Assignment

Discussion - Descriptive Writing.
Using Adjectives.
IN a word perfect document or on your BLOG
Write a definition for the term adjective.
Create a description for something, but do not reveal the name of it.
Complete work from yesterday.
Read chapter 5 from the novel, "Into the Wild"
Answer the following questions in a word perfect document or on your webpage.
1) In a minimum of three sentences, describe what happens in Chapter 5.
-Christopher’s camera got ruined and then he stopped taking photographs
-In September 1991 Christopher hitched down U.S. Highway 101 in California and then headed east into the desert again.
-In early October 1991 Christopher landed in Bullhead City, Arizona
2) Describe the setting of the mobile home where Alex is staying. Be sure to include some of the descriptive words the author uses.
-Where he stayed is he camped out in the desert at the edge of town
-Denuded mountains, curiously, therefore
3) In the top portion of page 43 Alex mentions again the term "plastic people." What do you think this term means. Explain.
-By that term it will mean by stupid, strict, and rude people
When finished, check to make sure you are up to date on all assignments.
Below is a list of assignments that should be completed.
Feb 20 news - 1 News report summary for last week, be sure to include a HEADLINE, a three sentence max. SUMMARY, and an IMAGE.
Hockey Day in Canada Questions, visit the 02 20 blog entry on the class webpage.
If you are finished all assignments....

Former nurse probed in university student's suicide

Nadia Kajouji who was a student from Carleton University disappeared on March 9 2008. A nurse from Minnesota is under investigation encouraging Brampton University Student Nadia Kajouji to commit suicide. Ottawa police have been in discussions with the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task force since mid-January.

The individual being investigated, who is very active on the Internet, had already been examined by the organization. Sources familiar with the investigation indicated the man might have had similar online conversations with other vulnerable youth. If found guilty, the man could face, under Minnesota law, up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $30,000.

Both Panos and Ottawa's lead investigator, Sgt. Uday Jaswal, would not reveal details about the individual or even confirm he was a nurse. Nadia, a first-year-student at Carleton University, was reported missing on March 9 last year. Her body was found in the Rideau River in April. Unbeknownst to her family, the 18-year-old had beenFormer nurse probed in student's suicide suffering from depression, taking antidepressants, and seeing a campus counsellor.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/593281

redpaper clip guy

1) Provide a brief summary of what you've read
-I read about this guy Kyle has a red paperclip house which is Located at 503 Main Street in
Fully furnished. Two floors + basement Three bedrooms Two bathrooms Refinished hardwood floors. Fridge, stove, sinks, drawers, shelves...all the regular kitchen stuff. Electricity! Large grass front yard + large grass backyard. Gas hot water tank + gas furnace. close proximity to schools, restaurants, grocery stores, hospital, etc. Kipling has most services in town. Giant red paperclip on the front lawn. located a stone's throw away from the world's largest red paperclip.
-He is looking to get a Dodge Caravana
2) Tell me what you think about this story.
-Well I think its kind of stupid to sell his house for a veichle because if I was him I rather keep the house because a house has more space and everything you need like cleaning, sleeping, washing up, eating and etc.

3) What do YOU think we can learn from this story?
Be sure to explain why and how Kyle was able to achieve his goal.
-He used the internet and the blog to achieve his goal to create a book and provide a movie so he can make money.

'I couldn't let this guy get away:' Subway hero (from Toronto Star)

Sitting in the ticket booth at Dufferin Station last Friday, Russell Cormier was idly chatting with his partner when he heard a rumbling screech from the tunnel below.
"It was this loud screeching sound, steel on steel, as the brakes went. Then all of a sudden we heard screaming. People started running upstairs. They were yelling, `Kids! He pushed the kids!'"
By this time, Cormier was out of the booth trying to make sense of what was happening. That's when he saw a middle-aged man bounding up the escalator from the eastbound platform. He looked vacant.
"Someone yelled, `That's him! That's him!'" Cormier lunged at him as the suspect dashed for the exit turnstiles.
By this time, Cormier's partner, Joe De Gabrielis, had jumped into the fray. The suspect wrestled away from Cormier, then swung at De Gabrielis. He bounded outside and began sprinting down the street, with Cormier at his heels.
"I just needed another six inches of arm's length. I was right behind him, but couldn't quite get hold," he said. At this point, Cormier began questioning whether he should even be chasing him at all. Cormier, 47, is a large man, and suffered a heart attack a year and a half before.
"But I just thought of those kids and my own kids and I couldn't let this guy get away," he said.
Just as the suspect was about to slip inside a restaurant, Cormier pounced on him, sending the man to the concrete below. "I told him to stay down or he's going to get hurt."
And he did. Cormier, who many have hailed as a hero, recounted the harrowing tale yesterday afternoon outside Sick Kids hospital.
Cormier, along with his wife and daughter, had just been to visit one of the victims from the attack, Jacob Greenspon. The 15-year-old was one of two teens pushed from the Dufferin subway platform by a stranger during rush hour Friday.
The attack was unprovoked. The teens survived because of the quick thinking of Greenspon's friend, who rolled to the crawl space as the train was approaching, pulling Greenspon along with him.
Greenspon miraculously survived, but the train crushed his foot. He is due back in surgery today and is doing well, said Cormier.
The hospital room was crowded with Greenspon's classmates and friends. Everyone seemed in good spirits, said Cormier.
It's been a difficult year for Cormier. Almost a year ago, a woman threw herself under the streetcar he was driving. Then last month, he was attacked by a man at the Dufferin station after asking for a fare. The man threw the Metropass in his face, then assaulted him.
"The TTC is very safe, but stuff like this happens with the collectors all the time," he said. "Ideally, there'd be two constables at every station."
Adenir DeOliveira, charged in Friday's incident, is to appear in Old City Hall court this morning

Kaberle a good bet to stay with Leafs: GM (from Toronto Star)

Tomas Kaberle isn't likely to go anywhere.
While Kaberle has provided the Leafs with a list of 10 teams he'd prefer to be dealt to in exchange for waiving his no-trade clause, Leafs GM Brian Burke sounds as if he'd rather keep the skilled, puck-moving defenceman.
"I like this guy. Bet on him staying," Burke told the Star yesterday.
Kaberle – who remains on the injured reserve list with a broken right hand – says he'd rather stay.
"My main focus is being a Leaf," said Kaberle. "I love being a Leaf. That's how it stands. I want to do my best here."
Kaberle, who had his cast removed and skated prior to the main Leafs practice, was clearly uncomfortable talking about the prospect of being traded. Those who know him socially say he loves playing hockey in this city.
Kaberle refused to waive his no-trade clause last season, when interim GM Cliff Fletcher had worked out a deal to send him to Philadelphia for Jeff Carter and a first-round pick. Kaberle was taking his cues then from Mats Sundin, Bryan McCabe, Darcy Tucker and Pavel Kubina – all of whom refused to waive their no-trade clauses.
This year, with a new regime in place, things have changed. Only Kubina and Kaberle remain from that five. Both have softened their stances on waiving their clause.
"If I'm not a part of the future, I won't mind to waive my no-trade clause," said Kaberle, echoing Kubina's comments from Sunday. "You don't want to do anything (to stand in the way) if you're not part of the team in the future.
"I want to play for the Leafs and win the Stanley Cup. If it's not going to happen, then I have to move on."
If the Leafs fail to make the playoffs – a likely scenario this year – there are clauses in both Kubina's and Kaberle's contracts that will allow Burke to trade them this summer without their consent. In that case, they'd have no control over their destiny.
By providing a list of 10 teams – mandated by Burke – they maintain some control.
"Two keys," Burke wrote in an email. "One, Kaberle wants to stay. He could not be clearer. Two, (it's) hard to believe I will get what I need to move this guy. (He's a) quality person, great stats, good salary.
"I did not ask him to waive no-trade. (His) agent suggested looking at this vehicle because it allows him and Tomas to retain some level of control over where he goes. If we miss the playoffs, he has no control over where he goes."
The Leafs don't have another defenceman with Kaberle's skill set – a strong ability to pass or carry the puck and to anchor the power play. The power play – rated 12th in the league – is one of the team's rare bright spots. In addition, Kaberle is only 30 and under contract for another two seasons after this one at the cap-friendly price of $4.25 million (U.S.).
It promises to be a bumpy ride for this team that is closer to the bottom than the playoffs. Burke is likely to be among the busiest general managers heading into the March 4 trade deadline. In addition to Kubina and Kaberle in the trade speculation, it's widely believed pending unrestricted free agents Nik Antropov and Dominic Moore could be on the move.
In any deal, the Leafs will be looking to restock some of the 2009 and 2010 draft picks they've traded away. They've already parted with a second-rounder (part of the deal to land Luke Schenn), a fourth-rounder (part of the Vesa Toskala deal) and a fifth-rounder (Ryan Hollweg) this year and a second-rounder (the Mikhail Grabovski deal) and fourth-rounder (the Mike Van Ryn deal) in 2010.
"All I can really foresee in this is (acquiring) draft picks," coach Ron Wilson said. "We have to build this team through the draft."

Black family beat Depression-era odds (from Toronto Star)

Being black in Toronto during the 1930s was one thing. Being black and buying a three-storey Victorian house downtown when most of your white neighbours couldn't afford rent – that got a lot of backs up.
"My father would hear, `Clarke is stupid to move. West Indians don't own houses in Canada!'" says Claire Clarke, 95. She was 17 at the time, the younger of two daughters.
Critics, many of them friends, thought the Clarkes were reaching way beyond their station. Barely eight months had passed since the stock market collapsed. It was the beginning of the Great Depression, though no one knew how long it would last. Canada was in the midst of an election with Mackenzie King's Liberals losing popularity faster than the workforce – mostly white men – was shedding jobs. Toronto's population hovered around 630,000 people; fewer than 3,000 were black. And who in their right mind would settle in a country covered in snow and ice half the year?
But Henry Clarke owned his own house in Barbados and intended to put down roots in Toronto. He had found steady work as a moulder making train wheels at an iron and steel foundry.
His wife Louise had earned a reputation in Kensington Gardens as a gifted dressmaker. She had even used some of the money she earned to buy her daughters a Newcombe piano so they could learn to play.
Where pessimists, or realists, saw a tiny black community, the Clarkes reminded them it included social clubs like the United Negro Improvement Association, one doctor, two lawyers, a grocer and three churches. They saw opportunity for their girls.
"We decided he was going to throw whatever money he had in the bank on the first shack he found and that shack was at 76 Robinson St.," Clarke recalls.
The Clarkes bought the property near Queen and Bathurst on Monday, June 9, 1930 from a Jewish couple, Abraham and Fannie Reisberg, for $3,600 – the equivalent of $46,350 in 2009 dollars.
Though Clarke says race relations in Toronto weren't as tense as in the United States – "you could play with their children but you didn't go into their houses" – dark-skinned immigrants had a hard time finding rentals, let alone buying property.
She recalls Jews being especially empathetic. "The other people would slam the door in your face and that's it."
When she walked into the house at 76 Robinson St. for the first time, Clarke remembers a bed set up on the main floor in the dining room. She thought back to the first flat they rented in Kensington Market nine years before, when they arrived in Toronto.
That apartment had three rooms. Her parents slept in one. Another held the piano and fancy furniture reserved for company. A curtain drawn across part of the kitchen cordoned off the area where Claire and her sister Eileen bunked.
In the new house, the girls shared the entire attic floor, which had dormer windows facing the street and smaller ones overlooking the backyard. They slept in a double bed.
"It was always a fuss who was going to sleep on which side," Clarke says. "One side, you could get out faster and you were closer to the Quebec heater ...
"We had lots of fun at that house," she adds.
Her sister started piano lessons at a music conservatory. Henry tried to teach Claire himself "but I hated it. It interfered with me reading."
Within two years of moving in, Henry's work schedule at the steel foundry was cut in half. Claire, who had just graduated from Central High School of Commerce on Shaw St. with top honours and specialized skills in stenography and typing, began looking for a clerical job. She devoured classified sections and sent out resumes. An engineering firm invited her for an interview. "But you see, they didn't know I was black. So when I showed up, that was the end of that job."
Undeterred, she approached an influential "light-skinned coloured man" who worked at City Hall for advice.
"He said: `Well, you won't get a job in the city because the white girls won't work with you.'
"That was his answer for me! He didn't even try. I said, `Well, that's not a good answer for me.'"
Like her seamstress mother, who could copy any design in the window display at Eaton's, Claire worked wonders with a needle. The family needed extra income fast, so Clarke shifted her search to the garment district.
"One morning I woke up. I said, `Well, today, I'm going to get a job.' And I went knocking on every door."
The only one that opened belonged to a Mr. Wise. He owned a hat shop.
"I remember the pieces were cut on the bias so they would pull," Clarke says.
The money she earned making hats went into the family pot. It helped pay for the coal in the Quebec heater that kept the attic space warm. It helped pay for the cornmeal and okra her mother used to make one of her favourite meals – what Claire called kuku as a child.
"It would be turned with a spatula until it stood up on your plate," she recalls.
As the threat of war began to pull the continent out of its Depression, Clarke continued to write letters to employers outlining her skills and eventually found work with the federal government that fit her qualifications – first as a secretary in a naval supply store and later as a training officer at an employment insurance bureau.
When she retired, she enrolled as a first-year student at University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the age of 71.
For 75 years, she lived at 76 Robinson St. She raised a son, whom she named Henry, there.
Just a few winters ago, a bad fall outside a downtown school landed her in hospital. When the stairs in her grand Victorian became too much for a bad hip, she moved into a retirement home in Kensington.
She entertains visitors most days of the week and chats up a retired economics professor in the dining room at suppertime.
Last month, after years of deliberation, her family put 76 Robinson St. on the market.
It belongs to someone else now. Gone for half a million.
She's wistful but matter-of-fact:
"Bought in a Depression, sold in a Depression."

Journal Entry #2

Dear Mom and Dad it is April 1992 I hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. I was given $25,000 in savings for charity that you gave me thank you very much. I abandoned my car and most of my possessions, I burned all the cash that was in my wallet and then I invented a new life for myself. I hope I make it back home safe though I feel like I'm dying because there is no food or water around which really sucks. I hope i make it back home safely and soon enough have a good day Mom and Dad I miss you and love you lots too xoxoxoxxoxoxo

Your Son Christopher Johnson McCandless xoxoxox

Journal Entry #1

My name is Maggie Brantnall I go to St. Dominic Catholic Secondary School I’m 17 years old I was born on January 6, 1992 in Bracebridge, I live in Gravenhurst, I have 3 sisters 1 brother and 2 step sisters my parents are separated and they both met other people my dad got married the second time. I’m from Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada I grew up in Gravenhurst I lived in Gravenhurst for the rest of my life. My hobbies are swimming, partying, shopping, hanging out with friends, spending time with family, spending time with my boyfriend, glow-in-the-dark bowling, glow-in-the-dark mini golf, arcades, going to a movie theater and seeing a movie, Canada’s Wonderland, theme park, amusement parks, water parks, hot tubing, going to the beach, tanning, doing my nails, taking baths, taking showers, watching tv, playing on the computer, playing my Wii system, playing my XBOX 360, seeing my sister and spending time with her, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I can’t think of.
What I like doing on my free time is songwriting, dancing, doing homework ( just to get it done), doing chores (something to do), reading a book, reading my driver’s book, watching tv, bathing, playing video games, chatting on msn, facebook, and other chatrooms on the computer, playing on the computer, watching movies at home, exercising, and doing stuff what I have to get done what I can’t say or think of. My Dad works for CN rails and my Mom works for the Government of Canada. I’ve been dancing for 6 or 7 years. My Mom hasn’t been working for a few years because she was on disability and that reason why is because of her condition of migrans, but she is back to work but she is working from home right now and she only heads to Barrie once a week. My Dad he has to go down to Toronto and work from Friday-Monday. From Tuesday-Thursday I’m with Friday-Monday I’m with my Mom. My parents been separated for about 5 years by now but at least I get to see both of them.
I’ve had a very harsh life but everybody has their own problems. I try to be good person and I try to be respectful to everyone, but usually I can’t because like getting into fights with my Dad because my Dad doesn’t really care about me he just makes me do chores around the house, he’s very strict, and he doesn’t let me have any meals or gives me any food. My Mom she always there for me she feeds me, and well she pays me for doing chores around the house and she’s really easy to, but when it comes to work she’s not real easy with that.
The thing is with my parents is that my Mom is really easy going, but my Dad isn’t though he gets mad at me for nothing and he tries to kick me out and I’m glad that he is paying child support and it’s better than my Mom paying for it. I’m more close to my Mom than my Dad because he’s never there for me and he usually doesn’t want me around what kind of Dad is that anyways? A good Father would be feeding his children, not yelling and threatening to kick you out all the time or not trying to kick you out and always spend time with his children and be there for his children.
Every summer me and my family go to Canada’s Wonderland, go camping, go swimming and go to Wasaga Beach. Every winter me and my family go down to Barrie to go glow-in-the-dark bowling, glow-in-the-dark mini golf, go shopping, go see a movie and go tubing at Snow Valley. Usually every year for Christmas and Birthdays we go down to Vaughan Mills to go shopping. Once in a while I go and see my sister and spend time with her, and what I think is that I think my sister is the best sibling but that’s all I have to say

Definitions

1) Plot -Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
Genre -of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type
2) Setting -the act of a person or thing that sets.
3) Mood-a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
4) Theme-Grammar. the element common to all or most of the forms of an inflectional paradigm, often consisting of a root with certain formative elements or modifications.
5) Character-the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
6)Protagonist -hero
7)Antagonist-villain
8)Point of View -opinion
9)Conflict -a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife.
10) Foreshadowing-the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. This can be part of the general atmosphere of the work, or it can be a specific scene or object that gives a clue or hint as to a later development of the plot. The disastrous flood that occurs at the end of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), for example, is foreshadowed by many references to the river and to water in general throughout the book.
11) Suspense-a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
12) Flashback-recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.