100 Words: Leaving

http://www.100wordstory.org/3982/leaving/ 

This story describes two people leaving and are both fining it hard to do so. Neither of them want to be there so one leaves. While the one left over is still packing and during this the author adds humur in saying the cat throws up on his clothes. The author tells you this in 100 words by making short sentances. Also the autor adds in an oxymoron after vomit by saying gracefully, this then makes you pause and think "How can you vomit gracefully?"

Gavin Ewart Poetry Competition

From The Cranium To The Phalanges

First there’s the cranium,

A vertebrate enclosing the brain.

Then the mandible,

A jaw-like biting organ in piercing species.

Next the clavicle,

Two slender bones forming the collar bone.

The sternum,

Bones extending along the ventral portion.

Rounded ribs,

Occurring in pairs they form the thoracic wall.

Composing the spinal column,

Vertebrae consist of a cylindrical body.

The longest, largest and strongest bone,

The femur A.K.A. the thigh bone.

Patella is next, a moveable bone.

This connects to the fibula,

Extending from the knee to ankle.

The tibia is the same.

Under the tibia is the tarsus,

Most people call this the ankle.

Between the tarsus and the toes are the metatarsi,

And the toes are called phalanges.

Amy Cribb

5^th Form

Combermere

Worst story ever

The Vampire Bomb

I had 20 minutes to stop the bomb me and my best friend who i secretly like (which every one knows but no one says). If this bomb goes off every one in new york city will become vampires. All I need to do now is stop singing about this in my high school corridor and put on my hero mask and stop the bomb. Im running down the street to the empire state building with my hero friends; captain under-pants, spider pig and aqua man. We need to get there fast because somehow the evil villan has somehow managed to work out who I am and to my best friend who I fancy. The villan has his minions shooting at us from tall buildings and somehow the police still have not been called. We are so heroie that we are missing all the bullets. Captain under pants looks at me and shouts "are you trying to get us killed?!" So I reply "Don't say I diddn't warn you!". As we are running down the street we see a big very conveniant lemonade advert in times square saying "when life gives you lemons... make lemonade" the all of a sudden I have defeted the british villan and I kissed my friend.

20 ways to make the perfect project...

1. A variety of sources and views.
2. Make sure there are lots of details but not loads.
3. Adaptable writing style for purpose.
4. Adaptable writing style for audience.
5. Mimicking the actual magazine article etc. format.
6. Being able to analyse the sources very well.
7. Ask rhetorical questions to keep the article going and interesting..
8. Ask appropriate questions.
9. Put in statistics.
10. Be able to reflect and improve your essay.
11. Reference your sources as you write.
12. State your sources in the essay.
13. Make sure you write your answers to the fullest.
14. Make sure you use a wide range of vocabulary.
15. Make sure you punctuation and spelling is very good other wise it will detract from the authenticity.
16. Make sure you have genuine interest in the topic.
17. Clear questions and answers.
18. Make sure the reader can understand your point.
19. Put different opinions into the article and not a one sided view through out.
20. Make sure the sources are completely different and are not all the same.

Form, Purpose, Audiance nom. 2

Form
ransom from kidnap

Purpose
enlighten

Audience
GP's

Topic/Influence
why do people wear kilt

DR. DOLITTLE 

I HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTION PAD, SO LET ME ENLIGHTEN YOU.

I LIKE WEARING KILTS BECAUSE IT LETS ME FEEL FREE, UNLIKE TROUSERS. THAT LOVLY ITCHY WOOL MATERIAL AGAINST MY BUT MAKES ME FEEL SO WONDERFUL AND SCOTTISH, LIKE MY ANCESTORS ARE WALKING FREE AS A KILT BESIDES ME. 

WEAR A KILT TOMORROW AND I WILL GIVE BACK YOUR PRESCRIPTION PAD. OR ELSE.

MR SMITH

(S) Binge Drinking, (F) MP's Blog, (P) Radicalise, (A) Criminalise

I disagree with the point Mr. MP is making, I do not think that all criminals should be banned from bars. This is because if you are a criminal, life must be pretty bad. I mean there has to be a reason they are criminals right? Well many years ago I was friends with a "criminal" and they way that he coped with his troubles was binge drinking, every night he would get completely off his face and he would always be a lot happier than the next morning!

Five Opening Sentances

1) Dear Mr MP,
My name is Mr. Gobbledygook and I am campaigning for better pay to dairy farmers, before you read on you should read these points.....


2) This deadly disease is caused by lack of calcium and vitamin D.



3) All children now days are very hyper, this is because of the milk they drink.


4) You need calcium and vitamins so why no try the new and improved Milkamillion!!!!!!! NOW ;)


5) To pasteurise or not to pasteurise that is the question!


6) 10th April 2010
When I stopped at 221b Baker street Sherlock Holmes ran into me so I spilled the milk!


7) Are you a killer? No? Then why do you kill animals for medicine and food?

Form, Purpose and Audience

Milk

Parody Pastiche

 My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. In other words I am not too intelligent and I can't say my own name but no-one wants to tell me how odd I am. 

         

         The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. So just to fill you in I imagine people from the letters on their tombstones, and still no one calls me "special". From the character and turn of the inscription, ‘Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,’ I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly, apparently I also have mother issues. There were five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle - I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence. Now apparently babies where suits and put there hands in there pockets, seriously is no one is going to tell me I am slightly odd?

Reflection on Social Graph

The narrative timeline my group chose to explore was a graph of social status for the characters; Pip, Joe, Magwitch, Miss Havasham and Jaggers from Great Expectations. We made a number of interesting observations such as Jaggers stays the same through out the book (as does Miss Havasham), by the end of the book Joe had gone up in social status, Magwitch was the lowest of all the characters and had a slight rise in chapter 35 (1822) when he came into money and helped Pip, finally Pip had many ups and downs in social climbing however he ends up a lot higher then when he started. From this exercise I learned how much Pip actually went through in the book and how because of his highs and lows in social climbing I can really see why sometimes he found it hard to connect with Joe, to actually try and get Estella to fall for him and also how he should have made his relationships with Magwitch and Miss Havasham, and finally how he would have felt really guilty as he left Joe and Mrs Joe behind socially and this all would have been very hard.

Charles Dickens Poster

8 Apptitudes- Joe Gargery

Aptitude	Descriptor
2/ Linguistic	words and language, written and spoken; retention, interpretation and explanation of ideas and information via language, understands relationship between communication and meaning
7/ Logical	logical thinking, detecting patterns, scientific reasoning and deduction; analyse problems, perform mathematical calculations, understands relationship between cause and effect towards a tangible outcome or result
3/ Cultural	artistic ability, awareness, appreciation and use of sound and vision; recognition of tonal and rhythmic patterns, understands relationship between sound, vision and feeling
9/ Physical	body movement control, manual dexterity, physical agility and balance; eye and body coordination
3/ Spiritual	awareness and appreciation of one's place in the world both in a physical (manifested in an awareness and concern for the world in an environmental sense) and in a spiritual sense (manifested by an interest shown in things spiritual)
8/ Moral	awareness of personal responsibility and of right and wrong and steering clear of the wrong, an openness and honesty with those around them, a strong degree of common sense
6/ Personal	self-awareness, personal cognisance, personal objectivity, the capability to understand oneself, one's relationship to others and the world, and one's own need for, and reaction to change
6/ Social	perception of other people's feelings; ability to relate to others; interpretation of behaviour and communications; understands the relationships between people and their situations, including other people

Total=44/80

Aptitude	Descriptor
Linguistic	From what I can tell Joe would not have a very high linguistic aptitude as he did not go to school as his dad was a gambler,  "‘Didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’  ‘No, Pip.’"
Logical	Considering that Joe is a blacksmith he must be able to think ahed other wise he would be a very bad blacksmith, "Joe was a well-knit characteristic- looking blacksmith"
Cultural	I cannot imagine that Joe would be cultural as he did not go to school, "‘Didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’  ‘No, Pip.’"
Physical	As Joe is a black smith he must be quite strong and sporty.
Spiritual	As Joe has tried to not go to church before and does not like it I could imagine that he is not that spiritual, "Joe and I going to church, therefore, must have been a moving spectacle fore compassionate minds"
Moral	Joe seems to make sure that pip is always ok, even though he is not Pip's father. From this I think that he has good morals, however he may only be doing it because Pip has no one so it is kind of his responsibility.
Personal	Joe seems very aware of what is going around himself and what is happeneing with pip
Social	Joe does not seem that social as it seems as though mrs.Joe is always making the social arrangements.

Erasure Poetry

This is my erasure poetry. I have taken page 18 from the book Great Expectations. I then chose the words to make a poem/story and then "erased" the rest of the words. If you cannot read the picture, it says," If you can recommend your time for a little while perhaps you'll mention my sister, you looked at her solemnly as if you moved, then when i was your age i bolted.