Persuasive Project Topic Request

After reviewing the Voxopop discussion, I would like to persuade people to help the students here at San Pasqual Academy by, donating clothes and school supplies , it will also be a great thing for alumni students to come back and talk, and also geting free scholarships would really help. You may listen to my class’s discussion here here.

“First Persuasive Paragraph.” -Prompt E

I agree on having a certain GPA to be able to play sports. If you have a low grade I don’t think it’s appropriate for a student to be on the team playing. Either they stay home, get a tutor and make your grades come up. If being on the team playing a sport, it takes time away from the students study time to bring grades up. The students would not have time to make up grades and also finishing homework because they’re always out and about.

I myself have a GPA that I cannot play a sport and be on a team. I am not mad about it, I feel like it’s a way better idea because I get to stay home studying and getting work done while bringing my grades up also. It gives me a better chance to get better grades before the season is over. Plus, I don’t have to worry about anything but myself and not procrastinate.

When people just play sports they forget to get things done and procrastinate on getting their work done thinking they can get it done later. Also, they won’t have time to study because they’re so tired from playing.

Thanksgiving Project

"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" and "Catch the Moon" Theme Comparison Essay

In these two stories, “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” are both very similar in a few ways. In both stories the main characters changes in their personalities. Luis and the boy in “The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, get changes by a girl, and they start to realized things at the end weren’t how its suppose to be and things didn’t fall in place but you need to take it like a lesson learned.

In the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” the main characters are the boy and Sheila. The main conflict is that the boy likes Sheila and she hates fishing and he had to choose between her or the bass he had caught. He had thrown away the fish because he didn’t want Sheila to see it. Later, the boy regretted it. The resolution was that Sheila left him anyway afterward when he was trying so hard to impress her. The main character changes by feeling regret, and dumb for letting go the biggest fish he had caught over a girl who didn’t like him and didn’t like him for who he is and judge him that fishing is stupid. You shouldn’t have to hide who you really are even if someone else doesn’t like it because they should except you for who you’re.

In the story “Catch the Moon” the main characters are Luis and Naomi. The main conflict is that Luis has not grieve and let go of his mother’s death over 3 years and he changes because of that. He barely gets out and have fun or talk to girls. When people bring up something about his mother he gets sad. The main character Luis changes by the grief of forgetting and letting his mother go and moving on and becoming to change back to how he really is before his mother died. He couldn’t even talk to Naomi and likes her so much but things change. Love and losing someone changes the person can be effective to the way you see things.

Luis and the boy in “The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, has changed because a girl, a mother and a girl he likes and they start to realized things at the end. They both change and both loses somebody they are close to. You have to grieve to let go and accept something. It is the only way to move on, when you do you will feel great. You also have to accept things and make the right decisions.

"Catch the Moon" Theme Graphic Organizer

"Catch the Moon" Grief Paragraph

The change Luis experiences after he address the grief he feel for his mother’s death is truly believable. For example, Luis has changed throughout his mother’s death from where he was happy and now he is deleterious. In real life people grieve from a death, especially when someone close to you has passed away. When my dad passed away, I changed a lot. I acted like I hated life and that I hated my mom. I ditched school many times and because my dad had died from heavy smoking and drinking, I started to do the same. I was 9 years old at the time, and I feel like I finally changed to my real self when I turned 13 years old. I put a lot of pain into my mother’s life. By dealing with grief, people are able to accept and understand why things in life is the way it is. They will become stronger at the end of the process, a better person will come out of it.

"Homeroom Reform Essay."

Final Draft

San Pasqual Academy needs funding in order for its students to be successful. San Pasqual Academy is a first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed specifically for foster teens. It is located in Escondido, CA and provides foster teens with a stable, caring home, a quality, individualized education, and the skills needed for independent living. San Pasqual Academy needs funding for many different reasons, but one way that funding could be directly used is by providing agendas for our students.

Our idea is to have quality agendas for San Pasqual Academy students. It can help in ways like getting homework done on time, and being organized, not just organized in school but will help the students here at San Pasqual Academy be organized in other areas as well. This will work by helping the school and will also help us to be responsible people. San Pasqual Academy needs funding because we cannot provide a single copy for every student and new students who enroll for the next school year, or for extra copies. Agendas are a necessary tool but they can be used for other things, people today use planners which are agendas. San Pasqual Academy students need an agenda.

It will help me with my educational goals, by being well organized and responsible. This prize will help to provide tools for me to be successful as I pursue my education. It will also help me because we can use the money for school supplies.The money we need will help San Pasqual Academy’s students to have a better future. Plus, we need more school supplies to provide for our students.

Some contributions have been provided by other donations and funding. Such as, The Jammer Family Foundation (Quentin Jammer’s Organization), Friends Of San Pasqual Academy and many more. One of our teachers has created a sheet of paper that works like an agenda in place of actual ones in order for students to keep track of their work. By making sure we get it signed every night and getting it checked off by one of our teachers.Teachers have been putting ideas in such as making paper agendas for students here. If we had real agendas it would be much better and so much more efficient.

It can provide technology and equipment that will help us be more interested in what we are learning, and students would be willing to work on the assignments that are being handed out. It will help the students at San Pasqual Academy by motivating them with technology since it is something more interesting to work with. It can also help because if we have more technology, more students would be interested in coming to San Pasqual Academy and also our student body would grow.The more we educate our students the better our students will be at educating themselves in the future by the school discipline.

San Pasqual Academy needs funding for these specific reasons. It will help us, the students, so much in our future as foster teens. How it will help students here at San Pasqual Academy, the prize, how we worked on the project, and how it will be provided.Getting the prize will make our school a better and educated place for the students here at San Pasqual Academy.


I wrote this essay with Janie S. We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest.

"SPA Movie & Games Day Paragraph.

When I arrived at school on friday, we had to go straight to Ms. Priester’s classroom. Later we switched onto one of Kyle’s classroom in the Tec center to watch the movie call “Freedom Writers”. I’ve seen this movie so many times that I knew almost every single line. It was fun to watch again, although nobody in our class paid any attention to the movie. After watching the movie, we went to the gym and I played Basketball and Volleyball. It was so much fun but no one took volleyball seriously. The day was finally over and we went to go eat lunch, the burgers were great and it was also a fun and easy day. When I got home I took a very long long nap.

Homeroom Reformers Essay Brainstorm - Revised

“SPA Theme Song.”

For SPA theme song, I picked Down by Jason Walker. I picked this song because although it is sad and depressing, it gives me hope to keep getting up and not to give up on life or on anything. No matter what happen in your life you can’t always dwell on it, you need to move on and keep trying. It puts me at ease when I listen to this song. When someone gives you support take it and be thankful, don’t throw away SPA like it’s such a bad place; it’s not. People make it sound so bad because they’re not happy in their life. You can’t blame it at a place where they help you with everything. San Pasqual Academy gives us support such as: food, a place to live, clean clothes, a job, a bed, ETC. They give us a lot, if you’re one of the people on campus who hates it...it’s really not the campus, it’s the people who doesn’t appreciate the things they have. When things goes down, people always give up. It’s a game you just need to get to the final stage, and you’re a winner. When the screen says, “GAME OVER”, does not mean you turn off the switch. You turn it back on and keep trying until you get to the last final stage. My sister always says this, “If it hurts to fall, get back up because it’s harder to keep being on the ground when you can give it another try”. Appreciate life, SPA, once you get out into the real world; there’s going to be few people who would give this much support. This song is dedicated to San Pasqual Academy including the people who are a part of it.

Jason Walker-Down

I don’t know where I’m at
I’m standing at the back
And I’m tired of waiting
Waiting here in line, hoping that I’ll find what I’ve been chasing.

I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna to fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
Never know why it’s coming down, down, down.

Not ready to let go
Cause then I'd never know
What I could be missing
But I’m missing way too much
So when do I give up what I’ve been wishing for.

I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna to fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
Never know why it’s coming down, down, down.
Oh I am going down, down, down
Can’t find another way around
And I don’t want to hear the sound, of losing what I never found.

I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna to fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
I never know why it’s coming down, down, down.

I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna to fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
Oh it’s coming down, down, down.

"The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant". Theme Graphic Organizar

“’The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant’ compared to “I’m Gonna Miss Her.”

In the story, “The bass, the river, and Shelia Mant” compared to Brad Paisley’s song call “I’m Gonna Miss Her”, are very alike. The lyrics concluded what the boy had gone through in the story also but they’re also different. Brad Paisley wrote a song about a girl he is in love with but she does not like him leaving her for fishing, just like Shelia Mant; she thinks fishing is stupid. Brad rather go fishing than be with his girlfriend, so she left him. Same with Shelia Mant and the boy, she also left him later after he had thrown away the biggest fish, but Shelia showed no interest. These two are also different because Brad chose fishing first even though he lost the girl too. In the story, “The bass, the river, and Shelia Mant”, the boy chose Shelia over the fish, instead he lost the girl and also the fish. Those are the comparison between these two.

Internal and External Conflicts in “Sheila, The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”

In the story, “Sheila, The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, faces both external and internal conflicts. His external conflict is the struggle he had with the Bass. He was happy that he had caught the big fish and tries hiding it away from Shelia. His internal conflict is his feelings for Shelia because he is trying to impress her, but she thinks fishing is stupid. He likes Shelia for so long and tried things to get her to see him the way he sees her. Also, he feels if she sees the Bass he had caught it would make her not like him even more. As the results of these conflicts, he realizes that he had let go of the fish because he wanted Shelia. He also wanted the biggest fish he ever caught. Later, Shelia leaves him and left with another guy. He wish he could’ve picked that fish over her. Also, there are many other fishes in the sea, but he should have let her go instead.

"Catch the Moon" Falling in Love.

Falling in love takes two people, two hearts, but it turns into one. Falling in love starts with a small feeling into bigger ones until you grow to love them more and more. You have to have respect, loyalty, honesty, caring, understanding, and everything a person should be treated no matter what situation you’re in. It is crazy, it has ups and downs and peoples knees gets weak and peoples heart grows stronger. People fall in love when they least expect it. When I, least expect it. People think that falling in love, means it has to take years to get that feeling; it doesn’t as long as your feelings are true towards each other no one can tell you, “You don’t know what love is”! For example, my house parents Bob and Debbie have only dated for three months and they got married. Knowing they can do it, makes anyone able to do it also. Debbie says, “Bob and I are totally opposite people, but we worked and worked on our relationship to make it this far. We have been married for 35 years and now going onto 36 years”. If loving that person is worth it, then make it last forever; though things gets hard, don't give up. There are so many emotions that runs through our minds. You ever hear that saying where they say, “You are a part of me and I am a part of you”? It’s true, once you get to that point where you feel like you know your boyfriend/girlfriend so well to the point where you guys are in love. It suddenly starts to feel like your just like them, you have a part of them and the other part of you is with them. You start to do anything to keep that person happy, and you wouldn't care what it takes to do so. Falling in love is a mystery, it happens differently to other people; some takes time, and some takes only a few months. It’s a mystery, you don’t know when it’s going to happen. Who cares if someone says, “You love him? What! you only been with him for 7 months”. It does not matter how long you known them, or how much they did this for you and that, nor how long you’ve been with them. It is the feeling that counts, deep down inside; not what people think that you should feel. Also, even if you’re young! So what?! I can say that when young people fall in love, it makes it harder because they try to grasp the love they had before and hold onto it knowing it ended so long ago, but it still does not mean it can’t happen. If you just be yourself, be true to yourself; you won’t have any reasons not to find love. Like they say, “Patient is a virtue”. Love can’t be rushed, because you don’t have a sexual life with your partner does not mean you guys aren’t in love. For example, when I fell in love for the first time, I was honestly to God; scared! I questioned myself everyday if it was really love? After everything I went through with him made me realize many things, and even though we fell out of love, I still care and I still have love for him. If you care for a person that much, it’s hard to let go and forget. Does not mean you have to erase them from your memories, “People hold onto the memories like it’s the most important thing in their life, because they are the ones that does not change when the people in it does”. You can’t force yourself to move on, you just have to go with the flow. While you do that learn from it, don’t just throw it away like it doesn’t mean anything to you. When falling in love, people are motivated by moving on, caring more, loving more, and being a better person themselves. They start to care what they would treat their next love one who comes in, and cherish it. A love one once told me that if you can’t make things right like how you want it, you keep trying; and if you know you’re hurting the person so much but you love them and you want them to be happy, you should let them go. He told me that he knew he was hurting me and he keeps doing it but he tried and tried but somehow it just never worked out. The only way is to let go, cherish, remember; only if they really and truly meant something.

Comparing Themes Notes

“’Halloween Memory in Third-Person."

It was a Halloween night. Chanda and her brothers and sisters went out to trick or treating. Chanda was dressed as a princess, she was wearing pink with a little princess crown on her head. She had to walk in front of her sisters and brothers because they didn’t want her to get lost. Coming back home late Chanda had 2 big bag of candies. Right when she walked into the door she jumped on her dad saying, “Dad, I got a lot of candies”. Chanda was 7 years old, innocent little girl. Chanda layed next to her dad and Chanda fed little bars of chocolate to her dad, feeling full she went right asleep.