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december 9th, 2009 Short story X-rays showed that he had broken his wrist. Yet this was actually a lucky break. Zoos contain all types of animals, but can you imagine them not being in cages? An adventurer knows this all to well. Brett. Cameroon has one of the largest and most inhabited savannas, in Africa and the world, for our adventure, this means a surplus of lions, leopards, buffalo. During a plane ride from south Africa to Spain, Brett fell out of the sky, In the heart of Cameroon. Eat or be eaten, in this new world he was at the bottom of that list. Falling in a boeing 747, there was a huge group of people. "Get up, everybody were getting out of here this instant!", said Brett. Having served in the special forces, Brett had a lot of experience surviving in deadly climates. "I said move, move.". Just as he said this a lion, over 600 pounds of pure muscle, Leaped out of the bushes, and landed right on the soldier. Knowing he only had seconds before he was dead, he tried his hardest to get the king of the jungle off him. Lifting a paw the size of his face up, Brett managed to get the lion off of him. Moving right off the ground, he sprinted for his life. Now he could hear the patting of paws right behind him. On looking behind him, he saw the rippling muscles beneath its shining gold coat. People in that situation can run like an olympic athlete.

december 2nd,2009

An essay traditionally has three major parts: an introduction, a body paragraph, and a conclusion.

Meat balls, Steak, and fish are my favorite foods.

Monday, Nov. 30 //Copy and paste the following sentences into your DOL page. The periods are correct. You need to place commas, semi-colons and colons in the proper places. Then explain what kind of sentence it is and why it creates good sentence fluency.// 1. Three diamonds! Each worth three thousand pistoles! Sir I would lay my life down for you sooner than throw you in the dungeon. 2. There are orders to arrest all foreigners hereabouts, but, leave it to me. 3. I have a brother in Dieppe, Normandy//;// I will take you there; and if you have any diamonds for him//,// he will look after you as if he were looking after me. (semi-colons as well as a comma or two) 4. The abbe now spoke up, "It's because an imbecile from Arras listened to some foolish talk which was enough to make him go and commit parricide -- not like what happened in May 1610 but like . . ."

Response to Key Question Paragraph I found that James liked using the strategy in his writing of, challenging everything and not leaving things just as general knowledge. Also I liked that he gave alot of insight and analysis to the things he wrote about. Another thing James used well in his writing was connections, once he explained something he wold go back and talk about something he had mentioned earlier. And finally he had a good conclusion at the end.

1. The class did well: the students all got A's on their papers. 2. The dot-com companies have changed the work week: the workers have friday off. 3. I finally know how to program my VCR: I'm going to record tommorow's Scrubs episode. 4. The reporter asked her the most important question: "How old are you?". 5. We had a great vacation: we toured the National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian Castle, the Freer Gallery, and the new wing of the National Gallery of Art.

Paraphrasing: Pattern 1: Write two sentences that are about the same idea and punctuate them as one sentence. Pattern 2: Emphasis on a particular word repeated in two sentences but not directly. Pattern 3: Two related sentences where the first states a general thing, and the second explains in detail or gives an example.

Journal entry: During the book of Romeo and Juliet I thought that the scene was very dramatic like the movie but when I read it I did not picture music or any urgency as there was in the movie, and I do not know why they put voices in the background to make them both be urgent because I felt it took away from the scenes theme.

DOL Review -- We've had many, many rules over the last few weeks. Please write the rule and then give an example sentence for 6 of the following. Upload this on your DOL page and label it DOL REVIEW. 1. Comma with an introductory adverbial clause 2. Underlining (or italicizing) of tv series, tv episode, movie, short story, play, book 3. Single vs. double negative 4. When to capitalize grandma or mom 5. all right vs. alright //regardless vs. irregardless// alot vs. a lot 6. This is your Ferrari, a car. 7. This is a car, your new Ferrari. 8. Enunciation -- should have rather than should of

1. "Sgt. Spriker, is it all right to assume that most of the Twenty-seventh division personnel are from busan?" 2. After you have drawn a map showing the route from //Coleridge ave. to Highway 52, you may continue reading// //Romeo and Juliet////.//

1. Has Mother spoken to Kevin and her concerning an article in the magazine //Outdoor Life// about camping in the Catskills Mountains? 2.No one in my family has ever went to the art museum in Chicago and saw Picasso's painting "The Blue Guitarist".

1. We went to Brendan's house,on Forty-sixth avenue, for the October party. 2. The portrait "//Mona Lisa//",painted around 1503, is considered the best painting of many that daVinci completed.