Because last week we gave a list to patty of all the things we were going to sell she went to go buy them and she told us that we would get them here by Tuesday this week. On Monday we worked on making the posters announcing the opening of the student store for Friday that way students can know ahead of time to bring their money.
So Tuesday, the merchandise arrived and we hanged the posters. We didn't get the refrigerator until Wednesday so we stored the items in the office until then. But because the refrigerator doesn't have a lock we still can't put in our drinks until that gets done. So instead we cleaned it and we moved the cabinet that was in the wood shop to the library. We filled out a work request so they can install a lock and a request to get a cash box.
On Thursday, Melisa and Jazmine made an inventory chart so we can keep track of all the items that we sell, which ones sell the most, and which ones sell the least. Ms. Pilcher gave us feedback on that and helped us out with figuring out the prices for each of our items and also with finding our profit.
Standard:
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.) (See grade 11–12 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA
In the following passage, the author describes his situation towards hospitalization and reveals that he is not a fan of such feelings, through figurative language, diction, and syntax. The author’s tone is seen as pessimistic and overwhelming.
The author reveals his negativity toward hospitalization through figurative language. Towards the end of the passage, in paragraph four, lines 53-62, the author uses repetition to emphasize how one as an individual changes from being a patient to an inmate. In the same lines, the author uses analogy to show the negative effect as well by making a reference to a patient to a prisoner. He compares both and reveals how being a patient is just as well as being a prisoner. The author uses the simile “ The hospital, a prosaic victorian building, looked for a moment like the tower of London.” to show the author’s shift from losing reality.
The author uses diction as well to obtain that negative feeling to get his tone across. In paragraph two, lines 26-27, the author uses imagery to explain the way he felt as he was being placed on a wheeled stretcher. He says that it made him think of a tumbril, which are dead- carts used in the French Revolution. This lets the reader know how he feels scared and nervous. The author also uses the description “ notorious torture chamber” to explain how the room he was in was rather tiny and how it set off that kind of vibe.
Finally, the author uses syntax throughout the passage to establish the tone in which he reveals his feelings of nervousness. In the beginning of the passage, lines 20-23, the author uses short sentences to communicate the repetitive emotions he is feeling when he is in the hospital. The author also uses long complex sentences to further establish and emphasize his tone, he uses these sentences in the first paragraph, lines 5-15,. Here he explains the terrible dread of being in his situation.
In conclusion, the author uses figurative language, such as repetition and similes, diction, and syntax to describe his overall tone of the passage, which are feelings of negativity, nervousness, and overwhelming.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Writing Standard
Standard
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).
d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
Hell is a place that is miles and miles beneath Earth’s surface, a place that has no exit, once you go in you never go out. Anyone that goes in lives eternally in agony with no mercy. It consists of the most terrifying demons and creatures. Among them, the scariest of them all crawls on its four feet in the entrance of the doors of hell waiting for those condemned souls to make their lives a complete misery.
Hell contains of such powerful like that it blinds you, making it almost as if you’re in darkness. But instead of being pitch black, the only thing you see is bright red. Instead of seeing the flames burn, the only thing you see is the color of the flames. But the light is so bright that it makes you believe that you’re burning completely in fire when in reality there aren't any at all. The light gives off such heat that it makes you feel like you’re burning inside.
The light isn’t the physical torture of the condemned souls, they’re the ones torturing themselves. The light deceives them into thinking that the fire is eating them alive. Because they think that the fire is burning their skin, they begin to tear themselves apart. First they start with their face, they scratch their face until they make themselves bleed. They scratch themselves so hard that their skin comes completely off. Then they work their way down to their arms and to the rest of their body.
At this point, they’re in so much pain that they’re screaming their lungs out. But because hell has such tall walls, they’re so tall that you can’t see the ceiling, it makes an echo. So when you scream it echos back making you think that there is a crowd screaming in your ear. But of course you’re stuck with all the other condemned souls so their screams combine together to sound even louder.
This powerful light deceives them in every way, they think that they’re completely alone when in reality they’re accompanied by all the other sinners. They just can’t see them because this powerful light blinds them to only see the color red. They can’t feel them because the the light gives off such heat that the only thing they feel is the burning, so the pressure of all the crammed bodies combines making them think its the “fire.”
The light is eternally ongoing so they scratch themselves and they bleed eternally. They think that eventually they will bleed out and their pain will end but because they are immortal they will continue to bleed out and feel the pain forever. Because they don’t know that there are millions of bodies crammed together they think that all of everyone's blood is theirs making them go completely insane.
At this point because everyone has been bleeding out it begins to form a stream of blood and because they are crammed together they are unable to move so they end up choking on everyone’s blood. They choke over and over again for the rest of their lives.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).
d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
Hell Description
Hell is a place that is miles and miles beneath Earth’s surface, a place that has no exit, once you go in you never go out. Anyone that goes in lives eternally in agony with no mercy. It consists of the most terrifying demons and creatures. Among them, the scariest of them all crawls on its four feet in the entrance of the doors of hell waiting for those condemned souls to make their lives a complete misery.
Hell contains of such powerful like that it blinds you, making it almost as if you’re in darkness. But instead of being pitch black, the only thing you see is bright red. Instead of seeing the flames burn, the only thing you see is the color of the flames. But the light is so bright that it makes you believe that you’re burning completely in fire when in reality there aren't any at all. The light gives off such heat that it makes you feel like you’re burning inside.
The light isn’t the physical torture of the condemned souls, they’re the ones torturing themselves. The light deceives them into thinking that the fire is eating them alive. Because they think that the fire is burning their skin, they begin to tear themselves apart. First they start with their face, they scratch their face until they make themselves bleed. They scratch themselves so hard that their skin comes completely off. Then they work their way down to their arms and to the rest of their body.
At this point, they’re in so much pain that they’re screaming their lungs out. But because hell has such tall walls, they’re so tall that you can’t see the ceiling, it makes an echo. So when you scream it echos back making you think that there is a crowd screaming in your ear. But of course you’re stuck with all the other condemned souls so their screams combine together to sound even louder.
This powerful light deceives them in every way, they think that they’re completely alone when in reality they’re accompanied by all the other sinners. They just can’t see them because this powerful light blinds them to only see the color red. They can’t feel them because the the light gives off such heat that the only thing they feel is the burning, so the pressure of all the crammed bodies combines making them think its the “fire.”
The light is eternally ongoing so they scratch themselves and they bleed eternally. They think that eventually they will bleed out and their pain will end but because they are immortal they will continue to bleed out and feel the pain forever. Because they don’t know that there are millions of bodies crammed together they think that all of everyone's blood is theirs making them go completely insane.
At this point because everyone has been bleeding out it begins to form a stream of blood and because they are crammed together they are unable to move so they end up choking on everyone’s blood. They choke over and over again for the rest of their lives.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Reading Standards for Literature 6–12
This week we worked with Patty to finish our donation letter. She helped us make it look more professional by adding the school logo and the name in fancy letters in other words we included a header. We also searched businesses that donate to a non-profit organizations. We figured out that Smart and Final donates to schools and has done so for our school in the past with FFA. We also found out that we can apply to a donation request online so we made an account.
English Standard:
3. Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting
motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters,
and advance the plot or develop the theme.
I have also been reading the book "In Cold Blood", I have read Part 3 this week. The main characters Dick and Perry develop new characteristics over the course of the story or more specifically throughout part 3. They are at the point where the detectives are getting closer to catching both of them. The detectives already know that Dick and Perry were the ones who committed the crime due to the living "witness" also known as Floyd Wells, a past cell buddy of Dick's, who confessed that he was the one who told Dick of the Clutter family and their supposedly safe.
Before they were caught and arrested Dick was portrayed as "hard-rock, pragmatic, virile, a real brass boy." Just alone with his actions proved that he was a real murderer with no feelings of any kind. How he would run over dogs and smash them just for the hell of it and would only laugh at the sight and feel no consideration or pity what so ever. Or how he had continuously told Perry that they didn't need no masks because they were not going to leave a single witness alive. But these characteristics were only a mere cover up of how Dick really was for he'd proven to be "pretty weak, shallow, and a coward." When they arrested both Dick and Perry, they were separated into different rooms to be interrogated and with the pressure of the questions being asked Dick put all the blame on Perry and made him self look like the victim as well.
Perry on the other had showed to be the complete opposite of how he was described throughout the story. In part three, Perry reveals himself as not that sensitive but rather tough for a guy like himself. Before the murder the reader can only assume that tucking in the dead victims and doing such things as putting a pillow as to make them more comfortable would only be something that Perry would do. But after they were arrested Perry confessed when they told him that Dick blamed him for all the murders and said that he was a " natural born killer" and said that that was not true and that he killed Mr.Clutter and Kenyon while Dick killed Nancy and Mrs. Clutter. Something that the reader wouldn't have expected Perry to do.
English Standard:
3. Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting
motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters,
and advance the plot or develop the theme.
I have also been reading the book "In Cold Blood", I have read Part 3 this week. The main characters Dick and Perry develop new characteristics over the course of the story or more specifically throughout part 3. They are at the point where the detectives are getting closer to catching both of them. The detectives already know that Dick and Perry were the ones who committed the crime due to the living "witness" also known as Floyd Wells, a past cell buddy of Dick's, who confessed that he was the one who told Dick of the Clutter family and their supposedly safe.
Before they were caught and arrested Dick was portrayed as "hard-rock, pragmatic, virile, a real brass boy." Just alone with his actions proved that he was a real murderer with no feelings of any kind. How he would run over dogs and smash them just for the hell of it and would only laugh at the sight and feel no consideration or pity what so ever. Or how he had continuously told Perry that they didn't need no masks because they were not going to leave a single witness alive. But these characteristics were only a mere cover up of how Dick really was for he'd proven to be "pretty weak, shallow, and a coward." When they arrested both Dick and Perry, they were separated into different rooms to be interrogated and with the pressure of the questions being asked Dick put all the blame on Perry and made him self look like the victim as well.
Perry on the other had showed to be the complete opposite of how he was described throughout the story. In part three, Perry reveals himself as not that sensitive but rather tough for a guy like himself. Before the murder the reader can only assume that tucking in the dead victims and doing such things as putting a pillow as to make them more comfortable would only be something that Perry would do. But after they were arrested Perry confessed when they told him that Dick blamed him for all the murders and said that he was a " natural born killer" and said that that was not true and that he killed Mr.Clutter and Kenyon while Dick killed Nancy and Mrs. Clutter. Something that the reader wouldn't have expected Perry to do.
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