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Greek God presentation:

A. What are three things that you liked about the character in your novel. Be specific by giving examples. a) I liked Abhaydatta because he was kind, and when I read that story I felt like that Abhaydatta was my grandfather. He was very kind to Nisha which ANand suddenly brought to there trip, and he said nothing about it, he just said that three people are better than two. B. What were the three most important events? b) One of the most important events is when the healers give Anand the test, and Anand gets it right. Second, is when he goes with Nisha to the train station to meet Abhaydatta, but they meets Surabhanu, and he takes away Nisha and Anand minds for a minute or two. The last important thing in the story is when Nisha gets controlled by Surabhanu, and she almost hits Anand with a big rock C. In what ways are you different from the main character? Be specific. c) I am different from Anand because he is a young boy that is very brave. He thinks about his friends more than going into the Silver valley, he passes the last quiz. But, I don't know how he can betray his family and live in the Silver, but I would just stay with my family. D. List five things about the setting of the story. Silver valley, Anand's house, the crashing mountains( when Nisha gets hurt), the place where Abhaydatta was in the Silver valley, and the Silver valley. E. What do you think are three major themes (messages that the author is trying to get across) in the story? Why? e) Happiness, because when Anand's father comes, and Anand becomes a healer with the Conch. Sadness, when he was poor, and when Abhaydatta died. And being trapped, like Nisha in the soda bar. F. What are three good things you could say about this book? f) It is fun, sad, and like real life.

Thursday, June 4, 2009 ESL Quiz- Perfect Tense: 10/10

Thursday, June 4, 2009 Present Perfect Tense Quiz:10/10

Thursday, June 4, 2009 Poetry Terms:9/10

Friday, May 29, 2009 55% : poetry crossword

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Ara -Abecedarian: special form of acrostic -Abecedarian Ara's definition: Form of poetry that has the first letters of each line/verse in alphabetical order

Lina -Tercet: A poem of three lines. -It rhymes.

Kathrine -Is a argument/fighting poem that has 3 stanzas. -Like repeating lines, refrain, and telling how you feel in a specific situation.

Jessica

Jee -A ballad poem is like a story. -That is like a folk tale or legend, and can be about love.

Sun -two lines -they rhyme

Linette -Ode: A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung - ABABC rhyme thing

Francis -Tanka's is from Japan -and it was very popular in Japan

Ethan -consist 2 couplets,2 sentence poems -repeat

Cathrine -sonnet has 14 lines -each has 10 syllables

Justyn -sonnet has 14 lines -each has 10 syllables

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 SCORE FOR THE VERB TENSE QUIZ: 9/10 P.P:

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 SCORE FOR THE WORD CONFUCIANISM: 20/20

Friday May 15, 2009 __The Conch Bearer Paragraphs Chapter 1 __ Anand's father is a millionaire, well we don't know if that true now. They lived in a great big house, had lots of money, had lots of food, and was always happy. Until Anad's father had to go to Dubai to work. This was bad news for the family and Anand's father, but he promised Anand's mother that he would send money every month. The first time Anand's father sent money Anand's family had a big feast, Anand's mother bought Meera a doll with real hair, and she bought Anand a book. But this only happened for a few months, Anand's father suddenly started to stop sending money to Anand's family. Then they became poor, and they have to move into a very small house. Now Anand's mother doesn't have any money to pay for Anand and Meera. The worst thing is that Meera is sick. Later Anand meets a old strange guy, that helps him think that if you help someone else, you can feel good about it.

__Chapter 2 __ That day Anand stays late in work and he starts to worry if the markets will close. After work he runs to the market and just like he thought all the markets were closed. But he saw one small market that was still open. The market had fresh mangoes, but they were very expensive. Somehow Anand found some money in his wristband, to buy the mango, so he bought one mango, then he started to go home. When he was going home he had a feeling that someone was following him, so he stared to run, and he tripped. It was very dark and foggy that day. So, he tripped and the expensive mango fell out of his hands. Anand started to look for his mango. He looked, and looked, and looked, but nothing was there. Anand gave up and started to go home. But when Anand finally reached his house the estrange old guy that he saw the day before was there knocking on his front door. When Meera saw the strange guy she went closer to Anand. Then Anand started to make food for them, and while the food was being made, the old man told a long story.

__Chapter 3 __ There are 2 main characters in this chapter the old man, and Anand. Remember I told you in chapter 2 that the old man told Anand a story well ill tell you about that right now. The old man talks about different healers with different abilities. The old man has many feelings for the story. Anand was very very interested in the story, and when the man told him more and more things he got more and more interested in the story. And when the story ends the old man asks Anand do come with him on a journey to protect the conch. Anand really wants to go, but then he thinks of his mother and sick Meera. He says no, because he has to care for his mother and Meera. The old man does not give up his hope for Anand coming with him and tells him to talk it over with his mom.

__Chapter 4 __ That day Khichuri tasted better then before, there were a lot too. After dinner the old man said "what about some desert?" Then he pulled out the mango Anand had lost in the market, when he tripped. Anand was so surprised. Meera, Anand, and the old man ate one slice each and left one slice for mother. After that Anand asked to see the conch an the old man showed it to him. The old man said he needed to cover it first and then show it to him. When the old man took away the conch from Anand, he wanted to snatch it away from the old man and have it for himself. The old man put his hand on Meera's forehead and said that she saw something horrible. And that he could heal her, but it would take some time, and patients. Suddenly Anand's mom comes and the old man has to go out. That night Anand can not sleep, and he cries, and he does not know why.

__Chapter 5 __ Anand was having a very bad dream,until he heard someone saying "brother!" in a very cheerful way. It was Meera! It was his cheerful little sister again. Anand was amazed, he knew that the old man actually heeled Meera. Anand's mom was so happy. Anand used this prove and asked his mom again if he could go with the old man to protect the conch, and amazingly his mother said yes! Anand knocked on a door that said "ROOMING HOUSE, COMFORTABLE AND CONFIDENTIAL. YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME" but the guy that owned the place would not tell him anything, he would not even tell him, even though Anand would give him money. Then he met a 10 year old girl, she decided to help him.

__Chapter 6 __ There are exactly three character in this chapter: Anand, the 10 year old girl, and Surabhanu. Surabhanu helps Anand go through the big ticket man, and saves his life. Anand follows him, and is very thankful. Then he sees the girl that helped him go to the train station, and tells her to come. But it is like something is pulling her toward the man, she holds on to the door but that is no use. Then suddenly the nice old man changes, into Surabhanu, Abhaydatta's enemy. He starts torturing Anand and the little girl, until a boy that sells candy comes in the train and penetrates the sheath, and Anand can move his head and look. The boy saves Anand and the girls life, they get out of the train, and they start looking for the old man again.

__Chapter 7 __ The theme of this chapter is Nisha and Abhaydatta and Anand start to go on a journey to give the conch to the rightful owner. Abhaydatta makes a name for the girl which is Nisha, the night, but is very dangerous. Nisha loves the name, Abhaydatta tells Anand and Nisha to call him Dajah (grandfather). Abhaydatta says there are to many people to explain about everything, but he will tell them soon when they are alone again. Abhaydatta says that they are going to go to Pathankot, but they need t take a long course to be safe. Abhaydatta byes Nisha everything she wants at the vendors, and asks what Anand wants too. Then they fall asleep, but suddenly Anand has a feeling of being followed, so he wakes Abhaydatta up.

__Chapter 8 __ There are three main characters in this chapter, Nisha, Anand, and Abhaydatta. They stop at Koila Ganji, for the night. They decide to sleep at a inn, they stopped at a old inn that had no customers. The house keeper was very mean, but Abhaydatta said he wanted a place where the keeper was honest. But the keeper still did not believe him, he said to back off. Finally the inn keeper let them in, and said that it is safer inside then outside. He gave them a room with three beds and told them where the bathroom was. Abhaydatta asked if they could have some dinner, but the inn keeper says, he had to fire the cook, but he could cook them a small meal if they wanted. All of them were worried if Surabhanu would follow them, Abhaydatta said if he does come Nisha and Anand are the most dangerous, because he has felt there power. Abhaydatta is worried about the small window on their ceiling, that is covered up with chicken wire. Abhaydatta says that if he does come that they have to go by them self to the Silver Valley. At that night Abhaydatta gives the conch to Anand and says from now on to hold it. Abhaydatta can sense Surabhanu close and he doesn't know when he will attack.

__Chapter 9 __ Nisha wakes Anand up in the early morning, Anand sees the room, with bright sunlight flooding into it. But then he remembers the dream, well he thinks it was a dream. He remembers only some little parts, not all the details. Abhaydatta said they would eat the the station, and take an early train to Ranipur. Abhaydatta said it might be the best place to buy their warm clothes. Abhaydatta told Anand and Nisha a story about the "One eyed Deer" Nisha didn't like the story very much. It was about a one eyed deer that only looked at the forest with his one eye, because he knew a fearsome tiger lived there. The one eyed deer lived several years, but one day he got killed. This was because a hunter came on a boat, on the river, but the one eyed deer only looked at the forest, so he got killed. After Abhaydatta told them the story, he said that they should not make the same mistakes as the one eyed deer. After they bought all their stuff, they started to go to the snow line. Abhaydatta gave then a small test, and Anand and Nisha passed, but he said to believe more in their will, instead of the conch.

__Chapter 10 __ Abhaydatta says that they need to keep the fire going, and he needs to put some herbs in the fire to protect them from Surabhanu. He says that they have to take turns on keeping watch on the fire, so it does not go out. He says that Surabhanu will not be able to come inside the cave. Nisha said she would keep watch first, because she slept a lot in the train. Then Abhaydatta kept watch, and then it was Anand's turn. Abhaydatta told Anand to wash his face with cold water if he was sleepy, he did. He looked at the fire and he saw a face, his mothers face. Then he heard his mother cry for help, Anand hesitated, he knew it was Surabhanu. But, suddenly he thought it was his real mother crying for help, and he started to search for her. Then suddenly a strong wind came in and, the fire went out. He reached for the conch, and then the wind went out. He saw the light. He saw Nisha wide awake with her eyes open, and no Abhaydatta.

__Chapter 11 __ Nisha moans, Anand wants to moan too, but he knows he is in charge now because Abhaydatta is not here now. Nisha and Anand try to go and find the hidden valley. When they start to go to the hidden valley they realize that both of them forgot mostly everything that Abhaydatta told them. But, finally they find the first obstacle, the river. First, Nisha goes in. Suddenly Nisha starts screaming, she starts screaming for help! She says that something got her leg, she says it was like teeth. Anand reached out for her hand but misses, then he sees es something huge, because he couldn't know where it ended and where it started. Then he went in the water and thrust his waking stick at her, first he thought that Nisha couldn't reach it. But, she reached it and Anand pulled her on shore. Nisha was right, something had been pulling her with its teeth, there were teeth marks.

__Chapter 12 __ In this chapter their are only 5 main characters, the apes, the squirrel, Nisha, Anand, and the Conch. Nisha and Anand decide to spend the night beside the river. Then suddenly a small squirrel appears. Anand doesn't really like the squirrel, he thinks it doesn't look natural. He tells Nisha to not touch it, but Nisha is holding on to it and is calling it "Rajah." Just then a bunch of apes attack them. They take them to the ape leader, the ape leader communicated with Nisha and Anand and he wanted the treasure (conch.) The apes were looking all over Anand and Nisha to find the conch. They couldn't find it and they celebrated that Nisha and Anand were gonna be eaten. Later Rajah comes and saves Nisha and Anand's lives. Then Rajah starts to go to the river that Nisha and Anand could not go over. Rajah leads the way and they pass the river to the other side.

__Chapter 13 __ Anand and Nisha were looking for food for them to eat, there was nothing for them to eat. But Rajah found some nuts for them to eat. They saw two paths, Anand decided to go to the tight path, because it was wider, but Rajah went to the left path, they agreed with Rajah and went to the left path. When they were foing suddenly a huge rock came crashing down on them, but the rock missed them. Rajah suddenly disappear, and Anand and Nisha went looking for him. Rajah was looking at a stone which had a hand print on it. Anand put his hand on it, but it was too big. Nisha's hand fit perfectly and then Anand saw a path. When Nisha took her hand off the rock then the path would disappear. Anand decided to put snow on the path where Nisha had to step. Nisha started walking on the snow, she was almost out, but she broke her leg because a rock falling on it. Now Anand had to continue his mission alone.

Chapter 14 Anand wrapped his coat on Nisha and was trying to go, when he heard an evil voice. It was Surabhanu, in Nisha's body! Then Rajah attacked Surabhanu. Then Surabhanu was in an body shape of an snake, then suddenly Surabhanu bit Rajah, making Nisha mad. She started to not obey Surabhanu's orders. Nisha dropped the rock on the snake Surabhanu ordered her to hit Anand with. Then the sake vanished. Surabhanu changed and then started to force Anand to give him the Conch, but Anand tried to ignore him. Then the Conch was talking to him, to use him! and that it was okay, because he approved him. He took the Conch out, and then their was an explosion! And Anand dropped the Conch!

__Chapter 15 __ After Nisha was back to her normal self he asked her to come on the journey with him. But, Nisha said she couldn't, that her leg hurt too much. Anand had to finish the journey alone. Nisha asked Anand to take Rajah with him, so he gently picked him up and started to go. When he arrived he arrived he told them to open the doors, that he brought the conch. The healers did not say anything but to leave the conch and go. Anand got mad, but he had another big mission left on his hands. To save Rajah and Nisha. The healers told Anand to answer this question, " Which of these 3 virtues is the most important: Honesty, Loyalty, or compassion?" Anand only had till daybreak to answer the question. He agreed to find the answer save everyone.

__Chapter 16 __ Anand didn't know the answer. He thought what Nisha would choose, he thought that she would've choose loyalty. He also thought what Abhaydatta would choose, he thought he would choose compassion. He thought the conch would of had chosen honesty, but then he began to think that all of them were related to each other. Finally it was time, it was daybreak, and Anand still didn't have an answer ready.He says that they are all connected to each other. He gets the answer right! He thought that his companions were able to come in the valley with him, but the healers say that they can not come in. He decides to give the conch back to the healers and decides to go back time with Rajah and Nisha.

__Chapter 17 __ For three days, Anand was in the valley. He ate ripe fruits, and he explored the silver valley. On the third day he started wondering about Nisha and Abhaydatta, so he asked Govinda (an appreciate healer) if he could talk to them. Govinda said he could not, and that Nisha's leg was healed, and Abhaydatta was in human form again, but he did not talk. One night Nisha comes to Anand's room and asks to go to Abhaydatta with her, Anand says he will. They go and Abhaydatta reactes! Then they all go for lunch, all together.

__Chapter 18 __ There are 3 main characters in this chapter. The main characters are: Nisha, Abhaydatta, and Anand. Nisha was just n normal girl that was a sweeper girl. Anand was a normal boy too, before he met Abhaydatta, and went on the journey to save to conch. Abhaydatta is a healer who wants to save the conch, he Nisha and Anand go on the journey to save the conch.

__Chapter 19 __ Cause Anand decided to stay with the healers he has one last chance to meet his family. his family is very happy that he is back, and because Anand's dad is home. When he went home to the healers they had a ceremony, that the conch talked. The conch and Anand talked about the death of Surabhanu, and a lot of other things. Anand found out that the conch did not care about death that much. That it was just a thing in life. It is lunch time, and Anand says a long goodbye to the conch.

Friday, May 15, 2009 Blue the sky that is bright blue the river that has many fish the cloud that has rain in it the ocean that has big things the waves that have everything the sadness in the girl the blue cupcake that tastes like rubber blue ice cream that has chocolate blue jello that's so blue the blue jay that sings all day and night the blue butterfly which fly's all around the blue blueberry that's as fat as a pig that color can sooth a kid which has no mother

My Side of the Mountain ANSWERS May 6,2009 1# How does the main character use his inventiveness to find food and shelter in the woods? Answer: The main character is very smart (I think) for his age. This is because he looks at what the birds or animals eat and then he eats the food they eat. The main character said that he read in a book that the things animals eat humans could too. The main character find cavity in a large tree. He decides to live in the large tree, then he thinks to make the large tree more bigger by putting a fire bellow the hole.

2# Would you like to live in the woods, as the main character does in the story? Why or why not. Answer: I would not like to live in the woods, because it would be to tiring. I think it would be too difficult to find food if winter came, or if all the animals would move go away. Then I wouldn't know what to eat. I don't really want to hunt.

3# How does the author use descriptive language to help you picture the story's setting. Answer: The author uses descriptive language, because he uses many colors, an the characters feelings to e, to let us see how the picture looks like.

5 VOCABULARY WORDS Notch: A level on a scale of measurement or achievement

Inspiration: A feeling of enthusiasm you get from someone or something

Warbler: A family of birds that have a pleasant song

Sentinel: A sentry

Noose: A circular loop at the end of a piece of rope or wire

Blue song May 6,2009 the girl is sick she sings no more because she is sick she is as weak as a daisy easy to pick

the girl had no wings she could not fly without her wings she only sings alone in her room and always sings.

the girl is sad very very very sad she enough had

April 29.2009 Middle Maters The Earth was green and the sky was blue the animals flue and the monsters grew the monster the scariest of all was the monster this was a monster that was 10 ft tall and 10 ft wide who ate live bird and who at human this is the story of the monster and the earth

Poem/rhyming The Earth The Earth holds wonders of all kinds One you can't even imagine in your minds But we are destroying the world of animals cutting down all the living trees that once used to talk to each others swaying swishing sloshing

Earth: Planet, orb, universe Trees: forest, hard wood, shrub

Rosaria and Jessica's Poem LIFE Yo blow go spray rock girl soar delicate boil life o blow go spray rock girl soar delicate boil life Over hot peach head size of goddes gorgeous hain diamond bitter but live for beauty boy sad beneath love ship his black eternity through the forest.

April 14,2009/HW  __//**Define the words.**//__
 * 1st pers on point of view - expressed through the narrator, and also using, "we" or "I"
 * 3rd person point of view - greatest flexibility to the author and thus is the most commonly used narrative mode
 * alliteration - is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound
 * allusion - is an indirect reference to someone or something
 * biography - <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 굴림; line-height: 18px;">someone is an account of their life, written by someone else
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">character trait - is the direction of the libidinous
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">climax of a novel - the most exciting or the worst part of the story
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">fable - <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 굴림; line-height: 18px;">is a story which teaches a moral lesson.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">fiction - made up story
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">flashback - scene in a movie which is the past
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">foreshadowing - <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 굴림; line-height: 18px;"> an event or situation, it suggests that it will happen
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">free-verse - unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

April 14,2009/Project Number the Stars/Pages 120-139

How come Lois Lowry wrote the book Number The Stars? This is how. So she was on a vacation with a Danish friend of hers. They started to talk about their childhood, and Lois started to think in her mind how it was like for her Danish friend in World War II. Her Danish friend was very proud of her country, and their role in the War. While writing this book Lois Lowry had to research a lot of things, and she finally went to Denmark. When she was there she met some survivors from World War II. She spoke with the people who lived through the war. SHe also went to the Holocaust Museum, which is dedicated to the role Denmark played. Thats where Lois Lowry saw the shoes made out of fish skin, and from then she started to make her story.

The setting of the story is in the Johansens house. This is where all the major events come out.One of the main events in the story is that Ellen's family, the Rosens, has to relocate. Ellen comes to Annemarie's house and Annemarie's parents tells her that she will be staying at their house for a few days. The first night Annemarie and Ellen go to bed early and sleep only a few hours and is woken because of the soldiers looking for the Rosens. Mr.Johansens has to rip out three pictures of his daughters when they were really young. But in real life Lise one of the three daughters died a long time ago. So Mr. Johansens gives the pictures to the soldier and then the soldier rips the picture of Lise and goes. The background is that the Rosens and the Johansens are very good friends.

The characters are Lise, Ellen, Annemarie, Mr. Johansens, Mrs, Johansens, and Kirst. I feel sorry for Lise because she died in a car accident when she was young. Ellen is a Jewish girl which is best friends with Annemarie, I also feel sorry for her because she has to be separated from her parents. Annemarie is best friends with Ellen and, she helps Ellen take off her star necklace. Mr. and Mrs. Johansens, are very nice to Ellen and explain everything to her about how her parents are safe, etc. Kirst is Annemarie's little sister that Annemarie thinks kind of annoying. I think Mr. and Mrs. Johansens are very likable. I think this because they let Ellen come in their house and stay until Ellen's parents (the Rosens) comes back from relocating. Kirst is kind of not likable because I think she would be a very annoying little sister. I think this because when Annemarie and Ellen were playing with their dolls, Kirst came and said the dolls had to go to the ball. I think Annemarie is likable because, she is smart and kind. Ellen is likable because she is very kind. She invited Kirst and Annemarie to their New Year.

My favorite part of the story was when Annemarie pulled Ellen's star necklace from Ellen's neck. I like that part because in that part Annemarie really seemed to be a good best friend to Ellen. I think Annemarie was very brave and smart in this part of the story, because she held the star necklace in her palm until she had a star mark in her hand. It was also very smart of her to hide the necklace behind her back so the soldier could not see.

April 14,2009/Project Saving Shiloh/Pages 185-201

How did Phyllis Reynolds Naylor get the idea for the book? She got the idea from a dog named Clover. She was in a little community in Shiloh, West Virginia. She came across a stray dong that didn't even let her touch her. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor couldn't get that dog off her mind, so she did what all writers did in her situation, she started a book named Shiloh.

The setting of the story is beside and in the river. And in the house. This is where all the major events come out. One of the major events in Saving Shiloh is that Dara Lynn falls into the river where Michael tells a dead man is floating in the water. While going to the river to see the dead man David and Marty do not realize that Dara Lynn and Becky follow them. Dara Lynn goes on one of the rails beside the river and falls from there. At that exact moment Mrs. Ellison and Mr. Ellison come. Mr. Ellison rescue Dara Lynn, but when Marty think everything is ok now, the second plot starts. Marty suddenly realizes that Shiloh is gone, and he is in the river! Marty and David follow Shiloh while crying, but suddenly Marty meets Judd. Judd comes out of his car and recuse Shiloh from the river by whistling.

The characters are Shiloh, Dara Lynn, Mr and Mrs Ellison, Marty, David, and Judd. I think Shiloh seems real, because Phyllis Reynolds Naylor first got the idea of Shiloh from a real dog named Clover. Shiloh is likable, because he is cute and also brave for going in the river to save Dara Lynn. Shiloh is a dog which used to be Judd's dog. Dara Lynn doesn't really seem real because usually normal kids don't try so hard to get drowned. She is not likable, because she is very mean to Shiloh, and I hate people who are mean to animals. Dara Lynn is Marty's little sister which is very annoying. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison are likable because they are very nice. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison are the sitters Marty's mom asked to come, because she had to have someone babysit Dara Lynn, and Becky. They saved Dara Lynn from the river. They don't really seam real because I think it is very hard to save a girl from a river by himself. I don't know if David is likable or not likable. David sounds real because he cries when they cant get Shiloh out of the water. Judd is very likable because he saved Shiloh from the river. He doesn't sound that real, because you will get sweeped of your feet if you only have a rope tied to you in the river. Judd is the guy who used to be Shiloh's owner, but Marty pleaded to Judd to give his dog to him. So now Shiloh is Marty's dog. Marty is likable, because he is a very nice kid. He seems real, because he cries when they can't get Shiloh out of the river.

My favorite part of the story is when Judd saves Shiloh and Marty and Judd hug each other. This is my favorite part of the story, because Judd and Marty had a bad relationship, but because of Shiloh they hug each other. The other good thing is that Shiloh gets saved from Judd. It's good that Judd saves Shiloh, because I think if Judd haven't had saved Shiloh Marty would have cried forever.

Old Yeller/Pages 166-178

As a young boy Fred Gipson worked with his family on his parents farm in Maxon, Texas. He was born in 10908 and died in 1973. When he wrote his books he used the texas setting, for the settings. One of his most famous books were Old Yeller.

The setting is beside the river, This is where the major major event is that Little Arliss holds the baby bears foot and then the bears mom comes. At that moment, Travis and mama doesn't have any time to go. They are sure that The mama bear will go first to Little Arliss. At that moment Old Yeller come out from the bushes, and tries to distract the mama bear. Then Travis quickly takes hold of Little Arlis's wrist and flings him to mama, and tells them to go to the house. Then Travis ames for the mama bear with his ax but he misses. Finally he goes to the house himself with mama, Little Arliss, himself, and Old Yeller follows them inside the house where it is safe.

The characters are Little Arliss, Travis, mama, cub, an the mama bear. Little Arliss is not likable, because he tells really big lies. Little Arliss seams real, because most little boys put everything in there pockets. Travis is Arlis's big brother which is fourteen years old, he is in charge of all the farming, stuff that his dad did, etc. I don't know if Travis is likable or not. I think Travis is real, because he worries a lot about his little brother. I don't know if mama is likable or not because she doesn't really come out in the story. Mama and cub are both not likable because the cub called the mama bear and the mama bear came and almost killed Little Arliss.

My favorite part of the story was when Fred Gipson talked about what Little Arliss had and put in his pockets. It was realy funny.

March 31, 2009/ classwork 1 # Warm-up: Choose a topic from the Writing Gym Station #2 and write for 10-15 minutes. Grade yourself using Word Choice. It was one day when the thing came. It… I don’t know, I don’t really remember… It was when my second grade teacher left after bringing a bag. I think… the bag moved and wiggled. Oh ya, my name is Crock. So here I go! I was working in Mrs. Fuuni’s room (my second grade teacher) and suddenly my teacher came in, after lunch, and left a bag in the room and just left. We were in second grade so if we had no teacher, we would be very naughty. So we just ignored the moving bag and just played.10 min, 40 min, 1 hour, 2 hours passed but no teacher came. After 2 hours and 15 min passed we were slowly getting scared and worried. We didn’t know why our teacher wasn’t coming. Then suddenly the big brown bag started to wiggle and move and it fell on the ground! “What is that thing?!” said Roung, my friend. And suddenly everybody was quite and looking at the bag. It was a lizard! And the kids had a good idea; the same moment they saw the lizard. Guess what that was. The next day when the teacher came they put the lizard in Mrs. Fuuni’s coffee. Ha ~ha~ ha~ ha ~. I think you know what happened now. Mrs. Fuuni came in and drank her coffee, saw the lizard, took a step backward, and then tripped over her desk. And… then… she hit her head. She had to go to the hospital and get her head stitched because Mrs. Fuuni hit her head on her table. Then her class had to pay all together for Mrs. Fuuni’s stitch. Yes, that is the story of the lizard. Yes, that was the story indeed. 2# Mundane/Striking T-chart. Choose 1 word from 10 different students' writing.

1. Sunny: sparkling, beaming, clear 2. Enjoy: have fun, be entertained, have benefit 3. Original: same 4. Flabby: baggy, drooping, floppy 5. Whole: entire, complete, perfect 6. Die: pass away, stop living 7. Fly: take in the air, flee 8. World: planet, globe 9. Watch: lookout, look at, 10. Fighting: aggressive, war like, battle

March 20, 2009/ classwork I did the class work on the paper and gave it to you.

March 18, 2009 terrified elephant car Elephant car terrified Once upon a time there lived a baby elephant that was terrified of cars. Especially big cars. This elephants name was Fiddley.This was fat, huge, and anything that you could think weird. Now there is a story that everyone remembers, the accident. If you are interested about THIS story, then read the paragraph down there!

So, lets start. On a nice summer day Fiddley was eating oranges, his favorite fruit. He was an elephant that was even happy because he was eating oranges. His trainer was twenty-six years old and he was very nice to Fiddley. But, one day someone called Frong (trainer) and he had to go home to meet the person. Frong told his boss, but.. his boss said "NO!!", Frong was confused. His boss was a nice person, and he was friends with him too. But... why NO????? Frong got a good idea. He would bring Fiddley to his house leave him in his yard and just bring him back to the zoo when he was finished talking to the people. SO, he pulled Fidddley out of his cage and tried to put him is his truck. Fiddley was very scared, he had never been out of his cage before. He didn't want to go, but he was being pulled by his trainor, he couldn't do anything In a moment he was outside the zoo and he was being forced to go in Frong's truck. After five minutes, he was in Frongs car. Argggg~! Fiddley didn't like this at all. Fiddley was saying, "I hate cars~, i hate trucks~, i hate everything out of the zoo, I want to go home!!!!" After ten minutes, Fiddley was screeming at the top of his lungs. Frong was too worried that he didn't evn hear Fiddley screaming. Finally they were close to Frong's house. Close! Close! Close! Close! when "Brahhhgggggrafd" Fiddley went and threw up in Frong's truck. Frong finally realized that Fiddley was terrifed of the truck. He was shivering, trembling, chattering his teeth, and he was screeming. They arrived at Frong's house but he now knew that he had to bring Fiddlet back to the zoo, where he belonged. But without the car. In ten minutes, Frong was riding on Fiddley's back and going back to the zoo. Frong's boss saw that and admediatly fired him. This is teh end of the story. Bye!

March 13, 2009 Habibi pages 265-271/journal I was up and everybody was sleeping, I lit a candle and started to write about people's opinions of growing up, and I asked my self... would all the things be simple? Sitti was getting to like Omer more and more (by the way is good!) she even wanted to travel with him to the Sea of Galilly. We went there with Poppy, mom, Sitti, Omer, Rafic, and me. We all ordered the same things Disciple's special, it had fish, lemons, and more. Before we ate Sitti took a little nibble of the food, then Poppy did but he said it wasn't that delicious.

March 12. 2009 Habibi pages 255-264/journal When Omer came over to Sitti's house no one was that interested in him, they just knew him as a friend that came over. For the whole day they ate, ate, and ate. Finally I got some ALONE time with Omer. Before I asked Omer when his dad died he said he was 5 five when he died. Poppy drived everyone home and said that he would also drive Omer home becasue it was late.

March 11, 2009 Habibi pages 244-254/journal You know I today I asked Poppy a question, I asked him if we were ever going back home to St. Louis. I said I was sometimes really homesick, but then I thought about it, what I missed, I didn't miss anything. Rafic told everyone that he was not homesick like moi~ and he was getting better at Arabic than me, he said that he was better at Arabic than me because he wasn't afraid of making mistakes. Poppy was in a great mood because his patients were going to move into better rooms. Then he said that it might be good time to time to bring Omer...., I am soooo happy!!!

March 10, 2009 Habibi pages 233-243/ journal Oh my gosh I think birthdays are bad luck, it was Khaled birthday today and he had to stay in the hospital all day. But! but, but!!! Poppy came out of jail! After Poppy came out of jail Poppy was weird, we asked him what he was thinking about and he told us that he was thinking about all the other people in jail too. He said he was going to tell the government to tell the government that a normal citizen can do a lot of things too. Then finally Poppy and my mom found out that I love Omer, and I asked them if he could come over.... but Poppy wasn't happy with this.

March 09, Tuesday Little Red Riding Hooks..... Food that we cant eat, because of pollution of the Earth

1. Food that we can't eat. 2. The food had poison in them and they were all because of pollution 3. Why are there food that we cannot eat? 4. 5. Why are there food on the Earth that we cannot eat? Yes, this is all because of pollution. 6. These are things kind of things people do. 7. You might be surprised that most 50% of the food are foods that we cannot eat. 8. Factories, cars, and buses all make pollution.

Habibi P. 222-232 Journal Today I bought a American women's magazine that was two months old to surprise mom. When Omer called me and told me some terrible news. Khaled had been shot, Poppy was in jail, and mom was in the police man's police car!!!. I went to see Poppy and he told me everything, he said I shouldn't tell Sitti. Me and Rafic went to Nadnine for help but she didn't help at all, she had the worst grammer I ever heard in my life.

If you were principal, how would you change the rules of the school? List your new rules on your WIKI page using 5 vocabulary words from Habibi. <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">. no homework . each class is only 20 min .<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> every kid can ride the elevator whenever they want to <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> .<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> going on field trips 5 times a month, that are overnight trips <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> .<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> school starting at 11:00, and ending at 2:00 <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> .<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> no tests, quizzes, or projects <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> .<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> no edline <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> .<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> no grading

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Some people think about how the Earth would be in 100 years. These are the main things that the people will/would think about. Stuff like electronics, like flying cars, flying trash cans, and flying roads. Also, a very big cover to protect our country. Last about food that we cant eat, because of pollution of the Earth.======

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Stuff like electronics are stuff that get better and better every year. Just like the touch phones, and the games. If this, making electronics goes on for 100 years, guess what will happen. I think that we would have flying cars that we could ride on. We then wouldn't need to ride airplanes because we would have flying cars. If we have flying cars we should have floating roads right? We would only need to go on the roads, just like now. I think the people after 100 years would have a personal flying garbage can. We would have a remote control thing, so that when we needed to throw away our garbage away we would just click one button and then our own garbage cans would come to us.======

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Isn't protecting our country a good idea? But how??? This is how. In a 100 years we would have a plastic or metal thing that could protect us. This, would protect us from falling planes from the sky, bad weather, and hurricanes. This would really help us because lots of people die from hurricanes and bad weather. This would also be good for falling planes because the plastic protection cover would let the plane on falling it and the people would not die, in the plane.======

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Last but not least is about food. Lots of parents worry about what their child is eating, fast food or slow food. But after 100 years, I think all the food would be fast food, or your kids would have nothing to eat. I say this because when we pollute the Earth we pollute the water, land, and just everything. If we do pollute these things all the animals would die on the land, and finally we would not be able to eat meat. If we pollute the water all the fish would die and we would not even be able to eat fish. If we can't eat fish and meat, what would we get our calories and proteins from??? We would only be able to take pills for energy.======

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These are my opinions for how the world would look like in 100 years. There are good and bad stuff that will happen in 100 years. I wonder what the world will actually look like in 100 years. Try~. You try too.======

Tuesday, March 3 Habbi HW P.178-208 Five Vocabulary and Five Questions Vocabulary> kaffiyeh: a hat that Arab people where When I went to Arab the people wore wierd hat like things that were called kaffiyeh fundamentalism: is the belief in the original form of a religion or theory, without accepting any later ideas I don't have a religion I believe, but my grandma has a religion that she believes in that is fundamentalism. denomination: is a particular religious group which has slightly different beliefs from other groups within the same faith My whole family is religious but we are all denomination. measles: is an infectious illness that gives you a high temperature and red spots on your skin. I got the measles from my brother witch got them because he didn't wash his hands well. antique: is an old object such as a piece of china or furniture which is valuable because of its beauty or rarity. The old painting on my bedroom wall is very antique. Questions> Did the Abbouds believe in the devil? Yes, or no, tell why. Why did Liyana feel gloomy? What did Liyana hope Omer could do?

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First Liyana and Omer talk about the religion of Abboud, and then it says that Poppy knew he had a kernal truth thing, like people not eating beef/cows and stuff. When Liyana and Rafik was younger their mother always took then to different religion places to study about them but they never actually became a a part of the religion. The soldiers came to Sitti's house and wanted to see Mahmud, but Mahmud was not home so the soldiers smashed the toiled, cracked her favorite plate, smashed everything, Poppy thinks they did this because he can read and reading could be dangerous. Omer says he likes Liyana and they kiss. Poppy, Rafic, and two of Liyana's friends go to the Dead Sea, but they stop by Bedouins.======

Wednesday, February 25 Writing Gym Exercise
Power Point: <span style="color: rgb(0, 34, 228);">[|Rosaria Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.ppt]

Wednesday, February 25 Writing Gym Exercise 1. Write about what you think the world would look like in 100 years.
====I think that that the World would change a lot. I think we would only use electronics for our life. We would use cars that flew in the air, and are charged with electricity just like phones and everything. We would have roads that would float in the air with flying cars. We would also have flying garbage cans to throw our garbage in. We would call our garbage can and then throw out garbage inside. And not pollute the Earth/world.==== = =

====We would also have a invisible plastic had thing that covers your country, city, etc. I think if we did that we could protect our country, city, etc. We could protect our selfs from meteorites and crashing planes. I also think that in 100 years the world would make a travel guide for going up to the moon and traveling there. Then there would be swimming pools with floating water to swim in. We would be able to swim in air. Fly in air, do anything in the air. Like ..... um.... to float. I also think that the world would be very polluted and dirty. Lots of people would just throw away their garbage anywherewould want to, and they would just throw the garbage away into the ocean. This would kill all the fish, whales, etc. Then if all the fish, etc. die, we wouldn't be able to eat anything from the ocean. And if the meat got bad like the fish then we wouldn't even be able to eat meat ethier. So, we would have nothing to eat. We would only be able to eat veggies/vegetables.====