Thursday, October 29, 2015

"Sound of Thunder" Foreshadowing Outline and Paragraph



Hook: "Don't look at me." Cried Eckels "I haven't done anything"

Introduction: Foreshadowing is giving a sign or a warning to the reader of what will happen in the future

Thesis: A sound of Thunder uses a great deal of foreshadowing such as in the title

Example 1: The sign in the beginning of the story is there to foreshadow that in the end it will change
Example 2: They make sure to highlight the fact that they shall stay on the path and not touch anything else in the future and that is foreshadowing that it will change
Example 3: The title of the story "A sound of Thunder" is a foreshadow
Example 4: "We guarantee nothing" is foreshadowing the fact that it will end bad in the story


  "Don't look at me." Cried Eckels "I haven't done anything"
Foreshadowing is giving a sign or warning to the reader of what will happen in the future. A sound of thunder uses a great deal of foreshadowing such as in the title. The sign in the beginning of the story changes. This suggests foreshadowing since it makes us think that something will have to change about it. They make sure to highlight the fact that they have to stay on the path. They do this because then we know that of course someone will have to fall off the path or do something wrong since it said so much about not to do that. The sound of thunder story uses a great deal of foreshadowing, to make you want to read on since it gives you I sign of what will happen later on.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Comprehension Questions "A Sound of Thunder"



  1. The penalties for disobeying instruction is franchise of 10,000 dollars and possible government action which is a business authorized to sell a company's goods or services.
  2. If Deutcher had won the election some people wanted to go back to 1492 since not a lot of people liked him.
  3. Travis tells Eckels, the best way to kill a dinosaur is to "Put your first shot into the eyes.....Go back into the brain."
  4. The men travelled sixty million, two thousand and fifty five years back in the past.
  5. The men has to stay on the metal antogravity path since it's supposed to prevent them from touching any part of the past in any way. If they don't they physically change the present and the future.
  6. The men's clothes were sterilized, so that all the bacteria were removed from their clothes,  before they had the journey.
  7. The men wear oxygen helmets so that their bacteria does not harm anything in the past.
  8. The unique thing about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot them is that they would anyway die in the future.
  9. Eckels jokingly and playfully aimed the rifle.
  10. Eckels says "it could reach up and grap the moon?" when he sees the size of the dinosaur.
  11. The men know which dinosaur to shoot because they have red paint on them.
  12. Billings and Krammer throw up after the dinosaur is dead.
  13. Travis makes Eckels get the bullets out of the T-Rex in order to go back with them.
  14. Eckels notices that the spelling on the sign has changed on their return.
  15. Eckels finds a dead butterfly under his boot.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Official Paragraph



      We deride them as people.
The Guardian is a national daily British newspaper. The Guardian has empathy about the people who are the victims of the diaspora. In the hierarchy of death, anyone labelled "migrant" must take there place somewhere near the bottom. This means that we think that because that these people are coming from Syria or Iraq, and emmigrating from there home country to be safe in europe, they must not be as important as us people who live in europe and have enough money aand have a house and resources. Eventhough the people emmigrating from Syria or Iraq might not have that much money or might not have a place to live, we must still treat them like any other human being because it is not fair to let those pour people drowing on boats or suffocating in trucks on the way to Germany, they are people just like we are. They’re not people: nobody would tolerate hearing about the drowning of human beings over and over again. This expression shows that they dont want to call them "migrants" or "not people" because that is not fair at all that we europeans let so many people drown on boats or suffocate in big trucks, we should not call them migrants and then forget who they actually are. Yes, they are all migrants – or, if you prefer, immigrants. Having moved to the UK to further their careers, some of them might perhaps be described as “economic migrants". The expression "economic migrants" is not a very positive expression since the way it is expressed in. It kind of highlights the fact that they think that they will only come to europe to be economic and just fit in like any other normal person. This is what the immigrants hope for but is unfortunately not possible, therefore we call them economic migrants which is not a positive word, nor is it really negative. The guardian wrote this about the migrants, most of these examples might be negative but it is also a negative situation going on so it cannot be positive everything. The Guardian newspaper wants to change the way we look at migrants and they want to give them more help, and do the right things and the best things for them.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Positive and negative sentences




In the hierarchy of death, anyone labelled “migrant” must take their place somewhere near the bottom

For others, they are an unwanted and uninvited swarm that Fortress Europe must keep out: full of undeserving would-be leeches who have no place in the west.

It is a dehumanised word: for all too many people, it is somewhere down with “petty criminal”, and who mourns petty criminals?

They’re not people: nobody would tolerate hearing about the drowning of human beings over and over again.

People from the UK moving abroad to pursue their career or financial interests, meanwhile, are “expats”, never emigrants or migrants.

“They are people – men, women and children, fathers and mothers, teachers and engineers, just like us – except they come from Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Why not just call them ‘people’, then list any other information we know that is relevant?”

Yes, they are all migrants – or, if you prefer, immigrants. Having moved to the UK to further their careers, some of them might perhaps be described as “economic migrants”.

Newspapers such as the Guardian have been using “migrant” in recent years in part because something similar happened to the word “immigrant”, when it became increasingly used by racists to mean something like “a black person in Britain who should go back home”.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

The Guardian Newspaper

Date: 6/10/2015

When you search Mig... The first word that pops up in the search box is migrants.
When the articles of migrants come up on the screen, all of them include either the word migrants or refugees, but refugees is not used just as much as the word migrants


  1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/migrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-whats-the-difference
  2. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/-sp-migrants-tales-asylum-sea-mediterranean
  3. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/21/photo-migrants-laith-majid-journeys
  4. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/migrants-found-dead-inside-lorry-in-austria
  5. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/migrants-people-refugees-humanity

Date: 7/10/2015

The Guardian newspaper has empathy about the migration crisis

  • http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/migrants-humans-drowning-suffocating-safety-statistics

This article is written by Owen Jones who is a Brittish autor, columnist, commentator and political activist. The article uses about 102 words for the introduction, and it includes big, powerful words and synonyms. This Article is talking positive about the migrants, since they are against what is happening with them and want a change. The big idea behind this article is them being all positive about what is going on and about the migrants, they want to make a change and help the migrants out as much as possible. They use both words, migrants and refugees, but mostly migrants.
Most of the words / phrases used in the article are negative:
Uninvited
Unwanted
Undeserving
Anyone named "migrant" must take their place near the bottom
Dehumanized
"Petty criminal"
We deride them as "migrants"
They're not people
Also here are some phrases / words which are positive:
Why not call them people?

There are way more negative phrases / words, than positive since the situation going on is negative and that is why everything being described about it, is going to be negative.



  • http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/migrants-people-refugees-humanity

This article is written by David Marsh who is a swimming coach. The article uses about 34 for the introduction. They use the word migrant to describe them. This article is for what is happening and it is talking positive about it. They include lots of examples of other people who are migrants or immigrants rather. They use big words, strong words to describe what they are arguing.
Most of the words / phrases used in the article are negative:
Marauding
Swarm
Until the very word "migrant" is toxic
Migrant = bad
"Second-generation immigrant"
It is not hundreds of people who drown when a boat goes down in the Mediterranean, nor even hundreds of refugees. It is hundreds of migrants.
Displaced people
Asylum seekers
Here are some of the positive phrases / words from the article:
They are people – men, women and children, fathers and mothers, teachers and engineers, just like us – except they come from Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Why not just call them "people"





  • http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2015/jul/31/migrants-in-calais-and-folkestone-in-pictures
  • http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/this-isnt-human-migrants-in-limbo-on-italian-french-border
  • http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/23/migrants-macedonia-border-greece