LOTF Final Journal

I thought that the ending was very sad. Ralph cried at the end because he realized all the sad horrible things that happened during their time on the island. The person that I like the least is Jack because he's cruel and ruthless. I would not recommend this novel to a friend because its incredibly boring, I fell asleep throughout the whole book.

Chapter 10 LOTF Response

1. In the beginning, Ralph says that Simon's death was a murder and Piggy's referring to it as an "accident". Samneric just call it the "dancing". They were stammering between their sentences, almost like they were choosing their words carefully.

2. Ralph felt guilty and the death, he was actually referring to it as a murder, but Jack paid no mind to it he even continued to doing mean, cruel things by taking Piggy's specs.

3. Jack is a cruel, ruthless person. He ordered his savages to tie Wilfred up even though they didn't want to. He also stole Piggy's specs.

Nonfiction Assignment Sheet: Politics

I. Factual Summary: Write a short summary of the piece you read.
   In the news article titled State of Union by Associated Press discusses Obama's proposal to tax rich people higher and help the middle class receive more money in the process.

II. Vocabulary
1. Which vocabulary words in the piece did you encounter some degree of difficulty?
     Dissident
2. How did you resolve your lack of understanding with these words?
    By looking the words up on Google.

III. Interpretation:
    What was the main point the author wanted you to get from reading his work?
     The good things that Obama is doing and his plans for the future, even though some other people have their doubts, like Joni Ernst.

IV. Criticism
1. With which points of the piece did you agree or find easy to accept? Why?
That many Americans suffer with no hope of higher pay, I agree because I've witnessed it.
2. With which points of the piece did you disagree or find difficult to believe? Why?
I didn't disagree with anything in the piece.

V. Personal Response:
What do you think about this piece?
I liked it because it was easy to understand, and I agreed with all that it said.

     

Opinion Editorial (How Young is Too Young for an iPhone?)

 The topic that I am going to be speaking about is, "How Young is Too Young for an iPhone?". I don't think that kids or teens should have iphones. I think that because if you erase something on an iphone, like a photo or text message, you can't get it back. The only person that can get it back is the police, and I doubt that they're going to take time out of they're busy day just to do you a favor. Kids shouldn't have because I just don't think that they should have an expensive phone like that until they're older. As for teens, they shouldn't have it because we have a lot to hide on there. I'll use myself for example. Two years ago I went on a website called Omegle. For those of you who don't know what that is, its an app where you meet total strangers. You can video chat them or just message them, I had an iPhone at the time, so I started messaging strangers everyday, until I met a man. Now, don't freak out, but he was twenty-seven years-old. I know, I know, that's really old, but I wanted to be adventurous! Anyways, I started talking to this guy for at least two months or a little less. What attracted me was his kindness, and he was really cute, so I didn't want to stop talking to him. Then, my parents caught me, literally red-handed. I was upstairs in my room texting him, we were having a little bit of an argument, because he kept asking me questions about the pictures that I was sending him of "me". No, not naked pictures, but they weren't really me. They were of different girls on the internet that look somewhat the same, but then he soon started to figure it out. So, I suggested that we stop texting each other all together, because he was basically calling me a liar (which I was, but I didn't want him to know that!). Then kept saying no, and that he wanted to keep talking to me. So, I walk downstairs feeling confident, and I'm thinking inside my head, "Dang, I got this boy sprung!" Then, my mom took my phone out of my hands out of nowhere, and right at that moment he texted me! I got in trouble, and my parents tried to get back the photos and text messages that I deleted, but couldn't since I had the iPhone. Now, my point is that I was doing something very dangerous. So, lets say I deleted all my text messages and pictures, and he didn't text me at that moment. I wouldn't have gotten in trouble, right? That means that I would probably still be texting him 'til this day. Meeting guys on the internet is very dangerous. I was to the point where I would actually go and meet this guy, if my parents had not caught me in the act.

The Joy Luck Club Essay

LaTia Turner

December 14, 2014

3^rd Period

The Joy Luck Club Essay

Jing-Mei Woo does succeed to fulfill her mother’s legacy. She succeeded because her wanted her to meet her twin sisters and tell them about her before she died, and that’s exactly what she did.

One way Jing-Mei Woo succeeded her mother’s legacy was by agreeing to write back to her sisters. For example, Jing-Mei Woo said, “‘they’ll think she’s coming then,’ I murmured And I had imagined my sisters now being ten or eleven, jumping up and down, holding hands, their pigtails bouncing, excited that their mother-their mother- was coming, whereas my mother was dead”(Tan 270). This is important because it show how much she cares about what her sisters think, she wants them to know the truth, she cares about them and believes that they should know what happened to their mother.

Another way Jing-Mei Woo succeeded her mother’s legacy is by making the decision not to tell her sisters about her mother’s death. For example, Woo’s mother’s best friend, Auntie Lindo, disagreed with Jing-Mei Woo by saying,” ‘She is their mother. She is your mother. You must be the one to tell them. All these years, they have been dreaming of her.’ And I thought she was right”(Tan 270­).This is important because she agreed with Auntie Lindo that she should be the one to tell them because they’re her sisters and they’re supposed to be close.

The final way that she succeeded her mother’s legacy is by going back to China to meet her sisters. For example, when Woo finally arrived and saw them, they embraced, and she stated in thought,” Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish” (Tan 288). This is important because she finally realized what her mother wanted, she wanted all her daughters to come together again, and this is moment when Jing-Mei Woo finally realizes what her mother’s cherished wish was.

Jing-Mei Woo succeeded to fulfill her mother’s legacy. Her mother wanted her to meet her twin sisters, that was her cherished wish. She agreed to write back to her sisters, meet them in China, and tell them about their mother. All throughout meeting her sisters she always thought about how they would feel, which showed that she cared for them even though she didn’t even know them yet, and that’s  what her mother truly wanted.

Leopard Man Questions

9. Tom Leppard is called "Leopard Man" because he is tattooed from head to toe with leopard spots, and he intentionally act like a leopard. He lives in solitude in the wilderness, away from society.

10. The author finds himself unimpressed with individuals who radically alter their appearance through extreme tattooing, piercings, and hair mutilations. He has these opinions being he believes that some people change their appearance just for attention from others.

11. Leopard Man is different from other tattooed and pierced people because he doesn't live for other peoples reactions. He lives in solitude, so he has no one to impress, which is his decision.

12. Leopard Man lives in a small cabin in the Scottish wilderness.

13. Society looks down upon freakish and extraordinary individuals alike and views them with suspicion. They especially fear loners, those mysterious creatures who pursue their own values without seeking others' permission or permitting others to hamper them.

14. Conformity can be seen as the world's most prevalent and most pernicious psychologists disorder. The consequences of it are no less than the suppression and destruction to one's self. Feys argument in this paragraph is that human are meant to be different, and living in society, we are under constant pressure to be different in almost everywhere we're at.

15. Leopard Man is happy because he is free. He lives in solitude and he has no worries about people judging him for who he is. He states, "As far as I'm concerned, if there is a paradise on Earth, I'm in it. You're welcome to what you've got. I'll keep this."

Diction Handout

1.  An example of jargon in the story is, "The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth with a tiny plop and a short hiss...".

2. opaque-not able to see through; not transparent.
   elongated-unusually long in relation to its width.
   elusive-difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
   cadaverous-resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.

 The boat made a shadow on the sea at night. Then he saw something long and pale floating towards the boat. As he started to wonder what it was, a flash that looked like lightning in the sky. He gasped as he saw a pair of feet, long legs, and someone's back. The man that he saw grabbed the ladder, but he didn't have a head. Surprised by this headless corpse, his cigar dropped out of his mouth. The corpse raised up his head aside the ship, and the man tried to look closer to see what it was aside the boat. The man held on to the ladder of the boat as if he were a resting swimmer, and the sea lightning shined on him and he appeared like a ghost.

3. It makes the tone more dreary and almost scary. When paraphrasing, the tone becomes more casual and less frightening.

4. 1)One hand, awash, clutched the bottom rung of the ladder.
    2)The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth.
    3)...leaned over the rail as far as I could...
    4)As he hung by the ladder...

5. The author chose to leave the captain and the group's names out of this passage because he wanted to focus more on the visionary or imagery in the story.

6. The denotation of secret is something kept private, sharing is, however, a public act. This brings to light the dialect of the public versus the private world.

Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony: corpse/body

Darkling: of or relating to growing darkness: dark

Pale: light in color or having little color: white

Phosphorescence: light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat: glow with light without becoming hot to the touch

Ghastly: resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: white

Headless: without a head: lacking good sense or prudence

Fishlike: any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales: any of various other aquatic animals