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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Memories- Thinking Out of the Box

Make me laugh...
Make me cry...
Make me smile ...
Make me sigh...
Show me what deeply moved you...
Show me how you truly grew...

How will you create a special theme? - AMAZE ME!!!.. please?

e.g. Caroline Swimmer is writing her memories paper as a letter to her younger brother... (DON'T COPY THIS!)...What will you do???
e.g. Survival Guide for Charlotte latin Lower School...
e.g. How to Impress your next teacher...


How will you make your paper 'unique'?

Treasures in a Box  by Pamela Harazim
(NO, you cannot write a poem.. but you could quote some poetry)
Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.

I wish I knew the people;
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.


I wonder what their lives were like.
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, when,


These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?


The faces and the memories
Someday to be tossed away?
Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.

What will your memories 'sound' like?

57 comments:

  1. Mr. Buxton could I do like a children's book type story with no pictures so like if my baby cousin wanted to know my lower school life she would be a ble to?
    Thanks
    Abigail

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  2. yes.. but make sure you keep the language advanced

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  3. I am doing a road trip do you think that would be ok

    juliana

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  4. I will it would be for when she's older
    Abigail

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  5. would a newspaper theme be good like article 1 etc.?

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  6. would need a little tweaking Hayden,, e.g. Front page... editor's column ...comic strips etc...it would still be needed to be written like an essay though

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  7. Which do you think I should do more: a tv show or series or a family road trip?

    juliana

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  8. do the topics for the paper have to be all metaphorical or all physical????

    -ansley

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  9. i am a little confused on this whole memories paper i mean not like id get it but just how to make them laugh and cry and smile and all of that you know some examples would b nice!!!

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  10. and when we like present is there supposed to be a title??? i was thinking about doing like something that goes with what i think about the years in the even like 2nd grade= easy and then the odd years like 3rd=hard but idk

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  11. Maggie - NIKE
    Write your very best. Write from the heart...the rest will take care of itself.

    Juli - NIKE
    Write your very best. Write from the heart...the rest will take care of itself.

    Ansley -if you had to answer this question yourself... what would your answer be...? That's your answer!

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  12. I just finished my thing that i was going to submit for the cover of the book of 5th grade 2009- 2010.
    I accidentally did it horizontally, so does that mean I have to start over????

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  13. maddie...just bring it to school tomorrow and see what happens.

    -ansley

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  14. could i do a ship sailing across the ocean
    and wat do u mean by nike?

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  15. I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT this....i took notes...but yall are saying like ur doing it about a family road trip!!!

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  16. mr.buxton...i need help with all this..everyone is saying like that they are doing a road trip or a sailing boat...IM CONFUSED!!!! and are our p2's due tomarrow

    mc

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  17. for the comic book in science, can someone please post wat we need for option 2?

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  18. MC You are just writing about your memories of Lower School. Do what you can tonight. You will have the whole week to finish this. some students are using a 'metaphor' approach ex. road trip... to talk about what Lower School was like for them...Others will just write about teachers, fieldtrips, friends, favorite projects etc etc...

    NIKE... just do it!

    Warning: Please do not forget to sign your posts or use your correct name. Many of your are not doing so. You will be blocked if you continue to do so.

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  19. i dont know how to change the name

    robert

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  20. thanks Ansley... Ryan s.- I wuz on my sister's email thats why

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  21. How many or do i have to read any chapters of CHARLOTTE DOYLE?????

    What is our homework???





    Sarah




    (PS left Thursday)

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  22. arah you have to read chapters 13 AND (notice the and) 14

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  23. So do we have to finish our whole pencil and paper draft by tomorrow?
    Thanks
    Abigail

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  24. Ryan & Abigail- No... Mrs. McIntosh said that what ever the homework sheet says thats what you do and the h/w sheet says due Wednesday.... my question is do we need 2 write out (or tyoe) a new copy... not our power plan????????



    McCarthy

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  25. well thats not what she said to us but whatever

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  26. Are we able to just dot done ideas on our power plan.
    Abigail

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  27. wat r the vocab lines for vocab?

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  28. Mr. Buxton- is it ok if 1 of our power 3's is really long????????????



    McCarthy

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  29. Mr. B, could I do a journal of 5th grade?
    plus, do we do intro+conclu. with the main body for wednesday, or just the main body of the essay?

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  30. Ok one , i am doing a road trip and wanted to be original. :( two, i have REALLY long p2's, is that ok? and mine is 5 pages is that ok too?

    juliana

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  31. MC, Vocab 9-15
    It's on page 9 of the charlotte Doyle
    booklet

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  32. First 2 chapter sections. It's due wed this week.

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  33. don't know. I guess if u've been at latin for a while, a long paper isn't bad.

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  34. Like a metaphorical road trip? if you're doing a road trip, you could make the stops along the way different grades..

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  36. Mr. Buxton do I have permission to type it up?
    Abigail

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  37. For my P2 1st grade i just told a story is that ok?
    Abigail

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  38. Mr. Buxton
    Would the narrative peice in the memory essay count as a power 3?

    Paige

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  39. Paige - yes it would count as a P3

    Abigail - Do you mean P3? P2 is your topic sentence. And yes, a story would be great.

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  40. For my metaphor I am doing like a pair of shoes. (it sounds bad when you say it like that)
    Shoes like 'shoes will come into your life, brand new and presitine. They'll leave your life worn but loved. And even though you loved your new shoes, your now-old ones are just as good' Then I would say something about LS and stuff.
    I am not going to use what I just wrote, but that is a rough idea.


    Would THAT be a good metaphor?

    Also, our draft due tomorrow, is that like a rough draft? Are you going to revise that one.

    Is there a certain place in the LS that has gotten increasingly more worn over the years?

    Thanks
    -M.G.
    ASAP on feedback please

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  41. do u have to have a moral for every story you do???

    and...is it ok if i do a story that happened during a carpool home from school???

    -ansley

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  42. Ansley - you probably don't want to do ALL stories and yes there should be a general moral.
    Like I'm telling a story about that guest speaker Mahi or whatever his name was (if someone knows his name, I NEED to know it), but then I am going out of the story to talk about how it affected me.

    But if it is just a small story in a bigger P3, then I guess not.

    What is that guys name who was a refugee from Ethopia and came to the USA and got a schlorship to Harvard. He talked to use about not treating people like they were invisible....
    What was his name!

    -M.G.

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  43. thnx mg

    i know exactly who you're talking about but i can't remember his name!!!!

    this is going ot kill me!!!!!!!

    -ansley

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  44. Whats the topic supposed to be like
    Abigail

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  45. Are we allowed to do the vocab lines on a vocab line.
    Abigail

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