Social Studies/ELA Extention/Extra Credit

Option One:
Create a power point on the debate between the federalists and anti-federalists. Create 5 different slides (First-Introduction, Second-Body Paragraph 1, Third-Body Paragraph 2, Fourth-Body Paragraph 3, Fifth - Conclusion) Remember to include transition sentences from one paragraph/slide to the next!
Use the sites below for info:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/fed-antifed/
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/

Option Two:
Create a "Glog."
Go to http://edu.glogster.com/
Sign up for the basic glog.
Then, create a glog poster that shows the federalist's and anti-federalist's debate. I just stumbled upon this and thought it was cool. When you are done, publish and paste your site address into the blog!

Biographical Essay Outline

Biographical Essay Outline

Vital Stats to Know Before Writing:

Full Name of Person (including maiden name)
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Parents’ Names (living or deceased?)
Where has this person lived throughout his/her life?
What schools did this person attend?
What careers has this person had?
Is this person married? When? To Whom?
Does this person have children? Names? Ages?

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Hook: (This could be a famous quote that exemplifies this person, something someone close to him/her has said about the person, something really interesting about the person, etc.)

Connection/Reflection on the hook: (Transition your hook into the person’s significance)

Brief History of Person: (First three vital stats should be included)

Thesis: (What three things are you going to focus on in this paper?)

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checkouts by: me

Jennifer Sanchez Jacques ½ Res. To. Lit. Checkouts Pages 23-28

Checkouts: by Cynthia Rylant


Love at first sight. Some people believe in it and others don’t. I used to be a non-believer until I read this heart filling novel by Cynthia Rylant called Checkouts. This is about a girl who’s new to a town and falls in love with a bagboy at the grocery store. What I loved was how the book was written, with lots of imagery, suspense, and the plot of the story.

Imagery, is a big part of a story a book should have or I’m not interested, so it’s good this book has a lot. “Only by busting her jar of mayonnaise on the floor, shards of glass and oozing cream decorating the area around hi feet.” (page 25) This quote is extremely important because this is how the girl falls in love with the bagboy. After he breaks her jar of mayonnaise, she loves his clumsiness , and everything about him, from the hair that fell on his face everytime he would reach down to pack her cans, to his brown tattered shoes he wore with no socks. Strange taste in guys don’t you think?But sadly after that lovely day, they didn’t see eachother for another 4 weeks. “Each time she went to the store, her eyes scanned the checkouts at once, her heart in her mouth.”(page 26) I liked how the author used the phrase, “her heart in her mouth” like saying she was going to speak her heart maybe.


Oh my gosh. This story also made me feel like I was watching a suspense movie in my head, on some parts. It had suspense and it made me want to read more. “And when finally they did meet up again, neither offered a clue to the other that he or she, had been the object of their obsessive thought for weeks.” (page 26) This quote really got me suspenseful because I was dying to figure out what was going to happen once they met up again. “It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within reach.” (page 26) This quote matters because when they saw each other again, they pretended like they didn’t even know who each other was. It got me mad too, because if she liked the guy, she could’ve gone over by him and said a hello and picked up his digits. BUT INSTEAD, she didn’t and she didn’t even pay at his cashier stand. She went on the isle over. But not was I only mad at her, I was mad at the bagboy too. WHY THE HECK COULN’T HE STOP HER WHILE SHE WAS HEADING OUT THE STORE?? Well it was their fault that they didn’t say anything to each other. They hated themselves too. Each one regretted not saying anything too each other. But that’s what they get. Trust me the ending will SHOCK you! It had going like, OMG THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN.

And now….. for the grand finally……. The ending!!!
“Eventually-in fact, within the week-a kind and intelligent boy who lived very near her beautiful house asked the girl to a movie and she gave up her fancy for the bag boy at the supermarket. And the bag boy himself grew bored with his job that he made a desperate search for something better and ended up in a book store where scores of fascinating girls lingered like honeybees about a hive.” (page 28) Yup. It’s what you’re thinking. They found other people. What a shame, what a shame. But do you know what’s more surprising? Check this quote out. “Some months later the bag boy and the girl with the orange bow again crossed paths, standing in line with their dates at a movie theater, and glancing toward the other, each smiled slightly, then looked away, as strangers on public buses often do, when one is moving off the bus and the other is moving on.” (page 28) Isn’t that just crazy?! They found eachother again, but with different dates. I don’t know if it’s just me, but maybe the girl in the orange bow, or the bag boy could’ve been a little jelous!!


Love at first sight. Some people believe in it and others don’t. I used to be a non-believer until I read this heart filling novel by Cynthia Rylant called Checkouts. This is about a girl who’s new to a town and falls in love with a bagboy at the grocery store. What I loved was how the book was written, with lots of imagery, suspense, and the plot of the story. You should checkout this book for yourself (get it, checkout….. like the title of the novel?)

Final for KJ

Kaylajo Berger

10/29/10

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Tell-Tale-Heart

The story Tell-Tale-Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is an interesting story. It is about a crazy, idiotic man who doesn’t like an old man just because of his ‘ Vulture Eye.’ Even thought he is a nice old man, he still hates him and ends up killing him to be forever gone with the eye. After that the police come because their neighbor filled a complaint about loud, suspicious noises. Eventually he starts to freak out because he hears the old mans heart beating when it’s his watch, as he confesses to the police. You can already tell there is a surprising plot, realistic imagery, and a dark scary mood. If you like creepy story this the one for you. Like Edgar Allen Poe said, ‘all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream’.

The plot in the story is surprising and interesting, it is what gets you motivated to read and read. Some of the quote from the story like this one ‘True! –Nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say I’m mad’, really tells you he’s a mad man, and sometimes makes no sense. This next quote ‘ I loved the old man. He never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I never desire. I think it was his eye, yes it was this! He had an eye of a vulture, a pale blue eye.’’ Says that the old man was nice to him, but his eye made him crazy. You must have to say the plot is interesting but sometimes makes no sense.

The second thing the reader will like about the story is the realistic imagery, in the story it lets you paint a picture in your head. Her is an example, ‘ he was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.’ So that obviously states that he killed him and the eye. This second quote tell you why it the ‘Vulture Eye’.‘ He had an eye of a vulture, a pale blue eye, with a film over it.’ His ‘Vulture Eye’ is just a blind eye why would that make somebody crazy.

Lastly the mood is dark and scary and gives you the chills. This quote is one that gives you the chills, ‘Presently, I hear a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror’. The groan of mortal terror is when he kills the old mad. The last quote is even creeper, ‘I put in a dark lantern all closed, closed, so that no light shown out, then I thrust in my head’. I think the dark lantern is just an ordinary old lantern that doesn’t work. The mood in this story make you not want to read the rest but at the same you want to.

Tell-Tale-Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe, introduces a surprising plot, realistic imagery, and a dark scary, mood. You can tell that the ‘Vulture Eye’ really does creep out the crazy mad man. I mean can you believe that he killed the nice old man just to get ride of his eye? When the police came because their neighbors heard noise, would you be creep out. Over all Tell-Tale-Heart was a great story, if you read it you will love it.

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Intro Paragraph.

Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? They were watching ever move you make; looking for the right time to pounce. In this story Edgar Allen Poe keeps the reader on the edge of your seat, not knowing what is going to happen next. Tell-tale Heart is about a crazy man, who is Vexed by an old mans pale blue eye. This crazy man ends up killing the Old guy, all because of a pale blue eye. This story is very mysterious and the reader is never going to know what to expect. Tell –tale heart by Edgar Allen Poe, displays a sinister mood, fantastic plot, and a very interesting surprise ending.

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The dark and gloomy mood in Tell-tale heart gives the reader a sense of death and doom. “I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed so tar no light shone out.” this quote displays it is dark and suspenseful. Another quote is, “ Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of moral terror”. This quote I think has meaning, to me it means that the old man feels the crazy guys presence. I also think that he crazy guy feels the old mans terror. I believe that this story, Tell-tale Heart, is a story that displays a very descriptive mood, that make the reader jump of the edge of his seat with excitement.

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The plot in the story Tell-tale Heart there is an absolute fantastic plot! Edgar Allen Poe does a very good job as to leading up to the climax. “With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room.” In this quote is explains how he was waiting until the right time, and the climax is he jumps into the room to kill the old man. “There was no pulsation. He was stone dead, his eye would trouble me no more.” In this quote the author is going into falling action, leading down from the big and exciting climax. I think that Edgar Allen Poe does a fantastic job on the plot.

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Telltale Heart has an amazing surprise ending. One quote from the story is, “Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -tear up the planks-here here! Is the beating of his hideous heart!” What made this ending so amazing is the fact that he gave himself up. He said he could hear the beating of the old mans heart, but in reality, it was his very own heart. He said it got louder, louder until he couldn’t stand it anymore. So he told the officers in his house to go to the place where he hid the body. I think Edgar Allen Poe has a very good way of making an ending of a book interesting

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the plot in edger allen poes story tell tale heart is so intence its mainly that an old man and a crazy guy meet. and its so scary becayse the crazy man hates the old mans eyes, so he goes insane and he sneaks into the old mans house every night when the old man goes to sleep. but one night he trips and nocks the old mans lantern down, and it wakes the old man then the crazy guy kills the old man with his own bed.

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this was a scary dark story and it gives you the horriabe chills so remember if you ever think someones watching you be careful when you go to sleep. so hoped you like my awsome story!

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Tell-tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe displays a dark, mysterious mood, an amazing surprise ending, and an interesting plot. When you’re reading the story, mysterious ideas catch your eye. It makes you wonder what’s going to happen next and why he wrote the story that way. The way the young boy sneaks into the olds man room is very surprising cause you don’t expect anything to happen when it really does.

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this book has one of the best suprise endings. at the end he kills the old man as he trys to sleep he kills him with his own bed (how horriable is that). and then he ends up trying to hide the old mans body in the floor board . then the cops come lookingfor the old man after a reported yell sothe the cops come and search his house, and as the time goes on he gets more neveouse. then he thinks he hears th old mans heart beat and it just drives him insane, and he gives himself up!

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dont you just love a good book with mood in it! well this is just the book the book tell tale heart has some great examples of mood. this gives you a scary dark mood heres some examples like a quote "you fancy me mad!" and "my blood ran cold.". these quotes hes talking about how much he hates the old mans eyes thats why he said "you facy me mad." and when hes talking about my blood ran cold is when he thought he heard the old mans beating heart.

in 1689 charles louis de secondat was a wealthy french boy but he still lived in a poor neighborhood when he got older he wwent to college and studied science and history then when he was all done he became a lawyer and soon became a goverment official

In 1689 Charles Louis de Secondat was born in Bordeaux France. He came from a wealthy family, but still hung around poor kids in his childhood. Then when he grow up he went to collage to studied science, history. Later he became a lawyer. Then he started to be famous in 1721, for his Persian Letters. How ever his book was published on 1748, called On The Spirit of Laws. That was his most famous work. And he would set out to do much more in the end....!

Warm-up 11/4

Good Morning!

Please answer the following questions in the post.

1. Using http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/montesquieu/montesquieu-bio.html, explain Montesquieu's idea of government and how that affected the U.S. government.

2. Read the first paragraph under The Law of Nature section on http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/#LawNat. Tell me John Locke's view of human nature. Why is this important in forming the Constitution?

My novel prject oral summary...

COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME IF IT'S OKAY BEFORE TOMORROW 11/3. THANKS!

Oral Summary

I read the story Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendlin Van Draanen. The main characters in this story are Sammy, Marissa, Grams, and Danny. The minor characters in this story are Casey, Heather, and Sammy’s mom. Intro- Sammy had been going up and down the fire escape for 2 years now and no one has seen her. Today is different. When Sammy went to open the door, she saw the knob turning so she hid behind the door. She went to open the door but, unfortunately the man saw her and the man passed out. Before, he completely passed away he handed Sammy a huge stack of money. He told her to throw it over the fire escape. Then, a few minutes later, the man had passed away.

Problems- Sammy and Heather had problems because at Danny’s pool party Heather showed up with the same bathing suit as Sammy’s best friend had on. When Sammy was looking for Marissa, she thought she had found her a the bottom of the pool so she swam down and lifted her out of the water, when she realized that it wasn’t Marissa it was Heather.

Climax- My favorite part of the book was when Sammy was trying to figure out who the man on the fire escape was. She found out that he had 2 friends that he had met from the military. Also, that the money the man on the fire escape had given her was fake money.

Falling Action- In the end, Sammy figured out that the fire escape man’s two friends were the ones making the fake money. Sammy called the cops and they got arrested for making fake money.

Theme- The theme of the story was “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I thought this was a good theme because Sammy didn’t know that the man on the fire escape was a military veteran.

Quote- I think an important quote was “I guess I was rich after all” said by Sammy. I thought that was important because Sammy was saying that she is rich with friends and family.

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Do you like scary stories? Ones that will chill you to the bone, well if you do here’s a story for you. This response to literature is on the story "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe. This creepy story was mainly about a demented man that absolutely hates an elderly man's big pale blue eye. One night he gets up and sneaks into this poor man’s house and kills him. Then, he disassembles him and hides him under the floorboards. That morning the police come and he goes crazy and tells the cops where the dead body is. This book displayed a very dark mood, has fantastic imagery, and has an interesting plot.

Next, this story is very dark and creepy because the narrator is always being very descriptive throughout the whole story. Poe’s writing supports this when he states, “he was stone dead." This makes the reader imagine a lifeless corpse; there is no movement whatsoever. Another good quote from the story is, “all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones”. This quote makes the man in the story sound demented and horrible in all ways. It also gives the story a very dramatic touch. As you can see, Poe is very descriptive in his writing.

Edgar Allen Poe has been known for using great imagery, and here’s why. A quote that uses very, very good imagery is, “the disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled….”. This statement shows just how good of a writer Edgar Allen Poe was. “Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror.” That statement was said when the demented man was sneaking into the old mans house and he could hear the old man groaning. It really paints a picture in your mind when you hear this quote and it also gives you the chills.

One major component that makes this story so good is its outstanding plot. It’s interesting because it’s about a man that is vexed by an eye, not by the man but just his eye. So because of that he goes out one night and kills him. He dismembers him and puts him under the floorboards, everything went great, and no one would have known what happened to him because he hid him so well. But instead of getting away he goes insane and tells the police where he hid the body.

Bombing Of Japan Ford

August 6th, 1945 a U.S. B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb in the morning (8:15AM)(5:15AM American time) in the town of Hiroshima. The bomb detonated a couple thousand feet above the ground. About 130,000 people went missing, died, or were injured.

It blew up above and army field with training solders. This army field was an important military base. The cities population before the bombing was around 300,000. About 43,000 soldiers were at the base during the bombing. The birds literally flew in to flames while flying.

Little Boy, the bomb, was 9,700 pounds of uranium. Uranium is a dense, radioactive element. The explosion was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT (30,000,000 pounds of TNT).

After the explosion large firestorms burnt around the city and covered about 4.4 square miles. People died from radiation, the fires, and from dehydration and starvation.

August 9th, 1945 another U.S. B-29 bomber named Bock’s Car dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki at 11:00AM. The bomb exploded 1,650 feet above the ground. Once again Tibbet’s crew dropped the bomb.

It was dropped on the outside of Nagasaki and killed and injured 100,000 people the bomb would have done more damage if it hit the city directly.

Fat Man was made out of Plutonium and 40% bigger than Little Boy. The bomb was 21kilotons of TNT (42,000,000pounds of TNT).

SS Assignment 11/2

Use the sheet on your keyboard. Research using a search engine (i.e. Google). Write down your answers to the questions. You may work with a partner.

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The plot in the story Tell-tale Heart there is an absolute fantastic plot! Edgar Allen Poe does a very good job as to leading up to the climax. “With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room.” In this quote is explains how he was waiting until the right time, and the climax is he jumps into the room to kill the old man. “There was no pulsation. He was stone dead, his eye would trouble me no more.” In this quote the author is going into falling action, leading down from the big and exciting climax. I think that Edgar Allen Poe does a fantastic job on the plot.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS. JACQUES!!!!!

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Third Body Paragraph:

In every story, you HAVE to have a plot. The plot is pretty much your whole story. It tells you what’s going on in the story, the problem, and the main idea. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.” “I loved the old man. He never wronged me.” In the first quote, the young man is saying, when he walks into the old mans room he can hear everything because he is trying to be so quite. Another way to say it is, he’s being so quiet so he thinks he can hear everything. In the second quote, the young boy is saying he only killed the old man because of the old mans eye. The old man never did anything wrong to him and the young man never had problem with him. You always need a plot to understand the story. If you had no plot there would pretty much be no story to read.