The Glendale High Tide Persuasive Prose
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The Glendale High Tide – Bringing Waves of News and Literary Wonder Glendale High School, Glendale, CA ELA, Grade 10, and ELD 1-4, Grades 9-12 Ms. Kittelson Issue No. 2 June 16, 2008 The Glendale High Tide I would like to describe my first reason in greater detail. If people came to school at night, they could sleep a lot Glendale, CA At Glendale High School in Glendale, CA, during the day in preparation for the night. They could then students in Ms. Kittelson’s English and ELD classes have enjoy their sleep fully, and they could afterward eat a expressed themselves through prose, poetry and pictures. complete breakfast. Then, when they finally got to school, they could be wholly on task. They would be well rested, On the pages that follow, you will experience essays, satisfied and focused. homilies, poems and more. These writings reflect a range of ideas that are not meant to represent the opinions or The second reason why students should go to school at beliefs of any one entity, namely the Glendale Unified night is if they came to school at night their parents would School District. They are meant to be merely an be forced to buy them cars. It would be for their children’s opportunity for students to think and to write and to protection. Then, not only would the kids get cars, but the experience formal publication of their developing ideas. car companies would get more money. Furthermore, because more students would have cars, more students As you peruse the pages, feel free to cogitate on your own would learn to drive better, and they would then be more ideas and how you might like to express them. intelligent on the road. Persuasive Prose According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, traffic crashes are the leading cause of Students new to Glendale High School and to the United death for teenagers in America, and teenagers are involved States have as a strong a desire to voice their values – no in three times as many fatal crashes as other drivers. matter how unique their beliefs or how fresh their English. Perhaps if teens had more practice driving, they wouldn’t Here is one beginning ELD student’s whimsical take on a be so dangerous. familiar subject. The third reason we should have school at night is to make School at Night by Antoun Khachatarian a new life for nights. The malls could be open until one I think students should come to school at night, and I would o’clock or later, and people would be required to be on like to explain my reasons. My first reason is if students task all night. That would mean that people would be more came to school at night they could enjoy their sleep during alert and wouldn’t be as vulnerable to thieves. the day. They could sleep until at least nine o’clock in the Maybe a lot of people won’t like my reasons and they’ll morning, which means they would feel better at school. My think my essay is funny, and a lot of people might disagree second reason is if students came to school at night, their with me because students would make a lot of noise at parents would have to buy them cars to protect them from night and then other people couldn’t rest well. But I think danger. My third reason is if students came to school at that things would be better, not worse. night, they would be making a new life for nights. People would all be on task at night, which would help the This is just my opinion. If we had school at night, students economy. This is my thesis on night school. and other people could enjoy their nights; they could wake up late; parents would have to buy their children cars, which would make car companies richer; and students them. Gaspar is angered by the Manta and attempts to kill going to school at night would make a life for nights, which it. In the process, he dies and Ramón returns back to the would both help the economy and block the jobs of thieves. city of La Paz with the magnificent pearl. He puts the pearl What do you think about school at night? back where it belongs and makes his way back home. The story has an incredible amount of sensory language. The reader can picture everything that happens in the book. The author’s use of similes and metaphors really helps to clarify and intensify the story. For example, the teeth of the Manta Diablo are like seven rows of razor sharp knives. This simile demonstrates the pain caused by the monster’s powerful bite. There are also metaphors. For example, “its eyes were a sickle moon.” This metaphor shows an image of the disgusting appearance of this animal. The sensory language of this novel articulates the images in the author’s mind as he writes the story. Literary Light The author's use of symbolism also helps to state the theme. Ramón steals the pearl from the Manta In addition to proffering persuasive prose, English students Diablo. Wherever he goes, the Manta Diablo follows must analyze literary luminaries. Such analysis should be him. The Manta does not stop following him until he gives more objective than subjective in that it should expound on back the stolen pearl. The Manta represents Ramón's the author’s use of literary elements and devices in order to guilt. He cannot get away from it. Gaspar Ruiz is the effectively express his or her thesis, or theme. other voice in his head ordering him around. In the The Black Pearl by Anthony Pailevanian beginning he is trying to ignore his conscience. He knows that what he is doing is wrong but he greedily wants the What would happen to the greatest gem in the pearl for himself. It is also the main reason for his world? Would it be stolen? Would it be ruined? How struggle. His father represents hope. He counts on his many deaths might it be responsible for? Greed is a father to help him make hard decisions. When his father horrible problem. The Black Pearl by Scott O' Dell teaches dies, he is angered and does what he knows is wrong. an important lesson. Do not take what is not yours. He uses figurative language, symbolism, and point of view to The point of view of this story is very important. It is told convey this message. from Ramón’s point of view. The reader experiences all his thoughts and feelings throughout the story. The reader Ramón is just an ordinary kid from a rich family. His father is limited to what Ramón sees. This also helps add is a very famous pearl dealer. On Ramón's Birthday, his suspense to the novel. What Ramón has to go through in father asks him to join the family business. Ramón trains order to save his own life, the reader has to go through. It very hard to learn his profession. He even goes looking for reveals part of the greedy little boy in him, and at the end it pearls once in a while, but he is never allowed off the shows the man he turns out to become. boat. He wants to learn how to dive, so he asks another pearl dealer to teach him. He starts his training in a hidden Ramón reminds me of myself when I was young. I was lagoon. This lagoon is known to be the home of the Manta always trying to hustle people into giving me money. I Diablo, the creature feared by many fishermen. At first, even stole a dollar from my mom. I did not think she Ramón does not believe in the Manta Diablo or in the would get mad at me, but the guilt inside myself was stories his mother told him about this monster, so he goes haunting me. It was telling me to put it back where I found to look for pearls in its cave. He finds an enormous black it. I did not want to listen to this inner voice because I pearl weighing 63 karats. He takes the pearl back to the wanted to use the money to buy some candy. I thought of city, and all it brings is bad luck. A terrible storm hits all the consequences of stealing the money, so I was scared when his father goes out looking for pearls. All the men on to give it back. My sister started to blackmail me. She the ship drown except for Gaspar Ruiz, his father's best threatened to tell on me if I did not buy her some candy. I diver. This man decides to steal the pearl from decided to put the money back where I found it and not Ramón. His plan is to take the pearl to a different city and have to bear this burden upon my back. to use Ramón to sell the pearl for a much higher Ramón is just trying to show his dad that he has grown up, price. This plan would be effective because everybody that he can dive for pearls, so he decides to steal a pearl knows Ramón's father is the best pearl dealer in the world, from the lair of the Manta Diablo. The author is trying to therefore they would pay a lot of money for the pearl.