Mrs. LaRue (Reading Project)

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In class we read, Dear Mrs. LaRue, Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague. We were learning about the VOICE trait for writing. This book demonstrates many types of voices. In my project I wrote a news report. I tried to demonstrate Mrs. LaRue speaking in many voices such as happy, angry, sorry, and shocked. You can read my project of the interview below.

Brian Lin + Mrs. LaRue (Interview)
By: Brian Lin (The Interviewer)

Brian L.: I’ve heard that you are going to send your dog, Ike, to Obedience School. WHy would you do that?

Mrs. LaRue: I have done tons of good stuff to my dog, Ike. For example, giving him food, blankets, pillow, anything he had wanted and I couldn’t believe he ate me dinner!

Brian L.: Instead of sending him to obedience school, what else can you do instead of hurting and frightening his feelings?

Mrs. LaRue: I don’t care about his feelings! He doesn’t care about my feelings either. I have been back from 11 hours of hard work, hungry and tired. And the first thing I saw when I opened the front door is seeing that Ike, my dog is eating my chicken pie that I am saving for dinner.

Brian L.: Did he ever do anything good to you? Why would you be so angry? Try to think about the good stuffs Ike had done to you. Try to think about good things Ike had done. Maybe it could make your feeling be better.

Mrs. LaRue: Ike had once saved my life. But today, I think he ate my chicken pie on purpose because he thought it was fun. So I couldn’t handle my temper. I was wrong about that. But I wonder why Ike and I was always hating each other.

Brian L.: You could try to BE NICE to Ike, maybe something good will happen. Maybe he would like you more and listen to you more.

Mrs. LaRue: To make him more good to be a good dog, I would have to be nice to him? Okay. I would try that. Thank you.

Brian L.: Thank you for your participate on the interview! Mrs. LaRue. You can go back home now and watch yourself on TV.

Magic Love Potion (Commercial) — Reading Project

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We read A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.  Then we got to choose a project to make that relates to this play. This is my famous reading project of the MAGIC LOVE POTION commercial. It is so famous! Even Brian Hung is interested in my commercial. Hope you enjoy it!

This is another video that tells a summary of what we were doing in class. Just Enjoy It.

Hatchet VS. Cast Away

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This is a trailer of the movie Cast Away. As below, you can see my assignment of the Compare and Contrast Paragraph of Hatchet VS. Cast Away.

Hatchet Vs. Cast Away

When I compare the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and the movie Cast Away, I find that there are many differences and similarities. Chuck, from Cast Away is a man that survived on a tropical island for 4 years, and Brian, from Hatchet is a thirteen year old boy that survived alone at the Canadian wilderness for 2 months. Even though they are different stories the characters have similar traits. Both characters are from the city and had no wisdom about surviving in nature. Both characters explore a lot. Last, both characters have a strong tie to family.

In both the movie and the book, both characters are very intelligent. They both have knowledge, however, they both start without having wisdom of what it means to survive on your own in nature, both of them don’t have experience of surviving, ALONE. But after they had perseverance, Brian from Hatchet forgives his mother by thinking what she had done for him all these years. After he forgives his mother, his brain feels more free and wanted to survive and see his parents again. Chuck from Cast Away is a very intelligent man with knowledge but no wisdom. After Chuck has perseverance, he is starting to have wisdom and never gives up.

However, both Brian from Hatchet and Chuck from Cast Away both have something that gives them confidence. Brian first was mad at his mother to cause the divorce, and if his mom didn’t kiss the blond man, he wouldn’t be here. Because Brian from the book Hatchet, was on his way visiting his father on his way visiting his father on summer vacation. But he wouldn’t have to visit his father if his parents were living together! As the same thing happened to Chuck from Cast Away, he thinks of Kelly, his fiancée, and knows she is waiting for him. Kelly gave Chuck confidence; Chuck knew he had to keep breathing.

From the book Hatchet written by Gary Paulsen, and the movie Cast Away, starring by Tom Hanks, the both main characters from the book and movie wanted to die at first. Have you ever wanted to die? Brian from the book Hatchet, had perseverance after he missed the plane that had flown by. He had shown perseverance by learning from his mistakes every time. Chuck from the movie Cast Away had perseverance after he missed a ship. He knew that he had hope, he tries to learn from his mistakes when he tried to make fire as same as Brian from Hatchet.

After both characters Brian from Hatchet, and Chuck from the movie Cast Away had wisdom, they are still very different. One is a man that survived in a tropical island for 4 years. One is a kid that survived in the Canadian wilderness for 2 months. They both tried to explore, but in a different ways. Brian from Hatchet explored how to eat things and capture things, Chuck from Cast Away also explored. They’re heart always have wisdom, family, and exploration.

Aztec Adventure Story

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The Life Of the Ballgame
By: Brian Lin

One day, at Darren’s house, Jerry, Morgan, and Darren and I were all busy testing Jerry’s new invention, The Time Machine. Then, an Aztec Tenochtitlan picture accidently touched the time machine.
“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” We all shouted.
I saw a few branches in front of my face. It took a few seconds to realize that we are in a tree.
“Where are we?” Darren asked.
“Tenochtitlan” Morgan Shouted.
“What?” said Jerry.
“Tenochtitlan is the Capital of the ancient Aztecs!” I said.
“What a beautiful place!” Said Darren.
“Let’s get out of here.” Said Jerry
When we climbed down from the tree, we heard someone yelling, “Capture them!” We turned and looked.
“An Eagle Warrior!”
We stood still, so does the eagle warrior.
“What’s wrong with the wearing of the eagle warrior! murmured Jerry. “We would be bloody if we touched the clothes that is made out of sharp stones.
“And the feathers everywhere!” whispered Darren.
“Look at his shoe! its made out of woods” I said.
“I think we better start running.” said Morgan
We ran, and the Eagle Warrior shot spears and arrows but he missed. Morgan tripped and fell down to the ground. The Aztec warrior caught Morgan and tied him up with a rope, turned around, and started walking back.
“What should we do?” Darren asked.
“I think we should go after the Aztecs and save Morgan,” said Jerry. “Or trade Morgan back with something.”
“What thing should we trade for?” I asked, “I have nothing interesting for the Aztec people, and I left my backpack downstairs!”
“Maybe we should look for something” Jerry suggested.
“What should we look for?”
“Gold or diamonds?”
“It will take forever for you to find golds or stuff like that,” Darren replied. “And you know, Aztec people are not interested in things like that.”
“Or maybe just say where we came from and half the chance, they would give Morgan back.” I suggested.
We gathered our ideas together and chose the one that we think it would work. “The Aztec Ballgame.”
We arrived at the ballgame court and it was 200 feet long and 30 feet wide at its center section. It is shaped like an capital “I.” This shape represented the universe.
Suddenly, a six-inch round rubber ball (which symbolized the sun) went flying with rocket speed towards us. It hit Jerry in the stomach. Hard.
“Ouch!” Jerry shouted, “Who did that?”
The Aztec ballplayers came rushing towards us. Darren shivered.
“Let’s play the ballgame,” said Jerry. “If we win, give Morgan back to us, if we lose, then you can capture us.”
“Who is Morgan?” The Aztec ballplayers asked.
“Our friend, who you guys just captured a few hours ago.”
“Alright, Let’s start the game!” they said.
“Wait.” Said Darren, “I don’t even know what the rules are and how to play.”
“Ok, now this is what you wear. A headdress, a hacha, a yoke to protect your waist, these wooden shoes, palma, manopla, yuguito. And here are the rules. You only can use your waist to hit the ball through the hoop that is large enough to accommodate the six-inch rubber ball. No hands, no feet or stuff like that, only your waist,” explained one of the Aztecs.
We wore the uniforms. The game had now begun. It was 3 on 3. The score kept tied until the jaguars got a point. The score was 1-0. Just one time, just one time, Darren shoot the ball into the hoop. The score was 2-1.
“Yeah!” Jerry and I yelled at the same time.
Five more minutes were left, the score was 9-7. I’m glad that we practiced the Aztec Ballgame at recess.
Jerry and I scored 2 more lucky goals to make the score tie. Finally! Darren scored the final goal as he hit the ball through the hoop with his waist.
“Now, give us back Morgan!” I yelled.
Two Aztec Warriors walked with Morgan to the ballcourt. “You’re free now,” they said.
We ran back to the forest and went up to the tree that we came from and put a picture of Taipei on top of the time machine. The wind blowed so hard. I opened my eyes and looked around. We were on the high speed rail, heading for Kaohsiung.
“What a day! We shouted together. “I bet we are going to be the role model of our Aztec project.
The End

We studied about Aztec people and learned many facts and used it in the story.
It has true facts in the story!

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