My opinion of the book

So far I really like this book. It's so different from any other book i've read before. I love how we get to see how he thinks with autism. He thinks and notices things completely different from us like the fact when he see's red cars it's a good day for him, or when he see's yellow cars it's a bad day. For me it just depends on the mood I am in. Another thing I found interesting was the way he likes to count. He hates counting by one but loves counting by prime numbers so the chapter's go up by prime numbers. He also doesn't talk to people unless you ask him a question. That's complete opposite of me I love talking to people! He doesn't like people touching him including his dad. So to show affection they touch hands, this demonstates love for one another. I feel bad for the dad because he just wants to have a normal relationship with his son like other parents have. But Chris doesn't know any better. I love reading a book about a 15 year old boy having autism and his daily life with it. My sister works with people like him but most of the time with more serious cases of autism. I love helping her out with her job, there so fun to be around. But when they get angry or something doesn't go in order they can't take it and get mad. Most of my sisters students  she has just yell and hit. They love seeing me dance especially when their angry, it makes them calm. Also they love it when I dance because its a way of expression and they can relate. They love to express themselves. I also have a few family members like Christopher but some more serious autism. So it's neat to read a book about how they think, feel and see the world. I'm really excited to see what's more to come when reading this book!

Macklemore X Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert- Same Love (With Lyrics)

Midterm-86%

A: English class is much different from my last years english class. Im still getting use to the fact its all online but im very grateful that it is online because if i am absent i can just go online wherever i am and i can do the assignment that was assinged. Most of the time i come prepared and put my best effort forward but theres a lot of times where i get distracted and talk a lot. I am late to class a lot i will admit and i have missed a few classes. During class if we are having a class disscusion or the teacher is reading, most of the time i pay attention but i will multitask by going on my phone but i still pay attention to what he is saying.  When we are suppose to tweet with our partners i always do so. For this i give myself 19% out of 25%.

B: out of all 15 assignments that we had i did all. Some of them might now have been done on time but at least i have finished them and tried my best for each. For this i think i deserve a 24% out of 25%.

C: for all of the work that i have done i think i've put my full effort into it. I can improve on my grammer and the structure of my writting and the paragraphs. I can also always add more detail to my work. For that i give myself 20% out of 25%.

D: during class i am very talkitive which helps with people getting engaged more with the class conversations. I am not the best with technology but when someone needs help ill try my best to help. So i give myself 23% out of 25%. Overall i give myself a 86% in this class after all of the percentages are added up.

This is a picture of me and my partner tweeting about our character Lady Capulet. Underneath that is prove of some of the assignments i have finished out of all 15.

Act 4: Soliloquy

Soliloquy: A part of the play when an actor is on stage alone or talking to themselves out loud and sharing there feelings. Juliet: "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me: Nurse! What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there." This is a soliloquy of Juliet speaking to herself and sharing her fears out loud before she takes the potion. Even though she is very scared to take the potion she drinks it anyways to stop herself from marrying Paris, and being un faithful to Romeo. As she is about to take the potion she has so many thoughts going through her head, for example she is thinking what if the Friar actually wants to kill her, or if she takes it and never comes back or what if she takes it but still wakes up in the morning and marries Paris or what if she takes the potion but she wakes up within a day or two and not three days, or she goes insane when she is in the tomb. Juliet has all of this on her mind but in the end she takes it anyways. This right here shows Juliet's character. She is so terrified on what will happen to her but does it to be true to Romeo and show her love. This shows Juliet's courage. When Juliet did that it made me like her as a character because of her courage.

Healthy and Unhealthy relationships

Healthy: Juliet and Nurse Juliet and Nurse are examples of people who have a healthy relationship. Nurse took on the mother role to Juliet at the very beginning of Juliet's life. Nurse is always there for Juliet and no matter what helps Juliet with all her problems. Unlike Lady Capulet Nurse cares for Juliet and treats her right. Juliet looks up at Nurse with so much respect and would never go behind her nor disrespect her. Nurse: "Peace, i have done. God mark thee grace, thou was the prettiest babe that i ever nurse." I used this quote to show Nurse's love towards Juliet. Nurse:" I think you are happy in this second match,for it excels your first, or if it did not, your first is dead, or twere as good he were, as living here and you no use of him." This is Nurse telling Juliet that she should go with Paris, even though she knows she loves Romeo she is just considering Juliet's best interest. Unhealthy: Lady and Lord Capulet Lady and Lord Capulet are married with a daughter but there marriage isn't normal. He is the gangster and she is the gangster wife. The only thing he cares about is power, the only thing she cares about is partying and the bling. In the story they don't show affection towards one another. The never say " I love you" like a normal couple would do, instead Lord Capulet beats there daughter, Juliet and will disown her if she doesn't do as he says and Lady Capulet knows that but yet she doesn't say a word. She lets it happen. Lord Capulet treats Lady with no respect and yet she is still with him and doesn't stick up for herself because she is just in the marriage for the bling, the big house,the parties, none for the right reasons. I think this is one of the unhealthiest relationships in the story other then there relationship with their daughter Juliet.

Paris's view on love

Love. What is love? People say its a passionate affection towards another person but my personal opinion on love is I don't think anything of it, i mean love doesn't exist. It's just buisness. It's an arrangement from two people setting it up for me. I would do anything for Lord Capulet to get on his good side. He is very powerful, so if he wants me to marry he's 13 year old daughter Juliet so be it. 

Interm Report

Mr.Neufeld's english 10 class has been a lot of fun but over whelming at times.We are doing this class all on our electronics but it takes a lot of work for that to happen.For the first week or so of this class it was very hard and confusing, we had a lot of problems with the computers and the wifi so it took us a while to be where we are right now. I'm not good with electronics, so I don't help out with that in the classroom. If I ever a problem with my comnputer I always go to Aisha or Abhishek, they always know what to do. I'll admit I can work on my attendance/lates in this class. At the end of fourth I always go to my locker, get what I need and talk to people for a bit. As I'm walking down the halls I also get very distracted with all of my friends who don't have fifth block so I always stop and talk to them. But when I am late I come into class without disturbing everyone and get right to work. I can work on that and talk less or take what I need for this class to my fourth block class. My effort in class I think is pretty good. I am a very talkitive and enthusiastic person, but when I need to, I can get my work done. I think I contribute to this class by answering a lot of the questions that the teacher throws at us. I don't really look up videos on youtube or stuff like that then post it on the wiki to help out everyone else because I don't know how to do that. You can always catch me talking and envolving the people around me. This class is very close, we all like to work together. The guys love when the girls answer all the questions for them. We have done a few essays but my favorite one that we did was the creative story. I love to write creative stories because I can be very creative. The story that I wrote was called "Always Check To See If You Shut Your Windows." This was our first essay that we wrote. My favorite thing about this story was how it was so mysterious and you didn't know what was going to happen next. Another essay we wrote was us connecting to three poems that we read in class and commented on. I connected to the poem called "To A Stranger" by Walt Widham. MY favorite line that I wrote in that poem would have to be " I have surely somewhere lived a life with joy with you." Even though it was from the first poem it spoke to me the most. In class I like to procastinate and hold off things until the end. I get it done but sometimes the night before it's due or the last minute. That is something I need to work on throughout this course. Overall, this class is quite different from my other classes and I have to get use to it. I like the idea of using computers it saves a lot of time and you can go on the website and go back and fix your mistakes whenever you want to.

Essay

Relationships. Everybody has a different opinion on relationships, there's healthy and unhealthy. In the poem "how is your heart" by Charles Bukowski he talks about the unhealthy kind ,and how your life at home is bad, you feel ugly and unwanted wherever you are. I can't say that I can relate to him, but I'm sure some of you can. Unentilted by Jenifer L'Hirondelle,I feel this poem is sharing her love towards her son ,I also can't relate to this because I don't have a child. The poem that spoke to me the most was “To a stranger" by Walt Whitman. When I read this poem I thought of a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship and how they were together for a long period of time, they mean everything to each other, there in love everything goes well, then out of nowhere they brake up and there strangers..? Yes, this probably happened to a few of you but I can talk about this through experience. You guys spend as much time as you can together text/call all the time have your inside jokes, you think everything is going perfectly then the day you never want to happen, happened. You guys are strangers now. No more goodnight calls, kissing, morning texts that say "morning beautiful<3" no passing each other in the halls on your way to class saying hey, or your having a bad day and just seeing them smile or knowing you have them turns your whole day around. You guys avoid each other. One talks behind your back, you don't even look at each other anymore, no texts/calls absolutely nothing. You guys are strangers. You feel like you’re nothing to him, like none of the time being together meant something. Were strangers now? Looking at that person all the memories come rushing back, and you think to yourself I have surely somewhere lived a life of joy with you.

Life Of A Teenager

   It's not the easiest thing in the world, you have so many expectations from everyone around you. You are expected different things from everyone, your parents want you to succeed in life and do your best, your teachers just want you to pass so they dont have to teach you again, then there's your social life. That's the hardest part about being a teenager. You can't just be average or you will get made fun of, you can't be really smart and care about your grades all the time or you will get called names and be known as the nerd, if a teacher likes you, you get called a teachers pet, if you don't do certain things that people do or tell you to do you also get made fun of. Either way anything you say or do people will talk about you, especailly if you are a girl. Being a teenager comes with high school, well when you are in high school and your a girl good luck! There is A LOT of back stabbing, talking behind each others back, and lots of people de-friending each other. When your a guy in high school it's pretty easy, people don't really talk behind your back, no back stabbing and your friends with everyone. If you have a problem with someone and your a dude all you have to do is confront them and fight, then after that you two are best buddies, with girls it's the complete opposite. If you confront a girl and set them straight it just causes world war two and other people get involved. Also in high school there's so much dating issues, like I like him so you can't like,date or even talk to him. Or he dumped me so I hate him and that means you should hate him as well if not, were not friends. In high school if you date someone younger you get made fun of, if you date someone older or two years older you get labelled a certain name. Guys also have it easy with that because they can date whoever they want and nothing will happen. Being a teenager also comes with trying to find out what you want to be when your older and you have so much pressure from everyone. You have to make sure you please your parents. If you do one little thing wrong,talk back,give any kind of attitude or don't do as they say you get a huge lecture about life and "You have everything so good, count your blessings"speech. Apparently I must do something wrong all the time because I hear that speech all the time. Being a teenager also sucks because it comes with this thing called puberty. It's when your body changes! It's horrible! I like being at this age age right now even though it comes with all of that. You start earning more trust and lot's more freedom with your parents and teachers. At the same time you are becoming a young adlut so you have more responsibilities. There's a lot about being a teenager, lot's of pros and cons and here I have told you some.

Always Check To See If Your Windows Are Shut.

It all started when the upstairs window was open...
 
    We just moved into this big red old house on the 9th street, next to this abanded school. I was so excited to finally have a new start for once. It was just me,my dad, and my little bother moving into this house after what happend with my mom. My brother is 5 years old, he never knew what actually happened to our mom, he just thinks she passed away after giving birth to him but in reality that wasn't the case and far from the truth...


    It's almost been a week, lifes good. At first I was very unsure of this small town, I just got a bad feeling with everyone starring at you, knowing  everything about you. I have school in two days and I am very nervous from what happened last time when I had school, I dont remember the good things that came with school,just the bad. I hope this year will be different. First day of school, being called names and rude glares because when you are the new kid automatically you have hatred. Why does my brother Malcolm have life so easy, he gets whatever he wants whenever he wants, no name calling or weird stares nothing bad could ever happen to him, and so I thought...


    It's been a month when weird things have started to happen but not just in my house. Things have gone missing, Malcolm kept on getting sick, people have gone missing and the police have no leads. One night at 1 in the morning I woke up to the sound of foot steps coming from one of the bedrooms, and it almost sounded like 5 people walking up and down the hall dragging something behind them. I was curious, but scared, everyone was sleeping and I couldn't wake them up, so it was just me. I went to see what that noise was, to this day I still regret it.


 Eight months later, I'm still in the hospital with my foster family. People keep asking what happened that night and I always say the same thing " The only thing I remember from that night was 5 dark human shadows, which one of them looked like my mother, carrying something sharp, and they were all standing by the open upstairs window."