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Musings

email.hidden@example.com (shamen3mill) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:24:22 +0000

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Hey mr L. i know peoplehavent been on...but i wanted to let you know that i found out what the lyrics to come together by the beatles means...well sorta. i looked it up on google and its actually undecided unless you asked a member of the band. theres many theories about it though. one of the most common ones is that each section of lines is about each member in the band. another one is that someone told john lennon to do a song and go off of "come together" so he went in the studio and just started. ohh and this is a big one-many people dont know, but if you find the CORRECT lyrics, when it sounds like he says "shoot", he really said shoot me with a clap, but its blocked out by the base line. theres also a line in the song that many people misunderstand. its "Hold you in his -armchair- you can feel his disease." It's actually "Hold you in his arms, yeah, you can feel his disease." all published sheet music had the "armchair" lyric, including the inne

Musings

email.hidden@example.com (shelby zimmerman) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:24:08 +0000

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Destiny Bromley- Hey i just came on since im on free time! But i was wondering wat u guys think about the new story we're reading in Mr. L's reading class! So far its made me almost cry cuz it reminds me of my 30 year old sister that was mentally challenged! She died about one and a half years ago. So ya tell me what you think about it so far and what you thinks gonna happen! well talk to yall later.
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Hey mr L. i know peoplehavent been on...but i wanted to let you know that i found out what the lyrics to come together by the beatles means...well sorta. i looked it up on google and its actually undecided unless you asked a member of the band. theres many theories about it though. one of the most common ones is that each section of lines is about each member in the band. another one is that someone told john lennon to do a song and go off of "come together" so he went in the studio and just started. ohh and this is a big one-many people dont know, but if you find the CORRECT lyrics, wh

Bookreviews

email.hidden@example.com (Briana Ortega) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:16:26 +0000

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Looking for Alaska
By John Green
Pages:221
Genre: Fiction
Audience: Teens
Book review by Briana Ortega
Before: Miles Halter is a young man who is tired of his life at home. So, Miles and his parents decide that it would be best if he starts going to boarding school. They find a school called Culver Creek. This school is anything but ordinary. All of the students try to act like perfect angels for the teachers, but when they are gone, the students start drinking and smoking. Everyone once and a while they get caught and must be punished. On his first day, Miles moves into his dorm room. He quickly meets his roommate and soon to be friend, Chip Martin. But, everyone calls him the Colonel. The Colonel doesn’t like Miles’ name. So, he decides to call Miles “Pudge.” (Ironic since Miles is stick thin.) The Colonel introduces Pudge to his friends. One of them being Takumi, a thin guy from Japan, but grew up in Birmingham. But the Colonel also introduces Pudge to Alaska Young, a beautif

Bookreviews

email.hidden@example.com (Rachel Loomis) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:29:50 +0000

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..is it okay to put this on the top??... well oh well..
Diary of a Teenage Girl
By Melody Carlson
Book Review By Rachel Loomis
Pages: 248
Genre: Fictional Diary
Audience: Teenage girls
Diary of a Teenage Girl is about a seventeen year old girl, Caitlin o' Conner. Catie writes a diary about her high school life. For Caitlin, life isn’t easy. Her and her best friend, Beanie are very close, and they aren’t the most popular people in school. When Caitlin meets Jenny Lambert while decorating for the Valentine dance, Catie chooses her over Beanie. Big mistake. While becoming popular, she looses Beanie and steps away from her Christianity. She attends parties and steps away from her family as well. Soon, Caitlin goes to visit her dad at the ad agency, but finds a gift for another lady. Catie looses her dad to an affair. Confused with life, she thinks about suicide, but doesn’t even get close. At a winter snow retreat with the youth group, Catie falls even more in love with Jenny's boy

Cirque du Freak

email.hidden@example.com (Adrianna Carrillo) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:49:32 +0000

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Cirque du Freak

By Darren Shan

Genre: Fiction

Characters: Darren, Darren's best friend, Vampire that turns Darren into a half vampire

Theme: to save a friend you have to do what you have to do

Summary

Darren Shan. A normal kid? Darren has a great life until one day he and his best friend go to a French circus. This day changes the lives of Darren and his best friend. After seeing that Darren's best friend wanted to be converted into a vampire Darren freaks out... Days pass and Darren thinks on how cool it would be to have the spider that the vampire used in his act was great to have as his pet. so Darren ends up stealing the spider and so Da

Expository Essay Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:56:09 +0000

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
----Albert Einstein
Expository writing is as much about thinking as it is about writing. Its purpose is to explain and to inform. During this unit of study, I will give the students various writing activities that will allow them to fine-tune their expository writing skills.
Expository Essay Learning Objectives:

Expository Essay Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:54:18 +0000

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Expository writing is as much about thinking as it is about writing. Its purpose is to explain and to inform. During this unit of study, I will give the students various writing activities that will allow them to fine-tune their expository writing skills.
Expository Essay Learning Objectives:
Students will publishan expositorypiece on a topic of their choice
Students will incoporate the tools of a writer inwriting theirexpository essay:
engaging lead
strong verbs
effective transitions
convincing conclusion

Expository Essay Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:51:59 +0000

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Expository Essay Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:51:29 +0000

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Expository Essay Learning Objectives:

FrontPage

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:44:19 +0000

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Welcome To Mr. Loosveldt's WIKI!
First things first. You might be asking yourself, What is a Wiki? What an excellent question. The answer: A wiki is an online document, a webpage, that can be edited right inside the web browser. What does that mean? It means that these webpages are shared by everyone in our classroom. It means that each of you have the priviledge and responsibility of making the classroom website. You can edit any of the pages in our website. I want our wiki to serve a number of functions: 1) Wikis are fluid. Students will be able to share their writing on the wiki and receive instant feedback. You can edit any of the pages on our website. Just make sure that you don't change someone else's work without asking them or be mendacious in your critique about the author's writing; 2) Our wiki will feature links to websites that contain pearls of wisdom about the craft of writing; 3) Our wiki will feature a calendar that will keep you informed about important due dates; 3) Bookreviews will be po

Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:42:37 +0000

Mark Loosveldt edited Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

The Bronx Masquerade is a compelling novel by Nikki Grimes. The novel is written innarrative and poetry and follows the lives of 18 students in Mr. Ward's English Class. The reader gets to know the challenges and obstacles each student faces through his/her narrative and poetry.
Goals and Objectives of The Bronx Masquerade Unit:
Bronx Masquerade, influences the way characters view each other in the story. Masquerade.
Students will identify the dynamic character in the novel and those events that lead to his/her changes
Students will identify th poetic devices of simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, and hyperbole used in the poems and analyze how these devices shaprened the images in these poems

Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:40:17 +0000

Mark Loosveldt edited Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

The Bronx Masquerade is a compelling novel by Nikki Grimes. The novel is written innarrative and poetry and follows the lives of 18 students in Mr. Ward's English Class. The reader gets to know the challenges and obstacles each student faces through his/her narrative and poetry.
Goals and Objectives of The Bronx Masquerade Unit:
willanalyzehow tolerance, some of the characters'sterotypes and prejudices can be a hinderence totolerance, a major theme in The Bronx Masquerade, influences the way characters view each other in the story.
Students will identify the dynamic character in the novel and those events that lead to his/her changes
Students will identify th poetic devices of simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, and hyperbole used in the poems and analyze how these devices shaprened the images in these poems

Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:14:25 +0000

Mark Loosveldt edited Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

Students will identify the dynamic character in the novel and those events that lead to his/her changes
Students will identify th poetic devices of simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, and hyperbole used in the poems and analyze how these devices shaprened the images in these poems
Students will analyze how conflict influences the actions and thoughts of the character

Musings

email.hidden@example.com (Payton) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:22:49 +0000

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Shelby Zimmerman: Hey Mr. Loosvelt! If you didn't notice, I sorta forgot to come and see if I could barrow that book after school. So...I was hoping that I could possibly get like ten or less minutes to finish it in class or come in for lunch. I'm super-duper sorry for needing the extension but I only need to find three quotes and writemy thoughts about it.Thanks and see you in class! P.S.In the U.S. Cellular commercial for the new 'Rocker', the man uses the simile, "It's like a paper-cut in the eardrum." He was talking about the music his son listens to. Just wanted to let you know!
Destiny Bromley- Hey i just came on since im on free time! But i was wondering wat u guys think about the new story we're reading in Mr. L's reading class! So far its made me almost cry cuz it reminds me of my 30 year old sister that was mentally challenged! She died about one and a half years ago. So ya tell me what you think about it so far and what you thinks gonna happen! well talk to yall later.
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Descriptive Writing That Rocks

email.hidden@example.com (courtney marie) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:33:59 +0000

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Descriptive Writing That Rocks

email.hidden@example.com (courtney marie) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:33:35 +0000

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Descriptive Writing That Rocks

email.hidden@example.com (courtney marie) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:33:03 +0000

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She sat calmly on a flat stone surrounded by sparse patches of grass. The rocky soil gave little nourishment to the gold speckled grass. The murky, gray sky looomed above her, starting to drop little icy orbs of water, splattering on her red face. The smell of salt water flooded her senses as she took in the veiw around her. Bright green bushes tainted with dark purple and trees enclosed the small opening. The trees towered above her in an almost foreboding manner, yet, they never stopped her. She peered down to the dark depths below. the waves crashing up against the already wet rocks seemed to be football fields away, but lay directly beneath her.
I thought this person did a fantastic job describing. i like the line "The murky, gray sky loomed above her, starting to drop little icy orbs of water..."
----R.D.
I thought this person did a fantastic job describing. i like the line "The murky, gray sky loomed above her, starting to drop little icy orbs of water..."

Bronx Masquerade Learning Goals and Objectives

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Loosveldt) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:28:00 +0000

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Writing Resouces and Activities

email.hidden@example.com (Mark) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:52:16 +0000

Mark edited Writing Resouces and Activities

This Page will include a plethora of websites that include writing activities, resouces and places for students to publish their work. I hope you'll find these websites beneficial to you and that they will help you expand your writing skills and spark your imagination. Enjoy!
Writing Resouces and Activities
http://www.teenink.com/Teen Ink

Writing Resouces and Activities

email.hidden@example.com (Mark) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:47:56 +0000