Travis

toc =Quarter 1=

Interview with Ms. Tracy Yin
A staff that I interview was Ms. Tracy Yin. She works at SAS as a high school nurse. Ms. Tracy is a very kind person because she is a nurse and she’s a person who helps you when you get injured or not feeling well and she welcomes you anytime. As a nurse at SAS she works 4 times a week 10 hours a day, but sometimes when there are ASA going on, then she works longer then usual. She has been working at SAS for two years now. And before she works as a nurse for a full time job she was a substitute teacher, before that she was also a professor teacher nursing in the United State. Working as a nurse you might think that there might not be student coming in a lot but actually there are more student coming in more then you think. Ms. Tracy thinks that SAS is a very nice school and thought that the student is of SAS is very kind and polite.



Monkey's Paw
The short story "The Monkey's Paw" written by W.W. Jacob's takes place around the 1900s. In the story the characters were Mr. White, Mrs. White,Sergeant morris and Herbert White. The main conflict in the story is between man and the unknown and man against man.

As Sergeant took out the monkey's paw, there was nothing to be concern about until the moment when it didn't feel right, when he start explaining more about the paw is for. The moment when one wish came true they realize it was not a joke. I think the main conflict started with the paw and Herbert's death. That was not just the conflict but also the complication in the story of what they would do next since their son had died.

Mr. White loves his wife so much that there is an argument of rather to wish herbert back or not. In the end the wish was made and BAM! He was there knocking on the door. The most tension that put on you was when Mrs. White was about to open the door because she really loves her son if that wasn't true she wouldn't have had wish him back alive. Another part that put is on the spot is wen Mr. White searches for the paw and wanting to wish for the last wish. suddenly the knocking stop when he found the paw. The author did not tell us what the last wish was so the conflict is not solve since Mrs. White did not see herbert again.

In the end of the story, it ended with a sudden stop of knocking ad the echoes of the house and the cold wind rushing into who was at the door. The outcome of the Monkey's Paw was a scary story that makes you think of what the ending would be like because every one have different imagination of how the story ended, so i think thats what the author is trying to do.

Reason why I choose this: The reason that I choose this was because I spend a lot of time writing it and the draft. This was the draft because my final is in with the teacher.

1st Draft of Descriptive Writing
Title: Morning Market

Who likes to wake up 4 or 5am in the morning everyday? Hopefully there is no man on this planet would do such thing because its extremely tired. Imagine yourself doing that everyday on a school day, of course you can’t. Unless it’s a job where you have to wake up everyday early in the morning before the sun even get a glance on you. Such as going shopping for ingredient for your cooking shop or go to the market to see what your cooking for your worker. Have you ever hear one of your friends say that you should go to the fish market because its fun. No! You never. That’s because it’s not the nicest place to be, especially right when you just woke up from your deep sleep and still thinking of what you had for a dream and all a sudden a smell disturb you. The smell of fish that is laying there on ice waiting for you to go there and take a closer look at it. Once you do, its going to smell worse then it was before. Your nose would ju st burns and telling you that I can’t take this anymore. Maybe its not the fish, maybe its what underneath you, on what your stepping on. Sometimes when you’re in a fish market you don’t tend to look at the ground, because there is nothing interesting going on there, but actually its not just a ground, it’s a ground where there is a mixture of everything all those dirty, nasty and slimy that makes the smell of all kinds of things that is in the market that turn the water it into a dark dangerous water. Sometimes you’re even stepping on wastes and rubbish that has just been use and you don’t know where that has been. I don’t think that’s how you like to spend most of your time in the morning when you have better things to do. Maybe there is a better thing to be rather just staying there with the fish. Other place such as where the vegetables and fruits are. Once you enter, you see every place, every corner of the market every inch of it, they sell the exact same thing. Some might smell fresh some not so much. Some might make your dull convince you to buy it and take a bit right away. Some might look strange just by a peek it will stay in your head the whole day and it just keeps on haunting you. On your right hand side there might be vegetables where it catches your nose attention with the spiciness of the spice that make burns and wants to make your tears come out not just that but also turn your face to cherry red. Some smell in the market stay in the market some smell stick with you. It sticks to you because of who you walk pass or touch. Some of the worker, they been working earlier then you and they don’t smell as nice as you. It could also be when a cart is passing you and that slimy black water splashes on you and there is no way to get it off, and the only way is to get home and wash it off. If you take a closer look at your cloths, not in front but the back, it might be white before but now its black because of the splashes from your shoes flick the entire dirty thing from the ground and it just gather it on your cloths and leaves a stain and your cant take it off.

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Analytical Paragraph
The climax in " The Monkey's Paw" is when Mrs. White was about to open the door. In the short story Monkey's paw, in the end of the story Mrs. White wish that her son was alive again. That did not create much tension but when she hear noises and went straight to open the door. At the same time Mr. White is searching for the Paw to make one last wish. The writer did not tell us what the last wish but we had a pretty good idea what the last wish was because after Mrs. White opened the door, there was nothing there except the breeze blowing in from outside. From the story I think that this part is the part where the climax happens in the story.

=Quarter 2=

1. Filial piety and its effects on order in family and society
 Confucius focuses on filial piety because it stabilizes the peace in the family. Filial piety can be known as having commitment to each other in the family or others. Parents should love and provide for their children and in return, the children were to obey and respect their parents, elder siblings and ancestors. By following Confucius idea of filial piety, children learned their place in the family and proper conduct towards someone who was older or superior to them in the family order. When all the family members dutifully showed their devotion to one another according to their rank and place in the family, peace and order was achieved in the family just like Emperor to his subject. The behavior filial piety at home can help the society by people get use to what they do at home outside. If a ruler is a good father at home then he is going to be good to his subject in return the subject is going to obey the ruler and that will be practice in every home.

I have choose this paragraph because I think that I have set a good opening and I also provide my topic sentence with evidence. In the end I think I also have a good ending so this might be a good paragraph that I have wrote.

2. Of Mice and Men
How does Steinbeck introduce the characters into the story? Steinbeck uses direct and indirect characteristic to introduce Lenni and George into the book Of Mice and Men. As an indirect characteristic, Steinbeck introduces the Lenni and George with telling the reader about the personality of the character. As lenni he is kind and not very bright and for George he is smart and wise. Another way that Stine Back introduces the characters is in a direct characteristic. He described George and Lenni with details telling the image of the characteristic to the reader. As for George, Stine back describe him as small and quick. As for Lenni he is strong and big. Overall I think that Stine Back introduce the character into the story with direct and indirect characterization which tell us to part of George and Lenni.

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1.Happy old year
Every month of last year was a remarkable month. I have changed throughout the month and I have also learned about things that I never knew before about myself. In Eight grade, I have learned about love and it taught me a great lesson and not to make the same mistake again. Right till the end of eight grade, we had china alive. During the trip I realized that I could be an adventurous person, traveling into the wild and build up my knowledge. That was not the end of it. Even summer I had a chance to get into Europe and see new culture and know new people. It was good to experience the life of being foreign. When 9th grade started, I joined the rugby team and I was also selected into the varsity rugby team. From that I realized that I would also be a good sportsman and it made me change of what I might be interested of doing. One last thing, December. December was a great month for its getting ready for New Year. Every year on December, I celebrate at different places and with different people, that shows me that how I grown up I am from before. Over all I have learn some of the mistakes in my life and knowing that it should not be repeated again and also the things that I’m good and not good at doing.

** 2011 **
Base on my 2010 experience, I think I could do better. From my prediction I think that the year 2011 is going to be a great year. Based on my prediction such as I will do more sports and my resolution on improving my English skills. 2011 is a start of a ninth graders life since we are in the middle of the school year. Since I have more information I know what I have to do to get a better health. By doing such I’m going to join sports and exercise. It also prepare me in the further year. In 2011 I'm also hoping for to improving my English skills. I hope to read more books that is in my level and not get a book and not open it. I understand this was one of my problems that I’ve been having.

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Investigation
Hi Travis, I didn't get to talk to you to understand your ideas behind these questions, but I will attempt to interpret them objectively as an outsider. :) Feel free to ask or further clarify if I misunderstood your intention! /Jenna 1) Do you study or do homework during lunch time? Wow, interesting thing to research! Creative, good job! 2) Miss lunch to study or do homework? Redundant? Try to work question 1 & 2 into one! I would suggest adding question 2 as a follow up part of 1. 3) Spend more time doing homework then having free time? Formal it up! the language that is, adding a "Do you" makes a difference, even if it may not appear so. Switch then to than and perhaps clarify the question - "Do you spend more amount of free time doing homework than _?" 4) Do you ever get enough food to eat at school? 5) Are you satisfied with SAS food? Or wish to change? 6) Do you want lunch to be longer?

Are you satisfied with SAS food? Or wish to change? (Interview) Spend more time doing homework then having free time? (survey)

__**Survey question**__
 * Spend time doing homework then having free time**

Persuasive speech
Express lunch

Have you miss your lunch because of the line? Have you run out of money on your lunch card and your too lazy to charge it? Have you get held back and have to miss your break Or have a lunch meeting and couldn’t get your food. Well I have. And it’s not pleasant to be starving.

For student to not be missing their lunch. Our school needs vending machines. Imagine the possibility that you have, and free time that you get. Our school should have vending machines across the school because. Imagine yourself after school hungry, but the lunch lady won’t sell you food, because you have the catch the bus. I get frustrated when that happens and I think it happened to you before too. So what is the one thing that will solve the problem of hungry students. Where would you go? Vending machine! What if the cafe have no more drinks that you want? Vending machine! Fast snacks? Vending machine There’s a lot of reason for student why the school need vending machines. Vending machine is like and express lunch room. And you can use cash. How cool is that. In conclusion there should be vending machine around the school because it’s a faster was to get food, you can get anytime you want when you see one and you will never have to starve again.

Persuasive technique that I’m using 1) Rhetorical question I used rhetorical question because it help the listener to think if they have been in the situation before you not. So they can relate to the topic 2) Dramatic pause I use dramatic pause because it help to listener to think why vending machine is good and what point I’m trying to prove. 3) Show only one side of argument One side of the argument that I’m doing is the student side because I know how my fellow student feels. 4) Appeal to emotions Appeal to emotion is, I’m trying to make the students feel like they can get food when they are hungry and not have to wait till lunchtime and wait in line.

Animal farm speech
I remember myself on the first week of high school, being scared of the teachers and afraid to raise my hand and ask questions. I was scared that I will be humiliated in front of everyone, so I didn’t raise my hand and make myself look dumb. But I disagree. Next time I have something to ask I should ask and take risk even though it might it not end well.

This is an example for Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Aeschylus (ES-KE-LUSS) said this quote in the 5th century BC in Greece. I understand why he might have said this, because during that time of period it was brutal and people were put to slaves and worked to death. And the only way of getting away from the tyranny is to die. And since it’s a different time of period i disagree when this quote.

During the holocaust, the Jews were captured and put into concentration camps and put to hard labors. Not just that but many also die from starvation and gassed. This is a life under tyranny. Some, such as the resistance, don’t believe that death is a way to go. The resistance tries to end the tyranny by risking their lives to help the people in the camp by helping them to escape. The resistance is a group from the outside trying to help people in the camp and end the tyrant for them. By doing such, they might get capture and be killed but its better to die trying.

In the novel animal farm, the animal was being put under tyranny by a corrupted mine ruler. The ruler napoleon did not care for his kind and force all the animal to do hard labor, and they choose to listen to him. Some animals starve and were given little food. And they were risking their own life to do things that was unnecessary to them. In this example is the risk of death. You know you might die from it, but you choose to do the labor anyways. What kind of life is this?

Which kind of life would you like to live in? Life under tyrant? Being worked to death and treated with cruelty and the only way to escape it is to die. Or. The risk of death by doing work that is being told by a corrupted mind and that you can end it by fighting back and get freedom.

I would choose not to die. I would choose to fight back and live the life that I wanted to. If I could go back to the first week of high school, I would take the risk of asking question even though it might be lame and people might laugh at me. And If I choose not to then I am living under a tyranny of the teacher, the one who have power to humiliate you. If I ask I might get the answer and no one else might have to get humiliated because his or her question was answer by me, risking my face in front of humiliation. I disagree with death is better then being

Reflection: I think this was an success speech because I was about to write a speech and present it to the class. I was also able to think and put explanation into my work. Things that I think can be improve is that to put more explanation and have more details. Also that when I am presenting to the class that I need t remember about gesture.

Analyze
By 1957 the educated people lose their freedom to speak out freely in public and towards the government because of Mao policy during the hundred-flower campaign. Before the Hundred Flower Campaign educated people were used to be able to speak out freely. But when Mao receives too many insult from the people about the five-year plan and his ruling, he made a list of all the people who criticized him. He also took educated people to be sent to thought camps, where they worked constantly till they accepted the ways of Mao. As the result of the hundred-flower campaign, the people have to think about what they say about Mao or they will be sent to thought camp.

Goals for fourth quarter
Writing: I want to improve on my explanation in my essay or paragraph Reading: I would like to learn new words by reading two book by this quarter Speaking: I would like to be able to speak fluently in front of the class. Listening: I would like to know what the homework is without looking at the computer and know what the lesson in class is about. =**Quarter 4** =

Book review of I Am The Cheese
// I Am The Cheese // by Robert Cormier is a book for young adult people and it’s a twisted story. The novel tells a story about a young boy name “Adam Farmer”. Adam and his therapist “Brint” are talking and the therapist also wants to know what happen to Adam about this past. The problem is that Adam keeps getting scared and does not want reveal the things that are scary to him. The book is detailed has flashbacks, and the book also has a very mysterious story that goes well together. When the therapist is talking to "Adam", he always has flashbacks about his past. These flashbacks reveal more and more of the mysterious "Adam" and who his family was. What I like about this book is that it reveals the background of "Adam" in stages. What I don’t like is that he doesn’t have a strong ending and things don’t seem to come together. // I am the Cheese // by Robert Cormier is a wonderful, mind twist, and trilling book that will keep you reading and solve the mystery. This book is really worth reading and I strongly recommend this book to the mysteries lover.