College Application

Dear Sir, 
You wonder why I should be the one to get in well…don’t look any further. When I was one I was in the Olympics. When I was two I was on the moon. When I was sixteen I learned how to drive. I have completed so many outstanding tasks that you will surely benefit having me. Last year I climbed Mount Everest. Last month I swam across the Atlantic. Last night I slept like a baby. Traveling is full of adventures and adventures are found in travels. When I go to a new country the people ask me about their country. They ask me if they are speaking their language right, because I can speak in every language. I am so famous that when I went to Justin Bieber’s concert he asked for my autograph. I am so famous that when I went to the Harry Potter movie premier Daniel Radcliff asked for my picture. I am so famous that Barack Obama asked me how to run his country. I’ve met all these people and must be destined to meet so many more famous people. I am not an actress. I am not a singer. I am not an Olympic athlete. But everyone knows who I am. Even the Eskimos in the most isolated area of Antarctica know who I am. Even Stephen Harper knows who I am. Even the Greeks know who I am, but only because my name is the same as one of their goddesses. With all of my outstanding achievements your school will greatly benefit from just simply having me present. I solved global warming. I stopped the poverty in Africa. And I will make your school better than Harvard.

Sincerly, 
Aurora Morhart 

Descriptive Paragraph

The white walls around me seem to be closing in. The sound of the television is muffled and faint. The lady working at the front desk is grumpy and persnickety. She typs away on her computer and the clicking of her keys echo around the small waiting room area. The room is full of my family and multiple others. The adults all waiting patiently and the children behaving because they don't know what to make of the situation. The palms of my hands are sweaty but the rest of my body is cold. A faded smell of hand sanitizer and a sterilizer lingers in the air making it stuffy and hard to breath. Each second I can hear the sound of the clock ticking. And it keeps going. Tick-tock, tick-tock as if there is nothing wrong. My mind is racing. I sit in the chair, slumped over like a sloth. My eyes keep darting back and forth from the TV, to the secretary to my phone screen, pausing at each for a couple seconds but the red exit sign keeps drawing my attention towards it. With the red bulbs glowing, it is the only thing not white in this whole building. A mountain of magazines is piled in a mound, so high that they tower over the table they are on. Off in the distance I hear footsteps. The rubber squeaking as the nurse comes around the corner and I wonder when that will be the docter coming out of the doors.  Finally he arrives, with his poker face comes out to talk to us. Everything is alright and my grandfather is okay we can all go home and the tension in the air that built up for so long is released.

Poems

Poem 1

1. Poet: Shayne Koyczan

2. Poem: To This Day Project 

3. Synopsis: Koyczan is concerned that young people are judging others and bullying them without knowing them and their background.

4.Important Poetic Technique: Koyczan makes an extensive use of an analogy. He stats that “every school [is] a big top circus tent” saying the schools are no different from the circus. Also that “the pecking order [goes] from acrobats to lion tamers from clowns to carnies” where he compares the status of those in the circus to those who are in school. He brings attention and shows the effect of what bullying does to school and does so in a manner that is easily relatable.    

5. Favorite Line: “but our lives will only ever always
 continue to be 
a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.” I like this line because it demonstrates how in our society some people are quick to judge others without understanding what is happening in their lives and don’t realize the effects their actions may have on the person. 

Poem 2

1.1Poet: Taylor Mali

2. Poem: What Teachers Make

3. Synopsis:  Mali is unhappy that teacher’s jobs are based on what their income is. He believes that the outcome of the students is more important than his income and that younger generations need to be respectful and persevering individuals. 

4. Important Poetic Term: Throughout the poem Mali uses puns and figurative language. When his guest asks how much he makes instead of replying with his salary he says that he can "make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor" and "an A- feel like a slap in the face”. He also makes the comment “it’s also true what they say about lawyers" to his dinner guest whom is a lawyer. Mali is passionate and takes pride in his work and believes, “teachers make a goddamn difference!”

5. My Favorite Line: “Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers make a goddamn difference! Now what about you?” I like this line because he shows that the salary to him is not important but that he is helping the lives of many others learn and achieve their goals.

Poem 3

1. Poet: Sarah Key

2. Poem: B

3. Synopsis: Key shares the way she would raise her daughter. She would protect and comfort her throughout her whole life. She shows that no matter what happens to stay positive and find the good in things.

4. Important Poetic Technique: Key uses good diction throughout her poem to help form imagery. She wants her daughter to be unique and different than other children. By “[painting] the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe” her daughter is gaining knowledge. She also shows how she would bond with her daughter and teach her. Key also shows how protective she is when she tells her daughter “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that” because she may “follow the trail back to a burning house…to see if [she] can save…[the] boy who lost everything” because she doesn’t want her to have a “heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix”.

5. My Favorite Line: “Instead of mom, she’s going to call me “point b” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, At least she can always find her way to me.” I like this line because Key is showing that she is always going to be there for her daughter and wants her to know that she will always be there and be able to find her when she needs her.

Letter For My Life

Aurora Morhart
123 Pineview Dr.
Kaleden, B.C.
V0H 2K0
February 22, 2013



Captain Van Camp
Commander
HMS Princess Margaret

O Captain, My Captain:

            So I have to convince you to why I should be picked to be saved, well I can do just that. I understand that there are some who have to die but it won’t be necessary for me to be one of them. My secret, which has been not told up until now, is that I live a very exciting and adventurous life. Who I am is not what meets the eye. Secretly I go on adventures that no one could imagine. On horse back I go galloping along the trails, seeking new challenges to face. That’s not the only thing. How would you be able to tell my parents you killed their child when I could have been one of the ones to live? How would the news be broken to my two little brothers who look up to me? What would you say and how would you explain yourself? There would be no one for my mom to teach to drive and scare her for going to fast. There would be no one to be able to help my brothers pick out nice clothing or to download songs for my dad on the computer when he doesn’t understand what to do. I am much more than this and to be save I’ll say why.

           

            Most of the time when anyone sees me at school I am carrying my homework which gives the impression I am studious. Yes I do homework and do well in school and that could be a word to describe me but defiantly not the best one. My parents might say that I am loud or troublesome but that I am also generous by giving and thinking of others needs before my own. I volunteer during iron man and hand out food and snacks to the contestants. I like to help people and show little gestures of kindness as much as I can even it is just holding the door open for someone or asking how they are. I also like to volunteer at the SPCA and give attention to the animals who are not loved and don’t have a family to care for them. I plan of a future when I graduate I can become a doctor and help people in need and save lives. How could you remove a girl with those thoughts? I want to help others in need and for that I deserve to live. I could be so much but all I need is this chance to live but my fate lies in your hands so I hope you chose to spare my life.

Sincerely,

Aurora Morhart