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I had written a poem. What do you think about the poem? What do you think the poem means?

ReinaTisb: I have a poem and I want to see what you think of it and I hope you get surprised by the endings that happen to the main character in my poem! It 's called **Love Story**.

He's mean to her, he probably dosen't even notice her, she is invisible to him.

Yet, she falls over him like a puppy on someone's lap.

Then, she asks him the question, whether he likes her or not...

Ending 1 Ending 2 Ending 3 Ending 4

Jessica

I wish for war, That could be turned, Into peace that spreads, around, people..

I could be different, But does it really matter, Everyone could be friends, But would they be friends?

Why are they scared of me? Why are they fighting with me? Why did they take my family? Why are they doing this?

I was waiting, For my mother, When someone, Took me away, They took me away for good, So I'll never return...

=Literary Essays:= =Made June 2009!=

Kitten's First Full Moon Sofia

For some people, moons and kittens, and milk pop into their mind when they hear the words: Kitten’s First full Moon by Kevin Henkes. But I want to say to all those people: That’s not everything the author is trying to say. I think that Henkes is using a kitten as a representation of a naïve child. I think he is saying that you must never get discouraged; never give up.

This reminds me of a time when I was at an obstacle course in my old school in Jakarta. I kept falling off a rope near the end of the course. I remember I kept going back to the beginning and doing it all over again… only to fall off the same rope. After I fell off the rope for the fifth time, I finally gave up. I sat on the bench with the rest of my classmates. My best friend Alexandra, who was sitting next to me, leaned over and whispered in my ear: You can do it. And then I smiled. I went to the beginning and gave it one last try- and I finished it! I must have been like kitten, getting bad luck all the time, then giving up. But finally, at the end, all ended well.

Kitten, the main character, has a lot of courage if you think about it. She left home and ventured off into first the woods, then into a sort of clearing. Maybe the temptation of milk drove Kitten to leave the house. Maybe it was a sense of adventure inside her. Maybe she just wanted to quench her thirst. Whichever way, Kitten still left home, and that takes either a lot of courage… or a lot of foolishness. I prefer to think about it as the first option.

If you never give up, then you are perfect. But nobody’s perfect. Everybody makes mistakes, or does something they know is bad, or gives up. That’s how we learn. Every time we do or get something wrong, we try and try again. It’s instinctive. If you never give up, ever, then you have never done anything wrong. You have always chosen the right, and may I say, safe way to go. If you fall into any of these categories, then you may find that you have a very boring life. You have no adventure, no risk. No surprise, no fun. 

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 * The Deathly Hallows **
 * Most people think Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling is a book about how a child parents sacrifice themselves for their child in order to save their life so he is destined to defeat the dark lord and has to have some magical items to do it then destroys the dark lord but it think this is about how Harry Potter is different and its not hi fault so he stands up for his beliefs and eventually makes everyone see sense though they help him in a journey he knows is dangerous and doesn’t want o put his friends at risk but know he needs there help. I think it is about how you should trust you friends and know you can always count on them. **
 * I think this because in the text it talks about how he needs his friends but isn’t sure there ready to help him but they insist they do. In the end they help him on his journeys and without them they would be lost. They help him learn about where the magical items he needs are. He finds out in the end that his friends believed in him but new he would need help so they volunteered. **


 * The proof that he doesn’t want them to come is that whenever he mentions the topic he says that is ****// if //**** you are coming with me even tough they argue and he asks yes he still does it the next time they talk about the subject. And the end he admits that he couldn’t of done I without them. **

 Abhi’s Literary Essay on, Max by James Patterson Most people think that “Max” by James Patterson is only about a group of mutated teens and kids running around and beating up bad guys but I think it is really about one girl’s destiny to save the world from an Apocalypse. If you really think about it out could find that the message in the story isn’t just what they’re doing but what the real purpose of why they are there. The real message for the reader is that sometimes your destiny isn’t what you want to do but what you have to do.
 * I think this story is about how you should trust your friends because I wanted to do something like this character in my story. Not something dangerous just playing a video game that I really wanted to beat but I couldn’t. I wanted to do it myself but my friend assist that he could just try it. So he tried it in beat the level I was stuck on without evening getting damage. He told me his brother had the game and he played it with him sometimes. So I knew I should have been able to trust him instead of thinking he would lose his well-earned life **

My evidence that this is true is that if you want to be a doctor like me that isn’t what you’re meant to be it’s what you want to be. In the future you might be a technician because that was what all you’re years of study added up to. It doesn’t really matter what you want to be it is all about what you are __MEANT__ to be. Just like Max she is meant to save the world but she wants to lie on a beach with a coconut and relax.

When she says “I wish that we were on Maui drinking out of a coconut and lying on a beach tanning.” I think that will never happen as a reader because her whole life is based on surviving not relaxing. She will always have something to do, which is saving the world. That is true for everybody because they will always be doing something to lead up to one big event. Everybody will be doing something in there whole lives. They will not be lying around and doing nothing and even if they do that will build up to something big. You have to work up to your destiny.

It is like the circle of life, one thing happens and then another thing happens right after and so on. It is always one after there are no stops. One thing might come and go but be linked with another event like Elementary School, once your finished you have Middle School, then High School, the College, and then where every you need to go for you’re job.

Everybody has a destiny a destiny that they have to work up to not like it would happen just like that. You can’t just lie around and then in the morning you’re a doctor or a lawyer or even a billionaire. I won’t just wake up in the morning and be a rich doctor because I have to go to school to learn about how to do everything you need to do first and then you can be a doctor. I would have to go to medical school after Stanford of Harvard and then if I’m lucky I can be a doctor. That is how you shall reach your destiny.

May June, 2009

Riley’s literary Essay “My Pig Amarillo” By Satomi Ichikawa

Some people think that My Pig Amarillo is a sad story about a friendship between a pig and a little boy. If you look at it closely you will feel real emotion. A boy didn’t lose a friendship, he lost his happiness. At least he thought he did. He soon realizes he doesn’t need a friend to be happy, sure it would good but you don't always need one. As long as you’re happy inside. This story kind of reminds me of the story “spaghetti” by Cynthia Rylant. That little boy, Gabriel is all alone until he finds a friend, Even though it wasn’t even Spaghetti, he felt such a strong connection. Even though it wasn’t even five minutes. Gabriel couldn’t let him go, he became more friendly and open. Pablito was lonely until the animal came into his life as well. He became more open after he came and a little while after he was gone which will probably happen to Gabriel. This story also reminds me of ants, in a way it makes me think about it. Ants have each other until one day a big fat unemployed guy tramples them on. They no longer want someone because they know it will once again happen. I tried to think what made Pablito this way, maybe it was a friend that passed away. Or maybe it was just that he thinks it is fine to push away because he was always doing that and never looked at a different viewpoint. He never tried. Pablito thought it was all good but apparently it was not.

This also reminds me of when I was really little and I was with a group of friends. I thought they kept ignoring me and leaving me out. I just sat down to see if they cared. They thought I just wanted to be leaved alone when I wanted the opposite. So I ran to a old friend who actually wanted to be friends with the friends I ran away from, but I became happier. They are now my best friends today. By: Riley Byrne

Reina's Literary Essay on Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats

I think that many people might believe that Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats is just about a small boy that made the wrong decision that made a very immature decision but I think, however, that it shows alot more. I believe that this story makes everyone stop and consider what they are doing or are saying and makes them ask themselves, "Should I do this?" Or, "Is this the right decision?" I think that this is what Ezra Jack Keats wanted the readers to do - to stop and think more carefully about what you are about to do, before you do things. I get this idea from when Peter ran away. He hadn't thought how this would affect his parents or how it could affect his newborn baby sister. But as soon as he got to his new home, right outside the door, he decided to have a comfortable seat in his chair but he couldn't fit in it! I feel that this scene in the story would encourage many people to think before they do things so that they don't end up embarrassed like Peter when he couldn't fit in his chair. Peter could not fit in his chair and I infer from the end when he sits in the grown-up chair that he did not belong in his old chair, his sister did. That is why I think that this lesson fits. His mind shifted from a small, self-centered, little boy to a thoughtful more mature and responsable young person. People should consider the big change that Peter made it shows that when you think more carefully about things it gives you another point of view. It is like sitting in an audience, first you have been sitting in the top right hand corner and what you see look like ants, then the next time you're sitting in the front row starring directly at the stage. Seeing it from a different angle gives you a different perspective. It is the same with Peter's decision. He changed mind and perspective and now realized since he was in a different situation that he had made the wrong decision and the wrong action to run away. This next scene may have been related to my idea, when his mother invited Peter back inside the apartment. Maybe, she realized that she had made a bad action by not paying as much attention to to him as the newborn baby sister. See even at different ages everyone should be able to use this method. Working adults at the computer can stop and ask themselves, "Which letter am I going to type next?" Teenagers made to do a dare or in a fight with parents can stop and consider, "Is this the right thing to do or say?" And of course, students, writing a test and stuck can stop and stuck can stop and ask themselves, "What is the right thin to do next?" Many people make bad choice in speech and phisicly bad actions because they do not think carefully about their next move. Sometimes, I've wishe that I could turn back time to say something or for that person I said or did what I did to make that person to feel differently about me. I used to think there was nothing else I could do except clamp my mouth shut and pretend and to pretend that nothing happened but afer reading Peter's Chair I realize that there was something I could do, I could of taken it back. Peter thought that he could make his parents forget about the baby and ever having to worry about ever being second best again but in thinking this he made the wrong decision. But after setting himself in te embarrassing moments of not being able to fit in his chair, he realzed that he should be more careful about what e does before he jumps to conclusions.