Final Project

Final Project 

Growing Up

Eighth Grade 

Four Genres by Hanna Rose Kronholm 

Dear Reader,
This essay is based on the topic "Growing Up". There are four genres, a movie review, poem, e-mail and a fashion article. The e-mail relates directly to To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. The next is a poem comparing a flower to growing up. The third part is about a movie and how the main character coped with growing up and my opinion about this. Finally, the last part is a fashion article.  Over the course of this essay I will tell you my opinions on growing up and things that I discovered about Scout and Juliet while we were analyzing the book and play. I hope my essay gives you a different prospective on growing up.

Sincerely,
Hanna Rose Kronholm

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Email—To: Scout@TKAM.com
From—Juliet@balcony.com

Subject- Advice on Growing Up

Dear Scout,

Even though we have never met I have heard a lot about you, and I feel like I have known you for a long time.  I wanted to take this opportunity to give you some advice that I wish someone had given me when I was your age.  When I was only 12 years old, my family arranged a marriage for me, but I had only met this boy a couple of times before.  I didn’t have any feelings for him and I wish that I had communicated to my parents that I didn’t want an arranged marriage. My advice to you would be to take a couple of minutes to talk to your father about what you want in life. I met a wonderful boy named Romeo, even after I had an arranged marriage planned. I later found out that our families don’t get along, to the point in which they want to kill each other.  My father forbade me from ever marrying him, but I continued to love him and we are planning to get married.  I wish that our families got along because I know that if Romeo weren’t a Montague my family would accept him. So my advice to you would be to make sure you really know important information about the person before you fall in love.  It could be very shocking to find out later that your father doesn’t like the person you have fallen in love with or their family. However, you should always follow your heart no matter what other people say. I hope we have the chance to meet face to face some day.

                            Sincerely,

                            Juliet Capulet  

*****

Growing up is like a flower, 

You start out small and helpless

Your parents feed you and nourish you with love

Just like the sun.

 Like a flower it takes time to grow and be able to stand on your own,

To be able to go through storms and changes on your own.

Just like a flower you have to spread you petals,

become your own person.

Make decisions on your own because you’re not a little flower anymore,

You've grown and blossomed into a mature beautiful flower of life. 

*****

  

 Movie Review

Last Song

Starring Miley Cyrus (Ronnie), and Greg Kinnear (Dad)

4 STARS ****

     In this movie Miley Cyrus, who plays a teenage girl named Ronnie, is having a difficult time at this point in her life. Her parents got divorced two years ago. One of her passions was playing the piano, following in her father’s footsteps, and planning to attend Julliard. When her parents divorced and her father moved out of the house, she quit playing the piano. She started to not care about anything, and was having a difficult time in school. Her parents then told Ronnie and her brother that they were going to spend the summer at their dad’s house. Ronnie was very upset that she had to go because she blamed her parent’s divorce on her father. Later in the summer, her dad has a seizure on the beach and he finally tells them that he has lung cancer. That is when Ronnie really starts to grow up. She starts to forgive her father and she realizes that it was just as much her mother’s fault for getting a divorce. Her brother is very upset about his dad’s illness and he knows that they are both going to lose their dad. Ronnie realizes that she has to be there for both her dad and her brother. At the end of the summer her mom comes to pick them both up and Ronnie tells her that she is staying with her dad. Her mother doesn’t agree with this decision and tells Ronnie that her dad is going to get much worse. Ronnie doesn’t listen and stays with her dad for his last months. In those couple of months that they spend together her dad tells her that it is his dying wish that she play the piano again. At first Ronnie is very hesitant, but she knows that her father is going to die soon and she wants to make him happy. She decides to play that night and as she’s playing she looks over at her dad smiling, and when she looks back up she has realized that he has dropped his glass and has died. Ronnie grew up a lot over that summer she spent with her dad. She learned how to care for someone she really loved. Along with that she learned to move on after her father’s death, not forgetting him, but keeping him always in her heart. This movie has done very well in the box office and I recommend you bring a set of tissues.

*****

Ways to Look More Grown up! 

Teen Vogue 

         Just a couple tips on how to look more grown up. First of all a darker hair color looks more sophisticated, even if it's a darker shade of your natural hair color. Stay away from heavy makeup, in most cases its not attractive and it doesn't make you look sophisticated. When dressing you should not wear things to tight but at the same in not too loose either. You need to find pieces of clothing that fit your body the right way. Growing up can be a confusing time and it often reflects in the way you look, but I hope these three simple tips help you while growing up.

Free Style Writing

Rain,
Rain is crashing on the grass,
Rain is splashing on the rocks,
Rain is sitting on the trees,
Rain is hitting me,
Rain.

Essay #13

Essay 13

True Love;

Do you Fall, Find, or Discover it?

An Essay By Hanna Rose Kronholm

Mr.H.Salsich

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

               Have you ever thought about how you might find love? You may not be searching for it, but love may find you. Real love survives through anything and everything. Love found my grandparents and one day I hope it comes to me too.

                I believe that true love, real love, will find me, whether I find love, or love encounters me. I may not be looking for love, searching for the right person, comparing people, asking myself who I like, wishing I had someone, coming to that day that I do find someone, hoping they love me the same way I love them. I may run into love many times but really true love is something I think you only come across once in your life. I think it takes a good amount of time to build love, strengthening a bond, loving the other person the way they love you, building a healthy relationship, falling in fervor with that special person. I've been told that love is worth the wait and when you have fallen in love you'll know it.  I  believe that some people can fall in love at first sight. I feel that love will not just find me but everyone.

       When I think of a truly loving relationship, the two people that stand out in my mind are my grandparents. My mom's parents have been happily married for 46 years. They have gone through most of their life together, loving each other, building not only a house but a home, raising their five children, working through struggles and problems, experiencing the good times and the bad.  All of these things are what I think makes their love so strong. They are always happy when they are around each other; they have the time of their lives together each and every day and cherish everything. My grandparents trust each other and lean on one another for support. The loving relationship my grandparents have is amazing, and I hope someday I will find love like they did.

         Love can happen when you least expect it. When you find love you should hold onto it and cherish it forever. I know that people say that love is magical; I hope that when I encounter love it’s magical for me too. I believe that love never dies.

Self Assessment-

1.) I think that I could work on making my paragraphs a little more descriptive and add more detail.

2.) One thing that I am particularly proud of is my introduction paragraph and my taffy sentences. I feel like I did a very good job on them both.

3.) One thing that I could work on for next time would be having more F.A.S.T. words they would help make my paragraphs not as repetitive.

4.) I would give myself a B+ on this essay  I fell like I did a very good job and I put a lot of time and effort into it.

Outline for Essay #13

Outline for Essay #13

Hanna Kronholm

"Love"

Wednesday, April 20 2011

TS- I think that real love will find me.

SD- Weather i find it or it finds me.

CM- I might not be looking or i may be (loose sentence)

CM- I might run into it a lot, and find true "real" love many times or maybe just once.

SD- I feel like love takes a while to build, it doesn't just happen over night

CM- Once you build up love, you have fallen in love

CM- Falling in love is something i believe in, sometimes its," Love at first sight."

CS- I think love will find me, and all of us.

TS- Two people that stand out to me when you say, "to people who have a truly loving relationship." would be my grandparents.

SD- My grandparents have been happily married for 46 years

CM- They have gone through most of life together

CM- My grandparents have grow and had struggles and raised a family together which is what i think makes there love so strong.

SD- They are always happy when there together.

CM- They have the time of there life together everyday just being with each other.

CM- They trust each other and lean on each other.

CS- The loving relationship my grandparent have is amazing, and i hope someday i will find love like they did.

Sonnet Poem on Friendship

A flower growing in the time of spring
Its like the bond that you will have together
The flower grows, and the friendship sings
Your friendship might be pulled like a tether
The friendship might not be as easy as a swing
But one day it will be as strong as leather
Sometimes friendships are dangling by a string
And might fall as easy as a feather

Friendship is Like the Air I breathe;

Always there for me

An Essay by: Hanna Rose Kronholm

Wednesday, April 13 2011

Mr.H.Salsich

  The friendships in my life are very important to me. The one that stands out the most to me is the bond and friendship I have with my cousin Simone. She means so much to me and when we're not together something feels wrong. My closeness with Simone has been strong since we were in kindergarten. I think that my friendship with her would be compared to air because it's something you purely need, and I feel that I need her to live.

             To me friendship is like the air I breathe. My cousin Simone and I have a friendship like no other. Without air to breathe I would die, like without Simone I would feel dead inside and lost in life. I take the air for granted, like I do sometimes with our closeness, but Simone means the world to me. I depend on the air to keep me alive, filling my lunges, bringing me forward to the next moment in life, ruling my life, keeping me conscious. I depend on Simone, just as she depends on me, to give me marvelous advise and withhold my secrets. I know that I can trust her with anything I have on my mind, any problems or concerns and she always knows the right thing to say to make me feel better. Simone and I truly have a bond like no other, strong enough to go through anything. Just like air, she's always there for me. 

      Simone is a necessity to me and so is the air that I breath. I can trust her with anything. I know that she will help me through any crisis I have and I would help her through anything too. We will continue to be best friends forever. Even though we will have to be separated next year because we are going to different schools, just like the air we breathe, we will be there for each other. Our time might be limited but it cannot break our bond.  Simone has truly made a big impact in my life and I wouldn't trade our friendship for anything in the world.

Essay Outline #12

TS- My friendship is like the air we breathe

SD Air's always there because you need it
CM Kinda like my friend ship
CM With out it i would be lost

SD Take it for granted
CM like friendship
CM "                    "

SD Depend on the air
CM depend on someone to keep your secrets
CM depend on the person to always be there

CS

Essay #11

Essay 11

Teenagers in 2011 Have Many Struggles

An Essay by Hanna Rose Kronholm

Mr. H. Salsich

Tuesday, April 5 , 2011

          There are so many problems that teenagers now a days,in 2011, have to face. Thing to worry about are always on our minds, homework, grades and electronics. Most of us are usually thinking about our grades and striving to do better on ever assignment .

             Teenagers in 2011 struggle with many problems, along with many perks too.  The first and biggest issue would be the amount of homework and the pressure to keep our grades up. Most teenagers, who are in middle school around the age of 13, spend a lot of time on homework every night. It’s very challenging to balance out your time for fun things while keeping your grades up. Furthermore, the amount of technology used is a perk most of the time. On the other hand it sometimes would be easier without it. We all spend time on our phones, playing video games, ect., We have to worry about printing things out and e-mailing, when it would be a lot easier to hand write most of the work. We also have to worry about things that our parents didn't, they could walk to school everyday with out a problem or worry of being unsafe, and didn't have to fret. The world is defiantly not as safe as when our parents went to school.  Although our parents lived in a safer world because there was less crime and worry teenagers of 2011, have the complete surety of medical support and very well trained doctors that our parents didn’t have when they were young.

               Personally as a teenager in 2011 I don't have to many struggles that other teenagers don't have. The first one would be having younger siblings, kids that always want to be with you, children that aren’t always easy to pros wade, a girl and boy who fight occasionally. Although they look up to me they are usually quit annoying and bothersome. Having younger siblings, that are always there asking you question wanting to do things unsafely and making a mess, is a great learning experience but it is hard to learn how to deal with them in a way that doesn’t make them angrier. Another challenge I personally had over the last year was watching my mom fight off breast cancer, going through Kimo-Theropy once a week for 3 months and radiation every day for 4 months. It was hard on all of us, but especially me being the oldest having more responsibilities. I learned a lot from my mom going through breast cancer and it was quite a struggle. I am very thankful that she fought it off though.

          Although we as teenagers have so much to worry about, we always find a way to overcome our obstacles. We learn from our mistakes, from the problems that we have in 2011. Teenagers grow and learn from all the challenges we have to deal with.  

Self Assessment-

1.)  One issue that I am working on in my essays is to have appositive sentences that flow into the sentence before and the sentence after. I worked especially hard on this essay to make everything flow with elegance.

2.)  One thing that I thought I did particularly well on was have the right amount of fast words, bell words and echo words. In this essay I decided to put extras in to make the paragraphs and over-all essay better.

3.)  I could next time work on making my sentences that aren’t appositives longer than they are. I think it would make the essay better so next time I am going to work especially hard on that.

4.)  On this essay #11 I decided to give my self a B. Because I think that it’s not my best writing because I had trouble coming up with good ideas and commentaries. This was a especially hard topic for me to work on but I feel I worked to the best of my abilities.

Outline Essay #11

Outline For Essay #11

Hanna Kronholm

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis) Teenagers in 2011 struggle with many problems, along with many perks.

Bell word- Problem   

SD- The first and biggest would be all the homework and pressure most of us get, to get good grades.

        CM Most all teenagers spend a lot of time on homework every night

        CM Its hard to balance out our time, to be able to do fun things to.

Echo word- Struggle

    SD Also the amount of technology used

CM It is a big perk to most all of us, but it is also a struggle to have, because of the amount of time most of us spend playing video games or computer games.

        CM- It might almost be easier with out as much technology to hand write your assignments and not have to worry about printing e-mailing, ect.

Echo- Struggles

    SD- Many things have changed since the time our parents were young, they had the freedom to walk places and not be worried about bad people.

        CM We cant walk to school like most of our parents did, because of all the fears of not being safe.

        CM Our parents didn’t have all the medical and safety technology like we do.

CS- Although growing up in 2011 with all the problems, everyone can overcome them and work to be a better person.

Assesment Essay Final Draft-

My Eyes Have Been Opened:

 Through My Work at the Salvation Army

An Essay by Hanna Rose Kronholm

Tuesday, February 29, 2011

Mr. H. Salsich

I volunteered at the Salvation Army, in New London Connecticut. My visits at the Salvation Army related to To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee in many ways. Along the way of volunteering my research helped me, not only at my site. The research helped me understand more about people in poverty. It was not easy for me to decide, there were so many places that I felt I could make a difference at.

            There were many factors that went into my decision of picking my site, the Salvation Army. My inspiration to volunteer at the Salvation Army was when I walked by a women in front of the grocery store, she was ringing a bell, a women dressed in all red, a person volunteering her time to the Salvation Army. She was collecting money and asking for donations. This gave me a new idea for a place that I could volunteer my time for assessment. I also thought that it would be a very beneficial place to volunteer there. Before, I saw this I was going back and forth between ideas. Furthermore, when I saw the lady out side the store it seemed like a really great idea. I thought that it would be a good place to make a difference in the community. I knew that I could help a lot of people and also support the Salvation Army. A world wide charity, that operates in 81 countries around the world and serves in 175 different languages (poverty). It gave me a chance to work at a site that no one else in my class worked at. Choosing the Salvation Army around the holiday season was very rewording because they raise so much money 23 million from the kettle bells, alone a year (Salvation). I knew it would be an excellent place to for my assessment but also a challenging place and I had a great experience volunteering there.

            I had many challenges while volunteering at the Salvation Army. One specific one was the trouble of getting there. My site was in New London and I had to plan out the dates to fit into my schedule, sports and homework. Having 6 snow days that fell right on my visits was a challenge to reschedule also. Although I had these challenges in addition it taught me how to plan in advance, and communicate with other people to get things done. When I was packaging toys for children the day before Christmas, I had a hard time seeing how little they had. I felt very fortunate that I was getting presents for Christmas and they would be getting little to nothing. Another challenge while volunteering was watching people walk into the store with not the right winter gear, no coats, hats, gloves when the winter conditions were severe. They didn’t have much at all. These are some challenges I found while working at my site, but they made my site so much more memorable.

            I feel very strongly that I did a bundle of good things for people while volunteering. I helped people around the holiday season. One thing I did was hand out presents to parents; they could then go home and give them to their children on Christmas morning. I feel this was very rewording because I know that they wouldn’t have had Christmas presents other wise. Furthermore, I feel like I helped the volunteers, they had been volunteering long hours and when I was there they could take a brake. So I felt good that I helped them with the harder tasks. This was beneficial to me in many ways. I did something to help and make myself realize more about people struggling in poverty. It opened my eyes to what else is out there. I helped not just the people in poverty but also the workers and myself.

            My research has helped me along the way of this project. One thing it has helped me with is to understand actual numbers and amounts of people in poverty. For instance one in four children live in house holds that struggle to put food on the table and provide clothing. That’s about 16.7 million children (Bread). Additionally, how 925 million people are hungry in the world (Children). I have learned a lot about the reasons people are in poverty. It has made it more clear to me why so many people don’t have jobs. That’s one of the things the Salvation Army does by having inexpensive clothing that has been donated it helps those family just staying above poverty put that money to other bills. In just 2010 the economy put 100-150 million into poverty. (Poverty) The research has related a lot to my work. It has shown me that just because there’s a lot of people in poverty doesn’t mean there is no hope. There are also so many people fighting to help those that are less fortunate. These are just a couple of things that helped me in my volunteering at the Salvation Army.

There are many things from To Kill A Mockingbird that I could relate to my work at the Salvation Army. One thing is when Jem goes to read to Mrs.Dubose, he is very nervous. Atticus says, “Just once a week Jem”(Lee). We also had to do a visit almost once a week. I had never been inside and I didn’t know what the people would be like. Like Jem I ended up enjoying my visits. I learned a lot and so did Jem. Every time I went for my visit like Jem I was nervous because I didn’t know what I was going to have to do that day. Jem, even though he didn’t like it that much he learned about how sad Mrs. Dubose was. I learned about people in poverty and how not all of them are sad. I learned that most of them have accepted it and aren’t sad or disappointed in themselves any more they have learned to live with it and make the best of it.

            Now after the whole experience, looking back I would have done some things differently. One of thing would definitely be to have gotten the majority of my visits done earlier. The reason is because at the end of the assessment project and I had to do some of my visits very close to the end deadline. We had a lot of additional English homework so I should have had them done earlier, to balance things out. I also had a period where I was very stressed out about finishing the visits. Another thing that I would have done is pick a place that was closer to my house. This wasn’t a big problem but since we had so much snow it was hard to get there and back and reschedule visits. Even though I got a lot of work done and helped a lot of people I would find myself doing the same or close to the same task over again. If I could do this again I would choose a site that could give me more variety. Although saying that I did learn a lot, experience new things, and had a good time volunteering at the Salvation Army, and it has changed me in many ways.

            My assessment visits at the Salvation Army have changed me. One thing it has done is embark my eyes to not only local poverty that we see but global poverty. The people that I helped didn’t have any extra money to spend on food and water. They can’t provide presents for their children. It had made me appreciate how fortunate I am. I get to wear nice clothing, that keep me warm during the months of winter. Unlike other people that I saw come into the Salvation Army. I also get to eat three meals a day and snack are there when I am hungry. Lastly I get to have a great education, which most children and parents dream about. The education that my class mates and I get, some people in the world can’t even imagine. I feel very fortunate to have been able to help out at the Salvation Army and make a difference for others in our community.

            Over the past 2 months I have grown, learned, and helped many people. At first I wasn’t looking forward to the assessment the site work, the book work, and the writing. Along the way I started to realize that it is very rewording and I enjoyed all the time at my site, and researching my topic. I am very grateful that we had to do this project. This project has changed me for the better.

Works Cited

Allard, Scott W. “Poverty.” World Book Student. N.p., 9 Feb. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. <http://Www.worldbookonline.com>.

Bread. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. <http://www.bread.org>.

Creer, Simon. “Poverty .” EBSCO Host. N.p., 6 Feb. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. <http://Www.ebscohost.com/‌poverty/‌creer >.

Dinan, Kinsey Alden. “Children In Poverty .” National Centerror Children In Poverty . N.p., 2 Feb. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. <http://www.nccp.org>.

“Salvation Army.” Wikipedia. Non-Profit Organization, 30 Jan. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. <http://Www.wikipedia.org>.

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Assesment Outline #4

TS My research has helped me along the way of this project.
SD One of the things it has helped me with is to understand the amount of people in poverty
CM Like how people 925 million people are hungry in the world
CM I have learned more about the reasons that people are in poverty
SD It has made it more clear about why there are so many people out of jobs
CM Because that's what the Salvation Army does is help people out of jobs stay up.
CM Like how the economy in 2010 put 100-150 million into poverty.
SD It related a lot to my work
CM It showed me that just because theres a lot of people in poverty doesn't mean theres no hope
CM Theres also many people out there fighting and helping those who are less fortunate
CS These are just some of the things that helped my in my work.

Assesment Visit #7

Today at the Salvation Army there were so many people there. I walked in and got assigned the job to go through and pick up all the cloths that costumers had left on the floor. There was one customer trying on a orange paisley dress. There was a couple of other volunteers taking off tags and rushing around. We were all trying to work fast enough for the customers. One little boy came in looking for  a coat with his mother. He left with a blue one. Since this was my last visit, i was thinking a lot about the past weeks and the store. I came to the conclusion that the Salvation Army has a reputation that the cloths inside are for people who live off the streets but that's really not the case its more for the people who are barley getting by. More for family's maybe people that have been lauded off and are struggling to buy cheep cloths they can spend more money on food for there kids.

Assesment #7

TS- My Assesment visits to that Salvation Army have changed me in many ways.
SD- One thing it has done is open my eyes to poverty
    CM-The people that dont even have money for food and water
    CM-They can't provided presents for their children on christmas
SD- It has made me appreciate how forchanet I am 
     CM- Because I get to wear nice cloths, that keep me warm, during the harsh months of winter.
    CM- I also get to each 3 meals a day, and snacks when ever I'm hungry
SD- Lastly I get to get a great education
   CM-I get to have an education that most people in the world cant even imagine.
   CM- (                                                       )
CS- I feel very forchanet to have been able to help out at the Salvation Army and make a difference for others.

Assesment Outline #2

Bell Words-challenges
Echo Word -confrontation,provocation, remonstrance
TS I had many challenges while volunteering at the Salvation Army 

SD- One of them was trying to make time to get there.

CM- My site was in new london and i had to plan it out the dates to fit the schedule of  sports practices and Home work.
CM- Also since we had so many snow days it put me behind a lot, and I had to work around all of the weather.

SD- When I was packaging toys for the children
CM- I had a hard time thinking about how forchanet I am and that these kids will only get up to 2 presents. 

SD- One of the challenges I found while volunteering there was watching people walk into the story.

CM- they didnt have much at all

CM- they came in to the store and they didn't anything some came in with shopping cart and you could tell they lived out of them.

CS- There are many challendges that I found but they made my site so much more memorable.

Assesment #6

                Today was my second to last visit to the Salvation Army in New London, CT. It was a lot different this time. Since we didn't have school, I went during the day at around 10:00 A.M. Since most people are working at that time, the store wasn't very busy. While I was there a couple of people drifted in and out. One middle aged woman walked in with a baby stroller that was blue with elephants on it. Her baby was sleeping with a green blanket over him. She strolled around the store looking at all the clothing. Today there weren't a lot of staff working at the Salvation Army but the staff that was there was in a good mood. Some were standing outside wishing the people that walked by the store a Happy Valentines
 Day. This made me feel good, seeing people spreading the love of Valentines Day to others less fortunate. They also offered to let the people come into the store since it was cold outside

Assesment #6 Outline

TS Now after the whole experience looking back i would have done a couple of things differently
SD One thing i would have done was get the majority of the visits done earlier
CM The reason is because we now at the end have to do so much English home work It would be essayer to have all the visits done
CM I also had a period were I was really stressed out about finishing the visits.

SD Another thing that i had troubles with was all the snow
CM  Since my site was in New London CT it was hard to get over there expectantly with the snow
CM So I would change the site to something closer to where I live.

SD Even though i got a lot out of working at the Salvation I found my self doing the same thing over again
CM If I could do this again I would choose a site that gave me more variety
TS I enjoyed working at my site over-all

Assesment #5 Outlines

TS There are so many things that i can relate to To Kill A Mockingbird
SD One is when Jem is going to read to Mrs.Dubose and he is very nervous
CM Like Jem i was very nervous because i didn't know what to expect
CM I had never been inside and i didn't know what the people would be like
SD Like Jem I ended up enjoying it
CM I learned a lot and had a good experience
CM Every time i went i was Little sceptical just because I didn't know what i would have to do that  day
SD Jem even though he didnt like it that much learned about how sad Mrs.Dubose was
CM I learned about people in poverty
CM I learned that most of them have excepted it and aren't sad anymore they have learned to live with it

Assesment #5

Today when I went to the Salvation Army there were many volunteers that had worked the whole day, more than I've seen before. I went and relieved some of them by helping sort clothing and answering questions for customers. We got a lot accomplished in just the hour I was there. One half of the store was organized and we rearranged all the sizing so that customers could go and find stuff easier. The people were going through the store quickly. One lady walked in with pink running pants, a pair of Nike shoes, a black and pink striped jacket and a white hat. She left empty handed, I guess she didn't find what she was looking for.

Assesment Outline #3

TS I strongly feel like I did a lot of good things for people while volunteering
SD I helped people around the holiday
CM One thing i did was hand out presents to parents
CM I feel this was very rewording because they wouldn't have had Christmas presents other wise.
SD I also fell like i helped the other volunteers
CM When i got there they were tired of all the work they had been doing
CM So i helped them with so of the harder tasks.
SD I feel like it was benifital to me.
CM I did something to make myself realize more about the people in poverty
CM It opened my eyes to what else it out there
TS I helped not just the people in poverty but also the workers and myself.

Assesment #4

This was my forth visit at the Salvation Army. This week the goal was to reorganize the whole store because they got new cloths in and the clothes that had been in the store for a while and not been sold were going to be 50 % off. My job this week was to go through every rack and take all the clothes with white tags went in a big bin. The bin was bright yellow and it had box letters on all for sides that said "Salvation Army, New Haven CT."This week there was many people in the Store this week, since the store is under new management it is doing a lot better. There is more organization so people can walk in and find what they need easier. I have had a really good experience at my site, and i feel like I've helped the community a lot.

Assesment Outline Draft #1

Hanna Kronholm 2-7-10


Bell Word-Choose
Echo Word- Selection,potion,preference

TS- Why did I choose the Salvation Army?

SD- My Inspiration to volunteer at the salvation army was walking by a woman dressed in all red ringing a bell upfront of the grocery store right in front of Christmas time.
CM- She was doing this to collect money and ask for donations
CM-This gave me a new idea for a place that i could do my assessment and make a difference.

SD-Before this i was going back and forth between ideas.
CM- But when i saw the salvation army sign the idea seemed like a good one.
CM- I thought it would be a good place to make a difference in the community.

SD- I knew it would give me a chance to help a lot of people and support the salvation army, a world wide charity.
CM- It also gave me a chance to do something that not many people in the 8th grade were doing
CM-I also choose this because it was around the holiday time and that's when the salvation army need the most help.

CS- I knew it would be a excellent place for my assessment and i had a great experience volunteering there.

Essay #10 In-Class

Everything Has to Come Around in a Circle;

Sooner or later

An Essay By Hanna Kronholm 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

In To Kill A Mocking Bird, there are so many events happening it’s hard to remember the most important one. The plot of the story is to make Boo Radley come out. There are a lot of events that happen in the middle that make us wonder if Boo is ever going to come out. Harper Lee, the author, brings it all around in the last few chapters of the book. She brings the book around in a circle almost like the opening and closing of a book. She keeps us guessing through out the story making us wonder and leaving us hanging at the end of every chapter. Just like in life, there are things that leave you hanging and things that come around in a circle.

      
          TS Everything good or bad in life has to come around into a circle; come to a conclusion. SD In to Kill a Mocking Bird, the story starts by telling us the end. CM It starts to come around in a circle in chapter 28 when Jem Finch breaks his arm. CM The event of Jem breaking his arm was actually told to us in the very first page of this book. CM To our bewilderment Harper lee was telling us the end in the beginning of the book when she said, “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." SD Harper Lee keeps us guessing all throughout the book, she starts with the plot of the book to make,"Boo Radley come out." CM She distracts us for many of the chapters by making us think about topics that are of the horizon like the trail with Mr. Tom Robinson. CM Then in the last couple chapters she brings the book back around to the plot of “Making Boo Radley come out." CM In the second to last chapter, Boo Radley comes out in a way that no one would expect. CM He is there saving Jem and Scout's lives. CM After the fact, Scout greets Boo with a "Hey Boo", like she said it every day of her life. SD Scout has grown all though out the book and she has almost come around in a circle. CM She has matured into a young woman, when Aunt Alexandra first came to Maycomb her goal was to help Scout become a young woman. CM She started by saying things like this to Scout, "Jean Louise, come speak to these ladies." CM Being very proper Aunt Alexandra was trying to ware off on Scout, but Scout was not looking to become more proper. CM  She was fine with the way she was, a girl who was independent, a person who stood up for herself, a young individual who didn’t know what she wanted, a young girl that didn’t think It was a problem not know what she wanted to become just yet. CS Now that Aunt Alexandra is about to leave she has reached her goal she has almost come around in a band.

              TS Everything in school has to come to an end; come around in a circle.  SD Essays are one thing that always have to come to an end. CM Essays are one thing in my life that are repetitive. CM You always have to start with a introduction and end with a conclusion. CM Inside the essay it ends many times, each chunk has to start and end. SD The school year also has to come to a completion. CM The teachers try to bring everything you've learned around in a circle. CM They try to bring all the content we’ve learned to an end weather it be the end of a book, or the end of a chapter in Math. SD Exams are one thing that bring the school year or the term to an end. CM They have almost everything you've learned in either the year or that term to an close. CM The exams rap everything up, and give you an idea of how much you have memorized and gained through out the year or term. CM It gives you a perspective and lets your study more and revokes what you learned months ago. CS Everything has an end, and everything does come to an end.
          
           Weather you know it or not, everything as to come to an end. People grow and things change, which means that everything has to come to a conclusion. "Do you ever get the feeling that the whole thing is changin'? Like somethin' is coming to an end because somethin' else is beginning?" ---Mark, That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. Like a circle it starts and then connects back and relates to the beginning. 


Self Assessment----

1.) I am continuing to work on the way my essays flow into quotes. I worked very hard on picking out the right quotes and the right places to place them carefully in this essay.

2.)I believe that one strong point in this essay is the FAST words I looked through each paragraph, looking for a word that I could substitute, searching for a word that wouldn't be "awkward." 

3.) One of the weaknesses I see is some of the grammar, I tend to have problems deciding were commas go and don't go.  But over-all I feel very confident.

4.) On this essay i would give my self a A- I spent a lot of time proof reading this essay and I'm very confident in it. I believe that it demonstrates some of my best work. And I am proud of the way it flows with elegance.

First Draft Outline- Essay number 10

TS- Everything comes around in a circle

SD- In TKAM the book comes around in a circle
CM- Harper Lee tryes to finish every part of the book at the end to close it
CM-She trys to keep you guessing though

SD- Scout
CM- Scout has grown up and is coming to the end of her circle in the book
CM- She has learned through out the book

SD- Boo Radley
CM- even though boo wasnt in a lot of the book, we are starting to figure out at the end
CM- So the Boo Radley mystery is coming to a close

TS- Everything in school comes to the end like a circle


SD- Essays come to the end
CM- we always try to pull in somthing from the first paragraph to the end so that it comes around in a circle.
CM- And its an accompishment at the end.

SD- The school year
CM-at the end the teachers try to close all the subjects and finish all the learnign
CM- You Finish school so the year comes around in a circle

SD- Exams
CM- Exams pull in everything you learned through out the semester and pull it back into a circle
CM- It helps you look back on what you learned in the beginging.

Salvation Army #3

Today was my third visit to the Salvation Army and when i walked in and opened the door there was a huge sign saying 50% OFF. The store was filled with people, i knew it was going to be a busy afternoon. The first lady i helped spoke mostly in Spanish, which was a bit tricky because I could only pick up some words. She had black hair and a brown jacket on. She was holding a purple hand bag and a red Salvation Army basket filled with some clothes. She asked me if i could help her find a blue jacket in the front of the store, we didn't find one but she settled for a purple. I also helped a man find a pink polo shirt that he was looking for. He seemed to be in a rush so i think i helped in out a lot. In the down time between people I folded some clothes and organized them into piles. At the end of today I felt like I had accomplished a lot. Because many people had left the store with things that they were looking for and that made me feel good.

Salvation Army #2

When I walked into the Salvation Army in downtown New London for my second visit i wasn't nervous anymore because i knew what to expect. I walked in and the woman who runs the store named Carrie was at the front desk. She was wearing a white shirt with a red apron, that in the left hand corner had the red salvation army sign on it. After she was done helping the costumer she told me that the store was very messy today and so she asked me if i could help some of the other volunteers fold some cloths and help with the costumers. There was one costumer in particular that i remember she was looking at cloths for her daughter and she has brown hair and a black shirt on. I helped her look through some stacks of cloths for her daughter. When I was working at the Salvation Army I felt good because i knew that the work I was doing was helping the people who are less fortunate. I also enjoyed helping people find cloths and furniture etc. I think that this relates to TKAM because at first i was a little sceptical about the whole project. I wasn't sure the things i would have to do and i wasn't looking forward to it. Like Jem when he had to read to Ms.Dibose. But he ended up not minding it so much, just like me.

Essay #9

Quiet Hero's; 

Being A Hero In A Silent Way

An Essay By Hanna Kronholm 

1.24.11

Quiet heroes are all around us, people who are just simply doing their jobs. They impact our lives in huge ways and without them things would be a lot different. One of my quiet heroes in my life is my dad, and one in TKAM is Atticus and they are both fathers. I think that in most cases parents are silent heroes because they do things everyday, like drive you to school, make you lunch and a lot more that you couldn't live without.

TS In my eyes Atticus Finch is one of the quiet heroes in To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. SD "In one shot he killed the dog." CM Atticus was a hero because he saved the town from the mad dog. CM With only one shot, a man with incredible skill, a person with great accuracy, only shoots "when he needs to."  SD Atticus was definitely not discreet while fighting for Tom Robinson. CM He was very brave because it was a big risk to defend a black person in that time. CM What Atticus did gave everyone a look at a white person and black person working together to achieve a common goal, and even though this goal wasn't reached, they worked together and tried their best. SD If I were Atticus, I don't know if I could do that, do something my family didn't agree with, something that people looked down on you for. CM It would be a challenge for a lot of people. CM It's hard to do things when people are judging you for it.CS That's why I think Atticus is a silent hero.

 SDTo me my dad is a silent hero just like Atticus. CM A couple of years ago, my dad saved a mans' life out at sea, a man who had been in the water for hours, a person who had no strength left, a sailor whose boat had capsized. CM My Dad and his crew were very modest, they didn't ask for any recognition.  SD They were very brave because they didn't know what was going to happen and it took them a long time to get the enormous catamaran in position to throw a life ring. CM He is also a quiet hero because my mom has just recently fought breast cancer and she had to be driven to Yale Hospital in New Haven, CT. 3 times a week.  CM He had to rearrange his work schedule and work extra and long hours to make sure my mom would be taken care of.  SD My Dad also work  tremendously long hours and he never complains.  CM He works from 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM and I think that's pretty remarkable.  CM Especially because he never complains.  CS My Dad is a quiet hero to me because he's always there when one of us needs help.

I appreciate all the silent heroes in my life. Mostly because they're unboastful and just do it because they know it's the right thing to do. Maybe we can all try to be quiet heroes. We can try to do things on a day to day basis and not worry about getting any recognition. We might even find peace in being a quiet hero.