Movies!

There seem to be quite a few action packed blockbusters rocking on the big screens lately.
I saw Sherlock Holmes (action packed, intelligent, hilarious) and Avatar (the animation made my inner animation geek die and go to heaven, even if the plot was the same as the movie Atlantis).
What all have you guys seen or thought about going to see?

For the record, I am disappointed in the fourth Shrek movie. Was it necessary? No. Will I go see it? Probably, if only for a sense of closure that was not totally taken care of in, you know, the last three.

Fitzgerald.

Hey Mrs. Jones, I got a Barnes and Noble giftcard for Christmas and I spent it buying a collection of Fitzgerald's short stories. The first one in it is The Offshore Pirate. I loveeeeeeeeeee that one.

So what's up? Whatcha think about OMAM?

hahahahaaha

Today is Christmas Adam... because Adam came before Eve!
get it?!
I thought it was funny :p

Hey, Ms. Jones I was wondering can you change you schuedle before next 9 weeks because i need to change form afm to pre-cal but I didnt want to wait until we get our new classes and switch then and have my classes all mixed up. Do you if there is anyway to go ahead and swicth classes around????

Heyyy!!! Only4 days until Santa comessss:):):):):) I just wanted to wiash everyone a Merry Christmas!!!!

See you guys in 2 weeks, well someone you guys I will see before haha:)

Of Mice and Men

Okay so refering to Curley talking about the glove on his hand it says it's full of vasoline.....I don't understand. If anyone could tell me that would be awesome. Thanks so much (I hope I'm not the only one that doesn't get this)

Ms. Jones's favorite song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9EKJatJvA
ok so i couldn't help myself:)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So its just the beginning of our Christmas break and already so much of Emerson has been popping up. For exemple, i just bought this new book to read over the break (along with mice and men;)) and when i open it up there is a quote from Emerson:

"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

I am really starting to like this guy. But anyways, just thought that was a little fun fact to share, since we learned about him and his works in class. You gotta love literature:)

Commercial Crap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyDA8yfZOOQ
Okay so tell me this looks like me. You won't!!!

Ms. Jones

I was sorry to not be able to get my paper to you today. I feel awful and still do. I am trying to go to school tomorrow so i will be putting my paper in your mailbox tomorrow morning just in case i dont make it to 3rd.

MS. JONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have no paper!!!

What's your email address?

Ahhhhh I'm freaking out!

hey my outline is kinda short i hope it works. i followed the format but under my numbers i didnt really have anything to put under them:(

Ms. Jones!

I really do not know how to document this..


http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/dylan-bob

BOOKSSSS

Oh, and guys dont forget books!:) thank you

Mrs. Jones

I remember you saying you wouldn't read past fifty notecards, so should I only bring in fifty notecards?

ms j r u still on?

hey guys

i was no there las week and i dont kno what my out line is suppose to look like and i dont know what else is suppose to be handed on friday please help me plz :( :( :(

omggggggg, i read the entire card and i'm going to miss you guys so much! i was showing my dad and he began to cry (because he thinks i'm so cool?) haha go figure

OMG MS.J

HEY MS J I WANTED TO BE IN THE SECRET SANTA AND YOU AINT TELL ME ANYTHING! SOB NO GIFT 4 ME TOMMOROW. HOW WAS YOUR MEETING TODAY?

outline

all thats double spaced, and i i think i did it right but like is there a heading or anything for the outline? i know you said to post it up here so i did, but i am still wondering if i did it right, i think i followed the sheet...?



Thesis: By examining the dark life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, it becomes clear how he influenced American literature through his writing.
I. Introduction
II. Edgar Allan Poe’s biography
A. Early life
1. Birth
2. Growing up with the Allan’s
3. First attempt at school
4. Mrs. Allan’s death
5. Final years and death
III. What Poe did
1. Dark Romantisicm
2. Death in stories
3. Love of reason and human situatuions
IV. Poe’s influence on American literature
1. Influences on other writers
2. Famous stories/poems
3. Gothic horror
V. Conclusion

Hey Guys!

Im having a little trouble, where would I find the sponsors on a website?


Oh and dont forget those use books, if you want to bring some for people who are less fortunate

whenver there is a quote in my research paper am i supposed to put (qtd. blah blah) or do i put qtd. for something else?

Hey shannon, I tried to call your house today (you aren't in trouble) but your number says it's disconnected. Please email me at englishteacherjones@gmail.com because I have a question for you.

For the rest of you, be good tomorrow. While you complain about being in 90 minute classes, I am in a daylong (8:30-4:30) class tomorrow. I really hope you do a good job on your story endings (your assignment tomorrow) because I really want them to be fun and interesting to read. We don't get the opportunity to do creative writing very often so don't make me regret it!

Remember secret santa is Thursday (fourth blockers).

Ms. Jones, this is the site I need help with.

http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/dylan-bob

hey ms.j doe sthis prong sound like it is influence or biographical becuase i am FREAKING OUT that i have to do this over in just a few days

Sanger began to contribute tremendously in the society. She had a great influence on the women in her day and age. She became an advocate for women’s health and autonomy. She focused mainly on the birth control aspect. Sanger was dedicated when it came down to her literary works. She used this technique to recruit educated women, and get them to join her fight against the stigmas attached to abortions and contraceptives. Through publications of various books she showed these women that, although society painted birth control as an obscenity and the church painted it as an abomination that that does not mean that it is wrong and selfish.
Sanger started to establish many organizations to widen her audience and provide everyone with access information. She wanted as many women to fight against such laws and prohibitions as possible. She sought after reform of state laws and pushed for birth control clinics (Whitman 720). Sanger the first doctor- staffed clinics in America. It demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of contraceptive information. By opening such an organization she was able to refute claims that diaphragms caused cancer and madness. This Bureau served as a teaching facility for physicians. They were able to receive instruction in contraceptive techniques at a time when it was not in the medical curriculum. It was known to be the model for the nationwide network. It enabled Sanger to establish over 300 clinics which provided reliable contraceptive advice and was responsible for important improvements in the effectiveness of contraceptive practices (Sicherman 626). This Bureau was a true representation of her goal in life it carried out most of her lifelong dreams to see women being allowed to make decisions concerning their own health and regarding childbearing.
After observing the seeing the progress that her establishments had made she decided to change her strategy to focus on eugenics. This is the study of hereditary improvements of the human race by controlled selective breeding. Sanger, being a eugenicist herself believed that “children that are diseased or defected in any type of way should not be born into the world” (Sanger). This includes criminals, various races and any other person that is not ideal in her eyes. She even stated in the article Pivot of Civilization, concerning blacks, immigrants and indigents are “ …human weeds,’ reckless breeders,’ spawning human beings who never should have been born” (Dew).

Sorry Mrs. Jones, but I did figure you would like to stop getting bombarded and to prove that yes the picture was on the previous blog. what a title.

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Email

Hey Ms. Jones, my printer is out of ink so I was just going to send my paper to you via email, but the one on Laney's website never works for me for some reason. Can you, or anyone else who has it, tell me which email to send it to? I remember you telling us your email the first day of class but I cant find my syllabus, my bad. Haha, thanks.

hey ms jones is it bad that my prong 1 takes up all of pages 2 and 3 and one paragragh of page one and my other prongs are not as long??

are book titles underlined?

are book titles underlined or is everything italicized?

Mrs. Jones or to whoever can help

The other day Mrs. Dombroski was talking about communism and how it was looked at by people that were in poverty as good, because it provided them with the staples of life. Food, shelter, water, etc. This wasnt in our notes, powerpoint, or book. It was just from her. Would that be considered a interview or like a speech or what and how would I document it?

textbook documentation

Could anyone tell me how to document a textbook

hey how would you document a powerpoint????

heading

Hey guys, i was wondering if anyone could tell me how the heading was suppose to go again. I thought I could remember, but apparently not.

3rd Prong

I'm finishing writing my 3rd prong and Im realizing that I don't have much documentation at all in these paragraphs. Is that okay or does it need to be more fact based rather than opinionated or inferenced? If that makes sense.

Hey, all of our notes on our notecards do all of them have to be in our paper??? I didnt think all of them did but i just wanted to check

I'm working on the last part to my paper, and I am using some information from notes in my Civics class. How would i document this, and would I need to document this?

HELP MEEEEE :(

HOW DO I SEE THE WEDDING PICS EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT!?!

Mrs. Jones, im sad to say

that I was a complete creep and figured out how to go to the other blogs, I just typed the thing different in the address bar. I wont bring up inappropriate material that were on previous ones, but Im going to say this, in the pictures you looked super pretty! if you catch my drift of what im refering to. I feel creepppppppyyyyyyyyyyy.

hey you guys

just wondering what you guys did when i left and ms.j did u read that short story and di want to know you all's take on the emily dickinson poems.

Hey, Ms. Jones! How come our blog doesnt look as cool as the rest of the blogs from your other classes??

Max moves in one week:(

Omg, guys it just hit me that max is really moving in 7 days:( What are we going to do with out max in calss talking in class about ways to get rich and have tons of money or her building her time machine. hahah which isnt going to happen sorry max:) We are goong to miss you but you will have to keep writing this on the blogg!!!!!
Love ya girlll:)

John

...this is the Walmart Christmas commercial starring John for those of you who haven't yet seen it

Homework

Hey I was at the blood drive all of third and was wondering what the homework was??

Do I need to site lyrics in my paper?

Levi's: OPioneers! - Go Forth campaign

Walt Whitman makes an appearance in pop culture.

His name was indeed Polyphemus.

i hate documenting

Ms. Jones, I need some SERIOUS help with all this documenting crap, I won't even try and explain it all in this because it would make zero sense. Can I stay after on tuesday possibly and get some help with it?

lol check this out miss j

so i am grounded and this site among a very few i am allowed to go on. i finished most my hw and i am bored so i decided to read old blogs and i was jus wondering is this person talking about u? :) lol

Hey Miss J! You wouldn't believe what I saw last night! It was so beautiful. This couple were down at this place on front street right next to Elijah's and they had their wedding right on the river. I had a front row seat while my family and I were sitting in Elijah's eating. I could not help but to think of you and smile. Hopefully you'll bring in some pictures for us to see. I still love your dress.
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help!

So Ms. Jones my paper is about FDR's new deal policies and in prong one of my paper I'm discussing the great depression and what led to the new deal. So, my question is Hoover was the president before FDR and he did some things to help the economy, but not nearly enough and i'm wondering how much detail i should go into about what hoover did.

ms j

how do you document an interview in you paper and at the bottom of a notecard

is this double spaced cause it dont look like it cuz it looks like myu previous one.

“Abortions , Eugenics and the Meaning of Margaret Sanger.” Politicsdaily.com.
Washington Post, 2009. Web.20 Nov. 2009

Baughman, Judith S. (ED). American Decades 1920-1929. Detroit MI: Gale Research
Inc,1966. Print.

Dew, Diane S. “In Her Own Words.” dianedew.com. Diane S. Dew,2001. Web. 18
Nov. 2009.

” The Negro Project”: Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Plan for Black Americans.
citizenreviewonline.org. Concerned Women of America, 2001.Web.2009.

Sanger, Margaret. Interview by Mike Wallace. The University of Texas at Austin,
09 July 2008

Sicherman, Barbara et al. Notable American Women. Cambridge: Radcliffe College,
1980. Print.


Whitman, Alden (ED). American Reformers. New York: H.W Wilson
Company,1985. Print.

Vocabulary Test!

So as I was studying for my vocab test, I printed out vocab list eight and nine, but as I was looking at those lists, they wern't the ones on our crossword, are they on our test or not?

Ms. Jones

On one of my internet sources, there are actually page numbers listed. I know you told us that we didn't have to list page numbers on web sources, being as they don't usually have page numbers. But I'm guessing I should site the page numbers, right?

hahaha i was laughing at this and figured you guys would be the only group of people that might get the humor..i got it off my friend's facebook..

"soo you must have left your sweater at my house, cause my brother was whereing it today. lmfaoo!"

mrs jonesss

i have a question about the intro paragraphh, is it okay if i like talk about how his (poe's) work is like often times just thought upon as like dark and like weird? like that way i can bring my thesis in which includes how he actually influenced literature. ha idk if that made any senseee