Maleficent

Prompt: Show a picture of you setting.Describe the picture as if you were a kindergartner and as yourself now.

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        Kindergartner: So, I see that it is really colorful and that there are lots of pretty colors. I see 2 trees, a butter fly and and a mommy fairy and a daddy fairy with a baby fairy. I see that there is a pond. They have rocks around it and it has water and those green things. I think that this a mystical fairy garden and that all of the fairies live happily ever after and never have to do work.

         Now: So, I notice that there a a few trees so I think that this is a forest. I can see that there are a some fairies in the background so I can probably confirm that this is an enchanted forest. There is a pond that has some rocks around it with some Lilly pads.  There is a butterfly. I think that the butterfly symbolizes peace and harmony in the forest and that since there is only one butterfly, something horrible is going to happen.

LETS GO GET SOME AMONTIALLDO

Prompt- Write what Montresor and Fortunato were thinking in their minds through out their walk dow into the catacombs.

**SETTING**
Montresor and Fortunato just entered the catacombs. Fortunato has just coughed for a small period of time and has finally finished.

Montresor's POV
Do I feel right. Should I be condoned to the death of a dying man? A man who will pass blissfully, gracefully, getting away with hurting me!! Non-sense. I shall feel no remorse. For all the pain that he has caused me, this is enough pay.  For every day that he has caused me pain. For every second he is dead, a second more that I feel happier.

Fotunato's POV
For what does it matter that I Fortunato have a cough? For all that matter at the moment is the Amontillado. For that is what we have come for. Isn't it?

Montresor's POV
That fool. He has no idea. Ha! Amontillado.  He thinks that I will share with him! After the thousand injuries that he has caused? No. He will die with my pain on his shoulders. how dare he steal from me. My fortunes. Thousands of dollars. Taken. Just like that. Well, your life is going to be taken. Just like that.

Fortunato's POV
This is perfect. What a great plan. I, the rich and wealthy Fortunato, will never run dry. For I, know where Montresor keeps his fortune. I have an endless supply of wealth . What a fool. Thinking I'm his friend. He disgusts me. He doesn't deserve this money. I do. I work. He doesn't.

Montresor's POV
Perhaps Fortunato isn't drunk enough. Should I dare waste more of my wine on my "friend"? More like a thief. Maybe I shall make as though I want to soothe his cough. Yes. Perfect...

Fortunato's POV
Oh my dear Montresor ....

Maleficent

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Prompt: Why did you choose this book and predict what you think will happen.

      Why did I choose this book? Well, multiple reasons. One is that I saw the movie. Now before you guys are like"BOOOOOO!!!! YOU RUINED THE BOOK!!!!! YOU CANT SEE THE MOVIES BEFORE THE BOOK." One, I didn't even know there was a book. Two, the book's cover is a movie poster so I think the book was written after the movie. Anyway, as soon as I saw the book, I got so excited. I new that I loved the movie so much so why wouldn't I like the book, right! So far, I haven't read anything because I have been super busy but I plan on reading a lot over the weekend.

     Another reason I want to read this book is because I wan't to see how different it is from the book. We all know that movies are never like the movie. They have the same plot, mostly, and characters and problems but never the exact same thing. They always change same thing. I think personally, seeing the movie before the book isn't that bad. When reading the book after seeing the book, you have the suspense of "what's different?!"

     Overall, I just thought that book would be really good. Suspense is something that I really love reading. It gets you going. Wanting you to turn every single page of the book until you find out who the evil person is what the secret is. I feel that the book is going to be amazing and is going to different from other fairy tales.

Youtube Channel

Troye Sivan

Marcus Butler

 











      The passion project is all about doing something you love to do and have a passion for. A lot of my friends know that I love youtube. I love watching people who crack me up and can put me in a good mood when in feeling down or upset. This is the reason that I want to start my own youtube channel. I feel that it would be so fun and something to keep me busy and something that let's me do what I want to do. Another reason I am so passionate about starting a youtube channel is because of my mother.

      My mother feels that Youtube is something stupid filled with people who never grow up and don't have a real job. I think that doing this would show her that youtube isn't all fun and games. When you first start off, you are all happy and you have so many video ideas. But after a while, you start losing those ideas and you have to be creative. Whether it is coming up with tags, challenges, DIY's everything. The inspiration that I got to want to come up with a youtube channel is because of people like Tyler Oakley, O2L, Troye Sivan,Caspar Lee,
Marcus Butler, Connor Franta, Miranda Sings, ETC. All these people have inspired me and my friend to make our own Youtube channel.

Connor Franta

Miranda Sings (character)

 









      When I think of it, I have been dreaming of making this channel since forever. Me and my friend have decided to make 2 channels. The first one would consist of DIY's (do it yourself's) Tags, Challenges,hair tutorials, crafty things, ETC. This channel would show our fun creative parts of us. Our second channel would be a more serious channel. It would mostly consist of bullying,school tips, school related stress, home problems, home related stress, all of it. Our videos would be us trying to help these people. I was thinking of sometimes doing a video were people would comment on a certain old video about problems they have and we would help them by answering the question in a new video.

Caspar Lee, O2l group 

Tyler Oakley

TIME TRAVEL!!!!

Q: Where would you go?

A: I would go to Germany.

Q:To which year or period would you travel?

A: I would go to 1935.
Q: Who would you want to meet or what event would you want to witness?

A: I would wan't to see Anne Frank and witness WW2 as it happened.

Q: Where would you find this person or see this event?

A: I would see Anne at her house in Frankfurt Weimar, Germany.

Q: Why would you want to meet this person or witness this event?
A: I would like to see this person so I could get a real life insight of 
WW2 and the holocaust.  
Also I would go and see Anne Frank because she was a very notable 
person who had a big impact on the world just because of her diary's. 

Q: How might YOU change history?

Anne Frank

A:  I think that I could change history by telling Anne, Give me your diary's. I would tell her they would show people the truth. How horrible it is living in hiding. Starving. I would tell her that these diary's could possibly let her live. I would take them to a place that makes books and show them to them. Maybe get her diary's into books then. If that wouldn't work, I would go out and show people  my self. Show them the truth about Hitler and how he wasn't all that great.

Characterization

Prompt:your blog post will be centered on direct and indirect characterization. Your focus question should be on how elements of a story interact with one another. For example, how does setting affect character or how does conflict drive character development.



     I think that every single part of of story interacts with each other. First lets talk about how setting affects a character. Lets say that our setting is Ireland and we have a character from America. The character won't know really anything about his setting thus making it harder to deal with any problem that involves the city it self such as finding clues and places. However, if we have a character who knows Ireland like the back of his hand, he would wiz through everything making the story really boring and dull.

     Another 2 parts that interact with a story is the conflict and character. People all care about their own things. Depending on what the problem is, people will react and put more effort in accomplishing the problem. 
if someone is passionate about the environment but someone thinks that helping war veterans is more of an issue, yes they will probably both donate their time to both things but will have more passion towards the one they think is more of an issue.

     The point I am trying to make is that a story and all of it elements are cause and effects. A chain reaction.If someone doesn't like something, less passion. If they do like something, more passion. Just like theme interacts with the problem. If the theme is being responsibility, the problem would be something like, what time does Jimmy need to start his homework instead of like, how manny apples were bought? Everything affects each other.

What Have I Learned About the World?- 10/17/14

Number of AOW's This Year- 5

How Much I have learned?- A Lot!

The Ebola Virus

     The world has some scary things in it.How are people supposed to be calm when there is a virus attacking every living things it can get to. How are we supposed to be happy when there is a terrorist group that could possibly kill a great potion of us at any given time. How are we supposed to have a relaxing weekend when there are people around the world being quarantined, killed, not getting an education! The answer is ... there is no answer. I have learned so many things this year that have given me the shivers. But, I think it's how we receive the information. If we find out that something horrible has happened when in a calm environment, you perceive it as a problem that can be handled. However, if we receive it during lots of commotion and panic, you perceive it as horrible and the end of humanity. (exaggeration) 

     When I first started doing AOW's this year, I thought that most of them would be happy and wonderful topics such as homelessness and death rates going down. But no. I learned about Ebola and Death row. Ebola is a deadly disease that has been killing thousands in West Africa and slowly making it's way to haunt America. From the very beginning I knew that eventually America would be affected. We have had cases in Ohio & Texas. Hospitals getting ready to treat Ebola in New York, Wisconsin, and Chicago for what could be, and epidemic. I guess that if you think of it, it's kind of amazing how people risking their lives for people that they don't even know. Also, Death Row was something that I sort of already knew about. Death row is the term used for people that have committed a crime so horrible or so big that they are killed for it. We learned that  120 people out of 3,000 people that are found "Guilty" are being killed because of false accusations. I told you the world is full of scary things.

This Year, ISIS has been brought to my attention. ISIS is a terrorist group that has been terrorizing parts of the Middle East. Places such as Pakistan and Iraq have been victims of ISIS and I learned that the Leader of it was let out of a heavily guarded prison and when walking out, he made remarks about seeing them in America again. Also, ISIS has been tweeting horrible messages such as "We are here #America near our #target :) sooooooooooooooon" and "A message from ISIS to US We are in your state, We are in your cities and We are in your streets." Followed by a picture of ISIS flag in front of the White House. When I first heard of this, I was mortified. What if they do attack. but then I realized, what if these people are wannabes. They just want attention. You can never really know. This first quarter has shacked me up sometimes but they can always be a little good in the bad like with the doctors and Ebola.

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Then and Now - A Blogger Reflection- 10.6.14

Then and now
Isabela J.
10.6.14

     Recently, I have been looking at all of my previous blogs from when I was a little writing munchkin. I noticed that when I first started writing in 7th grade, I chose prompts that related to to the books. These prompts included, "describe the characters based on other characters." or, "Write a journal entry as if you were a character reacting to their life, (what you just read)" instead of prompts that were based off of my opinion. Some blogs where I did this was with the the book, The Giver. I realized that I did this with this certain book because I had so many feelings and thoughts about it that if I did my opinion on this book, I would probably rant on and on and on. Now, I have realized I still do this. I get way onto something and support my opinions too much and can probably write forever about it.

     Also, when I was a munchkin, I concluded that I misspelled a lot of words and had a lot of grammatical errors. One blog I especially know I did this was for my blog on Kill Alex Cross. I had perceived that I had spelled the word kind or kinda as, kids. Or, that I had weird broken up sentences that didn't really make any sense. I noticed that I have a habit of writing too fast and not double checking. Now I notice that I have improved greatly with this problem but still have many grammatical errors. However, I do plan on improving on these things and hope my blogging gets better.

The Chocolate War- Robert Cormier- Tone Blog-10/1/14

Isabela J.
10/1/14
What type of writing techniques does the author use?
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     The Chocolate war. What a weird name for a book. Well, thats exactly what it is. This books takes place in a Catholic schools for boys. There can be no harm in a Catholic school, right? Well, in this school there isn't, but thats no because of the teacher. Or the rules. But for the Vigils. The Vigils is a "secret" group of boys that the teachers know about and the kids are scared of. The Vigils are kind of like the bullies that enforce their rules..? They assign assignments to kids in the lower grades and make them do things that the Vigils find "Funny" so they don't try and think to mess up the status quo. However, when one kid is picked to sell annual chocolates to raise money for the school, he refuses the Vigils and things get nasty. Now, Jerry Renault has to decide, "Do I dare disturb the universe?..."  As you could probably notice, the way I described this book is with questions,which is a style of writing. Every author has a style of writing whether it is by questions, word choice, format, anything. Thats what this blog is about. Style and mood.


      While reading, I noticed one really big part of the book is when we see an assignment be given out for the first time. During this part of the book, I noticed that the writer, Robert Cormier, used a lot of imagery and detail. One specific part that I remember reading where we see this is when the author starts describing the setting of the meeting, and how he uses descriptive words and explains the lightbulb hanging in the room,"---private, the solitary entrance easily guarded, and dim, lit by a single bulb dangling from the ceiling, a 40-watt bulb that bestowed only a feeble light on the proceedings." I think this is a good quote to show style in writing because he described the lightbulb using words like "Feeble." I think that this is a good showing of Cormier, because you really don't see words like that in modern literature.


     Another thing I want to talk about is mood. Mood is the way you feel after you read a book or a part of the book. One part that made so tense and curious is when Archie, the person who gives the assignments, is beating around the bush about an assignment he is going to give to a kid named, Goubert or as they call him, The Goober. Robert describes the way the kids are acting and all the tension in the room that it makes you feel like you are right there waiting to see what is going to happen. The exact part of the book I am talking about is right here,someone snickered. Archie stiffened, shot a look at cCarter=r, a withering look that said, tell them to cut the crap. Carter snapped his fingers, which sounded in the the quite storage room=m like the banging of a gavel." I picked this part because you can tell how instantly the mood in the book is and you feel as if you were part of the vigils.