Poetry Project

•        What Can I Hear?           

I can hear the highway from my window

I can hear the sound of captain america playing in the background 

I hear as my brother types on his computer 

And how i hear my dad snore as he takes a nap 

I hear the man yelling from downstairs 

And the cars on my street outside my house 

This is what I hear 

What about you

• This poem is based off my heart poem photography 

I hold the memories in my hands  

Things use to be so much better back then 

 ow its all a memory  

Times were happy and pleasant 

 ut its now only a memory  

ow times are tough and difficult  

ut looking back at my memories 

 ake me feel better inside 

 It made me think of the days  

ecause they are not gone  

They are here 

 ight here in my hands

  Extra Credit 

      Trash Talk      Hey let me 1V1 you in call of duty.     

 You talk trash but i will no scope you mate      I will 360* across the map throwing knife you            

 You can’t no scope how do you think you could do that      Ok rules are quickscope no scopes only                        

  You can only use the intervention    I want to use the ballista              Thats not even in this game!    Boom head shot! Get rekt mate!              Omg you hardscoped me! Thats cheating     

No I did not I’m just that good!     

                                   Nah you are bad… Pow! Get rekt! 

    Oh my god you are hacking! I am so leaving    ­

Johnny is mlg left the game­     

                                        Ha Ha. Rage quit!!!

Sonnet
Oh my baby how I love you so much 
And how I love the lovely way you smell 
How I eat you so much every lunch 
And the way you taste oh so every well 
pizza oh pizza how I love you so 
With your beautiful sauce so very red  
And how your shredded cheese looks like white snow 
pizza if you werent here I would be dead 
Oh pizza the way bright white light that  shine 
Oh my pizza you are everywhere 
Oh my baby ia you are so mine 
And when youre not here it is not that fair 
pizza oh pizza I embrace you so 

youll always be mine I hope that you know 

Heart poem response 

In the poem “ Photography” by the poet, James Metcalfe, is about 

how photography should really be looked upon. Not just as a talentless 

press of a button but it means more to it, there is an art to it. This poem 

really shows this by going in depth and showing you how photography is 

really supposed to be. 

In the poem the poet really shows how photography is a true art. He 

doesnt just say it though, he goes into details. For instance he describes 

them as a memory by writing, “ It is a kindly greeting and A memory to 

hold. Of happy times and pleasant things. However new or old.” They do 

not say it directly but they are saying that the photo is like a memory. 

“It is a faithful portrait The smile that friendship shares To add its sunshine 

and to show That someone really cares.” 

In the poem photography they describe a photo is that you put on the wall 

or keep on your desk, it is a faithful portrait. “ The smile that friendship 

shares To add its sunshine and to show That someone really cares.” This 

poem can really connect to me because I love photography. I love to take 

photos, I love to look at them, and seeing a poem like this after people 

telling me that photography is not a true skill, after seeing this makes me 

feel better about having a feeling about photography. 

In the poem they really show a true meaning behind photography and 

show that  it is more than just taking pictures. It is an art and it make 

myself feel better about the talent because I now see that it has a big 

meaning to it, not just taking a picture, It’s an art

ELA in class reading responce

    One of the problems of life today is dealing with other peoples problems when you still have your own problems to worry about. In the book, Teen angst? Naaah...  By Ned Vizzini. The main character of the book, Ned, is a high school boy with normal teenager problems. And as a result most of these he handle on his own double up on working with other peoples problems.

    Ned deals with a lot of problems. And even gets in trouble for them sometimes. Lets jump to his highschool years. Ned has many friends in highschool and most of hem are sort of the, "party-ish" tpe of people. He is too just not as much as his friends. One problem he had dealt with was coming home drunk to only have his father find out. He wasn't mad but he wasn't happy either. All of this happened from pier pressure. One of his friends convinced him to buy some beer with his student i.d. Turns out they got away with it and got drunk and stayed long after dark. Ned came home and his dad noticed something was fishy. He didn't get in sp much trouble but his dad noticed. On page 115, Neds dad walks in on and says, "Ned, Ned, Ned. Look at you. Do you want the spanish inquisition in here? You better start acting a little sobriety or your mother will put two and two together."

    But it is not all bad. he and his friends do work together sometimes, but put most of the heat on him. Ned and his friends want to go on the senior trip together so they could all go on it together and pay for it too. But of course, Neds mom will not allow it. So ned lies and say that he is going to is friends country house for a week. And his moms believes in him. But ned then remembers he has to be jesus in a church play. So he has to go to that too. So he calls his friends to see when cancun is. Unfortunatly for him cancun is on the first day. "Dude, I don't know how, but you need to get out of that. If you don't make it on this trip, we are all screwed. Me josh and alex will all have to pay more money and will personally kill you." Neds mom still said no and he never went.

    And as for his own problems, it's problems are mostly about life. Like highschool and middle school. And getting into college. On page 21 he got into the high school he wanted which was stuy. But more problems then accur in college. He did his SAT's and got an interview for harvard. He went but he was really late, "there must have been a moment where i kissed the big schools good bye."

    This text connects to the world because most of these prolems are due to pier pressure. and pier pressure is a big conflict in society today. And it makes me wonder if it is all really worth it. Worth the conflict just so you could be like the others. 

Authors note

Authors note:

This book was inspired by many social issues. The most important of the bunch is bullying. Bullying is a problem in many places. These places could be in schools, over the internet and people arent even trying to stop it anymore. And it is affecting many people.

I chose this topic because i really care about it. I think bullying is just terrible and needs to be stopped. I know many people who are bullied and have been bullied in the past and it is not fun. I have not had many personal experiences with bullying but i feel bad for the ones who have felt these terrible feelings.

I want the readers to feel like they could make a change by reading this book. Stand up for others. Do not just sit there and watch things happen. Try to stop them. Be the hero.

Synthesis Page: Is it fair or not fair?

                I am reading the book called, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline.

I don't really think this book is fair, life is just really hard for Wade. First off the start of the book. We start off with and introduction of this character. His parents are dead and his lives with an ungrateful aunt who who pays no attention to wade and is just terrible to him. Just from the start of the book things seem bad. Fast forward a little bit. The main objective of this book is to find the three keys to these three gates. And if you beat all of the gates you win the competition and get a prize in real life. no body knows what it is and or who will win this prize. You have to beat it. So right after he has cleared the first gate. Wade meats this girl named, Art3mis. art3mis is  wades long lost cyber crush. But things dont turn out too good for them. Wade got his dream of hanging out with her. They even dated, i guess you could say. But everything gets ruined when Art3mis "breaks up" with him. They were invite to a dance together. Everything was going great. Wade felt his love towards art3mis but things didn't look that way towards the other side. Art3mis didn't love him. she didn't even know him in real life( page 187). Then there are the sixers. They found out who wade is in real life and found out where he lives. They asked him how to get the key or they will kill him. Wade did not agree and then because of this they blew up his house and killed his aunt. All because he did not tell him where to get the first key. Shortly after they found it and went through the first gate. And thirdly there is his friend aech. Aech is wades best friend and before aech cleared the first gate, he needed help from wade. Later in the book they had a fight and Aech was saying things that were not true but then wade went and said that he wouldnt have ever cleared the first gate without him. Then aech became pissed off and didn't now what to say so they were mad at each other for a long amount of time. Life just seems really dificult. He is in the iddle of a life or death contest and he is losing friends and family because of it.

Lord of the flies argument essay. [This book should not be banned]

Diego Ogando Ela Draft 12/11/14

People think books should be banned just because there is somethings in it that is immature or just not good for kids and teens to hear. This comes up with the books “Lord Of The Flies”  by William Golding. This is a book about normal school boys who have been stranded on an island and have no way to get out. They go crazy and get into many fights with each other and somehow get drawn apart and start to hate each other. But This book should not be banned just because it has violence. There are things much worse that you just introduce to your children and this book hold many lessons kids and teenagers should know.

Many parents think that lord of the Flies should be and should stay banned just because it has killing and violence. Most of the book is just about the kids trying to survive and staying in their own group after they split up and become enemies. But it makes me wonder. Why would this book be banned when so many other books shouldn’t. Take the beloved harry potter books for example. This book has many violent scenes. Death of many kids and adults. But yet it is still no banned from schools everywhere. it says here on “Banned Books” from infoplease.com. It states that “ Not everyone agrees on which books should be banned. The Harry Potter books are a good example of this: some think they are wonderfully imaginative books that have done much to encourage kids to read; others, who think the Potter books should be banned, think they are a bad and corrupting influence on kids.” This book has as much violence as the book Lord of the Flies. What I  think is that these kind of books have more than a reputation than others. Lord of the flies is known to be not the best book ever. But Harry potter is loved by adults and children of all ages. So people knowing this probably thinks that it’s fine to have this book in their libraries at school. So why would this book be banned? It’s only violence, you have probably read books with as much violence and maybe even more.

Kids should know not to go around and hurting each other and setting standards as king and leader because, it and go out of hand. Kid’s can learn from this. Kid’s are going to be resistance towards being jack (the antagonist of the book.)  They are going to look at him and question the ways he is thinking. They will look at him and say no, ralph will win, he will beat jack. They will want the hero to make it out alive and well and come out on top of jack. I think parents look at this book and just think it’s a bad influence on children and i think they can actually look at this book and learn from it. They will look at jack and know it is wrong what he is doing.

Yes parents and teachers will look at this book and think it is a bad influence towards children. There is some violence towards children and they see how children can go mad without adults being with them. They will look at all of this and think that it is inappropriate for children and that they should look at this and think that this book is no good for children and that it should not be acknowledged by them. But it is in my argument that i think that they are wrong. There is something called the first amendment, freedom of speech. So if you are banning  book you are going against the freedom of speech. No one should ever be able to “ban a book.” Just because it is violent does not mean it should be taken away from someone. Also adding on to how kids can learn from lord of the flies. They can be taught how be a role model. students and kids can be aware how Ralph is in control of things and tries to be the best role model

The book lord of the flies should not be argued to be banned from school. There are things much worse that you just introduce to your children and this book hold many lessons kids and teenagers should know. All i am trying to say is that readers should have a choice what to read and shouldn’t listen to anyone else when it comes to their reading. Yes the subject of violence is not pleasant but it is not a reason to ban a book from someone. We should be able to read whatever without it being questioned.

social awareness poem

Diego Ogando      Social awareness poem              12/2/14

An announcement turned on

someone was in the building

I knew I shouldn’t have come to school today

I was scared, afraid, i didn’t know what to do

I hid under my desk and didn’t make a sound.

While i heard some footsteps come around

My teacher made a be quiet jester while touching her index finger to her lips

the steps outside stopped and it was silent

I closed my eyes and held my breath.

The door started to bang and shake as the person outside tried to open it

I looked around at my classmates

A girl next to me had her hand over her mouth trying not to make a noise while she cried

as the banging stopped I didn’t get up

But other kids did.

Just then the man shot the door open with their gun. Kids screamed and yelled

It was hell in here

I stayed laying on the floor as i put my jacket over myself  to stay hidden

The shooting stopped and so did the screaming

I heard the mans footsteps walk out of the room

And as i got up and looked around all i saw was terror

Five kids in my class. dead. I was scared. Sad. I didn’t know what to do.

I just sat there. and cried

and cried

and cried.

Interview with my mom social awareness project

Diego Ogando                    Interview 12/2/14

I asked my mom questions on how she loves to donate to charity. I found out that my mom has been doing this for a long time and that she really enjoys it and loves to help people in need.

I asked her first how long has she been donated to charity. She responded by saying that she has been donated to charity her whole life with my grandma. She liked to donate to people in vietnam and even if she just had extra clothing she would go and donate it.

I asked where does she donate and she answerd she chose housing works she donated her time to them and worked there for a while and its a great charity that gives clothing to the poor and people suffering with hiv

she usually donates once a year but when we moved houses she donated 25 garbage bags worth of clothing to housing works which i think is very nice and i really look up to her doing that.

And she said she usually donates things that are really valuable so lots of money goes to charity and if they don’t sell they give them away to poor people for free.

I really admire my mom doing this. Looking out for the poor and people who are sick. I think she is doing the right thing and she changes the world for some people. even in a little way.