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Poetry In Motion Project -Michael Wilkinson
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Where I’m From poem – English 12
Where I’m from
I am from a life filled with motion
From the wooded trees beside my house
I am from the sunshine that bellows down on my backyard
From the red and white of my country’s flag
I am from the crisp bacon and maple syrup
that illuminates my mornings
From the miserable grey of the Vancouver weather .
I am like storm that continues to rage but is sometimes calm like wild flowers
From the flowers that dance and sing in the garden
I am from the ginger orange like the hair on my head
From the blue and gold of my car
I am from the dark oak of my grandmother’s cabin
From the golden necklace pendant around my sister’s neck..
I am from every scar sowed into my body,
From the pink skies that are paintings which show the beauty of my home
I am from every colour of the rainbow
From the blue and green of a river and forest .
I am from the past present and future
I am from now
Cube poem – English 12
Run
Dislike delay fight
Face fear escape
Harm leap hide
Pay phone call
Help reply search
Walk scratch tear
Visit whistle yield
Trap trip stop
Ring tick wake
Protected: Tell me about yourself
English 11 – Year End Review
In this course I learned to analyze poetry and literature, I also learned to look for deeper messages in the writing such as allegorys, allusion and metaphores. I learned how to properly include quotes from poems and other writing along with how to properly set your page in MLA format. The thing I enjoyed about this class the most was the interactivity between the class and the teacher, the class discussions were always interesting and no class was ever dull. My favorite unit was reading “Death of the Salesman” because of how interactive the process was. Acting out the play made in much more interesting and gave me a greater knowledge of the play. My favourite piece of litterature was “Two Fishermen” because it was when I first realized how much deeper you could look at short stories. I improved at looking deeper into poems and short stories, but I need to improve on grammar and proof reading.
Death of a Salesman trailer
Character Monologues- “Death of a Salesman”
Linda
I am a loving wife who is undoubtedly devoted to my husband even though he is undeserving and does not show the same affection to me in return. I am supportive of my family and truly want the best for both my son’s and my husband. I always keep a positive attitude and never attack or assume the worst in anybody. I know for a fact that both my son’s will get on the right path and lead a happy life, I hope they do. I’m sure Willy is fine, I know he is stressed but he will be fine, he always makes it out in the end. I worry too much, my hair is starting to grey so much that Biff noticed I just want everyone to happy. When everyone’s lives are in order that’s when I can relax, for now everything I do is for Willy and the boys. My life is for them.
LOTF Infographing project
“The Lord Of The Flies”- Island Description
Scar
“Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea” (Golding,39).
The jungle
“They were in the beginnings of the thick forest, plonking with weary feet on a track, when they heard the noises—squeakings—and the hard strike of hoofs on a path” (Golding,39).
Fruit
“Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (Golding, 76).
The sea
“The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.” (Golding, 79).
The beach
“They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the little river. These castles were about one foot high and were decorated with shells, withered flowers, and interesting stones” (Golding, 82).
Conch
“Near to Ralph’s elbow a palm sapling leaned out over the lagoon. Indeed, the weight was already pulling a lump from the poor soil and soon it would fall. He tore out the stem and began to poke about in the water, while the brilliant fish flicked away on this side and that. Piggy leaned dangerously. “Careful! You’ll break it—” “Shut up.” Ralph spoke absently. The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance. The palm sapling, bending, pushed the shell across the weeds.
Lagoon: “Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake—blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple.” (Golding 10)
Cliff
“The pink granite of the next cliff was further back from the creepers and trees so that they could trot up the path” (Golding 36)
Scar
“Behind this was the darkness of the forestproper and the open space of the scar” (Golding 10)
Mountain:
Every point of the mountain held up trees—flowers and trees. Now the forest stirred, roared, flailed.(Golding 46)
What Darwin never knew
What Darwin never knew
Michael Wilkinson
Darwin set off on his journey to the Galapagos in 1831, he sailed for 5 long years and it was on that journey where he made some of his greatest discoveries. These amazing discoveries were the building block of the theory of evolution, although it couldn’t be fully proven until now, that we have studies and a source to DNA. An example shown in the documentary was how the pocket desert mice had adapted to change the colour of their fur, depending on which habitat they lived in. (The dark or light rock) When Darwin observed similar events, he didn’t quite know how this occurred. By observing the two DNA strands of the pocket mice, we now know that a different of base paring can drastically change a species. (In this case, it’s fur colour.) The main advancement in studies in evolution and DNA, was that there are “switches” that turn on and off certain genes. This discovery helps us understand that all organisms practically have the same set of genes, but whether it is turned on or not makes us different. This discovery can also be supported in the evidence found in embryos. In the video, it compared about 6 different embryos in the starting stages, and they all looked similar. Although they change over time, their starting structures are very alike. The main conclusion within all the evolutionary research done in the past years, is that small changes in the DNA can have a profound effect. This changes the way we view the future of evolution. Since small changes can drastically change an organism, we know that it is possible to have something so complex as a human, be related to a smaller organism. We also could know that this process is still active, and changing in long periods of time. The essential structure of this theory, thought up by Darwin was a backbone for the launch of what scientists are still discovering today about DNA. If it wasn’t for Darwin the world we live in today could be very, very differen