Blog #6- Help Wanted

For this blog, you will write a help wanted ad for Heracles. Your ad must state and thoroughly describe the task that you want completed. Your ad must be two paragraphs(5-10 sentences per paragraph). This is due by Friday, Mach 16.

Blog#6- Tweets

Welcome to the world of Twitter! This week, each of you must select five characters from Romeo and Juliet and send a Tweet as that person. There are some guidelines:

1. You can only use 140 characters/letters to express your thought. You must be concise and brief!
2. You must Tweet something that the character would be thinking or feeling; do not retell what happened (no plot summary)
3. You must use five different characters
   
   

Your Tweets should look something like this:

“I’ve found the girl for me! No more pouting in the woods.” #Romeo

“So happy my dad threw that party last night; first kiss, and it was a good one!” #Juliet

Good luck, and have fun!

Blog #5- Shakespeare Translation

For this week’s blog, I want you to select 10 consecutive lines from Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet to translate. You must first put the 10 lines that you are translating from the play down in italics in your response and then follow it with your translation. For example:

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break now new mutiny…..

Two equally wealthy households

In Verona, where the story is,

From an old argument now a new fight occurs….

Good luck, and you may use any tool to help you.

Blog #4- Nature vs Nurture

The novel The Outsiders begs the question, are we a product of nature (how we are born) or nurture (what environment we are raised in)? Discuss whether you think the Greasers and Socs are products of nature or nurture. You need to discuss both the Socs and the Greasers, so you should have at least two paragraphs (a minimum of 5 sentences!).

Be sure to include specific examples from the text to support your theory. For example (and you cannot use mine in your response): I believe that Johnny is a product of nurture. I believe this because he was very timid because of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father.

This is due on Tuesday, November 22. Good luck!

Hi I am Klara. I am fifteen years old. I am having many troubles in school and at home. And I think I need some help, but I waited to long to get it.

Now I am dead. I died November 3^rd 2010. I was walking home by myself in the middle of the night. It was very dark and scary. I was walking up to my grandparent’s house after volleyball practice. The street lights flickered. I heard noises in the bushes so I started a light jog. I was already very worn out from volleyball practice but I just kept going. I kept hearing noises so I started to run then before I knew it I was at my grandparent’s house.

My mother works very late night and I have never met my father. My mom doesn’t know this but I actually talk to him all of the time on Facebook. He says he wants to meet but I’m not sure he seems a little bit weird. Finally when my mother got done with work she showed up at my grandparent’s house completely wasted. So I just grabbed all of my stuff and started to walk down the dark and scary road in the middle of the night. I didn’t even worry about the flickering street lights or the noises I heard. All I could think about was getting away from my mom before she slaps me across the face for no reason.

As I was on my way down the hill I saw I figure coming up the road. It kind of freaked my out. So I just kept walking and my phone beeped and it said that the battery was low. So I couldn’t call out. As I got closer to the figure he ran toward me and pulled me in to the bushes. It turns out he was my father and he put me down on the ground and raped me. He held a knife to my throat and said that if I said anything he would slit my throat. He forced me into a car and drove for about an hour. And he dropped me off and said you will pay for what your mother did to me. He stuck u gun to my head and pulled the trigger.

Now I wonder what would have happened if my mother didn’t show up wasted now I dead and I wonder why?

Blog #3 -Gothic Stories

For this week’s blog you are to write a story in the genre of Gothic Literature. Your stories need to be 300 words, contain all the elements of a short story (characters, climax, conflict, action, etc), and be dark in nature.

Good luck, and have fun.

Blog #3 -Gothic Stories

For this week’s blog you are to write a story in the genre of Gothic Literature. Your stories need to be 300 words, contain all the elements of a short story (characters, climax, conflict, action, etc), and be dark in nature.

Good luck, and have fun.