Monday, June 4, 2012

Bank


I’m a bank that has a lot of money in it which makes me happy. But each day people come and take money away from me that makes me sad. But on the other hand people come and put money in me. But I find out later that they come back and take that money back. Which I don’t like because they are stealing my money from me. Being a bank is fun but people steal money from you which makes it a bad life and you can’t do anything about it. Sometimes I wish that I had a different life because you see all this money come in and I keep it safe for you and I get nothing for doing it. So being a bank is a good job because of all the money but on the other hand it is bad because of the things that I do and get nothing back for it.   

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Lottery



Author note: this is about symbols and their roles in a story.
Have you ever thought about the lottery? When I think about I think about something good.  But in the story "The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson it’s not. It is the opposite of what you think. What happen is that there is dot on a paper and a family member goes up and picks a paper and if there the family that gets it. There family draws again until someone in their family get and it and that person dies. 
There are a lot of symbols such as the rock. How they are symbols is that when you think of little boys play with rock you think that everything is good and nothing is going to happen. But when you read on you find out that they use the rocks for killing someone. Another one is the black box where they put the piece of paper and the one with a dot on it. How it is a symbol is that it pick who is going to die and who is not. It also show that people are scared of it and care about it is that they don’t want to change it they want to keep it the same as it all way was.
A symbols in a story can be good and can bad like it the lottery the two that I talk about were bad. But in other story they could be good just depending on what the story is about and what the author is try to teach you.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Birthday card


I'm a birthday card and I cant wait till  I see my owner of me. I look like very color with all the bright color on the outside saying happy birthday. Also with great big letters saying happy birthday. I also like when some open me and I see there face and how happy they're.  I love to be birthday card

Friday, May 4, 2012

Nailer vs Samuel



Nailer vs Samuel

Author notes: this is about the main character in the two books woods runner and ship breaker and how they are the same and different.
Have you ever thought about how to character from two different books could be the same. Like Samuel from the book Woods Runner and Nailer from the book Ship Breaker. These are two different people that wrote these books and the books are a lot different. But the many character are very much the same and are somewhat different.
Who is Nailer? He is the main character form the book Ship Breaker. This is about a crew which Nailer is in and they do to ship that are rundown and take all things that they can use for something else.  And Woods Runner is about a boy where he out hunting and the British come and take his parents. He has to go out and find them.
How Nailer and Samuel are the same is that they are both brave. How Nailer is the brave is that he go in the ship where the he does not know what is there and can get him hurt. Like in the book when he is getting copper out of boast and hits this part and all the oil fill where he is. He think how he can get out of this and not think about dying. How Samuel is brave is that he has to finds his parent by himself and a little help from other people. Some other ways how they are the same is that they are smart Nailer is smart is because he found the way out of the oil and did not die. How Samuel smart is that he was able to track the British and get his parents back without getting that hurt.  
How Nailer and  Samuel is different is that Samuel has to live by himself. Because he left his dads crew and went to a different one. And Samuel could but he had to go and get his parents. Also how they are different is that Samuel like his parents and will do anything for them. Like in the book he went and look for them and made sure that they were not hurt. But Nailer does  not like his dad because he was treat bad when he was a kid.
Two different people from and different book, but they can be the same if you just think about. It not all was the setting but the traits that the character has. So think about that then you try to compare and contrast two different people.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Cloning



Cloning

They’re many reasons for cloning some good or bad depends on how you look at it. Many people don’t know what cloning is use for and why people would want to clone something.  Or what is cloning and how it is done and we can get back from it.
             What is cloning? Basically it is taking some things such as an animal or something that has DNA and makes a copy of that animal. Scientists have been cloning animals for many years. In 1952, the first animal, a tadpole, was cloned. Before the creation of Dolly, the first mammal cloned from the cell of an adult animal, clones were created from embryonic cells. Since Dolly, researchers have cloned a number of large and small animals including sheep, goats, cows, mice, pigs, cats, rabbits, and a gaur (Human Genome Project Imforation , 2009). Scientists have not been able to clone a human yet. But many animals have been cloned  which can help humans out in many ways.

            How Cloning can help humans out it that if we clone animals so that some animals many never die off. There will be an endless supply of animals to clone, and we will never run out of food from animals, because we have been able to clone based on previous efforts of cloning (Advantages and disadvantages of animal cloning , 2009). Cloning is good things because we can bring back animals that have died off. We could have big supply of meat form animals. Cloning animals could help out scientists in cloning a human. One of the greatest breakthroughs of all time, cloning has been discovered, something which could be revolutionary if we use it to our advantage through continuing on with our research and studies into it, with discoveries that could change our lives forever (Advantages and disadvantages of animal cloning , 2009). 

            Some of the disadvantages for cloning is that the animals could have hurt or kill the animals. The meat from the animal could be bad, but you could do something about that. It will only possess about half the life span of the  normal animal which has been cloned. An example is from the famous ‘Dolly’  previous mentioned which only lived for 6 years, whereas normal sheep can live up to about 10 years of age, so a great decrease in age (Advantages and disadvantages of animal cloning , 2009). These things could happen to the animal but maybe not if they keep trying to make cloning better and safer for the animals.
            Cloning has a lot of good things and bad things about it. But there is a lot of good things about it and more to come if we keep trying to clone something easier and more safe. We could get a lot of the disadvantages with we just keep trying. So cloning should be more thought about and work on so that it can get better.

Monday, April 2, 2012

What Could Have Happened

Author Note: this is about what could have happen if Samuel didn't look or his parents

They’re many books that I have read and one of the top ones that I have read is “Woods Runner”. This is about a 13 year old boy that lives in a wood with his mom and dad. His parents are taking by the red cost one day and his search for them. This is about what would have happen if he didn’t find them.

First what could have happen is that later in his life he finds parents later in life. They could be totally different and hate their son. How this can affect his life is that he can get depress and hate him for not going and looking for them. He could be happy that found them but he doesn’t care because he live almost without them. That can be couple of things that could have happen.

What else could have happen to him is that he would never have found them and found out that they were dead. When he finds that out he can get very mad or sad and start doing things to people or himself. Or he tries to start a new life because he gets pass them. Many other things could have happen this is just a couple of them.

Lastly what could have happen is that his parents get away from the red coats and his mom and dad go on the search for him. His could be good because he just a kid and he might run into something that he doesn’t know how to fix or get himself out of. But on the other hand it could be good because he is a very good in the wood and how to make sure that no one’s see him and what he can eat and drink. They both are good but I think that he should have look for them like in the book. And he should have look for his parents unlike this piece what could have happen if he does look for them.

“Woods Runner” was a good book and many parts of the books I think that the book could have gone a different way them it did. Which made it such a good book. Also it good that he want and look for his parents and nothing happen to him or his parents.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Poem

Poems
Author Note: this is a piece about the songs "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below" and

T1he poem how they are the same and not the same
What the author is trying to do is in both of them is that they are trying to make you feel bad. for taking all the things that they like away from them and making them wish that they could be happy to see it. The mood and tone in the big yellow taxi is that they want you to think that they are sad and bad for talking it and that’s for the mood and the tone for it is sad and making you feels bad just like the mood. The field bellow is the same which make you want to go and see nature and not say in the city. Where it makes you think that it is a bad place to be.

How the mood and tone is different from the poem. Is that first of all the song the tone is happy and in the poem is like sad. Which is a lot different than I thought it would be. For the field below it makes you feel the same that you took all things away from her and making her thinks that city is such a bad place to go. And the song is the same thing makes you feel bad that you took this away from them. Unlike the big yellow taxi you fell happy in the song and not the poem which is like the field below.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Parody Poem

I have killed
an Indian
in search
of my parents

and which
I shot him
in the chest
with my gun

Then a different Indian
tomahawked me
in the head
I got knocked out

Monday, March 19, 2012

Parody

Author note: this is tell about my parody and what in it and what it is about.

How my parody relates to my story is that it explains what happen to Samuel. And of all things that he has to go through. The speaker in my parody is Samuel the main character of the story. The audience of my parody is anyone that wants to heard about happen to Samuel and all things that happen to hi on the search for his parents. The mood is anger at first but then at the end he is surprise.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Mother to Son Poem

Mother to Son
Author Note: this is a respond to the poem Mother to Son and what is all in it.

"Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes is a great poem because of all the many things that are in it. Some of the figurative language that is in the poem are Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Which is a metaphor because is connects the mom and how her life is. Why I think that he use this is because it makes the poem a lot better with it then some other words that he could have put in to it. The mood in this that she is persuading to make her son to not like about the bad things in life but the good things that life have to give out.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

City of Ember 2nd

City Of Ember
Author note: This is a predicting piece and what would happen to Doon and Lina on earth.

How would you like life where you live in a cave? You have a limited amount of food, water and light bubs where you get your lite from. But you think of a way to get out of the city and try to get out of the cave. You and your friend find a path where you think you ca get out of the city. Would you leave and try to get out or stay? This could change your whole life with the choice that you make.

First of all think about starting a new life in a place that you have never been to or even have heard of it. This is what happens to Doon and Lina for the book the "City of Ember". Doon and Lina are the two main characters in the book. and which in my point of view they are the smartest people in the book. Because they are the only people to ever get of ember. What I think might happen to them when they get to earth is that they might not know what they are doing. They might get hurt kill them, or someone. They could do the opposite and have a great life out on earth. Find people and live with them and learn how they live. Also tell about people of ember and they might help them get out of ember. Why I think this because Doon and Lina where the only people to get out of ember without knowing how to get out. They had to find their way out and plan and get everything and leave friends and family back at ember. This shows that Doon and Lina are very smart people.

Why I think that something bad will happen to them when they get to the earth. Is that they don’t know what is out there in the new place. They don't know what is good that could save them or what is bad and could hurt them. Also they don’t even know where they are and what they’re getting them self into. Why this is bad because they did all this work and all this bad stuff could happen to them. Some of the reason why I think this is because they are going to a place that they have never been to. And also they don’t know where they are and where they should go or do.

On the other hand they could do go on this new place. What makes me think this is that they were the only people that have ever got out of ember, not know the why out and where all the things where. And plus they are brave enough to give up everything that they have on ember. So this give me proof that they could do go on earth and live a good life there.

By just changing one thing can affect the book a lot how people think what could happen. That thing could be good or bad or both depending on the person and how it affects that person or many people. This could make you like that person or hate that person and by changing one thing can be big in the book.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Samuel 2nd

Author Note: this is about a boy named Samuel and how the roles he has make him such a good character.

Samuel form the book Woods Runner by Gray Paulsen is one of the bravest person that I have read about. Samuel is a 13 year old boy that lives in the woods with his parents. He knows his way around the woods and he is smart kid because he can go in the woods by himself and not getting himself lost. Also one he is strong because he lost his parents and he does not know if they are dead or alive. If I lost my parents I would not be as strong as he was. He just keeps praying that they don’t get killed and he saves them. How this show him brave as a bull because if I lost a parent I don’t think could keep my up like he does in the book. But inside I think he has mix feelings because he can mad at the people that took his parents and all the people that they killed. Or he can be sad and want to lie down and just forget about what he saw and what he has to go through. But he doesn’t he want to save his parents and make sure that they are saved. That why Samuel is such a strong person in the book.

He has many roles in the book such as in the beginning his family was taken. He was out to get and find land that they could farm on. But that changes when the he gets back and his house and other house are burn down and his parents are not there. He changes because he has to get stronger because he wants to find his parents. Also because how many dead bodies he finds on the way to find his parents. This make him braver and stronger and even mad because he wants to just kill them. That is just some roles that happen in the book. This show that Samuel is wood that looks strong and can be strong but can also break any time

Some of those roles in the book that Samuel are taking care of him self in the woods.this brings out Samuel and in the book and show how he can be good at things. And these roles make the characters that they are in the story. Such as Samuel does by and making the people that read the book thin that he is such a strong guy because of the many good things that he does. This role of that character could make you like that person or hate that person depending on what that is and what your take is on it.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Samuel

Samuel

Samuel form the book "Woods Runner" by Gray Paulsen is one of the bravest people that I have read about. He is a 13 year old boy that lives in the woods with his parents. He knows his way around the woods and he is smart kid because he can go in the woods by himself and getting himself lost. Also one he strong because he lost his parents and he does not know if they are dead or alive. He just keeps praying that they don’t get killed and he saves them. How this show him brave because if I lost a parent I don’t think could keep my up like he does in the book. But inside I think he has mix feature because he can mad at the people that took his parents and all the people that they killed. Or he can be sad and want to lie down and just forget about what he saw and what he has to go through. But he doesn’t he want to save his parents and make sure that they are saved. That why Samuel is such a strong person in the book.

He has many roles in the book such as in the beginning his family was that he was to get and find land that they could farm on. But that changes when the story goes on it changes. Like when his parents are taken by the red coats and the Indians. He changes because he got to get stronger because he wants to find his parents. Also because how many dead bodies he finds on the way to find his parents. This make hi braver and stronger and even mad because he wants to just kill them. That is just some roles that happens in the book.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

City Of Ember

City Of Ember
Author note: This is a predicting piece and what would happen to Doon and Lina on earth.

How would you like life where you live in a cave? You have a limited amount of food and just light bulbs and candles for light. But you think of a way to get out of the city and try to get out of the cave. You and your friend find a river and get things that you will need to live. Then you go down the river. Next you find a gate and open and you’re in a place at has a great big light in the sky and there are of lot of things that you have never seen before this. This is like the book the "City of Ember" by Jeanne DePaul and how people live under ground with no light from the sun. But people get out and try to start a new life on earth.

First think about starting a new life in a place that you have never been to or even have heard of it. This is what happens to Doon and Lina for the book the "City of Ember". Doon and Lina are the two man characters in the book. and which in my point of view they are the smartest people in the book. Because they are the only people to ever get of ember. What I think might happen to them when they get to earth is that they might not know what they are doing. They might get hurt kill them, or someone. They could do the opposite and have a great life out on earth. Find people and live with them and learn how they live. Also tell about people of ember and they might help them get out of ember. Why I think this because Doon and Lina where the only people to get out of ember without knowing how to get out. They had to find their way out and plan and get everything and leave friends and family back at ember.This shows that Doon and Lina are very smart people.

Why I think that something bad will happen to them is that they don’t know what is out there in the new place. They don't know what is good that could save them or what is bad and could hurt them. Also they don’t even know where they are and what they’re getting them self into. What I think would happen to them even if they didn’t find the path out of ember. Is that the lights would go out and people would start to get mad at each other. They would run out of food and people would even forget that there were people down there. That just a few of things that could happen if one thing were different in, the book

What I think would have happen if Doon and Lina told about what they found the river and all the boats. A lot of people would be happy because they found a way out of ember. Maybe a new place to start a new life and live a happy life because they are in place that doesn’t need light because it has a sun for light. Some of the bad things are that people would rush and try too much of one thing and don’t leave anything for anyone else. Which could drive people crazy and they could try to hurt other people to get the things that they have. That is some of the things that could happen if just one thing was different in the city of ember.

By just changing one thing can affect the book a lot how people think what could happen. That thing could be good or bad or both depending on the person and how it affects that person or many people. This could make you like that person or hate that person and by changing one thing can be big in the book.

Found A New Place

Author note: this is a letter from Doon to his Dad if he should come or not come to the new land.
Dad, Lina and I just found a new place. This new place that we found has one big light that comes and goes. Then a littler one comes up and it gets dark. We also found a book about people when they came to the City of Ember. Which has a lot of good things and how they got here and about this place to. Also when you come here if you do you can’t go back with the things that we have right now because the river is too strong to go back up it. There are a lot of great things in this new place such as that it has great colors that are very bright here. I have a lot of question about this place because haven’t see any things here.

There are some reasons why I think that you shouldn’t come here. One is that I know, if more people are going to come and make life bad here. because they could be mean and take all things that you need to get here. Also I don’t know if there are things here like food, water, homes or even people here. But I think there are a lot more reason why you should come here. Like that we can start a new life, and I don’t think this place needs lights bulbs to get light. Also it does get dark here by just when the big yellow thing goes down and a not so bright smaller comes up. Also if there is food here it look like that there would a lot more than we had in ember. They could also have food here that we have never even seen or tasted before.

Dad. I hope that you can come and join me and Lina on the new land. They’re great new things here that I would have never thought about it in Ember. Just think about this we can start all over with this new land and maybe there is people here that already have started a new place. We could follow them and trust them to take care of us and show us how they live here.
From,
Doon

Friday, February 10, 2012

Working Underground

Author Note: this is about how something can look like brave or something like that but is is not


"City of Ember" is about is that is about a city that has no light just light from light bulbs at are about to go out. And there are two kids Lina and Doon the main character and there are they got their jobs and they wanted to switch jobs because they got each other jobs that they went. And Doon wants to be a pipeline work do he can be underground. And try to fix the lights and that where the quote came from.

“Be brave I told myself. I kept going and going but of a sudden I thought about how there could be a 1,000 feet hole or big rats” said Doon. What this explains is that is tells you how it was scary for him in the tunnels. Also it tells more about Doon and how he can look brave but can be scary at other times.

The quote is such a good quote because when I was reading the book. I thought that Doon was a mean guy and many people didn’t want to talk to him. But when he said this it made me think that me gets scared to. It also it makes you think about how that Job would be like if you had to work down underground and would have to think about it every day when you are at work. There are a lot more good quotes in the book but this one just stood out more than the other. And that why I think it is such a good quote because of all the meaning behind it.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Doon

Doon

Author Note: this is about the character Doon and his effect on book.

The character that I’m going to talk about is Doon from the book "The City Of Ember". He is one of the main characters in the book. What role he plays in the book is that he wants to be a pipeline worker but his friend gets it and she got the one that she wants so they trade. Why he wants to be a pipeline work is because all of the lights in the city are about to go at any time and he thinks he know how he can fix the lights and save the city from the darkness. What impact he might have on other characters is that he might want to become friends with Lina because they got mad at each other and didn’t want to be friends any more. And that might change the story a lot because they might help each other when the lights go out. They might also save the city and every in the ember.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Dead Man's Path

Dead Man Path
Author Note: this is about cause and effect and how you should think about what you are going to do before you do it.

In the story "Dead Man's Path" there is a new headmaster that comes into the school. He wants to change the school and make it the best school. He wants the school to look the best that it could be. He and his wife went and got flowers and other things and put them all around the school to make it look the best it could. So one day he saw some person one a path that went through the school yard. He got very mad at the person and said that he was going to close the path, which he did. A couple of day later the village leader came and told him, he should let people go through or bad things are going to happen. Why this path was bad to close because it was the only path that the villagers could use to get to their burial ground. He still didn’t open it for the villagers so the next day when they got to the school all the flowers and things were killed that they put around the school and part of the school was tore down. This made the school look very bad.

Some of the main problems in the story "Dead Man's Path" are that the headmaster didn’t let the people go through the path. Why this happen is all because he didn’t let the villagers use that path to go to the burial grounds. They got mad and did all that to the school to try to make him open the path for them. What they did to the school was that they went and killed all of the flowers and tore down part of the school.

Just because he didn’t let them go through the school yard to get to their burial grounds. What they saw was a school that did not look that good and he thought that it was not good for people to go to school. And the school board closes down the school and fires the headmaster because of how the school looks. All because he didn’t open a path for people to just walk down and do nothing else.

What I thought he should have done is to just let them just go through the school yard. Why I think that they should do that is because nothing would happen to him. Also because this is how those people live and you are taking something away from them that they need. If I want to this school I would be fine with this because they are doing nothing bad. But he didn’t like what he saw and try to change something that he couldn’t change.

"Dead Man’s Path" teaches a great lesson because he shows that when you try to changes something you can’t all ways do it. Because there are many people that might like it and they don’t want that to get change or it is something that they lived by. You should always think about something that you are going to do because the outcome might not be what you might think it will be.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Thank you Ma'ma

Author note: this is about a quote from the book and what is so good about it.

"Um-hum! And your face is dirty. I got a great mind to wash your face for you. Ain’t you got nobody home to tell you to wash your face?"

What is so good about this is that she wants to bring the boy back her house and want to see if the boy will run or not. So of the examples are when they get to her house she leaves the door open and lets the boy go and see if he will run or not. After the boy washes his face she tells him that she is going to go and cook dinner. And the boy ask it he should go and get some things but she says no and lets him by him self. So she is testing him to see if should run or not. So in this it so that if you trust someone good things will happen.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Dead Man Path

Dead Man Path

Author Note: this is about how when you choose one thing you can think that it is good but it tuns bad for you.

So what happen in the story Dead Man Path is that a new headmaster came into the school. His name was Chinua Achebe and he want to change everything about the school. Like that me want the school to look the best that it could be. He and his wife went and got flowers and other things and put them all around the school to make it look the best it could. So one day Chinua Achebe saw some person one a path that went through the school yard. He got very mad at it and said that he was going to close the path which he did. A couple of day later the village leader came and told Chinua Achebe that he should let people go through. Because it was the only path that went straight throw the village and were the village people burial place. And he still did not open for him so the next day when they got back to the school all the flowers and other things were killed.

So what a main problems in the book dead man path is that the headmasters didn’t let the people go through the path because it went straight through the school yard. Some of things that happen are that the flowers beds were killed and part of the school was torn down. Also that day the school boards came and check it out and saw that it was not such a great school and the headmaster didn’t have a job any more. Why this happen is all because he didn’t let the villager use that path and they got mad and did all that to the school. All he had to do is just let them go through the school yard but he thought that it was bad for the school. And for that all the bad things happen to him.

What I thought he should have done is to just let them just go through the school yard. Why I think that they should do that is because nothing would happen to him. But all the things happen to him because he wants the school to be the best that it could.