Plato Prize

Dream House Paragraph with Imagery

My dream house is a three story mansion. When looking at my house from the outside you see a white house with pink shudders and a balcony surrounding the second and third story. When walking in to my house you see a mixture of bright vibrant colors that just feels so warm. The taste of clean fresh air will feel your nose. When touching the couch the soft and warmth takes over the body with such a home feeling it will make anyone want to stay to live. The smell of fresh apple pie will fill the nose and water the mouth of who ever walks in. The sound of love and laughter warms any heart that walks into my house. To achieve this dream I will stay in school graduate and do just about anything to make sure this comes true, and I will make sure that the things I want I will be able to do.

Third Quarter Goals Reflection

I have three goals for this quarter. One of my goals for the quarter is to get at least a 3.0 I really want to go for a 3.5 or 4.0. I feel that I can go far if I just put my mind to it and don’t get off track. My second goal is to stay out of drama because being on a campus with 164 kids it can get very hard to stay out of drama but it is not impossible. My third goal is to not get on restriction and stay on the straight path that I am on. I know that doing these things will be hard but they are something that I know that I can do. Some things that I have done to start achieving these goals are turning in all of my work and staying in class as much as possible with out having appointments. Also I have done the best on all of my homework assignment and I have been asking if I need help with something I am really going for A’s and B’s. I need to stay more focus when doing my homework and pay more attention in class and prioritize between work, sports, and school. I have a feeling that once basketball season is over I will be able to achieve these goals better. At the end of the quarter I want to be able to look at my report card and be able to say that I did it that was able to achieve my goal.

Poetry Experience Paragraph

Studying poetry is one of my favorite subjects to learn in school. In poetry there are so many things to learn, like rhythm, and rhyme schemes, and symbolism, I feel that every poem has a meaning and there was a reason why the writer wrote the poem. In the past I have studied poetry in many different ways like reading and analyzing poems, to creating one of my own for school. I love to write out my feeling that is a way I express myself. So I love to write my own poetry and I love reading others because I feel that I can relate to some of the poem that I read. I sometimes feel that I can be feeling something and look on the internet and have someone tell me word for word exactly how I feel through there own experience is exactly like mine. I hope to learn if anyone else in my class also express their feeling through poetry.

Teacher Traits

Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

Over the past few weeks we have gone over all different types of symbolism and allegory one of the things that we learned from in symbolism was “Through the Tunnel” I think that story had a lot of different symbolism because through out the story the reader experienced a lot of different things with the boy. For example when he went from the safe beach to the rocky beach we as the reader were able to experience the change from child to adolescent. In the “Animal Farm” we experienced allegory. We experienced allegory through the animals and through the reading, for example the animals meant something completely different. My favorite symbolism was “Through the Tunnel” because I felt like I could relate to it more and I felt like I got a better understanding of the story. Studying Symbolism and Allegory has change my thinking to the point were I start looking deeper into what I am reading and to try and figure out the real meaning of things.

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