Brooke's Creative Writing legend assignment

Once upon a time there lived a girl, she was ordinary, she wasn’t a princess or a queen. She was a mystery, quiet, and lonely although people who cared constantly surrounded her. She was broken and lost and as do most girls, she fell in love. It was a love that touched the hearts of others and inspired greatness. She found her prince but sadly she was not his princess. It all started when her life was coming close to its end, on the beach at the end of the dock looking at the stars. The night ended with soaking wet with an innocent kiss in a locked bathroom. Feelings were never meant to get involved and they knew that. Their family and friends were like the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, she may as well have been Juliette and he was Romeo. Juliette fell in love with him quickly, to quick. She knew she had found love on a Friday night that faded into Saturday morning. They stood there silently watching the traffic lights change at three AM, the world was empty. It was just them and she thought to herself he is all I ever need. How perfect of a moment it was to rain, started ever so gently then it started to pour. The rain felt like little drops of heaven, she watched his blurred face walk to her and he said the words “kissed in the rain, check.”. We all know what comes next, he kissed her and it changed everything. They both decided to fall that night, they talked all day and all night. He made her carefree and she made him better. They learned how to grow with each other, she learned things about herself she needed to. They kept it a secret as best they could, but as you should know everyone has their opinions. She started to question things and they began to fight. It broke her heart every time he would say, you know it all has to come to an end some day. She knew that she had learned it over and over in her life, this girl was broken and as I said before her life was close to its end. There was water running and a blade, she said goodbye. Romeo couldn’t breath when he got the news. Two hours passed by that he thought she was dead. She was given four days to sit and think. She went away to live at friends. The night she got there she called him and there was no answer. He was furious with her because she said goodbye, he knew that she thought of him and she chose to leave him behind. That was the night they both said “I love you” it was sweet and innocent. She promised to never hurt him again; she said she would be okay. Juliette was sick though; she was surrounded and clouded by a familiar darkness. She was able to hide it for a while, they were doing well she was happy. She was doing so well, she found out what hope is. It was a few weeks before the darkness came back and it was done. He said, “you didn’t just disappoint me, you disappointed yourself.”. She was left behind and abandoned, but she picked herself up, she’s moving on. You see she knows she’s still not a princess or a queen, but he showed her she is far from ordinary. She knows she’s special; she’s special because she learned how to love. Hopeless and broken when she met him, dark and doubtful too. I sadly cannot say she still isn’t all of these things, but thankfully I can say she is doing much better now. He helped her and touched her heart like no other and she still misses him every moment of everyday. She is happy though, that he is where he wants to be and he escaped his darkness. Now they are just another beautiful yet tragic love that was lost. He’s with his princess, and one day she will get another prince. She never saw him coming and she will never be the same. They now live as strangers far apart, its sad but that’s how love works sometimes. Love is hard and it often ends with heartbreak, but it is always worth it. She learned to never give up a chance at love and not to be afraid of the end.  

Brooke's vocabulary words assignment

  SHE SCRIBBLED FELICITY ON HER DOG. The impact of the rain causedtranquility. While hanging upside down the girl was relentless to come down and it wasobvious.

Ari's poetry/song lyrics assignment

Song Writing Intro Paragraph

            In the two songs, N.W.A; Fuck The Police, and Jay-Z; 99 problems, there is a common theme that makes listeners aware of the importance of their message. This theme is racism.  In Fuck The Police they talk about how police mess around with them and arrest them because of their color, especially if they have money.  “A young nigga got it bad cause I'm brown

And not the other color so police think

They have the authority to kill a minority”

In Jay-Z’s song he talks about how the police harassed him and tried to search his car because he was a racial minority and he was young.  And I heard "Son do you know why I'm stopping you for?"

“Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hat's real low.”

The two songs have an intense and harsh way of expressing that message, but it has definitely worked by making people realize how racism makes other people feel.

In the two songs, you can tell that racism is brought up in a lot of different ways.  In fuck the police they have the police actually saying it, and in Jay-Z’s song it just has him saying that the police are racist.

Will's paragraph assignment

The man and his dog ran under the bus shelter to get out of the rain. He turned to the woman who was sitting on an upside down bucket and said, “The impact of the rain is giving me a headache. The pain is absolutely relentless, I hope my Sycamore tree is doing okay in this weather.” The woman looked at him confused and said, “You seem pretty stressed, are you okay.” The man sighed and said, “Yeah its just that its hard traveling because my dog has monophobia and when I leave him alone he wrecks the whole house. I don’t know what to do”. The lady smiled and said, “ Well I just happen to be running a charity to help socially challenged pets,” she then pulled out a piece of paper, scribbled out her name and number and handed it to him. The man’s veracity ended up benefiting him in the end.

Poetry/song lyrics thesis and intro paragraph

Choose two poems or song lyrics
1) How are they connected in terms of theme, subject matter and style
2) Write a thesis and an intro paragraph connecting the above ideas
Remember to bring in examples from the text
Remember to reference the text directly
Remember to include your arguments and summary in your paragraph
Leave "I think, I feel, in my opinion" etc out of your thesis
Try to use the active instead of the passive voice (I broke the window, vs the window was broken)

Guidlines for essay writing

1) Clarity- Are you ideas clear? Does your reader understand what you're trying to express?
2) Unity- Are your ideas connected or related? Can your reader see how?
3) Cohesion- Is your assignment fluid? Does it flow well?

Notes on Essay writing:
Make sure to work on your:
Thesis Statements- what you're trying to prove
Topic Sentences- introducing your ideas
Arguments- make sure you bring in proofs and example
Concluding sentences in your paragraphs

Basic Essay Structure:

Intro paragraph- thesis+three proofs
Par 1: 1st argument/proof with examples from the text
Par 2: 2nd agrument, proof with examples from the text
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Conclusion- reiterate thesis
restate arguments
provide one new insight

Adam's Legend assignment

Topic: Environment (Pollution-In Water)

Basic idea: story of people always hanging out by a lake, swimming from time to time, after a few years lake slowly becomes more polluted, becomes unswimmable. Entire area gets closed off due to pollution issues.

A few friends walk through a park and into a small nearby forest. After a few minutes of walking, the friends find themselves in a clearing with a crystal clear lake in the middle. “This place is amazing!” The easily excitable friend had pointed out. The friends had decided that they would come back to the lake the next day to have a swim in the beautiful lake. On the second day of walking through the park, some of the friend had seen that there were signs down the road of construction of a new waste processing plant.

Over the coming weeks and months, the friends had visited the lush forest day by day, coming to the lake, and enjoying many hours at the lake swimming and enjoying themselves. As time went on however, they had found they had noticed that as the processing plant continued its construction, the waters had begun to darken. “Anyone notice something changing about the water?” one of the more observant of the friends had noticed. The other friends hadn’t really paid attention to it and continued to enjoy themselves with what they currently had.

One day, while all the friends were walking over, the one that noticed more had seen something odd along the way to the lake. “Guys, do you remember seeing a construction sign around here recently?” They had not noticed, and over the past several weeks, the amount of signs had multiplied exponentially to the point that there were enough to surround the general area of the entire forest. A construction worker had shown up a few minutes later while the friends were inspecting the quality of the lake and how the area around it had quickly turned into a wasteland.

“Sorry kids, but this lake is closed from it being too unsafe to swim in. You know pollution from the plant and all.” The worker had said before he returned to welding two pipes together to attach to the overall set that led to the lake. From then on, the friends could no longer go to the lake to spend time together and hang out. Eventually the friends began to grow distant from one another and eventually forgot about each other in the long run. The plant continued to run for years and years to come and the lake grew toxic to the point that going near it was a health hazard. Because of this, the area was forced to be deforested in order to keep people safe. The friends, although distant, after many years, wished that they could return to the lake they had spent so much time and enjoyed so much there, if only they had noticed what was happening to the lake before they delved in.