Jane Rule uses humor to develop the conflict in the story by the way she created Harry’s and Anna’s argument. She had it so that Harry was frustrated and strongly desired an ordinary life while Anna kept working and acted as if everything was no big deal and was going to okay. Rule switched the gender roles in the story, making Harry act as if a woman would, wanting to settle down, this is an example of situational irony. Harry also struggled and did anything that he could to buy the new house and ends up not liking it, this is also situational irony. At first, Harry and his family lived in a small, unconventional apartment, which resulted in Harry making huge changes to live a middle class, middle aged life. These changes included selling his boat and trading in his car for a different one. As the story progressed, Harry began to second guess himself and his actions, especially after he sells their boat. By the end of the story, Harry starts to have acceptance with the house as well as the fact that not everyone is meant to be “ordinary”. These all happened during the introduction, rising action and conclusion.
Category: Grade 10
Journal Response #2 – Choices
In the story, “Choices” by Susan Kerslake, The main character is shown the harsh affects based on poor and/or uncertain choices you make, as well as nothing is ever known for sure. The protagonist, Peggy, is conflicted with a choice between going on a road trip with her close friend Ken, or staying home: “With variations, she could do the same thing in her small apartment.” (p.117). After she chooses to go with Ken, she is faced with a major accident leaving her permanently paralyzed and Ken with a bumped head. Throughout the story there were many factors leading up to the incident and who is mostly to blame. In my opinion, I feel Ken had most of the fault for the accident and his actions were the main cause for the crash. Ken’s car was very unstable and was very grimy “…it seemed an unlikely contraption: a tangle of shapes, a thick, stale smell. Some parts were clean and shiny. Most parts were caked with oil and dirt.” (p.118). He also left very little room for seeing his surroundings while he was driving. Only the passenger seat was empty, the rest of the car was filled with hampers, suitcases, buckets, baskets and filled bags. There was also a high possibility that he was driving under the influence of alcohol, due to Peggy asking him to stop at the liquor store on their way. Ken was driving recklessly as well, he was driving fast and wasn’t being cautious with how he was steering. “He seemed attached to the car at the small of his back. She supposed it was the pressure on the gas pedal. She stared at his lap, his leg loosely apart, one knee resting on the door, the other brushing the gear shift. One hand gripped the top of the wheel, the other, upside down letting the wheel slide back and forth through his fingers, was softly curved.” (p.119). Based on the quotes from the story, Ken is to blame for the tragic results of the accident, as he owned and used a car that was not fit for driving long distances, he was not driving cautiously and he left almost no room for the sights of what’s around him.
Journal Response #1 – The Hockey Sweater
1. Roch Carrier grabs your attention in the introduction because it is very repetitive with using ‘skating rink’. I find the ending is cut short and doesn’t actually explain what happens with the sweater after he prays in the church. In my opinion, the mood created by the opening paragraph is excitement.
2. In 3rd grade, my mom forced my sister and I to wear these outfits that we both hated. Mine was teal, sparkly jeans and t shirt. My sister’s was the same except in the color pink. They were both a felt fabric and were extremely uncomfortable and itchy. It related to Roch’s situation because we didn’t want to wear the outfits as much as Roch didn’t want to wear the hockey sweater.
Life is about Experiences: Moving across the country
Ignite Presentation – Socials 10
Something I Learned this Week
This week I learned about finding the relationship between two quantities, domain and range and the independent and dependent variables. In this lesson I struggled the most with domain and range and I’m still reviewing to understand it. In the photo above, it represents the different ways a relation can be written. These different ways include, table of values, mapping diagram, ordered pairs and a graph.
In order to know which is the dependent variable and which is the dependent variable you must know the input and output values, which is easy to determine! The input value is always on the left side of the table of values, mapping diagram and ordered pairs, and is the values on the x-axis, when looking at a graph.
There is also times when you are only given the input value and need to determine the output value with a certain equation given.
For example: y=2x-3
To find ‘y’ you would replace ‘x’ with the input value that you are given. In the photo below I provided a visual to determine the value of ‘y’ when you have an input value of 6.
Multiplying Polynomials
Something I’ve learned this week was multiplying polynomials using the FOIL technique. FOIL is a type of distributive property.
FOIL stands for – i,e (a+b)(c+d)
First term in each bracket (ac)
Outside terms (ad)
Inside terms (bc)
Last term in each bracket (bd)
For example:
(x + 6)(x + 4)
= 
Once you solved the multiplication after foiling, you the collect “like terms’
(x + 6)(x + 4)
=
=
Down below I included a picture that has arrows connecting the terms you multiply together.
I didn’t have any challenges with this chapter yet because it is mainly the same things that I did last year during polynomials in Math 9.
Trigonometry – Something I’ve Learned
During trigonometry I learned how to find a missing angle using sin, cos or tan and the side lengths given. In the example that I’ve inserted, I used sin to figure out angle x. In order to find an angle in a right angle triangle you must have 2 out of the 3 side lengths. To determine what trig function to use you start out by labeling each side as opposite (opposite side of the angle you are trying to find), the hypotenuse (the side across from the right angle/the longest side of the triangle, and the adjacent (the side left over / the same side as the angle). Since I was only given the opp and hyp I would use sin (Soh Cah Toa helps me remember). To calculate the final answer you would punch in ” 
In the beginning I had challenges on what way to use the trig functions ( sin or 
SA and V of Pyramids and Cones
I learned about finding the surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders, pyramids and cones. Above I have an example of find the SA and V of a cone. Each shape has its own formula so its mostly based around which one to use and plugging in the correct numbers. Looking at the diagram, it only gave me the vertical height and slant height so I had to use Pythagorean theorem to figure out the radius. Once you have all the measurement required you then solve by replacing the r, h and s with the actual numbers.
The challenges I had with this was mostly with word problems, because sometimes I was unsure of what measurements go where and what to include and what not to include. Overall this was a fairly simple chapter once I did enough review that I needed.
Imperial and SI systems – Something I’ve learned
I learned how to convert units from the SI system to the imperial system and from imperial to SI. In the example given, I am converting 208 inches into meters using unit analysis. Depending on what units you are converting, you may have to go through multiple conversions. For me, I had to convert inches to centimeters and then centimeters to meters. When converting and cancelling out a unit, you need to make sure that unit is on the numerator and then again on the denominator, as you can see in the example.