Ventura,+Lucello

The Portflio of Lucello's English 2 Semester ( 2011-2012 )
The is a portfolio of my writing and the progress of my writing. This is for all of the document that I have created, in order by date. In these next two paragraphs I am describing where I believe I am in writing.

Strengths : One strength that I believe that I have is, when I write I think I get my point across pretty well in writings that I do. I think use a sufficient amount of information when I write about a topic, and I draw out the information enough so that it is understandable. Another part of my writing ability that I feel that I do well with is my use of words. When I write think that I use words in a way that make what I write just a little more interesting. I think that my use of words is good but I also feel that I have weakness when it comes to that area, which I will touch on later. Something that I do good with is---

Something that I have trouble with creating a sentence that is not run-on. When I write I notice that I use a lot of commas and barely any periods. I have a problem with transferring from one sentence to another, I find it kind of hard to change sentences because most of the time it feels like the idea has not changed enough for me to make another sentence. A problem that I also have is spelling. When I write a paper and it come to some of the more different words I have trouble spelling them. I haven't been a very good speller for as long as I can remember. One last problem I have is being repetitive with words. When I write something I have some trouble replacing a word I already used with a different one with the same meaning.

In the future I hope that my writing abilities improve and I fix my problems with my writing. I want to be able to write books without too much of a problem with small things that get in my way. Well, I hope you enjoy my writings and they're below this paragraph.

What I Believe Essay
__**This I Believe**__

In the past my academic grades were not passing, but sometimes not, but were not the highest in the records. In the first semester of high school my grades were still down, in fact I almost failed a class and did get a credit for it, I just barely passed with a 70. The way I felt about that was, if I keep this current trend I would have a hard and not very enjoyable time with the next years to come; it did not feel good to think that I had an very high chance of failing a class. With that in mind when the second semester came I got the highest possible grades I could, and that, I believe, was the first time I was a straight A student. It felt good to have top grades, but sadly it didn't last long, my grades were still good, but I missed a straight A report card by one point in one class, I wasn't too happy about that, all of that work and I missed the glory by one single small point. This year I intend to do differently with this year and all of the rest. I plan on going to college and I will strive to the best of my ability to make this hope true. Throughout high school I am going to keep my grades up and go for what ever would help me to have a better chance of getting an acceptance letter. As my high school experience continues I plan to obtain and maintain high grades. For what college I am going to, I haven't decided just yet but when I do decide, and when I go there it will be the same motive: receive and hold above average grades. What it is that I will do as I career I haven't completely made my mind up in that area but when I do come up with a decision I do my very best to achieve that very goal. When it comes time to decide I think I will know what would be best for me to pick as a career path with all of the options and guidance there is to offer, I know I will make the right decision. I believe in working hard to gain what you want.

By:

Lucello Ventura 9/16/11 Period 3

LGBT Reflection
Lucello Ventura 9/26/11 P-3 What happened to Jamey, he was one of the LGBT youths, was that he revealed his, condition, and then people started to “cyber-bully” him and tell him that he need to die and that he should have never been born. People were telling him that he should end his life and just get out of the world already. Do I think it was fair, no because no one should be bullied. In the end he had taken enough abuse to move him to think and proceed in suicide. If bulling continues more and more people could be pushed to suicide because of all of the emotional abuse that they would be exposed to. What was happening to him shows us what we need to prevent, people being cold to other people and attacking them because they do not like that person or what things they are involved in. Day before he commited suicide he made a farewell post and from what I know nobody acted upon the clear statement of something wrong going in his head and he committed suicide and no one was there to help him.

Night Chapter 4 Reflection
**__Night__**

Chapter 4 Reflecrtion What happened in "Chapter 4" was, Elie was working in a one of the blocks and one of the people who were also in there began to attack him for no apparent reason and after he was done he got up and left. The same person wanted Elie's golden crown and he pushed to get it. To avoid trouble Elie was teaching his dad how to march. Elie lost his gold crown anyway. Elie saw one of the guards in an empty block in the bed with a girl. Elie got beat for seeing the guard in the room. One of the camps got bombed and everyone but the guards are filled with hope. To men and a kid gets hanged and nobody is happy about it. Elie is attacked by someone with a pole, and the girl who spoke french told Elie something is German. Elie and the girl meet later in the future.

Night Chapter 5 Reflection
In chapter five of Night, a selection had been order and the block leader was incouraging all of the people in the block to not worry. Everyone went throught the selection and Elie and his dad was passed the selection. Later on Elie and his block were going to go work and the SS told his dad to stay behind, for an official selection, and he gave Elie a spoon and a knife, expecting to be sent to the crematory. When Elie return back the camp and his dad had passed the second selection. Gun shots began to sound of in the distance, and the camp was to be evacuated. Some of the people were to stay behind in the camp. Elie had a chose to stay with the few that had to or go with the rest of the blocks. He went with them. When they got to the other camp new had been spread the the camp they just left had been liberated. Later they had to evacuated again.