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Would you want your future to be decided by others ? why or why not ?

I would not want my future to be chosen by other. I would not want this because in the book of the giver there are so many rules they HAVE to follow but here in our world there are rules but we have the freedom to choose what we want to do. For example in the book on page 78 Jonas has to relax and the old Receiver tells him about snow and he says some things that jonas does not know what they are. These things are, a sled, runners, and a downhill. This shows that Jonas does not know what many things are because he is not freedom to experience real life like we experience it. Also in the book of the Giver they have a cure for everything, everything is perfect, nothing is wrong with their lives. All in all I would not like people to chose my future !

The End Is Here ...

I chose to write about Henry and how he has changed in ten cha

pters of the book The White Mountains because I think he is the one out of the three boys who has changed the most. I think this because in the beginning of the book (page 5) it describes Henry to be: '' he was a month younger than I, but taller and Heavier, and we hated each other as long as I could remember. WHen it came to fighting, as it very often did, I was outmatched physically, and had to rely on agility and quickness of I were not going to be beaten ''. So obviously, as it describes, Henry it seems as thought he is mean and very strong. He is not the sort of guys you want to be messing with. As they went on with their journey Henry started to just agree and say nothing mean to Will (page 46) '' I said '' You do as you like. I am lying up.'' Henry shrugged '' We'll stay here, if you say so''. '' I think this shows how Henry has sort of seen that there is no point in hurting Will because they wont get any where with it and it will just make the journey not fun and maybe not worth while either.

When Henry and Will were running away from the supposed to be people (actually sheep) Will tripped and hurt his ankle and during Wills recovery Henry was very nice to Will because he got food for each other and he took care of Will. So this shows that Henry and Will were becoming more comfortable with each other and they could take care and be nice to each other.

Once Will and Henry were in France they met Bean-Pole who helped them out a lot and showed then the a way to the White Mountains. Henry soon began to take Bean- Poles side and was excluding Will a lot and there is an example on page 84 '' Bean-Pole said '' The steps - they are so wide ten people could go side by side. Where do they lead ?'' I said '' Does it matter ? If we aren't resting, we'd better get going on'' ''If I could see ...'' Bean-Pole said. '' Why was such a thing built, so great great tunnel?'' ''Who cares?'' I shrugged ''You wouldn't see anything down there.'' '' We've got two candles,'' Henry said. I said angrily ''We haven't got time. We don't ant to have to spend a night here.'' They ignored me. Henry said to Bean-Pole, '' We could go a bit of the way down, and see what there is.'' Bean-Pole nodded. I said'' It's stupid'' Henry said ''You don't need to come, if you don't want to. You can stay here and rest'' In this part of the book Henry is agreeing with Bean-Pole because Henry and Bean-Pole are close friends. Will does not like the way that Henry and Bean-Pole are treating him. When Henry says 'you can stay her is you want' it makes you seem like he really does not want Will to come with.

When they are in the Castle of The Red Tower Will starts to change his mind and he does not want to go to the White mountains anymore because he does not want to leave the luxury that he was in because he was enjoying it so much. Page 127 '' I shook my head '' I am not coming.'' Bean-Pole asked '' Why, Will?'' Henry said nothing, but stood there with a smile on his broad face, that I felt hated, at this moment, even more than at home in Wherton. ''. This part describes how Henry really does not like Will anymore because he seems so happy that Will said he will not go with them to the White Mountains. A few para graphs later Will says: '' I said '' I'll give you a day to get clear, two perhaps. I'll Follow. I'll try to catch up with you; but don't wait for me.'' Henry laughed '' We won't'' This shows that Henry really does not like Will at all because it seems like he really wont wait for him. This was one of the last times Will was not very nice to Henry.

So in conclusion Henry was not nice at all in the beginning of the book and then he gradually became nicer and nicer, then they met Bean-Pole, as Henry got to know Bean-Pole he kept on taking Bean-Poles side. Then from there on Henry was not treating Will very nice at all because I think Henry was thinking back to when they had all the fights and he was just very angry and upset about everything.

In parts of the book I liked it and in parts I didn't because in some of the most adventurous the author didn't put much detail and if he did then I would be able to picture it more/ visualize it, but in parts is was very fun to read and it made you want to read on. So I think I liked this book 50-50. In the beginning of the book I was not very interested in the book because it does not have a very interesting beginning, but as I read on I liked it a little bit more.

! FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM !

Will started to discover life with the Comtesse, Eloise, Comte and all the wonderful people in the castle could make a wonderful life. Will started to see that maybe capping was not so bad after all. He thought that he could become a knight and live at the castle forever and never go to the White Mountains Mountains. Your life controlled by tripods, never to be able to think for yourself ever again. Will started to doubt the fact of having no freedom ‘What value did courage have, without a free and challenging mind to direct it?’ Will couldn’t bear the thought of not having freedom at all. Will also realized that Eloise had no feeling for him at all and he decided that life at the castle was a waste and he had to continue his journey to a full life of wonderful freedom.

wOrLd MuSiC (silence) wOrK

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that (silence) challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I fell that adding a silence after the word 'that' creates the best tension. When you add the void after 'that' the audience will be like 'exceptional education what?'. It will create the best tension because the audience wants to know what ISKL could provide for their children. Most of the time parents want a good school for heir kids and this could totally grad their attention.


One way composers put tension and release in their music is by putting a sudden stop to their music, like a sudden unexpected silence and it makes the person think what is the song done?, and then unexpected the music starts again.

sNaPsShOt Of My HoLiDaY :)

I was the first one to wake up on Christmas day and my grandparents were here. I was so exited because we could open all our presents soon. I was so happy I dashed into my grand parents room and said with a very proud voice ''Ho Ho Merry Christmas''. They sat up and we wished each other a happy Christmas then next I went to my parents room and I did exactly the same and they did exactly the same. I did not do the same to my brother or my sister because they are teenagers and of course they sleep a lot more than I do but I am catching up. So I left them and I went down stairs to go have a look at the presents under the tree. The present were all so colorful and it made me so exited I decided to go and wake up my brother and sister to do what I did to my grandparents and my parents.

Later on that wonderful day of Christmas my sister and I helped my mom in the kitchen to prepare the food for our Christmas dinner. It was a lot of fun because we decorated the table full of green and red things. My sister and I put the food nicely on the plates and everything. In between we took breaks to relax and enjoy Christmas with the family.

We ate our wonderful delicious Christmas dinner, it was so good I couldn't believe it. Now it was time to open our presents, I was really happy. We all opened one present at a time. I was so happy with all my presents. I Knew a lot of my presents before hand because I had to choose a lot of my presents, but I had made myself forget most of them but there was one I couldn't forget because I got ... well my brother and sister got a PUPPY for Christmas. It was probably the best present I have ever gotten for Christmas. The puppy is a golden retriever and she is so so so absolutely adorable.

My Christmas was so nice It is a Christmas I will never forget.

Skills and Goals :) :)

Skills I have learned so far in my life as a middle schooler in drama class we learned how to control out voices; like when we speak loud if we use our throat then the quality wont be as good as when you use your diaphragm and you will hurt your vocal cords ... so we have to use our diaphragm in order to sound better. We also learned all the steps of your voice. So in this unit in drama I learned to control my voice.

Challenges have faced me in the past 5 months I have over come them but one that was a bit of a struggle was to memorize my schedule. I had bit of a struggle memorizing it because you were always so busy in the beginning of the year because you had to memorize combination's for your locker (normal locker, PE locker and for some people band locker) and remembering what to bring to your classes. It was always a bit crazy during breaks and passing periods because a few days I forgot my schedule at home and I had to go around and ask teachers if they could give me my schedule, most of the time they could give it to me but sometimes there was no time especially when I had to go to art ! At the end of about our second week I had memorized most of my classes, but now I know my schedule like nothing else, and to tease me my sister knew it was hard for me to memorize my schedule so now every morning she asks me what your first class and I just laugh :)

A skill I want to learn is to improve on my writing, I have never really been great at writing so i really want to improve on that during the second half of the year and my weaknesses are test, they bring my grades down so if I get good grades in other things we do in class then my tests wont effect mt grades so much.

I have demonstrated the MS core values when I contributed when we went on field trips with chin refugee and I helped Gloria, Victoria, Zarina and April with their breast cancer research by helping to make the ribbons and by helping selling things at there stand. I have also given in lost things I found around the school and I gave it to the MS office.

Two goals for the new year is to keep my grades up and to stay fit. I am going to do this by taking more sport activities and I will bring my grades up by working harder in class and not doing other things at home that distract me from my school work :)