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This is a script to a spoken word poem we had to perform in English class. It is a story about 2 boys who parents were both killed. The boys were sent to the same orphanage and one of the boys faced trouble with the others at arrival. The other boy who was just arriving too defended him and they became friends. Years passed and they were broke drug addicts but they were still friends. They were broke so they both decided to rob a bank, resulting in one of the guys getting shot and dying and the other tries to shoot back at the police and he gets shot and dies too. I am proud of this piece of work because it was my first spoken word poem I have ever performed and I think I did well. We came 2nd place for the contest on the best poem. I never expected at the beginning of this course that I would be able to perform spoken word poetry. When creating it I tried to keep some sort of a rhyme scheme present because it helped me put it all together. The story came to my mind right away so I just had to figure out how to put it in such a way that it would move the listener.
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This is a blog I wrote about gun control. In it I discuss the flaws in both arguments (pro-guns, anti-guns). I don't take sides, but rather I discuss the issue in itself, looking at both sides. I thought about what just made sense and pulled up actual statistics. I am proud of this piece of work because at the beginning of the semester I have never blogged before. It was shared by Mr. Kemp on twitter so I'm assuming that makes it worth something. When reading my first blog and this one I could tell the differences in quality. My blogs became more structured and presentable. This blog shows the improvement I have made in my writing through the course of the semester.
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This is a short story I wrote in class about something that happened to me and a friend of mine last summer. It's about some crazy guy we ran into while trying to climb onto a roof. We were asked to make a short story about something. I have a lot of stories so instead of making one up I decided to make a story of something that happened in my life. I am proud of this piece of work because I have never made a short story before and I feel that I made this one well for my first try. I made it really straight forward and blunt purposefully. There really isn't a build up of suspense it's just some random story of something that doesn't make much sense which I found humorous. I feel I put it together well in picking out the most important events and capturing the readers attention from how every event leads to something else, so you can't just stop reading at any point (you could but naturally you'd want to hear what happens next). I think it reflects my improvement because I never would have thought at the beginning of the semester I'd be able to create a short story.
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This is a personal opinion review about the book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie. In it I first summarized a bit of the book and why some of those parts really captured my interest. I went a little bit deeper and related events in the book to my personal life and to reality because the book is a true story and lot of it is a reality. I am proud this piece of work because I put passion into it and really took my time on it. It was structured and well edited. I had a lot to say so I wanted to make sure it was put together well. It reflects my improvement in English at how I analyzed the book and made comparisons to real life to further understand the author and the book. I used my passion for what I had to say as a strategy to really make this blog post worth reading.