Gloria Onwugamba
English 2
5/1/2009
OF Mice and men
Benchmark style:
1. Why does George tell Lennie not to drink too much water?
A)He might pee on him self
B)He might poop on him self
C)He might play with his self
D)He might get to happy
2. What did George told Lennie about the rabbits?
A)That he could kill them
B)That he could eat them
C)That he could tend them
D)That he could dance with them
3. Why does Lennie have a dead mouse in his pocket?
A)He likes to pet soft things
B)He thinks that it will bring him and George good luck
C)He might attract rabbits with it
D)It signifies the title of the book
4. Why does George order Lennie not to talk when they get to the ranch?
A)So he doesn’t say the wrong thing
B)His teeth are pretty bad
C)His breath might smell like the water they splashed in their faces
D)He might curse
5. What happened to all of the mice that Lennie have had?
A)They ran away
B)They died
C)They lived happily ever after
D)They were with men
6. Why did George and Lennie run away from Weed?
A)They had to stir away from trouble
B)They had to go near trouble
C)They had to find new jobs
D)They were actually confused and need directions.
7. Where was the place that George told Lennie to go to if there was something wrong?
A)The place where they had slept
B)Some place in Philly
C)At Johns house
D)At Steinbeck’s house.
8. Who gave Lennie the dead mouse?
A)His Aunt Clara
B)His Uncle John
C)Him mom
D)George mom
9. Why cant Lennie have his working tickets?
A)He might lose it
B)He might eat it
C)He might kill them
D)George is mentally retarded
10. Is Lennie allowed to eat what he wants with his beans?
A)Yes
B)No
C)Another time
D)Maybe
11. Who keeps Lennie working tickets?
A)George
B)Slim
C)Curly wife
D)Lennie
12. How did Candy’s dog die?
A)He was shot
B)Hit by a car
C)Slammed in the door
D)He died of old age
13. What race was Crocks??
A)Black
B)White
C)Chinese
D)Purta rican
14. What does the Crooks' room look like?
A)Its old and has a lot of textbooks
B)Its very nice
C)Pretty expensive
D)Its ok
15. What happened in chapter 1?
A)Lennie and George went to a ranch to seek for a jobB)George killed someone
C)Lennie had to steal the gun
D)George had to run away
16. What was going on with Lennie in chapter 4?
A)George did something bad
B)Slim did something bad
C)Curly did something bad
D)Cookie did something bad
17. What card game does George play in "Of Mice and Men"? [SOLITARE]
A)Poker
B)Checkers
C)Solitare
D)Spider Solitaire
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
English essay
Gloria Onwugamba
The rainy afternoon and the squeaks of the boots, with the bloom of the flowers the next morning. The spring in life is fun, very youthful. The sweat on your forehead, the coldest of your toes going into the pool. Summers heat brings maturity and creativity level. The nice brisk wind and the colors of orange, green, and red. Falls maturity and calmness. The cold, dull winter last. We can use these seasons to figure out where you are at in life. I can see now looking in the mirror im in summer and the young girl Lizabeth the narrator in the Marigold by Eugene.
In the story Marigolds by Eugene Collier the young girl Lizabeth witnessed her father crying in the sadness about the great depression. Relating to my life much younger then Lizabeth I witnesses my mother laugh like nothing is wrong when we both knew that her crutch on life was broken and left her destitute to learn how to walk on her own two feet. Even I gave up on her but I watched her learn how to slowly walk and with faith I had faith in her. These experiences and much more things that you couldn’t possibly imagine is what made me trade in the jeans and chucks for the shorts and flip flops.
Many things can happen in a couple of months you can get taller, get bigger, get smaller, get smarter, even dark. The classic saying is you’ve matured over the summer. Linking back to the story Marigolds she matured that summer when she realized that stomping her neighbors flowers was immature. I cam over that realization playing outside in fact it starts in spring for many people. It should start at the age 7 when you know right from wrong. Or should it begin in the sandbox days when boys had coodies and everyone strived to color in the lines. Either way maturity happens through out your life the level of my maturity equals the maturity of a hot summer day, that still has blooming flowers.
I strive for independence extremely, to make my own money, buy my own clothes. To me the opposite of independence is to be dependent. In my eyes all children are dependent on their parents or guardian. I don’t want to be considered a child, a child stays in a child’s place. I don’t, I not to be young but Im forced by the world, the world forces me to be dependent on my parents. Now I will strive to be independent don’t forget the last name or the pretty smile when im on the 42nd floor of a building behind a desk in a expensive suit typing on a expensive keyboards, being independent.
Being in spring for too long makes the path towards summer very mentally and emotionally stressful. Lizabeth’s encounter with summer sun was in a strange ways. My encounter with summer was one that took a while and sometimes I continue to jump back to youthful days of spring. For now I will continue to be mature, strive for independence and keep my bubbly personality all the way to fall.
The rainy afternoon and the squeaks of the boots, with the bloom of the flowers the next morning. The spring in life is fun, very youthful. The sweat on your forehead, the coldest of your toes going into the pool. Summers heat brings maturity and creativity level. The nice brisk wind and the colors of orange, green, and red. Falls maturity and calmness. The cold, dull winter last. We can use these seasons to figure out where you are at in life. I can see now looking in the mirror im in summer and the young girl Lizabeth the narrator in the Marigold by Eugene.
In the story Marigolds by Eugene Collier the young girl Lizabeth witnessed her father crying in the sadness about the great depression. Relating to my life much younger then Lizabeth I witnesses my mother laugh like nothing is wrong when we both knew that her crutch on life was broken and left her destitute to learn how to walk on her own two feet. Even I gave up on her but I watched her learn how to slowly walk and with faith I had faith in her. These experiences and much more things that you couldn’t possibly imagine is what made me trade in the jeans and chucks for the shorts and flip flops.
Many things can happen in a couple of months you can get taller, get bigger, get smaller, get smarter, even dark. The classic saying is you’ve matured over the summer. Linking back to the story Marigolds she matured that summer when she realized that stomping her neighbors flowers was immature. I cam over that realization playing outside in fact it starts in spring for many people. It should start at the age 7 when you know right from wrong. Or should it begin in the sandbox days when boys had coodies and everyone strived to color in the lines. Either way maturity happens through out your life the level of my maturity equals the maturity of a hot summer day, that still has blooming flowers.
I strive for independence extremely, to make my own money, buy my own clothes. To me the opposite of independence is to be dependent. In my eyes all children are dependent on their parents or guardian. I don’t want to be considered a child, a child stays in a child’s place. I don’t, I not to be young but Im forced by the world, the world forces me to be dependent on my parents. Now I will strive to be independent don’t forget the last name or the pretty smile when im on the 42nd floor of a building behind a desk in a expensive suit typing on a expensive keyboards, being independent.
Being in spring for too long makes the path towards summer very mentally and emotionally stressful. Lizabeth’s encounter with summer sun was in a strange ways. My encounter with summer was one that took a while and sometimes I continue to jump back to youthful days of spring. For now I will continue to be mature, strive for independence and keep my bubbly personality all the way to fall.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
I make?
I make people jump for joy
when I'm good at mock trial, get A
or raise my hand with nothing to say
I make people smile from ear to ear
even seconds after the fall of a tear
...maybe from a best friend who trust me with EVERYTHING
such as the secrets from with in
I make people who are arrogant look down,
but i make my siblings look up to me
even if they grew past me
GET OFF THE COMPUTER
HANG UP THE PHONE
STAND IN THE CORNER
ALL alone....
I love my family even though
I make them aggravated.
But most of all I make them better!
when I'm good at mock trial, get A
or raise my hand with nothing to say
I make people smile from ear to ear
even seconds after the fall of a tear
...maybe from a best friend who trust me with EVERYTHING
such as the secrets from with in
I make people who are arrogant look down,
but i make my siblings look up to me
even if they grew past me
GET OFF THE COMPUTER
HANG UP THE PHONE
STAND IN THE CORNER
ALL alone....
I love my family even though
I make them aggravated.
But most of all I make them better!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
English Essay
"Love withheld, restrained." They say we should never cry over a boy or girl but if there be sorrow let it be. The poem that fit my likings is "If there be Sorrow" by Mari Evans. It advises the reader that its okay to cry, but to cry about things you've never actually done. Emphasizing love withheld, and restrained so cry if you need to feel sorrow for being unloved, unrealized, undreamed. Mari Evans poem has voice and at the same time the voice sets a sad tone.Keeping it classic, poetic tradition the poem uses unique repetition. With that this poems meaning is very nice and will draw any reader as it did me.
From the moment the title crossed my eyes I was instantly taken. The title "If there be sorrow" is very captivating. When I saw the title I didn't understand the meaning, but the vocabulary gives the reader a sad feeling. It can leave one in though. Why?, because even the title sets the tone for the poem. The message after reading the poem is confusing. In the poem is confusing. In the poem they advise the reader to let sorrow be which is sad. Depending on how the reader reads it one can set your tone of voice to where it reads off as a relaxing poem. The tone explains sorrow and targets Love. So if "love withheld, restrained" let yourself feel sorrow. Also, the way it was introduces and the structure of it was a unique repetition. They made every word at one point begin with the prefix UN. Which means to no so when they say undreamed,unrealized, and unattained the poem meant cry for all the things one never accomplished. That's why i chose this poem because the message it had connected to me and my likings.
As a young girl, young man, or older we should live our life's to the fullest extent. If we regret everything or regret doing nothing your inviting sorrow. The poem emphasizing on the prefix UN, which means to not. If you never dreamed, or never loved have sorrow with yourself. Don't leave from this essay saying "so what?" walk away and understand. Life is short don't cry for the small stuff cry for things restrained. So ill leave one in thoughts just as i was.
From the moment the title crossed my eyes I was instantly taken. The title "If there be sorrow" is very captivating. When I saw the title I didn't understand the meaning, but the vocabulary gives the reader a sad feeling. It can leave one in though. Why?, because even the title sets the tone for the poem. The message after reading the poem is confusing. In the poem is confusing. In the poem they advise the reader to let sorrow be which is sad. Depending on how the reader reads it one can set your tone of voice to where it reads off as a relaxing poem. The tone explains sorrow and targets Love. So if "love withheld, restrained" let yourself feel sorrow. Also, the way it was introduces and the structure of it was a unique repetition. They made every word at one point begin with the prefix UN. Which means to no so when they say undreamed,unrealized, and unattained the poem meant cry for all the things one never accomplished. That's why i chose this poem because the message it had connected to me and my likings.
As a young girl, young man, or older we should live our life's to the fullest extent. If we regret everything or regret doing nothing your inviting sorrow. The poem emphasizing on the prefix UN, which means to not. If you never dreamed, or never loved have sorrow with yourself. Don't leave from this essay saying "so what?" walk away and understand. Life is short don't cry for the small stuff cry for things restrained. So ill leave one in thoughts just as i was.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
NHD Reflection
This year I did a documentary and i felt as though it was a good choice because i am good at computers so i have alot of expirernce. I did my whole project at home which was a good idea this year because i know last year it was very complicated working at school. I did very well as a grade a 89 i could have gotten a 90 but im pretty sure its because of my time. I had only 5 minutes and 20 seconds and next year i will probably do a NHD project cause i was dissapointed that i didnt get in the CITIES competetion but im fine with it, I will do it next year and pick a topic that im intrested in just like i did this year but i will be better
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
31st annotation
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933, as published in Samuel Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Two: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938), 11–16.
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&reqsrcid=16&mode=form&more=yes&source_title=Internet%20Journal%20or%20Magazine%20Article%20-%20One%20or%20More%20Authors&source_mod=0^99&stylename=MLA
"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone."
MY COMMENT
Saying this really told me about how the economy was and where the country stood. Which was very, very bad on opinion to what Franklin D Roosevelt.
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&reqsrcid=16&mode=form&more=yes&source_title=Internet%20Journal%20or%20Magazine%20Article%20-%20One%20or%20More%20Authors&source_mod=0^99&stylename=MLA
"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone."
Saying this really told me about how the economy was and where the country stood. Which was very, very bad on opinion to what Franklin D Roosevelt.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
http://web.archive.org/web/20060903014629/http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/us/fdr1940.html
http://www.hpol.org/fdr/chat/
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos1.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos2.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos3.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos4.asp
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/medialist.php?presid=32
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1932
http://www.hpol.org/fdr/chat/
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos1.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos2.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos3.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos4.asp
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/medialist.php?presid=32
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1932
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