Trimester 3 ELA Portfolio by RAYQUAN SMITH https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6 en-us 2023-06-05 17:54:05 UTC 2023-06-13 20:57:47 UTC hello@padlet.com March 20th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615079487 According to Lou Holtz "If you're bored with life – you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don't have enough goals." This quote means that if you're not satisfied with your life, you won't be willing to go throughout the day with happiness like it's fine.

This is accurate because you wouldn't want to wake up and do the same boring thing everyday that you don't find interesting and have no goal of.]]> 2023-06-05 18:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615079487 March 23th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615084189 According to Robert Greene,  “In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.” This quote means that you need to be passionate about what you want to learn and willing to master it at all costs.

This is accurate because without a connection or will to thrive within the subject.]]> 2023-06-05 18:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615084189 March 27th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615085177 According to Fyodor Dostoevsky, “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” The quote means that it's better to do something wrong for you than to do something that others think is right to do.

This quote is accurate because if you do something that someone else believes is right, you're gonna want to do the things that everybody but yourself approves of. Like illegal drugs. Everyone that you know goes to a party and takes illegal drugs. You don't want to take the drugs in a party but peer pressure overwhelms you and you eventually take the drug because everyone else has done it and is currently staring at you. You weren't even sure if you wanted to take the drug yourself but you did it anyway because you wanted to fit in and make everyone happy.]]> 2023-06-05 18:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615085177 March 28th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615085849 According to Criss Jami, "Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle." This quote means everyone has their own response to certain things. The problem is making it verbal. 

This is accurate because when the thought is in Person A's head, the thinker knows exactly every aspect of it, personally understanding it. Person B doesn't know what the person is thinking and when verbally said, the other person doesn't understand the whole thing. So Person A tries to simplify their response so Person B can better understand what Person A is trying to say.]]> 2023-06-05 18:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615085849 May 1-3 rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615088426 According to Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore, "I feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water." This quote uses a metaphor to express the central idea that a person is in a dark place, with someone or something bad calling out to them, like an echo in a dark cave. The metaphor expresses how there's an omen representing an evil shadow over them and being in water that seems ever-lasting and deep, like an ocean, that they can't escape from. The fear of being trapped in your own nightmare. The conclusion of this metaphor is to express being mentally trapped with your darkest fears calling out to you.]]> 2023-06-05 18:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615088426 May 9th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615090547 According to Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, “...there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases...” 
This quote uses metaphor to express the central idea that keeping a well updated memory in your mind is what keeps you being yourself. Going back to remind yourself of an experience is a way to refresh part of yourself and maintain the freshness like how you first received it.]]> 2023-06-05 18:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615090547 May 30th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615091359 According to the quote by William Shakespeare, "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once" This quote means that cowards who run away from what they fear have already died, if not, numerous times because they never faced what they dread. And the warrior, who chose to face his dread instead of running from it, only dies once, a warrior's death.
This is accurate because when you keep running from your fear, you've already given into it and lost.]]> 2023-06-05 18:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615091359 May 31 rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615092266 According to William Shakespeare, "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool" means that the person thinks he knows everything when really he doesn't. Anything that is supposedly informational, he refuses to acknowledge that information and chooses to be stubborn and has a fixed-mindset.

This quote is accurate because a fool would only believe that he wants to believe.  A fool is hard-headed and wants to think everyone else is wrong or other's opinion is false.]]> 2023-06-05 18:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615092266 June 1st rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615092444 According to William Shakespeare, "but love is blind, and lovers cannot see" meaning that the lover is easily convinced of what they want to see instead of observing the behavior of who they love. Letting your feelings override your thoughts and choosing to oversee whats wrong or not confronting the problem.

This quote is accurate because a lot of people (cuckolds to be specific) always want to make their significant other be with them forever, either spending their whole bank on them to make them happy or giving his significant other the option to have multiple partners outside of the relationship. Boys with cuckold behavior will accept these in relationships because they are simply simps. They would let their significant other do anything because the boy is blindly in love instead of listening to their feelings, basically putting their feelings on a chain in order to make one happy. Please excuse me for going down this road, but things like these are in need of explanation]]> 2023-06-05 18:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615092444 Haruki Murakami In-Depth Metaphor rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615094551 In the excerpts from Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, the central idea of living forever in your own library is explored. These ideas are supported through the author’s use of language choices. Language choices are important in work of literature because they give the reader an emotional feeling or image of a scenario that’s being made and expressed by the author.

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”

According to Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, and change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.” This quote uses metaphor to express the central idea that keeping a well-updated memory in your mind keeps you being yourself. Going back to remind yourself of an experience is a way to refresh part of yourself and maintain freshness like how you first received it. 

The central idea of the metaphor is to express having some sort of a reminder set on a specific experience to keep the memory fresh.

This quote connects to another Haruki Murakami quote, “I feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water.” Both use metaphors to express their concern about an experience. Both metaphors in these quotes are also associated with the mentality of one’s thinking. One quote expresses being trapped in a dark place, mentally, with something terrible calling out to you, your dark side telling you to embrace the darkness. The other one is expressing memories being kept alive to remember a specific experience. Setting a reminder of what has happened. 

Overall, these two passages from Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, use language choices to express the idea surrounding the passage. These central ideas have experiences being recalled.

]]> 2023-06-05 18:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615094551 Omens rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615096086 In the excerpts from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, the central idea of mentally being in a dark place, with something calling out to you. These ideas are supported by the author’s use of language choices. Language choices are essential in a work of literature because they give the reader a visual image of the scenario being made and expressed by the author.

"I feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water." 

According to Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, This quote uses a metaphor to express the central idea that a person is in a dark place, with someone or something terrible calling out to them, like an echo in a dark cave. 

The metaphor expresses how there's an omen representing an evil shadow over them and being in water that seems ever-lasting and deep, like an ocean, that they can't escape from—the fear of being trapped in your nightmare. The conclusion of this metaphor is to express being mentally trapped with your darkest fears calling out to you.

This quote connects to another Haruki Murakami quote, “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, and change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.” Both use a metaphor to express what the author is imagining and give the reader a visual of their feelings. This quote expresses memories being kept alive to remember a specific experience. Setting a reminder of what has happened in their life, keeping the shelves fresh and clean. The other quote expresses being trapped in a dark place, mentally, with something terrible calling out to you, your dark side telling you to embrace the darkness. What they both have in common is something that can be mental, something that's in your mind. Overall, these two passages from Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, both use language choices to express the idea surrounding the passage. These central ideas have experiences being recalled.

]]> 2023-06-05 18:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615096086 June 5th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615108658 According to William Shakespeare, "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast" this quote means who speeds through something will end up failing in the end, other person who takes something wisely and slow will be the victor. 

I agree with this quote because like The Tortoise and the Hare, the hare believed that he was already going to win since the tortoise was slow. The hare believed that the tortoise was so slow that he decided to take a break. The tortoise actually won the race because the hare was so cocky in thinking that he was already the winner in the race. But actually lost. To the tortoise.]]> 2023-06-05 18:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2615108658 March 21st rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621587189 According to Herman Melville, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects" this quote means that humans use our emotions to connect.

This is accurate because everyone has emotions; our feelings connect with theirs just by seeing how they feel. Feelings allow you to connect with the emotions of others and relate to what is going on in their life.
]]> 2023-06-13 00:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621587189 March 22nd rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621612234 According to William James, "We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep" means that even though everyone is different, we are all connected. 

This quote is accurate because it describes how people are connected through their shared experiences and emotions. This gives us a sense that are all the same on the inside.]]> 2023-06-13 01:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621612234 March 29th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621657138 According to Gustave Flaubert, "You must write for yourself above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful" means it only is beautiful if you have created something yourself. Copying someone else's work won't be considered beautiful at all, simply because you copied another person's beauty.

This quote is accurate because copying someone else's beauty won't make your work beautiful. It's best to put your mind into what you create that represents you and no one else.
]]> 2023-06-13 01:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621657138 March 30th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621669014 According to Mokokoma Mokhonoana, "Freedom of expression is a basic expression of freedom" means you are within your right to express yourself.

This quote is accurate because freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, this includes freedom of speech, and no one's freedom should be censored or suppressed.]]> 2023-06-13 01:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621669014 April 17th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621680034 According to Richard Kadrey, "Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces." means some memories are short-lived and don't have any feeling about them. Other memories can affect how you feel today or forever.

This quote is accurate because specific memories can mold you and how you think. Something horrible can happen to you or anyone close to you, and that can mold in with the rest of your yourself and mind.
]]> 2023-06-13 02:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621680034 April 18th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621705504 According to David Levithan, "I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, form lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist" means that life feels infinite when it comes to what you remember; so many experiences that seem infinite. So it doesn't matter if you remember it fondly or foggy.

This quote is accurate because as time goes on, it will eventually feel like it's the same thing, no matter what path in life you choose. It's an all-in-one experience with stops, no ups or downs.
]]> 2023-06-13 02:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621705504 April 19th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621713142 According to Vera Nazarian, "If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple" means a specific music genre can make you feel like you're in a particular place.

This quote is accurate because jazz is like a city because it’s lively and energetic. Folk is like the wilderness because it’s raw and natural. Rock is like the road because it’s fast-paced and exciting. Classical is like a temple because it’s grand and majestic.]]> 2023-06-13 02:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621713142 April 20th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621723747 According to Dorothy Gambrell, "If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up" means TV is something a toddler would sit down, quietly sitting on the floor, paying attention. While the internet is so informational that it seems endless on information, even telling you things you shouldn't know with your age.

This is accurate because, personally, the internet is quite addicting when you can receive so much information by just asking one question. That question leads to the next, and a couple of hours later, I'm still mentally listening to what the internet has to tell me.
]]> 2023-06-13 02:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621723747 April 24th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621745459 According to Barbara Kingsolver, "Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa" means that even though the kids didn't get what they wanted, they still believe that Santa will eventually give them a better gift.

This quote is accurate because even though someone has been disappointed many times, they still have hope and believe that things will be better next time.
]]> 2023-06-13 03:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621745459 April 25th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621753633 According to Bodie Thoene "Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind" means your anger can either cloud your thinking or completely shut your thinking down.

This is accurate because when your rage takes over, it's like your brain doesn't exist, only your anger, just acting irrationally and uncontrollably to the point where it feels like your thinking doesn't exist like a wind just blew out all the lights in your head.
]]> 2023-06-13 03:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621753633 April 26th rayquans https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621761126 According to Thomas S. Monson, "Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves" means you're responsible for how you think and feel.

This quote is accurate because you can choose to either stock your mind with positive thoughts and feelings or negative ones. The choice is yours to decide what you want to think and feel.
]]> 2023-06-13 03:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rayquans/u4i9bl5cn9rfmis6/wish/2621761126