Shauna Aghasi
ELA 7
Ms.Stronks
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Prompt 1
ELA 7
Ms.Stronks
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Prompt 1
Ms. Stronks
ELA 7
Monday, January 26, 2015
The Locked in-Man summery
The interview of Martin Pistorius by Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegal during the podcast tells the story of Martin Pistorius. His story begins being him as a little boy that wanted to be an electric man. As the days pass Martin gets sick and starts sleeping to the point where all he does is sleep. Sooner or later Martin's parents find out that he has meningitis. This effects Martin horribly the doctor tells them that he is incapable of doing anything so just care for him until he dies. Martin let all his thoughts over take him but later on overcame them. He learned to tell time with the shadows to know where he was in time. This shows us how intelligent he is. Twelve years pass and Martin is still alive and starts to regain his capability of moving. He has to learn everything all over again, and he does, before you know it Martin was starting to move his head and he learns to type and later gets his own machine to speak for him. Martin's life was about to change because he is now married. People did not believe he would survive but he did, he did more than they expected. Later on he got a job, started a company, made his own book, and evan got into collage. In conclusion everyone thought he was getting nowhere in life and that this was the end, but he proved them wrong and showed them how intelligent and capable he was of moving and regaining his life.
Shauna Aghasi
Ms.Stronks
ELA
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The First Day
By: Edward P. Jones
The short story "The First Day" is written by Edward P.Jones takes place in New Jersey. It tells the story of a young five year old girl facing racism. In addition, her mother is trying to get her into a school. During this process of trying to get her into the school of their choice they are brought up to this woman that refuses to let them go into the school. Finally her mother finds another school and leaves her daughter but, will comeback at twelve.
Ms.Stronks
ELA
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The First Day
By: Edward P. Jones
The short story "The First Day" is written by Edward P.Jones takes place in New Jersey. It tells the story of a young five year old girl facing racism. In addition, her mother is trying to get her into a school. During this process of trying to get her into the school of their choice they are brought up to this woman that refuses to let them go into the school. Finally her mother finds another school and leaves her daughter but, will comeback at twelve.