Portfolio
1.
What I think the portfolio says about me
as a 9th grade English student is that I was a dedicated student
trying my best to do all my work and making a effort to turn it in on time.
When everyone see’s my work I expect them to be able to see everything I have
accomplished and am proud because I made it through the year with a effort and
determination to try my best and past 9th grade English class.
2.
My strengths in English from my point of
view were to be able to do the Benchmarks and projects and do a good job. I
also had a lot of improvement since the beginning of the year, when I look back
to all my old work and the work I did at the end of the school year I can see
the difference and how much I improved on using grammar, words, and punctuation.
But not only that I have learned how to use words and learned new words that I
never knew. My weakness I would say is to be able to turn everything in on
time, and I would try my best to work on this. I have gotten good grades but
every time I turn it in late I get points deducted which affects me in many
ways.
3. My
experience that I had making this portfolio was very challenging. I learned new
ways to put things and how much work I have accomplished even though it feels
like I didn’t do that much. I am proud to be able to do half of the things I do
but to complete all of them makes me feel like I accomplish something
important. I had issues because I had things to complete and some things I
needed to tune up a little so in order to do that I came and had people read it
for me and tell me what was wrong so I was able to do the tune ups and make it
better than it was. It was good to go back into the past work, once you go back
into the old stuff you can really tell a lot about yourself. And you can see
how much you accomplished.
4. Lastly
the piece I was most proud of must have been my story about my brother bout a
memory that we had. I think this because even though I did pretty well on it my
teacher also told me that I was the most improved. Because I would listen to
her and the things she would tell me to help me and it was pretty helpful
because it bring my grade up a lot and I got a better grade than I thought I
would get. And this story was a true story that came from the heart, so it was
hard for me to get it out my chest so I was proud I had enough strength to come
out with this story and tell everyone bout this long lost memory.
5-24-11
Macbeth Analysis
For this project we chose 10 quotes in macbeth enable to prove our thesis on one of the characters.
Thesis Statement:
In the beginning of the story Lady Macbeth was a crude and mean woman who
worked along side her husband, but at the end of the story she distanced
herself from him because she felt guilty about what they had done.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 5 Lines: 64-65 Macbeth goes up to a Lady Macbeth to tell her that
King Duncan is coming for dinner. This is when Lady Macbeth says to Macbeth
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”. What I think this
means is that to be close to the king but aim for the target when the time
comes. She believes that the easiest way to get all of the goods that the
witches told her is by killing the king and anyone in the way to take his spot
as king.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 3 Lines: 71-72 Lady Macbeth is convincing Macbeth to not worry
about anything that she is going to handle everything. In this quote Lady
Macbeth says “To alter favor ever is to fear leave all the rest to me”. What
she means when she says this quote is that she thinks that when you change
favor from one thing to the next might not be the best move someone cane make
cause the thing that the person has might be the best but when they try to
change it them it might mess up. Like when she started to change in the story
she started to talk her sleep because she was feeling guilty so because of this
she committed suicide.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 5 Line 39-43 Lady Macbeth Is aside wanting to change. She wants
to change cause she doesn’t want to be a bad person anymore she wants to do
good not bad. In this quote she says “ Come, you spirits that tend on mortal
thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe of direct
cruelty ”. What she is trying to say is that she wants to be known not as lady
that takes orders from someone special who has a word in everything. She wants
to have power like men did in those days.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 5 Line: 42-46 Lady Macbeth has is aside and she thinking wanting
the spirits to give her everything she wants that would make her powerful. This
is when Lady Macbeth says “Make thick my blood; Stop up th’access and passage
to remorse, that no compunctious visiting’s of nature shake my fell purpose nor
keep peace between the, effect and it”. What she means is that she wants her
blood to be thick so that no one can break her so easily and she can be
unstoppable and crude.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 5 Line: 46-49 Lady Macbeth is still aside begging the spirits
many things so that she can become powerful and not be a regular women who does
house chores all day. This is when Lady Macbeth says, “Come to my women’s
breasts and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, wherever in your
sightless substances you wait on nature’s mischief. What Lady Macbeth is trying
to say is that she wants to be filled with evil instead of what fills her in
other words she wants to be evil and powerful not full of innocents and love.
This shows that she wants to be evil and full of hatred.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 5 Lines: 49-53 Lady Macbeth is aside once again and she is still
asking favors from the spirits to become more powerful in her life so she could
have a word in the things going on. The quote that Lady Macbeth says is “Come
thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that keen knife see
not the wound it makes, nor heaven pep through the blanket of the dark to cry
HOLD HOLD”. The meaning of this quote is that she thinks that the blade that
they use to kill Duncan is a blade not to see the wound or heaven it is for
Duncan to die and never return again.
In
Act: 1 Scene: 7 Line: 55-58 Lady Macbeth tries to man handle Macbeth with her
words and with her sexual touches and feelings. This is when Lady Macbeth says
“ How tender tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling
in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains
out, had I sworn as you have done to this”. What she means in this quote is
that if she would have made a promise and said she would have done it even if
she loved the person or thing she would have done it if she had sworn it.
In
Act: 2 Scene: 2 Line: 67-68 Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth that he did
a good thing in order to become a king or ruler just play if off and act like
it never happened and that you are not guilty. This is when Lady Macbeth says,
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white”. What she
means by this quote is that she is in the mix with him but she is not letting
it get the best of her. This shows that she already had this planned out in her
head.
In
Act: 5 Scene: 1 Line: 61-63 Lady Macbeth is sleep in her castle because she
feels guilty about convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan while he was in his sleep.
In This quote Lady Macbeth says, “Wash you hands, put on your nightgown, and
look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Duncan’s Buried. He cannot come out on
grave” What she means is that she telling Macbeth to stop being worried and
scared about being caught for the killing of Duncan.
In
Act: 5 Scene: 1 Line: 65-67 Lady Macbeth is sleep walking thinking about what
her and Macbeth did to Duncan feeling guilty. In this quote Lady Macbeth says,
“To bed, to bed; there’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, and give
me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone”. What she is trying to say in this
quote is that whatever they did cannot be put back so they have to face the
consequences. This showing that she is lighting up and thinks that it enough no
more has to be done. Also she is feeling guilty for what her and Macbeth had
done and for that she kills herself so they won’t find out what her and Macbeth
had done.
Conclusion:
My conclusion is that Lady Macbeth was all mean and stuff in the beginning of the story but then as she started to do things that was getting to her she wanted to be the nice and innocent one and didn’t want to get caught so she committed suicide and killed herself.
Throughout the year we created 2 creative pieces one of them being the Me Magazine. The Me Magazine is to show who i am with articles and advertisements.
The
title of the story I read was Treasure Island written by Robert Louis
Stevenson. This story was named to be the first adventure stories written
specifically for adolescents without an obvious emphasis on teaching morals.
This story was later on made into a movie, T.V show, and also into Audio and
radio. In the movie Treasure Island Orson Welles played as Long John Silver in
the film.
In
this story the narrator for most of this book is Jim Hawkins, he is
About 15 years old, he is the son of a
innkeeper near Bristol, which is located in
England. Even
though he is young he wants to go out hunting for treasures just
like
all the other pirates. This man named Billy Bones who is known for a scar on
cheek pays to stay at the Jim’s inn for a
while and tells the Jim to keep a
for
a man that has one leg missing. But then one day as Billy takes a walk
he
returns and is confronted by a so called man named Black Dog. They have a
very
deep and harmful conversation which ends in blood and pain, but
apparently
Billy has a stroke during the battle and dies in the middle of the
kitchen
room.
When Billy dies Jim and his mother make
a plan to attempt to find
The
treasure that he was hiding, but then when they find the key around his
Neck
and open the chest they find only gold. But as they are going through the
chest they hear foot steps and voices outside
the inn so they head out and on
there way running Jim’s mother faints. When
she faints he drags her under a
bridge, which they hide. But then he gets
interested and pokes his head out and
can see men going into the inn and becoming
mad and irritated that Billy was
dead. So the one thing that was going through
Jim’s head is that they don’t
want Billy or the chest, they are going for
something much more bigger. But
what ?
Towards
the end of the story Jim is taken by Long John Silver to the
Treasure spot but they find out that someone
else had been there. So the men of Long John Silver think that he set them up
and they all turned against them. When this happened Dr. Livesey, Ben Gunn, and
Abraham Gray emerge from the trees, their muskets smoking. They had saved the
life of Long John Silver. He was glad to be saved but happier to find out that
hey had took the treasure and took it to a cave where it was hid from everyone
, and they were the only ones that knew where it was at. Then they all ended up
splitting the gold and having a good meal together and live happy with the gold
that they found.
I
have never been in a situation like this before or have ever heard someone or
seen someone go through this before. I have also never done any of these things
because it was a modern time when pirates were existing and they were the
stories of treasures that were supposedly hidden on islands. I do not relate to
this story in any way I think unless I go on a trip in search of something I
would be the one to hide and take the trip slow cause I might not know what
might be popping out. Also in one way I would be alike is the way I would help
my partners that are in need or they are not in need. I would be the team
player and not only care a bout me but about everyone that is on the trip with
us cause I would know that not only am I putting my life on the line but they
are also.
I
like this book a lot it was a action packed story, which they were intense
moments, and there were moments where you can image what was going on in your
head. This story was good by using imagery but it didn’t really teach a lesson
at the end. This book was mostly about learning from your mistakes. My
strengths for this book were that it was easy to read and he was sticking to
one narrator or 2 not to a lot all at once. If I would try to change something
about the story I would change that it should be more information and make more
sense of setting cause a couple of time I got lost in where the characters are
at during the time.
I
would recommend this book to anyone because it would be entertaining to people
in many ways because of the action and the way it was written. So yes I would
tell anyone to read this book on there spear time and have fun enjoying it.
Journal 2: Some
expectations put upon me by others are that people look up to me and expect me
to d well in school and also do a good job on keeping up with my school work
and grades. Also they expect me to be kind and helpful to other people that are
strangers or not. My expectations are to do well in school and also try my best
to treat others the same as other people. No they are not different in any ways
but I have some that are different as my own expectation is for me to become
something in life I think everyone has that to me.
Journal 3: The
thing that defines an adult is when they are mature and have learned the
meaning of life. When they get a job and have children and are able to pay
there own bills and pay for there own home. Also when a person is done their
education and has become something in life. You find out if your grown up is
when you start doing things like a grown up. Working, Kids, Bills everything
that an adult does in order to live a life.
Journal 4: When I exceeded expectations was when my parents thought I was not going to play for the basketball team. So I said you know just for saying that I am going to prove you all wrong. So when I went to try out for the team I gave it my all and came on the top and proved to them that I was good enough. Since that day they won’t dare to say anything cause they know I would give it my 110%. I like when people think I can’t do anything because it makes me feel good. Well sounds weird but I like it cause it makes me want to prove to them that I can do it no matter what they say. I like challenges because I would live up to the opportunity and show people how I can do things even if they think I can’t ever do it. I also had a time that some exceeded my expectations. It was my little sis. He had bad grades in her school and then at the end she made it to the end and passed the grade.
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