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Antithesis: A phrase that means a completely different thing. "Slick move Annabelle."
Tanks: A japaneses poem that consists five units. It has ben the most famous form in japan for about 1300 years.

A Quatrain is a stanza of poetry that consists of four lines.
It appears in poems from ancient civilization such as Ancient Greece and Rome. The B.O.P The Bop is a recent invention. THe bop is a form of poetic argument consisting of three stanzas. Each stanzas is followed by a repeated line or refrain. Ballads Narrative story + music sometimes about a person or thing

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 21) 5/26/09
====As Shiva starts her second or third, performance in public. THe air is thick with promises of rain. Parvarti's heart is heavy because she realizes that it gives her less chance of finding the jewlery. Just then, a huge monsoon arrives and there is commotion everywhere. HOwever, with Rama's help she finds the necklace with the police. They find out that her jewlery was guarded by the wild monkeys and other valuable possesions were found. When the monsoon subsides, the audiences return from the hectic commotion and everyone is reseated. The musicians are arranged and Parvarti makes her way on stage. She asks permission from the gods if she can strike the eart with her feet. And when she starts to dance, she hears Shiva's voice telling her that she is the magic of possibilities.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 20) 5/26/09
====As Parvarti is talking to Rama, suddenly an alarm bell rings. PArvarti and Rama spring into action and she throws off her clothes and shoves them into the closet with Rama flying into it and dissapearing. Just then, Kalapana arrives and points to the room====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 19) 5/26/09
====Parvarti soon becomes worried about how long her friendship will last with Rama. Because, she has to chose either him or her music and dancing. Later in the evening, she kind of forgets all her concerns and attends a banquet. She dresses with all these fancy jewlery and expensive clothes and meats Rama, the Raja, ad other important people. Rama is surprised to see her because she is beeutiful in the dress. She dances once again and sets Rama into tears.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 18) 5/26/09
====Parvarti thinks about the gifts that they, meaning Rama and herself, recieved. How people cannot see the Rama when he doesn't want to be seen. Later in the evening, after she recieves her private lessons, Rama comes once again, through here closet and she wears her costumes and jewlery to show him how well she can dance. Rama takes her to a midnight tour around the palace. and they fall in love... She also learns to dance with heavier jewlry and silky light clothes. (She shopped for them earlier with Kalamana.) She also practices with famous musicians all around from different parts of India.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 17) 5/26/09
====Parvarti and Rama meet again and they exchange stories about how they were born on the same day and how they had both destructive powers. Of how they created the terrible cyclone and how Rama made the children near him sick and die. They exchange stories of how they remember every single detailed memory of when they were first born. Rama tells her about being caged and how he can come and go through her closet and back in the castle without being detected. They talk about how the Raja is respected because he improved schools, helped the people in need (cyclone, droughts etc....), and made fat, heavy, donations to improve and make temples in honor of the gods.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 16) 5/26/09
====Parvarti leaves her family and arrives at an arched cupola that covered the main entrance. The Maharani and her daughters, Mira and Gita, show her to her room. She takes private lessons from the Gruku. THere are rich ornaments in the castle and Parvarti is shocked because she has never seen such riches in her life. The walls of her room were pale purple. She bonds a special friendship with Rama. He visits throuh her closet and he tells her a story about Parvarti's father. About the time when her father saved Rama's father from an elephant attack. Because, the elephant was on loose and he charged at Rama's father. However, when Parvarti's dad comes up and sprays sand on him, he calms down. Ever since, the Raja rides the elephant on ceremonies every year.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 15) 5/26/09
====Parvarti and Sumitri go to the bazaar everyday to deliver vegetables from Meenakshi's garden for the grocer to sell and to buy supplies. However, one day, when Sumitri suddenly faints and feels ill, Parvarti goes to the bazaar unacompanied. She learns that Sumitri's favourite fruit are pineapples because, she begs Parvarti to buy her pineapples more than anything else. Sumitri eats her pineapples when Parvarti gives them to her. So, the next day, she goes to the bazaar to buy pineapples again. However, in the afternoon, while she is washing clothes, she finds a curious fisherman. Suddenly, she notices his familiar face. And finds out that he is the son of the Raja. One day, while she is walking through the bazaar she notices a familiar face... Nalini.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 14) 5/26/09
====Parvarti is going to perform and she is happy to meet her family. When she returns home, her mother is however, small and wrinkled. Her relatives are all handsome/pretty and grown. She is no longer shunned as she was, like when she was a little gir, but respected and looked upon wonder now that the news that PArvarti was a famous dancer. When she looks at her hometown, there are farms and houses built and everything looks so much better ever since she left the cyclone disaster. She meets Hher brother's wife for the first time. She is called Sumitrat and she is an excellent cooker and makes her coffee but she is unable to drink it as professional dancers are forbidden to. However the only person that doesn't speak to her is her aunt. Her aunt hates her as ever as if she was the blame of everything that happened.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 13) 5/26/09
====Parvarti was lost in studying and dancing. Without her friend, she was alone, but to her, being alone felt familiar. However, people tease her and call her "monkey girl" or "bird girl" because her only companions were the jungle animals. Parvarti was ever devoted to music that every single second felt like an eternity to her when she didn't dance. The day of her revision, she went to the Guru and for the first tiem he did not call her "child." The Guru tells Parvarti that she will start "real dancing" and that she is to be trained by the Guru. She also recieves a letter from Venkat saying that she is getting married after the monsoon. Later, she first performs infront of public! The Rajha sees it and he asks her to perform for his birthday.====

Shiva's Fire- (Chapter 12) 5/26/09
====In the following weeks, the story about the outlaws and the bandits spread far and wide. People were cautioned to stay and stick together while going anywhere. After all the hecticness fades away and people start to forget the outlaws and bandits, the bandits suddenly, surprisingly, appears in the Guruklam and takes away Nalini. He hoists her up and takes her away. Nalini's family is informed and her room was untouched. After the incident, everyone is mush stricter about the rules and anyone that breaks a little bit of the rules, they would be sent home.====

Character...
====Nalini and Parvati visits often at night because they form a special "friendship bond." They mostly talked about their families. Parvarti soon learnt that Nalini's father was a buisness man, a shopkeeper with seven childeren, who lived in a small flat in a gray building in the city of Bombay. Nalini was the third of four girls, who had slept together on straw mats on the floor of the cramped living room as they grew up. Both her elder sisters were married. Parvarti especially likes Nalini because she doesn't tease her when Parvarti tells her that she can remember from the day she was born. One day, however, Nalini tells Parvarti she is in love. Later, though, she finds out that she was in love with an outlaw, a robber, a bad guy.====

Character... (Chapter Ten)
====By this time, Parvarti could speak fluently in Tami. She did most of her chores perfectly but did some things clumsily when she thought about her family. Everytime she did this, Indria got mad at her. However, on one unfortunate night, Parvarti found Kamala on her bed saying that she couldn't sleep well. Parvarti replied that she never slept well as an infant. She soon told her that she remembered everything as an infant. Kamala said that such things was impossible. The next day, however, Parvarti found Kamala and Rukmani giggling and whispering loudly so that Parvarti could hear; They said that if you could remember your past, you were being possessed. Soon, people started to avoid her and ignore her. Six months after, however, things got a bit better because she got a letter from her family saying that things were much better with the money they were getting.====

Plot... (Chapter Nine)
====When they arrived, they were warmly welcomed by an Indian lady. She introduces them to four girls: Kamala, Rukmani, Nalini, and Uma. They are all from different places. For example, Rukmani is from Bangalore a nd that Kamala was from Hyderabad. However, the girls do not really welcome them as warmly as the lady did. As Parvarti unravel her packet that her mother packed for her, she takes out her statue of Shiva. As Parvarti sais good bye to her mother, she eats her food. As she finished and washed her plates, the bell suddenly rang. Parvarti looked around to see what the bell was all about. Then, one of ther girls told her that if the bell rang, they had to stop everything becasue the sound of the bell was a signal that class was going to start.====

Plot... (Chapter Eight)
====When Sathya arrives, Meenakshi tells him of the news about the offer for dancing. They discuss it for a long time, but in the end, Shiva agress to leacve. Meenakshi and Parvarti pack their stuff. Their uncle dropps them off to the train station. As they ride, they see wonderful markets. Later on however, they sleep through most of the ride. When they arrive, they go to meet the master of the dancer.====

Plot.... (Chapter seven)
====Soon, the story of Parvarti dancing in the fire spreads. She is soon the center of the attention and people stare at her a lot of times. People soon starts to accept her in social life and starts to go warm on her. One day, when Meenakshi asks her sons and cousins to gather firewood, this large cobra comes up to them and scares away all her brothers and cousins. however, Parvarti stares at the cobra and as she dances, the cobra sways along with her. When her brothers and cousins come back with help, she is caught dancing with the snake. However, as she stops, the cobra slithers away and leaves them in peace. The brothers soon gather fire wood and go home. However, one day a master for dancing hears about her talent and offers her a place to learn to dance.====

Character... (Chapter Six)
====Everyone starts to become healthy and starts getting back buisness. Everyone is in good health, including Parvarti. However, children are not allowed to play with her and the village boys and her cousins tease her. However, she does not mind much because she entertains herself by dancing. Her mother was the only one that cared for her a lot and comforted her. However, she does not mind very much as she is working most of the time. One day, when the family attends this festival, Parvarti sees a fire in the middle of all the commotion and wonderful music. Somehow, her inner instinct urges her to dance. Her mother is panicing when she cannot find Parvarti. When Parvarti jumps into the fire an starts dancing, however, her mother finds her and grabbs her out of the fire. However, Meenakshi is surprised to see that she is not burnt.====

Plot.... (Chapter Five)
====The tigers are desperate than ever and they creep closer. Everyone is afraid to sleep in fear of a tiger attack. One night, a tigress awaits outside a hut. Fear of tigers drove the villagers into a state of panic and desperation. Because, of this Mharaja askes permission to hunt down the children-eating tigers. The Raja orders, however, only the most necessary preparations to be made for his guests. Soon they go on a hunt for the tiger on elephants. A tiger was killed however, there were no feasts, dancing, or music. However, one day someone throws mud on Meenakshi and calls her a witch. But after a few months, for two years after that month, there are good crops enough to feed everyone.====

Setting... (Chapter Four)
====This chapter, is once again, more about the theme. The food storage is growing short and more people are dying away. There are only the foul acrid smell of corpses, cows, goats, dogs, chickens and monkeys that drowned in the flood. However, as the sun suddenly rises, the villagers soon gather mud and wet soil to make houses. But yet again, the monsoon comes again and melts the houses. Parvarti's aunt sais many bad things about Meenakshi and Parvarti. Auntie kept being mean to Meenakshi and never helping or caring except doing her share of duty. There was no food, fresh fruits, vegetables, salt sugar, and no spices of any kind. however, as grass starts to grow animals prey on the weak and children are being eaten.====

Theme.... (Chapter Three)
====This chapter, starts to introduce a bit of the theme in Chapter three. Everyone is feeling devastated and broken because of the rain. The villager's possessions were washed down with the rain and dead bodies float. The survivors are making way to land and if not, they will meet a fatal death and get washed down the rain as well. All of the village is ruined and the huts are in pieces. There is nothing to eat and there are no animals. Everyone is mourning and Parvarti's mother is mourning for the loss of her husband, and has not talked ever since except to weep. The theme is also very sad and desolate because Parvarti describes that for the first few days of her life, she has known and heard nothing except her mother's weeping.====

Setting... (Chapter Two)
====The second chapter of this book, once again, is vague with the details of the characters. It talks mostly about the setting: It is the monsoon season but it is not the usual light pleasant rain. Instead, a huge downpour of rain unexpectedly arrives. Exactly, at the time when the baby arrives. The baby has a penetrating and intense gaze. The infant is described as beautiful, with a full head of softly curling dark hair and a deep cleft in her delicate chin. While Meenakshi is inspecting the baby, the sky turns into a bruised purple color. Back at the village, however, the father that is taking care of the elephant, meets a tragic event: His elephants start to panic as the storm comes in and he is trod by the elephants.====

Setting... (Chapter One)
====The first chapter of this books is a flashback memory of Pavarti's mother, Meenakshi retelling the story of when the time she is expecting her baby and the unusual things that came with her baby. The story takes place in India during the Sultan's son's feast. It is on a summer day, when the monsoon is expected to arrive. Meenakshi and her family/villagers, live in a country-side-ish place in India where there are a lot of Elephants and monkeys, and where tigers are scarce. However, the monsoon brought ill luck, which led to the cause of Pavarti's father's death. There is a huge flood as there never was before and millions of people died.====

**Classwork Monday, May 11th**
==== 1. Using the rubric, look at haiku poems from 2 students of the opposite gender. Evaluate them on word choice and voice. Copy and paste their haiku on your wiki. Include the grade, evidence (see hand-out) and an example of the evidence from their poem. Let them know that you evaluated their haiku. ====

Response to Poetry on Race- 4/28/09
====I think that the poetry on race was very touching. Because it tells the audience that segregation and race should come to an end. I am a huge supporter of civil rights and do not like to think that right now, in the 21st CENTURY, we are still having problems when there are so much other things, such as test, money, friends, global warming etc.. to worry about.====

3. His behavior at wedding shows that he is very compassionate towards love and values it as an essential part in life.
====4. I think his behavior was half and half justified because I half think his actions were justified because he married whom he loved, and another half of me doesn't think his actions were justified because he marries a woman that is already arranged to get married.====

__Two Kinds__
====People are not made of only blood, muscles, or bones. But of many other things that build up our character and personality. Maybe, some of you, like Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” have a variety of personalities. In a short sentence, “Two Kinds” is a story about believing and not being forced to do something you don’t want to do. After all, you have your own human rights. Do you not?==== ====Perhaps you have parents that put a lot of pressure on you? Like they make you read a whole list of books, solve math equations all the time, and blabber on and on about graduating in any of the top ten colleges? In my case, my parents work me hard, and they have numerously sent me to summer camps in England to study literature, and hopefully become a professor in Oxford University. I guess I could understand partially of how the main character feels. She cannot say “no” to her parents because she is afraid that she will “bring down the family honor.” She is afraid to see the disappointment of how her mother would react if she said anything about not wanting to become an accomplished person.==== ====Basically, the plot of this story was when the main refuses to not play the piano (I, personally, agree, because the very same thing happened to me). She doesn’t want to play the piano because, she ruined her previous talent show and the embarrassment stained her memories. However, her mom breaks her rage into depression when her mother says that disobedient daughters will disgrace the “family honor.”==== ====A comparison and contrast between her mother and the main character is that the main character’s mother has an arrogant greed for her child’s success. She forces her to do things that she doesn’t even want to do. For instance, playing the piano.==== ====This beautiful story is about how the main character realizes that if she never follows what she wants to do, she will never find peace. It tells us that you can never be perfectly contented until you do the duty to your heart.====

__7th Grade__
====“7th Grade,” by Gary Soto is a story about a boy named Victor that starts on his first day, at 7th grade. Like everyone else that will, or has gone or goes, or is going to 7th grade, will probably, sometime in his or her life, go to seventh grade. As a seventh grader, however, I guess I could partially understand how Victor feels.==== ====When I started 7th grade, I can tell you this much: It wasn’t easy. I was anxious and excited at the same time. Every step I took and every time the school bus approached the school I was squirming inside. I was eager to my schedule and have same schedules with best friends. However, I guess Victor wanted to be with someone else.... A girl he had a crush on. I probably wouldn’t totally understand him because; I never really had a boy I liked. However, I had friends that liked tons of boys, so I guess I could put a bit of explanation: Just like Victor, I had a friend named Lorraine that liked this boy named Josh. She did everything just to make him notice her and she tried hard to impress her. She was absolutely crazy about him, and sometimes did foolish things to impress him.==== ====Basically, the plot of this story is about Victor trying to impress this girl named, Teresa. He does everything to have a chance to talk to her and he even changes and chooses the same electives Teresa does. In the end, however, he finally gets close to her after trying a foolish attempt to impress Teresa by speaking French. Although he just says a few made up words, he fools his classmate, and Teresa. Teresa then asks him if he can teach her to speak French. He finally reaches his goal, and he gets closer to Teresa.==== ====Although the third paragraph is supposed to be about a comparison of the protagonists, and the antagonists of the story, there isn’t really a “good guy” or a “bad guy,” in this story. However, comparing Victor and his best friend Michael, I would say that Victor speaks a more proper standardized English, while Michael speaks in slang, and uses improper words, such as “ain’t.”==== ====An explanation to symbolism is that you can do anything if you try and reach your goal. Like Victor, who tried and attempted to make Teresa “his girl” she finally becomes “his girl” after many attempts and efforts Victor tried to make to have Teresa notice him.====

__The Hummingbird that Lived__
====The story of “The Hummingbird that Lived” is by William Saroyan. In a brief introduction, it is about a little hummingbird that is about to die on an old man’s palm, until the little boy and the old man together, feed it honey and then, it flies away into the winter. It is a touching story to all people, even though not all people like birds.==== ====If I relate this story to a real experience of my life, I remember the time when my grandfather, a nature lover, walked in the mountains, and came back with a hurt squirrel. We tended it and put bandages on its hurt paw. We fed it nuts and treats that squirrels like to eat. When it was well, my grandfather took it back to the same place he found it. A week later, my grandfather and I walked in the mountains. When we came back and opened our bags, the same squirrel was in our bag. We all knew it was the same squirrel because it had a piece of bandage stuck on it. We took the bit of bandage off, and it ran out to the garden, and scampered back to the direction of the woods.==== ====The basic plot of this story was about a hummingbird, weak and lifeless in the bitter cold. Until a blind man finds it on his palm and a little boy save it’s life. The old man blows warm air on the hummingbird and the boy warms up honey. With the savoring smell and the supplement of the warmth of the fire, the hummingbird lives and as soon as he feels life in his veins, he flies out of the window, and disappears.==== ====A comparison of characters is the old man and the boy. Because of the age difference and disabilities. Because, there is a huge difference of age between the little boy and the 80 (or older) year old man. There is also a difference because the old man is blind while the little boy is not.====

__The Luckiest Time of All__
====“The Luckiest Time of All” is about an a little girl’s great grandmother talking about how she first met her husband and how lucky she was to have been at the right time and the right place to meet her husband.==== ====Although I do not have any similar experience to the story, as I am not married, but I think I have one, which is obviously not my experience, but my grandmother’s. My grandmother and grandfather first met in Jeju Island. They must’ve had the same mind to visit the beach in Jeju Island, because they went on the same date and arrived at the same time. My grandmother was cooling her feet on the lake when her hat she was wearing, flew off into the ocean. A man, my grandfather, seeing this, jumped in and retrieved the hat and gave it back to her. Then BANG it was love at first sight.==== ====The basic plot of this story is that part where Tee’s great grandmother goes to a circus, and sees a dancing dog. As the grandmother gets excited, she throws pennies, and then, without knowing, she throws in her lucky stone on the dog’s nose. When the dog runs from shock and pain, she runs around, in attempt to catch and save the poor dog. As she is chasing the hurt dog, a man, her husband, comes to the rescue and catches the dog, and tends to the dog. The plot is also when he follows her and her friend for safety, when their eyes meet and fall in love.==== ====A comparison between two characters is the great grandmother and the little child, Tee. Because, there is a huge age difference as Tee is a little girl and the old lady is her GREAT grandmother. Another comparison is that the great grandmother is obviously married and the girl is not.====

__A Boy and a Man__
====To introduce this story, the title is called “A Boy and a Man.” J R Ullman wrote this story and it is about a boy rescuing a man in a cold mountain. The man falls into this whole and the boy rescues the man by tying his clothes in a knot, like a rope.==== ====To relate my experience with this story, I remember the time when my dad, my mom, my sister, and I were climbing a huge mountain, somewhere in Hong Kong. It suddenly rained because we did not expect the rain to come because we watched the weather forecast for signs of rain. My sister slipped off a rock and was holding on to this (thank goodness) sturdy branch. My mother was in hysterics and I was frozen. My dad seemed the only one with the right senses, but I could see he was afraid too. Eventually, everyone pulled off our jackets like Rubid did to help the man. We hung it down for my sister to catch. We saved her life.==== ====The basic plot of this story is when the boy is walking up the mountains, and finds out about a man stuck in a crevasse. He does his best to save the man. The little boy eventually strips off and ties his clothes, each knotting together, and forming a rope-like string and hangs it down for the man to catch. The boy heaves and heaves and pulls the rope. Almost when he is about to slip, he puts his last efforts and saves the man. When the man is saved, and he climbs out of the crevasse, he becomes surprised to find that the person, who saved his life, was a boy.==== ====A comparison between the characters is the boy and the man. The first reason is because of their age difference. Secondly, they are in different situations: The man is stuck in a crevasse, facing certain death while the boy is happily and safely walking up a mountain. Another difference is how they feeling at that situation: The man is feeling calm even though he is about to die, while the boy is in panic.==== ====An explanation to the symbolism of the story is that “little friends make big friends.” You should never underestimate a thing or a person by their size. Just like Aesop’s story with the lion and the mouse. Even though the boy must have been young, judging by the surprise of when the man said, “you’re only a boy!” He regardless of his size saved the poor man.====

with wings.
====I stretched widely like a stretchable rubber band and sighed in content. It was Saturday, early in the morning. I know, most kids sleep in, but I was an early bird. As I laid on my bed, smelling bad morning breathe, thinking of how I really needed to brush my teeth, somewhere on the back of my back ached. I couldn't tell where it was aching, as if the ache was coming from an unclassified body part. I felt around my back and ran over my fingers with something soft, like..... solid fluffy clouds. Clearly this wasn't my blankets because, my mother made sure that my blankets were starched to prevent maggots taking over my sheets... I stood up and the back of my back felt oddly disjointed and twisted. I went to my mirror and investigated. What I saw paralyzed me, all the way to the tip of my..... WINGS!==== ====My jaw dropped dead as I stared at the mirror and ran my fingers over my wings. I slapped my forehead repeatedly to make sure I wasn't going mental, but no matter how many times I slapped my head, I KNEW they were wings! After a while I got into my senses and really decided to brush my teeth. Yes I know.... most people try out their wings when they have one, but I was sort of the lame type and besides.... If I started something, I wanted to start fresh and clean :) After being fully flossed and washed, I went out to my veranda and commanded my wings to flap. Dawn was approaching and there was a faint pink colored sky over the horizon: Fresh clean breeze ruffled my hair and I decided to fly! My feet took off and I was flying with butterflies and birds and having the time of my life! I flew down to my sister's bedroom and saw that she was still snoring. Suddenly, a gust of wind picked up and I was forced down to the ground. I woke with a start.... I was on my hard starched bedroom... a dream... merely a dream... :( However, as I woke up, something from the ceiling floated down... I caught it before it touched the ground, and in my hands... there was a piece of white, fluffy feather.====

Three Grocery lists!!!!!- March 20th
====**Ice Cream**- More than anything in the world, people want solid creamy ice-creams on a hot blistering day. I personally, at weathers such as hot summers want something..... like... ICE CREAM!!! The cool creamy block cooling your temperature and freezing your tongue after a long time under the blazing sun, to cool your stick sweat-filled body.==== ====**Cookie**- You finished everything... you studied for your test, finished homework due a month later, and you studied for exams in a month at advance.. you played with your hearts content, annoyed your siblings/pets and you have absolutely nothing to do! For people, such as these people, a nice cookie could add a cherry on top and after a long, hard, laborious work you feel you deserve a little something. If you've got nothing else.. eat a cookie! YAY!!==== ====**Cupcake**- You've had a wonderful dinner-buffet but you have this little space in your belly... you have to fill up that little space so that it reaches the level of satisfactions... you ponder in what to eat to fill up that little space.. you search in the desert corner... it's filed with cakes... but cakes are too big and it's too much to fill the little space.. you ponder and you suddenly slap your forehead, because the answer is right there! A CUPCAKE!!!====

Evidence- This student talked without much voice, and it is hard to decipher their personality through this monotonous writing. It sounds very much like a boring "know-it--all robot talking to you."
====Examples- At birth, a wolf pup weighs one pound. At three weeks, pups start to eat meat. Each spring, wolves have six to fourteen pups, which are born in dens. A den can be a cave, the hollow trunk of a tree, a hole that the mother dug, or a thicket.====

Voice- I would give a 5/5
====Evidence- This student really put her feelings in her writing, and it made me actually feel sorry for her even though I have no idea in who she is. However, she described her feelings as having an anorexic disorder and it made me feel sorry for her.==== ====Examples-I appreciated their concern, but they never took the time to find out who I was as a person. They knew me only as an anorexic. My friends cared about my health, but they failed to care about me. Truthfully, all I wanted was for them to love me for me and not to obsess over my shortcomings.====

Evidence- This student would've made me cry if I was seriously emotional. She talked about her sorrow after her grandpa died and how she wanted him to see her baby brother before her grandpa died.
====Examples- Then he had to go back to the hospital for surgery. He stayed there for a while. When he went back home, we went to his house. When we got there, my grandpa was lying on the couch. A couple of hours later, he died. I was scared, but I was only three years old. I was glad that I could see him and say good-bye. My grandpa died August 27, 1994.====

Evidence: Sounds... rather dumb. He seems to not realize the difference between he/ she.
====Example: The man said that the princess should go to a grocery store and do some shopping and see how normal people live. So **he** did. **He** was surprised. There were so many people with different clothes with **him**. Also **he** thought people was so ugly compared to **himself.**====

**- A jealous mom in a mall.**
===="SALE!!! BIG SALE!!" The excited moms and ladies pushed aside people and rushed to the man shouting, "SALE!!! SALE!! BIG SALE!! DON'T MISS THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY OF A SALE IN CHANEL, DIOR, BOBBI BROWN, PRADA, BURBERRY AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!" At this, there was a great roar of hysteria and moms and ladies were running like there was a lion on loose. In the distance you could see ladies fighting over clothes, accessories, jewelry and make up. They were tearing at each others hair and screaming "I WANT THOSE PRADA SHOES!!!"==== ====Mall managers and staff had to separate several ladies that were going completely crazy. A great deal of commotion took place and several people were injured. Later in the day, when a particular mom went back home, their children was horrified to find that she was covered in bruises and cuts, her hair teared off, carrying many shopping bags that contained valuable items: Diamond rings, a pair of pure gold high heels, expensive shirts, twenty pairs of stylish jeans and much valuable stuff that would've costed a fortune. Apparently there was a look of jealousy even though she was already holding such riches. She exclaimed grimly, " I have failed to retrieve my favorite pair of stockings and pear earrings... Maybe next time when there is another sale....====

Date: March 12th
====Everyone has a different idea of annoyance. There are three main reasons to why I can get annoyed. Firstly, I get really annoyed when people act **stupor** and not pay attention to what I say, especially if I have to say something important and serious. I also get doubly annoyed if people also act stupor and also not talk **amiably** for a change. Secondly, I can get annoyed if people are always **somber** and always look to negative things, because we could each do with some positivity especially after we’ve went through hard times. I also get triply annoyed if people say snide and **cynical** comments about my friends or family. Lastly, people who tease **rotund** people also annoy me because it’s not like they really want to be fat and it’s not like they can help it. Thus, these are three main ideals to what annoyance means to me.====

you liked this particular toy.
====When I was little, I had countless favorite toys but above all I especially liked this doll that looked like a bear. One side of it's body was green and the other was blue (I know...) It had a little neck tie that I eventually cut off and it wasn't exactly what people would call... charming, but for some reason I really loved it. I mostly loved it because it was given to me by my grandparents, didn't look like a barbie, and it always smiled.==== ====I guess the first reason I liked it was because it was given to me by my grandparents after a week I was born and I always thought highly of my grandparents and I still do and I think I have it somewhere squashed in a box. This doll was really special to me because my mom always told me I could never sleep without it and I would wake up crying for it. It wasn't exactly big but it was really cuddly and cute and whenever I got scolded by my parents, I always hugged it close and spill all my feelings to it, not that it could understand what I was saying... but all the same it provided comfort to me and since my sister was born and all attention aimed at her, I remember the times when I felt jealous and then I would just hug that little toy.==== ====Second I think I loved this toy because it looked nothing near a barbie doll. Barbies somehow freaked me out. I hated their fake yellow hair somehow flying into my nose or mouth. Since barbies aren't soft or squishy I never really liked barbies... but my bear was the complete opposite as a barbie. It was bald without yellow hair and it WAS squishy and soft. I also liked this particular toy because it didn't look like a clown. Clowns are not a favourite of mine and I always wondered why people thought clowns were funny... they have double chins fat clumsy feet and thick wide lips and a weird sponged nose. This was a second reason I really loved my toy.==== ====Lastly, I think I really favored the doll because it always smiled. You might think, "what kind of toys frown?" Just to fill you in, I had a few toys that were frowning. This stuffed bull-dog with bared teeth and hairy eyebrows frowning... anyways, my doll always smiled even when I was crying and... it made me feel happy :) I like positive people and I guess my bear was a positive toy.====

Topic One- 30. Suggest one change that you think can make this country better.
====Some things that can improve this country is lessen the number of academies, more malls suitable for middle schoolers, and to not construct useless buildings. The reason I think that this country could do with less academies is because, students are having a lot of stress, and do not spend their childhood as best as they could. Instead, they have to be caged for hours in academies. I also think that Korea would be better with suitable malls because most of the malls are... lame. I also think that it would be better without useless buildings because Korea is already small as it is, and I don't see the use of building buildings when nobody ever uses them. ====

Topic Two- 5. Talk about your favorite music and why you like it.
====My favorite music is "Bye Bye" by Mariah Carey. Because, she's really good at singing, and the music is rather soothing. I also enjoy the song called "When You Believe" sang as a duet by Mariah and Whittney. Somewhere around the 80's-90's, they used to be really famous and this song is well known because this song is the background music of the "Prince of Egypt." ====