My second reading bowl book

1) What was the name of the dummy Paul Feig had to perform the kiss of life on?

  RescuitAnny

2) What formation did the boys in shower rooms use on Paul Feig?

  Dog Pile

3) What did the first bus driver do to Paul when he was trying to go out the door?

  closed the doors on his nose

4) What did Paul get tattooed on his underwear?

  a purple butterfly

5) Why does Paul worry about going out with Mary on Prom Night?

  He'll have to get T-U-O- -D-I-A-L (spelled backwards for secrecy)

6) What does Paul Feig get detention for after playing Killer

  Swearing

8) Why do the older brothers of the people who bought the treasure maps demand their little siblings money back?

  There was nothing at the "X"

9) What does Paul dress up as for Halloween

  a girl

10) What was responsible for Paul's Hot Wheels fire truck to disappear altogether
    vomit

Teacher's script

For this unit we will be writing about the book we have read already, Kick Me. We have already taken all the lit tests so you should be full of important aspects of themes we have discussed. Your project for this unit will to choose a theme we have discussed, and for extra credit you can do a theme we have not discussed. After you choose a theme, you will write an essay on how this theme is showed in the book Kick Me. Now I will show you the three main themes you can choose from. I will also give you an example of how I would back up my point.

In the book kick me, one theme is that society cannot exist without losers. One piece of proof is that winners are constantly shown, and the author compares the life of a loser to the life of a winner. When certain aspects of a story are emphasised, they become motifs which are keys to finding a theme. Since the life of a loser is a motif, it adds proof to my argument of this theme.

Now this is a minimum of what I expect, it will give you a higher grade if you incorporate symbols and how it connects to the theme. One example is the lip gloss, that represents the privilege of winners because it is a privilege itself, and it is a privilege that only the winners have. Now you can use this but you must prove it and connect it to the theme. I expect more than one symbol, and if you need help I can give you a list of motifs that you can turn into symbols.

Now for another theme.

Another theme is that even if we think things are going to horrible, they usually are better than we think . A piece of proof is that in many cases, for example, the using the showers in the locker rooms, although it was e traumatic, he was able to get undressed. In this case, Paul Feig thought he was going to never be able to get undressed, and get forced to do it, which would be even worse. But he manages to do it, and proves the point that even though he thought he would be forced to use the showers, he was able to use them himself. Although he never did get to use them because he was attacked by the boys in the shower room. But this is an example.

For this theme you must include a symbol but in this one, I ask that you use more scenes that prove this theme. If you can find a way to make the locker room work, I encourage you to do it, but if you feel too squeamish using this scene, you are free to use another one. And if you aren't satisfied with these two themes I have one more theme.

A theme in Paul Feig's book Kick Me, is that even though things may get very bad, you will survive. This theme is very closely linked to the previous theme, but is different.

One piece of proof that this theme has been portrayed is the importance of the last scene, the one where he went to the prom with Mary. In this scene, he was scared he would have to do "it" with Mary. He continues to worry and worry about what do at the prom and doing "it". However, when he does go to the prom, he survives. And he actually has fun on prom night whereas in all his other prom dates, he does not have time. And he had fun after he had the prom, which means that not only did he survive, but he was not traumatized by the experience and unable to have fun.

Now that again was only an example, and for this one, I do not expect any more of one thing, scenes or symbols, but I expect a good connection. If you were unable to choose one you think you could do, come to my office and I'll try to help. But maybe you'll make up you're mind tomorrow.

news storries

News story one

Wikileaks has published private cables that show that the U.S. thinks Iran has missiles that are able to hit capitals in europe. Other cables showed private comments made by diplomats that could embarrass the U.S. The cables could seriously damage U.S. relations with foreign countries. The cables also showed discussions that makes it seem like the U.S. diplomats are spies.
See full article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704700204575642812775841790.html

News story two

David Norris who belongs to the BlueCava inc.  company. Wants to record peoples habits on their computers. He is planning to sell the information to advertising companies. These habits identify certain computers and creates a profile of who its user is. The advertising companies will use these profiles to target people to certain ads. This form of gathering information BlueCava is using is more popular because it is harder to block that cookies. This gathering of information is legal. The start of this company came from when the boss was selling software that could have no test run without the soon to be buyers copying it. BlueCava mostly collects information that is not very private, such as names. The technology they use has now opened up cell phones to advertising because cookies do not work on them , but this technology does work on phones.
See full article at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646704100959546.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

New stories, the new ones

News story one.
In New Delhi, an apartment building collapsed. The collapse killed around 65 people and injured 70. According to building laws, the building was 2 stories higher than allowed and the foundation had been weakened by monsoon rain. The police are looking for the owner of the building who has broken these laws. many people are still missing. The full article can be found here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703670004575616783793938818.html
A ban has been asked to be put on a brand of drinks called Four Loko, and other similar drinks. Four Loko is a drink with a combination of caffeine and alcohol. An 18 year old girl died after drinking Four Loko, the girl had no other health problems. This event started the ban on Four Loko and other similar drinks. The caffeine hides the drunkenness of the drinker making this much more serious problem. The full article can be found here herehttp://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/11/10/schumer-seeks-ban-on-four-loko-drinks/?KEYWORDS=for+loko

News story, newer one

News story, the only one.


A bomb in a United Parcel Service cargo plane was found to be set to go off somewhere in the eastern U.S.A. Saudi Arabian investigators tipped off the British security people. The cargo shipment came from Yemen, the bomb was hidden in a printer cartridge. Another bomb, also from Yemen, was set to blow up in a very vaguely similar area. By the unpredictableness of cargoplane schedules and routes, security officials suspect it was simply meant to blow up some part of America. Both bombs passed through security checkpoints in Britan. See full and complicated article right here-> <-
This is important because it informs us on national security and how problems still occur, and about the terrorism that is out there. This tells us that there are problems with the screening in Britan has had problems and that we should be lucky that no unscreened bombs have blown up where we live. It also tells us that there is still plain american based terrorism out in the world. The bombs were set to blow up anywhere in america so the people who sent it are just hating america as a whole. The report says that the bomb came from Yemen, this tells us how far the security officials have gotten in pinpointing the point of where the bomb originated

Reading bowl book assignment

1)  In the book House Of The Scorpion, the author Nancy Farmer explores the themes of cruelty and how the world is not always fair. Some examples are that cows are forced to give birth to clones and the clones are just used to get replacement organs from. One other example is that orphans are turned into zombies A.K.A Eejits and clones (even intelligent ones) are treated like animals.

2) The protagonist is Matt Alacran, he just wants to have a good life free of problems. The Antagonist is the world, the world wants to make Matt's life miserable by putting all these sufferings and cruelties into his little world. The mentor seems to be the world as well, the world, despite all it's cruelty, want Matt to learn the harshness of life.

3) Over the course of the book, the main character Matt Alacran, learns what the world wanted him to learn, but he also learned that there is hope that you can have a good life, despite all good fortunes. Matt also changes from an unknowing person, to someone who knows about the cruelty of life, and then finally to a person who knows there is hope. I think what caused the final change was the finding of Maria's mother, who brought hope into his life, and what caused him to learn what the world wanted him to learn was the final act of cruelty which was the banishment to the boneyards.

4) The most memorable parts to me were the ones about his imprisonment as a clone because it was interesting to see how he lived in those conditions, and the living with the keepers, because that part held some strange ideas that I never had thought of before.

5) I really enjoyed this book, I would definitely recommend it for next year's reading bowl. I really enjoyed it because although this sounds mean, I like books with the theme that suffering must happen, only if they have good endings and not depressing ones.

Parent Teacher Conference Blogging assignment

1) I think you will say I have been doing well but my anxiety is a little problem, and that I have been quiet in study halls.

2) I would like you to tell them that I am doing fine, and tell them whether or not they should see my quizzes and tests because they have been asking me about that for ages. Also tell them that I have been fine with the projects we do as well.

3) I don't really know what you shouldn't tell them, so I guess you can tell them anything except for the farting incident.

News story one
Bob Dudley, the cheif executive of the oil company BP, defended the company's cleaning up of the oil spill. He said the reporters were exagerating what really happened in the accident and the cleaning up of it. He also said that BP will not stop drilling for oil in the gulf of mexico.
see full article here

This is is important to know because it tells us how BP feels about the oil crisis. If we know how BP feels then we can take a step to stopping ourselves from accusing them about things that are not really true. Even though BP will obviosly defend themselves, and we can't completely trust them, they are the ones who actually were in charge of the cleaning up and did it themselves. This also reveals a possible truth that the media has exaggerated things and might be able to think about previous news about BP and reconsider what happened and maybe learn the real truth.

News story two
Although cholera in Haiti is not spreading fast it is expected to spread a lot by health officials. In many people cholera has no symtoms. This means that you can unkowingly spread it to someone who will have symtoms. Since it is very crowded, insufficient sanitation, and not much clean water, the disease can spread very easily.
See full article here

This is important to know because it can warn us of Haiti. Without reading this article or having this information provided, someone might go to Haiti and back and infect people in the place they live when they come back. It also reminds us of how lucky we are to have clean water, non crowded places, and good sanitation. It also gives us information on how cholera spreads which can help us if we have a cholera outbreak in the U.S. And most important, it reminds us of what is going on in the world and makes us more aware of problems that might come to where we live and makes things difficult, it gives us an idea of what this problem is like.

My posts for my blogging assignments.

My sixth blogging assignment
News story one
Someone fired shots at the Pentagon,  however, the shooting was called a random event by security officials. No one was injured. A security official says that they are not sure what fired the shots but they  know it was a high-velocity rifle. Later on the shooter was found to be John Patrick Bedell. He was shot by the police and taken to the hospital where he died some hours later. Officials do not  know his motives but they think he had some hate for the military. The Pentagon staff are trying to find out whether this shooting was related to the shooting of a museum with a high-velocity rifle. Large glass panels were hit causing $20,000  damage, luckily none of the artifacts were hit.
I think bees are fuzzy and cute, the made up creature called a Puffa is pronounced Poofa.


My first blogging assignment.
1) We were presented a project last week that is connecting people in Ghana to other people outside of Africa through letters and projects we send back and forth.


2) To me peace means that everybody is accepted by everybody and there are no enormous wars used to solve problems, but that problems are settled out reasonably.


3) I would like to promote peace through visual art. I would like to do this because visual art can be on a solid material so the people in Ghana can view it anytime.


4) I would like to do something like putting different shaded photos of Ghana to create some bigger picture.




My second Blogging assignment


1) I was expecting it to be really hard because I would have to get used to calling teachers by their first name, having no locks on the locker, and all the touchy felly things. However everything turned out fine and was not too hard and Junior high failed my expectations, which is good because I was afraid it would be too hard to get used to my school and do my work.


2) The thing I like the most about Paideia is that the seventh graders can connect and get help from the eighth graders. I am struggling with the around the world assignment because everything is so limited, the time and the budget.


3) I think my teachers aren't intimidating because they are new, but they're just like any teacher, not like the feared ones that are supposed to give lots of homework each night that takes hours and is due tomorrow, actually, I've learned that humans like to exaggerate and there actually is no teacher like that.


4) I don't really feel intimidated by any of the students older than me because we get to know them so well they can't really intimidate us, however I do feel intimidated by the students in other classrooms because I don't know them as well. I would like to be closer to one of my friends Rob because we were friends in Paideia camp but now we are so far apart.


My third Blogging assignment


1) I am going to be sending a eraser stub. The eraser used to be really long and really good at erasing but now I have broken and worn it down to as stub. It was given to me from a friend I had in Vietnam, it reminds me of all the good memories I had with my friend. I will be sending peace because I want people to share connections with each other,  such as the connection from me to the stub and then to my memories of my good friend.

My fourth Blogging assignment

1) The theme of Twist is that everybody is equal. This is the theme because it is related to the conflict. The conflict was that no one in Twist’s life had ever treated him equally, or ever got a chance to actually overcome the unequal acts of other people. The resolution was at the end when Boston finally stopped treating him as a way to earn money. Even though the theme seems like something else because the conflict seems to be Luscious related. But the conflict that I write about here fits with Luscious, because Luscious was not treating him equally but just a way to get his sister’s inheritance, not to have a nephew.

2) The mentor for Twist was Mr. Prudhomme. He said “Never stop dreaming” This was telling Twist to never stop believing that one day he would be equal to other people.

3) The deeper meaning of Twist’s name was from what Della said when he was born “He was born on a twister.” Meaning that there was a lot of turmoil around his birth, it also means that he is a twist on the original character Oliver Twist.

4) The Mardi Gras costumes acted as a symbol for equality, because with them on he was able to hide his differences and was treated equally and participated in the party as a normal equal person. The locket acted as symbol for love, because his mother gave it to Twist as a sign for him to remember her by and that she loved him. The orphanage acted as a symbol for inequality, because there, Twist was forced to scrub the floors because he was different and had a trick played on him that got rid of him because he was different.

5) I think the dancing and songs worked for the musical. The simple set worked extremely well for the musical as well. The timing of the setting up of the set might need to be improved or maybe the actor’s timing, because in one scene Luscious had reached where he was supposed to be, but the orphanage door wasn’t up and ready yet. I think that when Twist is singing “A color no one likes” the orphanage people shouldn’t be eating food comically behind him, and that Della shouldn’t die, because there is no point for that to happen.


My fifth Blogging assignment
First news story from the Wall Street Journal
In Budapest, Hungarian leaders have declared a state of emergency. A flood of toxic sludge has occured in multible villages. The flood came from a alluminum factory. The flood originated in a storage pond from the factory containing the sludge. The storage pond was damaged which allowed the sludge to flood out. More than 110 people were injured by chemical burns that the sludge gave them when they came in contact with it. 7 people are missing. The flood originated from a factory in the town Ajka, which is 100 miles southwest from Budapest. This flood is threatening to pollute the Danube river.(this was all I could get because to read more I have to subscribe)
Second news story
The United Arab Emirates has stopped bank transactions with several banks that have been suspected by the U.S. to be getting money for nuclear workings and possibly terrorism in Tehran. The side affect of this is that Iran now has major trouble with finances. This has happened because the U.A.E. has stopped bank transactions between general Iran banks and the nuclear funding Tehran.(this was all I could get because to read more I have to subscribe)



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