crissy

Sooo Today is Free Assessment Friday, how fun.
Ms. Burton calls it controlled chaos but I'm sure you can see on her twitter feed, photo albums and video rolls that it isn't really all that controlled.

First of all even though its isn't first, Ms. Burton told Taylier to create a Smore. Smores usually consist of ya know, the regular stuff.. graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate but Ms. Burton just brought Taylier a computer. I don't even think she's too sure of what she's doing. What???
Okay Ms Burton. Okay.

So Taylier is making a ... smore.

Stacy is sitting on the desk snapping pictures of people.

Coley is recording random stuff.. because that's what he was told to do.

Sabrina is tweeting stuff about Ivory applying for the ACT-
I think Coley was trying to record me sneezing or the aftermath of the sneeze, HOW ATTRACTIVE. 

Destiny just needs to give up. - SABRINA DOESN'T WANT YOU ANYMORE. AND I AM THE GODMOTHER NOT DONQUEL.

Shiloh and them are acting out something I'm not even sure of and Danny is standing there looking as lost as Waldo, ya know if we could actually see Waldo.

Stacy is taking selfies. Your selfie game is on point Stacy.

Sorry, Danny isn't lost, I asked him what he was doing and he said he was making a skit, Aren't we all Danny. 

Brittany, Donquel, and Govianna are making memes. Who doesn't like memes, they are HILARIOUS.

Delmy came to class late.

Miguel looks like he's about to go to sleep. Do something Miguel. Make something of your life.

Savannah is just doing so much for the class by listening to her music. -SARCASM-

Coley is taking a picture of Ms. Burton

I wonder what Jessicas doing, she's on the other side of Sabrina and I'm too lazy to lean over, so I guess we'll never know what Jessicas doing.

I love listening in on peoples conversations, honestly. Raynika just sounded like a dying monkey.

EWWWWWWW Taylier just sneezed all over the computer. And she bit her tongue. LOLOLOLOLOL. 

Haha Taylier, you deserve that for saying my hair looks like it was a monkey nest.

Here comes Bullet. I'm not even gonna write down anything that he says because well it's Bullet and Bullet always has some interesting stories that I don't even feel like repeating.

Ms. Burton said that Ivory is upstairs hooking up with ???  WOAH IVORY # Rude Awakening

Alright so my brain hurts because I've been eavesdropping too much and my ears have been open and my ears hurt so I'm done for the day.
Happy Friday. 

Ivory just threatened to throw a water bottle at Bullet, no surprise there.
Alright seriously I'm done this time.

Fishbowl Feedback

Ms. Burton handing out supplies, "those of you that have parents that do not love you and don't have supplies raise your hand so I can give you some."

The Scholarly Leaders will not speak up. Hurry the up dude. 

Sabrina just got a text message.

She killed her kid too, such a great mom.
We are doing a Fishbowl Discussion after looking at 4 pictures.

Alexis is going first. Woo.

Your identification can't be changed and who you are can't be changed, they need the fingerprint to get in and out of china and it distinguishes who you are. That's what Alexis said, anyone for a refute?

Here goes Nathaniel. He says that everyone is unique and basically everything about them is unique- stuff keeps falling and someone just said paranormal traytivity- lol- 

Huy the asian is refuting on the asian movie, everyone has different fingerprints and that means that they all think differently. Good Job Huy. 

Oh Sweet Baby Jesus. Sabrina said that the mother and daughter are the same people, disagreeing with what Huy said about the mother and daughter being different because of the fingerprints.

Here goes Raynika. I wish people would just SLOW DOWN FOR A SECOND

Raynika agrees with Sabrina and disagrees with Huy because the DNA is passed down, blah.

Then Kiana said something about fingerprints looking the same because they are about the same shape.

Jesus Christ, my fingers hurt.

Nathaniel is going again. Saying something about expressing the pride and pride is an American thing.

Then MS. Burton decides to say something but I didn't catch it.

Then Taylier speaks, forget it. Forget you Taylier because everything is going too fast.

Shiloh would want to jump in right now and all I caught from what he said was CHINA and MAINLAND then Savannah says MAINLAND all sarcastically then Shiloh says yeah mainland and now they are discussing something about problems. I don't know, I guess I zoned out for a second there

odina makes sense, saying that coming to America gave them better lives

savannah says that their problems will follow them no matter where they go but that the moms sent them to America to give them better lives.

Ms. Burton says that the fingerprints symbolizes individuality and that the mother and daughters are different because they are different people but they are connected to your mom because you came out of her ... womb. Lets go with that, its more appropriate.

Ms. Burton recognizes Nathaniel when he says that the girl said shes an American

Then shiloh for whatever shiloh said then it sounds like what Savannah said so I'm going to go with that.

Break time. Thank you God, you must be listening to my Prayers. Now we are switching to Savannah and Raynikas side. This is gonna take all day. Love y'all though.

Ivory is awake and Ms Burton and Ivory are going back and forth about Ivorys nap

Ms. Burton be quiet. that is what you are supposed to be doing right now. Thanks

Donquel says that the mother and daughter photo shows that they have differences and they are different but at the same time they kind of are the same person and have the same types of problems

Raynika agrees with Donquel with the similar problems thing but says that the young one in the picture is fresh looking and the other one basically looks like a monkey with all those wrinkles on her face 

Krystyn agrees Raynika and I heard her say that its the monkey ladies time to sit back and watch-
Be quiet Ms.Burton- the daughter make her own mistakes

Raynika agrees with Krystyn 

No surprise there

see I said we would be here all day 

I wonder when Savannah will Jump in.

NO MORE THOUGHTS ON THIS PICTURE

BRING ON THE ICE CREAM PICTURE 

I ALREADY HEAR DONQUEL GOING OFF

Quiet please

trying to make love equal by splitting ice cream? what ? No. he's greedy. just saying. when he splits the ice cream he probably gives himself more, like I do.

Jacob said something.

now were talking about taking a POO. and someone better stop making MS.Burton mad because she HAS TO BE QUIET PLEASE

Whoa, that ice cream picture is very complicated

god dog diggity dog the bell is about to ring. woo.

Fishbowl Feedback

Alexis speak upon image number 1: she says that she believe that your identification can't be changed no matter where you are and that the fingerprint represents how the mother got out of china.

Nathaniel believes that a finger represents someone's story. Each fingerprint is different and no one is the same and that also reflects on the story of each persons life

Huy believes that the fingerprints represents how different the mothers and the daughters and how their views are different

I shared that I disagreed with Huy because throughout the film you come to find the each daughter in some way or another are just like their mother.

Kiana shared that fingerprints in all reality don't look that different because they are all round.


Nathaniel says that image two represents the pride one has in their county.

Shiloh says the flag represents the new life each mother expected when coming to the new land. But in all reality they still had problems.

Odina says it represents the new life they want for their children and the wanting for all of their problems to go away.p. Savannah agrees with odina.

Joviana says that their problems never went away cause the same problems reflected in their mothers.

Raenika believes it represents opportunity.


Day 2 of Fishbowl Feedback:

Jacob shared that he believes that the image of the ice cream represents the sweet but cold relationship each daughter has with their mother.

Raenikka shares the fact the in the image the ice cream is/melting she says that this relates to the film because it shows how fast something can change and how fast the realign ships through out the film changed.

Jacob says that the ice cream represents the family and the chocolate chips are the daughter. He went onto to explaining it more in depth but I can't really put it into words as he did.

Odina said the ice cream was a symbol for unfairness because in the movie the daughter had to pay half for her husbands ice cream even though she didn't eat it, this shows that even though the marriage was supposed to be "fair" it's not because the wife is actually getting the short end of the stick.

Ms B's Notes

Image 1

-Alexis: "identification you cant be change, your identification cant be change"

-: Nathaniel "Everybodys story, each fingerprint is unique and none is the same, and each persons story isunique and none ofthem are the same"

-Huy: "The finger print because there's no 2 finger prints that look exactly alike, each person have a way of thinking that is not like others', even though they are mothers and daughters. This picture related to the text's detail which is the daughter disagreeing with their mothers because the mothers make they do things that the mothers think are best for them."

-Sabrina:"i think that the finger prints represent the similarity instead ofthe differences"

-Kiana:"The fingerPrint form inside the mother so they cant escape the connection that they have with their mother."

-Image 2

-Nathaniel: the picture show the American pride that the daughter's had in the movie

-Shiloh: They expect a better life than they have in China, but their life in the U.S. is truely better but they now have different problems."

-Odina, Sav: "They looked for freedom, for a better life for the children that they will eventually have."

-Krystyn:"They are trying to escape the problem that they have in China by coming to the U.S."

-Ranika: "the flag represent freedom and hope, and opportunity that they seek for their daughters as they come to America."

-Image 3:

-Quelly: They are not facing each other, so they have conflicts with each other, but they are still conncected with each other

-Ranika: "the artist purposely highlighted the skin of the younger one for a reason, showing the clear distinction, the old person is faded into the background because her view is faded away"

-Krystyn: "they are both connect, the younger one is highlighted because it's their time"

-Kiana:"I agree with the daughter"

-Image 4

-Quelly: "They are splitting stuff, even though they are a couple"

-Jacob:"The mother is cold because the ice cream is cold"

-Miguel: "Ice cream is sweet, and so is the mother"

-Ranika:"ice cream melt, it change to something else, like the relationship in the movie"

-Huy:"The mothers are like the ice cream, which melt away eventually and does not last forever"

-Jacob:"The ice cream is the whole family,the daughter being the best, is the chocolate chips"

----Huy Truong----

9/17 Miss Burton 2nd period

                            We are discussing images that connect to our text

                                                       Joy Luck Club

-Joy Luck Club - Summarize

  +Joy Luck Club is about 8 women that belong to a club that is create by four Chinese women who come together once in awhile  play Mahjong with one another. The name is based one the luck that is required for the Mahjong games that they play together, and the joy that they have playing with each other to forget their pain and sufferingi in life. 8 women, 4 mothers, and 4 daughters, all have struggles in their life, each told us the story of their life, the struggles they went through.

Image 1: 

    This image represent a person's identification, who a person is. Each finger print is different, indicate that each person have a different path in life, different ways of thinking, different point of views on a same subject.

Image 2:

    This image show that the daughters are Americans, they are no longer Chinese, they are different from their mothers who were from China. They are different from their mothers so they have different way of thinking.

Image 3:

    This image is a 2 women head stuck together, one is old and one is young. This represent the daughter's and the mother's similarities, even though they are different, in a way they are similar, they are close to each other, and they are related to each other. This picture says that they are one, but they  have different paths

Image 4:

    This image represent the couple that the man and his wife who divide their expenses, based on who uses what. The ice cream is only eaten by the husband but his wife paid for it, and the husband doesn' t even know that she doesn't eat it because she can't.

Best Visual Before:

    -I picked picture 1, the finger print because there's no 2 finger prints that look exactly alike, each person have a way of thinking that is not like others', even though they are mothers and daughters. This picture related to the text's detail which is the daughter disagreeing with their mothers because the mothers make they do things that the mothers think are best for them.

Best Visual After:

   - I am still picking picture 1, because it best represent the movie.

----Huy ----

Notes by Crissy

Crissy 

Joy Luck Club Notes  9.17.2014

Summary 

Joy Luck Club is about 4 dufferent mother and daughter stories that led them to where they are and what made them what they are today; how they overcame obstacles in life and how overcoming them obstacles made them stronger women. The name of the Joy Luck Club came from a game that the mothers used to play together, and while they were playing the game they felt joy and forgot about all of the problems in their lives. The Luck part comes from how lucky they felt when they won the game.

1.The first image is important to the Joy Luck Club because its a fingerprint and fingerprints are used to identify people. The Joy Luck Club is about learning who you truly are and where it was you came from.

2. The second image is important because its the American Flag and in the Joy Luck Club, most of the women either moved to America or married an American man. 

3. I feel as if the third image would be symbolic because it appears to be a picture of a young asian girl and an older asian woman.  They are not facing each other. It could be a mom and daughter duo which is basically all Joy Luck Club is about.

4. The ice cream is about the couple in the movie that likes to split everything and how they got in an argument over ice cream.

Best Visual Representation ( Before )

* I believe that the best visual representation would probably be the ice cream because once you really think it through you realize that the picture is symbolizing exactly what happened in the movie. 

The Joy Luck Club

Sabrina G.

.Joy luck club is about 4 different mothers and daughter and their stories that explain what led them to be the way they are. The name the joy luck club comes from a game that the mothers used to play together, while playing the game they felt joy and forgot about all of their problems, and the luck part is the luck in winning the game.

The first image is important to the joy luck club because a fingerprint is used to identify someone and the movie is all about knowing who you are and remembering where you come from. Each mother tried to always remind their daughter about their Chinese heritage and the fact the no matter what it will be part of their identity.

The second image is important to the movie because it resembles the American dream that each mother had for themselves and for their daughters. Although they always remembered their lives in china and followed their ways, they raised their daughters in an American environment. 

The third image is important to the movies because it resembles the mother and the daughter and how similar they are to one another. The daughters no matter how much they tried to be different from their mothers, in one way or another, they all were the same. Something about their mothers lived in each one if them . 

The fourth image reflects back on a seen in the movie where Rose's mother felt uncomfortable in her own daughters house because Rose and her husband lived a fair life. They each payed half for everything bought in the home. She even payed half for ice cream she didn't eat. 

I think that image three was the best resent action of the movies  

9/12 APLit

here is a list of the characters http://rmd.me/ZRYB  and #Hashtag It http://rmd.me/ZRYC

Joy Luck Club Hashtagging

We will view this movie and analyze it by creating FIFTEEN #hashtags.

These can be
- thought bubbles
- your thoughts
- thoughts of the characters
- actions from the movie

http://rmd.me/Y2vG

@APLit 9/10th

Here are your quiz questions: http://rmd.me/W8z5 

Sept 8th

"Everyday Use" questions that Ms. B. sent to us via Remind http://rmd.me/Spa8

AP Literature - Thursday, August 28

Based of the novel and film "Fast Food Nation", write an essay about the rhetorical devices used that the author used in the movie. Use specific details.

AP Lit

We are writing an essay analyzing the rhetorical devices shape the meaning of Fast Food Nation.

SOAPStone and Fast Food Nation

Today we will continue viewing movie excerpts and applying the SOAPStone analysis technique.