Final report card post

   This year I have really enjoyed English class, I really like how english was taught to us. This has been the best class if english I have ever had. My self regulation in this class I think has been pretty good. In class I always use class time effectively. I use my time in class to get my work done, and in class I always stay on task. All of my assignments have been completed and on time. This year in english I arrive to class on time ready to learn and to do my work. I have never skipped a class and there was only a few days of class I missed and they were excused to being on vacation and being sick. When I am in class I always listen to the teacher and give a response so you can tell that I am listening. Even though we are allowed to have our technology out, I am never on the phone when the teacher is talking or when we are not supposed to. When we are working on our phones I always do my work so I can get it finished on time and to the best of my ability, I don't do other things on my phone. The reading assignment we had over the break, even though we didn't have to I still did read the book because it was a really good book and I wanted to see how it would end. For my self regulation mark in this class I think the appropriate mark would be 32/33.

   Analyzing and creative work in this class has been pretty good for me. After I have completed my assignment I will always double check it and edit it. For example my Romeo and Juliet essay on is their love real or lust, and Romeo and Juliet healthy and dysfunctional relationships. When ever I have done an assignment that something's have come from someone's else's point of view or website I will always cite it because you need to give them credit for their work. After watching the video's of how to write a formal and informal essay on the website and after our first five paragraph essay I completely know the difference now and when you need to use any of those two in a essay an example for that would also be my Romeo and Juliet essay is their love for each other love or lust. Making connections to yourself and literature is very important. In this class when we we had to make a self connection to our writing I tried my best to make a connection to myself. An example of self connections would be our essay on being a teenager and a connection to literature is our news story assignment.

I know all my literary terms that I am supposed to know and can identify them in writing. With our character study on Romeo and Juliet class, I have finished all my assignments for that unit and  have edited all those assignments. An example for this would be the soliloquy we chose to do from the play. An example for creativity put into an assignment would be the story I made called The Mistake.

When we have had the opportunity to put creativity in my work I have always tried my best to be creative. In this pillar of our mark I think I would deserve about 30/33, I think that would be an appropriate mark for analyzing/creative work.

      My contribution to learning, self and others in this class has been really good in this class. I have commented on a lot of peoples work and assignments to give them feedback and what I think of what they've done. I have also done the literary terms that we were supposed to do so other people in the class can benefit from it. My contribution to myself is I do the research we are supposed to do to understand and do what we are working on, also I finished the book when it wasn't manditory because it was a good story. I have also gone back and reread and edited my work that I needed to. In class I will also participate in the discussion we are having with the people at our table and discussions we are having with the class. For my class contribution mark I think I would deserve 31/30, I think that would be the appropriate mark for this pillar.

     The three PLO'S I chose for me is A1 Interact and collaborate in pairs and groups, C14 Use conventions in writing and representing appropriate to purpose audience, to enchants meaning and artistry, anf B3 view, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend  a variety if visual texts. For the PLO A1 I collaborate with people at my table and the person beside me to talk about what we each think and come up with an idea together, also we gain insight to other perspectives when we talk as a group and say what we think. In class I always collaborate with the people at my table to have a discussion on what we were learning or doing in class. For PLO C14 use conventions in writing and representing appropriate to purpose audience, to enchance meaning and artistry, in my writing I use proper punctuation when needed and have proper grammar usuage. I also capitalize letters when they require a capital and I cite work that has come from someone else. The third PLO I chose was B3 view both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a variety of visual texts, for example is the poems we did in class and what we each thought what it meant and talked about it together as a class afterwards. When we read Romeo and Juliet we read together as a class and researched words we didn't know and went through words and lines we didn't understand. The three songs we chose on the topic if pressure we each picked an article we thought connected to a song the song out of the three of our choice. We talked about the connections we made to the song and the articles we chose for the theme of pressure.

  I'm English class this semester overall I think I deserve about 93/99 which is the three pillars all added up which would be about 94 percent. I have really enjoyed English class this semester, I think it's a great way to do English through technology. I think all English teachers should teach like this. This is the best English class I have had, it's been a great semester for English in this class!

The Power of Truth

-Thesis:"What ever is done in the darkness will eventually come out in the light"(unknown) 

-Theme:truth

-Argumentative essay

   Telling the truth is always better than telling a lie regardless of any good intentions for lying.  "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything".  Usually people who are hiding the truth or lying, make up stories to cover it up and more often than not the story changes each time it's recalled by the person.  In the novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime, Christopher's dad chose to make a bad decision and tell a lie to cover up what actually happened to his wife and Christopher's mother. Choosing to tell a lie will always lead to bad ends, and so if your good person you should never tell a lie. "Whatever is done in the darkness with always come out in the light".  This statement fits for what Chritophers dad did, as eventually his lie about what happened to his mother and his actions regarding the hiding of the letters came out in the light when Christopher was snooping through his room and found the box filled with letters his mom sent to him, but also how his dad decided to hide them.

   I believe you should always tell the truth no matter how hard the truth may be, because I believe the truth will always set you free.  Christopher's dad lied to him by telling him his mother was in the hospital and died of a heart attack when she actually cheated with the neighbour and moved to London with him.  While his dad's intentions may have been good in hiding the truth, his lie was eventually uncovered with Christopher's discovery of all the letters his mom had sent him each week.  His dad made the conscious decision to hide all of them in a box in his closet, but that would lead to the truth finally coming out.  Christopher discovered the letters when he went in his dad's room to look for his book he was writing and found the letters all in a box in his dad's closet.  Christopher's dad was being very selfish in not telling him the truth just because it was hard for him and for him to explain everything to Christopher. Everyone deserves to know the truth especially if it's concerning your own mother.  It's very wrong that the dad hid these truths from Christopher, because a lie will always find it's way out into the light and if it does it can then cause much more hurt than the truth up front, and in this case it ruined the relationship between Christopher and his dad. Hiding something very bad like this situation in the novel can hurt the ones you love most. In the novel how Christopher's dad told him  his mom was dead is so reprehensible.  As the son he has the inherent right to know his mom is truly dead or alive. Christopher's dad also killed Wellington the dog.  This fact was apparent all the while as Christopher investigated who killed the dog, and the dad never told him until right after he discovered the letters.  Combined with all the other lies compounded, Christopher thought his dad was a murderer and how he lied about his mom that it was unsafe for him to be in that house with his dad anymore when his dad looked out for him for his whole life. It wasn't worth it wrecking their relationship they had over what really happened to Christopher's mom. You should always tell the truth because it's not worth the risk of losing what you care about most in this world.

    The truth of what happened to Christopher's mom and Wellington was very hard to tell, especially because it would be very hard for Christopher to find out when he firmly believed something to the contrary.  It would be very hard for him to deal with. Some people do think that not telling Christopher was the right decision.  This is quite understandable because Christopher can't understand emotions very well, and generally speaking this would be very hard for him to find out that his dad was a killer and a lier.  It would impact negatively to their relationship and to also find out his mother is a cheater would probably hurt him as well.  This information would be awful to hear and perhaps the benefits of keeping these facts hidden from him outweigh the benefit of telling the truth?  After all, learning the real truth would likely wreck his opinion of his parents.  Sometimes "ignorance is bliss" and he certainly seemed to be content in just doing his math and playing with his rat.  However, some people think it would just be easier to keep a secret, or tell him way later in life which Christopher's dad was planning on doing inevitably.  In this case it would be very difficult to tell the truth as it could mess a lot of things up and he's only just a kid after all and this information would be very hard for him to take in. This information could wreck a lot in his life. "Something's are just better kept unsaid", but Cristopher definetly has the right to know the truth that his dad has been hiding.

  I do understand that people think that Christopher's dad never should of told him or tell him way later in life, but this is extremely wrong and selfish of the dad.  Yes it is a good point but still it's very wrong and very selfish of Christopher's dad to lie to him and tell him that his mother died like that. Yes it would be way easier for Christopher's dad just to tell him that his mother died instead of what she actually did and not tell him that he killed the dog meanwhile  he is trying to figure out who the killer is. This would of eventually came out and it would be way worse finding out this information by yourself or from someone you don't care that much about.  Christopher's dad's bad decesion wrecked what the dad had with Chrtisopher and it changed his opinion how he saw his dad. Before Chrsitopher had a good realtonship with his dad and loved his dad very much, but now Christopher is scared of his own dad and see's him as a killer and liar are two awful things. Know their father and son relationship will never be the same just because his dad chose to lie now he will never get their relationship back that they used to have. It's always better to find out the truth from someone you care about at least that shows they're  honest and they care about you that much to tell you. Christopher deserves to know the truth, this definetly should not have been kept from him. Secrets like that will always find a way out it's just better to be honest about it. 

     In the novel there was a lot of bad things that happened that were kept a secret, I think this book teaches a very good and valuable lesson, always tell the truth to the ones you love or "What ever is done in the darkness will eventually come out in the light". This quote is exactly what happened to Christopher's dad. I will always believe to tell the truth, it's always better then telling a lie.  Christopher defenitley deserved the truth to be told to him. The truth is a very powerful thing, deciding to tell the truth will always be better then telling a lie because secrets always have a way finding their way out and if that happens it the damage is a lot worse then deciding to just tell the truth in the beginning.  I definetly believe in the statement "What ever is done in the darkness will eventually come out in the light". You should always be honest, "Honesty is the best policy".