After reviewing the Voxopop discussion, I would like to persuade people to become a coach, and organize field trips, or Friends of San Pasqual. You may listen to my class’s discussion here
Below is the link
http://www.voxopop.com/group/1fa82b63-3a2b-467a-a46d-efca85728ccc
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
“First Persuasive Paragraph.”
Students should not be allowed to play any sports if they have low grades. A lot of students have different situations in getting their work done and focusing in school. Also students that play sports and have low grades think about sports and not their school work until the end of the season. So that when it is time to finish the season some students grades are still not to the extent that they are supposed to be at. If students do their work and p-lay sports at the same time they can do both because they have enough potential to muti-task on both sports and education.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Kivon L. and Kyrhee D.
Period 5
11-22-10
Final Draft
The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon”
In the story” The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” the main character is the narrator. The main conflict in this story is when the Narrator takes Sheila Grant out in a boat and she tells the narrator she hates fishing. Unfortunately he is happy to go fishing and decides to stop what he loves for her.They end up at a concert and she leaves for some guy named Eric Caswell. Later on in his life he remembers to not make that same mistake again. The story’s theme is don’t stop what you love for a person.
The main character in the story The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant is the boy that likes to go fishing and catch bass in the river. The conflict in the story is that the boy falls in love with Sheila Mant and the boy loves to go fishing. Sheila Mant does not like fishing and so the boy throws his fish away that he caught. The resolution is that the boy learned from his mistake. The boy changes because after the fact Sheila Mant does not find him interesting because of his fishing he moves on and still does the same thing in life that he used to do. Whether or not there is something that you like or that you find impressing you don't have to change for that specific thing or that person just be yourself so you have confidence about yourself.
The main character for the story “Catch the moon” is Luis and he is a teenage boy. The main conflict in the story is that Luis’s mother dies of cancer and Luis has a big struggle with that even though it has been three years since his mom has passed away. He does not know a lot about how to love or even like a girl because basically the only girl in his life that ever loved him was his mom. The resolution in the story is that Luis still loves his mom but he does not think about her that much and doesn't get mad easily anymore because he does not really pay much attention to his mom not being alive. The main character changes because he thinks before he starts to get angry when people talk about his mom and he is a little more comfortable around girls . Just because a person is not with you in life it does not mean you have to stop doing things in your life because of someone not being included in it .
In both of the story’s “The bass, the river, Sheila mant” and “Catch the moon” both boys have figured out what love is about and what it means. Both of the boys know what it is to be loved and how to be loved and how to be close to somebody in their life. The main ideas were that the boys had a date or experienced what it feels like to try to find someone perfect for them and they also had something in their life that meant almost the world to them. Overall in life there is going to be a down fall in life, but who is to say that you can’t get over that down fall. You only have one life, make it like you want it and don't give up on your strengths.
Period 5
11-22-10
Final Draft
The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon”
In the story” The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” the main character is the narrator. The main conflict in this story is when the Narrator takes Sheila Grant out in a boat and she tells the narrator she hates fishing. Unfortunately he is happy to go fishing and decides to stop what he loves for her.They end up at a concert and she leaves for some guy named Eric Caswell. Later on in his life he remembers to not make that same mistake again. The story’s theme is don’t stop what you love for a person.
The main character in the story The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant is the boy that likes to go fishing and catch bass in the river. The conflict in the story is that the boy falls in love with Sheila Mant and the boy loves to go fishing. Sheila Mant does not like fishing and so the boy throws his fish away that he caught. The resolution is that the boy learned from his mistake. The boy changes because after the fact Sheila Mant does not find him interesting because of his fishing he moves on and still does the same thing in life that he used to do. Whether or not there is something that you like or that you find impressing you don't have to change for that specific thing or that person just be yourself so you have confidence about yourself.
The main character for the story “Catch the moon” is Luis and he is a teenage boy. The main conflict in the story is that Luis’s mother dies of cancer and Luis has a big struggle with that even though it has been three years since his mom has passed away. He does not know a lot about how to love or even like a girl because basically the only girl in his life that ever loved him was his mom. The resolution in the story is that Luis still loves his mom but he does not think about her that much and doesn't get mad easily anymore because he does not really pay much attention to his mom not being alive. The main character changes because he thinks before he starts to get angry when people talk about his mom and he is a little more comfortable around girls . Just because a person is not with you in life it does not mean you have to stop doing things in your life because of someone not being included in it .
In both of the story’s “The bass, the river, Sheila mant” and “Catch the moon” both boys have figured out what love is about and what it means. Both of the boys know what it is to be loved and how to be loved and how to be close to somebody in their life. The main ideas were that the boys had a date or experienced what it feels like to try to find someone perfect for them and they also had something in their life that meant almost the world to them. Overall in life there is going to be a down fall in life, but who is to say that you can’t get over that down fall. You only have one life, make it like you want it and don't give up on your strengths.
Monday, November 22, 2010
"Catch the moon" Theme organizer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cN1QCD2qR1Q4c1eLObLT_FO5AxsF9HbSm6ebnW_OWSY/edit?hl=en&pli=1
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Catch the Moon” Grief Paragraph
The change Luis experiences after he address the grief he feels for his mother’s death is believable. In real life people are going to feel grief for the one they love the most. For example when I got token away from my grandma all I can do for the nine years I was taken away from her is cry my self to sleep. I still remember everything that happened that day and the look on my grandma’s face when I got taken away from her. By dealing with grief, people are able to control their feelings or talk to someone really close to them. Also they don’t try to think a lot about it because it is not going to help the person by thinking about it it’s just going to make them have a lot more grief than before.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Homeroom Reform Essay
So many things can help better us as students to improve our learning and education.
There are 140 kids at San Pasqual Academy, a high school for foster youth.If we were to win the $5,000 dollars towards our education we believe that our students would be able to finish all homework and assignments. We believe that we all have the ability to improve in our education. For example we have an English 10 class that is technology based. We definitely need funding because we only have so many laptops that we can check out after school.
Each student has a blog. Thanks to our English teacher we have become a paperless class learning new technology. For example we get to learn about different websites, what they are based on and how they work, for example we use Voki, Blogger, Google Docs and our favorite one which is our Delicious accounts. This website lets us bookmark different sites and we can make tags. When Ms. Priester brings up new sites or different things that we are going to try out she normally makes a slide show/ PowerPoint that teaches or demonstrates the steps in order for us to learn how to use the websites. Ms. Priester has shown us different techniques in order to get us prepared for college starting from writing essays to making diagrams to the coolest of all designing our own forms or even test. Also, I am an English language learner and used a website called Rosetta Stone in order to improve my English pronunciations and how to write words correctly. If we were able to share this with our whole school and maybe to other students at other schools they would learn that technology and having laptops makes work more enjoyable then writing everything out on paper.
Having the laptops would make teaching better and having a better learning and positive environment as well as not having to worry about not having enough laptops for a whole class. This project will help the students on this campus by saving them many hours of studying and improving their grades. Another way the laptops will help the students is by knowing that when the computers don’t work in the cafe they have another source to use with wireless Internet. When students graduate and get ready for college they are expected to be well versed in the use of laptops. Throughout time as well as personal experience it has been shown that laptops are more effective in producing higher education and more efficient results.
Having laptops will not only improve the education throughout high school but also prepare us for college since college is normally all technology based. Many of our students enjoy technology and many have become even more technologically advanced on their own. Our students at San Pasqual Academy would be very grateful if we were to win this prize.
I wrote this essay with Bella." We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest.
There are 140 kids at San Pasqual Academy, a high school for foster youth.If we were to win the $5,000 dollars towards our education we believe that our students would be able to finish all homework and assignments. We believe that we all have the ability to improve in our education. For example we have an English 10 class that is technology based. We definitely need funding because we only have so many laptops that we can check out after school.
Each student has a blog. Thanks to our English teacher we have become a paperless class learning new technology. For example we get to learn about different websites, what they are based on and how they work, for example we use Voki, Blogger, Google Docs and our favorite one which is our Delicious accounts. This website lets us bookmark different sites and we can make tags. When Ms. Priester brings up new sites or different things that we are going to try out she normally makes a slide show/ PowerPoint that teaches or demonstrates the steps in order for us to learn how to use the websites. Ms. Priester has shown us different techniques in order to get us prepared for college starting from writing essays to making diagrams to the coolest of all designing our own forms or even test. Also, I am an English language learner and used a website called Rosetta Stone in order to improve my English pronunciations and how to write words correctly. If we were able to share this with our whole school and maybe to other students at other schools they would learn that technology and having laptops makes work more enjoyable then writing everything out on paper.
Having the laptops would make teaching better and having a better learning and positive environment as well as not having to worry about not having enough laptops for a whole class. This project will help the students on this campus by saving them many hours of studying and improving their grades. Another way the laptops will help the students is by knowing that when the computers don’t work in the cafe they have another source to use with wireless Internet. When students graduate and get ready for college they are expected to be well versed in the use of laptops. Throughout time as well as personal experience it has been shown that laptops are more effective in producing higher education and more efficient results.
Having laptops will not only improve the education throughout high school but also prepare us for college since college is normally all technology based. Many of our students enjoy technology and many have become even more technologically advanced on their own. Our students at San Pasqual Academy would be very grateful if we were to win this prize.
I wrote this essay with Bella." We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest.
"SPA Movie & Games Day Paragraph.
When I arrived to school on Friday I was so happy and looking forward to the day and for Saturday. On, Friday I expected to go to or first period class and watch the movie “Aging out of the system”. Instead we watched Freedom Writers with the sophomores mixed with the freshman. The movie was really heartbreaking and emotional. I liked a lot of parts in the movie because it made me think about SPA. Last Friday the students of SPA had a lot of fun and really enjoyed not having to do much homework and work in the classroom. The next time a fun day is planned at school at SPA I think the activities can be a watermelon food contest and a pineapple food contest and we should play tug of war. Fun days are beneficial to students of San Pasqual Academy because you don’t have to worry about people getting in to fights or sitting in a classroom doing work while you can be outside and having fun.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
“SPA Theme Song.”
Live like were dying by: Kris Allen
Sometimes we fall down, can't get back up
We're hiding behind skin that's too tough
How come we don't say I love you enough?
'Til it's to late, it's not too late
Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come
And we could make a feast from these crumbs
And we're all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you, what would you wish you would've done?
Yeah, we gotta start lookin' at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got, then we gotta start thinkin'
If every second counts on a clock that's tickin'
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye?
Should be so careful who we left out of our lives
And when we long for absolution, there will be no one on the line
Yeah, we gotta start lookin' at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got, then we gotta start thinkin'
If every second counts on a clock that's tickin'
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying, oh, like we're dying, oh, like we're dying
Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
You never know a good thing 'til it's gone
You never see a crash 'til it's head on
Why do we think we're right when we're dead wrong?
You never know a good thing 'til it's gone
Yeah, gotta start lookin' at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got, then we gotta start thinkin'
If every second counts on a clock that's tickin'
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying, oh, like we're dying, oh, like we're dying
Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
Live like were dying by Kris Allen represents San Pasqual Academy because the campus can be frustrating for people and we have to see the same people evrey day. Also evreybody does not have good days or are always happy for their own reasons. The song also does not just relate to the campus it relates to me because when I listen to the song I realize how many struggles I go through evreyday of my life and it is not easy. I would recommend this song to the campus just to listen to for a little while so that it can give a meaning to students and show all of us that we are not the only people in the world that is going through what we are going through evrey single day.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
“’The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant’ compared to “I’m Gonna Miss Her.”
“The bass, the river, and Sheila Mant and Brad Paisley’s song” Im gonna miss her is compared because in the story the boy is trying to get the girls attention by stop fishing. The story and the lyrics are compared also because the story has a theme, which is to never let anything get in your way when doing something in life. The lyrics of the theme is if you love something that your heart tells you to do don’t hesitate or wait. The story and the lyrics also have love and romance in both because in the story the boy really cared for Sheila but did not know how to show it and the lyrics talks about romance and love and how it affects people and what love means.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Internal and External Conflicts in “The bass, The River, and Sheila Mant.”
In the story “The bass, The river faces both external and internal conflicts. The external conflict in the story is that there is a boy who likes this girl name Sheila Mant and she would always sit on the float and sit their tan. The boy would try to get Shela’s attention to talk to her but he did not know how to get her attention that well. By the boy not getting attention from Shela he learned that he’s going to have to wait a while until her attention is toward him. The internal conflict is that the boy had asked Sheila would she like to go to a band with him and she was like we should take my father’s car. The boy had said we can use a boat that his father had made and she was like okay. They got to the band and she was enjoying herself.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
"Catch the Moon" Falling in Love.
Falling in love is not just a quote or a saying it is a very special moment. You will know how it is to fall in love when you actually cherish the moment and you are right there with the person you love. Many people in the society will tell a person or people that they are in love and they want to spend there life together forever. Most likely the people that tell you that they love you , they will either hurt you or use you for your time in the day and time. When falling in love, people are motivated by what there mind and there body tells them. Sometimes people get motivated by what other people think of a person instead of doing what yourself tells you what to do.
"Catch the Moon" Falling in Love.
Falling in love is not just a quote or a saying it is a very special moment. You will know how it is to fall in love when you actually cherish the moment and you are right there with the person you love. Many people in the society will tell a person or people that they are in love and they want to spend there life together forever. Most likely the people that tell you that they love you , they will either hurt you or use you for your time in the day and time. When falling in love, people are motivated by what there mind and there body tells them. Sometimes people get motivated by what other people think of a person instead of doing what yourself tells you what to do.
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