prologue

Beowulf

There was a Beowulf, he came from the Geat.
He is the most brave knight, and strong in the Geat.
He is strong as a giant, his strength is strong as big wave.
One day he heard a news about a monster Grendel.
To kill or not to kill, Beowulf decided to kill.
He killed it with bare hands and he took Grendel's head.
He gave the head as gift to the king as a evidence.
They drake and ate at the hall, and have fun at the night.
When everyone slept, Grendel's mothers came,and revenged in the hall

journal #3

Michael Lee

Mrs. Morrell

English IV

September 12, 2012

Journal #3

            Every school should wear a school uniform, but uniform should have many different kind of style. Normal school uniform is too simple and not stylish. It has only 2~3 kinds of shirts or less. So, it gets bored quickly on wearing same shirts after day. If there are many kinds of shirt or style, we’ll have many choices to choose as normal casual cloth and student does not have to worry about what to wear.

            Good thing about school uniform is student does not have to worry about what to wear. They don’t have to spend some time on what to wear. Also, people can see which school this student goes to. Bad thing about uniform is too simple and personal. Sometime the cloth that person wear shows person’s personality or about that person. If students wear a school uniform, people can’t see about them. It is same cloth every time when students go to school, so we can’t tell what kind of person he or she is. It’s like something is blocking to hide that person.

 There are some bad thing and good things about school uniforms but I still think all school should wear a school uniform. The little change will make school uniform much better than we usually think.

inspire song

Michael Lee

Mrs. Morrell

English IV

October 10, 2012

Paradise

            Paradise by Coldplay is a song that inspires me. The first time that I heard this song, it inspired me immediately. It was my style of song, and it reminds me when I first came to America. I like the background music and the rhythm of this song. The background music tells me the paradise, and rhythm is quiet and somehow peaceful. The biggest reason this song inspires me is the lyrics.

            “When she was just a girl, she expected the world, but it flew away from her reach, so she ran away in her sleep.” A young girl was expected to do what she want, but it wasn’t as she expected. It just came to my mine. “Dreamed of paradise, every time she closed her eyes.” How much she expected. My favorite part of lyric is “Life goes on, it gets so heavy, the wheel breaks the butterfly. Every tear, a waterfall,” because it means a lot to me. I’ve been through similar situation, I know how she feels and I know is in her mind.

            In this song, there are not a lot of words compare to other songs, but it still tells us a story. It tells the story by tone, rhythm, and music. This is why this song inspires me.

Imegery and tone story

Michael Lee

Mrs. Morrell

English IV

October 9, 2012

            October 7, Sunday, it rained just to soak the road. The wind blew swiftly. It was the kind of weather most of Floridians like. Sunday is a special and exciting day because it is only one day out of weekend that I can relax.

My brother and I went to place where we always see a hope and answer. When I was praying, I felt power of the GOD; he was really close to me. After the words, I feel like I’m a feather, and happy. There is a lunch room that everyone eats lunch together after words. I shake pastor’s hand nice and gently. When I walk to the lunch room, I smell the heaven. It was delicious curry with rice. It was just spicy to sting tongue and it was just perfect for me.

My brother and I race on the road. When we are on the road, we turn in to winds. Whenever we are on the start line, our hearts beat fast and ready to go. His car starts snarling like a tiger, but my car snarls like a cat. Our heart beat tells us the green light. We begin to race with the sound of the wind whistling in our ears.

Earth has been attacked by aliens

Michael Lee

Mrs. Morrell

English IV

September 9, 2012

            September 25, 2012. Earth has been attacked by a aliens. Government gave me a chance to leave earth and go to save planet. Government said I have to take one person and one suitcase with me. So, I choose Bear Grylls to go with me, because he is professional survivor. I choose to take knife, something that I can make fire, some food, big jar of peanut butter, and some stuff that Bear Grylls need it. I was really scary but I was kind of exciting to go survive with famous Bear Grylls.

            It was time to leave earth; my last view of earth was disaster. I smell burn, screaming, and I saw people dying.

Bear Grylls and I went to moon, it was cold and moist there. I can’t see beautiful blue earth anymore. All I see is dying earth.

 

reaction paper

Michael Lee

Mrs. Morrell

English IV

September 4, 2012

Reaction Paper

            “Earth Without People” by Alan Weisman, this short story is about what would happen if there is no people in earth. It will be disaster on earth, all the animals will be death, and plant.

            Author used imagery as a many senses and meaning. In the story, “Dazzling white squadrons of red-crowned cranes that glide over the bulrushes in perfect formation, touching down so lightly that they detonate no land mines.” This quote has touch and sight sense in one quote; the imagery in this quote shows how sensitivity and how it looks. “New York’s architecture isn’t as flammable as San Francisco’s clapboard Victorians.” This one has sight or it can be a sound, the word “flammable” makes sentence more realistic. Another example from story, “The invincible cockroach,” this quote has a sight; the word “invincible” describe the cockroach, it gives readers more about that subject.

Imagery is 5 senses that makes following sentence more realistic, interest, explain, and more detail about the subject. Also, reader can visualize a picture of what author is try to describe. Either use imagery or not, that makes story huge different even if it’s same story. So, imagery is very important for writing. Imagery effect makes easy to understand the story or poem, symbol, and reader can draw a picture on reader’s mind.