# 20

Haunted House Essayy

(Science.)

It was October far long back in the late 20's there was a family. the Longstrum family. They lived in a small town called Riverside. It got crowded there so they moved. Eager and desperatly trying to search for a new house, till they landed to a retailor. Named Gabriela Galvan. who'se been selling houses and did a fine job for 23 years now.
So i showed them to a near vacant house near a lake. Deep in the wood, straight down from riverside and lakeview. all the way down to your left. Only house left there after an incident of supposed elves and witches with witchcraft living there. Supernatural killed millions and burned down houses all around the nieghborhood in the late 1800's that ashes went away and it was turned into a forest. Officers, cops, major blocked that place for reasons of the following.There was people always trying to spread whats happening to the major but no one ever listed. So now everyone, everything, Everyhouse gone, but one. The house of MidLakeRive creek. After years of aweful and misterious expierences and tragic memories, people snuck back in every year. soon the place re opened. Many sayy its a very misterious and interesting place, people die to get there eyes in there, publishers and paparazi offering millions for a picture. Retailers all over the world have been competing to sale that house but of course many aren't as brave as others. Now its happening, i found the right people to sell. large creeky ish like, painted green with brown walls all over downstairs. Then Upstairs teal with light light black. Outside is plain grayy. three story house with one top last floor for a small computer or storage room. Second floor is 7 bedrooms, and 5 bathrooms. 2 have there own. the rest are across halls. the Halls are very loong. there was an elevator but it shut off but thats the only thing thats shut off. Then first floor, bathroom right behind the stairs. In your right, theres the living room behind it is the kitchen. then to your left, nothing but a big empty room big enough to be a thater. No ones ever gone to check this house becuase they never had anyone interest in buying. so before they came i had to check in for the first time in my life. The house has been lonely for more than 40 years. Needs some company, soo what do you say ?

# 19

Scorpioo x3

(Drama.1)

Scorpions have "two lobster-like claws"(1) and when a scorpion captures its victims with its claws, it "inflicts a disabling sting with its tail"(2) Scorpios are thought to be rather cunning, and sometimes revengeful.

Dual nature of Scorpio: A second symbol for Scorpio is the Eagle. The Golden Eagle "has been regarded from ancient times as a symbol of courage and power". (3) The eagle represents clear vision, intelligence, and power. It is a majestic bird, and also symbolizes freedom. Scorpios, with their perceptiveness, have the potential to "see" things more clearly than others. How they handle the power of this vision will depend on whether they are at the level of a scorpion or an eagle!.

Scorpio's glyph, or symbol, looks like a letter M with a tail. The curves show the grounded nature of the sign, ending in an upward-turned arrow, symbolizing the need for action and the striving for something higher. Some believe the symbol represents the male genitals -- the sign of Scorpio is strongly connected to sex.

# 18

Something That makes me Sad

(drama.1)

Hate saying goodbyes.sometimes,to the people you met once

in your life then the next minute. there gone. Wether for now or forever. Whens its the last day of school, or when they movee.

Never say goodbye unless its forever. :/

# 17

Something the makes me Happy

Poem (drama.1)

I search and search for true loves kiss that sets me in a tender blissthat to the touch weakens my knees that sets my worst pain in easethat listen, cares, and understands that hold my heart inside his hands that when i hear his voice makes me smile whose lips would never speak in revile who my life he has unfurled who for me would travel the entire world so i search and search for "Mr. oh so true"so i can finally hear the sweat words "i love you".

# 16

Food Logg

(Hope.)

Monday

(Feb. 23)

- Morning; corn flakes. with milk

Afternoon; pizza, juice cookies.

Night; cereal (frosted flakes)

Tuesday

(Feb.24)

Morning; spanishh food.
Afternoon; rice with beans and chicken and hawaiin punch
Night; Nothingg.

Wensday
(Feb. 25)
Morning; cereal ( cheerios)
Afternoon; Spaghettiii with meat balls and This spanish drink
Night; sandwhich with waterr.

Thursday
(feb. 26)
Morning; Sandwhich chocolate milk
Afternoon; chicken sandwhich, juice, bread.
Night; cereal ( cinnamon toast crunch)

Friday
(Feb. 27)
Morning; spanish food.Milk
Afternoon; chicken with rice. and apple
Night; je-llo. (:

# 15

Nine Planets of the Solar System

(Science.)

Sun- The Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. It contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains most of the rest).

Mercury-Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. Mercury is slightly smaller in diameter than the moons Ganymede and Titan but more than twice as massive

Venus-Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. Venus' orbit is the most nearly circular of that of any planet, with an eccentricity of less than 1%.

Earth- Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest: & the only place known to have life in.

Mars- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the seventh largest:

Jupiter-Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest. Jupiter is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined (the mass of Jupiter is 318 times that of Earth).

Saturn- Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest:

Uranus- Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest (by diameter). Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune.

Neptune- Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by diameter). Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus

Pluto- Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune (usually). It is much smaller than any of the official planets and now classified as a "dwarf planet". Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton).

# 14

The cask of Amontillado

(Eng 1.)

"The Cask of Amontillado" was first published in 1846. The first-person narrator, Montresor, is unreliable and is attempting to explain his actions of 50 years before. The story begins with Montresor addressing someone familiar, who knows the "nature of my soul." He explains that he had borne "the thousand injuries of Fortunato," but finally Fortunato went too far, and he devised a plan for revenge.

Quote based on the story;

sometimes the strongest feelings can over power the worst of you

to become the monster that wanted to take over that power.

# 13

The Most Dangerous Game Project

(Eng 1.)

Characters;
*Sanger Rainsford, an accomplished and experienced hunter from New York.
*General Zaroff, a man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. Above middle-age. Utterly fixated on hunting.
*Ivan, Zaroff's large Cossack servant and bodyguard. He is deaf and mute.
Whitney, Rainsford's friend who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he were the hunted instead of the hunter.

Summaryy;

Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

Setting;

Jungles? Yes

Quicksand Island? Yes

Island: - Mean guy who wants to hunt/mutate - stranded - Caribbean Island.

Misc setting - fancy mansion

# 12

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Summary.
(english 1.)

The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 17. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice. Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, reviewers often categorize Caged Bird as autobiographical fiction, but the prevailing critical view characterizes it as an autobiography, a genre she attempts to critique, change, and expand. The book covers topics common to autobiographies written by black American women in the years following the civil rights movement: a celebration of black motherhood; a critique of racism; the importance of family; and the quest for independence, personal dignity, and self-definition. Angelou uses her autobiography to explore subjects such as identity, rape, racism, and literacy. She also writes in new ways about women's lives in a male-dominated society. Maya, the younger version of Angelou and the book's central character, has been called "a symbolic character for every black girl growing up in America". Angelou's description of being raped as an eight-year-old child overwhelms the book, although it is presented briefly in the text. Rape is used as a metaphor for the suffering of her race. Another metaphor, that of a bird struggling to escape its cage, is a central image throughout the work, which consists of "a sequence of lessons about resisting racist oppression". Angelou's treatment of racism delivers a thematic unity to the book. Literacy, and seizing the power of words, help young Maya cope with her bewildering world; books become her refuge as she works through her trauma. Caged Bird was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970 and remained on The New York Times paperback bestseller list for two years. It has been used in educational settings from high schools to universities, and the book has been celebrated for creating new literary avenues for the American memoir. However, the book's graphic depiction of childhood rape, racism, and sexuality has caused it to be challenged or banned in some schools and libraries.

# 11

Maya Angelo Notes

Born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928)[2] is an American autobiographer and poet. Having been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton, she is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences.[3] The first, best-known, and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life, brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award.

Quotes ;
-"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
-"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

# 10

The house on Mango street

(English 1.)

Summary
Esperanza Cordero recollects her life living on Mango Street and all the people she meets while there. Although her family has not always lived there, it is perhaps the most important place she has lived, for it represents her heritage and upbringing. In small vignettes, Esperanza tells the tales of all the people and experiences she has with her little sister, Nenny. She meets Cathy, a wealthier girl who makes Esperanza feels negatively about her home and moves away when the neighborhood gets bad. She meets Sally, a girl with painted makeup like the Egyptian Queens, who comes from a strict religious family who beats her. Sally later becomes a loose woman, lies to Esperanza, and moves away to get married before the end of eighth grade.

Esperanza and Nenny become friends with two sisters named Lucy and Rachel (from Texas), with whom they ride bikes and have many adventures. Esperanza is also friends with a girl named Alicia, who is terrified of the rats in her apartment, and later shares her poetry with Esperanza. Esperanza also discovers boys through several women and men who live on the street. Marin, the girlfriend of Louie, tells her about makeup and nylons, before she is sent away because of bad behavior. Elenita, the fortune teller, informs Esperanza that she desires a large house and has many wishes to fulfill. Rafaela and Ruthie passively instruct Esperanza on how not to marry too young, while her own mother expresses her deep wishes and desires for her to live a better life. As Esperanza meets people, tries to fit in, feels like an ugly duckling, and craves the touch of a man, she realizes that the neighborhood she hates and the house of which she is ashamed is not terrible. After the three sisters advise her to remember her family and remember where she came from, Esperanza realizes that she will leave Mango Street. However, despite the impending travels and stories she will create and tell, Mango Street will never leave her.

# 9

Edgar Allen Poe Notes

( 3rd hour. English 1)

I. Biographical Background
Kenneth Silverman argues that Poe's work is shadowed by the deaths of three women he loved intensely (in addition to Poe's best-known inspiration, his beloved young wife Virginia):
1. his mother (when he was about 2 years old) 2. Jane Stanard (idealized mother of a school friend), who died insane at age 28 ("To Helen") 3. Frances Allan (his foster mother)

III. Types of Works Through all these phases , Poe wrote
Satiric tales.
Parodies and burlesques.
Grotesques: tales where one aspect of the character is heightened for a marked effect (note that this same concept was later used by Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio).
"Grotesque" in Poe also implies a clash of opposites, a world in which the reader's certainties are undercut. Its fundamental element is disharmony, what Philip Thomson has called "the unresolved clash of incompatibles in work and response" (27).
Wolfgang Kayser, The Grotesque in Art and Literature: "The various forms of the grotesque are the most obvious and pronounced contradictions of any kind of rationalism and any systematic use of thought" (185).
Arabesques: tales involving the supernatural; according to Paul Reubens, "symbolic fantasies of the human condition."
Tales of ratiocination ("The Purloined Letter") that allow rational deduction and logic to counter the irrationality of grotesques and arabesques.
Hoaxes

# 8

Report on Sandra Cisneros

(3rd hour English. Mrs Piggy)

Sandra Cisneros (born December 20,1954) is a Chicana writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell.[1] She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature. Cisneros's early life provided many experiences she would later draw on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the USA instilled in her the sense of "always straddling two countries ... but not belonging to either culture." Cisneros's work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty. For her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, Cisneros has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities, to the extent that The House on Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age novel. Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Foundation, which provides socially conscious workshops for writers, and in 2000 she founded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, which awards talented writers connected to Texas.[5] Cisneros currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.

# 7

Home coming week.

# 6

Underground Poets Clubb

# 5

Wrestling
(body copy)

Wrestling is one of the most unrated sport there is at piper. But at the same time, it’s extremely competitive. As I interviewed one student on the wrestling team, he has said wrestling is a great experience and a productive sport to stay in shape in shape and also to get stronger for those who play football. Unfortunately, the team here is very small; A lot of guys say they’re tough, very competitive and love to wrestle but can’t prove it on the mat. So for all those kids who think they are, I recommend piper wrestling because it’s fun, physically and mentally productive and will definitely come in handy later on. Don’t miss out; get in on all the fun in room 219 with Mr. Lopes.

Gabriela Galvan

# 4

Google Doodle :)

# 3

H.o.s.a
(body copy)
Hosa is a program that has to do with Medicine and psychology. Prefer for doctors, nurses, vets ect. Students study how to take care of patients, CPR, medicine also interfering with animals. They go on field trips to hospitals, schools for children nurseries, also humane society. All together they’ve been on 20 trips. You have to be junior or a senior with a GPA of 2.0 or higher. Kids who are in the class enjoy it and claim it’s a good preparatory tool for their near future careers in the medicine/health criteria. Interested? Want to sign up? You can go to room 301 and talk to Ms Nelson.

-Gabriela Galvan

# 2

Teacher Interview;

Mrs. Donaldson, freshman science.

# 1

Little Kid Day Interview

I interviewed freshman, Kelly Rosas For "Little Kid Day"


How Did you prepare for this?
-I choose the firts outfit I saw that made me look Young.

Is it your favorite day? if not, which day is and why?
-Yes it is, because everyone complaments you about how you look.

Did you dress up with a friend?
- No

Does this Day express how you are? how
-Yeah in the sense of i am a child at heart

Are you planning to do this all week or just certain days?
- Just certain days

What age are you trying to portray?
- 3 years old.

Have you seen any impressive costumes lately? if so, which?
-Yes, a kid who came with poms poms.

Which day can you say most people took part in to dress up?
-This day, Little kid day.

Are you going to homecoming? If so, why? or why not?
No im not because the person who invited me to go was going
to make me pay.