Michael+K's+journal



warm-up: In the novel, Juan's life and his expectations of success change. In your journal, write a paragraph in which you define success in your own life. Explain why you define success as you do.
 * Thursday, June 3rd CW:**

My success is that I am still alive from my sister's deadly assaults. My sister, in my whole lifetime gave me three fatal assaults. The first one happened when I was very young. I've fallen for my sister's wicked tricks and seriously injured my forehead. I almost died of losing too many blood. The second assault happened when I was 11. This time, my sister, when I just put my fingers between the door, slammed the door shut. I got some fingers broken. The third one happened when I was 12. It wasn't that deadly but she just ran over me with a bike. Luckily though, I survived those assaults. I think that is my best success ever.

3. [|Read a newspaper.] Find and create a link that shows each one of the sections of the newspaper you are to write. News story: [|South Korea's Right of Self Defense] Editorial: [|Hatoyama Yukio's Reversal] Advertisement: [|Apple Macintosh Commercial (1984)] Entertainment Review: Sports article: Want Ads Comic:

warm-up: Write a poem that is a conversation between an animal and its habitat. Post.
 * Classwork Monday, April 12th:**

My dear home once, it was green and full of life but now, where is my home?

I am here, under the civilization under the buildings and roads and under destruction

04/02/10

Quotes by Authors

"Men trust their ears than their eyes"- Herodotus

Men tend to believe what they hear from other people than what they actually see through their eyes (wordy sentence)

1. Sentence fluency exercise warm-up:
 * Classwork March 31st:**

a) Change this sentence to be less wordy. Post. //Of all the many things that bother me about bad writing, the fault that really annoys me most is wordiness - the tendency to put in more words than you// //need.

Wordiness bothers me the most while writing.//

b) Read together this website to reduce wordiness: []

c) Now, choose one of your sentences that may be too wordy and change. Post both.

My wordy sentence- At home, students can study, sports, or anything else rather than doing homework

Adjusted sentence- At home, students can work on something else than doing homework

d) Write the first words of each of your sentences from your first paragraphs. What parts of speech are they?

Many- adj. Homework- noun

We- Pronoun

Class- noun

At- Preposition

Class- noun

So- adj.

Homework-noun

1. Sentence Fluency warm-up. //Homework at KIS often results in stres//s. Homework at KIS causes stress
 * Classwork Monday, March 29th:**

Homework at KIS is very stressful

Homework at KIS make students very stressed

08/03/10

How to make my favorite food- One of my favorite foods are ramen. So I will tell you how to cook Ramen. First, you need to buy a ramen package (very obvious) and a pack of dumplings. Then, prepare a steel pot and a bowl and then start boiling 500 ml of water. When it is boiling, put in the ramen sauce and ramen noodles. If you like you can put in eggs. I tried putting in some tuna but don't try it, it is pie in the sky. Then, put in dumplings and wait for about 1~2 minutes. The final step is to EAT IT!!!!



05/03/10

More than one way to skin a cat- There are different ways to achieve the same thing

More than meets the eye- More complex than it appears to be

Dear S.O.

It was more than meets the eye to hang around with you. You are so different than me. When I like horror films (I really do), you like romance films which I really hate. Every time I watch those kind of movies, I get goosebumps all over my skin. I can't handle it anymore. There are more than one way.

23/02/10

Underline subject Make red the verb Italicize the direct object Make blue the indirect object Bold the adjective

__Kathryn__ baked Yena a **delicious** //cake.//



1. Idioms
 * Classwork Friday, Feb 19th:

Once in a blue moon- very rare

ex) My mom was not angry at me for staying up late. Those kind of events happens Once in a blue moon.

On the top of the world- everything is going well

ex) The game with the CPUs turned out to be on the top of the world.

My lunar break was very simple. Me and my family went to my grandpa's home and stayed there for the entire break. I brought my MacBook and played all day long. My mom let it pass, and these kind of events happens in once in a blue moon. However, I was playing a game with my cousin brother who also has a MacBook. I was fighting alone and my cousin brother had 5 more companions. Unlike most of the people (my aunts and uncles) expected, the game turned out to be on the top of the world. We also received a lot's of money from our relatives. The holiday was pretty simple and fun.**

1. Idioms warm-up. -dime a dozen def) extremely common ex) World of Warcraft guides are dime a dozen around the internet
 * Classwork Wednesday, Feb 10th:**

-don't count your chickens before they hatch def) to wait until you know wether something something has produced the results you desired ex) Henry, don't count your chickens before they hatch. You don't now yet about the project.

02/09/10  1. Go in 2. In many villages 3. In the eyes

02/01/10 †
 * 1) 1 I went to Hagwon
 * 2) 3 I joyfully went to Hagwon
 * 3) 5 I happily hopped to wonderful Hagwon

28/01/10 

Mince Words- Not saying the what the word really means very clearly

Miss the boat- To miss out

Dear Michael

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26/01/10 

Wild goose chase- A hopeless chase

With flying colors- With great success

Dear Michael...

Today, I went trough a wild goose chase trying to tame my pet dog. The dog won't follow my orders which is totally sad. But I hope that one day, I will play around with my dog with flying colors.

01/21/10 

Rain check-A promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future My friend failed to keep his promise to take me to an amusement park. He said he will give me a rain check.

Q.T.- Quiet time My mom thought it was so noisy that she announced that it will be Q.T. for now on.

15/01/10 

Flash in the pan- something which disappoints by failing

14/01/10 

Rome was not built in a day- Many things cannot be done instantly and it requires time and patience When I was struggling with clearing the campaign missions in a game, my sister told me that Rome was not built in a day.

Round peg in a square hole- A person who's unsuited for a position or an activity. Mac was a round peg in a square hole as a colonel

12/01/10 

School of hard knocks-Painful education that makes one very uncomfortable

Shoot from the hip- To react quickly without thinking of the aftereffects

I had a school of hard rocks at hagwon. Also I was very gloomy that day and I went very mad. At home, my sister made me really angry by staining my bed with orange juice. I shot from the hip and punched my sister. My mom was mad and I got punished. This all happened at Sunday.

06/01/10 

Out on a limb- I n a situation where you lack support The battlefront is out on a limb

Out of the woods- past a critical phase The patient is out of the woods.

My mom was angry yesterday on me. I was out on a limb nobody, even my dad cannot help me. But I was out of the woods because the pizza we ordered came.

07/12/09 

Loose Cannon- R efers to an irresponsible and reckless individual Tickled Pink- Very much pleasured and entertained

For many days I was a loose cannon for not ding my schoolwork. So one day, I was harassed by my mom for not doing schoolwork. But that day, as I watched a gag show, I was tickled pink.

04/12/09 

-In two shake of a lamb's tail means in a very short time

I came back home and my mom was ready to go out. I was instantly happy, because I can play when she was out with my macbook. But she came back in two shake of a lamb's tail. She said that the meeting was canceled.

-Make a mountain out of a molehill means making small issues into big one.

Some newspapers makes a mountain out of a molehill. Some TV programs also do that. I think that is very wrong.

 -Get my goat means making me angry or annoying. My sister got my goat by spitting at my dish once and doing middle finger (whoa) to me. -Get up on the wrong side of the bed means having a bad luck. Once I got up and found out that today was test day and I didn't studied last night- -.

Classwork Monday, November 30th: 1. THE TREE SWAYED LIKE AN OLD MAN. 3. THE WATER WAS CALM. **
 * Do personification warm-up. copy and paste and answer in a different color font. **
 * 2. THE ANIMAL JUMPED HIGH LIKE A POLE VAULT ATHLETE.

THE WIND WAS BLOWING AND IT SOUNDED LIKE A HOWEL.
 * 1. __The wind sang her mournful song__ through the falling leaves.

2. __The microwave timer told me__ it was time to turn my TV dinner. ?????

3. __The video camera observed the whole scene__. THE CAMERA WAS FILMING THE AREA.

4. __The strawberries seemed to sing__, "Eat me first!" THE STRAWBERRIES LOKED VERY DELICIOUS.

5. __The rain kissed my cheeks__ as it fell. 6. __The daffodils nodded their yellow heads__ at the walkers. 7. __The water beckoned invitingly__ to the hot swimmers. Classwork Wednesday, November 25th:** 1. Many new deep water sea creatures are being discovered. [|Take a look at some of them]. Choose one and write a descriptive paragraph about it. Use at least 3 different types of[| figurative language.] Read your paragraph aloud and we'll guess which one it is.

This creature also called 'cucumber' crawls like a snail at the bottom of the ocean. It is a glasslike, transparent creature which shows its curly organs. This cucumber feeds on white animal decays on the bottom of the oceans.

Classwork November 12th: 1. Journal: Read what it[| was like to be a teenager in medieval times.] Then, create a journal entry through the eyes of a medieval teenager. Another laborious day started. My ox would not budge. People were already working on the fields. The landowner was watching over us on the hill. We were all afraid of the disease called cholera. Cholera happened because of the bad sewage. I hate working on the farmland. Suddenly the ox fell down. Oh, no!

 Oooooh~! My mom died and I'm alone on this world. John Aycliffe told me to take the ox to the manor house and Father Quinel told me to pray at the church. What do I have to eat? Without the ox, I can't work on the fields! Should I just die? I think my life is miserable. I just wish my mom never died. Anyways, My head is injured by crashing into this stupid rock in the forest.

**Classwork October** **26th:** 1. Your dreams I dream if becoming a lwayer and then a sipreme court

Many people are pushed toward a goal that he/she does not wants. A judge is a very tough job. And if the judge makes a bad decision abut the case. People will distrust the judge and.

**Classwork October 19th:** 1. Journal: Choose one of the characters from Ulysses. Create a journal entry from their POV. Students will guess who it is. It was a starving day. Our crew members were devoted to find and kill wild pigs. They devoured the pig as soon as they slaughtered them. Today I saw only very few of those puny pigs left. How long will those pigs last? That I do not know. One thing I'm sure of is that we will soon suffer in starvation if that Southern wind is blowing on and on. I hope that gods will cease their anger and let us move toward our homeland, Ithaca. And I also don't hope that my fellow crew members don't eat those huge cattles of the sun god. If that happens, we shall face the wrath of the gods.

**Classwork October 6th:** 1. When you finish the test, journal entry: Think of a 'snapshot' of something memorable that happened to you over the break. Write a paragraph using t[|hird person] [|point of view.] At the Chuseok Break, Michael went to Cambodia, not Finland as he said before.

**Classwork September 24th:**
 * 1. Journal:** KIS is a 1:1 school. What does this mean to you? What are some pros and cons about this?
 * KIS is a 1:1 school which means that every student has a MacBook. By having a access to technology, students can have a high quality work and homework assignments can be easily done. Also, by using the online textbook, students can have a lighter bag which is very good for growing kids. But there is also something bad about this program. That is that students can play games whenever they want and do something bad on the network.**

**Classwork September 22nd:** 1. Journal: Make up your own prompt. 7 sentence minimum. Write your prompt at the top of your entry. MY FAMILY DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD GO FOR A TRIP TO ANOTHER COUNTRY DURING THE CHUSEOK BREAK. I AM SICK OF SOUTHEASTERN ASIA SO MY PARENTS DECIDED TO GO TO A EUROPEAN COUNTRY. BUT I AM REALLY SICK OF PLANES. ANYWAYS MY MOM HAS A PLAN TO GO TO FINLAND, WHERE ONE OF MY REALATIVE LIVES. I HOPE THAT THEY WOULD JUST CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND STAY HERE AT KOREA BECAUSE I AM GOING TO BEIJING ANYWAYS SO I DON'T WANT ANOTHER FLIGHT.**
 * Prompt: Plan for the Chuseok Break (Based on the true story)

1. Journal: Write the first paragraph of a story called 'Land of the Dead' that takes place in your school.
 * Classwork September 16th:**
 * One day on the year 2009, Our School became the new land of the dead. This may sound kind of silly. Every dead soul gathered inour school. We never knew that ghosts exists in our school until bunch of people saw them at the bathroom. The students were terrified and the school was abandoned and the area was devastated. But one day, some stupid guys went into the devastaed school.**

1. Journal: Write about something that has really been annoying you lately. If your life is perfect, make something up. ( 7 sentence minimum)
 * Classwork September 15th:**
 * Well, There was one thing that was annoying me lately. It's about my elder sister who came back from Canada. She is really annoying because she kicks me every time I see her. Well, she says that she kicks me for fun and that is not funny at all. Also, she teases me every time. About my friends and that really makes me annoying. And finally the most annoying stuff about my sister is that when I was 4 (and my sister was 6), I was playing at the playground and my sister showed up and tripped me. The result was that I fell to the ground and almost got killed. That is why my elder sister is very annoying.**

1. Journal: //If you could change something about yesterday, what would it have been and why?
 * Classwork September 9th:**
 * IF I COULD CHANGE SOMETHING ABOUT YESTERDAY, I WOULD CHANGE ABOUT THE SOCIAL STUDIES PROJECT BECAUSE WE RUSHED THE PROJECT. SO I THINK IT IS KIND OF LOW QUALITY WORK. I WANT TO CHANGE THAT PART.**//

1. Warm-up Journal: How is your day going? 7 sentences minimum. //**WELL, THIS MORNING, I RUSHED BECAUSE I WAS WATCHING DEATH NOTE AND FORGOT IT WAS MONDAY. AT SCHOOL, THE FIRST BLOCK WAS PRE-ALGEBRA WHICH IS MATHEMATICS AND WHICH I REALLY HATE. THE SECOND BLOCK, WHICH IS D BLOCK WAS SCIENCE. I HAVE SCIENCE WITH MY FRIEND, SABIN. BUT TODAY, HE IGNORED ME AND SAID, "WHO ARE YOU?". THE PREVIOUS DAY, ELLIOT CAME TO MY HOUSE AND LEFT HIS MOUSE. SO AT LUNCH, I RETURNED THE MOUSE TO HIM. TODAY'S LUNCH WAS SINGAPORE NOODLES. WHICH I DON'T QUITE LIKE. E BLOCK WAS PE AND WE PLAYED FLOOR HOCKEY. THE GOOD THING IS THAT I SCORED 3 GOALS IN A ROW. WHICH IS HAT TRICK. AND FINALLY, I'M IN MR. SCHWAGLER'S ENGLISH CLASS WHICH IS F BLOCK (THE FINAL BLOCK OF THE DAY).**//
 * Classwork September 7th:**

Classwork September 4th: //IF I COULD VISIT ANT PLACE ON EARTH, I WILL VISIT RUSSIA. THE REASON WHY I SELECTED RUSSIA IS BECAUSE THIS NATION I BIGGEST NATION IN THE WORLD. ALSO, THERE ARE LOT'S OF HISTORICAL SITES SUCH AS ST. PETERSBURG AND MOSCOW. ALSO, I WOULD WANT TO GO TO LAKE BAIKAL BECAUSE IT IS THE OLDEST LAKE AND THE DEEPEST. IN KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, THERE ARE LOT'S OF NATURAL RESERVES. FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO RIDE THE CROSS-SIBERIAN TRAIN WHICH IS THE LONGEST TRAIN IN THE WORLD. IT TAKES 6 NIGHTS AND 7 DAYS TO REACH FROM MOSCOW THE IRKUTSK, THE TRAIN'S FINAL DESTINATION.//**
 * 1. Journal Entry: If you could visit any place on earth, where would you go? Why. (At least 5 sentences)g

Classwork August 31st : 1. Warm-up: Journal entry: Which person, living or dead, do you admire the most? Why?

I admire king Sejong the great because he made Korean letters.

Today, I was late. So, I couldn't have my breakfast. Also, I left my wallet at my house. At school I thought I was doomed because I thought today was ABCD which is not. At P.E. Mr. Jones tried to kill us all by making us running around the hill. Also, we were playing dodgeball that when we are hit, we have to do 5 push-ups and get back in. Finally I am at Mr. Schwagler's english class



If I had a super power, I would like to have ability that can fly very fast because if I can fly very fast, I would be able to go anywhere I want all around the world.