" Plot and Character Practice Test"

Fun Quiz

"Two Kinds" Mother & Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-Mei and her mother, Jing-Mei is a little girl who came from china. Her mother wanted her to be a Prodigy but Jing-Mei didn't want to. In this story I support Jing-Mei because no one should ever have to be obligated to do something they don't want to do or something they dislike. For example when Jing-Mei's mother made her watch and learn the things people did on t.v. It wouldn't make Jing-Mei happy. In addition at the end of the story when Jing-Mei finished her piano performance in the talent show the next day her mother still wanted her to go to piano lessons after having the most embarrassing moment ever the night before. In the story Jing-Mei tryed to be what her mother wanted her to be but she couldn't handle it no more. This shows that Jing-Mei is a strong character and cared to make her mother happy but this also shows that Jing-Mei would not live a life of a lie and would not tolerate having her mother tell her what to be. Jing-Mei's actions are of a young girl who wants to make her momhappy but not to be what her mom wants her to be but what jing-Mei herself wants to be when she grows up.

"Two Kinds" Summary Poem

There was a girl named Jing-Mei from China,
her mother had two other daughters who died when they were babies.
Jing-Mei's mother wanted her to be a prodigy.
Her mother took her to a beauty college to get a haircut to make her look like Shirley Temple.
Her mom worked as a cleaning lady. She would look at magazines at the houses where she cleaned.
In one of the magazines she saw an ad for piano lessons.
Jing-Mei's mother signed her up for lessons with Mr. Chong.
She did her best to practice.
She screwed up "Pleading Child" at the talent show because she didn't learn it very well.
She hit the wrong keys. The notes were off. She made plenty of mistakes. Her legs were shaking.
The audience did not clap. They made comments about her because she sucked.
Jing-Mei's mother was very disappointed. No tears came out.
She rebelled by telling her mother she didn't want to play piano anymore.
Her mom realized her daughter was not going to be a celebrity.
Mother and daughter had a sentimental moment when Jing-Mei said "I wish I was dead like the others."
Her mom felt misery so she left. She felt betrayed that her daughter would say that to her.
Jing-Mei had wonderful memories including when her mother gave her the piano at 13 and said "You don't have to be a genius in order to play."

"Favorite Character Interview"

What Is your name? Viviana P.

What is your favorite character in a movie or book? Vivianna’s favorite character in a movie is Chris Brown.

Describe your character in one word.
Cute

What is the character’s motivation?
Vivianna believes that Chris Brown’s motivation is success and fame.

Describe the character’s appearance.
Light skinned, short hair, cute smile and very fashionable.

Name a few actions the character performs. To Vivianna the character performs women beating and dance performance.

What does the character think about? Vivianna answered that she didn’t know.

What does the character say? “I did not hit that women she hit me first”

Why do you like this character? Vivianna responded by saying she likes this character because she enjoys listening to his voice and watching him in movies such as This Christmas and Stomp the Yard.

"Two kinds"

If I were in Jing-mei's shoes and I had to be pressured to be a prodogy I would have stoped my mother scence the begining when she first started to make her go to piano lessons. I would have told my mother that I did not want to do it because I did not think it was my destiny or something I wanted to be. I would have approached her in a calm manner and told her. In my family obeying them is very important. I must do what they say or they will get mad. Although if I don't like something that they try and make me do my sister has always told me to let it be know. If I dont like something I would always say something.

"My Imput for Staff-Teacher Conference Paragraph

I feel that my grade has been going up and down ever scenece freshmen year. I have noticed that I cant seem to keep a stable grade. I have a deep concern with my blog post because I'm not doing well in my wrighting skils. I feel that I can do really good. My grade just dropped today from a hight C to a D. I am very concerned about my grade. I also have my biggest concern on my history class with Mr. Walker I cant seem to raise m y grade up no matter how hard I have tryed. I am still going to keep trying until I make sure I am happy with my final grade. I need help in both of these classes. The only reson I am not passing history is because I cant seem to remember dates and people or what they did. I can do all my class work but when the test date comes I totally forget everything. In english I am improving. I have noticed it in myself that I can do it. I get all my homework done and do all my classwork that is why I was so surprised when I saw my grade today. Teachers and Adults can help me study for test and help me with my assignments. All I have to do is ask for help in which I am starting to do. Ms. Priester doeswn't really need to do anything unless I need help on my wrighting skills. Over all Ms. Priester is a great english teacher and I have learned a lot. I also hope to end up with atleast a B by the end of the quarter.
P.s I love technology now thanks to Ms.Priester!

"Two Kinds" Conflict Experience

I have never been expected to do anything I don't want to. There was one time when I was living with my mother. I hated my mother and it seemed like she hated me. One random day she got very upset with me because I didn't clean the house for her and other issues. She expected me to do that every day while she was gone. I didn't do it because I couldn't sleep the night before. Sense I didn't obey her rule that one day she went into my 19 year old (at the time) sister room and took my sisters engagement ring. It was shiny and had a big diamond on it. She put in my room. My mother was wicked. She took it and looked at me and said in spanish that I must take the blame for my sisters missing ring I cried and said I couldn't and I wouldn't. My sister came home shortly and was looking for her ring she yelled " Were is my ring? Has any one seen it?" I was terrified but I couldn't lie my mother stared at me. I told my sister that mom had it. My mother slapped me across the face. I was expected to take the blame. My sister and her Fiance were confused. I cried in front of them and swore that I didn't take it. My sister didn't know what to believe. I was screwed. My mother said that I was lying when truth be said it was all her. In front of them she said that I was lying and that I had it. My sister and mother looked in my room and my sister found it in between my clothes. I explained and argued until my mother said " I am going to burn your hands for lying" I was afraid.

"Character Acrostic Poem For Myself"

Busy: I am very busy majority of the time my schedule is really packed with sports, education, work, Music and Family.

Educated: I am very well educated I respect peoples opinions and respect them.I have also been very well taught when it comes to having manners.

Lazy: I am very lazy when it comes to doing my homework every night.

Lonely: I feel that I'm very lonely because I am in the system Also because I have no family.

Athletic: I'm athletic because I play volleyball, softball and basketball.

"Character Acrostic Poem For Maggie"

Mysterious: Maggie is mysterious because when Dee arrives with her new husband She runs and hides. She also hides behind her mother a lot.

Affected: Maggie was hurt and affected by the fire.

Gentle: Maggie was willing to give up the quilt to have her sister leave her alone and simply to make her sister happy.

Grateful: Maggie appreciated everything she had in her house.

Embarassed: Maggie is embarassed at her scars and tried to hide from everything else all the time.

“Character Analysis of July"

My roommate July is known by many people. She has a very outgoing personality. July is always laughing and telling jokes. She doesn’t care what people think or say about her because she likes to have fun and enjoy herself. At home she is always one of the first girls to start telling stories and jokes and makes the whole house bust out laughing. A lot of the staff and many of the students and people who know her are always telling her she has a great sense of humor and is good to always see her smiling. Many staff support her and talk to her about her personality. July's always smiling and even though she has bad days she turns them around and has a great time. If she see's anyone of the girls in the house sad or upset or anyone in general she always try's to make us feel better and she puts a smile on our face. She is very up going and joyful.

"Everyday Use" Character to Person Comparison Paragraph

In the story Dees mother reminds me of my older sister Ayneeth. My sister is very straight forward with everyone no matter what. If my sister was to see or hear something wrong or just simply not right she will let you know how it is and what she thinks you did wrong. Because there are atleast 5 of us sisters Ayneeth explains that no one is better then the other and that we are all equal to her. Also because we come from Mexico we shouldn't be ashamed of the way we lived. In the story Dee was very ashamed of the way her house looked and even of her own family. She thought the world revolved around her and took everything for granted. My sister is a great example and a person that I can look up to and thanks to her I will never become the way Dee was and I would hope no one else would eatheir.

" Everyday Use" by Dee's Point of View

My name is Dee and I am very intimidated by the way my house looks. I have a sister named Maggie who lives with my mother. My sister has scares running down her arms and legs from the time our house got burned and so did she. I was invited to come back home and visit my family so I brought a friend with me. I presented my sister Maggie to my friend Asalamalakim but she was very scared when she meet him and hid. From my point of view everything revolves around me and everything has to be good. I am extremely embarrassed to introduce my family or even take pictures with them because the way their house looks isn’t good enough for me.

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"Everyday Use" Before You Read: Traditions and Herlooms

I did not grow up with many traditions although I could consider some things I did traditions. When I was a little girl every Christmas my sisters, my aunt and I would travel to Mexico. The reason we would travel was because we would go celebrate Christmas with my great great grandmother. To me it was always a tradition to open 1 christmas gift at exactly 12 midnight. When I have my children I will let that tradition be passed on and let them open a gift. I also want to pass down my traditional bealiefs of Catholocism. It is a tradition for a young man or young lady before the age of 15 to do his/her baptism,first communion and confess in order to celebrate there 15 birthday. For a young lady it would be called her quinceanera and the young man would be considered his 15 birthday. It is also to recognize that they have whent from a young child to a women or man. I also do not have a posetion that was passed on from any of my family members but I have a rosary that I care for because of its meaning. When I have my first child I would like to give it to eathier him or her. Depending on how many children I was to have that would be the many times it would be passed on. When my child is 15 he/she will take it and take care of it when he/she turns 18 he/she will pass it on to his brother or sister and at the end the youngest of my kids will keep it for when he/she has there children and I would ask that he/she do the same and keep that tradition going. I look forward to to keep these traditions going and make my children happy.

"Character Prior Knowledge Paragraph about

In the story the "Contents of the Dead Mans Pocket" the main character in was Tom Beneck. In the begining of the story Tom was very stressed-out, intense, occupied and commited to his job. All of these characteristics change as the story goes by as well as the time. Tom Beneck was very occupied when it came to his job. He never hung-out with his wife when she asked him to. He was to commited and would completly leave his wife aside. Tom decides not to go to the movies with his wife and while letting his wife out closing the door behind her the wind rushes through his papers and the most important of all makes him walk out the window to a ledge. Tom retreaved the yellow paper that was so important but while being out locked outside a window and only for a yellow paper it came to mind that he almost lost his life if he wouldn't have broke that window. He also thought about his wife and how much he loved her. In the end of the story he sets the yellow paper back on his desk and is ready to go find his wife when the paper flew away and "Tom Beneck burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him." Tom's character changes and becomes more carring and considerate of his personal life including his wife. He noticed his wife was more important than any job.

"The Pursuit of Happiness" Plot Assesment

The Pursuit of Happiness by Bella2013, Yayaozco on Storybird

9/11

Prompt A

I am not sure what happened in 9/11 I have never heard of it. I know it was something about the terrorist attacking the tower and it came down or something similar to that. Im sure I was just a little girl when that happened but I know for a fact I do not like terrorists and were they are at I would never want to be. If I had heared from it and or experianced it I bealive the impact it would have made on me would have been really strong. I think that I would feel sad and at the same time scared for the people who experianced it and had to be there when it all happened. 9/11 was something I would never want to hear repeat itself agian. I also know that many people died and family's were probrable distroyed and seperated. The loss of family in this tragedy would have made an impact on me and taught me to love and care for the little family I have because you never know what might happen what if my sister was there and I lost her then what would I have done.

Short Story with Vocabulary

One day in while clod winter there was a girl named Andy. She went out with her friends to see The Last Exociste she was very excited to see the movie but when the movie was over she felt grievance. When leaving the thearter the people were ballyhoo.She closed her ears and kept walking but when her friend departed from her when walking home she was abducted by aliains. When in the U.F.O the alians were zany and pratying. After she got though with partying with them they let her go and she had to sneack back in the house, but when going back home she droped a neckless that was relic. When she got home she finally realized that it was gone. She look around her room and she started to panic. The next morning her friends found her neckless and she jumped up in joy she was so happy and at the end zany herself.

"The Mouse in the Cafe Short Story"

About 4 days ago in a little cafe down the street from my house there was noone around but a little tiny mouse named Gus-Gus. Gus-Gus was a poor little mouse who had nothing to eat in over a week he was starving. One day he couldn't take it any longer and when the cafe refrigerator was opened his chance was given. He sprinted to into the fridge and stoped with a long pause. He thought that he was in heaven because all he saw was cheese all around him. Gus-Gus grabed the cheese and ate as much as he could. He ate and ate and ate when he was full and was rubbing his belly ready to get up and move the fridge door made a "clash" the door was closed! Gus-Gus tryed to get under the door bu he was so fat and full that he couldn't get under it. Gus-Gus started to cry and scream for help. He thought that noone would hear him. Outside the door was a little female mouse who heared Gus-Gus scream. She went under the door and saw him sitting in the center crying. She asked him " Do you need help?" Gus-Gus without looking said yes. He wipped his face and looked up and saw the most eutiful female mouse ever. The little mouse climed up the fridge door and unlocked the swich. Th little mouse and Gus-Gus ran out of there when they heared keys slamming agianst the wooden door. From that day forword the cafe was silent and noone was around.

The Pedestrians's post (Prompt A)

I bealive that in the year of 2058 when the cop car took Mr. Bradbury to the building the building was probrably dark when he got there. I bealive that the building was more high tech when he went inside and that there were big machines that had electricity. When Mr. Brabury went inside he probrably had to sit on a chair and connect some cables in him and wear a helmet and start the electricity. after that was all done there were maby some little migets that conrolled inside and hepled him choose a wife. Maby after that he was free to go with a wife and he stayed inside his house and wont come out no more.

The Pedestrians Post

I think that the author wrote that story so we know now in 2010 can look or get sort of an idea of what the future will be like. Also maby so the world and the people in it will stay active and not watch t.v all the time. also it looks like in the future there will be better technology for example the cop car the only one around and it speaks. Also explains he fact that the modernize people that talk walk maby in the future the people will not walk anymore or the world will seem like there is no life in it any longer. I bealive that people will probrably be more lazy and not want to do anything and so the author who wrote the story is trying to signal us and tell us to be active and stay active and keep the activity going.

Prompt A. post

I bealive that in 2053 life will probably be more electronic. That there will most likley be robots in the future life that are created for peoples personal use. I am not sure if they will be used in a good way or bad way. I also bealive that people will have life even easier than it is now not to say it isn't easy already I just think the technology will get even more advanced then it is now. I also think that maby bad things will happen in the future and children will be more spoiled then this generation is.

Post on Friends poem.

The similarity was that both storys have a posetion that was important to each character in the poem and and story. The poem was based on the boy drawing a picture and the story was the yellow sheet of paper both posetions were important to them.