5) Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of
a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a
comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as
well as its aesthetic impact.

The story I'm reading " In Cold Blood" is a story about a family of four who got murdered and there was no apparent motive for the crime and there was almost no clues left in which who killed them.  The authors choice of structure of the story begins in the begging where they talked about the family and jumped right into the murder scene. The Clutter family, was a family who was well known lived in a town where everyone knew them and got along. There was no reason at all that anybody disliked them. They had a sweet daughter name Nancy age 16, and a boy name Kenyon age 15. There mother name is Bonnie and there father name is  Herb. One night, a friend of Nancy's was suppose to come over and found them all dead. Nobody knew who could of done such thing to them. 
  The overall structure and the meaning of this was that the author wanted readers to get hooked into the book by talking about the murder in the begging rather than the end. It also involves they story of two individuals, Dick and Perry. Dick and Perry were both prisoners who meet at the Kansas State Prison. The author also talks about them in the story and some how they end up in the murder scene of the Clutters.

1) Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining
where the text leaves matters uncertain.


      On the worksheet "Death with dignity", it talked about if other states should adopt the law of "death with dignity". A women was diagnosed with a severe tumor in her brain that would take her life in six months. She does not want to die knowing that the tumor will soon grow and make her weak. She rather die with dignity by taking prescriptive medicine that will peacefully kill her without suffering. Only five states have this law. But the question is should other states adopt this law? In the text, it said that if other States adopt this law a lot of sick elderly would want to die with dignity, as well as many sick people. Also in order for them to "die with dignity", they have to take some test to prove that it is very severe. Once approve they have the choice. But should other States adopt this law?
   

6) Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is
directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or
understatement).

The Story, "Shooting an Elephant" is about a early moment in Orwell's life when his sense of injustices surfaced. This story has irony and tone. The tone of this story was basically angry. There were lots of powerful words being used such as hatred, intolerable, ravaging and upsetting. Orwell used these words to describe how he didnt like his job and other things. He didnt like how things weren't treated the way they were suppose to be treated. For example, Orwell worked at a Empire of close quarters. He hated how prisoners were mistreated bad. Orwell described the prisoners how they were wretched prisoners huddling in the sinking cages. Also Orwell's tone of when he had to watch the elephant, making sure it did not cause any danger to the people was worried. Orwell had a worry tone because he did not want to kill the elephant, if the elephant were to cause any danger he would have no other choose but to kill it.

The irony of the story is that he mentioned how people in town where he lived seemed to have nothing to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans.

During this week, we worked on our student store on filing out the fundraiser application. We also looked up businesses and researched which businesses give donations. Were going to write a cover letter to give to the businesses so they can have our contact number to contact us. Also starting next week I'm going to start looking for designs for our cabinet and how to paint it. What I also did this week was talk to Mrs. Cabrera. We asked her if she could be our advisor for our student store. We came up with dates in which we would have our student store open. The days we decided we Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We would have the store open after school available for students.

2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their

development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build

on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of

the text.

literature.

     Last week, a few of My Lifers and I finished the book the Alchemist. We had to finish the book by Friday and discuss about the story. The theme in this story was to follow your dreams. The boy in the story, wanted to be a Shepherd who wanted to travel around the world to see new things and learn from them. The story taught many lesson as gave out good advice. Another theme I could say about the book would be, work for what you want in life. The boy worked a lot after giving his flock of sheep away. He worked enough in a crystal shop to recuperate his sheep and buy twice as more sheep than he already had. A quick summary about this book is A boy name Santiago always wanted to travel around the world. He came to see that shepherds would travel around with there flock of sheep. Santiago told his dad that he wanted to become a shepherd, and so he did. Santiago went around to small towns to sell the sheep wool. In a town he had stop at a store and meet a girl that he had falling in love with. Santiago decided to go with a gypsy prayer that would tell his future. She told him that there was a hidden treasure he had to go look for. And so he did and on the way he had meet a few people that helped him get to his treasure, the crystal merchant, Englishman, and the Alchemist. The hidden treasure was located in the Pyramids of Egypt. In the end the boy end up finding the treasure and going back to have a life with Fatima the girl he had met.

Civics - 12.2.3. Performance Standard:

Explain the roles of property rights, competition, and profit in a market economy.

This standard ties into the project I'm working on, with few of my life students, because inorder for the project we had to find a place we would sale our merchandise at (rules of property rights). So we had to find a location that would be perfect to get our booth stationed, with the condition of following the property rules of course. A location were we  would first start would be at the football games. Its a great way to get started there because lots of people attend the football games. We were thinking of selling snacks and drinks at our booth, but there is already a snack bar at the football games and that would just lead into (compettion). We thought about doing something different. We were thinking of making little key chains with the initials of our school and selling them. There is a lot of things we have in mind, but we just have to plan and see what happens. By selling these merchandise, we would come up with some good (profit). The more we would sell and the profit we would make we would increase our merchandise, for example if we would make enough profit we could start buying supplies for our silkscreen machine like t-shirts. But first, we would have to start by fundraisning.

During this week we have been working and figuring out how were going to work on our projects. On Thursday Mrs. Rempp, from the water board came to visit us to give us an update on the skate park. She gave us ideas in where we can get grants. One of the grants were the Tony hawk foundation. My Lifers are going to work together to get the grant application going. We hope to finish the grant application by January and meet all the requirements. This grant is by far a chance we have to make this happen soon. Other grants required almost two years at least to get all the process done. Lastly we discuss today that instead of doing an individual projects, we decided to make small group projects.  But yet all of My lifers are going to help one another succeed in their projects.