that they were never going to find the weapon because they had just eating it.

Situational Irony in My Life

When I was eight years old I had a dream that someone in my family had gotten hurt and killed. When I woke up I thought that nothing would ever happen to anyone in my family to anyone I knew. I went to school and the entire day was going good and nothing had happened. When I got home from school that day my foster parents were extremely quiet and looked sad. When I saw them I thought about my dream and thought that maybe something had happened to someone in my family or my foster parents family. I was scared to ask them about it because I could tell that something had happened, so I went into my room. When I came out later I was too curious to not know anymore, so I asked them what happened. They told me that something serious had happened and I started to get to scared. They told me that my neighbor had been shot in his chest and was in the hospital. I didn't even know who my neighbor was. I was so scared that it was someone I knew. This was a type of irony in my life because I had thought someone was hurt in my family and in the end it was someone I didn't even know. It was sad, but i didn't know him.

“Persuasive Project Topic Request.”

After reviewing the Voxopop discussion, I would like to persuade people to Mentor, Alumni, or become a teacher. You may listen to my class’s discussion here.

First Persuasive Paragraph

Sports is a strong motivator for many students on campus. It helps students stay out of most drama, keep up there grades, or get them up. Students on campus should be allowed to play sports even if their grades are low. The program we have now on campus called academic probation helps students who have low grades to get their grades up if they want to play on a team. If students miss one assignment in any class while on academic probation they would not be allowed to play the next up coming games. I think this system should be kept and used in other schools to help low grade students bring up there grades. Playing a sport for a student with low grades would motivate them to strive for higher grades and a better GPA. Students should be allowed to play sports with low grades the help them academically and athletically.

Theme Comparison Essay

Love has a variety of effects on people. When it is pure it can change people for the better and heal their pain. “ Catch the Moon” was written by a Puerto Rican American woman and is set in the Caribbean Hispanic Barrio. “ The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant was written by a Caucasian man from New Hampshire and is set in a New England summer home waterfront community. In “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” The main character a teenage boy, believes himself to be in love with a beautiful girlhe just met. However, In “Catch the Moon,” Luis feelings for Naomi redeem him by inspiring to return to acts of goodness. In “The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant,” The fourteen yearold boy realizes that “loving” one for their looks is shallow and futile.

In the story “The bass, the River and Sheila Mant” the main character is a boy who loves to fish. The boy falls in love with a girl named Sheila Mant but she hates fishing. He decided to take Sheila out of a canoe, on a date, and ends up catching a bass. He decides to let the bass go and later regrets his actions. In the story the main character says “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was the these secrets, hiding tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made the samemistake again”. The character changes because he learns not to give up something he loves for a girl who is ungrateful. The theme of this story is that a person shouldn’t have to change who they are for another person to like them, even if they are in love.

The main character of “Catch the Moon” is a boy named Luis who lives in the Hispanic Barrio. He is dealing with the loss of his mother and the pain he had been hiding for years. He went to jail for breaking into a house, and was told by the court that he owed free labor to his father who worked in a car junk yard. He meets a girl, who’s family owns the funeral service that helped with his mother’s funeral, who he likes. She is missing a hubcap for her old Volkswagen buggie and Luis makes it his duty to find it. While Luis looks for the hubcap he starts to think about his mother, and how much he never realized how much he missed her. He found the hubcap for the girl and, started to change when he realized how the girl made him think about his mother. He broke down crying when he thought about his mother and how much he never grieved for her and missed her. Some people change when they are unable to grieve for someone they had lost, sometimes they look for attention by doing things that are wrong, and showing love and grief for someone they lost can be difficult, but it is always important to let go and grieve.

Love can control, and change people. It can change their behaviors and their action. It can heal, and hurt. Never change in the loss of someone you love and never loose something you love for some else. Many people change in the presence of others, and at the loss of someone close to them. Many people hide their grief, and their love for other things, but it is always good to some your love for something and someone you love. Hiding feelings for something or someone can be a mistake that can affect people in the long run. Grief and acceptance is something many people should learn and know.

"Cat"ch the Moon" Theme Graphic Organizer

“Catch the Moon” Grief Paragraph.

The change Luis experiences after he address the grief he feels for his mother’s death is believable because, many people do not grieve a lot after someone close to them dies, because many times they go through shock and also don't realize how much they miss the person until something reminds them of the death. There are many people sometimes who don't even believe someone is dead and go through denial. Sometimes people change their behaviors when someone passes away, like how Luis became mischievous. In real life I know someone like this who's both parents died and she used to be extremely outgoing and now is quiet and doesn't talk much to many people like she used to. Moods and behaviors can change because they might go through depression and it might be hard for them to grieve. It is important for people to grieve because it helps them accept the fact that that person is gone, and it helps them to move on to their life, to leave it in the past.

Financial Education

“You need to learn how to separate your wants from your needs”-Mr. Litoff
(Financial Education Teacher). This quote is important for all students to learn because
it teaches them how to control, save, and spend their money right. Statistics proves that
85% of foster youth don’t know how to handle their money after they get emancipated
or leave the system. We feel that more students should have a financial education before
they leave the system.

Our school needs to have more students educated on how to use money. If we
had an elective class that students could choose to teach them about finances, they would
learn how to spend, save, and control their money. We would need funding for this to pay
for the costs of a new class with maybe some technology such as computers to help the
students learn. We would also need materials and school supplies to make our classroom
a better environment where kids can learn. Students need to learn about how to handle
money because when they graduate from high school and go on their own they need to
know how to control and be safe with their money.

This funding for our school would give a personal impact because we feel like it
would be an interesting topic to learn about and learning to control money is important to
teenagers who are becoming adults. It would help us when we have to go out on our own
and learn how to use money. This prize money would help many students in the need
for financial education. It would help us learn many things about money spending most
people don’t know about. This funding would be extremely important.

One way teenagers can learn about money at our school is by the one man who
gives individual lessons and helps students open a bank account. This is the closest thing
we have to getting financial education on our campus. It would be good to incorporate
these learning skills in to a class to help many other students learn about it in a school
environment, and give the opportunity to many students at a time.

This program will have an impact on our school by helping students prepare for
adulthood and it will also give the students an opportunity to earn school credits and learn
about business. By having this program in our school it will give the students different
options for elective classes. It will also help students and enhance their knowledge
not only about money but also about banks, businesses, and any other money related
companies such as stock trading and investment firms.

Financial Education is important and should be taught to students to prepare them
for a business career and their future with money. Our school needs to enhance its
student’s knowledge and teach them more what it’s like to handle and be in control of
their money. This prize would be helpful to our school and will open doors for many
foster youth.

I wrote this essay with Amy C. We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest http://www.nbcsandiego.com/brchannel/103556549.html.

"SPA Movie & Games Day Paragraph"

On Friday it was a lot of fun because we got to play sports, and the sophomores won the basketball round for sports. We lost in the volleyball round to the juniors but it was still fun. Before we played all the sports, we watched a movie. We watched "Freedom Writers", I had seen that movie so many times, but it was okay to watch again. I think next time we have a movie day for the campus, the students should be able to choose the movie. After the sports and the movie school got out and we got to go to the cafe, where there was a cupcake eating contest, and a BBQ. It was funny to watch everyone try to shove the cupcakes in their mouth whole. Tedra was funny too, because she poured milk on her cupcake to try to make it soggy and she won. Afterward Amy, Jojo, Augui, Breeana, and I went to girls 1 to watch one of my favorite movies, "Nacho Libre." It was a good day.

Homeroom Reformers Idea

"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" Theme Graphic Organizer

Comparing “The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant” to Brad Paisley’s song “I’m Gonna Miss Her.”

In the song "I'm Gonna Miss Her" is similar to the story because the boy has to choose between fishing or the girl. In the story the main character struggles to chooses between fishing for the bass or chooseing Sheila mant over it. He chose Shiela Mant and regreted it. In the song the man chose the fish instead becuase he loved it so much he was not willing to give it up for her. he was happy while fishing and said he was going to miss her, but he still continued to fish. I think in both theses tories it means to always be yourself and choose what you love.

Internal and External Conflicts in "The Bass, the River, and Shiela Mant"

In "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" the main character experiences internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict that he encounters is his love for Sheila Mant and how much he likes her. He had been watching her all summer and had been trying to impress her. He battles to find the courage to ask her out and when he finally asks her out he decides to take her to the fair to see some bands. When they are on the canoe on their way Sheila tells him how fishing is stupid. That is his favorite sport and her battles that there must be a reason why she doesn't like fishing. When he tries to hid his fishing pole in the boat he shoves it under the seat and his line accidentally catches a bass. He doesn't want to real in the bass because he doesn't want Sheila to see him fishing. His external conflict is his struggle with the fish. He know that it is the biggest fish he had ever caught and he struggles to keep the fish on the line and not let Sheila see. Another internal conflict is him trying to decide whether or not to try to catch the fish or not embarrass himself in front of her. He battles if he should catch this fish because it is the biggest fish he had ever caught or let it go. When he let the fish go because of Sheila he later knew that he made a mistake because he Sheila didn't pay any attention to him and she left him later that night to go with someone else. his conflict was that he had made the mistake of choosing Sheila over the greatest fish he would have ever caught.

"Catch the Moon" Falling in Love.

To me falling in love can be a bad thing and a good thing. Love changes many people. Love can help someone to be more confident, compassionate, and loving. For example, if someone were to be an extremely shy person then they find love in someone who has extreme confidence, then it can help that person to become more confident. Love can also be bad in certain ways too. For example, love can sometimes be complicated and there can be problems. In a relationship people will fight, argue, and sometimes get their hearts broken, but its always a good relationship when they can talk and get over their problems together. When a relationship is damaged and issues between the two people can not be resolved then it usually mean s that the two people shouldn't be together. love is hard in many ways and good. In all relationships love is hard. If love was not hard then it would be impossible for people to change. change takes time and hardship. This is why I believe love changes people in many different ways.

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"Typhoid Fever" & "The Highwayman"

In "Typhiod Fever" and "The Highwayman" they are similar in a lot of ways. In "Typhoid Fever" the two children are not allowed to talk becuase of thier diseases, and the landlords duaghter, Bess, was not allowed to talk to the highway man becuase of her father would not allow it just like the nuns and nurses who wouldn't let Frankie and Patricia talk. In the two stories they all fell in love. In "Typhoid Fever" Frankie started to fall in love with Patricia but they were not allowed to be together. In "The Highwayman" Bess fell in love with the highwayman.In both stories the girl dies,but in "Typhoid Fever" Frankie doesn't die, and in "The Highwayman" the man dies also. I think it was important for frankie to hear the end of "The Highwayman" because he felt like he could relate to the peom and he wanted to find out what happened because he thought he felt the same way about Patricia.

“’Typhoid Fever’– Present Tense Childhood Memory.”

Yesterday was my fourth birthday and I’m so much bigger then Nina (My sister) now. She can’t call me “little girl” anymore. She’s only eight, and four comes before eight, so I gotta be bigger then her. I’m at school and I told all my friends that I’m finally bigger then my sister and they all gave me happy looks and said “cool!” I can’t wait till I get to rub it in her dummy face!...(A little while later)…. Now I’m in my stupid room. My dumb sister told me I was wrong and then called me a stupid little girl again! When I told my foster mom she told me I was wrong too! I know I’m right though! If I call my mommy she will know! I know I’m right! I know it! She can’t yell at me cuz I know I’m right!

The Cold Equation Marilyn's Point of View

Link to story in google docs!!!

The Storyteller Different Point of Veiw from the Bachelor

While I was on the train all the small children were running around, screaming and jumping on the seats. There yelling was starting to annoy me while the aunt in the carriage tried to calm them down by putting her finger up to her lips and hushing them. Every time she did this they would become quiet for two minutes and them they would become loud again. I couldn’t believe how loud they were. I thought the people from the carriage next to us would come over and complain. I was so relieved when the aunt decided to settle them down and tell them a story. She told them a story about a good girl, who did good things and had good things happened to her. I was an extremely boring story and when it was done all the children complained how dull it was. Even I had to tell her how bad I thought the story was. She challenged me to tell a better story so I decided I could. I told the children a story about a girl named Bertha who won three medals just for being good. She was so good that the prince decided to let her walk in the royal park where no one ever got to walk. On the day Bertha got to walk through the park I told all the children about a wolf who came and ate Bertha after she tried to hide from him. They all oo’d and aahh’d at the story and how it had a change in the direction of the story. I knew this would be a good ending and I ended it there. The aunt looked at me and was furious. She yelled at me saying that it was and inappropriate story to tell children, but I just laughed and told her how I was able to keep her quiet for longer then she could. She just looked at me with anger and I could feel the train stopping. She got all the children and walked out of the carriage.

"The Storyteller" Plot Diagram

“’The Storyteller’ - Memorable Books from My Childhood.”

1. If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff *****
2. If you Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Joffe Numeroff *****
3. Corduroy by Don Freemen*****
4. Where's Spot by Eric Hill***
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle****

The story Corduroy by Don Freemen was my favorite children story story because of the plot and his adventure for a family. Corduroy is a little bear in green overalls with one missing button, who lives in a store in the toy department. He's desperate to find a family and be taken care of. One day when a girl and her mom come to the store she see's the bear and asks her mom to buy it for her but he mother told her no, because they didn't have money for it and because he was missing a button. Corduroy is upset because he wants to go home with a family where he knows he would be taken care of. When the store closes he goes out to search for his missing button. He goes up to the funiture part of the store and hops on a mattress. He tries to pull off one of the buttons on the mattress and is can't get it off. When a security guard comes up he sees Corduroy on the mattress and takes him back down to the toy section. Corduroy is sad when he knows he can't find his button. The next day the same girl who asked her mom for the bear, named Lisa, came and picked him up. She bought him with her own money she had saved and took him home. She sewed on a new button and Corduroy was happy because he knew that he would be loved and taken care of.

Chilean Miners Rescue

On August 5Th 2010 thirty-three Chilean miners became trapped in a mine when rocks and dirt fell and caved in on the opening. Miners were forced to divide their food amongst themselves for seventeen days until they were found alive and in need of food, water, clothes, and medical help. The miners were trapped for sixty-nine days underground while food and other supplies were transferred down to them through a small opening rescuers made in an effort to help the trapped miners. All thirty-three trapped miners were saved yesterday on October thirteenth. They received warm hugs from family members, medical help, a much needed shower, and a change of clothes when were rescued after a sixty-nine day ordeal. The event of the thirty-three trapped miners was dramatic to family members, friends, and the rest of the world. When I first heard about the miners becoming trapped I felt extremely sad to know that they would not be rescued for maybe almost three months. Updates came from all over the web and people in the world were anxious to know about how the miners were. When I learned that the rescue was in operation I felt extreme relief to know that all the miners would be safe and that their family who had been camping at the site for their sons, husband, etc. would be relived of their stress. If I were one of the miners I would feel like I was in a state of shock. I would be worried that some of the men would go into shock and also would be injured. I would also fear that no one would find us in time. When we were found I know I would be slightly relived to know that we were going to eventually be safe. I think the waiting for the rescuers to safe us would feel like a lifetime just for them to reach us in time and to get everyone out. This was a dramatic event for the entire world and shocked almost everyone who heard about the event. Relief was swept over the entire world when the miners were saved yesterday and brought out safe.

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Reflection on Autobiographical Narrative

On my autobiographical narrative I think that I did really well on my essay because I had added so much more to my essays since my freshmen year and I have become an extremely stronger writer in all my essays and blog posts. I have been able to add more detail, descriptive writing, and also add more meaning into my narratives. I hope that if I continue to write that my stories will get even better. On this essay I think that I might have gotten either an A- or a B+. I really hope that I have higher then an A- also because I am trying to raise my grade. When we first started to write our autobiographical narratives last year I was afraid that I would not be good at writing, but now I feel more confident in writing papers and other things. If I could change one thing about my essay it would be to add more sensory details to my forth body paragraph and also change the way it jumped from part of the climax to my ending. I should have added in a better transition. I hope that next essay I can do even better.

Autobiographical Narrative Final Draft

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https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1kn4pYbKfMVZDSvWKORQtqkJxBmDZbgCB94XevKvpPxs&hl=en

Rebekah's Autobiographical Narrative Edit Form

Autobiographical Narrative Graphic Organizer

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Autobiographical Narrative Prewriting Form

Ten Most Memerable Days

1. When I was nine I ran away from my foster home.
2. When I was eleven I tried weed for the first time at a park with some friends.
3. On my twelfth birthday I moved to San Pasqual Academy.
4. When I was two my sisters and brother where taken away from my mom.
5. I was dropped off on the curb of Palinski by my ex-aunt when I was five.
6. Jessica and I snuck out of the window at 1:00 when I was four-teen.
7. I ran away from my foster home with a seven month old baby when I was eleven.
8. When I was eight I was chased down the street from three guys in a car.
9. The Police ran after me and some friends when I was ten when I was living in skyline.
10. I met some of my best friends when I was thirteen and fourteen at school and the academy Amy and Janeth.

Plot and Character Practice Test

Weekend Rap

"Two Kinds" Mother & Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-mei and her mother, Jing-mei has many reasons why she has the right to not listen to her mother any more. If someone’s mother pressures their daughter into doing things that she doesn’t want to do or she can not do, I don’t think that that mother would be a good mother. When Jing-mei’s mother tried to make her into a prodigy, Jing-mei knew that she really was not a prodigy but her mother kept forcing her to try to be one. She would not accept her daughter the ways she is. This shows that Jing-mei’s mother acted like she wanted Jing-mei to be someone else. I think that her mother was full of regret after her two daughters died that they never could be something or someone important. She took out her regret on Jing-mei and tried to make her into something that her daughters might have been. Although the mother was wrong to have forced Jing-mei to do things she did not want to Jing-mei was also wrong to have yelled at her mother for something like practicing the piano. Jing-mei should have communicated to her mother how she felt and never brought up her dead daughters. The mother was trying to be controlling over Jing-mei which I think is wrong. Jing-mei had a right to stop doing what her mother was making her do but she should have communicated better.

"Two Kinds" Summery Poem

My name is Jing-mei.
My mother is from China.
She has two dead daughters.
She never talks to me about her babies so she never sheds tears over them.

My mother is such a strong-willed person.
She wishes I was a prodigy.
She wishes me to be a genius
She wants me to be like Shirley Temple.
To practice shaking my curls if I had any and making my O’s

She took me to a beauty college to get my hair cut just like her.
It looked frizzy and she told me I was like a Negro Chinese
I had to get it cut like a Peder Pan hair cut.
I look like a boy

My mother cleans houses and likes to find magazines.
When she finds one about a child prodigy she like to quiz me to she if i have their talent.
She is filled with misery when she realized I can’t do what she asks.
She makes it her capital duty do make me a prodigy that I am not.

She watches TV and sees a girl with a Peder Pan hair cut who plays the piano.
She asks Mr.Chong to give me piano lessons.
He lives in my apartment building.
He is a deaf man who teaches me the keys and notes.
When I sit on the bench and try to play there are many mistakes.
But he can not hear them.

My mother makes me a schedule to practice for two hours a day
But I do not want to
Her friend brags about her daughter Waverly’s trophies.
My mother brags back about my music
But I have no talent

She wants me to be in a talent show to prove my talent.
She makes me memorize a song called “Pleading Child”
When I practice I do not really practice
On stage I sit down and play but no beautiful music comes out
It is only terrible music with many mistakes
The audience does not clap when I finish
I have showed my mother betrayal.

We get home and my mother is disappointed.
She doesn't make me play the piano for two days
I refuse and yell
She yells back saying she only wished for me to do my best.
I say I wish I was never born
She is hurt and doesn't talk to me for a while

My mother does not talk about playing the piano anymore
Years later my mother asks me if I would like the piano in our living room
I say no but still but am grateful she offered
my mother dies later and I take some of her belongings for sentimental reasons
I want to remember her
I am a rebel that my mother did not want me to be
that is how I am a prodigy.

Favorite Character Interview

What is your name?
Samantha A.

What is your favorite character in a a movie or book?
Christina Yang

Describe your character in one word.
Real

What is the characters motivations?
Her motivation in the show and at work is her love for surgery.

Describe the characters appearance.
She is a short Asian woman who always wears scrubs and is thin.

Name a few actions that the character preforms.
She always loves to preform surgeries. Also she is constantly breaking up with her boyfriend Owen and then making back up with him.

What does the character think about?
She is constantly thinking about surgeries and how she can be a part of one.

What does the character say?
She likes to say the word “seriously”

Why do you like this character?
I like this character because she is very honest, loyal, and determined.

Charcter Graphic Organizer Spreadsheet and Voki

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Charcter Graphic Organizer Spreadsheet

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“Two Kinds” In the Shoes of a Prodigy

If I were born a prodigy I would be happy because I would have a natural talent that some people can't do or aren't as good as me, i think that if I were not a prodigy though and I had to go through what Jing-me I had to go through with my family pressuring me to do something I couldn't do what they wanted me to do I would get mad at myself at first and then I would be mad at them for making me continue to do something that I can't do. Although I would not tell them that I was angry because I don’t believe that kids should disrespect their parents like what she did. If they saved their money just to buy me a piano I would be grateful that they spent that long just saving their money for me to do something good that I know I could have done. If Jing-mei would have just focused on trying hard for her parents then I think she would have realized that she could do good playing the piano. In my family you are supposed to do what your parents say, but sometimes after so long of parents trying to make their kids do something they can't do or don't want to do, they should have the right to tell them what they think and how it makes them feel. I believe that if she would have just told her mother more nicely then her mother would not have made her continue. I know that I would like to be a prodigy only if I really was one and not pressured into being one.

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Dora and Boots TV Show Plot Diagram

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"Two Kinds" "The Orange Jacket"

Today would be a good example for when someone expected me to do something I really didn't want to do. Today after school we all went to shop-till-you-drop and Joan, the head person for Friends of San Pasqual, stopped me and told me that she had something for me. She told me to follow her and so I did. I thought it was going to be something really cute or something that no one else had. She went up to a rack and pulled out a bright orange leather jacket that had ruffles all over it. She said, "when I saw this I thought of you, and thought you would like it. It is really expensive and is worth 600 dollars!" I didn't like it becuase it was too bright and the ruffles were ugly. She wanted me to try it on, so I did and I thought it was so ugly on me. I did want to mean and reject it so I tryed to tell her that it was a little too bright but she wouldn't get the hint. She expected me to take it. So I took it and felt really bad becuase I don't want to give it away becuase I thing it would hurt her feelings, but I don't want to wear it becuase its not cute. I don't know what Im going to do with it.

Acrostic Poem for Me

Responsible
- I always try to do my homework and stay focused in school. I try really hard to get good grades.
Energetic
- I love to be active and I am always in sports and have a ton of energy when doing things that I love.
Brave
- I have done many things in my life where I have to be brave. Just to be a foster kid you have to be brave.

Encouraging
- I try to always encourage people when they are doing something that they like. Like when I am watching someone in a sport during a game I always cheer them on.

Kind
- I think I am a nice person and I try to never be mean to people even when I don’t get along with them.

Ambitious
- When I have something that I love a lot I am usually passionate about it like basketball.

Hopeful
- I always hope for the best when it comes to people I love and care about and also to myself.

Charcter Acrostic Poem for Mama

Mature
- Example: She is older, wise and self confident when she talks about how she can skin a pig in less than a day and have it out to dry. She also knows she is strong and confident.
Affectionate
- Example: She loves he daughters and cares for them a lot. She and her church raised money just to send one of her daughters to college.
Mannerly
- Example: Mama knows when it is time to be proper like how she talks about if she were on the Johnny Carson Show, but that is not how she really is.
Animated
- Example: She is lively because she does anything that a man can do like wrestle a pig and skin an ox without any mercy. She is hard working and full of life.

OAATS Analysis of Peer

Amy is my best friend and she is extremely generous and caring. She is always thinking about other people and doing things for them. She always tries to help someone when they need help. Sometimes it backfires on her when she tries to help people because she is constantly trying to help people sometime even when they need it but don't want it. She is always worrying about people who she really cares about and loves but tries not to make it super obvious. She is a great person to talk to and is someone you can trust. She is also really outgoing. She sometimes is hyper which makes her super funny and sometimes a little crazy. Also she will sometimes yell out randomly in class which is also funny. Amy gets along with a lot of people and is easy to talk to. That is why she is my best friend.

Prompt A: Me and Dee

I think that I can compare myself to Dee. Somethings that me a Dee have in common is that she is more confident when she is speaking then her sister and so am I. She likes to have style and so do I. If Ihad a lot of money I would buy all the cute clothes in the world. We are similar in our personality but also there are differeces like if there was a house buring down I would not stand and watch my house burn down I would try to help at least get my family out. I think she is selfish in a way and I don't think i am a selfish person.

“’Everyday Use’ from Dee’s Point of View”

My name is Dee, I was named after my aunt. I really don't like the way our house looks that we live in. I don't live there anymore though, because I went off to college that my mom and my church paid for. My family is my mom and my sister named Maggie. Maggie is smaller then me and is scared. Her scars are on her legs and arms from a fire that happened in our house a while back. Our house is really ugly and is worn down. I don't like the way it looks. Today I am going back to the house to visit them. I am going to bring my good friend named Asalamalakim, but he likes people to call him Hakim da Barbar. he is really funny and I think he will like my little sister. My sister is a little crazy but I love her to death. Every time we take a picture she likes to have the house in the background. I wish she didn't like the house so much. When we go to visit my mom today I am going to ask her if i can have the lid to the butter churner. I can't wait to go see them.

“Everyday Use” Before You Read: Traditions and Heirlooms.

The thing that I hope to pass down from me to the next generation in my family is recipes. My mom taught me some recipes that my grandma taught her so I think I can pass them down to my kids. It would be good if they knew how to cook something’s. My grandma also gave me a small little Mexican doll that is wearing a really colorful dress. I would like to pass it down maybe to my kids. The doll is really cute with dark brown braids down over her shoulders. It one of the cutest dolls I've ever seen. I hope that the generations down from me will still pass those things on.

Character

Character is a person who portrays traits and personality in a story from literature. They show distinctive traits and mannerisms. The character in a story has to undergo a conflict and in most ways change sometime during the plot of the story. The character of Leonard Mead is of a man who is quiet and alone. He thinks differently from the other people of his time. In the time in which Leonard Mead lives in he is not considered typical because of his differences in society. When Leonard takes walks during the night it shows that he does not have the same character qualities as the rest of his futurist society. It shows that he is not materialistic and wants more to have in his life. He had more character traits then the rest of the people in his society.

A Rainy Day

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My Memories of 9/11

The day 9/11 came around I remember that it was a normal day for me. It was a Tuesday when the World Trade Center was hit. I was a t school and we herd that something was going on but we didn't know what it was or we didn't even understand it, because I was only six. Some parents came and picked up some of their kids early and I couldn't figure out what could have happened that made everyone look so scared. I remember coming home from school when I lived with my aunt. She had the news on and she looked terrified. I sat down next to her a started to watch it with her. It showed the first tower falling and the second tower with people jumping out from over 100 floors up. It scared me so much that I started crying. When the second tower fell I felt like the whole world was in shock. When I went to school the next day half the kids in my class weren't there. Later, after school we went to the grocery store and i saw a magazine that already had the story on the front cover. The picture was of a lady who had jumped from the 92nd floor and lived. she was all broken and burned. It made me so sad that i started crying. Even though I was little I still remember a lot that happened when the World Trade Towers fell.

My Time at the Circus

There was once a girl named Rose who loved to go to her grandmas house. The time before She had gone to her house her grandma had given her a relic to keep safe from her mother. It was a small hand mirror that had a beautiful frame. In one day Rose would go visit her grandma and she was so excited because her grandma said that she had a special surprise for her this time. When Rose got to her grandma's house she handed her two tickets to the circus! Rose was so excited! When they got to the circus and the show began the lights dimmed and there was a large ballyhoo sounding from nowhere. Then all of a sudden a ton of circus performers came out and started to act extremely zany. They were doing amazing tricks and stunts. Two clowns came out and started to pretend to argue making it look like they were a couple of sticklers, then bopping each other on the heads with fake bats. When the clowns went away blue sparkling lights came on making it look like almost an aquatic scene. Then a spotlight rise up high and shined on a tight rope walker that was on a bicycle. She slowly rode across the rope and in the middle she made it look like she was stuck but then she sped to the other side extremely fast then stood up and everyone applauded. Clowns came out again and decided to pick one person in the aduience to come on stage and they picked Rose! Rose did have a problem though. Rose was scared of clowns and she did not want to go up and preform with them. Her grandma encouraged her to go and when she wouldn't the whole crowd started chanting "Do it, Do it!" Rose grasped the bottom of her chair and slowy pleeled a finger away one by one and slowly stood up to go on stage. She felt like she was being abducted. When she got on stage she sqeuled as the clowns grabbed her arms and sat her down in a chair. Then they pulled out paints from their sleeves and started to paint her face at a very high pace. She closed her eyes the whole time, and when they announced that they were done she slowly opened her eyes and looked around

“Mouse in the Café Short Story”

Once there was a mouse named Alberto. Alberto the mouse had always lived in many different places and always something felt wrong about it, but Alberto had never had a home to live in where found suitable enough to. So Alberto went on an adventure to search for his perfect home. First he tried to look in a grocery store but there were to many people. Then he tried in a movie theater but the movies were to loud. He tried a doughnut shop but the smell of the doughnut fillings gave him a headache, but at least he left with a doughnut. Next he tried a smoothie shop, but the blenders scared him. He tried in a bank, but the bankers found him and stomped at him to scare him away! Also there was a trap and he knew the cheese was fake anyways. Alberto started to give up all hope of finding someplace to live and sat down on a curb to think about all his friends homes and how nice they were. He wished he could have a home like that! His friend Miguel the mouse had a nice home by the shore in an old lighthouse. Alberto thought that it must be nice to live there. Alberto herd a car come sharply around the corner of the curb which made his train of thought leave and he ran as fast as he could to get across the street without getting ran over. He was panting and stood up to breath better, and when he looked up his eyes widened and he got a fuzzy feeling. On the sign of the building in front of him was Café. Alberto had a good feeling about this. He had heard of them before but he never been in one and he heard they were great places to live by his other mouse friends. He sighlenty snuck through a hole in the wall and came apon a warm cozy shop. It smelled like warm coffee, there was not may people, and it was quiet! Finally Alberto the mouse knew he was home!

"Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies"

In the Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies the researchers are both humans and robots. The robots scan his brain's activity and monitor his movements, then the human researches come in and determine weather his is mentally ill or not. They dress in full head and body suits that are all white, and the robots are small machines like the size of tarantulas that crawl on the top of his head and send the signals from his brain to the main computer, which looks like projected images on a large glass table. The room they put Leonard in is a room with a super strong but flexible fiber covering the walls called duraplastic, with one small rusted bed frame and a dusty mattress on top. The walls are covered in carvings with strange symbols from the patients before him. Also there is a medium sized chair with a simple pattern on its surface. There is one small barred window that is extremely high up to the point where no one could reach it. The air in the room is dingy and stuffy, and it is so quite Leonard can hear his own heartbeat. The center feels cold and empty like the street he walked on every night.

Bradbury's Purpose of The Pedestrian"

Bradbury’s purpose of writing “The Pedestrian” could be to warn the people of the future and how technology could effect the people of the future. In the 1950’s televisions had just came out, which made certain people watch it all day. Many people did not come out and socialize. I think his purpose was to prove the effect things can have on people. When the police questioned him for an innocent stroll through the neighborhood they thought that he was insane and not normal because he was not inside watching his television. The technology effected people in Bradburys story by them not socializing and normal things such as a walk would be considered abnormal.

Life in 2053 – “The Pedestrian” Before You Read

Prompt B: America in 2053 would have a lot more technology. I think that we would be able to make robots by then. There would be robots roaming around doing other peoples jobs that no one wants to do and we would have better education systems. The pollution would probably be increased because there will be an increase in the population but we would most likely learn how to control it. Other companies would be rich because of the technology increase but others would fail because most likely their jobs would be taken over by other machines. I think transportation would be different and more fuel efficient. In less then ten years technology increases dramatically, so I think that in 40 years we could have many things that we only think about.

Choice

The connection between “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” and the Poem “You Want a Social Life, with Friends” explains how life can not always be fair and you have to choose between certain things in your life that you have. You can not always have two things at once. In “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” Tom has to choose between work and his wife. In the poem it explains that you have to choose between love, friends, and work. The theme that both texts have in common is that in life you have to choose certain things over others. For example Tome had to make the choice of his wife or work and he decided to work, but later in the end he realized that his wife was more important to him. He knew that he was slowly loosing his wife and that he wished he had spent more time with her. The theme connects to my life because sometimes I have to decide which things are more important to me like homework or friends. Most of the time i will pick homework because it is the thing that will get me the furthest.