DebbieL13

"To measure the man, measure his heart" By Malcolm Stevenson Forves
=THE FINAL PROJECT=

=THE OUTSIDERS= PONYBOY ANALYSIS & QUOTATIONS [] After reading the book, "The Outsiders", we had a project in writing a character analysis on the main character and in coming up with 5 quotations that relate to the character. I was chosen to analyze on Ponyboy, the main character of the story. I wrote about his personalities, morals, and attributes in the character analysis and came up with the quotes that efficiently supported my analysis. On the top of that, I created a cafe in Naver (something similar to wiki) that explains everything about Ponyboy. I thought it would creative to make a cafe that contains all the things I'd written and all the pictures I'd collected for this project.

WHAT IS A GREASER ESSAY WRITING This is the final draft of my essay, "What is a Greaser?". I wrote about the two distinctive characteristics that describe the word "greaser": their tendency of acting older and the strong bonds in each of their groups. The essay was written in the alien point of view which was quite interesting. The essay is organized into 4 paragraphs. The First paragraph includes the thesis statement and the second and third paragraph each includes claim and supporting sentences. Lastly, the fifth paragraph includes the conclusion that wraps up the whole essay.

THE EDITED VERSION OF WHAT IS A GREASER ESSAY This is my second draft of the essay, "What is a Greaser?". Sally Yu edited my rough rough draft which helped me greatly in changing the essay into my final draft. I had some grammar mistakes, awkward sentences, and even some run-off sentences. But I was able to change it all.

media type="file" key="final draft on what are greasers by Sally Yu 8E.mp3" This is the recording of my essay, "What is a Greaser?". I recorded about three times before I actually recorded my final essay. Recording my essay helped me greatly in editing my essay; it was exceedingly helpful. I learned that reading the essay actually helps you write better.

=THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE =

RECREATION OF "CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE" Our class read Confessions of Charlotte Doyle beginning from march. The story is about a very ladylike girl who is placed in a ship full of dirty rough men. In the beginning, she gets close to the captain and thinks that he is a gentleman. However, after finding out how cruel and obnoxious the captain really is, she joins the crew and helps them. Later, when the captain falls out of the ship and dies, Charlotte herself becomes the captain of the ship. This story shows a big change in Charlotte from the beginning to the end. After we read the story, we were to write a story with similar story plot and similar characters, but in different settings. Our setting is in a ghetto of Denmark, during World War 2. Our main character is Cecile Ardley. She plays the same role as Charlotte Doyle in the original book. The story recreated by us includes all main events that occurred in the original book.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE Addition to recreating the story, we also made a character analysis. We analyzed total of six characters: Charlotte Doyle, Seahawk, Mr. Keetch, Zachariah, Mr. Grummage, and Captain Jaggery. We included the personality, short description of how he or she acts, talks, and look and quotations that describe their characteristics. By doing this project, we were able to learn more of each characters and the story plot.

VOCABULARY WORDS ON CHARLOTTE DOYLE These were the vocabulary words from the book that were commonly unknown to our class. Each slide includes a picture that describes the word, a sentence with the word in it, and its definition. There are about 20 of these words in this keynote. From this keynote, I got to increase my vocabulary ability and understand the story plot much better.

=MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD = "MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD" SUMMARY

media type="custom" key="2663001" This is my summary of "My brother Sam Is Dead". As we read through the books, we took a little three paragraph summary of each chapter. It is total of 11 pages, and includes pictures that relates to each of the main ideas. As I wrote the summary, I was able to know better of the story line.

"MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD" CHARACTERS PODCAST media type="file" key="sam 5.m4v" width="216" height="216" The following podcast is about Sam's personality. My group worked for about a week to finish it. First, we came up with three words that best represent Sam. Then, we wrote a paragraph about each of the the words. Afterwards, we looked for several pictures that best fitted Sam's characteristics. Last, and the most importantly, we recorded our voices reading the paragraphs and put the pictures together to make a podcast. The podcast helped us a lot in getting to know the characters better.

NEWSPAPER BASED ON "MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD" This is the newspaper called "Patriot Trend" from April to May, 1775. I wrote the heading column about the Lexington and Concord Battle, one of the first battles in Revolution American. The second column is about thousands of men signing up for the Continental army. Lastly, the third column is the interview of Colonel Read. By writing this newspaper, I was able to learn more about the setting.

ESSAY OF "IS SAM A GOOD ROLD MODEL?' The following file is my final draft for "Sam, is he a good role model?" In my essay, I wrote about how I disagree to this question. I said that since Sam was both irresponsible and disobedient, he is not suited well to be a role model for Tim. Thanks to this essay, I was able to understand the storyline and the characters much better.

=POETRY = THE SONG WITH SIMILE & PERSONIFICATION & METAPHOR media type="file" key="When You're Gone.m4a" This song is "When you're gone" by Avril Lagivine. This song contains one simile and one personification. The simile is placed in "And the days feel like years when I'm alone" The author used "like" to describe days and years to decribe how long her days seemed to be. The personification is in "The pieces of my heart are missing you". It is using personification by saying that the hear t is breaking. Since hearts can't actually break, it is considered as a personification.

WHEN YOU'RE GONE LYRICS I always needed time on my own I never thought I'd need you there when I cry __And the days feel like years when I'm alone__ And the bed where you lie is made up on your side

When you walk away I count the steps that you take Do you see how much I need you right now

[Chorus] When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone The face I came to know is missing too When you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through the day and make it ok I miss you

I've never felt this way before Everything that I do reminds me of you And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor And they smell just like you, I love the things that you do

When you walk away I count the steps that you take Do you see how much I need you right now

When you're gone __The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone__ The face I came to know is missing too When you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through the day and make it ok I miss you

We were made for each other Out here forever I know we were, yeah All I ever wanted was for you to know Everything I'd do, I'd give my heart and soul I can hardly breathe I need to feel you here with me, yeah

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone The face I came to know is missing too When you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through the day and make it ok I miss you

LYRIC POEMS This poem is lyric poem made by me. I tried to put in many poetic devices as I can. The title is "My New Year", and it's about getting out of my box and facing the new year. My New Year Now a year has passed and the new one has come This moment is like a flower waiting to bloom Or a swimmer getting ready to swim

This will be the beginning of something new, Learning something known by a few, and trying things that are totally new.

It would be a little scary to come outside my box, but it’s still worth a try because I’m not giving up.

Near Year has come so get ready and come out of home. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS FROM THE POEM "My New Year"

1. The title is “My New Year” by me. 2. “My New Year” is described in this poem. It is talking about what how enthusiastic we’re about this year. 3. The speaker is me, who is waiting for new year. 4. The tone is enthusiastic, but a little scared of what is going to happen. 5. One example of a stylistic device would be rhyme. On the third stanza, it says, “It would be a little scary… but it’s still worth a try”. Another example would be simile. On the first stanza, it says, “This moment is like a flower waiting to bloom.” 6. The best line is “It would be a little scary to come outside my box, but it’s still worth a try because I’m not giving up.” 7. Excitement is the word that describes this poem. This is because throughout the poem, the author describes how great New Year is.

NARRATIVE POEM This poem is a narrative poem, so it has a story line in it. The poem is about skiing, riding the cable car and going up the hill and skiing down the slope, facing all the wind.

Skiing Let’s get on board everyone and anyone. We’re going from the bottom to the top, the top of that mountain, to fly away any bad memory and pick up any good memory.

Let’s go up with the cable car, dangling loosely on the chain. It might be a might be a little scary to do such daring act, but I guess it’s still worth it.

Let’s land on the top and enjoy the view in front. Big blue sky above and fluffy white snow below, now nervously I stand, waiting to ski down the slope.

Let’s push forward to do what we’ve waiting for. Shooooooo! We’re finally going down. Joyful, excitement, jubilant… All the good feelings buzzing through my mind

Let’s ski through the wind, up from the top to the bottom of the mountain. Faster than any fastest female skier found, ‘cause we’re flying away any bad memory and picking up any good memory.

After few minutes we’re already there. We feel so grateful and joyful. ‘Cause we flew away any bad memory and picked up any good memory.

Now we wait again, round and round to ski once again!

SYMBOLISM POEM This poem symbolizes "embarrassing moments". It's about how I was waiting for someone in the airport, but accidentally hugged a stranger. The Most Embarrassing Moments

The swooshing sound caught my ear; there I stood, right in the airport. Nervously I wait, with bunch of fear. I stood in line trembling my bones.

Finally he gets off the plane and soon there he stood, right in behind the exit sign, right in front of me, myself.

My minds became a blank paper, completely out of mind, completely out of plan. Now long after, I cut a caper, completely out of mind, completely out of plan.

I braced him to death, then I noticed he was not it. I owed him a debt for I hugged the wrong person.

SEM1 FIANL PROJECT ON "STILL I RISE" This was my final presentation project for semester 1. I researched a poem called "Still I Rise", by Maya Angelou. This poem is about slavery, and it teaches you that you need confidence and pride even if you're having a struggle on something. There is a presentation that are about the 7 poetic devices used and the poet. Also, I've made a visual representation of the poem through iMovie.

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