Final Post

Self Regulation - I think my effort in this class in really good. My class attendance is also really good I have only missed a couple of days and I always arrive on time except on flex days because I always forget class starts early so I am late. I don't always use my device effectively but I do most of the time. It is mostly because I went from using a laptop to using an iPhone. I think I chose a good seating location, I get most of my work done in class and I hand most of them in on time. I sometimes get off task in class because I start talking about what happened in the sports world. I always get my work handed in though, I have no missing assignments. I would also say I work good and choose my work partners wisely. Arman and I worked good together on the Benvolio Twitter and other post on Benvolio. During the year there were assignments that I worked hard on and there were assignments that I didn't work hard on. It depended on what the assignment was. For example I worked really hard on my tattoo assignment drawing the tattoos. but I didn't work really hard on my "Who killed Wellington" essay. With my essay I repeated most of my ideas throughout it and had no quotes but with my tattoo assignment I worked hard on the drawing and talking about the drawing and describing what they meant to me. In this category I think I deserve 29%

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(Tattoo Assignment)

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(Who killed Wellington Essay)

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Quality of Communication Skills-

8. speak and listen to make personal responses to texts, by
   – making connections with prior knowledge and experiences – relating reactions and emotions to understanding of the text – generating thoughtful questions
   – making inferences
   – explaining opinions using reasons and evidence 
   

I make a lot of connections when I write an assignment. Like my tattoo assignment where I conected with my family and what I like.

A4  select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to interact and collaborate with others in pairs and groups, including 

4. – initiating and sharing responsibilities
   – listening actively
   – contributing ideas and supporting the ideas of others – acknowledging and discussing diverse points of view – reaching consensus or agreeing to differ 
   

I work with my group really well working with Arman and sharing ideas with him and my other group members.

8. – making and supporting reasoned judgments
   – examining and comparing ideas and elements among texts
   – describing and comparing perspectives 
   – describing bias, contradictions, and non-represented perspectives 
   – identifying the importance and impact of historical and cultural contexts 
   

I think I am good with going through my work and other people's work and comparing then and using techniques to improve my work. I also think I need to work on my technique in writing. I am not the best formal writer as you can tell by my essay writing and it is definitely something I need to work on. 

I think I deserve a 22% in this category.

Contribution to the Learning Environment- I sometimes go back and edit my work after a classmate has commented on mine but sometimes I don't because I was just to lazy to edit it. I also provide useful comments but mostly I just say good job and the part that I liked the best. I think i'm really good with talking to my group with ideas and they are really good with giving out idea's too. I also think I am good with commenting interesting facts on research assignments on poem writers. I also help my group members with technology issues like for Jeremy, he needs someone to log into the laptops, so I log into my account for him. I am good with finishing my work on time so other people can read it and also think I bring a positive mindset and hard work to the class. I am really good at listening to my groups idea's and adding them to improve my work. I think I deserve a 29% in this category.

Uninvited guests

His heart was pounding. He was sure he saw the doorknob turn.

"Hide the the kids!" said father 

Mother rushed me and my sister into a secret room behind our bedroom cabinet. She closed the cabinet doors and told us "be quite." 

My sister and I heard the front door open and then my mother screaming. I heard a man yelling in German and my father yelling back. I didn't understand what they were arguing about. Then there were two really loud bangs!

My sister and I waited for probably about one hour before leaving the secret room.

We walked to where the front door was and my sister Asked "where is mother and father?" 

I said "I didn't know" 

I told my sister to wait here so I could go see if our neighbours were home and tell them about what happened but no one was home. I was really worried about what happened to my parents. I returned home to talk to my sister. I told her that the neighbours weren't home. 

I said "we should stay at home for awhile 

And wait for mother and father to return.

As my sister and I waited I was trying to think of where my parents would have gone. There was a war going on right now and I remembered our neighbour telling us about men coming to people houses and taking them places. I also remembered that he told us if this ever happens to us we should run and find an American base and they would help us.

I told my sister that we were going to wait a little longer and see if mother and father come home but if not, we are going to find an American base. 

"Why?" She asked 

I told her we had to because I think our parents had been taken and we need to find Americans because they will help

She said "how do you know they will help"

I said "our neighbour Jeff told me that if something like what happened today happens that we should find an American base and they will help us."

She said "okay."

We waited till the next morning when we heard more screaming but it was from across the road. I peeked out our window and saw soldiers taking a family of four to a truck. I looked behind me to tell my sister what was happening but she wasn't there. I looked back out the window and there was my sister running toward the soldiers and there truck. She threw something at them and one of the soldiers grabbed her and put her in the truck.

I ran outside but the truck started to leave I tried to chase the truck but I couldn't catch it. I fell to my knees and yelled "Nooo!" 

I stayed there crying wondering where they were going. I got up and started walking in the direction of where the truck went. 

I walked for a good distance but still nothing. In the distance I could see a smoke stack. I walked towards it till I hit the forest then I saw a group of 6 guys, they were soldiers but they were in different uniforms then the other soldiers.

I ran toward them and they turned around and pointed there guns. I stopped and they lowered there guns. They walked toward me and one of them asked me "what are you doing her?"

I said "my sister was taken, do you know where she is?" 

He said back "I don't know for sure but I might have an idea."

I asked "can you help me find her?"

He asked for my name and my sisters name so I told him it was Henry and my sisters name was Tracey

He said "this is Lt.Jackson he is going to stay here with you and if I find your sister in where I think she is, I will come back with her, Ok?"

I agreed. The five soldiers left and the one named Lt.Jackson stayed with me.

We didn't say anything we just sat there. 

He handed me some chocolate and then we heard loud noises in the distance. He stood up really fast but He sat back down right after. 

We waited there for about an hour until I saw 4 of the 5 guys return but to their left was my sister and I ran towards her.

Man from the South

-plot
-introduction 
-conflict (man vs man/man vs himself) (internal/external)
-rising action
-climax
-falling action
-denouement
-Character
- protagonist (main character)
- antagonist (force opposing the main character) 
-static (remains the same)
-round (complex with many characteristics) 
- flat (single or simple characteristics) 
- stock character (stereotype) 
- dynamic (changes throughout)
-Setting
-atmosphere
-time
- place
Theme
Point of View
-first person
-third person (omniscient, limited omniscient, objective/limited)  
Foreshadowing

An american sailor is confronted by a Jamaican man and is asked if he wanted to make a bet. There are many conflicts in this story. The first main conflict is man vs man which is between the american sailor and the Jamaican man making a bet. The other main conflict is man vs himself which is the american sailor wondering if he should take the bet because it is risky. The third main conflict is also man vs himself, it is the author wondering if he should step in and tell the american sailor that he shouldn't take the bet. The event leading up to the climax are the sailor agrees to the bet the Jamaican man takes him up to his room but first asks the author if he could referee the bet, The author agrees and a British girl hanging out with the sailor also agreed to come to the room. The bet is if the lighter will light the cigar 10 times straight the sailor will get the Cadillac but if it doesn't light 10 times the Jamaican man gets to cut off the sailors left pinky finger. The climax is when the boy has lit the cigar 8 times and a women steps into the room and grabs the Jamaican man and apologizes for letting him do this. The falling action is her telling them that the Jamaican man is crazy, She said "He is a menace," the woman said. "Down where we live at home he has taken altogether forty-seven fingers from different people, and he has lost eleven cars. In the end they threatened to have him put away somewhere. That's why I brought him up here."  The characters are the Author, the american sailor (protagonist, dynamic), the Jamaican man (antagonist, stock), the British girl (flat), and the Jamaican mans wife/girlfriend/friend/caretaker (static). Setting is at 6 o'clock in Jamaica at hotel swimming pool. It is busy at the pool. The Theme is to not gamble with strangers. The point of view is first person( of the author). The foreshadowing is when the boy lit his cigarette and the authors cigarette and he thought to himself that he could win this bet and how bad can it be to lose his pinky finger. The Denouement is when the Jamaican mans caretaker tells everyone that the Cadillac he was betting was hers.     

Essay #3

  Walking in someone else's shoes can change how you feel about something or someone. You can find out what people are going through or something else that is new about them like their favourite sport which later might become your favourite sport. Walking a mile in someone shoes can change your whole perspective on something or someone.

  In Romeo and Juliet the two families, the Capulet's and the Montagues hate each other but when Romeo and Juliet meet each other and fall in love. They find out that each other are really nice and sweet. This leads to Romeo not fighting Tybalt because he has married Juliet and he says he wont fight him. Romeo says "I do protest, I never injured thee,But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the true reason of my love;And so, good Capulet,-- which name I tender As dearly as mine own,-- be satisfied" (3.1.70-4). Romeo also changed when Tybalt had killed Mercutio, Romeo then turned into Tybalt because Tybalt was a violent person and Romeo was more of a passive person but he became like Tybalt because his best friend was killed.

  In the novel "The curious incident with the dog in the night time" the two parents, Mother and Father step into each other shoes after Christopher goes to live with his mom because his dad had killed a dog and Christopher is scared that his dad might kill him. "Sometimes he tried to talk to me through the door, but I didn't answer him". Christopher is afraid to talk to his dad because he killed a dog and lied to him about his mothers death. The mom then finds out what life had been like for the dad because she had left Christopher alone with him.  The dad finds out how sad life is without Christopher. At the end Christopher finds out how tough life is taking care and putting up with him. Christopher also steps into the adult hood when he dicides to go find his mother by himself by taking the train system because of his dad killing a dog.

  Personally I have changed a lot by stepping into other people's shoes. Sometimes literally stepping into other people's shoes. One of the first times I played basketball I was wearing flip flops and my friend let me borrow his basketball shoes so I didn't hurt myself running in flip flops and I really enjoyed playing it. It was a new sport for me I didn't really like it before because I thought it was boring and how hockey is way better then it (which it is) but I played it for a bit and it was really fun. It changed my whole perspective on the sport and today it is one of my favourite sports.

  Stepping into someone else's shoes can be difficult because you are doing something different that you are not used to. If you walk a mile in someone else's shoes that is different because you are in there shoes for a longer period of time which can change your perspective on something you did not like before. Sometimes it won't change you at all, you might still dislike what ever someone else is doing.