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13-21 Reading Review

1. They plan to take out the careers food supply by blowing it up. It unfolds by after Katniss blows up the food she goes back to the meeting spot and Rue isn’t there. She starts to look for her but she finds her trapped under a net with a spear in her.

“Today we take out the careers' food.” I say. pg. 210

2. They meet up when the announcement is made and Katniss goes out to find him. Katniss follows the blood trail and she finds him camouflaged under the mud by the river. When she finds him his leg is badly hurt and she has to help him. Once she cleans his leg they go to a cave to sleep. The star crossed lover act is still going so they can get gifts from the sponsors. When they act like lovers they get gifts that help them survive.

“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it;s al right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.” pg. 253

3. When Katniss gets to the bag Clove tries to kill her. When they are fighting Clove tries to cut her, but Thresh rips Clove off Katniss because she was talking about how they killed Rue. Thresh killed Clove to get revenge. Katniss gets away with the bag. In the bag is a thing of medicine to help fix Peetas leg.  

“Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?” pg. 288

4. At first Katniss goes to look for Peeta so they both can live, and she thought that if she didn't look for him the people watching would be mad because they are supposed to be the star crossed lovers that are in love with each other. When she finds him, he is badly hurt and she needs to take care of him. “Let’s get you in the stream, wash you off so I can see what kind of wounds you’ve got.” When she finishes cleaning his wound they go to a cave so they can have shelter and protection. There she gives him food to eat and takes care of his wound even more. “Maybe I’ll put some of the burn ointment on it. I think it helps with the infection anyway. Wrap it up?” Katniss genuinely cares while taking care of Peeta, only the love act is fake so they can get supplies they need. If she was only doing it for the game she probably wouldn’t have given Peeta her burn ointment, she would have saved it for herself. 

Air Conditioner Protest Project

Dear Moanalua High School, 

 We propose that air conditioners are needed in all classrooms on the Moanalua High School campus. With air conditioners in all classrooms, students will have better concentration while doing their school work. Studies show that concentration and cognitive abilities decline substantially after a room reaches 77 or 78 degrees according to the New York Times. With Hawaii’s temperature ranging around low 70 degrees fahrenheit and high 80 degrees fahrenheit in Honolulu according to gohawaii.com. Though some days during winter and certain rainy days air conditioners are not needed because temperatures are already in perfect learning temperature. However the rest of the school year students have to go through the school day in uncomfortable overheated classrooms. “It has been found by research that in the comfort conditions the working capacity of the human beings increases. If the room temperature is very high, not all the heat from the body is released and the person feels uncomfortable from deep within that causes irritation of mind and lack of concentration.” according to the Bright Hub Engineering. Some students on campus might have allergic reactions to dust or pollen. Also with our global warming issues our earth’s atmosphere has a lot pollution. The air conditioners have filters built into them, so they filter out the unclean air so the students in the classroom will breath in clean air. “One in five Americans spends at least part of the day in a school building. In February 1995, the U.S. Government Accounting Office released a survey indicating that more than half of U.S. schools have deficiencies that adversely affect indoor air quality. In addition to triggering asthma attacks in susceptible children, poor indoor air quality causes drowsiness, inability to concentrate, and lethargy. Whether poor air quality forces students to actually miss class because of asthma attack, or whether it simply reduces attentiveness, learning is compromised.” said the http://sdpl.coe.uga.edu/articlesandpapers/lyons.html. Our plan of action is to spread the word about our protest through flyers and social media. This protest will be in front of the our administration building because this is where the principal and top administrators have their offices.  This protest will be peaceful because we want to be civil people in our community. Also we feel that we don’t need to be destructive in order to get our point across. The protest signs will have slogans and facts about air conditioners and the positives of having them. Due to cost and the budget that our school has from the Department of Education (DOE) “roughly $1.4 billion” we understand the difficulty of adding something like this in your budget. However our group would really appreciate that you understand why we are going to protest. We are standing up for the students at the Moanalua High School so we can make a change in the our learning environment. 

 Sincerely, 

Jessica Kalen, Erin Kobayashi, and Skyler Yamamoto 

Grade 10 

Protest Poster #2

Protest Poster

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MacBeth Essay Final

      Change can be both a good and bad thing. If you change to become a better person for yourself then that is a good example of change, but if you change to fit into someones life and change the person you are is a bad example. For example in the play “MacBeth” by William Shakespeare, a character named Macbeth changes to fill his wife Lady MacBeth needs for power.  He has changed his morals in life to make another happy, even if that means killing the ones closest to him. MacBeth loses everything he once cherished for power that he didn’t even want. William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. 

      MacBeth in the beginning of the story was thought of as a humble person. People liked him and thought that he was a strong noble warrior. “I wish you had deserved less, so that I might have been able to give you thanks and payment in a proportion greater then you deserve. I can only say that more is owing to you then can ever be repaid.” But then MacBeth received a message from the three witches telling him that he would become king once King Duncan died. MacBeth wrote a letter telling Lady Macbeth what would happen. However, Lady MacBeth wanted to gain the power faster so she told MacBeth to kill the king. "When Duncan is asleep, which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to, I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?” With getting a glimpse of a life they could have Lady MacBeth is already trying to convince MacBeth to change for the bad. 

       Lady MacBeth convinced MacBeth to kill Duncan by calling him a coward and telling him that "If Duncan hadn't looked like my father in his sleep, I'd have done it myself.” causing his morals to change. MacBeth killed someone because his wife told him to, and he didn’t want to upset her so he did. After he killed Duncan MacBeth was paranoid about everything. Every little sound he heard he would freak out about. Whenever someone would whisper he thought that they knew what he and Lady MacBeth did. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” MacBeth is changing more and more each time people talk leading him to become someone he's not. He sent out murderers to kill Banquo, his best friend, because the three witches said that his children would be kings. After the death of Banquo, Macbeth wasn’t quit the same. Turning a kind, loyal man into a monster afraid of everything all for the name of King and Queen

      With having stolen power, MacBeth was more suspicious of everything. He grew more frantic about the crimes he had committed that he sent murderers out to kill MacDuff because he was told by the three witches that MacDuff was a danger, so to get him out of the way he was going to kill him. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife.” But when the murderers got to MacDuff place he already left to find Malcolm. The day MacDuff was coming to battle MacBeth his wife died. The wife he cared so much for, that he killed people for committed suicide because she was overwhelmed with killing Duncan. “The queen, my lord, is dead.” But MacBeth didn’t care, he stopped caring for her because he was too caught up in everything else to focus on anything besides staying alive himself. In the end MacBeth died, and Malcolm became king. It’s fitting that the power MacBeth fought so hard for to get ended up killing him in the end.

      William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. That is exactly what happened to MacBeth. He changed who he was, for power that he wasn’t supposed to have. He may have physically died at the end, but the person he once was died when he decided to kill to Duncan for power. He lost all of his morals, thus the man he changed into was for the worst, not for the greater good. He should have just waited for his time to be king, not trying to change fate and make it come faster. Shakespeare teaches us to stay true to who you are and not to change for someone else.