Halloween

Use your five senses. Brainstorm a list of all the Halloween sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings you can think of.
Sights-
- The kids with there bags sagging, full with candy.
- The creative costumes, no kid alike
- Houses which have been turned into haunted houses, with the ghosts hanging form their trees
- Both kids and adults sharing a common goal, to get the most candy humanly possible.
Sounds-
- Hearing kids both screaming and laughing all at once.
- Hearing the halloween music from the scariest houses.
- Hearing parents having to yell at their children to "STOP-TRICK OR-TREATING".
- Hearing kids planning a trick because they didn't get treated.
Smells-
- Smelling home baked candy apples.
- Smelling the smoke coming from all of the fog machines.
- Smelling the fire in which you sit next to after your done with trick-or-treating.
- Smelling the cool autumn air.
Tastes-
- Tasting all of the different kinds of deliceous candies.
- Tasting the pumpkin seeds, which have just been taken from the newly carved jack-o-lantern.
- Tasting the customary spaghetti dinner, in which my family has always had...EVERY Halloween night.
- Tasting the pumpkin pie, which we always have after the spaghetti dinner.
Feelings-
- The excitment of starting to collect candy.
- The scary feeling when you walk up to a house which have been decorated to the max!
- The eerie feeling while walking around your neighborhood that kids are behind you waiting to scare you.
- The anxiousness of waiting the whole month of October for Halloween to come!

TU TUESDAY!

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
Pull at least FIVE words or phrases out, define them, describe their effect, and tell what the overall impact those words or phrases give to the piece as a whole while incorporating into the post the textual evidence you pulled out from it to define.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Tree-devouring-Chinese-beetle-reaches-Albany-2235586.php

1. Not instituting a quarantine on the movement
    - Quarantine: Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
    - Effect: showing how serious the bettles can be. So that people would put trees in quarantine.

2. In the vicinity for potential
    - Vicinity: The area or region near or around a place.
    - Effect: showing that this beetle problem is in the Albany area.

3. An invasive Chinese beetle
    - Invasive: characterized by or involving invasion.
    - Effect: Showing that this is a serious problem and the beetle can cause bad things. (Killing trees)

4. Signs of infestation by the beetle
    - Infestation: The act of infesting: to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner.
    - Effect: showing that the beetle is starting to or can start to become a problem, when it comes to the trees, sort of like the effect invasion has.

5.  transport of untreated firewood
    - Untreated: To not deal with (A disease, patient, exc.) in order to relieve or cure.
    - Effect: showing/ emphasizing how untreated firewood can be dagerous and what type of wood is effected with the beetle.

 This article was about a Chinese beetle which eats/ kills ash trees. It explains that the beetle is starting to come into our area.The effect that these words have in the piece is that they are all showing how much of a threat the beetle is to the wood. They show where this is happening and the degree so far at which this is happening.

When the author put in words like infestation and invasive, "for potential signs of infestation by the beetle"they were showing that the beetle is a burrden in which no one wants and they are a problem. When the author put in the word vicinity, "Wildlife officials are checking trees in the vicinity" he was simply stating how officals are checking the general area for signs of the beetles. When the author put in the word untreated, "the state banned transport of untreated firewood to 50 miles or less" they were stating how much of a problem this beetle can be and how it poses a threat of spreading, which would not be good.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE!

I read this book all the time when I was a child. My mom was the one to read this to me. Being a child, I nerver realized how much this book actually symbolized. This book is basically a book on metaphors. When the little kid goes to the island of the Wild Things, it is actually all versions of him and his personality. I never realized this connection until I saw the WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE movie. This book which I read as a child shows me a lesson. It teaches me that any type of literature can have literary devices involved in it. Even though the reading age of the book may be unable to understand the real meaning of the book. At the same time it is a fun and enjoyable book in which I think that every little kid deserves to read.
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Why I Write

Your Letter (F)= Your College (Frostburg)

http://www.frostburg.edu/
Yes! I would go to this college.
5 Reasons why I would go to this college:
1. It has political science as a major and music as a minor. ( For now, this is what I want to go for!)
2. Tuition is about seventeen thousand dollars.
3. They have otional instutional and departmental scholarships.
4. There is a " Bookstore," where you can find your needed textbooks.
5. They have a campus debit card, in which you put money in your account and you use it to buy things on the campus.
3 dislikes about Frostburg
1. I don't like the dorms, they don't look big.
2. I don't like the location, I don't like being in Maryland.
3. There is no bowling team.

Vintage Photo

First Flight



This picture is one of the first successful flights. This is what the picture is about, one because the title is First Flight. Secondly, I think that this picture is about one of the first succesful flights, because the picture is of an airplane and it is flying succesfully. Finally I see in the picture the type of airplane. You can tell that the airplane is old becasue of the way it is designed, it just looks old, the wings are even bent a little.

This picture is worth a thousand words to me. This is because of one main reason, my desire to fly. I don't want to fly as a pilot, I want to fly like a bird. Wings spread open, nothing holding you back. I obviously know that this isn't possible. No one can just grow wings then fly out over the sea. So I want to invent something that allows me to fly like that. This picture reminds me of the Wright brothers and their success in flying airplanes. When i think f the Wright brothers, I think of their insperation on my dream to one day fly! 

My name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

" My name is Alec, the imaginative, about whom you have read in newspapers and magazines, about whom you talk so much at your dinner affairs and cocktail parties, the notorious and legendary."

And this is my story...

At the young age of five, I Alec the imaginative have always been fascinated by birds. I was jealous that they could fly. I wanted to fly over the mountains of Haphorn and see the midight black sky, feel the wind gushing through my hair. I new one day this imaginative, imposable dream would come true. Ten years later I invented a flying machine, which I like to call- verbinity. This was my greatest invention, although others like thyrup- the unbais judge and furry- the pet dragon, were great also. You, the people, talk about this magnificent invention everyday, when your on your snack break, around the water cooler. No! You better yet, you use it everyday. In this year 2138, no one uses a car anymore, they use the verbinity. There are stoplights, intersections even cross flying for people who decide to use my jetpack invention. Some may ask why we still have stoplights in the air. It's because I don't want my lovely invention to be the cause for major chaos in the sky. And to think, this all happened because my little five year old brain was obsessed with birds!
Thanks for reading Alec the imaginative's thoughts on his verbinity- the flying machnie!  

TU Tuesday BLOG

 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.

Woolly Bear Winter- http://blog.timesunion.com/gardening/woolly-bear-winter/1311/

According to this article, a Wolly Bear catapiller can predict whether: we will have a mild or harsh winter based on the brown color on it's body. This winter should be a mild winter. "I’ve only seen a couple of Woolly Bears so far this fall but both have had far more brown than usual. This would indicate that we have a mild winter ahead." This statment is completely unconclusive/ false. I have heard another myth that if squirrel's tails are "puffier" then usual,then we are going to have a harsh winter. Both my mom and grandma have noticed that the squirrel's tails are "puffier then usual". So this proves that the Wolly Bear's prediction isn't one hundred percent true. Also, how does this blogger know what the normal amount of brown color in a Woolly Bear catapillar look like?

Haiku

I sail the currents up high,

Machines by my side,

My dream invention, success.

!TU Tuesday!- The Simpsons are in danger in 23rd year

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.  And, develop FIVE factual, interpretive, and evaluative questions for further exploration of the topic(s).


http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/The-Simpsons-is-in-danger-in-23rd-year-2202691.php


This simpsons article was about the financial crisis that the cast and crew are having. Without severe finacial, the show wont have anymore new seasons. They want big pay cuts for the actors and actresses." The show's producer said Tuesday the show can't continue under its current financial model, following a report that big pay cuts are being sought for the actors who provide voices for Homer, Marge and Bart Simpson and other characters."

The actors make eight million dollars a year. The financial solution is to cut thier pay to about half of what it is now. Even though reruns on t.v are current, it's not enough money. The actors say that they will agree to a financial argement but they have to get part of the profit made from merchendising. "The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that producers are demanding a 45 percent pay cut from the six voice actors, who reportedly make nearly $8 million each for a season. The website said the voice actors have offered to take a 30 percent pay in return for a portion of the show's syndication and merchandise revenue." It looks like there will never be a twenty fourth Simpsons season unless big budget cuts are made to both the crew and actors.


1. What are the producers doing with the money made from the merchendising?
2. Why does it cost so much to run/ create a show like this?
3. Are other shows in this type of financial crisis?
4. Why were the actors/ actresses being payed eight million per season to begin with?
5. How much money does the simpsons show create a year?

Raising the pay of cheif executive officers in bad economic times should be forbidden!

Yes I agree with this statment. I do not think that it is fair to raise their salary. Alot of state workers have their salary frozen because of the bad ecnomic times. So why should the higher authority make more and more money when we could be using it to get new supplies that are needed for school. I think that when some people get their salary frozen, everyone should. Just because you are lets say a grade 31 in the state and someone else is a 23, it dosn't mean one should have a personal economic advantage! Not cool!! Also, if you are a higher authority it's not like you need the money. It's just want and greed not need or desperation.