In English class we’re going to start reading a new book called the outsiders. This blog post is about me being an outsider. I’ve been an outsider sometimes, especially when I start in a new school. That’s what i had this year. It was a weird feeling to see new and different people that you havent seen before, and it also was weird because I moved to another country. Meeting new people and new teachers who have had different experiences than you’re friends before. Speaking another language in school. It’s all about new experiences.

In English lessons we’ve been working with adding voice and word choice into our magazine. In English we are writing a magazine about a subject we could choose. My subject was about cars. We needed to add voice to our article.  That means that we needed to use understandable language. Voice expresses feeling and ideas through words, tension, mood and descriptions. Voice needs to be full of energy, life and enthusiasm for your topic. Voice is individual, striking, confident and a read-aloud appeal. We also used word choice in our articles. We used clear and precise words that would fit with the subject. In our magazines we changes some words into other synonyms of that word, for that we used a website called thesaurus.com. We used that site to add some word choice in our magazines. With the thesaurus website we searched synonyms to change some words that we used to much. We also used the website to find the antonyms of a word.

In history we’ve learned about the nature of war. We had to find 10 pictures about about a war. Then we put them in different groups. When the groups about the pictures were formed we took one group of pictures and searched about them. This video is about a ceremony of war. My pictures were mostly about ceremonies of war. This video shows a ceremony.

In English lessons we’ve learned about  organisation. We’ve used organisation for a magazine that we are writing in the English lessons. The first time in English lessons we used organisation was when we were writing about a subject for a magazine. First we wrote down 10 things about our topic. And then with  the 10 things we narrowed them down in 3 different groups (main ideas).  My main ideas were:1.Types of cars, 2.Colors of cars, and 3.People favorite cars. Then we wrote what we knew about the 3 different main ideas (supporting facts). And for more ideas we wrote down questions about our main ideas and then we answered them. Or we could ask our family members friends,… , or we could make a survey and send them to our friends and other  acquaintance.

Develop and adapt active reading skills and strategies 

 I use the strategy: visualize when I’m reading a difficult book, if I don’t understand a sentence I read it again and I make the picture in my head so I can imagine what’s happening in the book.  I also use the strategy clarify when I’m reading a difficult book or If I don’t understand a sentence to better understand things that are happening in the book.

In class we used the strategy visualize when we were on “the island”, that was a class discussion. I used the strategy clarify when I was reading the book Lord of the flies or after I posted something in the book. I also used the strategy predict but I only used it once, I used it in the book I predicted that someone was going to die and I was right. I also used the reading strategy visualize for the book, in class we needed to make a painting on the book, the “good side” and the “bad side” then I used this strategy.

First I used the strategy clarify but then the further we were in the book my strategy changed to visualize because for me it was easier to imagine the sentence then looking closer when it was confusing. I also started using the strategy predicts because then for me it’s also easier to understand the book.

Next I read a book I would like to use the strategy make connections; because if you make connections to other things you know very well and in the book you don’t understand you can make connections to make it easier to understand it. 
Understand and respond to ideas, viewpoints, themes and purposes in texts

Jack changed a lot throughout the book. At the beginning Jack is organized, strict and he likes order. He’s wearing an amulet, a robe and he’s walking straight. He takes part in the democratic voting for the leader of the group. Jack is the leader of the choir but loses the voting for the leader of the group. But he is given the job of the leader of the hunters. On page 23 we are told that ‘Jack is in charge of the choir’ so eventually the religious ones become killers.

The next change we see in Jack is when Jack and his hunters went hunting and he saw a pig. He wanted to kill the pig, he almost killed it but it ran away. This shows us that Jack still believes in order; however, he got angry when he couldn’t kill the pig. Later on we see him killing a pig. This shows us that he is changing to a beast which Simon tells us he is a part of us.

Another change is that Jack uses strategies; he is using a strategy for being the leader of a group. After a time we see that Jack wants a new election for the leader. Again nobody voted for him. He gets angry and uses the strategy of forming his own group and by offering them food. He said that whoever wants to come with me should stand up and follow me. Now Jack becomes a leader of a group, now he gets what he wants. Jack changes so much that he almost becomes the leader of Ralph and Piggy.  We see Jack and his group go hunting. They go back to their place with a lot of food. They go to the camp of the old leader Ralph to organize a party and because Jack and his group go hunting they have a lot of food to share. Ralph and Piggy ask for some food and Jack answered that they can have some food. This shows that Jack is controlling Ralph and Piggy.

Jack changes his appearance –At the beginning he is wearing chorister clothes then later he is naked and is seen wearing a mask. This shows us that he has rejected the society from which he has come.

We also see Jack become a thief. The boys go to Ralph’s camp and they make a plan to steal Piggy’s glasses. A time after they go to steal Piggy’s glasses, it worked and they ran back to their camp. Now Piggy can’t see anything and Jack is getting like “a thief”. Ralph was getting angry because he stole Piggy’s glasses and he couldn’t see anymore. Now Ralph went to Jack’s camp to take back Piggy’s glasses. This shows us Jack’s desire to get rid of anything ordered in society.

At the end we see Jack killing people. He is aggressive and there is no order. Now he’s wearing no clothes.

Analyze how writers’ use of linguistic and literary features shapes and influences meaning

 One simile, one metaphor and one personification: 

Simile pg.44; Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. One path touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel.

“For me it means that there was fire in a forest and that the fire is spreading out on other trees. And that there is a squirrel running away from the fire and the fire makes the squirrel bright and that the squirrel is like a flame that is going up very fast. I like the way the author uses this simile because I can imagine the flames running up the tree as quickly as a squirrel escaping danger.”

 Metaphor pg.55; They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.

“For me its means that they are separate and that they are “enemies” of each other. They both don’t want to talk to each other. The author really wants to describe that they are two different persons.”

Personification pg.56; His feet left prints in the soft soil and the creepers shivered throughout their lengths when he bumped again.

“For me, this personification means that the creepers are moving and shaking. The author wants to describe that the creepers are shaking because they are scared or that its cold.”

Here are the things I like in the book:

I like the character Piggy because he always comes with good ideas and he’s rational. One of his good ideas is that he want to make a fire. He wants to make a fire cause if a boat pass the people can see the smoke of the fire and then there rescued.

I like the the cover of the book:

I like the similes in the book.

And I like the island. On the island there is warm water, fishes, palm trees, rocks and its hot on the island but how further you read in the book the island changes from good to bad.

The things I dislike:

I find that there are a lot of pages and the lettertype is small and I don’t like to read small letters.                                                                                                                I don’t like that there are a lot of difficult words because sometimes then I don’t understand the whole page.

As we’re reading the book we’re taking notes. We write down the characters and the comments we have about the characters and we add them on a wikipage we’ve maked in class.

The book. I disliked the book in the beginning cause I don’t like reading and the book has 200 pages and a little lettertype but when I’m reading further I begin to like the book and the book is getting exciting because they think that there’s a beast on the island and there getting scared for the “beastie”. The island is also changing from good to bad and I like that because the book is getting more exciting. One character Ralph is changing in the book he’s getting like Jack. Jack is also a character in the book. Jack is a “beast” and Ralph is also getting like a “beast”.

1)When and why do children tease each other?                                                                                                                                                                                                          Children tease when they are bored ore when they got teased by the child he is going to tease. Or if a friend of him says that he get money for teasing someone.

2)Have you ever been teased? If so how did you feel?                                                                                                                                                                                                  I’ve never been teased by someone.

3)How can someone who’s teased stop the teasing?                                                                                                                                                                                                           You can say that he need to stop teasing and if that doesn’t help go to your teacher and say to your parents that someone is teasing you and that he doesn’t stop teasing.

4)Have you ever teased someone? Why did you do it? How did it feel?                                                                                                                                                                 Yes i’ve ever teased someone about his glasses. It doesn’t feel good after that because it was one of my best friends. And i also would not like it if i got teased by someone or a friend of me because i would not like if it was my friend that was teasing me because than i would think that he than not is one of my friends.

Trust is the base of friendship and it is also the most important quality of friendship. Many people believe that you cannot have a good friendship without trusting one another. In my picture you can see that people are very connected to each other, they trust each other. This is what we hope to achieve within our Compass Community.

The picture above shows people who are bonding because they look very comfortable. The girl is sitting on a swing and their heads are touching. In my community my friend said that trust must be earned. I hope that I can trust my friends to support me if I make a mistake and that my friends can also be a shoulder to cry on when I need them the most.

Within my community we need to learn to bond with our teachers and friends. We must create an environment in which we feel safe. I hope that the students of Compass International School together with me will learn and understand the elements that build a strong community the most important of all being that you trust each other.

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