Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Persuasive Essay Final
Harley on the Prius
Cheyenne's Opinion on Rebellious Teens
Sarah G's thoughts on Dictatorship
Justin's Problem with Tourists
"It's No Addiction" by Chyrese Medrano
Doctors Overdose Patients by DJ
Cheryl's views on Puppy Mills
Alonnah on Marriage
Emily on the teaching of evolution
Cody speaks out against homework
Spencer's thoughts on the environment
Reno wants the troops to come home
Cheryl's views on Puppy Mills
Bobbie's thoughts on the importance of adoption
Sabrina on the bias of the news media
Sean's thoughts on the power of music
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Read about The Stephens Family's experience with mustangs in the Sierra backcountry!
Friday, June 5, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Independent Book Reviews
Jamin writes about Metallica
Bobby writes about Go Ask Alice
Sarah B. writes about Robin Hood
Cheryl reviews the book Gentlemen
Sarah G writes about Night, a true tale of the holocaust
A review of Clive Cussler's Corsair by Christopher
Reno's review of D-Day with The Screaming Eagles
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Ballads
Euthanasia by Sean Cooper
Ballad by Chyrese Medrano
Ballad by River
Face to the Ground by Mason Wilkins
Death of Me by Cody McGovran
Mommy I Need You Here by Bobbie Palmer
True Ballad by Chris Poitrowski
You by Sabrina Trimble
Friday, May 15, 2009
Book Report Wikis
Go Ask Alice...Bobbie's Wiki
Mirror Mirror On The Wall...Cheyenne's Wiki
Carrie...Chyrese's Wiki
Gentlemen...Cheryl's Wiki
Clive Cussler's Corsair...Christopher's Wiki
Stone of Tears...Emily's Wiki
The Stone Light...Alonnah's exceptionally good Wiki
Night...Sarah G's haunting Wiki
DJ's Wiki about That was Then and This is Now
Sarah B's Robin Hood wiki
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Announcing chapter FIVE of Lost Among the Enemy by Cheryl Brost
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Randomness Story by the first Minarets class of 2012
Randomness Story by the first Minarets class of 2012
The Color Purple Wiki, Frankenstein Essay and Independent Reading Characterization essay by Rachel Oatman
Rachel puts a lot of effort into every line of her writing.She truly likes to write, and you can tell! Read her Frankenstein essay for a good example of how you will organize your writing on your Independent Reading Book Essay Test next week.
This is Rachel's latest essay. This is a book many of you may want to read. She wrote about Ransom my Heart by Meg Cabot. Jodi, Rachel and I had fun going down to Border's in Riverpark to pick this book out to read together. It is written by the author who made The Princess Diaries. Read Rachel's review.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Read this scary story by River Harmony
Hamlet Essay by Chris
Click here to read Chris's Essay
Two Awsome Poems by Reno McClellan
blood i see
wet water like
it goes everywhere if you don't stop it
stop it nope
it is keep on coming out
pleazz stop
nope more of it is coming out
sorry
no stop the bleeding
too late
don't say that
it is too late
i feel dizzy
where am i
flashbacks of my life
when i was little or now
blood everywhere
old memories i see
blood everywhere
tell her i love her
no you are going to live
i see family going past me
blood on my arms
slowly i see people
time going past slowly
don't go
i..i....i
love her
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HARD
See people going past me
watching them with parents
It makes me think
will I ever see my parents back together
every day and night
seeing happy families
walking pass me
their happy seeing each other
hugging and kissing
Thinking seeing if they will
days, months, even years pass
I see parents all loving each other
it makes me think why?
why does it happen to me
Thinking seeing if they will
ring ring ring
I pick up
it's my mom
She wants to see me
she has a present
That makes me think
what is it
looking around for clothes
Thinking seeing if they will
going down where she lives
having a warm feeling in me
looking around in the world
seeing a house by itself
knowing that is her house, for now
she is walking out
I miss her a lot
she misses me too
Thinking seeing if they will
Thinking which guy she has now
Want to go home now
no way to get home
Thinking seeing if they will
Looking at the road, cars pass by
seeing parents together happy
Makes me sad looking at them
going inside where it is all smoke
I can't really see at all
sitting on the couch
being bored like always
Hear the door open
getting ready to see a guy that I don't know
wishing it was my dad
he starts to talk
wait, I know that voice
thinking seeing if they will
Hug. It feels warm
Chapter Three of Cheryl's "Among the Enemy"
Read Chapter Three here!
Way to go Cheryl! Keep it coming!
WOW!
A cloud slowly rolls across the sky on the wind's mighty back
And forms into shapes and pictures fascinating to the mind's eye
By the imagination of a child
It floats freely in the air
And flies away just as quickly as it came, leaving behind a small puddle in the city below.
by Sarah Bradshaw
poem by Cody MacDougald
After noon before night
it is time for dusk to rise
it covers the the forest ground like jam on toast
the time the moister rises from the ground and into the heavens
through peeks to peaks
by morning it is gone.
WOOOOOSH
Running through the trees
As though it's being chased
Running as though it has a chance
In the trees, getting caught
Then it disappears as if it were never there
by Sabrina Trimble
Rock on Jamin and Harley!
fiery as hell
I shred
I scream
I can create
I can destroy
I am a guitar
By Jamin Baker
I am a string on the guitar.
chrome as a exhaust on a motorcycle.
I sweep.
I shred.
I can make beautiful sounds.
I can make the guitar the most valuable thing in your life.
I am a string on the guitar.
By Harley McGovran
May I present: the poet Lani Lee!
is a Purple Dragon
Flying around in your mind,
Living in everyones imagination,
Making you realize that the land of imagination can be better then reality.
I am a Equation
clear as a piece of glass
I confuse
I clarify
I can make your life easier
I can make your life harder
I am a Equation
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sarah B can write intense poetry!
is a slick fox,
slowly, slyly and cunningly moving toward the thing it wants most,
deep in the dark, gloomy forest,
driven by lust it will live alone among the forest floor
Part II of Cheryl Brost's "Among the Enemy"
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Cheryl's Podcast Fiction - Part One
Give It All by Amanda McKinney
Monday, October 6, 2008
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Thursday, September 25, 2008
"Hurt"
“Hurt”, a song sung by Johnny Cash, a song originally sung by, "Nine Inch Nails," was his eulogy of his life. He made this music video in his last months. He knew that he was dying, and wanted to show his audience and listeners the mistakes that he had made. He wanted to show us what happens when people allow things to take over and destroy their lives.
He shows his life story through a series of pictures and videos depicting the duration of his life from birth to now, his final days. The video opens with a display of expensive, Roman antiques. You see Cash, now an old man, playing his guitar with a woebegone look on his weathered face. You see his museums, now closed, displaying how his life, and his influence was coming to a close. He perceives that his life life has been a waste and that no one will notice, care, or remember him when he is gone.
The symbolism in the video "Hurt" is very powerful. Johnny Cash uses Christ as a symbol of his own life's hurt, pain, and suffering. The video showed the intense affliction that Cash brought upon himself. Christ died so others could live he died by choice. Cash was dying by choice too. The twisted morality of his younger years caught up with him in the end. He brought his own death upon himself by poisoning his body with drugs and alcohol. He shows this to his audience through the images he portrays in the midst of his interpretation of the song. The wine was another strong symbol. You see him pour out the wine onto a table filled with affluent objects, wasting the expensive wine. This symbolizes how Johnny poured out and wasted his whole life on his various addictions. His alcoholism was his major addiction or enslavement, which hurt everyone he knew, loved, and cared about.
In order to understand Cash's flaws and failures, he reveals his full personality to the audience. This characterization can be seen throughout the entire music video, through the flashbacks of his life. He hurt many people by the mistakes that he made, but the person he hurt the most was the one person he loved and was closest to. His wife had stuck with him through everything his addictions, his being unfaithful, and his neglect of his children and his neglect of her as well. His viewers see her look at him, her face a picture of anguish and grief. Yet, her expression is also filled with undying love for this man, a man who ruined most of his life, and made her life extremely difficult.
