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.

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?

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.

Metaphor

My mom is like a winter cabin, she is warm and cold but she always has the fire place on. The wooden floor has some cracks and holes in it but not enough to fall through. I will look out the window to the nice meadow that once was green but now filled and pilled with shiny white snow. There are nice comfy seats to sit on in the cabin, and the smell of fresh turkey fills the air. The cabin in never fully organized but, clean enough to see that it is tided every morning. The mirrors and paintings hang on the walls giving the cabin a little extra funk to fill the air. I can walk out the door and feel peaceful, feeling like nothing can harm me, and all my stress disappears like the snow melts on the long green grass.

Questions (Critical Thinking) For Harrison Bergeron

1)Why do you think the author wrote the text? I think that the author wrote the text because he wanted to show the world that not everybody needs to be the same, people have to be different in-order to survive in the world. The reason god made us different is because your life needs to be a story and if every one is the same your life and others would be the same.


2)What does the author want you to think? The author wants you to think about the hole story, maybe he wants you to think about if our world could ever become that way in real life. Maybe he wants you to think about the fact that the government is basically controlling everyone.
3)Do you belong to any of the groups in the text? I do not belong to any of them because I have never been controlled.


4)Does the story remind of a real-life event (your own or your others)? Yes it does remind me of a real life event because i believe that if we as a generation do not stop relying in the Internet soon we will all be controlled in some way.


5)Does the story remind you of another book or movie on a similar topic? This book reminds me of the movie Wall-E, because the robots at the end are being controlled, and the robots are controlling the people, but in a way the people are controlling there self's. 


6)How does the story help you think about social issues and social justice? The story helps me think about social issues because one day every one will be so dependent on the computer that they will not be making desistions for there self's.


7)What action might you take from what you have learned? i have learned that it is okay to be different because if we are all the same then life would be boring. I also learned that you should never let someone control your living even if it is a grown-up.


8)What big question has this text left you with? will our world be like this one day?

Harrison Bergeron

a) Title and Author: Title: Harrison Bergeron, Author: Kurt Vonnegut. Jr

b) Biography (of the author): Kurt was born on November 11th, 1922.  in Indianapolis, indiana. Kurt is considered one of the most influenced novel writers of the twentieth century. Kurt has blended literature and humour  together in his novels. 

c) Symbol: This picture symbolizes all of the same thing in a crowd, and there is one person sticking out of the crowd that will be killed because they are different.


d) Response:


1) What parts in the story is most exaggerated? The most exaggerated parts of the story are when the ballerina comes out wearing a mask, and Georges and Hazel notice her rare beauty. 


2) What do Georges and Hazels reactions at the end of the story reveal about the quality of life in their society? If they show that they can be different they get killed, they forgot everything that happened.


3) What would you expect a society to be like if everyone was equal? I think our society would be very evil, because everyone would be the same so everyone would be bored of everyone els, all it would cause is violence


4) What is the purpose of handicapping in sports? Its to show that it doesn't matter who you are, how you act, or how you look we can all do the same thing and be the same at all the same levels in life.

The Metaphor

a) Title and Author: The metaphor, Author: Budge Wilson

b) Biography: Budge Wilson is a Canadian author, she was born in Halifax Nova Scotia. She has written 33 books in her time, and she has received a lot of awards from her work.  Budge Wilson has done two years of graduate work in the university of Toronto. Budge was a child photographer and was a fitness instructor from 1968 to 1989. Budge Wilson's books have been published in ten countries and in seven different languages. 

c) Symbol:  This image symbolizes that any type of love can slip away  just like that. It doesn't matter what type of love it is, teacher love is a big one. It also symbolizes that there is no right or wrong love.

d) Response: 

1) Is charlotte right for blaming herself for Miss Hancocks death? No, because what happens in life happens for a reson, yes if charlotte would have talked to miss Hancock for 10 minutes the bus would have been gone, but things happen for a reson and you should never blame yourself because the person who died would not have wanted you to do that.

2) what recommendations would you make to a teacher from moving to junior high to seior high? I would tell them to maybe change their teaching skills up a little bit because the older kids are going to be harder to handle in atitude wise then younger kids.

3) what do you think was the authors main purpose for writing this story? I think that the author might have liked metaphors, because she liked to put them in her story. The author's purpose could have been that a situation like this has happend to them in  a similar way so they felt the need to write about it.

4) describe two people that have influenced you in the years you have been in school using similes.  Mr. Bryson is like a clown that waddles down the hall smiling at everyone he passes.


My dad is like a gorilla climbing the tree to his banana to eat it for lunch. 

Questions (Critical Thinking) For The Metaphor

1) Why do you think the author wrote the text? I think that the author wrote the text because she wanted to show some people that you can have a good relationship with your taecher. Not all people have the best home life or a great mothere or father.

2) What does the author want you to think? I think the author wants you to think about the ending, giving yourself the right to think if Charlotte was nicer to miss Hancock then she would'nt have died. I personaly think that what happend to Miss Hancock was fait and fait can take you when ever it wants.

3) Do you belong to any of the groups in the text? Yes, in away i do, I love having good relationships with some teachers.

4) Does the story remid of a real-life event (your own or your others)? Not my own but i am sure that this kind of thing has happend to otheres, because i have never had a teacher die or know a teacher who has died.

5) Does the story remind you of another book or movie on a similar topic? yes i have watched  a movie named "mean girls" and in this movie a young girl gets hit by a bus because all of the bad and evil things she has done to other people.


6) How does the story help you think about social issues and social justice? It helps me think about social issues because some students have these kinds of relations with teachers, and you never know which teacher might die or get hit by a bus.


7) What action might you take from what you have learned? I have learned that you should be nice to everyone in every way because every body is a normal person even if it is a teacher.


8) What big question has this text left you with? If  Charlotte  was nicer to her teacher (Miss Hancock) would she w
have gotten hit by the bus