Won+Yong

toc = = =Quarter 1=

The Interview with Mr.Stelzer


I interviewed Mr.Stelzer during the Esol flex class, which gave me an available time for interview him. As you can see in the picture there is Mr.Stelzer that is getting interviewed by me. (SS)The first question that I interviewed about him was, what is your job in SAS? And he said he is an Asian History teacher that especially teaches about the history, economies, and culture of Asia. I went on with asking his last name; Mr.Stelzer, spelling is S T E L Z E R. He has been here for 1year and this is his second year of this school. He has a teaching experience of three years. Add to the previous statement, he thought in YCIS before he came here. He does sponsor a club that is called Forensics. I asked him about how much does he like the job he has in SAS, and he replied as "too He enjoys the life in shanghai pretty much. That is because he moved to the Links that is right next to the school. (CS)He selected his job in SAS because he knew that SAS was one of the top schools in Asia. That was the end of the interview and I thanked him as I went out of his room

Monkey's paw assignment
Jacobs uses different conflicts to skillfully create tension and engage his readers. Firstly, he creates a conflict when the sergeant-major warns the White’s family to throw the Monkey’s paw in the fire, but the White’s family disagrees. This makes a conflict with others and at the same time it foreshadows conflicts that they would face next. Secondly, the author creates a conflict with unknown and within the people when the knocking starts on the door. Mr.White doesn’t want it to be Herbert, on the other hand Mrs.White wants it to be Herbert. This scene creates a tension by making his readers get into the story more and read more about the story. Through these conflicts and other sensory details, Jacobs is able to create tension in the reader, effectively involving them in the story.

Reason: I think I did best job on this assignment because I got a best grade on this assignment of writing a paragraph.

=Quarter 2=

Re-writing my best paragraph
Monkey's paw assignment

Jacobs uses variety of conflicts to skillfully tension to engage his readers. He uses "man versus man" conflict to create a tension. For example, the sergeant-major warns the White's family to throw the monkey's paw in the fire, but the Whites' family opposes the sergeant-major. This conflict creates tension between the characters by the conflict. This types of conflicts foreshadows conflicts that Whites' family would face. Jacobs uses "Man versus unknown" to create tension and suspense. For example, when the Whites' family was sleeping, there was a knocking that Mrs.White thought it would be Herbert, but no one knew who it was. It created tension by knocking sound and the tension that is created by the Whites' family. Through these conflicts and other imagery details, Jacobs has successfully created tension in the reader, feectively involving them in the story.

I think this is the best paragraph I wrote because I got the most points on it.

Of Mice and Man Paragraph
 Steinbeck uses direct and indirect characterization to introduce the main characters in the novel “Of Mice and Men”. Direct characterization is used to introduce the characters’ shapes. For example, “The first man was small and quick, dark of face ... Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face with large, pale eyes...” (2). This direct characterization explains Lennie and George’s physical features. Steinbeck uses indirect characterization to introduce the characters’ emotions. When George argues with Lennie in the forest, he says, “Blubberin’ like a baby! Jesus Christ! A big guy like you” (8). This shows how George is very mean when he loses his temper while arguing with someone. Another example is “Lennie’s lip quivered and tears started in his eyes” (John 8). This describes Lennie’s personality which is fragile. Steinbeck successfully uses both direct and indirect characterization to introduce the characters’ features and emotions.

=Quarter 3=

Happy Old Year!
Last year was one of my best years of all the years I have been lived. That is because I only did small amount of studying and mostly playing games. For me I think, I regret that I didn’t read many books. Eighth grade was easy and at the same time it was very flexible. There were best moments, but also bad moments in last year. There I learnt many lessons from last year’s memory and acrimonious moments. Therefore, the most important thing is that we must develop the past to make better future and present for the successful life. Firstly, my best moments from last year were soccer season, China Alive, and graduation. Soccer season was very fun and made me get out of any stress from academics in schools. Specifically, in soccer season, the taste of every goals that I made were very thrilling and exiting. Everyday in soccer season, I waited for next practice and games to come and play. This was why I played soccer and enjoyed the most. Few months later in May, our whole grade went on a trip to Yang Shou as China Alive. It was fascinating that I got to do various activities that were unfamiliar to me. For example, mountain climbing and cave exploring were new to me. These activities were fun. Then we had graduation at last, it was kind of sad that I had to leave middles school and move to high school, but I wanted new environment that will eventually be adventurous. The graduation was super. That is because I got to miss Korean schools and end middle school for a new start. Finally, I had lots of best moments last year, but I think I should enjoy the present and develop my past to create better future anRed present. In addition, My worst moments from last year were playing games excessively, not reading any books, and not helping myself to get better grades. I think I was once addicted to games too much because I played lots of games rather than studying or doing productive things. Such as star-craft or Counter strike. These games were fun, but it doesn’t do anything to my life.

Poem analysis (Paragraph) for "One in a million"
This song is about love that emphasizes the loved one with one in a million meaning that she is very precious. This song is a ballad that talks about love and converted it into a song. The author of this song uses metaphor and rhymes to unify and explain the meaning of the song. The main theme of this song is his lover is very precious. For example, "Girl you are so one in a million". In this phrase, you can know that she is precious. The main theme is supported by the poetry techniques that is made by the author. For exam ple "Jet setter go getter nothing better". This phrase is used with rhymes to show the unity of this poem. Finally I think this song is romantic, but it is full of slangs so it's not very polite to a girl that he wants.

Research questions
Is sports stresses for your life? Is your sleep time enough? Does your homework help you to raise your grades? Why do you do your homework for? Do you have aims for your school study? Are you happy with your grades? Are you stressed with your grades? Do you like your club? is it helpful or stressful?

Is your extra-curricular activity satisfies you? Is it fun for you that you want to attend it everyday? Is an extra curricular activity a stress for you?


 * Survey Question**

Survey about __**//extra-curricular activity//**__

__**//Your Grade://**__


 * Please answer the question. This might effect your homework amount.**

What kind of extra-curricular activity or clubs are you attending?

Why are you joining it?


 * //Please rate from lowest 1 to highest 10 on these questions.//**

Are you having fun with your extra-curricular activity?

Is it a stress for you?

Are you joining it for college application?


 * //Interview Question//**

Who?:

Do you participate in any extra-curricular activities or clubs?

Do you perceive extra-curricular activities as necessary to fulfill your high-school experience?

Do you participate in extra-curricular because you enjoy them or because they enrich your high school resume?

Do you feel stressed from extra-curricular activities. =Quarter 4=

Persuasive speech reflection

For persuasive speech, I chose the topic of “Does every citizen in the world have the authority to claim over the governmental exchange?” because I’m interested in current issues and it would be easy to persuade people with persuasive techniques.I used persuasive techniques in my persuasive speech. For example, I used rhetorical questions, “What if you were forced to leave a country?”, and opinion as facts, “Some governments around the world are still dictatorships. That means the citizens of that particular country have no rights”. From the examples, you can know that I used rhetorical questions to assert my point and to encourage the listeners to think what is the answer for the question. I also used opinion as facts to present my points as factual truths. In this assignment, I think I did well on: connections to Animal Farm, and stating my evidences. However, I think what I did bad on was: providing emotions, using “punch and pause” more, and working on my pronunciation. For example, “If there is a long holding of government, there is always a corruption. Like an animal farm.” From what I did bad, I should improve to: work on my pronunciation, speaking more clearly, and providing emotions. Finally, I think I became more confident to present a speech compared to past years.


 * 1) “Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny” Aeschylus

“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny” : Rather than Living in the dictatorship society, it is better to fight against it with the risk of death.

Aeschylus : Greek tragic dramatist 525 BC-456 BC


 * Example from the recent issues
 * Egypt
 * Tunisia
 * Libya
 * Russia
 * Germany
 * China
 * Why people are standing up against their government with the risk of their lives.
 * Example from the animal farm
 * Which kind of animals acted against the tyranny in Animal Farm.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How the dictator have acted against the protesters
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What is happening when there is a dictator

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Agree with this quotation
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No freedom
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Corruption


 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Statistics - on New York times
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They were so poor and so unhealthy
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With the risk of dying, they

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">China, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya


 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">These countries were and are dictatorship countries.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Thousand of innocent civilians were suffering.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That was so harsh and unbearable that they chose to protest with the risk of their lives.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Aeschylus said “Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny”
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This explains how horrible tyranny is.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tyranny Takes away your freedom, your privacy, and even your life!
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Imagine, if you are in the cage like hamsters.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You do not have any authority to disobey your owner.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nothing is allowed.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You just follow whatever he or she says.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You just follow whatever he or she says.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Dictatorship is like this

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rule is a omniscient <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Disobedience is a crime

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lets look at Stalin's dictatorship as an example,

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Stalin set up a NKVD the secret police of USSR to detect any movement or clue of opposition to his policies.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> This tyrannical act is cruel it is worse than dying from protest.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Those who were caught were sent to labour camps, furthermore some were executed.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Even I think that death from the protesting movement is better than living in a tyrannical society like in Egypt and Soviet Union.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Until recently, there was a protest movement against the dictatorship.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> This revolutionary movement happened in Egypt. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> The country was so corrupted that the gap between the rich and the poor are insanely wide.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> The president Mubarak held its position for more than 30 years.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Its not presidency anymore if someone holds the government for more than 30 years, it is a dictatorship. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> That is why the Egyptians were demonstrating with the great risk.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is death by protest, better than living in dictatorship society?

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">People around the world are answering no to this question.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Furthermore, in the book of Animal Farm,

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Also answers that death is better.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Hens protects their eggs from Napoleon, <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">which that the hens know <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> they are going to be punished by keeping the eggs, <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">they protected until their death.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This act is similar to what Egyptian did for their freedom.


 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny” is right
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From the examples that
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I listed You can now know that people chose a risk of death from demonstration
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">rather than tyrannical society.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Simply, it is this.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Demonstration with the risk of death is better than the life in the tyrannical society.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Thank you.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reading Assignment

Book Review
__Lord of the Flies__ by William Golding Review by Won Yong Chung

The book, __The Lord of Flies__ is written by William Golding who lived during the 20th century. I think the theme of the Lord of the flies is that the human nature is evil inside of their heart and the environment is one that makes human change. That is because when the students got abandoned in this inhabited island, they were all following the rules of Ralph, but eventually Jack betrayed Ralph and starts to hunt people. . This book is kind of thriller, horror, science-fiction, and a suspense. I think it tells you a lot of things with human nature because there were nobody supervising the students, so they are free and can do whatever they want.I think the author is trying to say, we need rules for controlling human. For example, Ralph said,” which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”. This explains that rule should be kept. I think Ralph or piggy is an author’s voice because he gave advice to everyone every time. I recommend this book to the people who doesn’t like to read books or can’t concentrate on reading books.. It is easier to read and more simple because the dialogues tells you what is going happen and what is happening. When I read this book, I couldn’t stop reading it because the book is so descriptive, so that I could imagine every scenery of the book.