Dream House Paragraph with Imagery

My dream house is an nice small house. I see a 2 bedroom house with a small kitchen with a bar set. I also see a nice living room with a plazama t.v and nice leather couches. I can taste sweet blueberry muffins straight out of the oven set on the kitchen counter. My chairs are sooft as well as the couches. I smell the airfreshner all over the house. I also smell the perfume on my clothing and my husbands cologne as he walks right by me to give me a kiss. I hear the people across the street and bycicles passing by. I will make sure I graduate from school and have a great job inorder to get my dream house.

Third Quarter Goals Reflection

My goals for this quarter is to make sure to stay off of 2 hour and get all my work done. As well as ask teachers for help in my education as well as personal life issues. I have been turning in all my work and asked my fellow peers and staff if they can help me when I do not understand something. I also have been studing for test more latley in order to achive a good grade. In order to keep my grades up I use sports as a motivation. I do have to remember to prioritize because I am a bussy teenager and very active I have to remeber to do my work. I expect to feel proud of myself at the end of the quarter knowing that I stayed off of 2 hour and achieved atleast a 3.0.

Poetry Experience Paragraph

I really enjoy reading and listening to poetry depending on the feeling being expressed behind it. I understand that poetry is a way of expressing peoples feelings on paper if they are not able to express the words out loud. For example anger,love, friendship, hatred, hurt, intimacy, family etc. I personally have written free verse poetry which does not necessarily have to rhyme in order to express what I have been going though lately or think at the moment. I have learned poetry by listening to peoples poems or read poems by certain writers for example Shakespeare. I wright poetry when I am hurt, I do not do it intentionally if I am hurt and I feel like no one is listening to me a grab a journal and right. At the end when I read it to myself I end up seeing it rhyme. Poetry to me is a way of expression a way to let everything out like pain, secrets, feelings for others etc. I hope to learn many more ways that poetry can be used. I look forward to listening to different poems and mixed emotions and maybe how to be a better poetry righter.

Good Teacher Traits

Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

Over the past few weeks my class as well as I have been learning about symbolism and allegory. I learned about symbolism in many different ways for example our class was assigned a project called Glogster. Were basically my partner and I had to create a poster with 3 pictures and quotes. This assignment was based on our story that we had just finished reading called " Through the Tunnel." Our poster was to show that we understood the story and its perspective as well as to make sure we new what the symbolism of the story was. For example when we added a picture of rocks and water the picture symbolized when the young boy came out the water and a gush of blood came off his goggles. On the other hand I also learned about allegory. I learned about allegory by reading certain story's for example my classmates and I just finished reading "Animal Farm." My classmates and I had to complete a paragraph regarding the story and how it compares to the real world. We had to explain the allegory in the story which was when Snowball was chased away caused by rumors that 2other individuals had made. Here at San Pasquale Academy students can peer pressure student and give them a hard time in order for them to not want to resign here anymore.

Animal Farm to the Real World

In the story Animal Farm Snow Ball puts out the idea to start the revolution and finish what Mr. Old major had started. Yet on the other side Squelar and Napoleon descided to get rid of him. Snow Ball was chased out of the farm by all the animals. Squelar and Napoleon had tricked all the farm animals into thinking that Snow Ball was the enemie. In the really world certain situations are similar to this. For example here at San Pasqual Academy there has been situations were a studetn has issues with another student and one of the students is considered more popular and more known then the other. The student with most friends goes around spreading rumors in order to turn poeple agianst them. The student now is being eathier harrased or pressured and may be unable to handle the pressure and the instigating. Which may lead to change of placement in the end.

“Animal Farm” Revolution at SPA

If San Pasqual Academy were to loose it's control entirly Spa would be a reck. Students would not listen to the staff and fights would be in every corner as well as the place being a total disaster. One day the students decided to meet up in the softball field during lunches. Both lunch sestions had there meeting and officially had a plan.

San Pasqual Academy Dragon

I bealive that the dragon was used as our mascot because a dragon repsresnts a warrior which in our case is the warrior that is among each and every one of us. A dragon is a fighter it can symbolize many things. For example when a student resignes here at San Pasqual Academy they may come with many problems and they may be hurt as if they just came or finished fighting a war outside of here. Students have argument, fights or even witness viloence on there own which makes it a war out in the world. A dragon fights for protection and survival. It defends itself from harm and anything in its way. The dragon represents strength and fighting till tthe end.

Symbolism in “Through the Tunnel"

"Through the Tunnel" Foster Youth Initiation

Even though they don't have to swim through a tunnel like Jerry in "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing, foster youth are initiated out of the foster care system. When we are in the system foster youth get everything for free. It is donated from people and the kids do not have to worry about paying for clothes,food,electronics etc. When kids enter the system they majority of them are left with nothing. They have no family to reach out to and they got to mature faster. As a result of initiation foster youth have to be ready to be on there own which includes paying there own bills,getting a job, and continuing school (college).

"Through the Tunnel" Comprehension Paragraph

I find it convinsing that Jerry whent through the tunnel and surrvived because he kept practicing and practicing until he made it through. For example he got his mother to buy him goggls in order to go under water without the water hurting his eyes. He also when and practiced going under water no matter how much his nose bled. Jerry never gave up and kept trying. In the end he ended up going to the end of the tunnel and descided that was not important anymore.

"Through the Tunnel"

When I was 11 years old I was living with my mother in Tijuana. It all happened at around 5:30ish. I was getting ready to pick up the mess my brothers had made. My mother came in and got mad at me for not picking it up earlier. So she whent into my sister Grecia's room and through her stuff on the floor. My mom took my sisters engagment ring then came out and said that she was going to tell my sister that I stol it and that I made the mes in her room. Minutes later my sister walked in and I paniced. My mom told her exactly what she said she would. I tryed to explain to my sister that I didn't but she would't bealive me. Grecia didn't bealive our mother would be capable of doing it. My sister was mad and I couldn't prove to her that I didn't do it and I wasn't lieing. Back then I felt really hurt because my sister didnt bealive me. Now that I look at it I learned that sometimes I got to expect the unexpected and that people are going to eventually show there true colors.

House Symbols

A circle symbalizes our house which is girls 8. To most people ,this item is just a circle. To us it represents unity because all of us stick together no matter what happenes. We get into so many arguments and fights but yet at the end of everything we always work it out and go back to normal. There's so many reasons why a circle is the shape for us. We can go through tough times and not have anyone in the outside of our house understand or listen to us but in our house we take the time to listen to each other and share our feelings. We have come a long way and our journey is not over. We bealive that our house is strong and we will keep moving forward no matter what happenes between us. We will always be there for each other and no one can seperate us.

Third Quater goals

My greatest accomplishment of 2010 was completing all my major assignments and getting them all turned in on time. I made sure my essays and my projects were good and ready to be graded. It was not very difficult for me all I had to do was ask staff,peers, and teachers for help. I also double checked all my work and had my staff remind me about what I had to turn in. With all the help I received I was able to get all my work done. I also made sure I kept focused and did to my full potential.

My goal for this quarter is to achieve a 3.0 or higher. Through out my freshmen year I was capable of keeping a 3.0 before I started procrastinating. The way I would achieve this goal is by keeping up with all my work, asking teachers,staff,and peers for help if needed, and last but not least working to my full potential and turning everything in on time.

Winter Break Narrative

The celebration I participated in was actually this New Years Eve. I celebrated this New years with students and staff on this campus. Kim the Rec therapist threw a party for us in the students cafe. It was really fun because we got to hang out and eat together. We also got to listen to music and dance as well as interact with each other. I had lots of fun and I got to enjoy myself with my house mates. It was 6:30 and I was ready to head out. I put all my things away and whent to the cafe. After being there for a while we had a dance competition. Auggie beat all the guys and Pearl beat all the girls. Then we kept dancing until it was 11:59....and the countown started 10,9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Happy Ney year! is what every one yelled out as the clock striked 12. We all gave each other hugs and kisses. After 5 minutes we all headed home. It was the best night ever.

2nd Quarter Portfolio

What I learned Second Quarter of English 10