make 3 lists

 What Interests You?
History
Dictators
Heroes
Greek Mythology
Wars
China
Presidential Scandals
Animal Abuse
psychology
Spouse Abuse
OCD
Personal Hygiene

What are you good at?
Greek mythology
memorizing
softball
studying
Hair
nutritian
exercising
cooking

What subjects do you want to learn about?
Wars
Heros
Dictators
Whats in our food
pesticides
Genetics
prescribed drugs
effects of childhood abuse
paranoia
parallel universe

Wars: Vietnam
-Should we have been involved
-more involved: The My Lai Massacre
- should soldiers be tried in court?
-Is anyone to blame?
-What were the main reasons being there
-soldiers killed innocent people after knowledge of vietcong soldiers not being there
- when did they finally retreat?

Pop Quiz-"Fourth State of Matter"

1.  Biggest event was the shooting, because it changed the ladies hole view on life.  Her husband and her seemed to make up by him showing he cared and hugging her, even though they will probably only remain friends.  Then, she re-evaluates her decision on keeping the dog alive.  She knows the he is suffering so she wants to do the right thing and let the dog die.  In one sentence she had said something about how she was going through the doors to the rest of her life.
2.  Jo Ann Beard seemed very depressed at the beggining and in the middle of the essay.  She is upset about the dog and how her husband is always calling to reassure himself that he doesn't want to be with her.  At the end Jo Ann is in shock and almost acting like she is refreshed.  Almost like she wants to start over with a new outlook on life.
3.  I think the dog is important because it shows the value in life.  Jo Ann was upset about the dog getting to old age, which is a natural process for everything.  She valued the dog's life too much while her coworker's not enough.  She was shocked in the end to see people so close to her be taken away so fast.  The dog is symbolizing her to move on and see what is important in life and what you just need to let go of.

"Worst Day at a Job" prompt

My worst job is babysitting my three boy cousins.  I have always been good with children but, I swear, these are not children, these are little demons.  I had to watch them once while they were at my grandma's house because my grandma can't handle them.  When I first got there the boys shot me with their nerf guns, which was was fine to start off with.  It progressively got worse, though.  They started throwing my grandma's vases around and broke two of her glass ornaments.  Then, instead of eating their chicken nuggets, they used the nuggets in their sling shots they got for Christmas.  All this time my grandma had been working in the shed with her pigeons so I couldn't just run out there and get her because I was afraid the boys would get into even more trouble while I was gone.  All through the night the boys were kicking at the glass doors and throwing billiard's at each other.  Finally, by about eleven thirty I had gotten all three of them to go to sleep.  This had been the most exhausting/agonizing day of my life.

"Black Hair" analysis- Image

In this story, the writer starts off talking about how he arrives at a job interview "dirty and feeling ugly."  He proceeds throughout the whole story how he is a dirty, grimy Mexican.  He tells of how his hair is still stiff from the beach and how even after he washes his body, it still looks dirty.  When he starts his job at the tire facility, he states that even the customer service area looks dirty with its greasy magazines and ripped couches.  He talks of how there is rednecks, Mexicans, and blacks that work there; all of which are as dirty as him with their dirt stained faces and pink mouths.  He then describes Iggy, though, who spends his day being dirty like them but when he comes out he looks like a brand new man.  In one part he descriptively tells of Igg's appearance, "Iggy worked only until three in the afternoon, at which time he went to the locker room to wash and shave and to dress in a two-piece suit. When he came out he glowed with a bracelet, watch, rings, and a shiny fountain pen in his breast pocket. His shoes sounded against the asphalt. He was the image of a banker stepping into sunlight with millions on his mind." The next image he begins to tell us about is the place he is going to rent, which is very luxurious compared to where he had been staying.  He explains the shock on the families faces as he comes to meet him, and the "girly" room that was to be his, with its lace curtains and stuffed animals in the corner.  He finds pictures of the girl and claims that she looks like "promise, college, and nice clothes in the closet." As he falls asleep, he imagines the owner's daughter that lived in this room and dreams that she is very kind to him and takes to liking him.  In reality, though, she only said two things to him which was asking about the mustard and where her car keys were.  By the end of the story, he keeps the imagery as he talks about how he will probably always be a dirty, poor Mexican.

Reading Prompt-embarrassing moment

Throughout my life I have managed to embarrass myself several times.  There was one that I had not learned the first time from.  It had started standing on the class float putting up the streamers with the rest of my class.  I was wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt on that chilly fall day.  One of my friends thought it would be "funny" to de-pants me while i was standing up in front on the float while everyone else was on the ground.  Unfortunately, my underpants had came with, so my whole class got a very unusual view of me.  To make matters worse, in the same month, I had gotten de-pantsed again.  Since it was so epic the first time, my other friend thought it would be funny to do it a second time.  In this case, it was in front of my class AND my Phy.Ed teacher.  From then on, it seemed to be everyone's goal to try and de-pants me.  The plan had succeeded and I was embarrassed plenty more times from it.

"Graduation" analysis

Tone

The tone of "Graduation" is made very exciting by the author.  The author built and built the anxiousness up to the days until she would graduate.  She speaks of every event with extreme detail which makes everyone reading it restless until the actual day.  In one sentence she speaks of the making of her dress. "My class was wearing butter-yellow piqu6 dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice. Her dark fingers ducked in and out of the lemony cloth as she embroidered raised daisies around the hem."  How excited and proud she was of this dress makes the reader realize how very important this event is to her.  She keeps the tone exciting by not only talking about the presents she receives from her family and friends, but by simply imagining herself walking up the stairs to receive her diploma.  As she enters the auditorium, though, her tone changes from excited to unsure.  She gives us the feeling as if something bad is going to happen.  As the white men come out to speak, our feelings had been confirmed.  They talk about how the black boys would only get to be the Owen's of the world and didn't even mention anything of the girls.  The author's tone quickly turns from unsure to depressing.  She claims that she had wished every important person who helped in creating this country had died and the rest of the African Americans to lay dead in piles since they would never amount to anything.  She keeps this tone until Henry Reed and the rest of the audience sings the black national anthem.  Her tone changes then again to a very strong, proud African American girl.