Don't Plagiarize, It's Not Right

• What did the student do wrong? What could he/she have done to include the source correctly?

          The student could have cite there source to give the author credit or he could have paraphrased it into his own words.

• Write a sentence using the original source correctly; use a quotation or paraphrase.

          The night sky in this painting has swirling clouds, very bright stars, and a lite up moon.

• What are at least 3 ways to avoid plagiarizing?

1. Cite your source

2. Paraphrase

3. Quote the author

Student Blog Response

          I like Gabe C's post on the article Pythons Attack the Everglades. He stated everything he learned in the article. He goes back and adds the details that were necessary to show where in the article he got the information from. He paraphrased all the information he put into the blog post and he cited his sources when he didn't paraphrase. 

          Another blog post I liked was from Wolfe E. I liked his post on the poem Starry Starry Night by Don McLean and Harlem by Langston Hughes. He talks about how studying poetry is hard and it requires a lot of work to decipher. I like how he voices his opinion about dreams and how somethings are more important than dreams.

          I could improve my blog posts from these by organizing more and making it easier to tell what each section of the post is about. I also want to show my thoughts better and give my opinion on things confidently. I think I could learn a lot from other people's blogs and I should learn from examples.

Much Ado About Nothing Review

          We went to go see the play Much Ado About Nothing earlier this week. I loved this play, it had a combination of humor and seriousness. It took place in the 1920's where soldiers were returning from World War I. The props used always fit with the scene and sometimes added some feeling to the scene. The lighting on the big circle was used well because it turned red sometimes so it looked like it was night time, it was partially covered to look like a moon, also, it had light shown on it to look like it was a bedchamber window. The music was used well because the characters were aware of the band playing the music. The costumes were always changing with the scenes, they always fit along with what was going in the scene at the time. This play did everything right when it comes to preforming a play. 

My Favorite and Most Disliked Characters In Romeo and Juliet

          My favorite character in Romeo and Juliet is Mercutio. He is my favorite character because he has really deep thoughts and is really good at trying to make people feel better when they are sad. He is a really good motivational speaker. Mercutio sometimes gets lost in his words and that shows that he always has something to say. He is very thoughtful and descriptive with his speeches. He is not afraid to express his opinion and his desires when he feels they need to be expressed. 


          My least favorite person in Romeo and Juliet is Tybalt. I like him the least because he is really judgmental, he wanted Romeo and Benvolio thrown out of the party that Capulet threw. He thought that they were there solely to make trouble and be a nuisance. He seems like he really only cares about how much he hates the Montagues. 

Letter About Romeo and Juliet

Dear Friend,

          I have been reading Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and it is fantastic! There are so many puns that are so funny. The text itself is a little hard to understand, but thankfully there are translations to some words on the opposite page to make it easier to understand. The Montagues and the Capulets are bitter enemies and they insult each other whenever they come across each other's paths. They use a lot of vile insults against each other. There are many characters in the book, the characters in each act are listed at the beginning of the act. 


          From reading some of Romeo and Juliet, a piece of advice I can give you is, to use the translations on the opposite page to help you understand what Shakespeare is saying. It is really hard to understand it unless you know a lot about the old English they use because you never hear these terms anymore and they are confusing. It was definitely confusing to me and a lot of other people I know who read it as well. They should make a new version of Romeo and Juliet where it has modern day terms and is easy to understand.


          I feel that this book has deep meaning and will show some very common problems from that time period. It will also show a very deep love story about two lovers on different sides of a war. I wonder how the story goes after they kill themselves, or does it just end there?

Sonnet 27 Response

          We read Sonnet #27 by Shakespeare in class recently. It is about a man that goes to bed exhausted and dreams. He is tired all thee time, at night because his mind can't rest because of his dreams, in the day because he has to do hard work. He dreams of things far away from where he lives. He says that there is a darkness that blind people can see, where his soul can see when someones "shadow" is in his sightless view. This seems to me that this is he is describing how he feels dreams are like, something everyone can see through darkness even if they're unable to see. He says that his dreams take him far away from where he lives and works.

          Shakespeare says that his dreams make the night look and feel new. This makes me think that the night is a timeless beauty that never people never get bored of seeing. He says that for himself and someone else, there is no peace of mind. I think this is because they can't stop thinking about each other and they both have a lot of work to do during the day. He loves this person so much that even while asleep he tires himself, thinking of this person.

          I think this sonnet relates to life now because some people might feel like this too. Some people might be so madly in love that they cannot rest because they are thinking of one person constantly while they work or sleep. Also I think that it could also be the other way around, someone could hate someone so much that they cannot sleep because of how much they focus on the one person they hate. It is a matter of how the person affects your life and how you react to it.

Sonnet

School

As much as I don’t want to go, I must

To get the grades I need to graduate

To get that diploma for which I lust

To get out of school on the exact date

I really want to leave this horrid place

And go out and have fun with my great friends

The extremely long school year ends without haste

Before school year ends, we must tie loose ends

Summer cannot come fast enough for me

When it does it passes by too quickly

People in summer have no time to meet

For half the time we get, we spend sickly

Please get me out of this wretched kid trap

And let us stay in a place to play taps