Who killed Wellington

  Christopher's father Mr. Boone killed the dog. He did it because he was mad at Mr.Shears for cheating with his wife so he took his anger out on Mrs.Shears dog. Mr.Boone seems to drink a lot with his friends so he may of been drunk or at one point in the book Christopher smelt a smell he never smelt before which may have been marijuana. He also has a bit of a temper so he might have been mad at the dog if it was barking a lot. Mrs.Shears and Mr.Boone may have got into a fight and they got really mad at each other so Mr.Boone killed the dog.

 Evidence that shows that he killed Wellington is when Christopher saw Mrs.Shears and his dad hugging. That shows that they were close so Mr.Boone could go near the house which means he had access to the pitchfork in Mr.Shears garden. Also since they were close if they got into a fight that would give him motive to kill the dog. Mr.Boone is also a boiler repair man so that means that he was probably up in the middle of the night and could have been at the crime scene. Since Mr.Boone is also a drinker, he was probably drunk when he did it and especially after a late night shift of being a boiler repair man he probably had a few drinks.

  Mr.Boone's wife and Mrs.Shears husband had an affair so Mr.Boone was really upset about that and then when Mrs.Shears and Mr.Boone had a fight it was the last straw. Mr.Boone was furious and sick of being treated badly by his friends and family so he killed Wellington. He also probably was drunk because he was trying to flush out his problems by drinking. Also he is always telling Christopher to stop doing detective work so this means that he killed Wellington and he knows Christopher will find out he killed Wellington because Christopher is really smart.

  Mr.Boone is always drinking and always has late shifts because of his job. He also is the neighbor of Mrs.Shears and was always at her house because they were hooking up. Also he is always telling Christopher to stop doing detective work so this means that he could have killed Wellington and he knows Christopher will find out he killed Wellington because Christopher is really smart. Christopher doesn't listen though and keeps doing detective work and is always going outside to find people to ask about the murder. He then will ask Christopher where he was and then continues to drink with his friends.

  Mr.Boone killed the dog because he was mad at the Shears family. This would have been preventable if Mrs.Boone didn't leave him for Mr.Shears. It also could have been preventable if him and Mrs.Shears didn't get together because then he would have never been mad at each other and Mr.Boone wouldn't have killed the dog.

SONG

For my song about stress I choose Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

Daddy's flown across the ocean

Leaving just a memory

Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.

"You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! teachers! leave the kids alone!
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! teacher! leave us kids alone!
All in all you're just a another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just a another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, do it again!"
"Wrong, do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you
Have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"you! yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
 

 For my song I chose "Another Brick In The Wall" by Pink Floyd. This song connects to me because its about school and the stress of school and trying to build a wall between school and yourself. It is about how school teaches you how to be more quiet then it teaches you other things. Each brick is an event at school that you don't like. Also how if you don't do something perfectly it is wrong.

Friendships are Important Now and Then

  Friendships are very important in Romeo and Juliet and now because they keep people going and together. Romeo had a lot of friends like Balthazar, Benvolio, and Mercutio. Juliet also had a friendship which was with the Nurse of the Capulet's. The main friendship in this movie was between Romeo and his three best friends. Mercutio and Benvolio who always took care of Romeo no matter what and Balthazar looked up to Romeo like an older brother. This friendship caused a lot of death though, not just between the three of them but towards the Capulet's too. Friendships now are also very important because friends help each other get through tough times. Friendships now and friendships then are very similar.


 Friendships back in the 16th Century were just as important as the friendships now. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was with Benvolio and he was really sad because the girl he loved, Rosaline didn't love him back but Benvolio kept trying to tell him that there are a lot more girls and he should forget about her and find someone else "By giving liberty unto thine eyes.
Examine other beauties." Benvolio was telling Romeo dont just focus on one girl let your eyes wander freely and look at other girls. Benvolio tried to help him get over Rosaline but Romeo was still very sad and depressed. Now friends do the same thing they try to help each other with girl problems and support them through tough times. When you have a friend they can give better confidence like Mercutio giving Romeo confidence to go to the Capulet party when he didn't want to because he was all sad about Rosaline not liking him.


  Even though friendships are important and people need them friendships can turn really bad and in some cases lead to death like throughout Romeo and Juliet. If Mercutio didn't give Romeo confidence to go to the party Romeo wouldn't have met Juliet and they both wouldn't have killed themselves at the end. Mercutio probably wouldn't have died either because Romeo would have fought Tybalt instead of saying he loves him in a family way because he just married Juliet (). Romeo's action was not a friend move because if he was a friend he would of helped Mercutio. Today friendships don't usually lead to death, they might lead to arguing and maybe fights but no one dies. Also with social media and camera's instead of people helping out they will just film the fight.

  Friendships now don't lead to death like they did back in the 16th century. Friends fight all the time but they never try to put each other in danger and kill them. Friends will try to settle it a different way and go back to being friends. Friendships now are very important because friends always got each others back no matter what.


  Friendships are always important, you need them in your life or you'll be very lonely. Friends have your back and will have your back forever. They will support you with relationship problems and any other problems you might have. Friends will help you if you get hurt and help you get through the pain. Friends are one of the most important things in someones life.

My Essay Topic

There are a wide variety of relationships in this play including lovers, marriages, parents/kids, cousins, friendships, and religious. Choose the one that you think best represents the complexity of a modern teenager's relationship and provide quotes from the play that help you connect them to one another. Why do you think the relationships are so similar despite being centuries apart? What do you think Shakespeare would think about current teens? Why? Support your position with research and or examples from the play.

 I am choosing B because of the loving friendship between Mercutio, Benvolio, and Romeo. I think there is a lot behind their friendship, so that is why i am choosing to write an essay on Friendships in Romeo and Juliet.


Argument 1- Friends help each other out at any time and are there for each other.

Argument 2- Friendships can turn really bad and lead to death.

Argument 3- Friendships now are better then friendships during Shakespeare's time.

What is Love? Benvolio's Point of View

 ("Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!") It is unfortunate that Romeo's gentle offer of love is given back by a mean tyrant. I think love can be awesome sometimes but can be a pain sometimes too. Mostly I think love is awesome, it is an amazing thing. You don't have to stay with the same girl all the time either! I don't get why Romeo won't just find another girl there are so many others, he should stop chasing and being sad about Rosaline and just find another girl. I know it must be tough to not be loved by the girl you like but you have to get over it and move on. Marriage is dumb you don't need to get married you can just have sex with a whole bunch of girls not just one. Right now in my life i'm just looking for sex and girlfriends, i'm not really looking for a long relationship, I will worry about that later in my life when i'm ready to get married. I think eventually i will probably get married but right now I don't want to think about it because life right now is awesome and there are a lot of hot girls and i can't just stay with one. That's my opinion on love FGGM.

Mid Term Reflection

 I think I have been good with my attendance. I have only missed two days and that was when I was sick. I am usually on task in class but sometimes I need a reminder. My self regulation is good i'm not always off task. I am mostly in class conversations saying what I think but I sometimes try to hide and not be in them. I am new to twitter and I had no idea how to use it I have kind of got used to it with the help of my twitter partner Arman. I don't really tweet a lot because i'm new to it but ill get better as we get more into the Romeo and Juliet play. I think in the first category I deserve 22%.

When it comes to assignments I have done almost all of them I have published and turned in ten assignments and I think their is only 10 that had to be written in our blogs and turned in. That's not including the literary term that we wrote on Google Docs. I think i deserve 25% in this category.

Some of my assignments I put a lot of effort in but some I kind of didn't. My best assignments were probably the Myers-Briggs personality test write up and the Tattoo assignment. Especially the tattoo assignment i worked really hard on that one. Some of my work is good compared to others and some are really bad compared to others like the opinion on being content and the to a stranger blogs which were probably my worst. I think I deserve 20% in this category.

When the year started i didnt comment on other peoples blogs and i didnt really contribute in class conversations but I have started to comment a lot more in class conversations and others blogs. In this category I think I deserve 15%.

In total I think I deserve 82% in english 10 so far.

Romeo + Juliet Chorus

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

-Two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, both alike in dignity. Dignity meaning 

the quality of being worthy of honor and respect. 

In the beautiful city Verona where this scene is.

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

- An old feud breaks out into a new brutality,

And hands are covered in the blood of their own people

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

-Children from the two rival families can't be together but do so anyways and commit suicide

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

- Whose sad deaths put an end to the dispute between their families

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

-The frightening passing of their love

And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

-And their parents hatred for each other could not be stopped except by the deaths of their children

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

-In the two hours of the play, if you listen carefully, you will see what was left out of how they tried to fix the problem

To a stranger

In this poem "To a Stranger" by Walter Whitman I think it is about who he loves. It said on the internet that he was bisexual so it could be about a boy or girl. I personally think this poem is about a guy he loves because of the line "I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone". When Walter lived people didn't like homosexuals so he couldn't express his feelings about a guy and if he did people would call him certain words. There are a lot of different people this could be about but I think it's about a man he loves but can't be around because other people would make fun of him. 

Opinion on being content

My opinion is that the author should be content. His life as a child was horrible his dad abused him and his mom never stood up for him. I think that if he wasn't happy with his life he wouldn't be smiling about waking up in bad places and sleeping with prostitutes. He had probably never had a good relationship in his lifetime. He was probably really happy with his life if he didn't want to change anything. He seems to be able to get through tough times no matter how bad it is so I think it is okay to be content. If we could ask him today I think he would say he had a good life and he wouldn't change it.

My tattoos

I drew two tattoo's one is two goalie helmets and the other is my family coat of arms.

My first tattoo would be two goalie helmets facing each other and they would have the Detroit Red Wings logo on them. I would get this tattoo because I am a goalie in ice and ball hockey. I would get this tattoo across my chest. I think it would look cool there and thats why I whould get it there. It would be a medium sized tattoo, I wouldn't want it to be to big or to small. I would hope when people saw it they would know that I am a goalie and my favorite team is Detroit Red Wings. This tattoo doesn't need any words to show what it means.

My second tattoo would be my family coat of arms. I would get this tattoo because it represents my family (The Austin's). I would get this tattoo on my back because my family always has my back. It would be a big tattoo it wouldn't cover my whole back but it would cover about half of it. I would hope people would see this tattoo and think it looked cool but I wouldn't care if they didn't because it is my family's coat of arms. The only word that would be on this tattoo would be my family name Austin.

Interim #1

When my parents ask me how are you doing in English? I will say "I will show you". http://ryanaustin20.blogspot.ca

In class we use Blogger to do our assignments. To turn in our assignments we turn them in on Edmodo. It is kind of like a class website. Here you can see all the assignments and see the ones I have done and the ones i haven't done. You can also compare what i have done to what other people have done. We are not getting a letter grade yet but I can show you what i have done so far. So far I think I am doing good, I have kept up with the assignments given and compared to some others I think I have done the assignments right.

Extended Metaphor

An extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.

Example: In Shakespeares Romeo and Julliet, Romeo compares Julliet to the sun.

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief.”

There is also symbolism which is the sun and the moon

Shakespeare has a lot of literature that has extended metaphors in them.

Dynamic character

A Dynamic Character is a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, a change in personality or attitude.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a Dynamic Character

A miserable, bitter old man by the name of scrooge hates things like happiness, generosity and especially Christmas, until the three ghosts of past, present, and future come to visit him. When they come they show him his past, present and future and then the next day he isnt so miserable and he's really happy. He now helps people and is all cheerfull.

Ebenezer undergoes an important inner change. His attitude towards things are much more positive then before.

Myers-Briggs personality test

So i took the Myers-Briggs personality test and found out that I am an ENFP (Extraverted iNtuition Feeling Percieving) (The Advocate) Friends are what life is about to ENFPs,They hold up their end of the relationship, sometimes being victimized by less caring individuals. ENFPs are energized by being around their friends. Some really hate being alone, especially on a regular basis. ENFPs are warm, enthusiastic people, they are very bright and full of potential. They live in the world of possibilities, and get very passionate and excited about things. Their enthusiasm inspires and motivates other people. They can talk their way in or out of anything. They love life, seeing it as a special gift, and strive to make the most out of it. ENPFs are people who take charge when they need to, they are leaders ready to lead at any givin time. 

There are some really cool people in this world who are also ENFPs. Like Bill Cosby, Dr. Seuss, Robin Williams, and Sandra Bullock. There are also fictional caracters that are ENFPs like Ariel from Little Mermaid and Will from Fresh Prince of Bel-air. There are many more but these are the names that I recognize. I found this really interesting that I have the same personality to some of the coolest people ever.

ENFPs tend to get some cool jobs as well, like actor, designer, laywer, banker and my favourite because its what i want to be which is an Engineer. 

Teen Themes

 Life as a teenager is busy especially for me. Being busy with school and sports can be hard but I like being busy because I always have something to do. School can be a fun place, I enjoy hanging out with my friends. My favorite classes are P.E., Drafting, and electronics. I take Drafting and Electronics so I can get my dream job which is a car engineer. I don't have a job right now but I will soon because I am opening my own business it is going to be a goal tending school for hockey. My favorite sport is hockey but i also like golf and tennis. I have lots of friends through school, hockey and the other sports I play. I think being a teen can be hard sometimes but I enjoy being a teen. Being a teen can be fun though because i get to hang out with friends play videogames all the time and just chill. I do get frustrated though when it comes to things I dont understand like French, I just dont get certain things. Overall I think being a teen is fun and exciting.

History of Me and English

My name is Ryan I play a lot of sports like hockey, golf, and tennis. I am a goalie in hockey, i have played ice hockey for ten years and ball hockey for eleven years. I have played for team Canada and team B.C in ball hockey. I have also play for the school ball hockey team. I enjoy playing golf because it is a calm and really fun sport. I also like tennis because it is a fun and exciting sport to play and watch. This year at school I am going to try out for the school rugby team because it looks like a fun sport to try.

The past two years of English I have gotten a B. I am not a big fan of English because i don't like poetry and Shakespeare. I do like reading and writing short stories though but in novel books I would rather watch the movie then to read it.