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Favorite Quotes
As you can see from my favorite quotes, Eleanor Roosevelt is someone I really admire. These are some of her best quotes that accurately portray everything that she believed in and lived for.  "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyways. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't"- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."- Eleanor Roosevelt 

My Brother Sam Is Dead- A Novel
__Brother Sam is Dead Key Points__  This Slide show that I made in Language Arts class shows the summary and important concepts in each chapter of the novel "My Brother Sam is Dead." This presentation also includes main ideas and character analysis of each chapter of this book. media type="custom" key="2500491"

__Sam Meeker__  This presentation is about Sam Meeker, a character in the novel "My Brother Sam is Dead". We are analyzing and explaining some of his strongest personality characteristics to understand the character even better. We made this presentation using garage band. media type="file" key="sam meeker.m4v"

__Newspaper__  This newspaper was made to represent what a colonial newspaper back in the 1600s would be like. This is a follow up to the book "My Brother Sam is Dead" where the setting was in the colonial days. Some of these articles on the newspaper are based on the events in the novel, while some are only connected to "colonial life".

__Essay__  This is a essay written about the book "My Brother Sam is Dead". This was an essay made to show my point of views on why Sam (a character from My Brother Sam is Dead) was not a good role model for his younger brother Tim (another character).  .

Similies and Metaphors
__Songs & Lyrics__

 We have been currently studying similes and metaphors in our class. To get a better understanding of these poetic devices, I found two songs that are full of similes and metaphors. For example the song "Thunder" by BoysLikeGirls is an example of many similes and metaphors.(and also happens to be one of my favorite songs) Song file and lyrics included.  __**Thunder by BoysLikeGirls**__  media type="file" key="02 Thunder.mp3"

 The song "Sudennly I See" by KT Tunshall also has many similes and metaphors. Song file and lyrics included.  __**Sudennly I See by KT Tunshall**__  media type="file" key="Suddenly I See.mp3"

Poems
Lyric Poems <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> The following files will be lyric poems that I have written. **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">L ****<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">yric poetry **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> refers to a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. One of the poems I have written is called "City Lights" and the other is called "Paris". I will also include a second file answering a few basic questions on the two poems. The Questions are as follows: <span style="color: rgb(63, 163, 248);">1. What is the title of the poem, Who is the poet? 2. What is described in this poem? 3. Who is the speaker? 4. What is the tone? 5. Give two examples of stylistic devices used in the poem 6. The best line(s)- the most beautiful, or impressive or vivid, etc. 7. What emotions are evoked?

//Poem 1// //- This poem is about a lonely room and a random stranger who traverses upon this "wise" room.// //- Answers to above questions://

//Poem 2// //- This poem is about the craze and poison of cities and all of its distracting menace.// //- Answers to above questions:// <span style="color: rgb(252, 146, 248);">

__Video Poem Read-aloud__

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">This Video is of me reading out both of my poems.

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More Examples

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> These are other separate poems written by various writers and my answers for the questions above. The first poem is called "The Tropics of New York", while the second is called "I hear an Army".

//The tropics of New York//

//I Hear an Army//

__Final Poem Presentation__

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> This is a visual representation that I created using iMovie on the poem "A life" by Sylvia Plath. The pictures I used describe the certain stanzas of the poem are sometimes literal, while at other times they show a deeper meaning in the poem.

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Villanelle

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">This is a villanelle that I wrote myself titled Dead Candle .A villanelle is a poetic form where it only has two rhyme sounds.The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain. //Dead Candle//



The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - The Novel
__Vocab Slideshow__

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">__This is a slideshow presentation on the important vocabulary words from the novel The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. It includes the vocab word,definition, use in a sentence, and visual to get a better understanding of these important vocab words.__

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Character Analysis

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">This is the character analysis of the short novel "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle". It includes a few of the main characters such as Charlotte Doyle, Andrew Jaggery, Zachariah, and etc. Information on their characters and gradual change, if any, is shown in this slide show presentation. Also quotes from the book are provided about each of the characters.



True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Rewrite <span style="color: rgb(84, 252, 229);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">The following file is a rewrite of the novel "Confessions of Charlotte Doyle". This rewritten version by me has similar characters and plot-line of the original story, but in a different setting and situation. If you are curious about what the rewrite is about, read it! Enjoy =). (Towards the end, it strays a bit from the original plot line of the novel.)



The Outsiders
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">__vocab slideshow__ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">The following file is a slide on all the important vocabulary words in the novel "The Outsiders". It includes 40 words with definition, sentence example, and a picture.

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">__Greaser Essay__ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">This is an essay explaining what a "Greaser" ,referring to the movie Grease. This essay explains most of the strongest stereotypes to be found in Greasers. This is a Recording of my final draft of the Greaser essay. The point of this was to see if my essay flowed or not. media type="file" key="essay.mp3"

These are previous copies of my essay before I finished editing it. Fellow students in my class had proofread my essay for this. The following documents are my essays with editorial comments included.