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Well after you read thought my portfolio I think you will be able to see how I grow up and how my writing changed over the course of my 9th grade year. You will also be able to see that I am most of the times better at just writing in my journal they being told to write an essay. It is really some times hard so me to write about some thing I am being told to write about. I really like to just write about what ever comes to my mind. My experiences making this portfolio was a really good one I think that you can see how much work I put into this. The main issues I cam across making this was some times the pictures I put on my portfolio would be replaced by some one else pictures. The piece I am most proud of I would have to say is my odyssey essay because I feel like I used everything that I was thought to use to make a good essay in that essay.

This is the Qrt. 1 benchmark and for it we had to write a 5 paragraph essay on a topic related to the book we were reading at the time The Odyssey. The topic I picked was how one of the main charterers Telemachus changed through out the book and showed signs of becoming a man.

As men grow-up they take on the responsibility of being the man of the house. One knows that he is grown up when he is the man of the house. In the book, The Odyssey, Telemachus is obtaining responsibilities to be in charge. Telemachus is becoming a man because he takes control of his palace, takes Athena’s advice and is seen as a younger version of his father and is given princely treatment.

Telemachus shows he is becoming a man when he takes control of his palace. For example, when he tells his mom “So, Mother go back to your quarters. Tend to your own tasks, the distaff and the loom and keep the women working hard as well…. I hold the reins of power in this house.” (pg. 89 lines 409-414) In other words, Telemachus is telling his mom if you want to cry go your room but make sure that you keep the workers working so that the work must get done. Furthermore, the part were Telemachus states about the power, he is telling his mother not to worry about anything as he is in charge, as he is the man of the house. Another example of how Telemachus shows he is the ruler of the house is when he tells his mom if she wants to get remarried she should go to her father’s house and he will arrange the wedding. It is hard for a son to tell his mother it is ok to remarry, however because Telemachus matured he is able to do so. The last way you can tell he is becoming a man by taking control of his house is when he tells the suitors to get out of his house and leave his mom alone. The reason that this is a big deal as it shows that he is a man is because he supports his mother. Most men in charge don’t like to take advice but it takes a real man, like Telemachus to use the advice.

It takes a real man to take advice and really do or use the advice they are given. In __The Odyssey__ Athena gives Telemachus a lot of advice. He does use the advice but there are three times that Athena gives Telemachus advice that sticks out to the reader. The first time is when Athena tells Telemachus “I see you now-be brave, you too so men to come will sing your praises down the years.” (p. 87 lines 345-350) What that means is be brave and do whatever it takes to find your dad. The second time he is given advice is when Athena tell Telemachus “But you I urge you think how to drive these suitors from your halls” (p. 86 lines 310-320). What Athena is trying to tell Telemachus is to make a plan to get the men that are trying to wooo your mom out of your house or you will have problems. The last time Telemachus is given advice is when Athena tells Telemachus “ “Go down to Pylos, question old king Nestor, then cross over to Sparta, to red-haired Menelaus, of all the bronze-armored Achaeans the last man back” (p. 86 lines 325-335). Clearly as one can see Athena is telling Telemachus go and find King Nestor and ask him questions about his dad. One can understand becoming a man when the resemblance to a man he never met is so close.

One can tell Telemachus is becoming a man when people are letting him do what he wants. Especially they say he acts and looks like a man he never met. Telemachus shows he is becoming a man when King Nestor says “Your father, yes, if you are in fact his son… I look at you and sense of wonder takes me. Your ways with words-it’s just like his” (p 111 lines130 to 150). What King Nestor is saying is the way you look and talk is like a younger version of your father. Another way of telling people that Telemachus is becoming a man is when Nestor gives Telemachus a chariot and provisions to go to Sparta. He also sends him to Sparta with his own son, Psistratus. Telemachus is treated like a man who deserves to have the keys to this journey to find Odysseus.

There are many reason that Telemachus shows he is becoming a man. By taking control of his house, getting the suitors out, and Taking and using the advice that Athena gives him. Lastly, Telemachus shows he is becoming a man because people can see his dad in the way he speaks, his looks and his personality even thought he never met his dad. This is how Telemachus shows he is becoming a man.

The next thing your are going to hear is some thing called Memoir Vignette. I wrote a story about some thing that happened in my life and in this one here I wrote about the fist time I scored a touchdown in football. We then had to turn this story into a podcast by recording use reading it. media type="file" key="Joey Wood Memoir Vignette.m4a" width="300" height="50"



The next one you will read is one of the harder ones we had to write this year. The reason being was we were told to write a five paragraph essay that had to do with the book __Kindred.__ But we had to create our own thesis and this was the first time we had to do that. So I decided to write mine on how one of the main charter called Rufus tryed to show love for anther charter called Alice but he was showing it in the wrong way.

In the book __Kindred__ by Octavia E. Butler, the genuine love Rufus showed for Alice was complex and complicated because of the cultural restraints of the A.B.S. The A.B.S was a much different time pried then the one we live in now. Back then it was not ok to show your own son love if he was black and you were white. It was not accepted by other whites to show love for a black slave, and was seen as not being proper. But Rufus loves Alice and does not know how to show it so he makes her love him.

Rape is a powerful thing it can change someone’s life it can put them in shock and traumatize them for ever. In the fight part 3 ”A black, young-just a girl, really-with her dress torn down the front. She was holding it together watching a black man and a white man fight” From what you can infer Rufus rapes Alice to show her his love for her. And the reason the black man and white man are fight is because the black man is Alice’s husband and he is so mad that Rufus raped his wife and now he wants to kill Rufus. It is not a very good way of showing your love. But how does he show his love. I mean in them days it was not right for a white man to love a black women. Who would want to or even think about selling there on kid.

Why would someone want to sell there own kid. But back in the A.B.S if your kid had black in them and you were white you treated your kid like a slave not like there were one of your own. And in The storm part 11” Dana tells Rufus that his son is very smart, and Rufus starts to take an interest in is the boy.” This shows you how different of a time it was not liking your son because he was black, but then liking him because he can be wroth some thing. That was ok back then but now a days people would find this very wrong and would not see this as the right thing to do. No one should be so unhappy that you would want to kill your self.

Your life has to be really messed up if you want to hang your self. Rufus loved Alice but did not show it in the right way. And in The Rope part 3 “I saw that someone was hanging there. Hanging by the neck. A woman. Alice.” I think that Alice had enough. I mean for one Alice thought Rufus sold his and her kids. I also think she felt like she had no control of her life I mean she was a slave, so she could not make her own decision. She could not chose who she wanted to love so she felt like what is the point of living if she had no life to live for. The A.B.S was a very different time zone then the time zone we live in now. It was seen as not proper to love a slave if you were white. So if you were white and you liked a black person it was hard to express your self. So for Rufus it was really hard to show his love for Alice with out being looked down on by other whites. But how he showed his love was unacceptable. If you had a kid with a slave and you were white it was thought that you should treat them as a slave and not your own. Rufus love for Alice was complicated due to the A.B.S.



For the next one we had to make anything we wanted to, to show how a character from the book Macbeth changes thought out the book. So I did a keynote and showed how Macbeth changed over time in the book.



Why we write There are a lot of reasons to write because for one its a way to let out how you feel, what you want to say and what you want to do. It gives you away to say what you cant in real life. Another reason to write is because it gives you the abilty to do things you can’t do in real life, like say you want to play in the NFL right now you can’t but you can write about playing in the NFL right now. Another reason to write is some times thing are to hard to say face to face, like if you are moving and you want to say goodbye but it is to hard to say how you feel face to face you can write them a letter and they will have that letter for ever. Another reason to write is what if you want to get in contacted with some one but you don’t have there number but you know where they live you can send them a letter. This are just some of the reasons we write.

What makes a good book To me a lot of things makes a good book. To start you have to care about the charters. What I mean is the author let you know thing about the charters that lets you get to know them better. And let you know enough about the charters that you all most know what they are doing next. I all so think that it make a good book it has to have some happy spots and some said spots. The book has to grab your attention, what I mean is when you are reading a book it has to make feel like you can’t put the book down you can’t stop reading till you finish the book. I also think that to different people a good book is many different thing for example some on who is into sport books mite not want to read a book about love so it has to be your type a book to be a good book.

Self Reliant I guess I am self reliant in a lot of ways. One way is every morning I get my self up get my clothes out and then get the bus L and trolley by my self to get to school. If I wanted to I could just have my mom get me up get my clothes out and drive me to school but I don’t. Another way is when ever my mom and dad go out I stay home by my self. Another way is when it comes to my pet see my family has a dog but really it is mine because I am the one who walks the dog feeds it and takes care of it. So I am self reliant when it comes to taking care of the dog. But I still raly on my family for a lot of things. For one I don’t have a job so I rely on my mom and dad for money and thing I need like food and a house to live in. Freedom Writers The dairey that stands out to me is number 24. The reason it is because it shows you that you can’t take any thing to light. What I mean is if you think having a house is a given it isn’t because as you can see he tought he could have what ever he wanted but his whole life changed he went from getting what ever he wanted to getting nothing and wearing old clothes it just shows you that nothing is a given. I can’t relate to but it makes me think I should be thankful for what I got because some people don’t even have a house to sleep in.



The next one was the first project we got and it was something we did to get to know each other it was called a me mag and what it was we had to make a magazine all about our self.