English connections presentation

Connections Presentation

I explained the connections between the Freedom Writers and The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian.

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Review on The Freedom Writers

The Freedom Writers

• What is the film about?

• Young teacher Erin Gruwell, goes for a job at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School for freshman and sophomore years. She gets an English class 203, with kids that don’t come to school. At the start of film, the kids start having problems in class, but not just in class. In the outside world, friends and family of the students of 203 are dying, shot, stabbed or dying in crashes etc. But as the students and Ms Gruwell start to make a friendship, the students start behaving in school and in the outside world. Ms Gruwell starts having three jobs and taking the kids to trips, getting books to read and even got Jewish Concentration Camp survivors to come and have a talk with the students. Then Ms Gruwell and her partner, who started to get quite upset that he wasn’t spending time with her, divorced. At this part of the novel, Ms Gruwell is quite upset and sad, but still comes to school with her cheerful smile. At the end of sophomore year, the students ask Gruwell if she’ll be their teacher in junior year. There is a massive meeting and Gruwell manages to win and teaches Room 203 for junior and senior year. The end credits come up and most of them were the first in there family to graduate high school.

• What did I like about the film?

• What I liked about the film was that there was a bit of gang violence, not because its ‘cool’, but because it shows what actually happens to kids, 15-18 years old, in America and what some of them have to go through. There is another story that I can relate to. Rodney King, the taxi driver that was pulled over by the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and beaten half to death, the video going viral in minutes. I can relate because most of the kids in Room 203 get beaten, or there friends and family that do. This part of the film showed that life isn’t all rainbows and sunny days. Another part would be when the Jewish survivors came and talked to the students about their struggles of life. That showed that everyone has problems, but not as bad as some.

• Compare The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

• I can compare the film to novel by what happens to Junior and the students and Ms Gruwell. The film shows what happens and how hard it is living in America, the troubles you can just walk into. But the novel tells you about how hard it is to be an Indian.

• Messages in the films.

• That everyday is a struggle and that friendship is the best thing in life.

Paragraph and Poster - ENGLISH

-The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian-

-Paragraph Writing-

At the start of the novel, Rowdy and Junior have a healthy friendship. Hanging out, playing sports together and just doing things that best friends do. From when they were young kids, Rowdy and Junior were friends from the start. They both grew up on the reservation. There is one thing that keeps their friendship together. Anyone that picks on Junior, has to deal with Rowdy. But throughout the novel, not everything is sunshine and rainbows for their friendship.

When Junior moves to Reardon High, his friendship with Rowdy changes a lot. After Arnold moves to Reardon High School, Rowdy stops talking to him, doesn’t even look at him and the only communication he does with Arnold is over email, and Rowdy still verbally abuses, calling Arnold names and all sorts of things. Another example of their friendship going down s**t’s creek is at Arnold’s first basketball game. Arnold’s first game as at his previous school, Welcanour High, and at this part in the novel, Rowdy and Arnold face off for the first time. Arnold gets a few stitches and a concussion, while he teams loses the basketball game. This game is important because it shows Junior that Rowdy is still angry and doesn’t want to show his emotions.

So after that game, Arnold’s grandmother and his Dad’s friend pass away, and later on his sister, Mary, dies from a house fire while she was having a party. At this part of the novel, Arnold is going through some hard things and is quite sad and depressed. They play more games of basketball and managed to have a streak of 12-1 (12 wins, 1 loss) and come across the Welcanour Redskins for the final game. Welcanour had a streak of 13-0 and was wanting to win this game. But Arnold’s team thrashed them and at this moment, Rowdy finally realises that his and Arnold’s friendship was starting to clear up. At Mary’s funeral, Arnold spotted Rowdy in the trees right next where she was being buried. After a few chapters, Rowdy and Arnold are now friends again, and that’s the happy ending that all stories/movies have.

I think that the most important thing that happens throughout the novel is the ups and downs of the friendship between Rowdy and Arnold. At the start, great friends and Rowdy stood up for Arnold. Throughout the book, the friendship breaks and goes down the drain. Nearing the end, it starts to mend, at for the final five chapters, Rowdy and Arnold have the healthy friendship they had from day one.

My Poster

Chinese New Year 2018

Chinese New Year

This year, last Friday, was the starting day of Chinese New Year. This year was the year of the dog, 狗 or Gǒu. The CNY's dates are decided by the Chinese lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is kind of like Chinese zodiac signs, but its got more difficulty in it. Say you want to find out what animal you are, look at at the calendar. If you were born in 2004, then you would be a monkey. Let me explain.

The easiest way to say this would be like this. It is 2018 now. You were born in 1994. And to find out what animal you are, take 12 years away from the year it is now and until you get to the year that you were born.

Evaluating Game Platforms

I think that game looked quite cool. It looked more for 5-10 year olds and it looked fun for them. Journey looked pretty well done. The music made the game sound and look cooler and has some good notes/quotes for the game. The character looks mysterious. It was made by Sony Entertainment. Quality was quite good. I don't want to play it because I am more of a shooter/first person gamer. Journey is a good game, not for me though.

Unity is a really good platform and has a brilliant market level, helping lots of programmers to program and create games. Never Alone is quite a exciting game to watch, but again, not my style. It has a great adventure theme and won lots of awards. the two main characters, the human and wolf were quite good together. The Alaskan community had a bad reputation, drugs, kids dropping out of high school and lots of them sitting at home and playing games. The arts, music etc was designed by most of the kids. The attendance at the school was between 54% and 91%. The curriculum is still at that school now.   

Error Control

To find the error in this, you must count how many blacks and how many whites. To make it even, you add the even black/white on the eighth line. Parity Cards are just like matching and patterns. You have to go in groups and make the square 8 by 8 and make them so the blacks and whites even. Then, get someone to turn around in your group and switch out one of the cards, making one of the horizontal/vertical lines odd. The person then has to choose which one and flip it over again. Try this with all the group. You could make it bigger, make it more of a challenge.

Decomposition is when you pretty much have to find the odd one out and flip it over. With Parity Cards, you have to find the odd card out and flip it over. You have to memorize where it is, where it's supposed to go etc.