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Mikaela Journal Mikaela Curran 2.21.14 Period 3 Yesterday I went to my sister’s soccer game, it was the last game of the season and they won. My sister plays on the Varsity Soccer Team for Madison High school. She is a senior at Madison this year, and has been going there for the last 4 years. When I went to the game, most of the game was tied 0-0, but then they scored right before the end of the game. When the game was over, everyone jumped up and was screaming and yelling because the were the champions. They were the best of the best! The lower classmen on the team made posters for all of the sienor girls on the team, because it was their last game, and they also game them flowers and balloons. It was really nice of them. Even though my sister didn’t get to play, her team still did a great job! Mikaela Curran 2.19.14 Period 3 ???  I don’t really know what to write about today for my journal in English class, so I’m going to write about what’s going on in the class. Right now, I see Naudia and Hayley talking to each other, and Jack is helping Michael W. Celeste and Michelle were just whispering, along with Leah and Ezi. Someone is typing really loud on their keyboard like BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG, and its really annoying, like they need to learn how to type! Now, Kai is doing something with his computer, and Leah and Ezi are still whispering! Oh my gosh, I don’t understand know kalifah types sooooooo fast, and without even looking at the keyboard!!?????!!! How is that even possible? Mikaela Curran 2.18.14 Period 3 Keys Most people can say that they spent their Valentines Day either with their boyfriend/girlfriend, of just by themselves alone. Well, I did none of the above. I spent my Valentines Day looking for my aunt’s keys all over the Valley View Casino Center area. Why? You might ask. Well here’s the story. Late the night before Valentines Day, my aunt called my house, and said that she was a concert, and lost her keys. So the next day, Valentines Day, we had to look all over the Valley View Casino Center, and the shops across from it. I was very tired, so we had to call someone to come make my aunt a new key for her car

Mikaela Curran 2.7.14 Period 3

It is symbolic when Ponyboy and Johnny cut their hair because to the greasers, if you have long hair it represents them being a greaser. If you don’t have long hair and you are a greaser, or if you cut your long hair and you are a greaser you wouldn’t be recognized as well. If you have long hair and you are a greaser, your not supposed to cut your hair, that is why long hair is important to the greaser gangs.

Mikaela Curran Mikaela Curran 2.6.14 Period 3 Looms I make these bracelets called looms, and they are really cool. It can be hard to make some of the bracelets at first but then you just get used to it. You can watch videos on how to make these on youtube.com. They show you al different kinds of things, such as unicorns, turtles, and pencil grips. You can make these things in many different colors such as red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, and in all different shades! In the future, I want to make hundreds of bracelets, and sell them at the swap meet. My grandma got me a lot of different colored bands and even some that are glow in the dark neon! I really love making these bands! Mikaela Curran 2.5.14 My grades I think my grades are very well. I am doing better this semester than I did last semester because I wasn’t used to the whole, switching classes and having 7 different teachers with homework every night. I am glad that I’m doing better this semester because keeping my grades up is something that means a lot to me. Mikaela Curran 2.3.14 Period 3 Chickens I think chickens are very tasty. When my dad makes me chicken, he marinates it in Italian dressing, seasoning salt, and then her cooks it in our convection oven. My family loves chicken, but I wonder how it all starts sometimes. I know chickens come from farms and all, but how do the get to the stores and stuff, and how are the raised. Things like that make me curious. When my dad goes to the store, he doesn’t just pick up a pack of meat, and put it in the basket, he has to make sure it looks and smells okay. Then, he has to see how much it cost per pound, then he looks at the total price, then he has to try and see how many dinners he can get out of the package. SO going to the store for us is very complicated. Mikaela Curran 2.2.14 Period 3 No Bowl Okay, so yesterday everyone watched the so called SUPER BOWL. Well, to my family and I, it was a no bowl. The game wasn’t even really a game! The very first play on the game, the broncos almost gave the ball away! The ball flew right past the QB, and into the end zone! We didn’t even really want to watch it, that’s how bad the game was! About five minutes before the halftime show, we all went outside to play football. It was really fun because we had a whole bunch of people outside and we all played a game on football. After the halftime show was over we went to the store to go get some food to bbq. When we got home, the score was 0- 28 and the sea hawks were winning! 1) Pony boy says about Darryl, "He's hard as a rock and about as human." Explain this simile. Use other evidence from The Outsiders.

After he said this, he explained how Darryl’s eyes are exactly like frozen ice. Also how Darryl thinks that Ponyboy is just a pain in the neck. Ponyboy is convinced that Darryl hates him, or doesn’t like him at all. Ponyboy explained in the book how everyone likes Sodapop, but how Darryl is totally different than him. Ponyboy continues to state how Darryl isn’t like him or sodapop.

2) Compare and contrast any two characters from //The Outsiders// (except Darryl). Better essays contain more inference. In other words, it's better to write about that you have to figure out, like personality traits, then to write about something explicitly stated in the text.

I’m comparing Cherry and Ponyboy. They have many differences, and not much a like, but they get along very well. The first thing they don’t have in common is that they are in two different groups. Cherry is a soc, and Ponyboy is a greaser. A soc is a popular, clean rich person, while a greaser is a dirty nasty poor person. In life if you are seen with a greaser, and you’re a soc, then you might get jumped. Cherry and Ponyboy went to the movies, and were talking, and hanging out together. They got along really well, but the problem is that Ponyboy like CHERRY!

3) Foreshadowing is when a story gives a hint to what's going to happen next. (Can you think of any examples from a movie or The Pearl?) When the Ponyboy tells us "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong." Predict what might foreshadow? There is no one correct answer, but you reply should make sense in the context of the book and be well-written.

I thing that something bad is going to happen to their family, or their friends, because they said that things gotta get better. That makes me think that they are in trouble, or something to thateffect. Warm up for 1/28:

Mikaela Curran 1.27.14 Period 3 The outsiders The book //The Outsiders// is a really good book, by Se Hinton. The book the Outsiders is bout three brothers named Ponyboy, Darry, and Sodapop. I think the next think that will happen in the book is that the boys are going to get jumped by cherry’s boyfriend. Mikaela Curran 1.22.14 Studying For The Test Darry: Darry is the oldest brother out of the tree. He is a greaser that causes a lot of trouble, but has o be serious because he is the guardian of all the children. His parents died in a car accident when he was younger, so he takes care of his two younger brother sodapop, and Ponyboy.
 * 1) 1. Yes, you can borrow my car, but you must return it by 11:00 pm
 * 2) 2. An alligator caused a fright when it escaped from the Bronx Zoo
 * 3) 3. Mr. Lundbergs class planted a oak tree along the walking trail, on harbor day.

Sodapop: He is the middle child. He is 16 and works at the gas station with his best friend. He dropped out of school so he could help support the family. He causes a lot of trouble in the family. He gets into a lot of fights because he thinks he is bigger and better then everyone else.

Ponyboy: He is the youngest out of the three greasers. He likes to cause trouble too, but he gets into trouble more than he causes it. He has really good grades, and Darry likes him to keep them that way. Ponyboy is very smart, but doesn’t use his head out of school, and he can make bad choices at times. Mikaela Curran 1.21.14 If I Could Go Back In Time If I could go back in time, I would go back to the day I told my dad something I will never forget. On the day before the tri my family was going to make to Julian, my mom told me she was going to move out of our house and leave my dad, but she told me not to tell him. I was really sad, and I told him. I wish I wouldn’t have told him, so that my family would have had one last memory as a family together, but I ruined it. We could have had so much fun, but instead, my parents cancelled the trip and we stayed home. I have always felt like my parents separating is my fault, because I told my dad what my mom said, and it caused us to stay home. My mom left about a month later on September 7, 2009.

161 Mikaela Skate World Tonight I’m going to a place called Skate World. I go there as often as I can because it is a lot of fun. I normally go there on Friday nights because that’s when everyone from my school goes there. Skate World is like a get together place for people at my school. The get together Curran 1.17.14 place used to be the Clairmont Square, but now everyone goes to Skate World. I like to go there because when you go there you get to skate, and eat food. When there are a lot of people there, they turn off all the lights, and turn on the colored lights and the disco ball. They also play awesome music and it’s very loud. It cost $7 to get in, and $4 to rent skates there.

137 Mikaela Curran 1.16.14 Heat! It has been really hot lately, and I do no like it. My sister always cuts her jeans into shorts when it gets really hot like this. Yesterday, it was almost 90 degrease here in San Diego. My sister made me some shorts that I can wear to school. I tried to make a pair once, but it didn’t turn out that well. I still wear them though, because when it gets hot I like to wear shorts. I have to be careful of the height of shorts that I wear because if they are shorter than my fingertips, I have to change them because that is breaking the dress code at school. When it gets really hot like this week, my lips get really chapped. That is why I bring like four different lip balms and different lip-glosses. One of my lip-glosses is watermelon. It also has glitter in it, and it is pink. I have another lip-gloss that is vanilla, and it smells AMAZING! Everyone try’s to use my vanilla lip-gloss because it makes you lips super soft, and you don’t have to use a lot. I got even more lip-gloss for my birthday. Mikaela Curran 1.15.14 My grades I have pretty good grades, but there is never something you cant improve on, and for me that’s math and English. In math I have a B, but its an 89%, so its not that ad. In English, I also have a B, but its an 84%. I am missing a big assignment in English, and that’s why my grade is so low, but I remember doing the work. I really want straight A’s, but it is hard to do. I really think that if I try to complete the work, that I can finish the work and get my grade up. 117 Mikaela Curran 1.14.14 The Fosters! Last night I watched the Fosters, one of the best shows ever made! In last nights episode, Cali ran away to Indiana with her boyfriend Wyatt, after she kissed one of her foster brothers. She kissed him because they are secretly in LOVE! It is sad though because they cant be together because of the Foster cares rules. The rules say that they are not allowed to be in a relation ship with any other members in the house. So, Cali knew that she and her brother Jude would be taken away, and separated again. She couldn’t have that happen, so she went with Wyatt. When Cali and Wyatt stayed at the hotel, Wyatt called Lena, Cali’s foster mom. The nest morning, Lena showed up at the hotel, and when Cali saw her she ran away again. Cali ended up somewhere she didn’t even know, and tried to get a job but couldn’t. So at the end of the show, she called the jail that her dad was in and tried to talk to him, but the person on the phone aid that he was released over a year ago. She knew what she had to do, so she walked into the nearest liquor store. When she arrived, she opened a sandwich. The guy that was working there told her to put it back, she said that she didn’t have any money. He told her to put it back, but she just opened a can of soda. He then said PUT IT BACK, but she grabbed a candy bar. He told her that if she took one bite, that he would call the cops. So, that what she did. She took a bite, and he called the police. She wanted to go back to jail, because she knew she couldn’t go home to Lena, and risk loosing Jude.

313 Mikaela Curran 1.13.14 The Fosters Tonight, my favorite show, The Fosters, comes back for the winter premier. I am so excited because this is one of the best shows ever made. I think you should know a little about the show, before we go any further. There are about five main characters. Cali and Jude, who are brother and sister, are put into foster care after their mom was killed in a car accident, and their dad was put into jail. In one of her foster homes, Cali was abused. Cali would try to fight back and run away, but was soon separated from her brother jude. I need to go, but I will tell you more about the fosters later! Hope you like it so far!

120 Mikaela Curran 1.10.14 The Day After My Birthday Today is the day after my birthday, and I got something amazing last night. After my mom picked me up from school we went to the store to get things we needed for my birthday dinner. We hade veggies, and my mom made her own chicken casserole. I also cake and ice cream. I the cake had Oreos on it, and white frosting on the top. MY mom put candles on the cake and we all sang happy birthday. Then we had ice cream with the cake, and it tasted good. I got a loom kit for my birthday, and I have been making things every since I got it. I also got Hot Hues hair chalk. I am going to my dad’s house today after school to celebrate there. I hope that I get the things I want. I also hope that my dad will let me go to Skate World after we have dinner. I’m really happy that I’m thirteen now!

189 Mikaela Curran 1.9.14 My birthday Today is my birthday, and I am turning 13 years old. For my birthday, my mom took me to Starbucks for breakfast. At my dad’s house I’m going to go out to dinner and open presents. Yesterday, my dad took me to Food For Less to get me a cake. He asked me what I wanted and I told him I just wanted money. He said that he didn’t know what else I wanted so this year, my birthday is just going to be an IOU birthday. I’m not very happy today, because no one at school remembered it was my birthday except for a couple of people. Everyone else just heard me say it was my birthday, and said happy birthday. The other people whose birthday was today go flowers and all kinds of present. I got one thing from my best friend, and a bracelet from another. This day hasn’t gone very well at all. That’s why I’m not in a good mood. Now, I’m not saying I want everyone to my me gift and spoil me, I just want to be remembered.

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Mikaela Curran 1.7.14 The Chargers! The Chargers haven’t been to the playoffs in a very long time. Don’t even get me started the last time they won a playoff game! Chargers were not a very good team at all, until they got a new coach. A lot of people have been surprised that they are on a five-win streak, but me. I knew they would come back and make a change. My parents and all my friends said I was wrong, and that the Chargers have no chance.

The Chargers started there win streak at home, against the Chief’s. They went on to play Denver, and a couple more teams. They won all of them. The Chargers played Denver at home, and beat them, making them the only NFL football team to beat the Denver Broncos at home. Two weeks ago, the Chargers played the Chiefs again, with another mind-blowing win. They had need behind the whole game, with two minutes left in the game. When the Chiefs had the chance to win it all, they went for the extra field goal, and missed. Then the game went into over time, and to finish off the game, the Chargers intercepted the ball, and ran down the field for a touchdown. That game put them n the playoffs against the Bangles. In below freezing weather, the chargers won the game, making 4 interceptions.

Mikaela Curran 1.6.14

My Christmas My Christmas was pretty good this year. At my dads house I got a lot of gift cards, mostly for Starbucks and AMC movie theaters. I also got a bungee chair, a bracelet maker, Dip’n Dots maker, Taylor Swift’s new perfume, and candy. We used a fake tree my grandma gave us. On Christmas Eve, my little brother and I had a sleep over in my room. We brought hi bed into my room, and we played together. My dad bought the family an Xbox 360 Kenect.

At my moms house for Christmas, we went to Home Depot for a tree, and it was real. My family decorated the tree all together. My grandma has hundreds of ordainments to use, but I didn’t want to put all of them on, so she didn’t make me. On Christmas morning we woke up at our dads house, and had to go to our moms house at 10 am. We were very tired. My mom made us wait until 5:00pm just to open our presents with our sister, and we didn’t like that. We ended up getting things we liked though.

190 My Birthday This year my birthday falls on a Thursday. My birthday is January 9, 2001. Every year for my birthday I always have a party with my family. Sometimes, I will also have a party with my friends as well. At my parties that I have, we always put up the bounce house that we have. We also have food and snacks. We play games, and run around in the backyard. One year that I had a party, we slept in my playhouse my dad built. The playhouse is two stories, has a fire pole, a staircase, a table that folds down from the wall, carpet up stairs, and cable so you can watch TV.

In the morning, my dad has a tradition that every time we have a sleep over with our friends, he has to make chocolate chip pancakes for everyone. We love him chocolate chip pancakes. One year, I broke the record of having 14 girls at one party. That’s the most people my dad had ever had stayed at our house at one time. That night, when we were watching a movie, we made old fashion popcorn with butter in a pot on the stovetop. While we were watching the movie, my dad came up and threw candy all over the living room. From that day on, his nick-name was the human piñata.

12.10.13 In ASB we have a grade, we have to do different things, and we get different grades for each activity was participate in. In the ASB Student Store, it’s a lot of fun. We get to sell items to other students at lunch, so we can raise money for the school. I worked the line two weeks ago, and last week and this week I work register. I enjoy doing these things.

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Softball Championship Game This past weekend I was with my mom. She plays softball at Rob Field in OB, and she had he championship games on Sunday. I was going to take pictures with the camera she lets me use, but when I tried to take a picture it wouldn’t let me because the battery was too low. In the game that my mom played, she got hurt really bad when someone hit the ball into her calf! She could barley walk, but they finished the game. They didn’t win though. We stayed to watch the other games, and after that, she to me to Naties, a Mexican restaurant, for lunch. After we ate, we went home to ice her leg.

11.13.13

“ How did you feel, when you first saw the pearl underwater?”

“ I felt amazing, and so excited that I now can help my son!”

“Well, I’m so happy for you, I hope everything turns alright!”

"Me to, Im just worried that my pearl will be taken, and my life is depending on that pearl!

" I know, Maybe you can try and hide it somewhere else before you sell it.

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Evidence: I found very good evidence in the story to help me prove my point.

Infer: By inferring in class, I was given a better grade.

Inference: My inference was that the sister killed her mom. Synthesize: To make something with chemicals.

Significant: Something that is worth paying attention to. When I fell down the stairs, it was significant because I was bleeding.

Benefit: I was given a good benefit when I found $20 dollars on the ground.

I think that the author was trying to tell the readers that money can buy most things, but not everything. I also think that they were trying to teach a lesson. The lesson I think they were trying to teach was money can be very powerful, or it can be useless. Money can buy you most things, but the thing that matter the most it was money cannot buy you.

“The Monkey’s Paw” Quiz 1. What are Mr. White and his son doing at the beginning of the story? a. Discussing India b. Playing chess c. Eating dinner d. Walking in the rain 2. Why won’t Morris sell the paw? a. It is very valuable b. It was stolen from him c. He doesn’t want anyone else to have sorrow. d. It is out of wishes. 3. What does Mrs. White want as the second wish? a. She wants to go to India b. She wants more money c. She wants her son back d. She wants no more wishes. 4. Why doesn’t the Sergeant Major want to discuss the paw? a. It caused too much trouble b. He wants it for himself c. It never existed d. He lost it   5. What happened to the first man who made wishes with the paw? a. He became an outcast. b. His wishes never came true c. He became wealthy and powerful d. He wished for death. 6. What does the third wish do? a. It gives the family more money b. It takes away the result of the second wish c. It gives them nothing d. It brings back their son. 7. What is the first wish? a. To travel b. For their son to be back c. For two hundred pounds d. To be an emperor 8. Where had the Sergeant-Major been for twenty one years? a. Russia b. India c. Ireland d. Wales 9. How is Mr. White’s first wish not what he expected? a. He receives money because of his son’s death. b. He receives fame instead of money. c. He doesn’t receive anything. d. He receives a small amount of money. 10. What happens to Herbert at work? a. He is caught in a machine and killed b. He is late c. He is fired d. He receives two hundred pounds.

The Monkey’s Paw Critical Thinking Questions 1. Define irony. How is the fulfillment of Mr. White’s first wish ironic? Because if most people were to have three wishes, odds are they would ask for money. 2. How does the setting of the cold, wet, night and the warm, cozy fire set the mood of the story? Because it reminds me of the weather, and when its cold, I like to snuggle up by the fire with my family. 3. At what point could you predict that Herbert is killed in an accident? Use specific examples for support. Because he didn’t come home right away. 4. At what point could you predict that Mrs. White would ask her husband to wish her son alive again? Use specific examples for support. Because if anyone’s son dies, and they had a wish, they would obviously wish for their someone to come back to life. 5. Do you think Herbert was really outside the door, or was it just coincidence? Explain your answer. I think he was because right after he made this wish, they was a knock at the door, and he was right outside.

On Monday at hidden valley park in Arizona we played baseball against the Los Angeles chickens. We played more better then the last time we won and went to the coaches house four Pizza.

Mikaela Curran 10.24.13 Period 3 My brother bill and I went to a movie called, “The Fast and The Furious”. Then we went to Joes house and ate some of his moms meat loaf, and then we played basket ball at Balboa park in San Diego California?

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9.30.13

Soda should be sold at school. I think soda should be sold at school because it raises money for our school. Another reason is because a lot of people like soda, which means a lot of people would buy soda. Although some people may spill, you can easily solve that by not allowing soda in any classroom. If kids are to hyper from drinking soda, we should advise them not to buy any. Some people may think selling soda at school is a problem, but problems are made to be solved.

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My mom is the best mom because she helps me with my homework, and if we both don’t understand it, we laugh about it together instead of getting upset about it. First of all, she is the best mom because she lets me have sleepovers with my friends. Second of all she is nice because she takes my little brother and me to our pool a lot. Some people say she is a bad mom, but I know she isn’t.

1) I chose to do this about my mom because, I want everyone to know that my mom is the best mom ever. 2) I also chose this because I wanted my mom to know that I think about her everyday that I come to school. 3) The final reason why I chose this topic is because I want to show my mom how much I appreciate her.

9.25.13 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/becoming.html

9.25.13

My favorite movie is Flicka. I love this movie because, it has horses, and I love horses. Another reason why this is my favorite movie is because, it isn’t boring, its always interesting. Every time I watch this movie, I cry, because the girl bonds with the horse, and her dad gives her horse way. When she gets her horse back, a mountain lion attacks it. Her dad is forced to put it down. I think this is very sad. Even though this is one of the sadist movies I have ever watched, I still love the movie Flicka.

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9.24.13 Songs: 1) “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” 2) “Gangham Style” 3) “Chicken Dance” 4) “Party in My Tummy”

Movie Titles: 1) //Battle of The Year// 2) //Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs// 3) //The Wizard of Oz// 4) //A Bug’s Life// 5) //Winnie the Pooh//

9.23.13

On a dark stormy night, the was a little mouse running through the house. The mouse’s name was Carla, and she lived in that house along wither two little brothers Charley, and Marley, her mom and her dad. One night Carla went out into the human’s house, to search for food. “ Us mice don’t always get to eat very often, considering we only get the scraps that the humans drop on the floor,” said Carla. She went around the corner to pick up a piece of cheese someone had dropped, when she saw a human!!!

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Not Enough Zzzzz’s 9.22.13

Have you ever been really tired, but just cant sleep? Well, that happened to me once, and it’not fun. One day, I was really tired from school and I wanted to go to sleep early. As I was lying in bed, I couldn’t seem to fall asleep. I tried to count sheep, lay in different positions, but nothing seemed to work. When I turned to look at me clock, it was 11:30!!! I went to lie in bed at 8:00, and it was now 11:30!! After that, I snuck into the kitchen, to get something to drink, because I’m not allowed to have any thing to drink right before I go to sleep. After I got some water, I fell right asleep, but I didn’t get to sleep until almost 12:00 at night. The next day at school, I felt very sick, and I slept in thee classroom library for almost two hours! At least it was Friday.

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9.22.13

26. What would you do if someone just gave you $1 million?

First, if someone gave me this much money I would ask them, what’s the catch? Then if there were no catch, I would take it, and give it to my dad or mom so they can put it in a bank account for me. Then, I would take my family and me to Disney land, because I have never been there before. After that I would leave it for college, because I want to go to college! 