"Secret Place Poem"

When you get to this place you see kids running and having fun. While you are there you can taste the oxygen in the air. When you are at this place you hear the sound of kids cleats scraping at the grass you also hear the sounds of kids celebrating after they catch a ball to score for their team. At this place you can feel the wet grass and you can also feel the skin of a football.

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Third Quarter Goals Reflection

My goals for this quarter is pay attention in all my classes and turn in all my work. My second goal is to do all my work so I can be on the football team. My last goal is to past the ninth grade with great grades. Some things I did to achieve my first goal is being on top of all my work and making sure I finish all the assignments so I can turn them in the next day. Some thing I did to achieve my second goal is to motivate myself as much as possible because I really want to be on the football team. And one thing I did to achieve my last goal is to make sure I get all my assignments so I can complete them and turn them in. One thing I’m doing well in is completing all my assignments. One thing I have to do different is trying hardest to get off two hour because I want to get off and some people want me to get off two hour as well. At the end of the quarter I expect to feel relieved because I went the whole quarter trying my best to keep my grades up and trying to get off two hour. I want to feel relived because the first two quarters I was doing bad and myself and others noticed it so I started trying my best because I actually wanted to achieve my goals so I started turning in my work and staying on top of all my classes so I can make my goals achievable.  

Poetry Experience Paragraph

I know that in poetry that some poems rhyme, and some don’t. In the past I studied poetry because I hade to write some poems as an assignment, and sometimes I had to read about how poems are written and how some poems are understood. on my spear time I read some poems because I either have nothing to do or I nothing to read but when I do read some poems I actually get into reading them because some can catch you attention by the way they are written or just by the way it is understood because some poems that are writer are out of love or frustration.During this unit about poetry I hope to learn how to understand poems more and to figure out what the poet was writing about and what mood was the poet was in when he/she wrote the poem.

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Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

Over the past few weeks my class has been working on the words and meanings of symbolism and allegory. I learned about symbol  because our teacher had us read a story about called “The Grandfather”, and One assignment we had to do was write a paragraph about what symbolizes one important person in your life. We learned about allegory from a story our teacher had us read called “The Cave”.  Assignment we had to do that includes allegory is what we would do if we were in the narrator’s situation in the story “The Cave”. We had to write the paragraph because in the story a man was nearly beaten to death and after gathering the strength to find shelter in a cave he was encouraged enough to go back to the people who had beaten him and fight again, he was encouraged because in the cave he found a bears skull, axe head, and a arrow head that had blinded the bear. And from those objects he knew that a man blinded the bear and killed it. Studying symbolism and allegory changed the way I was thinking because when I never knew there were so many ways you could symbolize something or someone.

Symbolism String

Six items I would put on my symbolism string is 1. A Match because I have a short temper and I get mad very easy. 2. A number 3 because I have three brothers and three sisters. 3. A star because one day I want to have a star named after me. 4. A Chain link because when I was little my grandma always told me to be strong like a chain. 5. A NFL Logo because when I graduate college I want to get drafted into the NFL. 6. A phone because I like to text people a lot.

"The Skull and the Arrow" Graphic Organizer

"Yeah I did my homework"

"The Skull and the Arrow” In the Cave Extra Task:

If I was In that position I would rest until I was fine enough because it would dangerous wondering in the forest by myself because I am injured and a wild animal can follow my blood track and find where I am hiding and two I just got beaten by a group of people and almost got killed. If I knew people are thinking that I am dead I would go to them when I am feeling better and tell them that I was beaten badly enough where I almost died but yet I am still alive. If I was wondering in the forest while it was raining and I saw a cave I would go into the cave because if I say in the rain to long I know I would get sick so the cave can get me out of the rain.

“The Skull and the Arrow” Underdog Paragraph

What motivates underdogs to win believes in their teammates no matter how much they are losing by, just because your team losing by a lot of points doesn’t mean you should give up or get mad at your team for your mistakes. What I like about underdogs in sports is that after you do win people give you props for winning because you were about to lose or someone on your team hit a game winning shot. Being an underdog takes a lot because first you have to trust in your teammates no matter if some isn’t good at the sport or you don’t like that person, second you and your team have to get along because you will never win a game if your whole team is arguing trust me I know, and finally you have to believe in each other because when you believe in each other your team will come back and who knows what will happen next. Not every team can win all their games because sometime in their season there is going to be a team that is going to beat them because some teams will win some an some teams will lose some that’s just the way it is.

Sybolism in "The Grandfather"

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"The Grandfather" My Tree Trunk Paragraph

Like the narrator in “The Grandfather” by Gary Soto, I surround myself by a strong group of friends. I consider the group of friends to be my family. These people are my family because I knew some of them for a long time and I knew I could go to them if I was having trouble with something and knew they would help me. They give me strength by encouraging me to do well in school, and keeping me out of trouble. An example of a time when I depended on them was when I need help studying for a test so I asked them and they helped me with everything I needed so I can pass the test. A tree symbolizes family because it starts out small then over time it starts to grow and sooner or later the tree is thirty-feet tall.

“The Grandfather” Three Meanings of the Tree Paragraph

The most symbolic item in “The Grandfather” is the avocado tree the grandfather grew in his backyard. I think the avocado tree is the most symbolic item in the story because the grandfather worked very hard to try and grow the tree. In the story the avocado tree represents the grandfather because while his tree was growing stronger and stronger so was the grandrandfathers family.  In the story the tree represents the narrator because when the tree was growing bigger and bigger so was the narrator at the same time. In the story the tree represents the grandfather’s family because when the tree grows stronger and bigger the grandfather’s family is growing bigger and stronger at the same time.

The Grandfather” Symbol of My Significant Person

The person that is significant to me is my sister. The item I chose that represents my sister is a heart, I chose a heart because I know I can count on her to keep me moving through school like how I count on my heart to keep me going during sports activities. One thing my sister and a heart have in common is that when I have trouble with sports she will help me with my problem, like my heart will help me. Another thing they have in common is when I get pumped up for a football game or a basketball game she tries to keep me pumped. Sort of like when my heart keeps me pumped up so I can have energy to play. One last thing the two things have in common is when my sister knows I am having problems she tells me not to worry and she keeps me going like my heart keeps me going every day. I think my sister would be surprised if I told her because it’s only been one year since I meet her because we’ve been separated since we were little kids and it makes me happy when I see her because she is one of the people I think cares about me and doesn’t want me to fail.

"The Grandfather" Important Person Paragraph

One person that means a lot to me is my sister. My sister means a lot to me because she was always there for me when I get in trouble and when I need something she will always would always help me. My sister is the kind of person that people can count on if they need help with something. My sister is also a nice person because when you need to talk to somebody she will listen to what you have to say not like some people who wouldn’t even listen to you and walk away. My sister is important to me because she has always been there for me even if I was in the worst situation and I knew I could count on her to help me. She is also important to me because if I didn’t have her around I wouldn’t have anyone to encourage me or get on my case about getting good grades, or doing well in school. My current relationship with my sister is very good even though I meet her when I was 14 because when we were little me and my siblings got separated except me and my older brother Aj, but even though I meet her a year ago she is still encouraging me to do good in school and get good grades.

House Symbols

The money symbol symbolizes our house which is boys 105. To most people, this item is just a symbol that some people think is most valuable. To us it represents how we get money and how it just keeps stacking because when we get money we just don't know what to do with it next. Our house is great because we have always been up top. http://25michaelb.blogspot.com/
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Third Quarter Goals

An accomplishment from last year is I was able to finish middle school even though I didn’t care the first semester but I was able to graduate. I took tutoring classes after school and tried to stay focused in all my classes because I noticed I needed to bring my grade up. I also brought my grade up because if I didn’t I wouldn’t have been able play in the championship game with my old football team.
Three goals I am setting for 2011 are paying more attention in class and turning in all my assignments, another goal is doing whatever I have to do so I can be on our high school football team, and my last goal for 2011 is passing the ninth grade with outstanding grades.

One goal that I am going to do is pay attention in class and turn in all my home work.

• One thing that will help me achieve this goal is work during study hour and turn in all my assignments.

Another goal is to do all my work so I can be on the football team.

• One thing that will help me achieve this goal is motivate myself so I can be a starter on my high school football team.

My last goal is to past the ninth grade with great grades.

• One thing that will help me achieve this last goal is me looking ahead and going into the tenth grade with good grades so I can do the same the following year.

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It was Christmas day and I was super excited when I woke up because it was the day I could get up and open gifts I got from different people. I woke up around 7: 30 in the morning. As soon as I got out of bed I did my morning stretch before putting on my slippers and walked to the restroom. After I got of the bathroom I was about to jump back in my bed before the fact that it was Christmas day hit me and I was like a little kid getting a new toy because I was happier then ever. So when I noticed that it was Christmas I sprinted to my bedroom door opened it as fast as I could and I literally ran into the door because I didn’t open it fast enough, so after getting up I made sure that the door was open I was thinking about running into the living room so I could grab my present and open it right away, but as soon as I turned the doorway that leads to my bedroom there was a lady staff sitting right near the hallway on our sofa. So walking down the hallway just smiling at the staff and saying in my mind “thanks a lot now I can’t do what I planned out”, so as I walked past the staff she looked at me smiled and said “good morning “ and I didn’t want to be rude to her so I said “ Good morning”. I walked past the staff and flopped on the longest couch in our living room waiting for the rest of the kids in my house to wake up so we could open our presents. After a good 30 to 45 minutes of watching Sponge Bob, Aryon woke up and flopped on our other biggest couch. So 10 minutes pasted by and I got tiered of waiting so I told the staff I was going to open my presents and she said “ok you never had to wait”. So as soon as I got hold of one of my presents I ripped of the wrapping like lightning because I was anxious to see what was under it, so after opening all my presents I got football gloves, stitched Lakers jersey, and a grey T- shirt. So after opening all my presents I felt like my Christmas ended because there were no more presents to open so I laid back down and started to watch another episode of Sponge Bob and that’s how I started my Christmas.

Ambiguity in "The Lady and the Tiger"

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What I learned in English 10

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What I learned in the second quarter of English 10