Journals due tomorrow

And here, for the slackers, are the topics, complete with dates.  Thanks Jess!

12/4/14: Describe your best school experience.

12/5/14: Freewrite

12/8/14: Describe a time you failed, and explain how it changed you.

12/10/14: Describe a place where you are perfectly content.

12/11/14: Is ignorance bliss? Explain.

12/12/14: Freewrite

12/15/14: Make a list of five things that would "loop" on your perfect T.V. channel.

1/5/15: Make a list of 5 or more reasons you would rather be home right now/are happy to be here.

Sample Speech outline

I.

          A. Ever wonder why kids really dread moving? Well its not cause our peers are the easiest to get along with.

          B. When kids move from one district to another its not that bad because they might know someone that lives there. When they move state to state that’s a WHOLE other story.

          C. By the end of this I would hope to make it easier to understand why in my opinion moving really sucks.

          D. Moving isn’t really as great as parents make it to seem.

II.

          A. A few months ago I lived in nice sunny Charlotte, North Carolina.

                   1. There everything was just so much fun. I guess living with your older cousins has its perks to.

                   2. The atmosphere was just much more chilled in relaxed I didn’t really worry bout anything.

                   3. I just got so accustomed to everything out there.

                   4. Then I got hit with the big surprise. I was moving back to good old Jersey.

             B. Have you ever watched a cartoon and in the cartoon that character just gets whacked across the face with  something hard and painful?  

                   1. Well that’s exactly how I felt at that moment. My jaw just dropped.  

                   2. I stood there so long with my jaw dropped it actually started to ache a little.

                   3. Everything was just so surreal. I thought to myself maybe if I mope long enough and just look flat out depressed my mom would change her mind.

                   4. NOPE… We wee still moving and my life was still ruined forever.

          C. Parents don’t understand the struggle to make new friends.

                   1. To make new friends we would actually have to be sociable in a new school and hope that the person who your trying to make friends with doesn’t think your downright weird.  

                   2. To kids or at least to me its so hard to just meet new people.

                   3. Honestly I’d rather be that loner kid that no one talks to just so I don’t have to actually strike up a conversation with someone.

          D. When I moved to Mays Landing and started Oakcrest I had idea and one idea only:     

                   1. “If anyone talks to me that’s fine talk to them make friends. If they don’t oh well you’ll forever be alone.”

                   2. That is exactly how I went my first week at Oakcrest.
                   3. To my advantage people were actually nice and wanted to talk to me.        

III.

          A.  The second week of school wasn’t as bad I actually survived.

          B. I say all this to say moving can be a great thing if the kids not a teenage kid that’s probably all emotional and pumped up on 

Project Samples

Here's a few samples that you can look at for tomorrow's hero project:

Lindsay Lohan

Watchmen

Sample Sentences Unit 4

Vocabulary Unit 4 Sample Sentences

1.        My mom just surmised that I ate the cookies out of the cookie jar without seeing me take it.  (Natashia Cooper)

2.       The marauding of the bear stopped when he found food.  (Sam Corso)

3.       Oedipus defiled his own mother and it’s disgusting.  (Cameron Garcia)

4.       For an artist, their hearth is the studio; whether it’s long hours recording, painting or dancing, it feels like a second home.  (Cece Holeschak)

5.       Although the bus took the brunt of the impact, there were still passengers who were injured severely in the accident.  (Alex Ho)

6.       You could tell they lived a life of piety when they prayed each night before dinner.  (Melissa Zou)

7.       His complexion was swarthy, almost the same shade as his dark hair.  (Etimbuk Ukpe)

8.       The police are struggling to contain the onslaught of riots and protesting going on in Ferguson.  (Brooke Szarzynski)

9.       In the Hunger Games, Katniss sang a dirge to Rue as she is slowly dying.  (Kaitlyn Scardino)

10.   The sanctimonious attitude of some celebrities is not attractive to the public audience.  (Jessica Bixha)

**Study for the quiz tomorrow!

Vocabulary Words: Oedipus

1. kindred
2. dirge
3. gouge
4. blasphemy
5. onslaught
6. brunt
7. hearth
8. defile
9. marauding
10. sanctimonious
11. surmise
12. swarthy
13.  begot
14. vagabond

Email me your essays here:

Please email me your essays: Times New Roman, Double-spaced, 12-point font by Saturday at 11:59PM.

Email an attachment(and put in the body of email)to: emailmrsrock@gmail.com

Thanks, and have a fabulous Turkey Day: )

Oh Oedipus, You So Tragic!

Your assignment: Find a parallel tragic hero in modern history, literature, movies, television,etc.

Complete a full, written sketch of your modern tragic hero. Follow Aristotle's definition. You will have a chart(which we will get on Monday) that very nicely illustrates these qualities. Use the chart!!!

Yeah, you can probably Google this. You can find millions of professor-given examples online. But c'mon, this isn't so hard. Utilize your interests to get this done. Me, I love celebrity gossip, so I'm likely to pick some sad starlet. Or Steve Jobs. Maybe.

Is anyone off-limits? Of course. Actual tragic heroes, from literature? Off-limits. And what constitutes modern, you may ask? For me, it should be a figure that existed or was created anywhere from 1900 to the present. That's a pretty big window.

This can't be emailed to me because I'd like it to be pretty. I'd like a picture of your hero, surrounded by their Aristotlian, (is that a word?) tragic qualities. You should be as specific as possible. If every hero needs a flaw, for example, you should name that flaw. Maybe even give an example of it in action. If I was doing Steve Jobs(ahem...this another no-no for you guys), then I may say his flaw was his ego. That ego was deadly, in fact, because it led to him believing he could cure his cancer without modern medicine, which, in turn, killed him. Tragic stuff.

Here's my pathetic example...here

I only completed one of the six characteristics, but I hope you get the point. Contact me at any point before the due date(January 2nd!) if you have a question.

Rock out.