MichelleO13

__**My Brother Sam is Dead:**__
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This is a presentation about Timothy Meeker's characteristics, with my 4 group members(Rosa, Peter Kim, Jae, and Michelle Oh (me)). We described the personality of Sam. In this presentation, our voices are recorded of podcast. It was our fist time to present using podcast.

media type="custom" key="2382877" This is my keynote journal in the novel "My Brother Sam is Dead". While I was reading this novel, I recorded the summary of each chapters I read. This helped me analyze the story better.

I work on a newspaper assignment on the novel My Brother Sam is Dead. I included some extra article to make it look like a real newspaper! REsearch was a big part of this assignment. I had to research a lot since I didn't really know about US History.

=__**Poems:**__= http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=mHff55AeEAQ

Like a flower waiting to bloom Like a lightbulb in a dark room I'm just sitting here waiting for you To come home and turn me on

Like the desert waiting for the rain Like a school kid waiting for the spring I'm just sitting here waiting for you To come on home and turn me on

My poor heart, it's been so dark since you been gone After all, you're the one who turns me off You're the only one who can turn me back on

My hi-fi's waiting for a new tune The glass is waiting for some fresh ice cubes I'm just sitting here waiting for you To come on home and turn me on Turn me on

(I found a song that has a lot of metaphors! Looking up this song, I realized there were many songs that include metaphors. I think I got more interested in metaphors and learned that it could mean a lot of different things according to how you analyze it.)

__**One Christmas Day**__

In warm and peace waiting and waiting In the awkward silence All is asleep

A ling pause since ten It won’t go away In the beat of the clock ticking Approaching to bed eyes half-closed

Diving deep into the dream with Santa’s sleigh soaring Reindeers prancing I’m full of merry

Sound of Santa's footsteps I peek out the door Well there stand Santa looking at me By the Christmas tree

However feeling numb and tired Just like if laying on a bed Regretting the chance The chance to see Santa!

Sunshine hid my eyelid As I perk up and sat rubbing my eyes Twaddling toward the tree

My eyes half-closed I try to feel the present, under the vast tree But nothing in touch

Did you know spoke my brother Did you realize? Our parents are Santa

Bursting into tears Fury and anger But now I know The unforgettable Christmas

-This poem is a narrative poem. I wrote about Christmas and how I knew that Santa actually did not exist! I think this poem is sad and a good memory of mine.


 * __A Lonely Cat's Life__**

Not a lot of hope, Lying quiet and still Waiting for a new love, starving and ill

Shivering and fasting, hollow stomach Heavy footstep passing Catching mice running by

Meow-ing all day Gazes of displeasure O what a day What a failure

Someone go take him coated with dust It needs desire It is a must

I wrote a poem about a homeless cat living in the streets looking cold and lonely. I was imagining one near my apartment where lost cats run around. Every time I passed them I felt sorry for them.

=__**The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle:**__= media type="custom" key="3182042" This is a slide show we did for the vocab quiz. We wrote the definitions and the sentence. There is also an picture describing the word.

This is a story written by me. We read the true confessions of Charlotte Doyle, and wrote a similar scenario to it. It took a long time to create this story. I worked hard trying to make it sound not too much like the original story.

This is a character Analysis for the character in the "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle". Different characters had unique characteristics.

Michelle, Nice job with these assignments. Your vocabulary was done well. There were some questions I had with the pictures, and some of your sentences used the words incorrectly, but overall, nice job. The same can be said for your character analysis.

As far as your story goes, you did very well. You are one of the only students who added a major character into the story. That was very creative of you. It was also very interesting to see how you managed to keep the story lines intact even with the addition of the brother character. Since you added a character, it made it difficult to include all of the events I was hoping to see, but you still did a great job reconstructing the story.

=__**Grease!:**__=

Recording of :The Greasers from "Grease!" media type="file" key="firstdraftrecordingGREASE.m4a" This id a recording of me reading the essay to my self. I made this recording to make sure there are no mistakes of grammar and spelling.

This is a document with my first draft of my essay. It has description of the cahracters or the greasers form "Grease!". Later on, this was edited by my friend.

This is my final draft of the essay. It has been edited by my friend, and I corrected the mistakes.