Final Reflections 9 Questions

 
                                                 Lessons, Memories, Nicest thing
       
           The three most important things that learned from this class is to not wait until the last minuet to do your homework. I did that a couple times and fell behind like that and I was up all night trying to finish it on times. The second things that I learned it actually pay attention during class and don't just goof around the whole time. In the beginning of the year I would always talk during class and I would pay attention so I was really confused when it came to actually doing the assignment. The most important things is that reading is really important to do. Reading can improve your vocabulary and grammar and I did not know this before.  One thing that I will remember even after I leave this school is the time that we had a winter party in are class.We all brought food and candy and ate is all while watching a movie and talking with friends. It is one of those small moments that you will never forget. The nicest things someones has ever done during this year in this class was Abdiel always helping me stay on top of work and other things. Like in the morning he would make sure I did my homework for the class and he would always help we if i was confused about something.

                  What did I teach Mrs. Larson, Biggest Improvement, and Challenging Part

            The one thing that I could think of was teaching Steven how to have fun during class while still paying attention and learning. I tried to let him relax more instead of being so uptight but I also realized that sometimes being uptight is a good things and that it sometimes helps you.  What I improved most in is grammar. In the begging of the year I was terrible at grammar always making the small mistakes which eventually added up into a big problem. I still have lots of room to improve but I have mad a change from the beginning of the year to know.  There have been lots of challenges throughout the year but the most difficult one was the Seaworld/blackfish essay. I say this because you g=had to do research and come up with coiner arguments for your claim which I struggled at. It just pushed me a lot farther then I thought I would and I learned a lot from it.

                            The Best Piece of Writing, My Favorite Book, and Advice

            My most impressive work is the Seaworld/Blackfish essay. It might not be as good as some of the other essays I was impressed on how good of a grade I got. Even though I only got a B I thought it was written well. I had those small mistakes that added up which really hurt my grade but overall the writing I feel was the best I did this year. The best book I read was Maze Runner. It had the excitement and adventure I need in a book for it to be interesting to me. It was one of those books were I couldn't stop reading it and I rarely find a book that does that.I am looking forward to finishing the series.  Some advice I would like to give to the kids coming in next year it stay on top of your work. So many times I feel behind and it was really hard to catch back up. I also recommend to pay attention in class you do not want to get on the teachers bad side. There are so menu more things I would like to warn the next group of kids but that would take way to long to both write and read.

Life is Beautiful blog 4/16/15

“Life is beautiful” and “Night” are very comparable. The movie and the book have many similarities and differences at the same time. An example of a similarity is that both the movie and book starts off happy and right before the concentration camps were started. They also both have foreshadows of something bad is coming. Like how in the book "Night" Moshe the Beatle warned the town that something bad was coming but know none listened. In the movie "Life is Beautiful" the horse was tagged saying "Jewish Horse" this was one of the signs that something bad was going to happen.  One difference that the book and the movie had was that in night the whole family was Jewish but in Life is Beautiful only the father and son were Jewish but the mother decided to go with them. 

The mood and tone of the book and movie both started of very similar.  They were both happy and cheerful in the beginning.  In the beginning both Guido and Elie didn't have many problems they both had good lives and were not experiencing many hardships. But once the Nazis started killing the Jews the mood changed. In the book night the mood starts turning negative things all go down hill but in the movie the mood stays somewhat positive.

Life is beautiful throughout the movie even though they are so close to death in many ways. An example of this is when Guido and Dora get married and love is the only thing that Guido cares about while they are in the concentration camps. He keeps life beautiful my always loving Dora and his son like when he try's to communicate to Dora by playing their wedding song on the speaker to let her know that he is alive and that he loves her. Guido also keeps life fun for his son, which gives him happiness. He has to make sure that Joshua survives and the only way to do that is to lie to him and keep making him happy. These are the two main examples that I found from the movie, which represented life being beautiful.        

                                                                                                                           

Morrie Aphorisms Project

                   Aphorism- “Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for Tenderness.”

It means that money can’t replace the love or the feelings that you have towards someone. I think what Morrie is trying to say it that the same with power, power is not as important as family friends and love. I think what he was trying to say that people are so involved in trying to get money that they are not taking enough time to be kind. What he is trying to say for the second part is that people think power is everything and when you gain power they forget about being kind to other people and being tender. 

This quote can be applied to many things. This theme is used in lots of movies like in "Thor" when Loki betrays is own family (Thor) to gain power and control over earth. Or like the movie "Million Dollar Arm". The main character started of as a rich person who had no respect for other peoples he though he was better then everyone else. He lost his tenderness and respect towards all people because he had all the money he needed. There are many more examples of this theme more than I could write down. It has also been in history and is still happening today, even though I can't think of any examples right now I am sure there are people right know that put money and power in-front of people.   

Personally I agree with this quote. I agree that tenderness is more important than power and money. The sad thing is that some people don't see that and they think money is all they need when really that family and people. Imagine if everyone wanted money more then family and friends. There would be no love just power and power doesn't always bring happiness and if you only have power and no people that care about you it would probably get lonely real fast. We need family and friends to keep us going during hard times and good ones. Without that what is the point of life. An example from the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" is  “Love each other or perish.” this is saying that love is more important than anything even money and power. Love is the only thing that stays with you forever. Money and power slowly goes away over time but love doesn't it stays with you even after death.  

   

Tuesdays With Morrie 4/27/-5/1

Prompt: Based on the 6 Tuesdays you have read about in Tuesdays with Morrie, choose which topic (The World, Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, or Emotions) that has had the most impact on you or inspired you. On your blog discuss the importance of this topic with your own opinions, including textual evidence (direct quotes) from the book. 

To be honest every chapter has been inspiring. If I had to choose one of them it would probably be The Forth Tuesday when they talked about the death. I personally don't like it because they talked about death but because of a statement Morrie made "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking." So this is basically saying that we are so caught up in are normal day lives that we don't fully appreciate life. it might sound kind of weird at first but when you start thinking about it you actually start realizing that you are not living life to the fullest. This quote also stuck to me because I personally can relate what I mean by this is that some day’s I just wake up, go to school, do my homework, watch TV/practice, then go to sleep. That is not living life to the fullest when I think of living life to the fullest I think of going on adventures, pushing myself, and having a family. Right now I don't feel like that’s being complete I know I cant start my own family right now but the pushing myself and adventures part I feel like I should be completing. I feel like this is true because I live a very simple life right know maybe when I grow older my life might become more interesting but this quote really got me thinking about it. 

The next most inspiring chapter is the Family chapter. What Morrie says in this chapter really hit me hard it really got me thinking. He says "without love we are birds with broken wings". I think this quote effected so much because it is so true love is one of the main things that drive a person to live. To find love is one of the main goals in a persons life. So to not have must make someone feel like they like they have not place in this world. These are the two most inspiring chapters in this books so far.   

Tuesdays with Morrie

     So fair Tuesdays With Morrie has been a great book. To be honest when we first started this book I was not that excited about it. I personally am not that fond of these kinds of books I am more interested in the action kind of books. After reading the first 61 pages I have found myself actually enjoying this book. I feel the reason why I like this book more then I thought I would is because the book has some humor in it also. It is not just and emotional book that were they talk about death and emotional things the whole time. Overall I am enjoying this book so far

     I like most other people have a bucket list. A bucket list is basically a list of things that a person wants to accomplish before they die. They are pretty much like goals but the only difference between them is that a bucket list is not really as important as goals. What I am trying to say is that there is no real pressure to accomplish them. I have never maid a bucket list in my life because I don't like thinking about death right now but when you get older it is probably important to have one. I say this because when you get old and you know you are going to die a bucket list can help because it could give them a purpose.  

Bucket List:

• Travel to a place in every continent
• Meet my grandchildren  
• Skydive 
• drive a Ferrari
• have a beach house 
• finish college 
• pitch on a major league field
• go to Hawaii 
• go on a cruise ship
• go to the tallest building in the world 
• learn spanish 
• travel to outer space
• go skiing 
• zip lining 
• have kids 
• go on a safari 
• scuba diving 
• go to the olympics (either watching or participating) 
• meet a president 
• become a millionaire
• get married  

Night Week of 3/30/15

Prompt: How Elie's Experiences during the holocaust change him as a person
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      Elie's changed physically and mentally during his time in the concentration camp. He really did change from the begging to the book when he was free to the end when he was liberated from the camp. He changed a lot physically due to the lack of food and the poor living conditions but I feel that he changed a lot more mentally then physically. I say this because living in the camps was a huge change from living in a safe clean home. I mean he was so used to living in a safe place with his family and in good conditions so it must have affected him greatly. Overall the two biggest changes that I noticed in him was the belief of his religion and the relationship with his father.

      In the beginning of the book he was fully into his religion. He even went against his father because his father wanted him to focus on his studies but Elie instead wants to learn more about his religion. Elie also compared life with his religion for example when he said “Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?"(Wiesel 2). This just shows that praying and his religion is as important is living and breathing. Sadly later in the book he starts drifting away from his religion and starts focusing more on trying to survive. For example when he says, "Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" (33). There is a huge difference in the two quotes from the begging and the near end of the book in the first he is a devoted Jew but in the second quote he shows no faith in god. 

      In the begging of the book Elie really docent have a strong bond with his father. Mostly because his dad sort of put his work before family so there was no strong connecting between the two. Elie’s dad was so caught up in work and his religion that he did not realize that a cousin was staying with them for four days. This is showing how caught up Elie's dad was in his own life and problems that he never really focused on his own family. Throughout the book Elie's bond with his father grows because of the situations he was put in. His father even becomes the main motivation for Elie to keep living. An example from the book is when he says, "To break the ranks, to let oneself slide to the edge of the road... My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me... He was running at my side, out of breath, at the end of his strength, at his wit's end"(Wiesel 82). This is showing how important his dad is to him and how much Elie relies on him to survive.