Do you think Mr. Smith has a right to whistle wherever he chooses, or do you think he should be stopped?  Why?  Please support your argument with information from the text.

To start off, who ever wrote this article was honestly wasting their time. There are much more important things to write about than a man's right to whistle in public, I don't understand the big deal. Mr. Smith can whistle where ever he wants whenever he wants, and if someone doesn't like it then that's too bad for them because that's the way life works. You get what you get and you like it and if you don't, well then that's too bad.

Two months later, Smith was arrested and taken to jail after police received complaints about his whistling in front of Starbucks at Middle and Exchange streets. The charge again was disorderly conduct.
According to the July 3 arrest affidavit, Smith was whistling loud enough to disturb businesses and people in the area. After being warned to keep the noise down, Smith allegedly started singing louder, "intentionally to annoy bystanders."
Smith's May summons landed him in court. Court records indicate he pleaded guilty on Aug. 22, 2012, to the disorderly conduct charge and agreed "to curb disorderly behavior (loud whistling) in the future."

To go so far and arrest a man for whistling too loud in public is really dumb. A simple "Hello sir could you please stop whistling? It's distracting me from my work." would have done just fine, but sending Mr. Smith to jail is taking it way to far. If people are a loud to carry guns in public without getting in trouble, I am pretty sure Mr. Smith should be able to whistle as loud as he wants. 

Do you agree with the author? Why or why not?

Yes I agree with the author, because gun movies do influence people. I know for a fact, because there are younger kids on my street, who somehow get a hold and watch these movies. They think that guns are cool and pretend to use them in games. They may only be young, but if they continue to think the same way when they are older, then that's a problem.

There's a huge distinction between reality and the movies. But we have a casual acceptance of guns and gun violence that we need to change if we want the slaughter of innocent people to slow down and, hopefully, eventually stop.

Gun movies send out a message, having guns are cool and it's ok to carry them with you. It's doubtful the director meant to send out that message, but it's there all the same.

Do you agree with the author of the letter? Should teens go to bed earlier or does school just start too early?  

Honestly I think school starts too early. Living with younger siblings, I've notice that younger kids wake up earlier than teenagers do, and have plenty of energy. I think that they should switch the time for elementary kids and high school, I wouldn't have a problem waking up at eight to go to school. Also it's harder for teenagers to do their best at school when they wake up early, and that has an affect on their grades. They don't have the energy to do the best that they can do this earlier in the morning, because they have no energy. I'd rather go to school later and get good grades than go to school early and get bad grades.

Identify who the protagonist of your novel is and explain how you came to that conclusion. Use specific evidence from website to support your claim.


The protagonist in my novel is Winnie Foster, and I know this because the book is written in her point of view. She is the character that shows up most in the book, you read mostly about her, you don't need to be a genius to figure out she's the main character.

Usually, in a story, the protagonist wants to reach a goal, but many obstacles are in his path to reach this goal.

Winnie's goal is to runaway from home because she doesn't like how her life is controlled every minute of the day by her mother and grandmother.

 There can be more than one protagonist or antagonist in a story.

I suppose if there was to be more than protagonist in Tuck Everlasting it would be the Tuck family. There are a few chapters that are even written from their point of view in the beginning. Their goal is to make sure no one ever finds out that they live forever or how they live forever, because if so everyone would want to live forever. No one would grow old, the world would eventually get too crowded because no one could die. The Tuck's play a huge role in this book and are far more than minor characters. 

What are you going to do for your project?  How are you going to accomplish this task?  What materials do you need?  

Making a poster about scenes in Touching Spirit Bear, almost like a movie poster. Work on it in workshop and in class. We need poster paper, water colors, pencils, markers.

What do you think this poem means? Please use examples from the poem to help support claims.


This poem means simply you always have a choice in life.

And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

There are two paths, the first that has been ignored many times, just for how it looks. The other one is clean, better looking, and many people have traveled down that road. It is a quick statement of how the human mind judges things by what they see, not what they know. Seeing the first path, people assume that where they'll end up is bad. That is only an assumption, they can't possibly know what is at the end of the first path if they have never seen it. Yet they have made up their minds based on a silly guess that could be far from right and they take the path that everyone else has.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

This is an example of someone who took the other option, who decided to take a chance and go where everyone else has ignored. People choose the same path others took, while this guy made his own path; he didn't follow everyone else. The point Frost is trying to get across is you should never judge things based on looks, and the choices you make shouldn't be based off of other people's choices. If you never make your choices on your own, or you never take a chance and take the road less traveled by, you will never know if you made the right choice.