1. The writer uses the hook to grab the reader by describing all the different things in this essay and she starts in the middle of the action.
2. In this paragraph the writer uses examples or the different people that were in her first grade class and they all had pencils with there names on them.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day- questions 1-4
1. How Rettenberg hooks the reader is by describing his lifestyle and how his dad feels. What is happening is that the different lifestyles are changing and his dad is worried about how they are changing and what will happen to his son.
2. Some specifics that Rittenberg use to emphasize how older generations saw horrible things in their lifetimes is by describing the different generations such as internet and a cure for AIDS.
3. Rittenberg use specifics to demonstrate his hopefulness by describing the different generations and how our generation will get worse such as the middle east finding peace.
4. He uses the tittle to prove his point by at the end he said that his father would always say tomorrow will be a better day and then he wanted to say that to his father when he was angry. Also Rettenberg described the different situations in the different generations such as killer flu, segregation, and a nuclear bomb.
2. Some specifics that Rittenberg use to emphasize how older generations saw horrible things in their lifetimes is by describing the different generations such as internet and a cure for AIDS.
3. Rittenberg use specifics to demonstrate his hopefulness by describing the different generations and how our generation will get worse such as the middle east finding peace.
4. He uses the tittle to prove his point by at the end he said that his father would always say tomorrow will be a better day and then he wanted to say that to his father when he was angry. Also Rettenberg described the different situations in the different generations such as killer flu, segregation, and a nuclear bomb.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Reading-The Devil Wears Prada
Ariel Smith
Period 5
10/23/07
Today I was reading The Devil Wears Prada and I am only on Chapter 1 so far. This book is interesting so far. First of all I saw the movie first and now I am reading the book. The movie was really good at least that’s what I thought. So I think that the book will be good too. I am a slow reader and so I haven’t really read all that much. So far what I have read is that there is this girl named Andreah and she just got a new job in New York with a famous magazine. In the beginning of this book she is driving a stick shift convertible, which is her bosses car, and she doesn’t really know how to drive a stick shift. Her boss is the meanest person alive at least that what everybody thinks. That is how far I have gotten in this book so far. I am excited to read more.
Period 5
10/23/07
Today I was reading The Devil Wears Prada and I am only on Chapter 1 so far. This book is interesting so far. First of all I saw the movie first and now I am reading the book. The movie was really good at least that’s what I thought. So I think that the book will be good too. I am a slow reader and so I haven’t really read all that much. So far what I have read is that there is this girl named Andreah and she just got a new job in New York with a famous magazine. In the beginning of this book she is driving a stick shift convertible, which is her bosses car, and she doesn’t really know how to drive a stick shift. Her boss is the meanest person alive at least that what everybody thinks. That is how far I have gotten in this book so far. I am excited to read more.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
How To Pitch Questions
1. He got the author to stop overthinking on the mound by Bryan emphasizing a quiet head in the physical sense.
2. Bryan believed that it was better to learn a change-up first because it would be easier on the authors elbow and because mastering a change-up is what separates the throwers from the pitchers.
3. By imagining that you are making an OK sign and wrapping it around the ball.
4. A change-up works because the slight difference and deception is enought to upset the batters timing and balance, tricking the batter into swinging to early.
5. What makes a good pitching coach is by turning his pitchers into self-coaches.
1. What we can learn from the pitching coach that could translate to how we learn in school or with writing is maybe by making ourselves become better writers or listeners.
2. The equivalent of a change-up in writing is probably writing in general because you have to think of what you want to say and what you want to write about.
3. What I think the author is saying is that you can fail in many ways, when your on a roll you are just making mistakes, because you are going to have a meltdown, the thing Bryan teaches is not to win all the time but to show yourself when you fail.
2. Bryan believed that it was better to learn a change-up first because it would be easier on the authors elbow and because mastering a change-up is what separates the throwers from the pitchers.
3. By imagining that you are making an OK sign and wrapping it around the ball.
4. A change-up works because the slight difference and deception is enought to upset the batters timing and balance, tricking the batter into swinging to early.
5. What makes a good pitching coach is by turning his pitchers into self-coaches.
1. What we can learn from the pitching coach that could translate to how we learn in school or with writing is maybe by making ourselves become better writers or listeners.
2. The equivalent of a change-up in writing is probably writing in general because you have to think of what you want to say and what you want to write about.
3. What I think the author is saying is that you can fail in many ways, when your on a roll you are just making mistakes, because you are going to have a meltdown, the thing Bryan teaches is not to win all the time but to show yourself when you fail.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Show Don't Tell
1. The party had music. It was called the Electric Slide. The people dancing to the Electric Slide were all dancing the same dance. They would go back and forth, then they would do a grape vine.
2. I walked into the classroom and there on my desk was a piece of paper. Then I sat down at my desk and turned the paper over. On my paper there was a big A in red. I started texting all my friends saying that I got an A on my test because I was extremly excited.
3. I went into the classroom and there he was the coolest teacher ever. Playing oldies music and sitting in his chair.
4. Its white with an apple on it. I take it everywhere and it goes with me where ever I go. We do everything together. It looks important information up for me and it loads my pictures. Its my best friend ever.
5. I had nothing to do. I just sat there. No TV, no ipod. I just sat there doing nothing.
2. I walked into the classroom and there on my desk was a piece of paper. Then I sat down at my desk and turned the paper over. On my paper there was a big A in red. I started texting all my friends saying that I got an A on my test because I was extremly excited.
3. I went into the classroom and there he was the coolest teacher ever. Playing oldies music and sitting in his chair.
4. Its white with an apple on it. I take it everywhere and it goes with me where ever I go. We do everything together. It looks important information up for me and it loads my pictures. Its my best friend ever.
5. I had nothing to do. I just sat there. No TV, no ipod. I just sat there doing nothing.
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