Week 9 Vocabulary

Vocabulary Sentences

-The belleigerence in Paul Revere's tone had, warned the city that the British were on their way.

-The slaves from the slave trade had finally started a rebellion against their slave owners.

-When Mark saw Sally with another man, he bit his lip to pacify the anger submergeing within him.

-Ghandi was a strong pacisfist when it came to violence.

-George, Bonnie, and Jimmy had made a pact that none of them would forget each other when they went to college.

-The speakers said that they would give the people what they wanted, but only because they wanted to appease the critical crowd.

-President Bush selected a bllicose group to help him out with war tactics after 9/11.

-When the war ended, William found it hard to go back to his antebellum life, so he became a hermit.

Check-In Letter

Dear Ms. Priester,

During the last few quarters of English 10 I have acquired many skills that have made me mature both intellectually and spiritually. Many of the lessons you taught me involved a combination mixed of moral values and education that helped me realize what I direction I need to head in. Some lessons that were taught made me ask myself, do I want to head off to a four-year college? Do I want to be successful in my career choice? What do I need to do to achieve these goals? You made me realize that I can’t be lazy and not participate in class. That is the behavior that will lead me off the path of success, which is what I badly want to achieve. One lesson in particular caught interest to me. It was a couple weeks ago when we were discussing the Arizona situation. You had asked the class if what they were doing to innocent people was fair. Obviously the answer was a no, yet why were people in Arizona agreeing that immigrants shouldn’t be allowed here? This particular lesson opened me up to the world around me. It helped me realize that I have it good at San Pasqual Academy and that I should take advantage of the education being provided to me. Some of the many skills that I have acquired as well had to do with technology. I had always been good in writing and reading but computerizing all the lessons was a challenge for me. I had never really used a computer for homework and posting blogs until I came to your class. Your lap top lessons provided me with the skills needed to obtain a new type of resource. Research was much easier on the internet versus checking out library books. The use of laptops has definitely opened up a new path to teaching as well as my gaining of knowledge. Prior to attending your class I had had another English teacher at Mira Mesa High School. Mr. Brown was well known for his sense of humor and unusual ways of teaching. I was taught English verbally rather than physically. I would take notes whenever he said something. His class wasn’t provided with technology but rather tools needed to interact socially, mentally, and intellectually as well as gain knowledge through words. The system has never really impacted my way of thinking. Unlike other students I was fortunate enough to have a good experience in the system though I wasn’t with my parents. I have never been dependent on others, even since I was with my biological parents. If I ever needed help, which I rarely did, I would ask for it. The system has provided me with opportunities I probably couldn’t have gained at a regular foster home. In your English class I have learned that Irony happens in a lot of my daily situations. Before I came to your class I had trouble telling the difference between irony and metaphors. Although those two words aren’t alike in any way, I still believed them to be the same. In the future I plan to utilize what I have learned to get my career started in a positive direction. I would definitely see English as one of my majors. First, I must get my major in the medical field. Thank you for providing me with the tools needed to set myself in the right direction. Mostly I thank myself for not giving up and setting a goal.

Sincerely,
April Roman

Just Another Random Fee-Blog Post

  So I guess this is yet another random blog post about absolutely nothing. I guess I'll talk about something completely random.  I am going to an away game today at 1:00. Softball is really  fun but my shoulder is getting really messed up because of it. The best moments of the game is getting a really big adrenaline rush when I catch a fly ball or get an out at a base. Hitting the ball isn't that bad either. I wish that there wasn't as much away games though. I hope that next year my schedule will be less busy so I can dedicate my time to one thing at a time. I am definitely going to try out for softball next year. Hopefully we will finish this season with all wins. This concludes my random subject about the sport I love to play.

Free Blog Post

During the course of the last two weeks I have been very stressed. I had a lot of school work to catch up on and on top of that I had four softball games to play. When I got home it didn't get any better. My staff were annoying me and I felt kind of overwhelmed by all of their complaining. On the bright side the talent show is cominng up and I am very excited for the acts I am performing. I love to dance and sing so hopefully it will be fun for me and those around me. I am also looking forward to family day. My mother and brother are supposed to be coming to visit me. My old social worker is also coming as well. I just need to take some time and relax and not bite off more than I can chew. I just can't wait until school gets out in summer.

Prom Spectacular

My exeperiences at prom were fun and enjoyable. There was great food and awesome drinks. The waiter even pulled out my chair for me! I really liked the location at prom. The Friends of San Pasqual had definitely created an awesome enviorment to have prom at. Although I spent a lot of my time on the grand piano by the bathroom, I could still here the music in the backround which made me get up and dance. I also took some pictures with my friends and my boyfriend. Overall prom was definitely a night to remember and I hope next year will be even better!

Blog Value Post

Blogs can create an easier and quicker workplace for students. Students are able to get homework done as well as post fun facts about themselves. Blogs area also good for posting homework in case students forgot what it was. Blogs can also create bad habits as well. Blogs can cut into the amount of time kids have to do homework. Kids can get distracted by posting instead of actually doing homework. Personally blogs are a way to socialize as well as doing homework and other things. Blogs are an easy access for students to bully others. Blogs are overall a large network that has changed society in a more positive than negative way.

Vietnam Blabberizer

Career Day Paragraph

    Yesterday at San Pasqual Academy Career day came to campus. I had experienced career day at Mira Mesa High School and it was a lot bigger and more exciting to learn about rather than having a few career choices to choose from. I felt like there were a lot of basic career choices such as fire fighters, police forces, and the Army. Although a few colleges had attended, they were not my choice of colleges. I didn't get to fully experience career day to my satisfaction. I do appreciate that everyone took the time to come out and teach us about what they love to do. I felt that if they can find their choice of career than so can I, even though I wouldn't have actually chosen the careers they had. This career day could have been better. I did learn certain websites I could go on to find out what profession suits me best. Overall, Career day could have been a better experience. Hopefully next time Career Day comes around they'll invite people that I can relate to and who have the same career as I want to have someday.

Vietnam War Timeline

THE VIETNAM WAR on Dipity.

Earthquake Narrative

On Sunday there was an earthquake in Mexicali that shook all the way to Nevada. The magnitude of the Earthquake was 7.2 on the richter scale. I was located in the office when the earthquake shook San Pasqual Academy. At first I didn't notice until my chair started shaking and the pictures on the walls started to move. My staff and I got freaked out and ran outside to the front of campus. That night my housemates joked that if we had another earthquake while we were sleeping our overnight would leave us. Earlier this morning I felt one of the many aftershocks that occured. I thought that I was just imagining things. I got out of bed half asleep and asked my overnight if their was another earthquake. Hopefully that will be the only strong earthquake I will ever feel again.

"Spring Break"

This Spring break I went rock climbing and to the Griffith Observatory in L.A. Overall I had a fun time at rock climbing until my fingers went numb from grasping the rocks with my bare hands. The climbing chalk didn't help much either. The observatory was fun for the most part. Hopefully I will be able to go on trips like those again soon.

To Kill A Mockingbird

Deadly Injustice


You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until- until you climb into his skin and walk in it.
I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle.
In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.

White people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white.
“I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.”
She was white, and she tempted a negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong young negro man.
“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it.”

“In the name of God, believe him.”
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
“In the name of God, believe him.”
But around here once you have a drop of negro blood, that makes you all black.

“Guilty…guilty…guilty…guilty….”
“In the name of God, believe him.”
In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.

There are some kind of men who-who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Try fighting with your head for a change…it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.
“We only reach shore by faith decree.”

Favorite Cartoon

Who is your favorite cartoon character?

My favorite cartoon characters are Catdog, Stewie, Courage, and Pinky and the Brain.
I like these characters because they all have an intelligent side and a stupid side to them. They all kind of remind me of what I would do in situatons they have gotten into. Stewie is the evil genius who always wants to do something bad. Courage has a side to him that wants to do the right thing but doesn't know how. Pinky and the Brain always have some evil genius project they are working on. Catdog reminds me of the annoyance of always having to deal with someone or something that is attached to you (and I don't mean that literally). All of these characters have characteristics the same as me. That's probably why I enjoy watching these shows so much. Each of us has our own cartoon character in us.

My Fairytale

Last night I was being attacked by aliens. They said to me if I wanted to live I would have to join their hybrid army. I struggled to get an answer and finally agreed to let them inject me with a deadly toxin. At once I started to feel the side effects. My arms turned into giant licorice sticks. My legs turned into two tree stumps. My head turned into a giant pumpkin. All of a sudden everything started to swirl and I ended up in a gumdrop patch. I was on the game board of Candyland. The peppermint man started to pelt me with peppermint patties. As I ran up each colored block there were candy creatures everywhere. Two unicorns popped out of nowhere and said "come to candy mountain with us." I agreed and ran up to candy mountain. When I got there Willy Wonka told me I would have to give him a golden ticket in order to receive a heart transplant. It was my only option to live from all the candy I had eaten. He said the gingerbread man would me my operation. When I was on the operating table they gave me taffy gas which made me fall asleep. When I woke up I was all sticky. The gingerbread man and Willy Wonka were trying to tell me that I had been given an appleseed heart. They said the only way I could live is if I went to Johnny Appleseed in the Forbidden Forest. When I got there Swiper the fox had stolen my shoes and when I looked down I had roots for toes. Johnny Appleseed was busy planting trees. As I approached him he told me I had to climb up the giant bean stalk and visit the giant there. When I went to the beanstalk I started to climb up but fell suddenly. I was too weak to move so I layed there. A few weeks later Someone came along the path the beanstalk used to be. In place of the beanstalk was a giant beautiful apple tree.

Revolution Of Happiness

  Time has stopped and pathed a frozen path upon which I stand. The endless path has no meaningful point of direction. Over yonder I see a strip of yellow ribbon. Could it be the bleeding sun of which I have yearned? Is it the menacing ice playing tricks with my eyes once more? Please save me from this insanity which I cannot bear no longer! As I slowly walk on, step by step, the ice begins to melt through my raw, naked feet. The frigid ice path that I walk is becoming engulfed in an unconventional warmth: So am I. The frozen path which time has stopped, is coming alive and becoming one with the person who despised him most. The yellow ribbons have turned into an array of orange and red hues. As the bleeding sun begins to melt away the frozen path, and make everything new... I too am being remade and very well coming alive once more.

Literary Terms Flashcards

Literary Terms Flashcards flashcards from APRIL_MAY_JUNE99 on FlashcardDB.

Dream House

Describe your dream house?

If I were able to create my dream houses I would build one in a countryside and another in a crowded city. If I were tired of living in the city I could visit my countryside house. My city home would contain a round, king-size bed, and a television with cable. My kitchen would have all of my favorite foods. No one is going to be allowed in my studio room. It would be my sanctuary... my place to escape. My countryside home would have a fireplace, and a television as well. It would be a place where I could go to have alone time with myself. So if I were able to create my dream houses these are some of the many desirable things it would contain.

Ten Second Sound Off

What was your favorite song when you were a child?

When I was a child my favorite song was "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. My elementary BFF kayla and I used to sing this song all the time. It wasn't until a teacher pulled us aside and explained to us what the song's meaning was. She tried to explain in a way a fourth grader would understand. When I hear that song now I think of Kayla and the teacher that told us not to sing it.

"Rhyme Zone Poem"

High School

A buzzing goes off beside my bed

I know it's trying to rouse me awake.

I shut the thing up and put a pillow on my head

Thinking about the geometry test I have to take.

I slowly get dressed while still half asleep

And get ready to go the cafe.

I throw my supplies into a heap

And I'm off to school for the day.

The bell has rung, school has started

I make my way to my class.

Some people will joke and say "Who farted?"

I surely hope they will pass.

Concentration is hard and easily broken

Work is hard to get done.

I blame the one kid next to me who has spoken

and state "Class is not meant to be fun!"

As the bell rings for school to end

I tiredly gather my belongings with sorrow.

I hang out the rest of the day with a friend

And high school begins again tomorrow.

The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ.

Podcast Poem Preview

Evening In A Sugar Orchard

From where I lingered in a lull in march
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
'O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.'
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was moon enough to show
On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.

By: Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Ten Second Sound Off

Do you prefer the sunshine or the rain? Explain.

I prefer having both sunshine and rain. Sometimes It is good to soak up a little sun while on other days I prefer to stay inside and watch movies. Rainy days are very calming and realxing while sunny days I feel energized and excited. So I prefer both sun and rain.

Cliche Poem

It was raining cats and dogs on a Thursday winter morning.
The day tryouts came I rushed out of my house like a rushing racehorse
With horseshoes tighter than two coats of paint.
I stumbled across the Field...
The players were already settled into their places...
The first drill had already begun.
I eased my way through the drill...
Passing with flying colors.
No time to catch my breath...
The coach had already blew his whistle...
Time for a second round of laps.
Some participants were already lying down like beached whales.
The coach blows his whistle early...
He rounds us up and tells us words of advice...
"Through the sands of time I let sports slip through my fingers...
Until I learned to take what I cosumed both mentally and physically
to teach adoloescents how to work as a team."
He started to call names one by one...
Caroline, Marsha, April...
Confusion was obvious through my facial expressions...
I had made the team.
Hearing my name was like music to my ears.
I had learned two things that morning...
try your best no matter what and never let
anyone steal your thunder.
I had earned two victories that day.

Figurative Language Games

The best figurative language game I played tonight is Fling The Teacher because I got the chance to test my knowledge while flinging Mr. Walker into the air. In order to play this game I had to create a teacher and answer a series of fifteen questions correctly in order to be able to fling Mr. Walker. There wasn't any scored total. The player just had to answer all fifteen questions correctly. If you want to play this game, go to this link http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling3.html.

Another enjoyable figurative language game is metaphor battleship because I haven't played battleship in a while so it was nice to play a different version of the original game. In order to play this game, I had to click on a square that contained a part of a ship. If I located the right square a question would pop up. If I answered a question correctly I would be able to sink a ship. I had won the first round of battleship. If you are interested in playing this game, go to the following link http://www.quia.com/ba/42131.html?AP_rand=163810965

My least favorite figurative language game is Drag and Drop Metaphors because it wasn't much of a challenge and I completed it in less than twenty seconds. In order to play this game, I had to place a word next to the correct metaphor. My final score was a hundred percent. If you want to try out this non-challenging game go to the following link ...http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor1.htm

My Winter Vacation

My winter vacation went well. The first week of my vacation was spent doing pointless recreational activites. I was scheduled to have an overnight pass with my mother. All was well until the day came. The predicament that happened was not what was planned. The supervisors came to pick me up early from pass. When I came to where I resided I went straight to my bedroom and went to sleep. The following day was spent at my boyfriend's house and other places. The following week was spent at Walmart or Target. The Friends of San Pasqual and the County Social workers had donated $200.00 to us. I had bought the presents I hadn't received. My christmas break had started off bad and ultimately ended with happiness.