An Intruder

It was a summer night. The siblings were alone in the house because their parents had gone out to have dinner with some friends. Mike and Lucy were used to this situation, but that night was different, it was a dark, cloudy and wintry night.

After their parents had gone out, the children decided to look for a movie on TV. They couldn’t find anything interesting until they came across a new movie, about supernatural things that happened in their city.

The movie was in the most catching scene when suddenly they heard a noise, a very loud noise upstairs. They started to freak out, but despite this, they decided to go and have a look. They started going upstairs; the noise became louder and more constant. They reached the first floor and at that moment, they heard the noise clearly. It was going out of their parent’s room.

They slowly began walking towards the room. The noise became louder and louder.
When they reached the room they found large muddy steps on the floor. Mike took out a hunter knife and approached the bathroom, where the foot steps led to. There they found a little dwarf with large feet. It climbed onto the toilet and escaped breaking a glass window above the toilet.

When their parents came back home, Mike and Lucy told them the story about this strange visitor. But their parents didn’t believe the story and grounded them for playing with a knife, breaking the bathroom window and covering the carpet with mud.
They also told this story to their friends but they just thought they had had a bad dream.

THE END
Luis Orozco, Agustin Paz and Joaquin Olmedo

STORY

It was an ordinary family like any other in Vancouver, Canada. It was a little family whose only son Nick, was turning 18. NIck was a very patriotic boy. Since his childhood, he wished to be an army member but his parents never imagined that one day, he would have the courage to turn into a soldier. After his 18th birthday he was allowed to join the army.

USA was in war, and Canada's president decided to help this country, sending soldiers for the combat. September, 20th was the day that cannadian soldiers will never forget. It was the day when this brave men went to the war to represent their country.

When they were sailing to the warplace, an enemy ship attacked them so they were out of the combatplace. Unfortunally all these soldiers lost their lifes.

2 weeks later, Nick's family recieved a letter telling them about their son's death. Every year, they go to the place where the ship sailed out. They were very sad because his son couldn't fihght for his nation like he wanted.

NADIA CARLOROSI

MARIANO BORSINI

The Empty Box

One Friday afternoon, Zack and Kate were bored and, as it was a beautiful day, they went out to their backyard to play with their dog. When they went out, their eyes were astonished by a enormous empty box! They ran to the box and fought to get in first, and of course, awkwardly, Zack won, and Kate started crying... So, Zack decided to share the box with his little sister, so he got out and helped her in.
They spent the whole afternoon playing inside the empty box. When their mother got home and saw that they were not fighting and that they were having a great time together (that didn't happen usually, they were most of the time arguing or fighting) she just couldn't believe what she was looking. So she asked the babysitter how long they had been there, and what they were doing inside a box, and she told her that they had been there all afternoon and that she didn´t understand what they were up to.
It was getting late and the kids were still there! So Sarah (their mother) went out to look for them. They didn't want to get out, but anyway, Sarah forced them. She asked the kids what they were doing for such a long time inside the empty box and they told her that they were travelling all around the space.
So, that was the moment when Sarah realized that the box wasn't empty, that it was full of imagination.
This is a way to show us that sometimes we should keep things simple, and not try to look for explanations for everything. The kids could play with a toy that is not on sale: imagination.
So we should get something that calls our attention and just imagine what fantastic things can happen in there and you will see a whole new world! It doesn't matter how old we are, we just have to fill in the empty box.

Here is a video with a song we related the plot of this story to (hope you like it!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDj_Rdx1P8Q

Written by Florencia Giovanniello and Julieta Domingo.

The strange cardboard box

It was sunday morning, when my granny appeared in the livingroom with a huge cardboard box. It was the new tv's box, and she was going to through it away. But i had and incredible idea... I asked her to give it to me, so i can do something with it. I called my little sister, Shannon, and went outside, to play with my new box.

We were inside,when she imagined that it was a house, but i wanted it to be a car, we quarrelled for a long time about what the box was going to be, when suddenly it started to move violently. We tried to get out but we couldnt find the way out. All inside was dark, and it was impossible to escape. Later we saw a bright light, and we heard a terrified roar. I held on to Shannon's hands and she opened her eyes and cried: - A dinosaur!!!. -Lets run!! I told her scaredly. We ran as fast as we could, when we found a car. We got in and I drove escaping from the monster, but suddenly in front of us appeared a truck full of explosives. I swerved to my left at Shannon's gasp. But to my sorprise now, in front of us there was a very big breack wall that we couldn't avoid, so I hugged my sister and we both closed our eyes, waiting for the worst, but expecting the best.

Suddenly, I didn't heard any noice, or feel anything, I didn't understand what was going on, when i decided to open my eyes, I was in my bed, holding my blanket.

Everything was a dream... but when I got up, and went to my living room I saw my granny with a huge cardboard box... what is going to happen now??

Paula Serrano and Martina Cancellieri

friends

In this picture we see a group of friends having a good time.
Friends are persons that help you and give you advice and soport you in bad and good situations.This persons come and go . Don t choose them because they always come alone when you don`t know. Enjoy the time with them playing, chating, singing, dancing, etc.
Zappella`s opinion is that everyone can be a friend but i dont agree with her(mutaner) because not everyone can be your friend. you have to be carefull what secret you tell to a pèrsons maybe that person doesnt tell anyone maybe they tell everybody.
I hope you like this topic. Read it from your heart.

Florencia, Zappella

Rocio, Muntaner

2 polimodal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuxS-9t3tnY

the katrina hurricane
It was december 20th, he was waiting for his wife in the airport, she was in Paris for work. After a couple of hours waiting in the airoport, a flight has been cancelled because of a strong wind so he ran to his home predicting that it could be a hurricane. when he was at home he turned on the tv and listened to the news. A tsunami was coming to the city, so he went outside to see what was happening and a little rock entered in his right eye causing him a big infection so he tried to go to the hospital but everything was closed so he ran to his cousin´s house and warned him about the katrina so he could get out of the katrina´s way. They hid in an old abandomned bank because it had an underground floor. 3 days later they got aut and everybody was looking for and helping people so they joined the search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3wsTTatRY
ale and FACUNDO

Story..."life in space"

As we wake up, we can hear the sound of the emergency alarm beeping. I quickly get up of bed to see what's going on!. I look for my sister, she's still lying in bed, i wake her up, so she can help me in the control room. She woke up as quickly as she could and press the correct button to stop the deafening bipp, she knows more about the control room than me.

What was going on was that we were running out of oxygen, so we needed to connect the new oxygen tank.

We have 5 days left in space until we arrive to earth. We are very excited about arriving.

The day has come, we are having some difficulty with the landing, but as usual my sister gets to solve the problem.

Finally we arrive to earth safe and sound with our mommy waiting for us with delicious sparckly cookies.

The end. :D

Valderrabano, Julieta

Marchesi, Ma. Pía

here's a song that's related with the story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_0UXRY_rY

The use of technology in education

Hi everybody! I was asked to write about the use of technology in education... so here I am! I’m sorry if you find it a bit long... =P

Technology is not something new in the science of teaching as teachers have been searching in the internet for information for their classes for some years now. Videos are also used since long ago... but technology is something that evolves with huge steps and we can’t just stay behind; we should evolve and interact with it because if we don’t, when we least notice, we will be far behind all the new world. Technology has some disadvantages, but definitely its positive points have much more weight. The secret is to know how to use it in the properly way without falling into the addiction and lack of social events and interpersonal relationships because of it. But that is another topic.

Technology is a very useful tool in terms of education. The teacher can go through the internet to search for information in order to prepare classes as well as students can search for answers for their works. But technology is not only the information we get when doing a click in “search” in the Google toolbar. Technology surrounds us everywhere and is found in absolutely everything we have near. Technology is something that has been evolving since long time ago and nowadays we can’t stay behind because it is the tool of our future.

What would you prefer, the teacher who comes with chalks and talks the whole period, or the one who comes with a laptop, a projector and a screen? Would you prefer the one who writes in the board or the one who types and you read everything in the screen? As a student, I can say that we feel completely attracted when we have those activities that are different from the everyday’s. When we have to go to the lab, to the computer room, or to watch a film, we go with more enthusiasm than to a regular class. So, I think that students try to find more dynamism in the classes; that is the detail that makes the classes far more bearable, interesting, fun and that is a way to get us concentrated and interested in the topic. At least that happened in my school when suddenly a new teacher appeared with a laptop, a projector and a screen every single class (Charlie, you know...). We had to send him our homework via e-mail, he would answer back and suddenly a new relationship teacher-student that we had never thought of started taking place. Interacting with a teacher on line is very different to the regular interaction and with it people show different aspects of their lives that get to know better the other person.

Learning is not always fun, but teachers can make it bearable and really fun some times! Most of the times, if we like or not a subject depends on the teacher, don’t you think so? That means that the teachers with more creativity to teach in a way that interests the students, with dynamism and good methods is the one we will like most.

As technology evolves and advances with huge steps, we have to update with it too. So this year, the blogs and the making of a video were part of the English program at Saint Patrick’s School. Each of the students had to create a blog (my blog) and we write at least twice a week about anything we want for half an hour more or less. We also have a class blog where we find asignments and a school blog also created by ourselves. The making of the video clip consisted in choosing a song each and making the video with pictures from the Internet or taken by us and showing what the song wants to express. My video is about suicide and it has pictures of me too, because the feelings that the song shows – when you watch it you’ll know – are things we all can feel, and in fact, I’ve felt. The song represents me a lot and I felt very identified with it in a period of my life. So here it is:

You asked for it, so here it is, Alina! =)
Thank you for the space in here and remember that technology is the best tool to make classes more interesting, to make education fun and to catch the students’ attention. We should use it and evolve together. Go on like that!!

Entry about my video clip here

SEASON 2... SUMMARY

Season 2 (23 episodes)

The story continues 45 days after the crash, focuses on the growing conflict between the survivors and the Others, with the continued clash between faith and science being thematic in certain episodes. While some mysteries are solved, new questions are raised. New characters are introduced, including the tail-section survivors and other island inhabitants. More island mythologies and insights into the survivors' pasts are divulged. The hatch is explored and the existence of The DHARMA Initiative and its benefactor, the Hanso Foundation, are revealed. As the truth about the mysterious Others begins to unfold, one of the crash survivors betrays the other castaways, and the cause of the plane crash is revealed.

This summery was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org

COMMENT ABOUT THE FIRST TERM AND THE ENGLISH EXPOSITION

I enjoyed the first term of our English classes, despite of the amount of homework we had. The classes were funny but I think we should do more games and one day a week we should take a class for only speaking in English with each other, so we can learn more how to speak fluently. I enjoyed learning new things and It felt good when I progressed with the 1st. exam test.
About the English exposition, I think it was great, 1st because the information was not so difficult for the audience to understand, but also it was not too simple to bore them. And what the people liked the most was watching the presentation in the over-head- proyector and the video about heroes. All the people who watched the presentation thought that it was amazing and I think the expectations were satisfied.

It`s not easy to be a hero, by 5 for fighting

Hey we should all feel proud of this, so watch it, share it , save it . It is ours!!

Let`s bring out the hero inside!!!

LORD OF THE FLIES & LOST

Everybody deserves a fresh start

For next Friday 7th you must finish reading chapter 1 : "the sound of the shell". Get ready to analyse this chapter. Work out the similarities and differences with "LOST".