Illustrator: Maira Kalman

 Why we broke up was written by Daniel Handler and illustrated by Maria Kalman and Why we broke up is a fictional novel, i choose this book to review because it isn’t like other books i have read, its different because Daniel Handler actually capture the feeling of being in love, the feeling of letting go of the person you had a special feeling for. Having a significant other in your life for a long time and then breaking it off is hard, its hard to take emotionally but their is always a reason why it happens, sometimes your just no happy but because you break it off doesn’t mean it isn’t hard for you as well, it will be but it wont be as hard as it is to the other person. Having things that remind you of the other person may be hard to let go but while time goes by your start to realize its fine to let that person go, and the stuff that came with the other person, the memories that were left. Then you start to think of that person and the memories and how love can blind you, how love made you do things that you wouldn’t do if you weren’t in love. Daniel capture the look of the couples, what couples do, what happens when you do things. Maria and Daniel 

Daniel Handler wrote this book and Maria Kalman illustrated the book, how this book started was Maria wanted to paint objects and Daniel could just imagine a romance novel, but he had to capture the prospective of a teenager girl, Daniel would take public transportation every day and he would over her young people conversations about love and their emotions, and he would capture that in this novel. This novel is an amazing book for all ages but the author wrote it for teenagers because the characters were teenagers and they were going threw that high school love that everyone goes threw. Also Daniel Handler has a pen name, its Lemony Snicket. Daniel Handler has written 13 books, he has a different kind of writing, he is careful of how he writes. Daniel Handler has known the feeling of being in a break up because like everyone else Daniel Handler has also been in a heart broken situation, he has a least been dumped three times in his high school years. 

This book is a very good book, i would recommend this book to teenagers because the character in the book are teenagers and teenagers would actually relate to the break up of teens, as we would call it high school love but others would relate to this book as well. Reading this book while your in love and relating to their love it would actually make you smile while reading this book. Also Daniel has capture the feeling but also capture the image of love, how everyone does. This book is very interesting, very good to read. Different thing that have different memories, that have different reasons why they broke up. 

El proposito de mi projecto es mostrar que los soldado violaron los derechos humanos. Voces Inocentes es una pelicula en Salvador y hay una guerra grande y a los 12 anos los soldados lleban a los ninos para sir soldados tambien pero los ninos no quieren ir, entonces se esconden arriba de su casa. todos estaban alli ahoras hasta ellos estaban seguros. Yo voy a ser los derechos humanos de tortura, derechos a educacion y los derechos humanos de todos los seres humanos tiene derechos a igual proteccion.

En Salvador había una guerra grande y los padres para guardar a sus niños seguros y sobrevivir, Chava y los otros niños se subian arriba te la casa para esconderse encima de las casas para quedarse de los soldados.Tiene que cuidarse por que cuando cumplien 12 los soldados los lleban y los torturan para sir soldados. El tio de chava trata de ayudar los pero no puede mucho. Y chava y sus amigos se encuentran en un problem y los amiogos de Chava los soldados los matan. Tienen que ver la pelicula es muy buena. 

En este video vas a ver que los soldados violaron el derecho de educacion por que los ninos que los estan llebando ellos quieren aprender y no ser soldados. Eso es violando el derechos humano por no dejar los ninos a ser ninos y estudiar, y no llebarlos a ser soldados para matar gente. 

El video que vas a ver es un video que los soldados violaron el derechos huamanos de todos los seres humanos tienen derechos a igual proteccion, los personas no estan protegetos por que los soldados quemaron las casas de las gentes. Eso es muy mal por que son las personas casas y ellos tienen que vivir a y. 

Cuando estaba videndo esta pelicula “Voces Inocentes”  muchos sentimientos corrion por mi cabesa por que era triste viendo eso mucho los soldados llebaban a los hijos y las mamas llorando por sus hijos y tambien cuando los soldados quemaron las casas y matando a gente es muy triste viendo todo eso, yo aprende mucho videndo esta pelicula como unas personas tuvieron que sufrir. La impresion de la pelicula era muy bien. Me encanta esta pelicula, por que se ve tan real que es tan excelente. En mensaje de la pelicula, pues no creo que tiene uno por que yo creo que mas quiere dicernos que hay muchas personas en este mundo que pueden aser muchas cosas y sin sientimiento. El projecto es bueno como lo tenemos que aser por que mostra que aprendimos de los derechos humanos y yo aprende mucho de los derechos humanos. 

Wendy Tepoz 

Journal #1 :

 IAGO

(to himself) I’ve rubbed this young pimple until he’s ready to pop, and now he’s angry. Whether he kills Cassio, or Cassio kills him, or they kill each other, it all works in my favor. If Roderigo survives, though, he’ll ask me for all the gold and jewelry that I stole from him and said I gave to Desdemona. I can’t let that happen. If Cassio survives,he’s so handsome and well-spoken that he makes me look ugly. And besides, the Moor might tell him about my lies about him.—That would be very dangerous for me. No, he’s got to die. Let it be so. I hear him coming.

Iago talks to reader/ audience in the writing. He changes the people who he interacts with. He first talks to the characters in the story, and its like he lies to the character, and he tells us the truth; the thoughts he is thinking in his head. In this paragraph, he talks to himself talking about the plan that will happen in the play. Iago in the first paragraph he tellls Rodrigo to stand and stab Cassio. When he starts to hide, he talks to himself and tells himself that if the plan goes well, Cassio and Rodrigo would kill each other, and it will be less work for Iago. The mood changes through this scene because Iago first is motivated to tell Rodrigo things that will get him mad, so he can kill Cassio. When he starts talking to himself, he becomes more evil, thinking the plan will work. 

Journal #2 

Act 3 Sc 3 Line 335

 EMILIA

Oh, is that all? What will you give me now

For the same handkerchief?

IAGO

What handkerchief?

EMILIA

What handkerchief?

Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona,

That which so often you did bid me steal.

IAGO

Hast stolen it from her?

EMILIA

No, but she let it drop by negligence

And, to th' advantage, I being here, took ’t up.

Look, here it is.

Emilia knows her husband wants the handkerchief, so she sees it fall and thinks she will give it to her husband because he called her stupid. She only told him about the handkerchief to torture him.She had the handkerchief but she did not steal it. She took it because Desdemona dropped it. She changes through the story because first she is very nice to her friend but then she trades on her by not giving the handkerchief back. She gives it to her husband.

Journal #3

Bianca came in to a play, she had a bad experience with men and she got cheated on many times. It happen to her a lot and when she got in to the relationship with Cassio, he gave her the handkerchief. She knew it was from someone else. She doesn't trust men so much because of her past with them men have cheated on her lied to her, or used her as a toy. She felt insecure about herself. She tried to protect her self by hiding her jealousy and making it into madness and assume she isn’t the only women in a man’s life. As she says it the play, give it to your “whore” because in the past it happened before to her. She doesn't want it to happen to her again. There fore ,she was trying to stand up for herself.

Journal #4 : 

What i am bring to my performance , is in my tone of voice anger, because I am supposed to be angry at Cassio. I am bringing a handkerchief to the class because Cassio gives Bianca a handkerchief. She gets very upset to hear that the handkerchief is something he just found in his room. She got very angry with his actions. Bianca gives the handkerchief back to Cassio because she thinks a whore left it there. I think this scene is powerful because there is a lot of emotion when with Bianca being angry, and Iago being sneaky with his plan that he wants Othello that the Desdemona is cheating on him with Cassio. What my group and i have agreed on is that when Bianca says her line, she is going to run off stage and Cassio going to run after her, we have to have a loud voice, and a lot of passion with our lines.

Journal #5 : 

"What do you mean by the same handkerchief you gave me even now, a likely piece of work that you should find in your chamber and not know who left it there" The reason i think this line is important is because it completes the whole quote what she says because it describes why she is mad, why the plan that Iago has is going to work, and when Bianca came in it was just a coincidence. With the lines she says with the plan because if it wasn't for her, Othello wouldn't believed as much has he did. Bianca was clear why she was angry, those were the most important lines, threw all. Also i showed importance in my part is because when i did the hand movements and when i threw the handkerchief at Cassio, and my hand movements. I deliver my lines by an anger tone of voice, and the hand movements. My group performance did go as i expected and planned but when i ran out i got my hand stuck on the door which messed me up. I was mad because I got my hand stuck and I broke character. Also it did go as I planned, because everyone were in their places, and good actors. Now that the play is over, I am proud of that I remembered my lines, and I would have done differently by putting more anger in my lines, because i don't think I did good with that, I am not a very good actor, I was nervous, and I really don't like to talk in front of people, I am very shy, so I think I would do differently by speaking more louder. By preforming the play, it painted a picture in my head more clear and it made it more understandable. Reading the play was kinda hard to understand but when we all acted it out, it became more clear what i was reading. it was creative how we all acted out.

While doing this interview I learned a lot of things while doing this podcast. I learn that my family is really messed up, that they supposedly want the best for my sister and I. I notice that they only want them selfs to be happy, use it doesnt matter, as long as my parents are happy they think we are happy. Well that is not the case. Falling in love is scary, not because we'll get hurt, it's because they fact that the people we are suppose to trust, won't like our partner and try pulling us apart. As they are doing to my sister.

I learn my sister has so much pain in her. While telling her story she wanted to cry, but she didn't, she kept that smile I see her fake everyday. She tried hard not to cry while telling her story, I know it may not sound like she wanted to cry but that how good she is because she been trying so hard not to cry for past year or so. As my sister I know her well. She likes to hide her feelings from other. She keeps away to avoid me seeing her cry, but sometimes she breaks down and comes to me and cries in my arms. She is in pain, and the people we thought we could trust are making us go threw that pain. I am in a similar situation my self but not as bad as she is. I learn so much threw doing this podcast, I learn how to edit which I never knew. I learned how to understand how my sister is feeling.

The comments with my peers I agree with them. They were positive comments. I think I did good as well. Had a little mistakes around, I fixed them up and my podcast was like I wanted it to be. Doing this podcast taught me a lot. This was my favorite project because it was interesting to know how others cross boundaries, how other people feel.  

- Yo Le diría a mi mejor amigo, que su novia estava besando a otro chico y no era el. Yo le sacaria photos pa que mi mejor amigo vea. y yo me sentiría enojada con ella. 

¿Le dirías algo a su novia?

- No, no se lo diría. Sólo lo digo a mi mejor amigo y le dego que el le dega a ella.

¿Qué le dirías a Pedro?

Yo le digo "tu eres mi mejor amigo y te quiero, y sé que tu amas a tu novia, pero ella de está engañando con otro, y si no me crees tengo fotos"

¿Tratarías de ayudar?

yo ya le ayudó diciéndole, lo que su novia le está haciendo.

¿Qué le recomendarías a Pedro?

- Yo le decía a romper con ella.

Yo, en su lugar, … (If I were in his place…)

Si yo estuviera en su lugar que sería triste.

Si viera a la novia de mi mejor amigo besando a su primo, ... 

Yo sólo pensaría eww.

Yo quería un gato pero eso no fue suficiente 

Entonces yo quería otro gato

gatos y más gatos

me volvería loca si alguien vender mis gatos

si tuviera mucho dinero, yo le daría el SPCA 

Moriría por todos los animales

Me encantaría tener todos los gatos

si un animal está herido, yo lo tomaría

Me encantaría ver a todos los animales felices

yo podría llorar por los animales que estan lastimados

Me encantaría todos y cada uno de los gatos si no eran amados

me gustaría ser un superhéroe para i puede salvar a todos los animales del peligro

Dear diary,

Today is April 17,2008, my name is Athena in case I forget my name when I get oder and read my diary, I just turned 12 a few days ago. I was expecting my dad to call me on my birthday, but another year and I didn’t get a call from him again. I called him right before I started to write this diary, he didn’t answer once again, he ignored my call. I always tell my self maybe he is busy working, or is sleeping, I just make things up in my head and try to believe them because it hurts knowing the truth that he is actually ignoring my calls. I can memorize the operating lady that says “I’m sorry but the person that you are trying to reach is not available at this moment please leave a message after the beat” I don’t leave messages no more to my dad because he never receives them he says, I don’t think he knows I’m 12 years old or when is my birthday, because i think he still thinks that I’m that 8 year old girl that use to call him everyday and leave a message to him and then he use to call me back once in two weeks, I always asked him about the message I left him, he says he never gets them, but now I know he does. He lies to me. I always seen my friends in school with their dads playing on the swings, and their dads pushing them. Yesterday I sat on the swings while waiting for my mom to pick me up from school and I sat on the swings imagining him pushing me on the swings. I always wished and still wishing to have my dad to play with me. He comes to visit me, not often as I thought he was. The day he comes to visit me; puts a smile on my face, but then I realize while I’m getting older, that the love I had for my dad, slowly is turning into anger. My dad has a son he is 2 years old, and when I use to go over his house I use to watch him play with his son, I’ll admit it I do get jealous, when i see him playing with his son, I always wonder why he never played like that with me. My mom, I love my mother, she has always been there for me, she tried talking to my dad on how I feel, but my dad doesn't seem interested in it. I act different around him when he comes to visit me now, I still smile but then I think of the times he didn’t answer the phone when I was little, or when he just comes to visit me to give me some money, or take me out to eat or buy me things. Maybe he feels like he can buy me things and everything will be okay, but its not like that. I have feelings, I hope he knows that. I’m not the little girl that use to believe everything he use to say, the lies he said to me. I’m 12 and I have grown, and my mind is understanding a lot of things now. Sometimes I wish my dad would understand the feelings I have, but there is only one problem, if only he would actually sit down and listen to me. Sometimes I feel like no one loves me, no one understands me. I try talking to my mom but she has enough things to worry about. I’m young why am I dealing with this kind of problems at 12 ? I’m suppose to be worrying if my hair is perfect, my nails are painted pretty, but no I don’t have that in mind. I have my dad in mind. Why doesn’t he answer the phone. Im going to try again and call him. (Picks up the phone and dials her dads number and starts to call, Ring Ring Ring). He didn’t answer, I’m not surprised no more. I’m getting use to my dad not answering my phone calls. What upset me the most that he didn’t call me to wish me a happy birthday. I sometimes don’t want to hear from him again, but he is my dad. My mom says, to just give him time, that he is busy working. I gave him enough time, since I was 6 years old and now I’m 12 years old and he still doing the same thing, not picking up the phone. Lying to me. Making excuses up why he couldn’t call me for my birthday. I don’t know if he knows it but I’m getting tired of all his lies, his excuses, soon I’m going to grow older and not think about him, well he could cross my mind, but I’m going to be strong and just ignore him. I’m tired of all this. I should start doing my homework, i had enough of talking about my dad. English, and math homework and my 500 word essay on someone you admire isn’t gonna write it self. If only I had my dad here to write about him. I always wonder if he would be a good person to look up to. I’m never going to find out. I have never felt a love of a father. I wish I did. Sooner or later he is going to come to me and try to talk to me, but as how he did to me was ignore me, then I’ll do the same. I know I will always love my dad, but while the years go on, the anger will be taking over the little love I have for my dad. Well here goes another same old day, with out my dad around. Mom; if you ever find my diary and read this, don’t show this to dad. Its a secret. I love you mom. 

Wendy Tepoz 

 Yo soy fuerte por que muchas cosas pasaron en un poquito tiempo, y aprendí muchas cosas.Aprendí como haser fuerte porque si no soy fuerte muchas cosas te pueden haser sentir como que no eres importante. Me importan mucho las personas que yo les importo mucho, porque si yo no te importo , entonces yo tampoco. Me importa mi familia mucho, ellos son los que pouedo contar cuando los nesecito. Tengo  novio, el mi importa mucho, lo amo. Es un buen novio. No quiero nadien más como un novio más que el por que se quedó a mi lado cuando yo lo trataba como si no era nada para mi. El paso muchas cosas conmigo pero en final todavia está a mi lado, y lo amo. 

En el futuro quiero ser policia de animales por que yo quiero ser buena y ayudar los animales, por que ellos no pueden hablar, y yo si, y yo quiero hablar por ellos y decier que ellos sienten y que nececitan. Me molesta cuando mi novio se noja con migo por una cosa pequeña, y cuando personas pegan a los animales. Sueño con un dia aser policia de animales, ese es mi gran sueno por que yo encando animales.Tengo miedo de los fantasmas por que yo veo muchos peliculas de fantasmas y veo en Youtube los videos y me gusta espantarme, pero luego no pudo dormier en la noche.

Personas que ven fisicamente es que bien pequeña y también que soy bien tranquila, y soy timida, y tambien me dicen que me veo china pero no soy china soy mexicana, y no me gusta cuando me llaman china, por que no soy. Cuando me llaman pequeña no me importa mucho por que si soy pequeña y cuando me llaman timida, tampoco no me importa por que asi soy yo, pero mas cuando primero me conocen. Primero me importaba que me llamen penqueña por que yo sabia que era pequeña, no lo necsito que otra personas me digan pero ahora no me importa. por que yo se que es todo la verdad. Tambien soy realista, yo digo que estoy pensando. Y a veces no esta bien aser eso pero se mi cale. Pero cuando personas dicen cosas, yo mi puse madura , y ya no me importa que otras dicen de mi. 

La gente no puede ver lo que estoy pensando lo que estoy sintendo, yo me gusta esconder mi sientementos porque no quiero que personas me juzgan, yo tengo muchas cosas que tengo adentro de mi, y no quiero decirlos. Otras personas me ven que soy bien timida, pero cuando personás me concosen muy bien me gusta tivirtierme con mi mijor amiga y mi novio, y hermana. Pero a veces me gusta estar solita por que a veces necesito tiempo para yo sola, y pensar cosas que me esta pasando en la vida. A veces quiero hablar con mi novio y contar le que siento por dentro pero a veces no quiero por que, que pasa si no me entiende que quiero decir, si mi juzca. No sé, por eso me gusta esconder lo que siento. Yo sé que a veces es malo pero prefiero esconder mis sientimentos que escuchar personas hablar de mis sientimientos de adentro con otras personas, o que mi juszquen a mi. También las personas no ven que amo a los animales, no hablo tanto de como amo a los animales porque, no quiero que me ven como si era extraña por que cuando amo a los animales. Sin duda que amo los animales, También tengo una imirasion para Ellen DeGeneres, por que ella es inteligente, expresiva,honesta, También me gusta como es bien cariñosa con los animales como yo. Muchas personas no le aprecian a Ellen por que ella le gustan las mujeres, pero yo creo que eso es bien al contrario las personas pueden amar quien ellos quieren sin ser insegura de si misma. Y no tiene que estar estresada si las personas lo van a juzgar. Tambien avece me pongo deprimida por que quiero hablar español como todos mis amigas y novio pero cuando yo ablo me escucho como yo no sé como hablar, y me pongo tímida, por eso no mi gusta hablar español.Me gusta disimular como me siento de una persona, por ejemplo con mi novio no me gusta decirle como mi siento de el por que me pongo huraña, y espantada , me pongo huraña por que no soy muy bien a expresar mis sentimientos, y espantada por que yo no sé que vaya a decir cuando lo digo como mi siento. Tambien cuando mi novio y yo discutimos, es mas por que el es bien celoso, por todo tiene celos, y se pone muy antipático con migo, y a vece me dice cosas malas, y muchas personas piensan que yo soy muy fuerte en las relaciónes pero no, soy bien sensible, pues cuando mi novio me dice cosas malas, yo me pongo disgustada.

 Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?

 Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not

What I did about my slide, is that I wrote a few words about me in my favorite color and also that describes me, I also put a picture of me, to show how I do. I put a Mexican flag on my slide because people think I am Asian but i am not.I put red hair dyed because I love dyeing my hair when I am bored and one of my favorite colors is red. I also put a dog on my slide because I love dogs and every kind of animal and I also have two dogs. I put a piercing on my slide because I have my lip pierced and I think its pretty cool. One of my favorite stores is Hot Topic they have awesome stuff and sometimes have what I like; jeans, shirts (with cool writing on them) , another favorite of mine is Hollister I love that store even if they have high prices but there clothes are nice. I have Hello Kitty because she is awesome and so cute, and I just love it !