My favourite charcter was Ti Moune. Besides her great performance and singing, I liked the characters personality. She seemed really curious. She wanted to follow her heart more than her mind.  This is why she went to the rich peoples community after Daniel. I like that she was even willing to sacrifice her own life for the love of her life. She represents people's innocents.

Veeti Heikkinen

English

28.02.2016

Jennifer Guarino

Once On This Island

I went to see the Cheshire Academy play called Once On This Island this Friday. It was a musical played by the students of Cheshire Academy. It took place in the Black Box theater in the Field House.

I usually don’t like musicals, but this one was a pleasant surprise. Time went by really fast and all the actors did a great job. Almost the whole play was singing, except just a few short parts. There was a live band playing music for the entire play.

The musical was about a girl called Ti Moune, who was abandoned in a tree when she was a baby. The peasants found the baby and took her. One peasant couple raised Ti Moune. The peasants were separated from the rich people, and they lived in their own community. There were also four Gods: The God of earth “Asaka”, the God of water “Agwe”, the God of Love “Erzulie” and the God of Death “Papa Ge”. The Gods were standing still in the background for almost the entire play, which must have been hard. The Gods wanted to see who was more powerful, God of Love or God of Death. They sent a rich boy, called Daniel, to the peasants community, who crashed his car and passed out. Ti Moune took care of Daniel and fell in love with the boy. After a few days, the rich people came to get Daniel back. Ti Moune couldn’t be away from Daniel, so she traveled to his house and the Gods helped him to get in. Daniel didn’t remember Ti Moune, but still he fell in love with her. Ti Moune lived with the rich people, until she heard that Daniel was getting married with another girl. Then Ti Moune got to choose that will she kill Daniel or die herself. This is how the Gods got to see which was more powerful, love or death. Ti Moune chose not to kill Daniel, and then she was transformed into a tree somehow.

As I mentioned, the whole play was sang, so the plot was sometimes hard to understand. Anyhow the play was really good and I enjoyed watching it.

Veeti Heikkinen

English

26.02.2016

Jennifer Guarino

Writing Center

At first, I went to the writing center during extra help. There was no one there, so I sat down to wait for someone to come. The room was really comfortable. There were desks and comfy chairs, there was even a fake fireplace. There were also Hershey's chocolate on the table, so i helped myself and ate two pieces. After a few minutes, two other students also showed up to wait for Mrs. Swift. I waited for about 15 minutes, but she didn't show up so I had to go to my next class.

At the end of my day, during my free period, I went back to see if she was there, and she was. There were two students working on their own, and Mrs. Swift was in her room. She wasn't busy, so she could help me right away. She started to read my essay out loud from my Ipad. I accidently had a few capital letters left in wrong places, because I had added something in front of them. She noticed that and we changed them. One big thing that she told me to change, was to change my essay from past to present. She also told me not to use the word “that”. She also noticed that my unfinished conclusion wasn’t good yet and she told me to work more on it. She saw that I had many sentences with the similar start and that I used the same words in different sentences. She told me that if I changed those words, my essay would become easier to read. It said that I was going to add a third body paragraph where I would connect my ideas to the real world, so the reader could see how my analysis affects their life. She thought that it would be a good idea.

Now I will write a third body paragraph and a strong conclusion. After I have written those, I will do some more revising. If I don’t have enough words after I have written enough evidences to support all of my ideas and I have a strong analysis, I will make my essay longer by adding words and more summary.

Veeti Heikkinen

24.2.2016

English

Jennifer Guarino

I think that I have a strong start in my essay, but there are a lot of things yet to work on. On my revision, I tried to make my introduction better, but I think that I should still change it a lot to make it stronger and clearer. I also started to write my ending. I still need to work on it a lot. The title that I chose for now is "what is love". I think that I need to choose a better title, because it doesn't connect to ideas and analysis as much as I'd like it to. It is easier to do later, because then I can connect it to my whole essay better. My two body paragraphs has a strong idea and some evidence. The first body paragraph analysis the book me and you. It tells how powerful love is and how it can change a person’s personality. For the first body paragraph, I need to add quotes. I think that I don't have too much summary, but I could add more, or stronger analysis. My second body paragraph of the movie little manhattan, is strong and analytical, but my understanding and analysis of the movie isn’t so strong. It is that the changes that love does to you, will stay forever. I think that I might add a third body paragraph. In that paragraph I would connect my analysis and ideas more to the real life and how they affect our regular everyday life. That way I could make my ideas more connectable with the reader. It would also strengthen my analysis of my second body paragraph.

Veeti Heikkinen
23.02.2016
English
Jennifer Guarino

What is Love

            Love is the strongest feeling in the world. When you are in love, your life starts to spin around your love. Because love is so important part of your life, it starts to affect your everyday life, even if you don’t realize it. Little Manhattan and Me and You both Show us that Love is the most powerful thing in the world when it comes to changing a person's personality.
The book Me and You Shows how even a troubled kid can be changed by the power of love. At first, Lorenzo was a young boy who had a lot of social problems. He didn't have friends and he preferred to be left alone. This shows that he needed a person who cared for him. Lorenzo also didn't care for anyone else except himself. From this we can learn that Lorenzo was really selfish. When his half sister, Olivia, came to his life and she was in need, Lorenzo slowly started to care for her more and more. After he helps Olivia, he feels really good and suddenly he felt really alive. The love between Lorenzo and his sister Olivia, changed Lorenzo from from a selfish self centered boy to a caring and outgoing person. This proves that sometimes you just need a person who you love and who loves you back in order to find a better life.
          Even though love can be really wonderful at the time, it usually ends at some point. The movie Little Manhattan proves that even if the love ended, its effect on you will stay forever. Gabe was a 11 year old boy who suddenly fell in love with a girl who he has known for years. From this we can infer that you can fall in love really fast without having control over it. Gabe was living a perfectly normal life, except his parents were divorced. Before Gabe fell in love, all he knew about love, was that love ends. After he fell in love with Rosemary, his life turned around. All his thoughts started to go around love and Rosemary. This shows how much love influences your normal day life. After Rosemary broke up with Gabe, He went home and saw his parents laughing together remembering their honeymoon. This fact shows that when the love ends, it doesn’t change the past. The memories and  the effect that love had on you, will stay the same for ever.
          From these things we can infer that love truly is the greatest power in the world. It is so effective, that it can change a person’s personality so much, that the person is almost a different person.

"Because love is so important part of your life, it starts to affect your everyday life."
This is my favourite sentence because it is really strong and everyone can relate to it, even if they don't realize it.

first draft

Veeti Heikkinen

18.02.2016

English

Jennifer Guarino

           Love is the strongest feeling in the world. When you are in love, your life starts to spin around your love. Because love is so important part of your life, it starts to affect your everyday life. Little Manhattan and Me and You both Show us that Love is the most powerful thing in the world when it comes to changing a person's personality.

The book Me and You Shows how even a troubled kid can be changed by the power of love. At first, Lorenzo was a young boy who had a lot of social problems. He didn't have friends and he preferred to be left alone. This shows that he needed a person who cared for him. Lorenzo also didn't care for anyone else except himself. From this we can learn that Lorenzo was really selfish. When his half sister, Olivia, came to his life and she was in need, Lorenzo slowly started to care for her more and more. After he helps Olivia, he feels really good and suddenly he felt really alive. The love between Lorenzo and his sister Olivia, changed Lorenzo from from a selfish self centered boy to a caring and outgoing person. This proves that sometimes you just need a person who you love and who loves you back in order to find a better life.

Even though love can be really wonderful at the time, it usually ends at some point. The movie Little Manhattan proves that even if the love ended, its effect on you will stay forever. Gabe was a 11 year old boy who suddenly fell in love with a girl who he has known for years. From this we can infer that you can fall in love really fast without having control over it. Gabe was living a perfectly normal life, except his parents were divorced. Before Gabe fell in love, all he knew about love, was that love ends. After he fell in love with Rosemary, his life turned around. All his thoughts started to go around love and Rosemary. This shows how much love influences your normal day life. After Rosemary broke up with Gabe, He went home and saw his parents laughing together remembering their honeymoon. This fact shows that when the love ends, it doesn’t change the past. The memories and the effect that love had on you, will stay the same for ever.

First first draft

Veeti Heikkinen
18.02.2016
English
Jennifer Guarino

            Little Manhattan and Me and You both Show us that Love is the most powerful thing in the world when it comes to changing a person's personality.
            The book Me and You Shows how even a troubled kid can be changed by the power of love. At first, Lorenzo was a young boy who had a lot of social problems. He didn't have friends and he preferred to be left alone. This shows that he needed a person who cared for him. Lorenzo also didn't care for anyone else except himself. From this we can learn that Lorenzo was really selfish. When his half sister, Olivia, came to his life and she was in need, Lorenzo slowly started to care for her more and more. After he helps Olivia, he feels really good and suddenly he felt really alive. The love between Lorenzo and his sister Olivia, changed Lorenzo from from a selfish self centered boy to a caring and outgoing person. This proves that sometimes you just need a person who you love and who loves you back in order to find a better life.

The book Me and You, Shows how love can change even a troubled kid. At first, Lorenzo was a young boy who had a lot of social problems. He didn't have friends and he preferred to be left alone. He also didn't care for anyone else except himself. When his half sister, Olivia, came to his life and she was in need, Lorenzo slowly started to care for her more and more. After he helps Olivia, he feels really good and suddenly he felt really alive. The love between Lorenzo and his sister Olivia, changed Lorenzo from from a selfish self centered boy to a caring person. This proves the power that love has to change a person.

The novel 'me and you' and the film 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' portrays how love changes personality, from being hopeless and solitary to open-minded and caring.

Thesis

Little Manhattan is a love story between that tells about how quick and painful love can be, but still wonderful. Me and you is more focused on the change that a person's love can have on another person.

Chill snowdays

Snowdays are the best,
because there is no school.
You can watch Netflix,
and relax in your dorm.
You don't need to go anywhere or do anything.
You don't need to wake up early,
So you can stay up late.
If you feel bored,
You can go outside,
Play in the snow,
or build a snowman.

Veeti Heikkinen
English
Jennifer Guarino
3.2.2016

Little Manhattan

Little Manhattan is a love story between a 10 year old boy and a 11 year old girl. It tells about how quick and painful love can be, but still wonderful. 

     The Main character and narrator of this Movie is Gabe. He is a normal boy who has good friends. His parents are divorced, but they are still living together. Gabe has a good relationship with both of them. Before Gabe gets to know Rosemary, all he knew about love, is that love ends. He meets Rosemary in karate class, where they became karate partners. They decides to practice together. They get a little side tracked, and goes shopping for a dress for Rosemary. When Gabe sees her in that dress, he fells in love with her. He doesn't know what these feelings are. Usually he has thought that girls are gross. Gabe gets really nervous around Rosemary, and wants to make a good impression. His thoughts starts to go around Rosemary. They start seeing each other more often. Gabe wants to kiss her, but he is too nervous. Then Rosemary gets a new karate partner, and Gabe thinks that he has to go back to his miserable life, until he remembers that his life was great. Gabe still can't get Rosemary out of his head. Then Rosemary calls Gabe and they go to a concert. Gabe finally has the guts to kiss her. Her response is: "I got to go." The next day Rosemary calls him, and Gabe tells her that he hates her. Later he starts to regret it, and apologizes to her and tells that he loves her more than anything. Rosemary says that she is not ready to love yet. When he goes home, his parents are laughing together, and remembering their honeymoon.

     Gabe realizes that even though love ends, you will always have those memories that you can't shape, and Rosemary will always be his first love.

3 movies

1.  Little Manhattan, the movie is about two kids falling in love with each other in Manhattan.

2. The Fault in Our Stars, it tells about two cancer patients on a journey together to see a reclusive author in Amsterdam.

3. Wild Child, a rebellious teenage "princess" is sent to a strict boarding school in England.

Veeti Heikkinen

English

Jennifer Guarino

28.1.2016

The Ending

The book “Me and You” ended when Lorenzo saw her dead sister. It was 10 years later than the actual story. The book also started when Lorenzo was waiting in a hotel on the same day as he went to see his dead sister. The last part began when Lorenzo was reading the note that Olivia left him, at the hotel. In the letter Olivia says that “remember to keep the promise”, which referred to the promise that they would see each other again. Lorenzo thought to himself that he will see her after ten years. He walks to some kind of corpse room, where Lorenzo sees Olivia laying on a table, dead. He asks for a moment with her alone.

I didn’t really have any reaction to the ending. You can’t really have a reaction to a fictional book. I didn’t really expect anything from the ending, so it didn’t surprise me at all. I thought that after their time in the basement, Lorenzo and Olivia would be closer and keep in touch with each other. The book said that they haven’t seen each other in ten years, but it didn’t relieve if they had been in touch with each other. There isn’t much that you could learn from the book. One thing that the book showed us is that if you do drugs, it is possible to quit, but it is very hard to stay clean forever. Olivia seemed like she quit doing drugs, but 10 years later she died of overdose. Another thing is that drugs can ruin your life and even kill you. In the book, drugs had ruined Olivia’s life, and later on they killed her.