"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" 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.

“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.

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.

“‘The Cold Equations’ – Marilyn’s Point of View.”

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Here in the link in my Google Docs.

Narrator and Voice Notes

Autobiographical Narrative- Final Draft

Autobiographical Narrative Graph

My new Autobiographical Narrative Graph

-This is on something new, I am making a new one instead because the story about my Valentine`s day just could not be told.

"Autobiographical Narrative Prewriting Form."

This is my Autobiographical Narrative Prewriting Form

"Plot and Character Practice Test"

"Two Kinds" Mother & Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-Mei and her mother, Jing-Mei is the one I support. For example, she is young and doesn`t know yet what to be and her mother tries pushing her into doing something she does not want to do. This shows how much she is pressured into doing something she does not want to do, and it is not fair to Jing-Mei. It also is showing what kind of mother Jing-Mei has. In addition, her mother gave her piano lessons with Mr. chong who is deaf, also Jing-Mei stealing magazines for her daughter to become a prodigy. Showing that her mother still forced her into practicing piano, even after that disastrous performance. I would be just like Jing-Mei, but only standing up for myself in a stronger way.

“Favorite Character Interview.”

• What is your name?
-Her name is Nora.
• What is your favorite character in a movie or book?
-Nora`s favorite character in a movie is Ariel from the Little Mermaid.
• Describe your character in one word.
-Nora describes herself as unique.
• What is the character’s motivation?
Nora is self motivated.
• Describe the character’s appearance.
-The character`s appearance is tall, athletic body type, and African American.
• Name a few actions the character performs.
-A few actions the character performs is funny.
• What does the character think about?
-Nora thinks about the future.
• What does the character say?
-Nora says ........
• Why do you like this character?
-Nora like`s herself because she is honest.