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1. Idea: A girl who has an interest in the supernatural accidentally summons a warlock from another dimension. 2. Theme: Adventure often comes in the most unlikely forms, as well as there is more than one face a person shows the world. 3. Plot: Rayla, an honors student, with a penchant for the supernatural is brought into suspicion by her mother who hears her chanting spells into her room. As a deeply religious person, her mother sends her to Jesus camp in hopes that it would break her…

Annotations: p 8 Posture: The posture of the lady in this picture indicates urgency to the message she is receiving for example her hand is gripping the table giving away that the message is intense and she was scared. If she moved her hand from the table there would surly be a sweaty hand print on the table. The man in the picture has his hand on his face suggesting so much emotion of being worried from the message he is receiving and his eyebrows are arched showing intensity to how he was…

Colonialism means control by one country over another area and its people. Western Kenya would be politically and economically exploited by Britain. In 1895, Britain colonized western Kenya. British would rule western Kenya would last until 1963. This exact scenario takes place in the book, Worries of the Heart by Kenda Mutongi. In the book, Mutongi talks about western Kenya’s history during the 20th century. One of the major themes that Mutongi discusses is colonialism. Mutongi discusses…

1. Annotations: A series of notes, questions, insights, and reflections that occur during the reading/discussion process. Include page number on annotations. Amount: 5-15 • The author takes time for herself to find a place • She’s homeless within herself. • Dillard is living with nature, instead of going against it. • This essay shows that people can’t put a cost of destruction of nature. • She finds connection within herself. • No one pay attention to small things. However, they do matter. •…

Faculty Office Visitation Form by Marines Heredero 1. IDH 1001 Faculty member Christopher Migliaccio Course ___IDH1001____ Visit date & time: October 13th at 8:45 am Q1. I will like to discuss your annotations on my IDH and me paper. Also, are there any observations you have about my progress up to know and some strategies to improve my writing? A1. My professor checked his comments on my paper and highlighted the fact that sometimes I described the assignments instead of explaining why it…

I come from a Turkish community where most of my friends are Turkish native speakers. Since they all came to the United States after graduating from high school, they’re not very fluent in English. They always come to me for help when writing their essays or when they do not understand their assignments. I think one of the most impactful “one-on-one” tutoring experiences I had was when I had to revise and tutor my friend on writing her personal essay for her college application. She didn’t have…

I ask my grandfather about my family back in Uganda, and pore over my grandmothers’ sanskrit music annotation. I add languages onto my ever-expanding “to learn” list; in school, I learned Spanish, then switched to French, and after a trip to Italy this summer, I became determined to learn Italian and Latin. In grade six, though, I learned a different kind…

song, Mike Posner expresses his own dissatisfaction with his mundane lifestyle and breaks away from what society expects of him. In the first verse, “Virginia Wolff and poetry, no one seemed to notice me”, as Posner explains himself on his Genius annotation, represents how Mike feels that he does not have a voice in explaining literature within an AP literature class. In addition, “Being young was getting so old” demonstrates how Posner becomes bored of the societal expectations of people his…

TITLE/Headline? Is that a funky hockey puck, or just Tupperware container for your lunch? Nope, it is a LabDisc from Globisens. Students in Ms Keith’s Advanced Placement Environmental Science class were almost giddy as tested and probed the goldfish water as they prepared for their ecocolumn terrarium projects. “We can use more than one probe at the same time!” quipped Lia DeGroot. These students were using the LabDisc GenSci from Globisens. Billed as an all in one STEM labs, these devices…

There are many theories on how John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, but which one is true? John Kennedy was not the best president the United States had but he had goals to make the country better. He was forty-three when he was elected, he was the youngest president to be elected. On May 25,1961, he addressed congress saying “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”…