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This English school year I tried my best then messed up sometimes but now I know my mistakes and can help me in the future. Looking back at the year I grew as a writer and improved in other areas. Everyone is at different levels but no matter what if you put everything you can into the work you will get the grade you deserve.

 

My strengths in English are reading books and collaborating with others about the story.  My weakness in English is my process with the projects I wait until last minute or don’t stay focused in class but I think from the beginning of the school I have gotten better at that, also my spelling I want to work on my writing a lot more I am very creative and I think if I really try I can have great pieces of writing.

 

Going back and looking at my work Is funny also something that all students should do because you get to change things, know what you need to work on also remember your year. It’s funny because it’s like oh my god I wrote that or what was I thinking if its something that you didn’t think you would write or do. Some issues that occurred were my journal entries because my journal entries were not organized and fully done I went back and polished my journal entries. 

 

The piece I am most proud of is my Macbeth creative. I did a keynote with my own pictures and some from the Internet that show lady Macbeths journey. I feel as though I did my best on this project. What I wanted to do was make people understand her change through my own pictures and how I thought this the picture should be and others understanding it.  I worked on it whenever we had time to, I was focused.

 

​Short Reflection:

 

1.      What I think the portfolio says about me as a 9^th 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 9^th 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.

​Juan Rivera

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.

For english 9 we did 2 independent reading assignments on 2 books we read outside of school.

 

         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.

        

         

Every morning we got together as a class and wrote journal entries about the topic that the teacher chose.

 

​Journal 1: We write so that we can express our feelings and thoughts and release them into the outside world. Also we use writing on our spare time to write down thoughts and feelings. When you write it makes you feel much better and relaxed afterwards. When we write it feels like a heavy weight of stress and hatred leaves our body and we are able to continue with the day without having any problems with anyone or anything. The point of us writing is to get our mind straight and be stress free. People that tend to write a lot ted to become something in the near future. There is saying that if you write down some goals on a index card and carry it around with you it helps you remember why you are doing what you are doing cause at the end of all that stress and pain you can look back at the index card and say it was easy and it was a good idea to set your goal now and when you make it to where you want you can cross off all the goals you completed and take another index card and continue to write down more goals and you will get far in life.

 

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.

The first benchmark of our English class was Macbeth Creative Character Development, for this project we had to create a piece that shows one of the characters growth throughout the book. Quotes followed by explanations of the quotes will help you understand the change.

​ Jessica Maiorano

Lady Macbeth

 

Thesis: Lady Macbeth was a controlling and confident person in the beginning by the end she was a weak and guilty person.

 

Act 1 scene 5 Lady Macbeth is by herself talking to Macbeth even thought he is not there. Also thinking about what is happening. King Duncan and Macbeth are coming to the house for a dinner and she needs to get ready. (Act 1, scence 5, line 38, page 17)

Lady Macbeth has her time alone talking and she says “ Come you sprits that tend their mortal thought unsex me here.” What she is saying is that she is not afraid of Duncan. She wants to be stronger then Macbeth manlier. Lady Macbeth wants evil in her to keep her strong. Lady Macbeth is controlling she is going to do anything to succeed finish what she wanted to do.  She wants to me able to do what she wants not be afraid or feel guilty after.

 

In act 1 scene 5 Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth to tell him you have to be nice and innocent to the king and the quests. Lady Macbeth in (Act 1, scene, 5, line 24) says “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.” This means that they need to nice to the king so they would not suspect anything that they are going to kill Duncan. The play she is now very confident in her plan wants it done and over with, with no problems. If they’re good at the dinner then they can proceed.

 

Lady Macbeth in act 1 scene 5 she is preparing for king Duncan he is arriving at the castle any minute to have a dinner. She doesn’t want to quit she needs to stay strong so she is able to do the murder. (Act 1 scene 5, line 42). Aside Lady Macbeth is talking and she says “ stop up the’ access and passage to remorse.” This quote from the play that she says means she can’t regret this. Lady Macbeth needs to be evil, mysterious and stay that way. In this scene is very important because this is lady Macbeth is powerful.

 

Lady Macbeth in Act 1, scene 7 lady Macbeth is talking Macbeth into killing Duncan. If Duncan dies Macbeth will be king and she is will be queen. Lady Macbeth is doing all she can to make him go through with this plan. (Act 1, scene 7, line 60) Lady Macbeth says, “ we fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail.” This means she is saying Macbeth needs to man up and do the plan. They will not fail there is nothing to worry about.  She explains everything to him and soon he agrees with her to go through with it. At this point lady Macbeth is feeling very confident in herself and is not scared.

 

In act 2 scenes 2 Macbeth has just killed king Duncan and is freaking out because he regrets it and feels guilty while Lady Macbeth is covering it up there is a level of panic in the room.  (Act 2-scene2, line 35) Lady Macbeth says “these deeds must not be thought after these ways so it will make us mad.” This means that they not repeat this to anyone it is a secret and if they talk about it, it will stay in their minds and drive them crazy which soon will happen to both but Macbeth isn’t as strong as lady Macbeth, his guilt will show more and earlier in the play. This shows Lady Macbeth will find a way to fix everything to make sure they are not caught and that is not spoken of again. Also lady Macbeth can put the guilt feeling aside at this point , which Macbeth cannot do.

 

In act 3 scene 1 king Duncan I dead and they are having another dinner but someone is missing. Macbeth was thinking that Banquo was going to get suppsious or try to take his position as king. Lady Macbeth is worried. Macbeth kills banquo (Act 3, scene 4 line 110) Lady Macbeth says, “ You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting with most admired disorder” The quote means that Macbeth killed banquo his close friend to stay king. He was supposed to be at that dinner but he is not. Macbeth sees his ghost and goes crazy then lady Macbeth is telling him he is wrong for what he did. Soon she starts to go crazy along with him.

 

In Act 3, scene 4 Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth and talking about how he killed Duncan because now he is killing everyone in his way of him not becoming king.  She says in (Act 3, scene 4, line 63) “ this is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan O theses flaws and starts.” This quote means that what led him to kill Duncan is making him kill more and more people. He is killing then messing up which are his flaws then he starts over again. Lady Macbeth is trying to say stop, now her guilt isn’t showing because she is stronger but his is now showing a lot.

 

In Act five scene 1 lady Macbeth is sleep walking and is washing her hands to get the blood off from when Duncan was killed so she is not caught. Macbeth killed Duncan and when it was done she went and cleaned up. Lady Macbeth got blood all over her hands and could not get it off. (Act 5, scene 1, line 53, page 84). Lady Macbeth says, “ Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh oh!” This means the blood on lady Macbeths hands is gone but it will she thinks its there because what she did can not be undone, in her mind its still there and nothing will make it go away. This shows she is weak and cannot control what is happening.

 

In Act five scenes 1 the gentle woman was worried about lady Macbeth so she called a doctor. The doctor has seen lady Macbeth sleepwalking, washing her hands for a long amount of time, speaking to someone and the doctor is interested in what is wrong with her.  Also wants to determine why she is doing this. Aside the gentle women and the doctor are speaking to each other. (Act 5, scene 1, line 53, page 84). “ What a sigh is there. The heart is sorely charged.” This quote means that Lady Macbeth is finally showing her guilt and the truth. She wanted to kill but when it was done, in her mind she didn’t want it to happen. It didn’t show throughout the story but at this stage in the play Lady Macbeth did not choose to show it but in her sleep it came out. At this point the doctor is not sure what is going to happen to her.

That shoes that she is weak towards the end of the book.

 

In collusion Lady Macbeth has a major change during this play.  Seeing all the quotes and analyzing lady Macbeth through the story you can tell she’s fine in the beginning and broke down in the end. It came back and haunted her. Her plan did not turn out the way she wanted it to.

 

This is last day of my classes. This year has been full everything pretty peachy. Im proud of all my accomplishments and I proud to say that this is all almost over

These are my final pictures for this course. The Picture from a famous artist wasn't exactly famous like art gallery famous. But he is famous in "media" because he draws all of anime. This particular one was from the anime Kenichi: the mightiest Disciple. Now I didn't finish and that was because i lost my picture trying to start my new one.

The Next three were for the bikes. I didn't really get that one so I just drew it I guess it was so I could understand the dimensions. of something that was just lines.

The last one I drew was one that I 4 got about It was of a structure that we could find. So i wanted to be different and I drew the "Batcave". Batman's secret hideout because it was different and I never tried it before. Now i thought for my first time that I did very well. But i do know that with more practice it could be better. If i getter a better grasp of depth they will all look better.

Here's my benchmark

Benchmark Reflection:

Wallet made of Duct Tape

Edit 3 Photos

Bike: Lines only​

Bike: Shading only

Bike: Negative drawing

Artist Influence 

Outside Picture:

Example photo of drawing

Click here

btw you should open this in firefox because I'm not sure if it'll work on any other browser

Voces Inocentes: Amaris, Callie, Natasha, María
Voces Inocentes: Jonathan, Zillah, Diamante, Ashley
El Norte: Iraida, Camille, Tomás
Romero: Elisa, Dani, Kai, Nathan (este sitio sólo funciona en Firefox o Safari)

Amaris Romero
Simone Greene
Zillah Hernandez
Samantha Boyd

It's about damn time.
I love my life. <3​

​Ryan Francis
Donna Survillo
Martha Robles
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Directed by Donna & Ryan Francis
Edited by Ryan Francis
Acting by Martha Robles & Ryan Francis

I emailed you it

I made a prezi on the history of BMW. Below is the link to my prezi.

http://prezi.com/kjprew0f3mv_/edit/#1_18032606

It's been a wild 4 years here at SLA, but I'm glad to have spent it with everyone here. SInce I came through the doors here at SLA 4 years ago, I thought that I would have it easy.. However, after that first day of freshman year, I was wrong. It was nothing but a hectic ride because I struggled with some of my classes as I am sure some of you have. I also am proud again that I had the opportunity to have been part of the 2011 SLA Rockets Baseball team, even if we loss in the first round of playoffs. Anyway, I wish everyone the best of luck in college and have fun, and I would also like to thank all of the teachers; Past and Present for helping me make it this far in my High-School education. 

Blase Biello
Tariq Smith
Shebly Harcher
Anwar Abdul-Qawi 
Jason Davis 

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Here is a link to my website.

• What did you find most challenging about this project?

The most challenging part was definitely finding picture that I could use. Once I fully grasped the purpose of the benchmark it was easier to identify things, but it's still a hassle to travel around the city and find the things. I also had a problem with the camera aspect-- namely, I didn't have one. I was forced to use my old camera phone, from which I had to text the pictures to a friend in order to gain access to them on the computer. It was also sort of tough to embellish on the globalization for each topic.

• How did you go about collecting the images or selecting the images?

I used recommendations from peers, teachers, and my own ideas to assemble a group of appropriate topics as I understand the subject.

• Which image is your favorite? Why? Elaborate.

I like the picture of the Italian Market sign because I feel it is a perfect example of the topic and I have grown up in that area for my entire life, so it feels really special.

• How prevalent is the evidence of globalization in Philadelphia? Do you think it is more or less so (evident) than in other large cities in the US? Why Why not?

It is evident in many ways that we don't normally consider, definitely. Any time we use technology or eat food, we are touched by globalization in some way. This project has definitely gotten me thinking about the whole process of product from beginning to end.

​Here it is!