Journal Entry 83 Title: Poet’s Choice

Haiku- Hantine (me)

Hantine the drawer

Got eleven watchers on

Her DeviantArt. :D

Acrostic- Calvin (best friend)

Cool guy's coming back to PAS

Anything is just fine with him

Living in the States now

Visually challenged, needs glasses

I love you, man.

Never got his phone fixed

You are the best bro ever 

Intelligent in science and math

Naturally humorous 

Good job being a best friend 

Acrostic- Jill Peng (my mommy)

Jesus!

I love you mommy

Love you so much

Love you for loving us 

Pool is not your favorite place

Engineering, you are not good at that

Nothing you cook, I won't eat

Good lord, how lucky I am to have you as my mommy.

Journal Entry 82 Title: Haiku

Look at that apple.

Gee! How pretty it can be!

The waxed red surface.

Ha! Hetalia!

The best anime ever

About history.

Manga is awesome.

World needs it's beautiful-ness.

It is just perfect.

Journal Entry 81 Title: Tanka Poem

Delicious Pasta

Tomato with beefy sauce

And some cheese powders

Spread beautifully on you

An explosion of flavors

Best friend forever? 

But, I have a feeling that

Maybe you are not

The perfect best friend to-be

Nothing can last forever.

Zombies that had died

Why did you come back to life

Death took you away

Far, far, far away from us

Then what are you doing here?

Journal Entry 80 Title: Cinquain Poem

Pasta

Yummy Juicy

Swirling Loving Wiggling

How delicious you are, to me.

Noodles

Pasta:  http://eternallycool.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pasta-alla-carbonara.jpg

England

Handsome Lovely

Caring Laughing Fighting

Your beautiful green eyes I love.

Arthur

Arthur Kirkland (England): http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/743/30017/tumblr_l0ba6oHuBW1qbo93ro1_400.png

Best Friend

Dirty Friendly

Lying Caring Leaving

I hated how you lied to me.

Happy

Journal Entry 79 Title: Diamante Poem

 White & Black

White

Pure Peaceful

Purify Evacuate Imagine

Darkness Paper Soap Hell

Pollute Blackout Destroy

Dirty Dark

Black

SmileyFace ^v^ & SadFace >n<

SmileyFace

Happy Joyful

Play Laugh Dance

Tears Smile Happiness Frown

Rest Sicken Cry

Unhappy Depressed

SadFace

Peace & War

Peace

Tranquility Safe

Rest Sleep Wonder

Lies Contract Agreement Argument

Fight Die Punish

Deadly Evil

War

Journal Entry 78 Title: Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem that the first syllable of each line in the text spells out a word or a message. As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. In this journal entry, I will be making an acrostic with my name, and another one with my friend’s name.

Hantine Hsu:

How smart I am

An intelligent kid

No one can be compared with me

Talented at everything

Interested in social studies

Never give up on my work

Everything above is false

How dumb I am

Sitting in front of my computer all day

United Kingdom in my favorite place

Amber Luo:

A cute young girl

Many friends in school

Banana is her favorite fruit

Everything is always great with her

Respect all her friends

Laugh out loud a lot

Use her MacBook everyday

Oh, how people love her

Journal Entry 71 Title: Brainstorming a Poem

Ethan Demerest is playful, humorous, energetic, bright, nice, strong, cool, awesome, tough, and optimistic person. He has short curly golden hair, a big nose, and a nice smile that brightens up my day. He is very addicted to make sound “the Annoying Orange” makes, and he loves songs by “Daft punk.” He dislike eating those pickles in hamburgers, but he never remembers to tell the waiter not to put the pickles in, so I had to eat it for him every time we had hamburger. We don’t touch each other, but there is this T-rex stuffed animal that is REALLY fluffy and both of us love it. We PLAY volleyball and football, SING punk-y songs, DANCE a funny dance, GO SHOPPING for cloth and materials, and we always EAT meals together.

Ethan, Ethan.

You’ve brighten

My days.

You gave

Me pickles that u hate.

We shared Rexie

Every time we play.

Volleyball, football,

I’m not good at them.

But you’ve spent

Days and days

Playing them

And helped me improve.

Ethan, Ethan.

You’ve always been my friend.

A very dear friend.

You are so cool

No one can be compared with you.

But you have

Such a weird dance

You like to dance.

But if that is what you’ve enjoyed

These days?

Then fine.

Go ahead.

But thank 

you,

Ethan

Demerest,

For being my all time best friend.

Journal Entry 73 Title: Personal Reflection

If I had to be completely honest with myself, how would I evaluate my performance in this class in terms of taking an active interest, working to the best of my ability, and putting forth the maximum effort? How would I evaluate my performance as a student in all of my classes? I think over all I am doing okay, it’s not my best, but I can’t really pay full attention to everything. I don’t take notes, maybe because I think I can memories it, that’s what I always think. Do I start my homework right away, or do I wait until the last minute? I DO do my homework the night before the due date sometimes, but that’s not usual, because English homework are more fun than math, science and history. So the other subjects are the ones left to the latest minutes in the middle of the night. Do I take short-cuts or copy work from other students? No, maybe sometimes for math class, but I don’t cheat on English homework. Since it is the hardest course to cheat on. Do I complete all of my assignments? Do I complete them on time? I know, I know… I can’t always complete them on time, since I sometimes leave them to the latest times. I will work on that a lot harder, in fact, I am already improving it. How much time do I spend studying outside of class? Outside the class, I only study what might be on the test, I must say, that’s already too much for me. I can’t pay attention on my studies. When I am studying I just go into my LaLaLand, it’s such a wonderful place I can’t resist it. Or I just start doodling on my desk. So I sped more time looking at the textbook than other people, but I cant promise anyone those time I spent was on studies. How much would I estimate that I think about my classes when I am not in class? Do I ever go to my teachers to ask for clarification or extra help? Do I take advantage of extra credit opportunities? I always start thinking of those extra credits I could do, but I never did them because of JOURNAL WRITINGS!!! I can’t finish my journal writings on time and that really bothers me :(. But, like I said, it is really improving. I don’t really give a lot of comments or ask a lot of questions, but maybe some questions I asked could be idiotic, though I don’t have any examples now.

Journal Entry 76 Title: What Does Poetry Do

How are poems different from other forms of writing? Poetry is harder to understand than prose, the word they could use for certain spot have limits. Prose is simpler than poetry, because it can use all kind of words to describe something clearly .Do poems have any similarities to other kinds of writing? Yes, it is like lyrics from a song, or a short story with some rhyming words. How can a poem do things that other forms of expression can’t? Poem can express a person’s feeling with beautiful word and it can make the whole meaning sounds better. Are there some things that a poem can’t do that can be done in other forms of writing? Yes, the use of words are limited here, poetry have less choices of word here than prose or other writing. I see a lot of poetic language now in our generation all around us. Lyric is a kind of poetic language that is used with music to make a song. Songs are all around us, everyday in our lives, especially for people like me that are CRRAZY for music. I am a very visual person, I go to book store every two or three days to read some picture book. And a lot of them are written as poetry, to tell a story cooperating with pretty pictures.

Journal Entry 75 Title: Spring Break

At the start of spring break, I hurried home to finish a very difficult task that may take me days, I had to finish my project for an art contest I have attended. The due date is arriving and I have three days left. I actually have more time, but I am going to my once- in- a- life- time- 8^th- grade- graduation- trip, so I wouldn’t have enough time after that. So during the remaining days before my graduation trip, I am working on the project and nothing else. The project was about diversity in the rainforest, and I drew a kid holding a rainforest in his hands with some major extinction animals on his sides, and mountains of burnt trees, building, constructions, and smoke as the background. It’s a very big project for me; I am not a fast drawer. The whole process was quite painful actually, I enjoy drawing, but I HATE drawing forests, and scenes, they have no details and are messy. NOT MY STYLE. I was forced to finish the painting. But, I am really satisfied with some parts like the face of the kid, the mommy and baby orangutan, the polluted sky, the tiger, and the flowers at the very front. They are all I put attention to on my work. Then, I had my work done 11:00pm the day before my flight to graduation trip. The next day, I woke up late and nearly didn’t made it to the place we meet up for the bus to the airport. On the flight… I slept. I did plan on watching a movie at the remaining time, but then I slept through the whole flight. As we arrived at Bali, it was HOT and HUMID, extra hot and damp than Taiwan :(. As we arrived at Clubmed, we had no schedule for the first day, but we went rafting the next day. Rafting wasn’t what I expected. I thought the flow would be less furious than the one we were in. And for the groups that people were paired up in, I was upset. I am grouped with Eddy, Jasper, ETHAN, and DEREK!!! It was definitely a mistake. Ethan is the guy I am most afraid of in the whole school (maybe because of his tough looking muscles…). Anyways, he was creepy. Derek is the school president, which just creeps the heck out of me. And with those to people is enough, me, a girl in 8^th grade have no right to talk during the whole trip down stream. And even if I did talk, no one would hear me…. So that sucked, but the actual rafting was not bad at all, it was fantastic. The lunch even tasted better after the rafting (probably because I became seriously hungry). After that rafting trip, I had to rest my arm muscles the rest of the day, IT WAS EXSAUSTING. The next day was even better, we finally went to the badminton court, and I practiced every time 1hour after each meal if nothing was scheduled at the time. One day there was an ebb tide, and I went off into the ocean with Eddy. We WERE going to walk all the way to the “under water forts,” but the sea floor was piled up with hard, sharp and dead corals, and we DO NOT want to get ourselves hurt in the middle of a salt water ocean. On the way back on to the shore, we saw sea stars!!! Even though we didn’t stay long enough there to see them reproduce asexually, it was a great experience. Then we went back to the hotel and watched TV. I am surprised how the shows on their Disney channel really entertained me!! “Upin & Ipin” is quite a cute show :). Then the next day, Ms.Sherry signed us up for a rehearsal for a show at night. She did that because she thought we were all just hanging out in our rooms and not actually enjoying our vacation. But we were ENJOYING THE WHOLE BALI ISLAND!!! We told her it was our last full day in this beautiful island and we want to do it our way. So we were let out and go run wild. Ivy and I decided to play MORE badminton, so we went to the court. The court was filled with people and we weren’t sure what was going on. Then as we walked closer, we were signed up for a badminton competition!! :O!!! We were representing Taiwan and we had to compete adults. That was fun :D, we won a medal though. We didn’t lose that bad. To show we didn’t just waste our time not going to the rehearsal, we showed Ms.Sherry and Ms.Pamela our medal. I’m sure they were proud of us, I can see it from their shocked faces. It was really a great experience. That night we went swimming. There was party going on at the bar just a little distance away from us, but we didn’t go party, because there were probably a bunch of creepy seniors there going high. So we stayed in the pool and chill with their party music. Then a song came, it was familiar and awesome, IT WAS さくらんぼ by 大塚愛!!!!!! It was such a good song I jumped out of the pool and start dancing and singing along. It was such a great day. Then I went back to my room all wet and sweaty, but u wouldn’t see me sweating with all those water on me. Then I jus fell asleep without taking a bath. The other day was boring. We had our last breakfast and then our last lunch in Clubmed Bali. After we left Bali, I resumed back to my usual life, which was “stay home do Wordly Wise.”

Journal Entry 72 Title: Style

Different writers would use different figures of speech in their writing and also dialect, imagery and allusion. In the story "Raymond's Run" the author also uses verbal irony. When Gretchen and her friends confront Squeaky, she doesn't take any verbal abuse, and immediately claims that she would really teach them a lesson if they didn't shut up. The way squeaky speaks is not perfect grammar, but it is the way people in her country or family speaks. It is not technically racist or something, but it is the way a group of people, or a race of people speak, a kind of dialect and slangs. The story shows situational irony when the race had ended, Squeaky shows respect to Gretchen. The writer described Squeaky as a cocky girl. The reader would never think or predict that Squeaky, who thinks that she is always the best, would show respect to another person who is her mortal enemy. Normally, readers would probably predict that Squeaky would try to embarrass and show off her medal at everyone. Another thing is the use of allusion in this story. The word Mercury is the allusion, in Roman mythology, this word means the messenger of the god, know for his speediness. The author uses this word to say that the character can run as fast as Mercury, which is really fast. One other example would be "I am Miss Quicksilver." Quicksilver is another name for mercury, a silver-colored liquid metal that flows rapidly.

Journal Entry 70 Title: End game

We had basically followed the plan when we were making the game. The game we made are pretty identical to what the plan, which is a similar to the game called "Monopoly," and with features from an online flash animation game called "Roman's Tower Defense." The game could be played from two to five players. The characters in the game are Angela Wexler, Turtle Wexler, Sandy McSouthers, Doug Hoo, and Sunny Hoo. Each character has different advantages and disadvantages. Some have bigger range for attacks, some have more damage on their attacks. Sunny Hoo's attack allows her to gain the life points from the damages she made on the other characters. The materials to make the game were not decided before the game. I had no idea how I am suppose to make my AWESOME Westing Game board game. All of the decisions about the actual MAKING of the game were made after we've chose our groups and finish the final plan of the game. The characters are chose randomly, so the player can play a fair game. Each character may have different advantages, but the game is designed to be a fair game. And I am happy with the final product.