Extra Credit

11-19-13 

 I am very passionate about volleyball. I am playing with a competitive league named coast which is very intense. I am playing for wither there local team or there regional 3 team depending on how fast they fill up. My goal is to get on the regional 3 team because it has better players. Volleyball is so much fun to me, and  love going to practices. The fact that you can do it almost anywhere is so cool and fun! I enjoy volleyball very much, and hopefully i can do it in high school!   

 11-22-13
In less than a week I am going to be celebrating Thanksgiving! Its seemed so far away until we only  had one more day until break. I am so excited to see all of my family and have a big dinner with them. I haven't seen my cousins since school started, which is a long time for us. Hopefully, after thanksgiving I can go back with them to L.A. and spend a few days with them. I am so excited!

Book Project #2

"The Fault in Our Stars"

Theme(s): I believe that the theme of "The Fault in Our Stars" is how love overpowers struggle and hardship.  

 Key Events supporting the theme: Hazel Grace, who is diagnosed with lung cancer meets a boy named Augustus Waters at a cancer support group. Hazel, often read the fictional memoir of an account of a young women battling cancer. The book cuts off at the end, as if the main character, died or got to sick to continue. Hazel made it her duty to find out the ending, but after many emails to the author and no real answers she introduced the book to Augustus. Augustus who had cancer, and had not yet used his wish from the wish granting factory, wished for a trip for him and Hazel a trip to go meet the author. On  there trip, they fell in love with each other, and although, they got no actual answers from the author they still had a great time. When they arrived home, Augustus's cancer spread, throughout his body and he passed away. You can see that there love overpowered there struggle and hardship, because even though they were both diagnosed with cancer they were able to ignore that and just have fun with each other.           

My Folkte based off of, "The Unwanted Guest"

Once upon a tie, there was a girl named Alina who went to Correia Middle School. She was very respected by all the teachers and all of them trusted her. One day at lunch time, Alina tripped on a ball and her friend Eva helped her get up. That day during recess a teacher went up to Alina with a jacket in her hand and asked, "Do you know who's jacket this is?" Alina, knowing the jacket was Eva's and ignoring the fact that Eva had helped her, she claimed the jacket as her own. The next day, Alina went to school wearing her, 'new' jacket, oblivious to the fact that she would see Eva. Alina soon came face to face with Eva and Eva examined the jacket and said "Is... s that my jacket?" with a frown upon her face. "Well, well I just, I just wanted to borrow it." No excuse could make Eva feel better. She knew exactly what happened and the was very upset. Soon after the teachers were not treating Alina the same as they usually do. They no longer treated her with respect. Alina grew curious to what was going on so she asked one of her teachers. The teacher simply responded, "Although that jacket may have been cute, nothing is worth more then a friendship."    

Constructed Responce "The Day I Got Lost" and "The Dark Brown Dog"

Sidonie Gruenberg

Period 6 English

Constructed Response

   

“The Day I Got Lost” by Isaac Bashevis Singer and “A Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane, are both realistic stories that happen to people today. In both stories, the characters are confused about their own or about other people actions. “A Dark Brown Dog” is filled with heart-throbbing emotion while, “The Day I got Lost”, is about wonderment and disorientation. Both stories are about different things, but they seem to have similar tones.

    In the story, “A Dark Brown Dog”, the tone is bitter,sorrowful, and in some ways perplexed. I think this because the parents never appreciated the dog and the dog always wondered why it was only the little boy who loved him. The story is told in 3rd person. “The Dark Brown Dog” is a heart-wrenching story  that describes the life of an abused dog. In the end of the story, the father threw the dog, and it plummeted out a window and landed two stories down, dead. This was very tragic and the author did a great job showing the emotion.  

“The Day I Got Lost” explains a story of a professor who forgot his own address.He is a very  forgetful man, who couldn't even remember how to get home. The story is told in 1rst person, and the professor is the narrator. “The Day I Got Lost” is a story that makes you think about how the professor lives his everyday life. In the end, the professor makes it home, with help from one of his friends. Although it was upsetting to him that he could not make it home, he did meet a friend that he brought with him!