Tuesday, November 30, 2010
“Persuasive Project Topic Request.”
After reviewing the Voxopop discussion, I would like to persuade people to House Parents ,Friends, or coach. You may listen to my class’s discussion here http://www.voxopop.com/group/1fa82b63-3a2b-467a-a46d-efca85728ccc
Monday, November 29, 2010
First Pursasive Essay Propt A
Letting students go on pass should be a privilege which means that there passes should be earned. With that being said freshmen should be allowed to go on pass because no student should be treated unfairly and all should be treated equally. Having students not go on pass can affect them strongly.The term referred to as freshmen should not have any sort of affect in the students life and definitely not be treated different from others. For example if a sophomore or senior was to go on pass a freshmen would most likely through a tantrum and or start wondering why the others are allowed to go but they are not. Freshmen need passes just like any other student on this campus and all students must be treated fairly.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Comparing and Comprehending Theme's Essay
Bella A. & Aryon L.
11-19-10
Period 5
Comparing and Comprehending Theme
Falling in love made a big difference in both “The Bass,the River,and Sheila Mant” story and “Catch the Moon.” In the first story the narrator had a big crush on a girl named Sheila mant, the prettiest girl he had ever met. One day he finally asked her out on a date and she agreed to go. Sheila did not like fishing at all. What Sheila was not aware of was that fishing was the narrators favorite hobby. The narrator let a big mass go away after finding out she hates fishing. While at the fair Sheila met another guy with a nice car and left the narrator all alone. In the story “Catch the Moon” a boy named Luis had just came out of juvenile hall and was court ordered to work for his dad for 6 months. He was to polish rows of hubcaps unless he wanted to go back to juvenile hall . While out one night he stopped at a place called the “Ramirez Funeral Home” were his mother had been just a little before she passed away. He met a girl that made him value certain thing and people in his life.
In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” each male character tried to impress a girl in there life whom they liked.The main character in this story is actually no one better but the own narrator W.D Wetherell. The main conflict in this story was that the narrator wanted to impress a girl he had a crush on for such a long time. When he finally got her to go out on a date with him he wanted to show her how good of a fisher he was but then found out she hated fishing. In this story the character changes by first letting go of what he enjoyed the most but at the end nothing worked and did not benefit him at all. The girl in the story left him for some other guy. By reading this story we also learn that when people are in love it is better to be ones self instead of changing to try to impress anyone. Also that the person should like us for who we are and not for someone we are not and by doing that we can find out if the person really cares about us.
The main characters in the story “ Catch the Moon” are a young boy named Luis and a girl named Noami.” Luis’s mom died after getting incredibly sick and not being able to recover. Luis had trouble forgetting about it. One night while driving he happened to stop in front of the Ramirez Funeral home were he could not stop crying. While going through the thoughts he realized he should get the hubcap he needed for Noami and that maybe it was not so bad cleaning all the hubcaps for his dad. By doing that he noticed he was able to love and care for other people that were in his life.This story’s message is that people should be able to care about themselves first and always but still have consideration and care for others involved in there lives as well.
Love can cause people to do things that they normally do not do. In both stories mentioned above both males changed for a girl. One male changes but benefits nothing and the other male changes and learns that he should care for the people involved in his life. The main Idea in the story comparison is about both story's having to make a decision in the end of each story. Both stories teach people valuable lessons about love and life.
11-19-10
Period 5
Comparing and Comprehending Theme
Falling in love made a big difference in both “The Bass,the River,and Sheila Mant” story and “Catch the Moon.” In the first story the narrator had a big crush on a girl named Sheila mant, the prettiest girl he had ever met. One day he finally asked her out on a date and she agreed to go. Sheila did not like fishing at all. What Sheila was not aware of was that fishing was the narrators favorite hobby. The narrator let a big mass go away after finding out she hates fishing. While at the fair Sheila met another guy with a nice car and left the narrator all alone. In the story “Catch the Moon” a boy named Luis had just came out of juvenile hall and was court ordered to work for his dad for 6 months. He was to polish rows of hubcaps unless he wanted to go back to juvenile hall . While out one night he stopped at a place called the “Ramirez Funeral Home” were his mother had been just a little before she passed away. He met a girl that made him value certain thing and people in his life.
In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” each male character tried to impress a girl in there life whom they liked.The main character in this story is actually no one better but the own narrator W.D Wetherell. The main conflict in this story was that the narrator wanted to impress a girl he had a crush on for such a long time. When he finally got her to go out on a date with him he wanted to show her how good of a fisher he was but then found out she hated fishing. In this story the character changes by first letting go of what he enjoyed the most but at the end nothing worked and did not benefit him at all. The girl in the story left him for some other guy. By reading this story we also learn that when people are in love it is better to be ones self instead of changing to try to impress anyone. Also that the person should like us for who we are and not for someone we are not and by doing that we can find out if the person really cares about us.
The main characters in the story “ Catch the Moon” are a young boy named Luis and a girl named Noami.” Luis’s mom died after getting incredibly sick and not being able to recover. Luis had trouble forgetting about it. One night while driving he happened to stop in front of the Ramirez Funeral home were he could not stop crying. While going through the thoughts he realized he should get the hubcap he needed for Noami and that maybe it was not so bad cleaning all the hubcaps for his dad. By doing that he noticed he was able to love and care for other people that were in his life.This story’s message is that people should be able to care about themselves first and always but still have consideration and care for others involved in there lives as well.
Love can cause people to do things that they normally do not do. In both stories mentioned above both males changed for a girl. One male changes but benefits nothing and the other male changes and learns that he should care for the people involved in his life. The main Idea in the story comparison is about both story's having to make a decision in the end of each story. Both stories teach people valuable lessons about love and life.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
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Monday, November 15, 2010
"Homeroom Reformer Essay"
A Prize to Earn
So many things can help better us as students to improve our learning and education.
There are 140 kids at San Pasqual Academy, a high school for foster youth.If we were to win the $5,000 dollars towards our education we believe that our students would be able to finish all homework and assignments. We believe that we all have the ability to improve in our education. For example we have an English 10 class that is technology based. We definitely need funding because we only have so many laptops that we can check out after school.
Each student has a blog. Thanks to our English teacher we have become a paperless class learning new technology. For example we get to learn about different websites, what they are based on and how they work, for example we use Voki, Blogger, Google Docs and our favorite one which is our Delicious accounts. This website lets us bookmark different sites and we can make tags. When Ms. Priester brings up new sites or different things that we are going to try out she normally makes a slide show/ PowerPoint that teaches or demonstrates the steps in order for us to learn how to use the websites. Ms. Priester has shown us different techniques in order to get us prepared for college starting from writing essays to making diagrams to the coolest of all designing our own forms or even test. Also, I am an English language learner and used a website called Rosetta Stone in order to improve my English pronunciations and how to write words correctly. If we were able to share this with our whole school and maybe to other students at other schools they would learn that technology and having laptops makes work more enjoyable then writing everything out on paper.
Having the laptops would make teaching better and having a better learning and positive environment as well as not having to worry about not having enough laptops for a whole class. This project will help the students on this campus by saving them many hours of studying and improving their grades. Another way the laptops will help the students is by knowing that when the computers don’t work in the cafe they have another source to use with wireless Internet. When students graduate and get ready for college they are expected to be well versed in the use of laptops. Throughout time as well as personal experience it has been shown that laptops are more effective in producing higher education and more efficient results.
Having laptops will not only improve the education throughout high school but also prepare us for college since college is normally all technology based. Many of our students enjoy technology and many have become even more technologically advanced on their own. Our students at San Pasqual Academy would be very grateful if we were to win this prize.
I wrote this essay with Kivon L. We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reforme Essay Contest.
So many things can help better us as students to improve our learning and education.
There are 140 kids at San Pasqual Academy, a high school for foster youth.If we were to win the $5,000 dollars towards our education we believe that our students would be able to finish all homework and assignments. We believe that we all have the ability to improve in our education. For example we have an English 10 class that is technology based. We definitely need funding because we only have so many laptops that we can check out after school.
Each student has a blog. Thanks to our English teacher we have become a paperless class learning new technology. For example we get to learn about different websites, what they are based on and how they work, for example we use Voki, Blogger, Google Docs and our favorite one which is our Delicious accounts. This website lets us bookmark different sites and we can make tags. When Ms. Priester brings up new sites or different things that we are going to try out she normally makes a slide show/ PowerPoint that teaches or demonstrates the steps in order for us to learn how to use the websites. Ms. Priester has shown us different techniques in order to get us prepared for college starting from writing essays to making diagrams to the coolest of all designing our own forms or even test. Also, I am an English language learner and used a website called Rosetta Stone in order to improve my English pronunciations and how to write words correctly. If we were able to share this with our whole school and maybe to other students at other schools they would learn that technology and having laptops makes work more enjoyable then writing everything out on paper.
Having the laptops would make teaching better and having a better learning and positive environment as well as not having to worry about not having enough laptops for a whole class. This project will help the students on this campus by saving them many hours of studying and improving their grades. Another way the laptops will help the students is by knowing that when the computers don’t work in the cafe they have another source to use with wireless Internet. When students graduate and get ready for college they are expected to be well versed in the use of laptops. Throughout time as well as personal experience it has been shown that laptops are more effective in producing higher education and more efficient results.
Having laptops will not only improve the education throughout high school but also prepare us for college since college is normally all technology based. Many of our students enjoy technology and many have become even more technologically advanced on their own. Our students at San Pasqual Academy would be very grateful if we were to win this prize.
I wrote this essay with Kivon L. We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reforme Essay Contest.
SPA Movies and Game Day Paragraph
I had a great time on friday. In the beggining of the day we sophmoores and freshmen were all put together in a class to watch a movie. I thought we were going to watch something related to ageing out of the sytem but we ended up watching "Freedom Riders." I enjoy watching that movie it is great the only thing is is always makes me cry when they tell there stories. After watching the movie for about an hour or so we got to all go to the gym. Sopmores played verses seniors in basketball and we beat them. Then we whent to the final game verses the juniors and we beat them as well there for made us basketball champs. Then after playin a few short games of basketball we played volleyball and lost. After all that game time we all whent to the cafe and I signed up for the cupcake competition. The first time I won first place but for the final round I made 3rd place. It was fun and I had a great time.
Monday, November 8, 2010
SPA Theme Song
Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne:
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey, you, you, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it's not a secret
Hey, hey, you, you, I want to be your girlfriend
You're so fine, I want you mine, you're so delicious
I think about you all the time, you're so addictive
Don't you know what I can do to make you feel alright?
Alright, alright, alright
Don't pretend, I think you know I'm precious
And so yeah, I'm a hey, hey princess
I can tell you like me too and you know I'm right
I'm right, I'm right, I'm right
She's like so whatever
You could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everybody?s talking about
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey, you, you, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it?s not a secret
Hey, hey, you, you, I want to be your girlfriend
I can see the way, I see the way you look at me
And even when you look away I know you think of me
I know you talk about me all the time again and again
And again and again and again
So come over here and tell me what I wanna hear
Better yet, make your girlfriend disappear
I don't wanna hear you say her name ever again
And again and again and again
?Cause she's like so whatever
And she could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everybody's talking about
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey, you, you, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it's not a secret
Hey, hey, you, you, I want to be your girlfriend
Oh, in a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
Woo, 'cause I can, ?cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in?
Hey, she's so stupid, just what were you thinking?
In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
'Cause I can, ?cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in?
She's so stupid, just what were you thinking?
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
No way, no way
Hey, hey, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it's not a secret
Hey, hey, I want to be your girlfriend
No way, no way, no way, no way
Paragraph:
I believe that this is a good theme song for this campus when it comes to dating. The reason being is because there are students who date others and the guys girlfriends are pretty or something relate to the matter and another girl gets jealous. There are girls who try to take other peoples boyfriends because they don't think there as pretty or they simply judge them.
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey, you, you, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it's not a secret
Hey, hey, you, you, I want to be your girlfriend
You're so fine, I want you mine, you're so delicious
I think about you all the time, you're so addictive
Don't you know what I can do to make you feel alright?
Alright, alright, alright
Don't pretend, I think you know I'm precious
And so yeah, I'm a hey, hey princess
I can tell you like me too and you know I'm right
I'm right, I'm right, I'm right
She's like so whatever
You could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everybody?s talking about
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey, you, you, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it?s not a secret
Hey, hey, you, you, I want to be your girlfriend
I can see the way, I see the way you look at me
And even when you look away I know you think of me
I know you talk about me all the time again and again
And again and again and again
So come over here and tell me what I wanna hear
Better yet, make your girlfriend disappear
I don't wanna hear you say her name ever again
And again and again and again
?Cause she's like so whatever
And she could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everybody's talking about
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey, you, you, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it's not a secret
Hey, hey, you, you, I want to be your girlfriend
Oh, in a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
Woo, 'cause I can, ?cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in?
Hey, she's so stupid, just what were you thinking?
In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
'Cause I can, ?cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in?
She's so stupid, just what were you thinking?
Hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way, I think you need a new one
Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend
No way, no way
Hey, hey, I know that you like me
No way, no way, you know it's not a secret
Hey, hey, I want to be your girlfriend
No way, no way, no way, no way
Paragraph:
I believe that this is a good theme song for this campus when it comes to dating. The reason being is because there are students who date others and the guys girlfriends are pretty or something relate to the matter and another girl gets jealous. There are girls who try to take other peoples boyfriends because they don't think there as pretty or they simply judge them.
Friday, November 5, 2010
"The Bass,the River,or Sheila Mant" Airhead or Fishin Paragraph
In the story Sheila is simply an airhead. the reason I say this is because she demonstrates this through out the story. For example Sheila did not want to go in a canoe so she offered to get her dads car but W.D sweet-talked her into going with him on the canoe. Sheila is also very materialistic the reason behind this is because at the fair she decided to leave W.d and go with some other guy that had a car. Another example was when W.D was struggling with the fish the whole time while Sheila was having a conversation about her future and her education. These examples demonstrate why Sheila is a total airhead.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Internal and External Conflicts in the Story
In the story " Sheila and WD" faces external and internal conflicts. W.D tried to impress Sheila instead of doing what he actually liked to do most witch was fishing. His internal conflict was not having enough confidence to ask her out at first until she actually finally tried talking to her and telling her things that would convince her. His external conflict was trying to tell her that he loved fishing unlike her. Sheila on the other hand was worring to much about herself instead of trying to conversate with him. Her external conflict was she didn't like to fish. The only conflict that was not solved at the end of this story was Sheila ended leaving with another guy and because W.D was trying to impress Sheila he might never get the chance to catch a Bass that big again. This shows to never change for someone and if one were to read between the lines it basically reads to be one's self and not try to impress anyone.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
"Catch the Moon" Falling in Love
Falling in love can change a person in many ways. For example if someone were to fall in love It can have an effect on hormone levels and other regular functions. Stress can do similar things. Anything that affects one emotionally can have a physical effect. Another example would be the campus we live on. Many kids or teens may fall in love with another peer on campus but they don't know that this here is not real love it's simply "Puppy Love." If Someone were to fall in love with someone and the opposite sex is not than it can affect a women tragically. She would probably become very emotional and sad. There can be many outcomes depending on there situation such as arguing, fighting, stress or even break-ups. Unlike on the other hand if a couple were to fall in love and they were actually together then yes there relationship would be more caring, Gentle, compassionate and loving. When people fall in love they are motivated to make there opposite happy and proud of having someone such as them on there side.There's many different reasons why love can change a person but this is strongly why I think it can.
Monday, November 1, 2010
"Halloween Memory in Third-Person"
Last Halloween there was a girl named Bella and she wanted to go trick or treating. She was not allowed to go out that night because her aunt said it was a waste of time and it was worshiping the devil. Bella did not understand why other kids were allowed to go to houses and get candy and dress up. Bella was sad and mad at the same time she felt like her aunt wanted to keep her away from having fun. Bella decided to disobey her and sneaked out the window at 9:30 to go trick or treat. She left a note that she would be back later on and all she wanted was to hangout with her friends and get some candy. She didn't want to be the only one home on Halloween night. She was so glad but she noticed the time and decided i was time to head back home before it got any later. Bella went home and her aunt was waiting for her on the coach. Her aunt only had to say one word "grounded".
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