What does the future hold for mankind? how will we use genetics?

The future for mankind is hard to predict because humans can't exactly know what will happen in the future. However, one thing we determine that if we abuse genetics in the future, our world will come to the end. If we want to continue to live in this world, we have to handle genetics nicely. If we want to use genetics, we will make human replicas, which are convenient to people and they can do as original people. We can invite experts to copy your human replica which looks like you, and then you can order this replica to do whatever you want. However, although it is nothing bad to human beings, if you use it indirectly, it might can destroy the world. For example, if some people think in the wrong way, they might use their own replicas to kidnap, steal, or commit. Although they are found with guilt, real people don't matter because people have done what they want. it sounds like tiny thing, but when this event happens again and again in the future, the world will be suffered and people will be hard to live continuously.

Persuasive Essay - Convince Your Teacher Not to Assign Homework on Fridays

My teacher shouldn't assign homework on Friday. After Friday is passed, the weekend will be coming. During the weekand, students can do a lot of things such as watching a movie, reading a novel, playing outside, play balls, and going to the field trip, etc. Students are usually busy in ordinary days, so they need to relax on the weekand. If I am one of the students, I will go to watch a movie or play basketball on the weekand because these are my favorite entertainment. Sometimes I go to the threater once a month and rend a DVD once two weeks. If I want to play basketball, I will play in the afternoon because the weather will not very hot at that time. relaxing is not always bad for students, they should have a suitable rest to do anything they want on the weekand. If teachers give a lot of homework on Friday and want students to finish it during the weekand, they will be crazy and full of stress. That's why assigning homework on Friday is not available to students and me.

reader response - 5&6

5: If I were to run away from home, I would go to complete something I wanted to achieve. I ran away from home not because I hated my parents and my annoying younger sister, I wanted to complete something by myself. I didn't want my family knew because I was afraid that they would reject and I didn't want them to worry about me. So, something I wanted to complete was to go to my classmate's house to do the project, and this project was very important for all students. I didn't want my family know because they didn't want me to go anywhere that was unfamiliar and strange although my classmate were my best friends. After that, I went to his house to finish the project in three hours. After finishing the project, I went back to home, and then my parents blamed me because I didn't tell them first. I made them worried and they felt anxious, and than I learned a lesson: I shouldn't leave home without parents' permission and didn't let them think that I was going to run away.

6: Tell about any "good" memories you have: the good memories I have is when my family and I went to Europe during the summer. Actually, I loved to travel everywhere becuase I couldn't learn some different culture and geography from any country. I thought this is a good memory becuase we went to Paris, Italy, Switzerland, and Venice in one week, that was a lot. This was the first time my family and I went to Europe, so we were very excited to go there. Of course, buildings in Europe were different from where I lived. Buildings in Europe were beautiful and they looked like castles, and they were made by fragments of the brick, not cement. Not only this scene made me interested, but also the special scene in Venice. Venice was also called "The City of Water" because this city was located on the water. My family and I went there to go by ship and there were a lot of churches which were attractive. Although the weather was hot and dry, I also had a lot of fun there and we took lots of pictures there, too. After finishing this awesome trip, we were tired, but fun.

Quick write-Extreme pressure

What qualities enable people to perform well when facing heart-pounding fear or stress?  Think about your own experiences or those of someone you know, as well as new stories or fiction you’ve read.  Then, jot down your thoughts about people taking action when the stakes are high.

When people face heart-pounding fear or stress, concentration and calm enable people to perform well. Actually I have my own experience: The thing that I would face heart-pounding fear or stress was presentation because I usually shaked my hand when I faced in front of the audience. Therefore, I thought the only way was to be concentrated and calm before I was ready for any presentation. These were the only way because people couldn't just run away to avoid the presentation, this method was not only acceptable, but also was embarrassing, people couldn't learn anything with that way. After that, I think people should focus on what their try to present later, and do anything without nervousness and irritancy, they have to be calm before they start to present their project. Overall, I hope when the stakers are high, I will take this action to demonstrate that I can be a good presenter in the future.

Reading Response Journals

1. The best memory I have with my family is to go to Europe. Four years ago, my family and I went to Europe for one week during the summer break, we have been to Paris, Italy, Switzerland, and Venice, that was a lot. Venic among these places was the most interesting place for me because the land is placed on the water, and it's also called " City of Water". That's why my family and I would like to go there again next time. Why I choose this event as my best memory I have with my family because we always stayed, chated, and played together during the travel, we could share our own feeling about this trip or talked something fun to each other. That's why I think this is a great memory I've seen.

2. Without my family, I can't live for very long time because family is very important for me. Although I have some best friends in school, I still think that family is the most important when I am bored. When I feel terrible in school or somewhere, the first people I would like to talk with are my family because they know me more than friends. When I encounter some trouble in public, family can help me cross the difficulties. That's why I think it is harmful and painful without my family.

3. My family roots go back to hundreds and thousands years ago, it takes very long time to look for my family roots. Actually, although my family and I know what the roots' last name, we can't clearly know what they look like. Every February of year, we have to go back to my mom and dad's hometown to see their relatives, and we have to do the manism, this is what we should do during the new year. That's why every these days, we can know more about the manism and sacrifice to our ancestor.

Qick Write-When the going gets tough, the tough gets going

There's a saying: when the going gets tough, the tough get going. "In very difficult circumstances some people do indeed get going. They have a spirit that moves them ahead-pushing them to do heroic deeds.What makes these people so tough, so strong in spirit? Why do they turn out to be good? Why do others go so wrong? Jet down your thought about.

These people, who have their heroic deeds, have an encouragement that comes from their relatives. Maybe their relatives say something to support and encourage them, these good sentences what they said will get them tough and they will try to complete something with accomplishment. If they want to be good to get deeds, they have to accpet what their relatives said and follow them with willingness. However, some other people still go so wrong because they don't have willpower and insistence to finish their purpose. When they think that it's difficullt to complete, they will just give up suddenly. That's why I think some people can do heroic deeds, but the others can't do.

Quick Write-how to analyzing poetry

When you read a poem, what is it that you do? how do you approach it? Explain your stretegy for analyzing poetry.

When I read the poem, I will know a poet who wrote this poem and the topic first before I read the content of poem. This is important for me because if we know who wrote this poem, we can understand that what is his/her style. Maybe it's rural, social, or lyric style. After knowing the poet, we could read the content clearly with appropriate emotion. I use this strategy for analyzing poetry.

Quick Write - Villains

Some of the most exciting narratives pit the villains against the hero in the life-or-death struggle. The tension in such stories aften depends as much on the character of the bad guy or gal as on that of the hero. Write a few sentences describing a villain from a novel, story or movie. What does the character fascinate you?

I think the character, joker, in this movie "The Dark Knight" fascinates me because he is really evil and accursed, and let many citizens hate him thoroughly. He is the only bad guy who wants to defeat and kill him, and the batman doesn't want the joker to be successful. After that, they compete each other with morale. Not only that, the joker's face is scared and terrified, too, when citizens see his face, they feel uncomfortable and try to flee away. That's why I like this character.

Quick Write - Something I'd Like to Inherit

Is the something in your family that you would like to inherit? It could be something material, like a picture (In this poem the speaker has inherited a brooch, or large decorative pin, from her mother.) It could also be a wonderful quality or talent-like the ability to play the piano. Jot down your thoughts.


I would like to inherit my family photo with home in the background. I think this is a great inherited property to give next generation because they can understand who have lived this house before and if they are got something from the people of former generation, they could remember them with that photo and thank them such as money, toys, dulls, and anything as a gift.

My Life as a Song

Think of an event that has taken place in your lifetime that tells the story. Jot down your ideas. Now imagine your story as a song. What type of song would that be?

Last year, my mom forced me to teach a child playing the piano in the orphanage. I thought my mom wanted me to become a helpful and responsible person. Then I thought I could deal with it because I have learned playing the piano for almost ten years. During the teaching, I help that child not only play thew piano, but also identify the sound spectrum clearly because if you know how to read the sound spectrum, you can play the piano properly and directly. Several days later, while I was teaching her, she was paying attention to me and she faced at me with a happy face, then I felt cheerful and glad. After this event, I knew that helping people can gain happiness and have some rewards.

Quick Write - The Gift

Try to recall a time when a parent, a teacher or a friend did something special for you that you would like to be able to do for others someday. (Maybe you have already done it.) Write down what you remember about that person's actions and your feelings about them.

One thing I would like to appreciate is that the teacher taught me math when I was in middle school. When I took the math class, I usually confused about why the function is made like that and how to solve this equation. Therefore, because of this suffering thing in my brain, my math test was low and sometimes lower than sixty.  I felt sorrowful and helpless, and then I couldn't find any helpful and kindhearted person to teach me math. However, my mom found a tutor on several days, and he came to my house to teach me every weekend. I thought that it would work. Not only he was good at math, but also he was really kind and willing to help me solve any difficulties about math. When I still didn't know this question, he would teach me nicely again and again, till I understood. After he's appearance, when I took the math test in the class, I got a high grade and lots of one hundred grades. I felt excited and grateful. I needed to thank that tutor who was serious and earnest on me, and I thought this is a great gift that I have never had before.

Quick Write - Hope is the thing with feathers

Think of an emotion or a state of mind. You might choose feelings like grief, joy, anger, dreaminess, selfishness or ambition. Then jot down three metaphors in which you identify your subject as something else.


Grief is a running river because if you see something like losing your family, getting a bad grade, you will feel sorrowful then cry continuously.

Joy is a blossomy condition. When you are happy, you will be glad to see your excited body, not like a withered flower.

Anger is a volcano because when you are angry, you will do something strongly and violently as volcano.

Dreaminess is a wonderland. You can see any special scenery, beautiful view, and interesting insects that what you haven’t seen before, it’s illusional.

Selfishness is a hermetic box. No one can get involved in that person, he/she doesn’t hear any suggestion, and then he/she thinks he/she is all right.

Ambition is future. When you really want to chase a goal that you wish, that means you are not far from the future because you are diligent and ambitious to get your wish, maybe you complete to get your goal in your future.

Quick Write

A long time ago, I was in Paris that near Eiffel Tower, Arc De Triomphe, and any beautiful place. there was comfortable, peaceful, and tranquil, it was an appropriate country to visit. Then the weather was not really hot and not really cold, it was a good time to go there, too. Sometimes I hoped that I wanted to live ther for a long time because of the good place and good weather. One thing I would like to talk about was Eiffel Tower because it was tall and steady. If you looked at it from far place, you can see a big traingle that stand on there. It was interesting and outstanding. If I was free next time, I would go to visit there again.

Let Your Backbone Slide Lyrics - video (rap)

P. 201 - Reader Response

After finishing seeing this page, I know that how to read a poem and what is imagery. If you read a story, listen a song, and watch a movie, you can think about how these images show the main senses. How the author, singer, and actor/actress share their own experience? It's important to the audience understand how they feel at that time.  After realizing the poem's rule, I know that a poem is differ from a story. The authors should know more details to create perfect own poem because if they don't follow the rule, the readers sometimes don't understand what you want to present. That's why this is very important.

Music - Heal The World by Michael Jackson

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After finishing listening this song, I feel peaceful and it is tuneful. I like this song because I can get the meaning from it and it shows that we have to make our world better. For example, if there is a poor country near us, we have to help them, and then give them some food and drink. That's why I think this song is touching and moving, I hope everyone can hear this song, and then let's heal the world.

Imagery

This song, "I Am A Rock", shows that the singer is along and everywhere is slient. After that, I think the singer wants to get excitement because he wants to be a rock and the surroundings are so quiet. However, if he is an island, he wants to build walls that can block friendship outside of there. then includes love that he doesn't want to happen.

video project reflection

After finishing this project, my group members and I actually work diligently together. We also show our lots of great effort because we have to act something that will let us feel embarrasing. Although we were embarrassed when the video was showed during the class, we were still brave to face in the class.  When we filmed the video during the rest of time, we had a lot of fun with it. When you make some funny joke or do some stupid behavior in the film, we laughed and derided. That's why I like doing this video project.

"Retreat of the Tiger Mother" Reader Response

In this article, we know that Asian people like to blame or torture other people because they want to show that they are the best or things like they do everything correct and perfect. I think they are too arrogent and too much self-confidence. After finishing this article, Asian people want to say the truth, but use the mean way, which is to blame Amy. However, she finds that when they blame her, Asian people actually don't tell the truth. Because Asian people want whole the world to understand that they are not really strict and severe. I think Asian people have some problems in daily life, they just want to torture someone to say the truth then spread out. That's why I don't like Asian people. I love Eastern people because they are not really strict and give the children much freedom. If I am in Eastern then live there, I will feel comfortable and free.

The definition of success

Success is someone who is done well on something and someone has acheived something. that you want and have been tried or got. If I study hard on the test and it is better than last test, that means you acheive your goal and something you want to get it. Last year, I didn't do well on the medterm and final so my mom sometimes punish me for a while. However, I improve a lot this year because I know that If I don't do well on the test, I will be blamed by my mom. That's why I study very hard this year, I don't want my mom disappointed me. I think this is one of the definition of success, and this is a better example for students. Every parents want to let their children get a high grade, that means they want let their children be successful as they repected for. I hope I can improve a lot next year and I will try my best if I study hard.

"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" Reader Response

I like this article. When I didn't get A on the midtems or finals, my mom would blame me and punish me.
Sometimes I felt full of pressure because my mom managed me very often when I didn't get a grade that my mom didn't expected for. I sometimes thought she was annoying and troublesome. If I didn't get a high grade, my mom sometimes would limit me about watching movie and playing outside. After that, I had to stay and study again and again at home. Actually, I didn't like this life and that will made me feel nervous because I had to do every well on the test, that's impossible. my favorite life style was free and comfortable as Western childrens. I think this life style was great and couldn't be limited a lot by parents. Therefore, I think Chinese parents shouldn't be too strict, they should be free to their children. I think giving their children too much pressure is not always good for them, they should feel free to do anything. After all, every child has own ability to complete things.

What features, such as photographs, charts, or facts, did you like or dislike in a book you read?

I like movie posters in books I read because this is my favorite activity, and I like any books that include movie posters, such as a movie magizines. this book not only includes introduction, character, and article of film, but also includes a lot of movie posters, every page almost has a movie poster at least, and they are kind of photographs. Every month will include new and special posters that makes me surprised and interested, that makes me happy, too.

I dislike black and white pictures in books I read because sometimes they make me confused a lot. I like pictures that includes a lot of colors on them, that makes me more comfortable and feel well. Black and white pictures only have two colors on it, they are not colorful and too monotonous for me, and they are more worse than pictures that have colors, too. That's why I really hate black and white pictures in books I read, they are boring for me.

Quick Write - Perfect School

Describe to me your perfect school:

My perfect school would have less homework and lots of activities in school. However, it is impossible because students in school are to learn some knowledge and finish the homework that teachers require. If I want to choose which school is perfect for me, I will choose Experimental School.

Actually, there is a lot of homework and projects to do in ES, but why I choose this school? Because there is a lot of activities and  that we can spend this time taking the rest and having fun, I think this school is better than others. Although we have a lot of homework, tests, and projects, I still can learn a lot from these and learn my participation from the project because the most important thing for me is to participate or discuss more about project with classmates. That's why I had a lot of fun and didn't full lots of pressure from there.

I hope everyone in this school thinks as me that this is a perfect school that can learn a lot of stuff and enjoy cheerfully there.

New Year's Resolutions

NewYear's Resolutions are promises we make to ourselves about what we will do to improve ourselves or our situation during the coming year. What are 5 of your New Year's Resolutions? Why did you pick them?

1. I hope I can do a better job in school, and my grade can be better than last year. I need to improve my schoolworks and English skills.

2. I wish the movie will be better this year because there isn't lots of good movie last year especially at Christmas break.

3. I hope I can improve my badminton skill a lot because I'm in badminton team and I don't want to lose the badminton match again.

4. I wish I can be more responsible than last year. I need to hand out homework early and participate more in the class.

5. I wish I can get a high grade about SAT Math Test, this is very important for me and this is concerned about your career.

From the Odyssey, Part Two - Response

The meeting of Father and son: Odysseus finally returned home after twenty years, I think his son was confused because he wore rags as a beggar that his son couldn't recognize him. Then he didn't look like original appearance. Finally Odysseus persuade him, he cried and hugged his father with surprise.

Death at the Palace: Odysseus start revenging the suitors because they have stolen something from his house, then he start using his adept method to kill them. After that, he let the head of suitors, Autuous drink the wine until he got a hangover. When he fell asleep, Odysseus could kill him at the good moment. Furthermore, the other suitors would be slaughtered by falcons in the great hill, too. Although he was very cruel, he used his plan successfully as a hero.

Odysseus and Penelope: His wife, Penelope tried to recognize him with wearing rags, same as his son. I think his adornment of all body was unobvious and hard to know that he was Odysseus. his mother tried to use some methods to let her son recognize that he was really his father. Finally, when his son made sure that his real status, they embrassed together.

From the Odyssey, Part One - Response

Odyssey was an adventurous and strong person. he could use various and lots of way to solve any problems such as sticking in cave. Finally, they still escaped from that cave successfully. Another interesting thing is that made Cyclops blind. he used the pike of olive to put on Cyclops' eye, and this pike was charred and reddened already. However, he used fake name that called " Nohbdy" to treat Cyclops when he was making him blind. This word was just like" nobody", if there is nobody has hurt him, there is nothing they can do to help; and so they leave. Every plan was hold in his brain, and he showed that how the hero was. That's why he was really proud of himself, too.

American History - Response

The first plot of narrative is that the author made friend who was his neighbor, Eugene, and they both got hated in school, too. However, the most terrible thing was that President Kennedy was shot, everybody was upset and feel not good. Everyone stayed inside and didn't go any where because of his death besides the author. At that night, the author wen to Engene's house to study. However, Engene's mother blames the author to go home and don't come to her house anymore. I think the author was rude and careless about the President's death, only he was daring to go outside. After Engene's mother's admonishment, the author was reflected and understood that he shouldn't be outside. Finally he changed his good attitude to face this event.

Rising Tides - Response

This essay is very obvious that we need to stand up to protect our planet and stop global warning continuing. many strange things are coming, mostly glacier are shrinking, sea level is rising, and the seasons are changing, but why the government leaders are not responding to these problems? I think this is a very serious issue for us. The government should be brave and courageous to speak up that we should stop happening this again and we should try to save our planet. If they don't speak up, we won't notice that what happen to us. This is very important for announcement. we can start sloving with basic, such as no production of trash, and the use of carbon dioxide without a large number, etc. If we can achieve this goal, I wish we can reduce some global warming's problems.