Crucible Comparative Essay

This is my Crucible Comparative Essay. From this essay, I learned a lot. I learned how to make good connections. I learned this because I had to make connections in this essay because we were comparing and connecting time periods together. Surprisingly*, I also learned about the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era. Before this project, I didn’t even know who Joseph McCarthy was, I barely knew what the Salem Witch Trials were, and didn’t know that there were so many common themes between them. I also learned more about current events and connecting history to current events to gain knowledge. But I learned a lot about me as a writer. I learned that my descriptive language isn’t actually that descriptive and I have to work on it. Throughout the year, I’ve heard the phrase “quality, not quantity,” but I never really believed it until this project. I think that this will help me as a writer because I won’t go off-topic just to get more words on the page like I did on my humanities test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Not actually that surprising

Notecard

To help us with our research papers, we had to do many note cards about our topic. I think that this was a great project, although it was hard to manage in the final week. I think that in the end, my final two note cards were the best, and Suzanne agreed because I got two 4’s. We were only supposed to put one note card in, but I wanted to put both in.

I would like to thank Suzanne because she was the one who had trust in me to get the 4’s. I would also like to thank Suzanne because she gave me advice to help me get a 4. Also, I would like to thank Suzanne because she put the 4 into jump rope.

 

My Giver Essay

I am very proud of my essay because I got very good grades because I took a lot of time to perfect it, and I was excited because it was a very good book, so it was fun to write.

Here are my grades:

Successfully constructs literary essay with well-supported thesis-3.5

Writes a formal paragraph using the TEEAC form-3.5

Analyzes textual evidence to support arguments-3.5

Writes with detail-3.5

Uses proper grammar and writing conventions-3.5

My Poems

Baseball
Amazin’ Mets
Winning, Demolishing, Winning
LET’S GO METS
Champions

The forest is hushed
The wind is howling in the distance
In the eye of a storm

The snow is falling
The ice crusts over the ground
Creating a blanket
Cold to the touch

Here are three poems that I wrote. For the first one, I was inspired by the Mets. For the second and third poems I was inspired by Morocco. The first poem is a Cinquain, my second poem is a Haiku and my third poem is a short poem. If you didn’t know, a Cinquain is a poem with five lines, the format that I decided to use was based off word count. Here is the words per line breakdown; 1, 2, 3, 2, 1. The Haiku is based on syllable count. Haiku’s have three lines. The syllable count per line goes like this; 5, 7, 5. In the last two poems, you can see that I have used similes and metaphors. I really liked how all of these poems turned out. I am proud of them because I have used more descriptive language in these poems compared to what I normally write.

Our Shabanu Video And Article

There have been some interesting weather patterns throughout Pakistan recently. But the main story has been the sandstorm that covered all 10,200 square miles of the Cholistan Desert. Some families have had to deal with the sand covering tobas and animals and family members blowing away in the harsh winds. We interviewed two residents of the Cholistan Desert. Shabanu and Dalil Abassi. Here are some things that happened during the sandstorm according to Shabanu:

“The night that the [sandstorm] happened, I was sleeping and my sister, Phulan woke me up. I thought that my skin [because of the sand], was being pierced by a thousand needles.” The storm’s high winds prevented Shabanu from seeing anything until the winds subsided. Her luck didn’t turn out very well.

“We found that our camel, Mithoo, Sher-Dil, our dog and my grandfather were all gone. The storm injured Shabanu’s grandfather fatally, but he was found alive under sand. He survived for a few days. He died in his sleep. After talking to Shabanu, we interviewed Dalil Abassi, Shabanu’s father. It was a very scary moment for him because he was the head of the family. He had to make sure that everyone was safe.

“When the storm hit, I was very scared. Not for me, but for my family. I didn’t want anything to happen to them.” They stayed inside and waited out the storm. Somehow, Dalil’s father blew away. “I was very scared [for my father], but I knew Allah would save him.”

 

We also talked to Dalil about his other daughter, Phulan’s wedding. “I wasn’t worried that the storm would hurt the wedding. “I knew that Phulan wanted this very much, and I knew she would do to what she had to do [to make the wedding happen].”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_SshuhdDpkBVjZHQy0xZV9KN3c/view?usp=sharing

This was a very interesting project, I thought that it was a lot of fun. We got to make a newscast and write an article. I hope that you enjoy my project. The process was really hard. We had to take a lot of attempts to make it work.

Shabanu Blog Posts

How To Survive In A Sandstorm

 

1: Get inside for cover

2: Bring your chadr/turban tight around your head to stop the wind from getting in your face

3: Get your eye protectors

4: Put cloth and water to keep your nose wet so that you can breathe

5: Find Something big to hide behind so the wind and sand can’t get to you (maybe a camel)

6: Get to the top of a sand dune. There is less wind and lower chance of getting hit by flying animals or trees or something

7: Wait out the storm in one of the safe spots I told you to hide behind

These are some of the best ways to survive a sandstorm. I wouldn’t listen because I have a suspicion that his ways aren’t right. I don’t always listen to him even though the Quran says

But one who says to his parents, “Uff to you; do you promise me that I will be brought forth [from the earth] when generations before me have already passed on [into oblivion]?” while they call to Allah for help [and to their son], “Woe to you! Believe! Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth.” But he says, “This is not but legends of the former people” -46:17

I’m “…as wild as the wind.” (Pg. 28) so I don’t always agree like I’m supposed to. I still follow the Quran as much as I can because I try to be a true Muslim and follow the Quran but I can never follow that section. How can I not say no to them? What if they ask me to jump into a very deep well? Would I do it if I never abandoned the rules of the quran?

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How Do You Deal With The Unexpected

In order to deal with the unexpected, you have to think that it will all be ok. If you can’t convince yourself, it’s going to be a bad time for you. The main thing that you have to focus on is yourself. Like I said before, it will be really hard to deal with the problem ahead if you don’t believe that you can get through the time. My example is when Hamir dies. That means that Phulan gets married to Murad, the man that was supposed to be for me. And who does that leave me with? Rahim-Sahib. Do you really think that I want to marry a man like him? No. But what do I do, I convince myself that everything will be ok. I think that it will end up being ok for me because if I don’t want to stay with Rahim-Sahib, I could go live with Fatima and Sharma. So I think that It could all turn out ok.

Some Images from weatherwizkids.com

Quran quotes are from quran.com