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media type="custom" key="6250373" Hello, I am Connor R. and i'm running for The Texas agriculture commissioner. I will make sure that all schools get appropriate healthy and yummy food. I will make sure that Texas's Eco. problems will be fixed such as the Devistating oil spill i the guld of Mexico. I will make sure that i spend enough money to fix all of Texas eco. problems but i will not spend money that i don't need to spend. I will work to increase the the sales and productivity of the agriculture industry. I will make sure that Texas's agriculture economy will grow and i will make sure that the food that you buy in stores are made with the correct materials. I will make sure the best pesticides are used and that they have been tested by the best pesticide anylizers.I will make sure that the leaders of the agriculture business will be present at some important meetings. Overall i will greatly help Texas's agriculture business increases. I will definatly be the better choice of the Texas agriculture commissioner. If i am elected Texas agriculture Commissioner This election, It will be the best 4 years (possibly 8) for our Texas agriculture economy.

I think that the Utopia that Lauren and i made was outstanding. I think this obviously because we invented it and based our utopia on how we think it should be. Right now i am thinking back and i have decided that if i could change a couple of things i would. I would not kick people out if their over 50, because what if i turned 50? i would be kicking myself out. Also i would not kick people out just because they are smelly-(laurens idea) I would just give them something to make them smell better.

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Required for all groups - to be kept in your spiral or on your wiki pages. 1. Locate ten vocabulary words that are unfamiliar to you. This may be words you do not know or words used in a different way than the 'normal' way. Write the sentence the word is in and define it according to its usage in this sentence. 2. Choose one passage for literary analysis. This should be a passage that is rich in detail, diction and style. It should be one that speaks to you for its richness. Analyze according to specific directions. You will need to make a copy of this page. 3. Write a literary letter of approximately 500 words Address the letter to me. A letter is informal writing. An essay rubric will not be used to judge this assignment; however, the criterial listed will be used to determine your grade. Remember--I want a LETTER, not a postcard! Suggestions for your letter. 4. Keep a record of symbolism and motifs are you read. You will need this for your final project. The act of requiring or demanding

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Scott Westerfeld was inspired to write his book because obviously he needed to make a sequel to Uglies. There are many reasons he wanted to write Uglies, Scott wanted to write about how people change their appearance by plastic surgery or make up, but he decided to make it futuristic were you can look EXACTLY the way you want.

SECTION 3 1) requisitioning, pg 105: a demand made. The boy was requisitioning for a refund because the item he bought did not work. 2) augmented,pg 110: To raise by half a step. The boy augmented himself slowly because he had a broken leg. 3)incandescent, pg 114: Glowing with heat. The incandescent glass pot that was straight out of the melting machine was very very hot. 4) forthcoming, pg 137:friendly and outgoing; sociable. The forthcoming little boy asked the lonely boy if he wanted to play ball with them. 5) noncommitial, pg 140:not committing oneself, or not involving committal. The depressed young man didn't do his homework becuse he was noncommitial. 6) puzzlement, pg 146:something puzzling. Once the boy found the map the puzzlement overwhelmed his brain, the map had only one line leading straight to the ocean. 7) worthlessly, pg 155:without worth. The girl studied worthlessly and once she got her grade back she was very dissapointed. 8) slogging, pg 172: to drive with blows. The young hamster slogged the other hamster untill it could not move. 9) semiformal, pg 185:Moderately formal. The young man wore blue jeans and a green colored shirt to the semiformal party. 10) liquifacted, pg 210: the act or process of liquefying or making liquid. The worker was liquifacting glacier ice to take samples of the water.

1) the action of the passage : Tally is sleeping, waking up and leaving. 2) Diction: She __stirred__ in the darkness, and a r__ipple__ of movements spread from her, i__ntertwined__ bodies shifting to accommodate one another. 3) Imagery: She opened her eyes. Light filtered through the chimney, which was just a whole in the roof that let smoke out. 4) comparison: She had known that these people hadn't invented hoverboards or wall screens or flush toilets, probably not even metal tools, but it had never occurred to Tally that there was ever anyone anywhere who hadn't invented privacy. Comparing their life, to hers. The tone of this passage is: uncomfort 5) essay Section 3 essay Scott Westerfeld uses language to create a tone of uncomfort in this passage from Pretties. Part of my passage is "As she moved through the semidarkness, Tally began to find the crowding hut dizzying." This shows uncomfort because the crowding of the dark room is dizzying. Part of the reason this shows uncomfort is because of the author’s nice word choice.

Topic sentence: The words Scott Westerfeld uses such as intertwined, suffused, and snuffling also add to the uncomfort of this passage. “She stirred in the darkness, and a ripple of movements spread out from her, intertwined bodies shifting to accommodate one another.” And “This morning, unconscious bodies lay all around her, more or less clothed, tangled up with one another and with the animal skins.” // If you were intertwined with other unconscious bodies that were half clothed tangled and trying to get out without waking anybody would you be uncomfortable, I would diffidently hope so, because if you weren’t i'm pretty sure something is wrong with you. Think about it, this is why it is so uncomforting. //

This author also writes with a lot of detail, in this passage he adds things that are not really necessary but make the story a whole lot more interesting. Such as adding a whole lot about random people who told stories after the leader did, that was just adding to make the story better, which in my opinion as a reader is good.

// Scott Westerfeld also uses a lot of Imagery in this passage. “She opened her eyes. Light filtered through the chimney, which was a hole in the roof that let smoke out. Judging by the angle of the sun, it was midmorning; everyone was sleeping late.” This imagery of the sun coming up over a dusty chimney that is just a hole in the roof makes me lazy, it makes me want to sleep, but it also puts me in a very uncomfortable mood. This is a great technique the author uses to keep you captivated in reading his book. //

“As she moved through the semidarkness, Tally began to find the crowded hut dizzying. She had known that these people hadn’t invented hoverboards or wall screens or flush toilets, probably not even metal tools, but it had never occurred totally that there was ever anyone anywhere that invented privacy.” This is great comparison between the people that she is with, and her regular lifestyle. It makes you think about what he have, and look at the people before us had. I think this is another great way the author takes you in to reading his book.

I think that this passage is telling us that people need to look at what they have as a good thing and to stay positive about what you have, in other words keep the glass half full instead of half empty. Think about what you have not what you don’t have; Tally is experiencing an epiphany I guess you would call it, she just figured out that there are people out there that are better than you, AND worse than you, so she decides to look at the good side of it.

Dear Mrs. Morgan, The book pretties has been very good, i have just now finished it and i hope that specials is just as good if not better. In the second book i think that Tally will turn special and re-unite with shay, and Zane will still have some major problems with his brain, i think that the "Cutters" will be the new gang of this book instead of the Crims or the Smokies. I do not know if this will happen but i hope that Tally finds a way to run away again and turn pretty instead of special.

Some Motifs that i have seen in this book is of coarse a hoverboard, they are used very often and they seem to be extremely helpful to the escaping pretties and the uglies of the Smoke. Also i see a metal bracelet like the ones Tally and Zane wore so that Dr. Cable could track them down. And last but not least i see a hot air balloon as an important motif, it is not used very much in this book, but it is very important to the storyline and the escaping pretties.

Most of the things in this book i see me doing, if I had a superhuman body that was pretty. Anyways most of the stuff in this story are very unrealistic, for instance i dont even think a superhuman Pretty can jump of a hot air balloon and live, even if there was water under him/her. It is so crazy and unrealistic it makes me feel as if something so crazy could actually be acomplished, and that feeling feels good to me.

I have already wrote on why i think Scott Westerfeld has written this book, one because he wanted a sequel to Uglies, two i think he wanted to write this book so teens will understand that even if people you know don't all look alike, your all pretty in your own way and you shouldn't be discouraged if you have acne or some other ugly skin thing that happens to the majority of teenagers in the United States.

I think the characters in this book are pretty beleivable if you get past the fact that they were surgically altered to look good and be able to do things that most regular humans can't. What i think makes the characters look the most realistic is that they all have problems that every normal humans have such as finding the right outfight to ware to a party or dance. Its all the minor things that we have like cell phones that in the next couple hundred years could turn into skintennas, things that latch on to your skin and stay there untill you want to take them off. Overall i think this book has some extremely unrealistic things about its characters and some pretty realistic things about the characters.

Good Reading, Connor


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1) skintennas, pg 18. People were so busy that they surged skintennas on them so they could talk to anybody from anywhere. An antenna used to talk to people without a cell phone, sort of like bluetooth. 2) surge, pg 23. The angry mob of people surged at the director, he could get up for weeks. a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep 3) gondola, pg 24. The gondola sailed down the river, carrying it's passengers to shore. a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat having a tall, ornamental stem and stern and sometimes a small cabin for passengers, rowed or poled by a single person who stands at the stern. 4) facegraphs, pg 29. The Dr. took a facegraph of the girl he was working on, so later, he could look how much he changed it. A picture of the face of the pateint that a Docter looks at to make sure he's doing everything right. 5) tumult, pg 31. The loud tumult of the people outside frightend the man, it was a riot. violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob. 6) clarity, pg 39. The man's understood what the girl was talking about, it was pure clarity. the state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye. 7) full-fledged, pg 44. The full-fledged teacher told the boy to go sit down. fully developed. 8) imperil, pg 45. The dog was inperil as he ran through the street. to put in peril or danger. 9) dappled, pg 51.The dappled tree's leave were turning red, fall is here. having spots of a different shade, tone, or color from the background. 10) calligraphy, pg 51. The great writer had fancy calligraphy. fancy penmanship.

// 1) //// The action of this passage: Tally and Peris are jumping off of a house with bungee jackets on. // // 2) //// Diction: She squeezed harder, and heard Peris grunt as the lifters kicked in. // // Imagery: Her arms slipped farther down until they were around Perris’s waist, her fingers painfully entangled in the jacket straps. // // Comparison: Her muscles were still strong from the weeks of manual labor in the smoke- if anything the operation had tuned her up- but she barely kept her grip as the jacket absorbed the velocity of the fall. // // Detail: The jacket pulled them upright, almost wrenching tally’s shoulders from their sockets. // // 3) //// The author’s tone of this passage is intensity. // // 4) //// Essay: //

Scott Westerfelds uses language to create a tone of intensity in this passage from pretties. The words that Scott Westerfeld uses to show some tone of Intensity is “Peris grunt”, “wrenching Tally’s shoulders from her sockets”, “her fingers painfully entangled in the jacket straps.” All of these words show hard work, and it is easy to imagine the pain and intensity from those sections. These are some great words to show intensity. Most of the author’s words show intensity or hard work. The author doesn’t just say the jacket pulled them upright, but instead he said, “// The jacket pulled them upright, almost wrenching tally’s shoulders from their sockets.” Adding intensity into his words. // // T // he author doesn’t just want to get the point across, he wants it to sound good and show the mood of the setting and what is going on. // The author also uses a whole lot of diction, in the sentence she squeezed harder, and heard Peris grunt as the lifters kicked in, he uses the words lifters, it isn’t a word I hear very often and he could have just said “as the jacket went into effect” but that is boring, instead he uses great words like lifters. // // Scott Westerfeld also uses a shipload of imagery in this book, for example look at this sentence. “: Her arms slipped farther down until they were around Peris’s waist, her fingers painfully entangled in the jacket straps.” This shows a lot of imagery with the words “entangled”, “and her arms slipped farther down”. And even more. The way that he shows imagery is really really cool. // // This author also uses a lot of comparison in his book for example:” Her muscles were still strong from the weeks of manual labor in the smoke- if anything the operation had tuned her up- but she barely kept her grip as the jacket absorbed the velocity of the fall.” He is comparing her work from the smoke, to what the operation has done to her, to what she is doing then. // This passage is proving that Tally’s is always upbeat, on pace, and intense. All of the imagery mixed with the diction, comparison, and detail shows a lot more in his book than one might think.

Pretty Letter Dear Mrs. Morgan, The book I am reading is __Pretties__ by Scott Westerfeld. He is a very good writer who has written 3 series of book so far for young adults, 5 series for adults, and he sometimes ghost writes.(which is someone who gets paid to write a book for someone else, so no one really knows the real author.) Scott was born in Texas but switches where he lives from Sydney, Australia, and New york city.

Scott Westerfeld writes in a very unique way. He uses what I like to call “ futuristic words.” He uses words like Bubbly- another word for cool or awesome. I love reading these new words and I think it would be very cool if kids my age would use them, but also it is kind of frustrating to read a book and have to figure out what a word means that is not in the Dictionary.

It is really hard to relate me to any character of this book because their lifestyle is so different to mine. If I had to relate myself to one character it would have to be Zane because he is smart, outgoing, and does adventurous things.

This book sends me a message that even if your pretty, you don’t have everything you want in life. You do the same thing over and over again, party. Of coarse if I got to party every night with all of my friends, I would not complain one bit. I would still not have everything I want in my life but I would have fun. Even if you are pretty though you would get bored, and quick. I know some people that spend hours when they wake up to get pretty, and if you already are you wouldn’t have to. They wouldn’t be used to their life and they would get plain out bored. An example of that is that I wish I could never have homework, but when I don’t get any at all, I get bored watching t.v. for 3 hours straight. Its real nice to have a little bit of work to do now and then.

I have to say that Zane and Tally are really understandable and believable, because they have real feelings for each other, and they do adventurous things, but it is also hard to believe that they can do things so perfectly. Shay on the other hand is very unbelievable because she is very fake, jewels in her eyes kind of gave her away to me.

Some motifs that I see in this book are hoverboards, because they always seem to be coming up. Some pretties wish they could use them, and most uglies do use them. Also I see bungee jackets as a motif because they were very important in the first book and so far pretty important in the second book, and I have no idea about the third book. So far I love this book and can’t wait to finish it.

Sincerely, Connor

Summary of "superman and me" article. This story is about an Indian boy he tought himslef to read by looking at the pictures in his superman books. He end up reading really high level books in Kindergarden. He grows up loving to read, but he does not have much money to buy books, so he reads everything and anything he can find, he grows up and eventually becomes a teacher, who teaches at hes old indian reservation in Washingtion State. He says... books saved his life. Connor R. 2-23-10

Summary of " boy, 12, faces grown up murder charges." This article is about a 12 year old boy named Jorden Brown who is suspected to be the killer of a 26-year-old Kenzie Houk. He had gotten a shotgun for an Easter preasent and that is what the prosecuters call the murder weapon. The Jorden Brown trust fund has been put into play to raise money for his defense.

Summary of " Sugar Overload" This article is about how most Americans are eating way to much sugar. They are adding around 600 more calories than they should be and that is too much to be ignored. We have jumped 20% on our sugar intakes from 1970. Sugar sweet-sweetened beverages have added a lot of this sugar, Sweet tea, Coke, Dr. Pepper, and other soft drinks are bad for kids and adults to be consuming. This article list 10 ways that we are adding sugar, and it should not be ignored.

Connor

media type="custom" key="4539254" This is Hernando De Soto, he sailed for Spain to Florida. He's father abandoned him when he was young, he was adopted by Don [|Pedrarias]. Don took him to Panama where he was Governor, later Soto went to Peru and destroyed and looted the Inca Empire. After he got rich off of Inca gold he sailed to Spain where they made him Governor of Florida(this is when the big Soto starts!) Once he reaches Florida He marches with 600 men and 220 horses all the way up to Tenesee looking for Cibola, then Soto died and there backup general Moscoso lead them to Texas where they moved around a lot and eventually left Texas not entering Mexico but actually re-entering Louisiana.

Works Cited 1) Explorers Coopertive Learning activities by Mary Stohl and Susan Suhneck in 1993.

SSR REPRESENTATION QUESTIONS
a) You should pay attention to these motifs because they really change the story and how the author tells it. b) I think the author wants to make the book more fun and less facts. So, he tells it like a story. c)I agree with this authors way of story righting and grenrelazations about the issues.

Utopia

I think living in a utopia would be great, you would never have to argue and you would nover have to worry about your job becuase you would always be rich. I personally have no problems with living in a utopia, and if anyone does they need to speak up and show their stupidity to the world. Saying a utopia is bad to live in is like saying heaven is a bad place to live in. The greek word utopia means perfection, so living in a utopia would be perfect.