Myftaraj

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO






 * REFLECTION:** My portfolio consists of projects that I have done throughout the year and at the end of every project I was given advice on what to improve to better in each project. I learned something new in each project that I completed. For example, for the Macbeth project I learned how to analyze quotes. The whole year started with us reading the Odyssey essay and I believe that was a good book for me to start the year off with because the essay that we had to write for it included us finding quotes and writing about what we thought was important in the book. The memoir vignette was the project that I liked the most because I was able to share an important event in my life and how that shapes my life. The thing I liked most after doing this portfolio was having to choose four journals to enter here, I liked this part because going back and rereading my work I was able to see the changes in my writing like from bad to better then good. Choosing the journals I was also able to see that after every journal that I have written at the end I have learned a different lesson. Putting all my work together in this digital portfolio shows how hard I have worked in each one and most importantly learned new things, like being able to change boring quotes into a spontaneous fun project. If there was one thing I would want you to get after going over this portfolio it would be that learning really is fun, you can take a boring topic and turn it creative and learn along the way. I consider being creative as one of my strengths in English. One of my weaknesses in English is the vocabulary, and I would still want to work on it until I improve. Making this portfolio I had trouble getting my writing the way I wanted it to be and I resolved that issue by learning how to use wiki spaces. I am most proud of my Macbeth piece because I was able to show my creativity.






 * Introduction:** In class the first book that we read together was the Odyssey, we had disscutions on the book every class after each reading. When we came to the end on the book we were given the assignment, create a 5- paragraph essay based on the topic related to The Odyssey, and the point of this assignment to learn to be able to work and write and essay based on a reading by including all detail that were read and the way that they make the story more significant. At being able to complete this assignment you were able to verify that you understood the reading and what it meant.


 * Telemachus Is On His Way To Manhood**

No boys can become a men over night. Telemuchus needs to see himself the same way that we see him. He needs to establish his part in this world he needs to realize that he’s not a boy anymore and stepping up to the plate is going to be a little tough and handling that on his own will prove he is a man. Telemachus proves he is on his way to manhood when he tries to get the suitors out of his house, steps up to his mother, and when he goes out in search of his father on his own.

When Telemachus tries to get the suitors out of his house he took one step towards becoming a man. For example, in book, page 89 lines 423 -428 he states ”you suitors who plague my mother, you, you insolent, overweening….”. He indicates that the suitors need to leave his palace. When he said that to the suitors they acted like nothing happened but they still listened even though he was still relying on Zues to get them out.They believed that if he was actually taking care of things.Telemachus earning people like the suitors just to listen to him he is taking a step forward and that’s not what they want, they all want to be in charge with his mother by their side.

When Telemachus tells his mother in Book One page 88 lines “go back to your quarters” you can tell that Telemachus is trying to show his mother that he is all grown up and ready to take care of everything by telling her what to do. Not knowing what to expect next Penelope takes his orders. It might seem that he was bossing his mother around but he was trying to show her that she raised a son that didn’t need her help anymore to take care of the things that his father was bound to take care of.

When Teleamuchus goes out on his own in search of his father he is taking a step towards manhood. For instance, in Book 3 line 24 states Telemuchus was nervous about talking to nestor but Athena helps him gain courage by telling him “He will tell you history and no lies” even though at this point he still asked her for advice on how to talk to King Nestor he still shows proof of becoming a man because he left without letting his mother know were he was going. This meant that he had it in him to leave home without telling his mother were he was going shows a side of him that he’s all ready grown up and ready to do things on his own without having to depend on other people like his mother or father to take care of business. And when he asks Athena for advice it just says that he’s on his way to manhood he’s not there yet.

Proving he can go out in search of his father on his own, being able to stand up to the suitors, and stepping up to his mother well that alone shows that he is on his way to becoming a man that not only he would be proud of but also Penelope and Odysseus. Going out in search of his father he is overthrowing the fact that no one can stop him from doing what he thinks is right. Telling the suitors to leave his house Telemachus shows he has it in him to say what’s on his mind and not being afraid of the outcome of it. Stepping up to his mother proves not only to his mother but also to us that he doesn’t take orders from anyone he know gives them out.Telemachus is ready to step in the shoes of his father and take over the kingdom some day.



one important event in out lives and I wrote about my birthday and what had happened. The reason that I chose my birthday is because what happened that day shapes who I am in many ways. For example, I haven't been this close to my mom and we have a unbreakable relationship. **
 * Introduction: This project we were suppose to write a vignette about

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 * Introduction:** For this assignment we were suppose to write about the book Kindred that we read, starting with a coming up with a thesis and choosing 5 quotes from the book. With the quotes we had to come up with a introduction, body and a conclusion that would have the quotes and the analysis of the quotes. The whole story or all the paragraphs had to relate back to the thesis in some way.

People that believe they are doing a good thing by hurting the ones they love deserve their fate. In the book __KINDRED__ Dana did everything for Rufus and after all she did you would think that Rufus would change but I guess not. He never thought that Dana had it in her to do anything to harm Rufus. Rufus deserves his fate because of all the bad things that he had been doing.

Rufus was not able to control himself from doing what he thinks is right. It all starts with the first bad thing that he does which is trying to rape Alice, his life gets put in danger because Alice’s husband was about to kill him, and Dana saved his life. After Dana saves him with anger in her voice she says, “you raped a woman-or tried to-and her husband beat you up,”(pg.122). He deserved Issac to beat him up because of trying or hurting someone he says he loves Alice. “I wish I had left him lying in the in the mud,” I said. To think I saved him so he could do something like this.!” (Page 223) Dana is really regretting saving his life because he keeps proving to her that it was a mistake. Dana says She believes that he will/is changing because the relationship that she is building with him.

Rufus wants their relationship to go further so he tries to do everything to keep Dana from ever leaving him including putting her life in danger. For example on page 186 of the novel Rufus turns the gun towards her, Dana thinks “And without warning, with no perceptible change in mood, Rufus turned rifle on us”, (pg.185) Rufus puts Dana’s life in danger. Rufus has grown to care for Dana and trust her with everything but according to Dana his chances of living were very slim & Dana was the victim since Rufus tries to take advantage of her. He never thinks through his actions because he does not care if he lives or dies in the end as long as he gets what he wants.

All though Rufus claims that he loves Alice he still feels that way about Dana and he shows that when he says “Go away mama” (page 104.) showing that he enjoyed Dana’s company more then his own mothers company. And he is mean to his own mother. Rufus has a lot coming to him and he doesn’t realize that know because he claims that he doesn’t care if he dies and that. He has no were and no one to turn to but Dana. She thinks that Alice is wrong about Rufus that he is not like his father, but she gets proved otherwise on page 235 “Did he show you any free papers?”. Dana was not prepared for what Rufus was going to do to her. On page 259 “he took my other hand, held it between his own in a grip that I knew would only be gentle until I tried to pull away. Dana had it in her finally.

Rufus deserves his fate because of all the bad things that he had been doing. Rufus puts Dana’s life in danger, makes Alice loose her happiness, and he harms all people that he claims he loves. Rufus Doesn’t expect Dana has it in her to do anything to harm him and he tries again to getting what he wants, Page 260 “ I was aware of him trying not to hurt even as I raised the knife, even as I sank into his side”.Rufus made everyone not like their lives and Dana finally took care of that! media type="file" key="_Lady Macbeth.m4v" width="453" height="453" align="center"
 * Introduction:**For this project we had a work part and a creative part. The work part we had to choose a certain amount of quotes from the book and analyze them. For the creative part of this assignment was to use the quotes and to make them in a way come to life and kind-off give a summary of the whole book. By completing this project you improved on learning to analyze quotes and you learned how to summarize the story using quotes and being able to show your creativity.




 * Introduction**: This assignment (s) were completed during english at the beginning of class and the point of each journal was to get us to think about what we would be reading or learning during that class. These journals made us think of how they could relate to a book that we would be reading and in some cases about the lesson that was learned at the end of each journal entry.
 * Journal Entry Dec 16,2009: What I would change about myself**

Well there is a very long list to that but if I had to choose on thing in particular I would choose to change the fact of being able to go to collage in my future I would change this because I believe that I can do it I mean my parents have made school for me to the priority in my life and know I finally realize why. How I will make this happen I am very capable of maintaining good grades because if I apply myself to all my class work and studies it should not be that hard for me to get and reach that point of my life and make my parents proud of me and not only will I do this for them but I will do it for me because just cause they want me to do this they are encouraging me for my own good and not for them. For me to succeed in life and not have to struggle the way they do or the way that they have.


 * Journal Entry Jan 20,2010: Freewrite**

Going back to the topic of freedom that we talked about in history well, I think that we should be able to see that we can make our own decisions and we have that freedom and even though our parents wont let us but anyway, yesterday I woke up so early for school and I think that this time I wasn’t late and I though that I should try to do that everyday but its so early I will still try. Okay after I got to school we had history first and the bio well that day worked out good cause we ended up have lunch right afterwards and I was able to just go to lunch and chill and relaxed and got myself ready for Spanish which was coming up next. Spanish came I thought that, the day would never end but class went so fast. And then finally what I thought would be fun we had drama class after Spanish and I went there and we had to come up with a script with a partner but the lucky thing is that my partner and I didn’t have to perform because before class ended Mr.K left and a couple of groups hadn’t preformed yet and he told the substitute to let them go and they did but I was the lucky one because my partner and I didn’t have to perform since the class was over by the time it was my turn.


 * Journal Entry Dec 11,2010: What do you think archetype means?**

I think that an archetype is a type of person for example by age of a person and what the person could be called like a teen or a child or an adult. I believe that it can have a certain amount of different meanings and I think that part of one is when a person is called that or gets judged using that word. And they might take it as an offense because of the way that the word is layout or because the way that it is said.

If I had the choice of cheating on a test and being able to get away with it, then I wouldn’t cheat because I want to be a take the test and results knowing that it was all my hard work and no one else’s. If I did cheat then I would know that none of it would have been my own work and even if I actually fail it or get a bad grade, that bad grade will help me learn for next time and keep me from making those same mistakes. In a way I like to learn from my mistakes, that might sound crazy but I really would rather take the test on my own and get what ever grade that I deserver rather the copy of some else’s test and they might not even be right but if they were I would still choose not to do that because then that shows that I really didn’t learn anything and that was not the grade that I deserved.
 * Journal Entry April 28,2010: If you got the chance to cheat on a test would you do it why or why not?**