Deadline #4

Title :Deadline

Author:Chris Crutcher

Hours:2

Pages:75

Ben is trying to comfort his coach because Ben found out that his coach's girlfriend birthday just passed. Since Ben showed that he really cared the coach decided to take Ben to the spot where his girlfriend died and after that then drive Ben home. The coach told Ben the whole story that she was in a car accident and died a few hours after. The coach said that it was five days before their wedding day. Ben tried to comfort him the best he could and told that tomorrow isn't always promised. He and the coach drive to Ben's house and find out that his house is on fire. Without thinking Ben ran into the burning building hoping to find his family. First he sees his brother passed out on the floor and with all of his might Ben tries to pick him up. Soon the coach shows and takes Ben's brother. Ben tries to find his mom and dad, soon he finds them in the backyard. His father was trying to fight the fire with a water hose. Happy that his family was okay Ben is over come with joy. The coach even buys the family a week at hotel for Ben and his family.

Deadline #3

Title: Deadline

Author:Chris Cruther

Hours:2

Pages:71

In the few that I read of Deadline I learned about Ben's family. Ben's mother smokes and is addicted to painkillers and the only one who has a job. Ben's father is a stay-at- home dad who loves to cook, and Ben's younger brother is a popular jock who doesn't know his hands from his own feet. This family isn't dream family, but it's the family that Ben is stuck with. So before Ben dies he wants to leave his family better than when he is gone. So write now he is trying to break his mother away from addiction, trying to help his dad pursue his dream into becoming a caterer ,and he's helping his brother study for his mid-term so that he can get into a good collage.

Color Me Dark

Title: Color Me Dark

Author:Patricia C. McKissack

Hours:2

Pages:85

Nellie Lee is excited because her uncle Pace is coming home from the war. But when he came home she wasn't jumping up and down anymore. Uncle Pace arrived in a wooden crate and the police claimed that uncle Pace became drunk and passed out on the train tracks just as a train was about to pass through. After a few days Nellie's sister Emma Jean stops talking. Nellie refers Emma Jean as "a lifeless ghost who lingers around the house and eats our food." After many months Emma Jeans begins to talk. She the first person she talks to is Nellie. She says that uncle Pace wasn't dead the day he came home. She tells Nellie that she sunk down stairs and saw that uncle Pace was out of the box. At first she thought it was a ghost,but it was really him. He told her that some white soldiers from the enemy lines beat him until he passed out then poured whisky on him and threw him on the tracks. Shortly after that uncle Pace died. Nellie is filled anger and revenge. she wants to find out who killed her uncle and caused her sister to go mute because she was afriad. Nellie vowed to her sister that she'd fine these men and bring them to justice. She will do what ever it takes to find them. Even if she has to pretend that she white girl for a while.

Color me Dark

Dear Ms. I for some reason I have lost my book Flush. So I have read a differrent book called Color Me Dark.

Title: Color Me Dark

Author: Patricia C. McKissack

Hours:2

Pages:98

This is a true story about a girl named Nellie Lee growing up in the south in 1919. The funny thing is that she is so light skinned that people think she in white. Whenever someone comes up to her and asks if she is white she says "No, color me dark" she doesn't belives that being lighter skin is better than dark skin. She sees that the south turns their back on her when they find out that she is not white and now Nellie Lee is trying to live a life that isn't so painful.

Name: Vivian Phillips

Project Reflection: Post on your Blog


Project Title: MC Website Project
Class: Ms. Interlandi Dates: 3-11-08
*You may type directly in this document and copy and paste into blog, or simply address each of the following in a post. It should be approx. 2 pages worth of writingJ.
PURPOSE: In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do.

Sentence Starters
The purpose of this project was to learn about…
In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc…






I think the purpose of this project was to learn how work with other people. We have to be able work with people that you might not know. Also we had to learn to how to work Flash, Dreamweaver, and many other high tech things. We also have to become experts at the things that are assigned and so we have to look them up.
WHAT I LEARNED
In this section, tell what information or skills you learned or improved.
Sentence Starters
I learned about…
I explored the concepts/topics of …
In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)







What I have learned from this project is interact with other people that I work with. I’ve had to become more patient. I’ve also learned how to work with Dreamweaver. I now know how to make buttons, links, and pages. I know this knowledge will help me in the future.
REFLECTION
In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?

Sentence Starters
I enjoyed this project because…
I feel like I could have done better on this project because…
Next time, I would…







I kind of like this project. It was stressful at times, but I pulled through. I liked finding pictures to put on the site and also help make the games for the site too. What I would have liked to have done better was not to get sidetracked too much. I wish I could stay focused on my work more so I won’t have to do it at home.

ARTIFACTS
You should have at least one artifact from each project on your DP. What document, picture, or link will you have for this project?

We used a lot pictures from creative commons.

Flush#2

Titile:Flush

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Hours:2

Pages:67

We left off at where Abbey(Noah's sister) convinces Noah to catch Coral Queen in the act. At first Noah doesn't want to go, but knows that if he gets the evidence they need they could get their father out of jail. So he goes. They wait till 1:30 a.m. and they sneak out a quiet as they can without waking their mother. When they get to the Coral Queen they wait for 2 hours and they still haven't found any proof. Until out of nowhere a hand grabs Abbey by the neck and tries to choke her. She bites and so him and he lets go. Abbey and Noah take off running back to their house. When they get in they hear their mother talk to a relative that she wants a divorce from her husband. That word makes Abbey and Noah shake with fear. After a few weeks everthings is mellow in the Underwood household, but then he sees Abbey crying she says to him that she heard divorce again from her mom and she saw that her mom was packing her suitcase. Noah becomes afraid, but does eveything he can to comfort Abbey. As Noah goes to bed he hears his mother's scream in Abbey's bedroom. He notices that Abbey isn't there and that the family video carmera is missing.

Deadline #2

Title: Deadline

Author: Chris Cruther

Hours:2

Pages:72

So far Ben is trying to live normal for his final senior high school year. So he decides that he wants to join the football team. He knows that he isn't the most biggest and strongest player on the team,but he uses his math to help him determine what the player is going to do next. Again his fears of dying get to him, he thinks he might die in the middle of the season and he knows that the team is counting on him. While Ben is "dying" decides that wants to find out more about people that he knows. He finds out that his coach lost his girlfriend in a car accident and Ben is trying to comfort him. Ben begins to realize how much he is needed in his community and thinks what would happen if he died.

Polly Lewis

Polly is a selfless, kind and tough young woman. She has gone threw many hard ships and yet she uses the problems and turns it into an advanage. She loves children and loves to make them when they are sick. She loves to make candy and toys. Overall she