Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets Book review

The Author of this book (J.K. Rowling) is trying to make this book exciting and a never ending action and adventure book so that the reader will keep on reading. J.K. Rowling wants readers to keep reading and maybe read the book once or twice. The setting in this book starts off in Harry Potter's, Uncle and Aunt's place, (No. 4 Privet drive). Harry's Uncle and Aunt don't like him because he is a wizard. 


Harry Potter: He is a wizard, he is very kind to other's. He has a lot of great friends.


Ron Wiesley: He is also a wizard, he is also kind to other's, he also has a lot of friends. He is sometimes scared when things just pop up from nowhere.


Hermione Granger: She is a witch, she also is kind to others, she also has a lot of friends. She is very smart.


Dobby: He is a house elf, he is small with big bat-like ears. 


Dumbledor: He is very old, he is the head master (principal) of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.


Haggrid: He is a half giant half man, he looks after creatures, he is a teacher of the school Hogwarts.


Draco Malfoy: He is evil (bad), teases Harry, Ron and Hermione a lot. He hated them since they arrived at Hogwarts.   


   

Sonnet 18 (my own version)

Sonnet 18 (my own version)

Shall i compare you to a hot summer day?

You are more friendly and more lasting:

Even if the rough wind shakes the flowers of may

And the summer is too short:

Sometimes the sun is too hot,

Or it goes behind the clouds to much;

And everything beautiful sometimes but it will lose its beauty

By mistake or by natures planned out course,

But your youth shall not fade,

Or even will lose the beauty that you possess;

Or will death claim you for his own,

Because my existing verse will live forever.

So long as there are people on this earth,

So long will this poem live on, making you immortal.

New focus week letter

Dear Mrs Chapman,

I would like to suggest to you a totally new fun and exciting Focus Week trip. On this 1 week trip, the destination will be Hawaii. Attractions include good beaches, great spa’s and swimming pools. Students and teachers will get the chance to go wake boarding, surfing, canoeing, kayaking and wind sailing. Even if they don’t like to do any of these things they can play around on the beach and even sunbathe. This will be the “action” section of this trip.

We will also will be able to take a lot of tours around Hawaii. In addition, we will also be able to fly over Hawaii and look at some of the famous volcanoes from a bird’s eye view. This trip will cover Creativity as well as the Action mentioned above.

The Creativity section is that students will have to take photos of Hawaii and the many interesting geological sites, such as rock formations. The students who come on this trip will enhance their knowledge of Hawaii and about all the interesting things that can be found there.

At the end of this trip the students will have to form small groups of three or four to make a movie on this fantastic week. So If you like this idea and you would like to put it up on next years Focus week activity sheet, please do so. I hope you really like this Focus week trip, it is really going to be an epic and exciting adventure .

Yours sincerely,

Sam Williams.

New focus week letter draft

Dear Mrs Chapman,

I would like to suggest to you a totally new fun and exciting Focus Week trip. On this Trip the destination will be Hawaii. Attractions include to good beaches, great spa’s and swimming pools. Students and teachers will get the chance to go wake boarding, surfing, canoeing, kayaking and wind sailing. Even if they don’t like to do any of these things they can play around on the beach and even sunbathe. We will also will be able to have a lot of tours around Hawaii. We will also be able to fly over Hawaii and look at some of the famous volcanoes from bird eye view.

This trip will cover Creativity as well as the Action mentioned above. The Creativity section is that students will have to take photos of Hawaii and the many interesting geological things like rock formations. At the end of this trip the students will have to form small groups of three or four to make a movie on this fantastic week. So If you like this idea and you would like to put it up on next years Focus week activity sheet, please do so. I hope you really like this Focus week trip, it is really going to be an epic and exciting 7 day trip.

Yours sincerely,

Sam Williams.

Arjun: Improvement:

Language - You started of well but as I progressed towards the end I felt dullness in your writing.

Structure - You could use paragraphs more often.

Audience - Well wrote.

You could write about what the pupils would achieve.

Comparing the two families essay: Bend it like Beckham. Jess’ & Jules’ family.

In this essay I am going to talk about the film Bend it Like Beckham and compare the families of Jess and Jules, the two main characters in this film. I will consider their cultural background and discuss how they are different, in what ways they are the same, and why. The movie (Bend it like Beckham) is a movie about two girls from two different cultures, the Sikh and British cultures. they both share the same hobby, namely football. They enjoy playing football together in the team. However, it seems that both their mums are against it. Both their dads don’t mind them playing football together and think it’s totally fine.

First I will look at Jess’ family. They are Sikh immigrants who have moved to live in England. The Sikh culture involves strict rules to follow and certain rules to live by. Jess and her family lives in the East of London and they have a big house with a big back garden. This seems to indicate that they are quite rich. Her dad works every day as a police officer and earns money for the whole family to live. This also seems to indicate that they are well off. Jess’ family believes that a Sikh should do her chores properly and study hard for the future but she doesn’t.

Jess has a sister called Pinky and she works as a stewardess so she also earns money for the family, so this also indicates that they are rich. Her family will teach Jess how to cook instead of cooking for her. Jess’ family sometimes cooks for her, but they want Jess to learn how to cook, especially her mum. So her mum teaches her how to cook different types of food. She hopes that when Jess gets married in the future, she can cook for her family. This is why Jess’ family wants her to know how to cook for the future. The family have strict rules, like you will be expected to marry another Sikh and that you have to have an arranged marriage before getting married. Sikh families like Jess’ all want their daughters to be the perfect wife for an arranged marriage so they can get a good, and rich, husband.

Jess’ family also doesn’t like to see Jess watching or playing football because they don’t like that part of British culture and do not want Jess to show off her legs too much to the public. But later on the family lets Jess be more open and free. Jess’ parents think that her sister Pinky is a good girl and follows the house rules, but in fact she doesn’t. She has an affair with one man while engaged to another man, her parents think she’s doing her job but she’s actually busy helping out Jess and her problems. Sometimes Pinky gets upset so the family is not totally happy. Jess’ goal is to be a professional footballer like David Beckham and play for Manchester United. This is her dream.

Jules’ family is British. She has a British culture and it is totally different to the Sikh culture. Jules has to follow the rules of her own culture, even though it is much more open than Sikh culture. She and her family also live in the East of London and they also have a big house with a garden. This means that both Jules and Jess’ family are quite equal in money. Jules’ family will always cook for her and not teach her how to cook. Her dad likes her to watch and play football but her mum doesn’t, she worries about Jules too much. Jules’ mum wants her to have the right husband in the future but later on her mum starts to like football and learns the rules of football. Eventually she realises that she doesn’t need worry about Jules too much. Jules’ goal is to also be a professional footballer and this is also her dream.

Both the girls have a lot of similarities like, they both love to play football, they both play for the Hounslow Harriers. They both want to play for a real team in the future, they both have this dream. They also fall in love with their football coach, Joe. But unfortunately Jess‘ family expects her to marry a Sikh not a Westerner. They both share similar girls’ dreams, like they really want boyfriends and they both like music.

So in fact, Jules’ family and Jess’ family are also quite similar. Both their mum’s don’t like football and both their mums worry about their daughters too much as I mentioned above. Jess’ mum doesn’t like to see her playing football because she will show off her legs too much to the public, Jules’ mum doesn’t like football but eventually grows to enjoy it. She learns the rules of football and eventually gets to watch her first football game. She then realizes that wanting Jules to have a good husband isn’t important yet. In conclusion, this story seems to be like a clash of the two cultures but in fact both families want the same thing - the best for both girls, Jess and Jules, so their not really that different at all.

The best thing I've ever done autobiography essay

The best thing I’ve ever done.

Every Summer I would go to my grandma’s house, I started going to her house for just a visit since i was 2 years old. Before I was born she had 2 husbands and she divorced with both. A few years later in 1985, she had cancer. It recovered twice but eventually she survived.

Then 5 years later in 1990, she found the love of her life and they got married. Her husband was called Paul. Whenever I went to my grandma’s house we usually had nothing to do. But my grandma and Paul always thought of something to do like walk down to the park, paint, draw and play with clay because, she was a artist who loves to make things and draw things. My Grandma and Paul taught me how to paint.

Paul was very funny every time I came over, we were always very close. In 2005 me and Paul made a treasure box out of wood and other things, it looked really colorful after It was done. Now I keep all the important things in it. Then In 2006 I painted a picture of my Grandma and Paul hugging each other in a big green field and a clear blue sky. My Grandma seemed to like it a lot, but I soon forgot about it.

But my Grandma didn’t know that a terrible thing was going to happen next year, in 2007. On new years day. My family and I were in Hong Kong watching a rugby game. Then my dad got a call, it was my mum saying to call Grandma. So my dad called her and my Grandma told my dad what had happened. Later that night, my dad told the whole family, what had happened. Paul had died, he had died of a heart attack.

Then a few months later I forgot about the picture I painted. When it was the summer holiday in 2007. Me and my family went to my Grandma’s house in England. Once we arrived she told me about the picture I painted, she put a beautiful frame around it. She hung it up on the wall in the best place in the house. Now that I painted a picture of my Grandma and her husband, my Grandma will never forget that picture, and it reminded her always of Paul. I think it is the best thing I have ever done.