Mr.Ross , Starting The Wave April 12, 2011

Retelling:In the last four chapters  have been quite interesting. In Mr.Ross history class everybody is really into history. Every time   he asks them a question  they have to sit straight up and yell the answer. Mr.Ross has taught them discipline.    Mr.Ross history  class  have been using it other places  for example  David Collins and using it in the locker room so that his team so they could play  good and get along. Every day when the students come into Mr.Ross class they are excited and what makes them excited is these three word :STREGNTH  THROUGH DISCIPLINEst keeps going on and on about the discipline. It has been getting weird in their class lately instead of the students just dragging into class they were in neat rows and sitting there and not talking. Mr.Ross wanted a symbol for their group and he went up on the board and drew a wave and that was their new symbol. Laurie was telling her parents about the last two days of history . Mrs.saunders didnt think it was such a  good idea. Mr.saunders didnt know why his wife was saying that  but he just let her think whatever. Laurie on the other had  loves how Mr.Ross started the wave and how the whole class is into it and lots of people in the book . A  quote that Mr.Ross said that the class liked was” its the feeling that your part of something more important than yourself. The reason why Mr.Ross choose the wave as the symbol because it changes it moves  and it has impact. The thing  they do all the time is the salute if Mr.Ross salutes them they salute back!

RESPONSE: I think the wave is a good idea but at the same time I don’t think Mr.Ross knows what he is doing what could happen when he does this too these kids it could come as something good but also as something bad.  The quote that I talked about in my retelling I really liked because  Mr. Ross said ” it make you feel as a part of something more important then yourself”  and I think it means you are important no matter who you are and I think that a really good thing to know especially if  you are always down on yourself. The only thing that I wonder about is why they picked the wave for their symbol and why they salute instead of  hand shake or something I  just weird that you don’t know why they picked these things and why they happened. I think my favourite part was  when they all were excited about history class when in a regular school not many people  are excited about history or even like it . If I were a character in this story I would like it for the middle part but I don’t think I would like it for the begging and the ending. My feeling really havent changed about the characters at all because  they really havent done anything the only one they changed about was David because he is trying to get his team to work together and not fight which  is a good thing!

The history project that went to far! April 7, 2011

RETELLING:Laurie Sanders is one of the main people in the book she is one of the students in english class and is talking to Mr. Ross about the nazi and  how could they follow hitler in what he was doing to the  Jewish people. Laurie’s best friend was  Amy Smith. Just this year Laurie decided to take history  because she thought it would be interesting  because last year she took french and it was really boring because of her teacher. Laurie was dating a guy named David Collins. Laurie has n  took a lot of interest into what hitler had done to the Jewish people and how the germans let this happen in the first place. Robert is another one of  the important characters  and  he is having a hard time because his older brother was a straight A excellent student in highschool and he just thinks he has to be like him and live up to what he does but nobody pressures him to do it he just thinks he has to do it. Robert  always sits alone and none will even talk to him its weird because him and his brother are total opposite because his brother  was very popular  in his school and did everything good but Robert isn’t like that.Laurie is still bothered by what happened in WWII and she really seems to care about it but its over now  and  she can’t let it go . Mr. Ross isn’t getting why so many people are asking him questions about  WWII and the nazi and hitler!Bens wife is a wrestler and has beat the person she has never beaten before. Mr.Ross is so confused because he can seem to answer the question his students has asked him.

RESPONCE:  I  think that mr.ross was confused about not being able to answer that question and usually if someone asks you a question you can answer it . My feeling about the characters are pretty good I like pretty much all of them right now but once I get into the book I might not like them as much as I did at the start of the book. I think that Laurie’s boyfriend is going to be the character that I don’t like at the end of the book because  he doesn’t seem like he is a good character at all.My favourite part I think was when they were all so concerned about what had happened in the holocaust and WWII . I think that everyone will become more interested in finding out what else went on with hitler and want to learn more about it.   The part that surprised me was how many kids asked questions about it but also that Laurie did because she doesn’t seem like the girl who would care about something like that. If I was one of the characters in the book I would be scared that this might happen again because this book wasnt made far from it. The only thing that I wonder about is how old their teacher is and if his parent were in the holocaust.

Drugs In North Korea January 20, 2011

People in  North Korea  have found out  that drugs are  all over  North Korea. From the last report told that drugs are  popular gifts among teens and even  kids in middle school.They are all over the drugs that some of them are abusing each other for it. They tried to track  down the source of the drugs but they couldn’t find anybody so this mission back fired but they aren’t giving up yet . The  kids health are so bad for an average teen. The flower you can see is a flower that contains medial cigarette. The technical name for it is  Platycodon grandiflorus.The less the possibility of theft. The kids often plucked and nibbled bloomed flower buds and ate poppy seeds as a snack. If you’re wondering why you should care about this is because the flowers have cigarettes in them and  they could spread around the world and your kids and people around them could start drugs with the  flower and thinking that its cool so they will pick up on it  the part I don’t get is why  you would ever think of eating whats inside a flower. I think that they shouldnt let these  grow wild.  Since these are used for medical  reasons they should plant them in a garden or something. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/17/north-korea-drugs-rampant-even-among-teens/

The German Girl And The Jewish Boy! January 19, 2011

The Book Thief is a really detailed book. It is really different because it has so many conflicts and they are mostly
about Lesel. I think the book will have many more conflicts but they will be with  somebody else.

Hans  has had a very bad  part in the book. When he  gave  the Jew bread he wished he hadn’t done that. He paid  for it by being whipped by the Nazi and  being embarrassed in front of everybody. He thought that he would have to go to the concentration camps, but instead he got called to be a Nazi. His job is to pick up dead body’s, which isn’t the greatest.

Lesel  has been in a lot of conflicts herself when she first  got their.  She wouldn’t take a bath for a long time and she fought and fought with rosa, until she finally went for a bath but before that she was screaming and yelling. The next time she would have lots of fights at school with a bunch of boys. They were her age she almost  killed on of them and the other she through to the ground. Lesel had a lot of conflicts she and the boys from the hitler youth. They had alot of fights because they threw her book in the lake .

 Liesel has had lots of new things in her life. when the first time she stole  a book she felt so guilty about it, but now she doesn’t because she has stolen so many books. She has had dreams about her brother and him dying on the train.  Seeing him being buried. Knowing that she couldn’t have done anything about it. When Lesel stole her first fruit and she feels bad.  She got caught and because she stole it she wanted the food but not that way.

I think the  book will take a unexcepted turn for  the good but possibly for the bad for some people. I think that Hans is going to have a good turn but somebody will not! Who do you think it  is?

Status Quo. January 17, 2011

Discussion about the political power of social media has focussed on its potential to organize mass protests for revolutionary changes. In the January/February 2011 They don’t  like how things are the  want to change the future kind of well this is only in china and south Korea . I think why you should care is because the world is changing everyday and soon  enough our country will be changing and seeing this will help you get ready but I think that it is the right choice that china and Korea  are making because if you don’t change nothing will ever get done and with change come a little bit of different stuff but  I think everybody will like change even though its different. The reason for change is so that your life can change for better the columnist in china hu kong thinks that the reason for change is so that we can explore new things im thinking that he is right when he says that but I don’t know if change is good for china or if change is bad I guess we will have to see how china like it. If  china likes it then a bunch of other people will change but I  think a lot of people aren’t ready . I hope they are!

Heres the link for the news about the status quo

-www.globalvoicesonline.org

the click China and it should be there.

Madagascar January 7, 2011

A lemur poacher found with 32 dead lemurs on New Year’s Eve in Madagascar’s northeastern town of Vohemar,  that killing of lemurs for the commercial bushmeat trade continues on the island nation, reports Fanamby, a Madagascar-based conservation group. since 32 lemurs died in this country there corpses are giving off a  poison  smell that is toxic to any one living so they have to find out what to do with them.They are named after ghost spirits.The reason why 32 of them died at the same time is because of the tide in the ocean or the flavor.The lemurs are the animal of the island Madagascar. When humans arrived in Madagascar there wasnt many but the lemurs were as big as gorillas and know they are they size of a rat.

Photography December 17, 2010

The thing  im  doing is photography because I  want to learn how to different angles, editing,colour tone and the meaning behind the photo. There are some  sites that are good for editing my favourite is www.picnik.com
Twelve tips for  taking good photos: www.kodak.com
   1-level  with the photos
2- use a plain backround
3-use flash outdoors
4-move in close
5-take some vertical  pictures
6- lock the focus
7-move into the middle
8-know your flashs range
9-watch the light
10 – be a picture director
11-use correct lighting
12-diffetent shots
When your editing i usally i use picnik but if you use something differnt like for example be funky.com i dont really like it as much. When your editing i think you should be looking to make the photo seem not to edited like for example  to make it.
So for the first two photos i took them in my front yard i tried to get most of the tree and focus on one part and kind of make the rest blury.For  the othere one i tried to get the whole tree in and make it look kind of cool. For the second collage i  did differnt angles for one i layed on the ground to get it and for the second one i stood over top of a tree.When i edited it kinda looks like a spiderweb its pretty trippy. I took the first collage in my front  yard and the other in my backyard. I really had a cool exsperince when i got to take the pictures differnt angles. I thought it  was a good exspernice to get to take them with differnt angles but when i got to playing around and edting them it made them such a better photo as you can see. I think that being a photographer would be an awsome life choice . For life if you were a photographer you would take pictures which you love to do and get  paid for it to. I  took the pictures because they are of my community .The meaning behind theese photos are my life what i see everyday.  I found oout the meaning behind the photo i  can see know what photgraphers mean i do but dont want to be a photographer because i need money when im older  but i will still take photos.

French Post. November 29, 2010

Bonjour! Mon nom est Cassie.Je habite Snowlake MB. Je habite mere Frere habite dans  newfoundland.Je suis dans degre sept.Jai deux sours. leur  noms sont Taylor et Ashley.   Je avoir un neveu nomme  Cohen.Je amour  glacer la peche et quading.Je amour musique. Mon Prefere artiste est Justin Bieber et  Niki manji. Mon prefere livre  est douze mois. Mon prefere couler est jaune st violet.Je amour voler sur a avion.Je amour a recette photos.Je typede besoin a etre un photographe.

My Poem November 19, 2010

A couple of  classes ago we looked at this poem and we had to make like a remix of it .The original poem is by Martin Neimollerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came.

This is my poem

First they teased the geeks
and I did not speak out
because I am not a geek.

Then they bullied the poorly dressed people
I did not speak out 
because im not poorly dressed.

Then they outcasts the gothic people
and I did not speak out
because I was not gothic.

Then they humiliated  me and  there
was  nobody left to speak for me.

The Book Thief! November 16, 2010

So far in the book we met Liesel,  mom, death, Hans, Rosa, Rudy, Rudy’s dad(Alex),   Jesse Owens are the characters that are in that book that we’ve met. Liesel-Liesel has foster parents and moved away from her mother and her  brother died on the way there that’s when she found the grave diggers hand book. She met rudy when they were playing soccer because she was the goalie .She beat up Tommy.  Liesel can read and write by herself.Liesel  is 10 and she’s friends with Rudy. Liesel  has brown hair she’s not that tall.I like Liesel because she is   different and not afraid to stand up for herself. Hans-  he loved to smoke,  The main thing he loved about  smoking was rolling them up.He was a painter by trade and played the piano and accordion.This came in handy, especially in the winter when he could make a little money  playing in  the pubs of moching like the knoller. Hans I like to because he is really nice to Liesel and not rude like Rosa.Rosa She was 5 feet,  and one inch tall and wore brown  gray strands of  elastic in a bun.To supplment the Huberman income  ,  she did the washing and ironing for five of the wealthier households in molching.Her cooking was atrocoious.I dont really like Rosa  because she beats her kids and yells at them when they buy stuff she isn’t a nice lady.Rudycovered himself in chancel  and said he was Jesse Owens and his dad got really mad.Rudy stands up for Liesel and there really good friends. He has safe blue eyes and blonde hair. He was  eight months older than Liesel,  bony legs sharp teeth. His hair was the colour of lemon .Rudy was one of the 6th Steiner child.He was consider a bit crazy.Alex SteinerHe was a member of the nazi party,he didn’t hate the Jews or anyone else for that matter.He felt gladness when the Jewish store owners were put out of business.He didn’t want the Jewish people to be put out of business completley.His family surely had to do whatever he  could to support him.If it meant being in the party it meant being in the party.Far down in his heart there was a point in his heart that was itchy he didn’t wanna itch it because he was scared what would come out. PiffikusHe had a delicate frame .He had white hair.He has a black rain coat, brown pants, decomposing shoes and a mouth and what a mouth it was.