Exemptions and guide

Exempts:
Vero
Gabriela Cervantes
Regina Fernandez
Fernando Lira
Daniela Liverant
Iker
Ana otero
Valeria Patricio
Sofia Serrano
Mariana Silveti
Lourdes María
Paola Torres

GUIDE
Figurative language
Elements of poetry
And then there were none
Frederick Douglass
The two brothers
The lesson of the moth
Trip to the edge of survival
The Martian Chronicles

Mid-term Break

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble,'
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year. 

Seamus Heaney

Exempts

Here's the list guys, congratulations if you have any questions email me at belatarr@me.com :

1. Vero Aldana
2. Gabriela Cervantes
3. Michel
4. Regina Fernandez
5. Josh Inzunza 
6. Daniela Liverant
7. Fernando lira
8. Iker Olarra 
9. Ana Otero
10. Valeria Ramos 
11. Patricio Romero
12. Sofia Serrano
13. Mariana Silveti

Remember that if you have 3 or more amonestaciones you can't exempt, so if you're on the list and that is your case, well...you don't exempt.

Study Guide Bimestral Exam

• Informative and literary non fiction
• Plot structure
• Essay (definition, types of essays)
• Internal/External conflict
• Button, Button
• Not to go with the others
• Night
• Internal/External conflict

Exempts

Vero
Gabriela
Fernando
Iker
Ana Otero
Valeria Ramos
Sofía Serrano

Congratulations guys!

Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech.

Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1986

It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.

It frightens me because I wonder: do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? ... I do not. That would be presumptuous. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

It pleases me because I may say that this honor belongs to all the survivors and their children, and through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identified.

I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

I remember: he asked his father: "Can this be true?" This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?

And now the boy is turning to me: "Tell me," he asks. "What have you done with my future? What have you done with your life?"

And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remain silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.

Of course, since I am a Jew profoundly rooted in my peoples' memory and tradition, my first response is to Jewish fears, Jewish needs, Jewish crises. For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people. It would be unnatural for me not to make Jewish priorities my own: Israel, Soviet Jewry, Jews in Arab lands ... But there are others as important to me. Apartheid is, in my view, as abhorrent as anti-Semitism. To me, Andrei Sakharov's isolation is as much of a disgrace as Josef Biegun's imprisonment. As is the denial of Solidarity and its leader Lech Walesa's right to dissent. AndNelson Mandela's interminable imprisonment.

There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention: victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution, writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the Left and by the Right. Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free. And then, too, there are the Palestinians to whose plight I am sensitive but whose methods I deplore. Violence and terrorism are not the answer. Something must be done about their suffering, and soon. I trust Israel, for I have faith in the Jewish people. Let Israel be given a chance, let hatred and danger be removed from her horizons, and there will be peace in and around the Holy Land.

Yes, I have faith. Faith in God and even in His creation. Without it no action would be possible. And action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all. Isn't this the meaning of Alfred Nobel's legacy? Wasn't his fear of war a shield against war?

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done. One person – a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I have done with his years. It is in his name that I speak to you and that I express to you my deepest gratitude. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Thank you, Chairman Aarvik. Thank you, members of the Nobel Committee. Thank you, people of Norway, for declaring on this singular occasion that our survival has meaning for mankind.

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1986, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1987

Class Rules

The following points are the class rules we will stick by. To avoid any confusion all students are required to sign them and keep them through the rest of the year. I will ask to see this piece of paper at the end of each bimester; if you have it you will gain half a point in a varios assignment.

1. Absolutely NO bullying. If I see anybody being abusive they’ll leave the class immediately. Being abusive means, calling people names they don’t like, insulting others or mocking them in any way. If I consider the insult to be too grave it’s a direct amonestación.

2. English must be spoken at all times unless I give permit ion to speak in Spanish or any other language.

3. You can sit wherever you want but if I decide to change you, it will be permanent and wherever I like. So behave and you can have the same seat all year.

4. Cellphone policy is as follows: You will leave your phones on my desk, if you do not want to it’s fine but if you take it out it’s a sacada, the next time an amonestación and after that it will be an amonestacion all the time. I will let you use your mobile phones on special situations. This applies also to iPod’s and music players or any other electronic device that is not related to the class.

5. -No eating in class. You may drink whatever you want that is allowed by the school.

6. -Turn your assignments/projects on time. If you miss the due date for a homework assignment or project you can turn it in up to two days later although each day will cost you a final point over the total grade.

7. -Every Friday will be quiz day. It won’t be hard unless of course you’re not doing your reading. These quizzes will count in parciales.

8. -No cheating during quizzes and exams. You might get lucky and get away with it but if I catch you it’s an automatic zero.

9. -Bring all the stuff you need to class. You are not allowed to go out for a book or notebook you forgot. If you use the pass to do this you will be sent out of class.

10. -Come to class on time. After I close the door, if you’re not inside then you’re late. Please don’t wait outside and come inside when the bell is ringing.

These rules are unchangeable unless a special situation comes up. Feel free to ask if you have any questions. REMEMBER: keep this page safe somewhere!