Killing Mr. Griffin

• What did you create?
• For this blog I created a picture of a scene from the book that we are reading this quarter, Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan.  In this book a group of kids decide to kidnap their English teacher because they think he's too mean and they want to teach him a lesson.  But things go too far and he dies.

• What inspired you to create this?
  • I was inspired to create this because this is the scene I pictured in my mind when I was reading the book. I drew the waterfall and the Mr. Griffin's green car and his dead body.

• How did you create this?

• I created this using Microsoft Paint on my computer

• How does this connect to the unit theme or extend understand of the unit essential question?

• This connects to the unit theme because it's representative of the book we are reading this unit.  

The standards I used for this blog post are

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2.C
Spell correctly.

I spelled the words correctly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5
Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

My picture is an example of graphical digital media.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)

Life Changes.

 
For my blog post I decided to use something I made in fifth grade.  It was pretty much about life changes.

Here it is:

An event can change a person’s life in a good or bad way.  A good life change could be a new job or getting a new puppy.  A bad life change could be losing your job or someone passing away.  When I was in the first grade I experience a life changing event when I got glasses.  This life change was both positive and negative for me.  It was positive because I could see a lot better and it was easier for me to participate in school.  It also was positive because it stopped my headaches that I got from not being able to see.  This life change was negative because sometimes it’s hard to remember my glasses.  Sometimes my glasses break and I have to get a new pair.  Getting glasses can also be a negative life change because people could make fun of you or call you “four eyes.”  Lucky for me it never happens.  This is an example of how life changes can be not just positive or just negative but can be both.

I decided to use this because it is interesting to see my point of view from back then and to see how my perceptions have changed. Back then I worried about what people might say about my glasses, but now and I don't worry anymore. Because my perceptions have changed so have my actions.  Back then I might have decided not to wear my glasses or to accidentally "forget" them because I was afraid of what people might say. But now I always make sure I have them.  It's more important to be able to see than to listen to or care about people judging you.

The standards  I used are:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.