Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Symbolization for the Metaphor


1) This image symbolizes the Metaphor because it is love and you hold love within your heart and soul. A teacher shows how much they love you by showing how much they care.




2) This image symbolizes children because when children are in a class room and learning and seeing they feel safe. The teacher knows that the children can see you but they don't know if they can hear you.




3) This image symbolizes Miss Hancock because she was different but the same just like these 2 paris of shoes. The shoes in this image are so different in so many ways, just like everyday people, but they are so the same because they both go on your feet.




4) This image symbolizes Charlottes mother because some shoes are dirty, old and ratty, the the shoes laces still can form a heart, just like people. Some people are rude, stubborn, and sorrow, but they still have a heart and even though they don't show they love you, they really do.




5) This image symbolizes friendship because you can be friends with anybody you want, and you can love anybody you want and show you love them, even a teacher, mother, father, or friend.




6) This image symbolizes peace because when you die you can fly free of all your fears, regrets and concerns. Peace is that one thing in the world that we need more of, and flying free is being alive.




7) This image symbolizes love in all ways, love is to find peace, and to find peace is to find yourself. What if you had that one chance to say sorry, but if you loved just a little more you wouldn't have to say sorry after all.




8) This image symbolizes freedom, freedom of all thoughts is to do something you love, something you want to do for the rest of your life, like dance, or writing metaphors 




9) This image symbolizes beauty because beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes, colors and forms, animals and people. You can't take beauty away from someone, but you can take beauty away from yourself 




10) This image symbolizes regret because when you regret something that you have done or have said, it shows in flames and music. But you cant hide regret if you did something wrong you need to make it right.

Monday, October 11, 2010

The Tell Tale Heart

a) Title and Author: "The Tell Tale Heart"  Edgar Allan Poe


b) Biography: Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809, he was a american poet, writer, and editor. Poe was famous for his thrilling tales and spooky stories. Poe died October 7th 1849.


c) Symbol: This symbolizes the man in the book who kills the old man he always has a lantern with him.


d) Response: 


1) What are the two main symbols in the story what do they represent? The two main symbols are the vulture eye and the lantern.


2) What is one of the conflicts in the story? The man who killed the old man didn't like the old mans vulture eye so he would go watch him every night at 12 and one night the old man got so scared he died 


3) What is the narrators motivation for murder? His motivation for murder is watching the person.


4) Why does the narrator lead the police men to the old mans room? Because the man who killed him needed to hear the old mans heart beat in the room to get scared.









question (Critical Thinking) For The Tell Tale Heart

1) Why do you think the author wrote the text? I think the author wrote the text to creep people out.

2) What does the author want you to think? The author wants you to think about the thump of the heart beat getting louder and louder.

3) Do you belong to any of the groups in the text? No because I have never murdered somebody..

4) Does the story remind you of a real life event? (your own or others) This story reminds me of the news because i always get a little scared  by the news.

5) Does the story remind you of  another book or movie on a similar topic? Yes because there are a lot of horror movies out there that are probably similar to this story.

6) How does the story help you think about social issues or social justice? It reminds me of social justice because the police are involved in this story.

7) What action might you take from what you have learned? I have learned to not kill an old man and put him under the hinges of the floor.

8) What big question has this text left you with? I wonder if this is based on a true story or not?




Question (Critical Thinking) For All the Troubles in the World

1) Why do you think the author wrote the text? I think that the author wrote the text to show what could happen if a computer or machine could have that much power.


2) What does the author want you to think? I think that the author wants you to think about if that could actually happen in a real-life event maybe in the future somewhere.


3) Do you belong to any of the groups in the text? I do not belong to any groups in the text, but I think someday when I am a lot older I might belong to one of the groups in the text.


4) Does the story remind you of a real life event? (your own or others) The story reminds me of discussions in school, because we always have discussions about if we think that the internet is going to rule our society.


5) Does the story remind you of  another book or movie on a similar topic? This story reminds me of the movie Wall-E it is about robots who eventually get controlled.


6) How does the story help you think about social issues or social justice? The social issue in this story is that the computer is doing a persons job and the computer which is the biggest computer in the would wants to die.


7) What action might you take from what you have learned? The action i have learned is that computers are not meant to run the world.


8) What big question has this text left you with? Will our society ever get to the point where a computer will be like mutivac in the story.







All The Troubles Of The World

a) Title and Author: "All the Troubles of the World" Isaac Asimo  


b) Biography: Isaac Asimov was born on January 2nd, 1920 He was the oldest of three children. He became a author and professor and he had started to write science books.
c) Symbol: This picture symbolizes the justice that goes on in the story, it shows that the person in charge is the person who say guilty or not and even if you are not guilty it doesn't matter. 


d) Response:


1) What does the ending suggest about the ability of technology to bring about a perfect world? I think the end of the story is suggesting that if all the government computers were to be shut down then our world might not have a s many mistakes.


2) Would you want to live in a society which there was a computer just as Multivac? No, because that would be like a computer running the world and who would want that? There would be many mistakes like what i happened in the story i would say.


3) What do you believe the world of 2100 will be like? I think the world of 2100 will have virtual video games that you can play in yourself like the movie "Gamer" or they will have a virtual room that people can go into relive their stress. Maybe the world will turn into the book "The Uglys" and everyone will go by steps to become a real pretty person.


4) Is computer technology destroying the fabric of society? YES!!!!    computer technology is destroying our society because soon people will rely on computers to solve their own problems and no one will know how to have a conversation in person anymore. Our world is already like that imagine what face book will be like in 50 years from now.

Questions (Critical Thinking) For Possibility Of Evil

1) Why do you think the author wrote the text? I think the author wrote the text because she wanted to make you really think about all the different kinds of evil out in the world. That it doesn't matter if you a little old lady, you still might not be innocent, 

2) What does the author want you to think? I think that the author wants you to think about all the wrongs people can do in the world. She wants you to think about evil in the world, that evil comes in all different ways of facing us in our everyday life

3) Do you belong to any of the groups in the text? Yes, I kinda belong with Miss Strangeworth how she writes letters to people. When i get upset with someone i will write them a letter telling them how i feel about them at the time, I will get all of my evil emotions out onto the paper, and once i finish the letter i will put it in the paper shredder so no one will ever see it again.

4) Does the story remind of a real life event (your own or others) This story reminds me of a time me and my mom and my dad made a snow man at winter time and in the morning when we woke up someone smashed him for no reason. I believe that is a type of evil, and that was the best snowman i have ever seen. We gave him arms and feet, and fingers and toes.

5) Does the story remind you of another book or movie on a similar topic? No not exactly but I'm sure there is a book or movie out there similar to this one.

6) How does the story help you think about social issues or social justice? It help me think about socail justice because evil is all around us in the world.

7) What action might you take from what you have learned? I have learned to not send rude letters to people. 

8) What big question has this text left you with? Why is there so much evil in our world?


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The possibility of evil

Title and Author: Title: The possibility of evil, Author: Shirley Jackson


Biography: Shirley Jackson was born December 14th, 1916. Shirley was a very popular writer in her time, she has been noticed from literary critics in the past years. Shirley was a American author who wrote short stories and novels through the years. Shirley was born in San Francisco, California. 


Symbol: This image symbolizes the story (The Possibility Of Evil) in many ways, this type of rose is used quit a bit in the book. The red rose is Misss Strangeworth's family pass down.


Response: 


1) What is Miss Strengeworth trying to accomplish by sending out her letters? I think she was trying to accomplish people to stop doing what they are doing or tell someone about something they should know.


2) What do you think this story is saying about crime and criminals? I think this story is saying that beware of the things you do because people could get the wrong idea. Sending rude letters is the same as making a crime, and ruining something on someone's property is a crime too.


3) Why don't people ignore the letters they receive? If you received one of Miss Strangeworths letters what would you do? The reason people ignore her letters is because Miss Strangeworth doesn't put her name or address on the letter. If I had received one of Miss Strangeworths letters i would try to find out who had sent the letter and send one back.


4) How would you describe the story's atmosphere at the beginning? The storys atmosphere at the beginning is really happy and you would think that it is a perfect town and then it gets to the middle of the story and the end of it and it gets to parts where the story got more and more intense.