Snowboarding

Posted by  in May 5, 2010    * Comments(1)     
It is snowing on a big white mountain, the sky is grey like a Raining clout. There are trees and hazardous rocks all over the mountain. You can feel the threatening mountain call when you are at the top of it . The top of the big white mountain is full of trees and rocks. The piste is full of people but if you go early in the morning you will have excellent crowd-free runs and early powder untrashed by the morning masses. You will be stoked when you see what awaits you. There is a place for everyone from the beginner to the professional. For the professional one of the most popular is called Red one of the oldest resorts in Canada. Once at the top of Granite mountain you can head off in a variety of directions, but snowboarding is not for everyone.
 
You look down and see a huge way down…you feel fear, but you have to be strong. You go for it ! On your way down you tried a 360. A 360 is a spin in the air. You turned and twisted around, you feel like Shannon Dunn. She may be small (5’2″ to be exact), but Shannon Dunn is a force to be reckoned with on the slopes. She’s been snowboarding since 1979 and was the first American to win a snowboarding medal at the 1998 Olympics, where she took the bronze medal in the half pipe competition. But then you tried to stop but your speed was too fast BOOM! You fell on a rock crying in pain, screaming around ”HELP” ”HELP”. Nobody hears you, you are all alone. After a few hours, you see people. You yell ”HELP” ”HELP”. You say ”I think my leg is broken and I am freezing”. The people take you to a hospital. On your way to the hospital you became unconscious. When you wake up in the hospital you saw your mom and dad. Your mom says ”God, thank you, you are alright. We were worried”.I said ”I would never go snowboarding on my own”. Millions of people snowboard every day but what attracts them when it can be such a dangerous sport?
 
I like competitions because it is cool to watch and exited. My favorite snowboarder is Shaun White because he is cool and he got his own games for the Playstation 3 and he also got his own clothing line. If i watch competitions i watch them on TV. I really like to go to a competition. My favorite competition is the X games.
The very first competitive snowboarding event was a small contest called King of the Mountain, which was held in Leadville, Colo. back in 1981. The next year, the first National Snowboarding Championships were held at Suicide Six near Woodstock, Vt. The event was so small that the organizers had to use an upturned kitchen table as the starting gate. In 1983, snowboarders from around the world converged for the first U.S. Open Snowboarding Championship, founded by Jake Burton Carpenter.

 

 

Nature of warfare.

Posted by  in February 24, 2010    * Comments(0)     

This video compares with my picture because it is about land technology from now.
It also compares with my picture because my picture is a tank and you see alot of tanks in the video.

Lord of the Flies Assessment

Posted by  in December 9, 2009    * Comments(0)     

Develop and adapt active reading skills and strategies:

In class we painted pictures of two different things in the book Lord of the Flies. The pictures were of the Dark side of the book and the Happy side.

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  •  I liked to paint the pictures of the book.
  • Another strategy I would like to use is make a movie.
  • Were i would like to make a movie about is the part in the book that they kill the sow’s.

 Understand and respond to ideas, viewpoints, themes and purposes in texts:

Throughout the book the author talks about the beast.

We first saw the beast in chapter one as something which we do not see but it is a fear that comes out at night. Jack and Ralph think that the beast comes from the littleuns’ childish nightmares. The older boys try to comfort the little ones.

They build the little ones shelters so they are not afraid of the island and Simon says the children are afraid of the beast as if it is a real creature.

Then they start talking about the beast during assemblies. A little one thinks Simon is the beast. Piggy says like a scientist that there is nothing to be afraid of on the island unless they are afraid of people. Simon says “Maybe it’s only us.” 

The body that comes from the sky is a beast and the boys believe that it attacks sam and eric.

They start giving presents to the beast in the form of the sow’s head to see if it would come to get his present. It talks to Simon and tells him he is a part of all the boys. She tells Simon that if he tells everyone about who the beast is then they should kill him.

Simon goes up the mountain to see if the beast is real and he discovers that there is no beast at all. He goes down to tell the others and they think Simon is the beast again. The beast is now a supernatural force this guy is simon.

The beast is within all of us and this is where we see him kill Simon.

Analyze how writers’ use of linguistic and literary features shapes and influences meaning:

Explain what each one means to you:

  • A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word “like” or “as”
  • Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.
  •  A metaphor is a figure of speech concisely expressed by comparing two things, saying that one is the other.

Give visual examples of each one:

Example of Simile: When two things are compared

In the book Lord of the flies we looked at different similes.

Here is an example of the simile that I like : ‘’When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies moved like bright, winged things in the shade.’’

I think this means that the shadows are evil and disturbing the bodies of the innocent boys.

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Example of Personification: Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. ‘’It’s become night.’’ The darkness pulls out the sunlight.

Everything seems to come alive when Simon is there.

He brings life to things which are objects. Simon is a christ figure and dark things become light when he is there.

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 Example of Metaphor: They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.It shows us early on in the novel that Ralph and Jack are very different.

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How did these literary features influence your experience with the novel:

They helped me understand the book better. Even though the ideas became more difficult,  once I understood all the hard words, the ideas became more interesting.

Lord of the flies

Posted by  in October 20, 2009    * Comments(1)     

In class we are about to read Lord of the flies and we are thinking about how it relates to our own lives. 

  • When and why do children tease each other?
  • Children tease each other when they don’t like someone e.g. too ugly or too fat.
  • Have you ever been teased? If so how did you feel?
  • Yes one time, I felt bad.
  • How can someone who’s teased stop the teasing?
  • Go to the teacher and tell him the problem.
  • Have you ever teased someone? Why did you do it? How did it feel?
  • One time when I was little I got teased.

    • Trust

    Posted by  in October 14, 2009    * Comments(0)     

    Plane

    Image by Kuba Bozanowski

    Element: Trust

    -You have to trust the pilot.

    -You have to trust the airplane.

    -You have to trust the runway.

     

    -I trust the Pilot because he is trained to do his job and he is educated to fly and maneuver this big Airplane.

    -I trust the airplane because the Airbus or Boeing has undergone a quality control check on every part of the Airplane.

    -I trust the Runway because it has a lot of concrete pillars under it and it is well engineered.