Chris's Letter

December 30, 2013

Dear diary,

Yesterday, Annie came to visit here. Now, she's sleeping, and hasn’t come out from her room yet. I'm so excited she has come here. We used to write letters to each other, and finally she came. People around are talking about her visit here. Actually, I'm pretty scared from my mother's response to the fact that Annie and I are going to get married soon. My father, however, will be happy for me.

I'm in love with Annie, and I have great feelings for her, I can't keep her out of my mind, she's there all the time. I want to kiss her and tell her how much I love her, but I have something in my mind. I think about Larry, and it makes me feel guilty that I "stole" his girlfriend. What am I supposed to do? That's why, I think, my mother will not want us to get married.  Annie is so important to me, and I don't want to lose her, but the thoughts about Larry are killing me.

No matter what, I will keep fighting for our love. Since we started writing to each other, I have seen the light in her; I can see how she's a good person. I have been thinking about it a lot, maybe she's still thinking about Larry? Maybe she's with me because I remind her of him. I should stop thinking, my thoughts are foolish.

I'm still waiting for her to come out from her room, and then, we will talk in a quiet place with no interruptions. Finally, my dream comes true, to kiss her. Wish me luck!

Well done!
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Daphna

Bridging - All My Sons.

Arthur Miller is an American playwright, who was born in New York City. He's known for his successful plays. His father had a garment factory, but then, he lost everything and it changed Arthur's life. In his plays he writes about social and political issues that are often concerned with the personal response to the pressures exerted by family and society.In addition, in his plays he focuses on the responsibility a person has to take for his actions and moral corruption caused by materialism and greed.

In the play "All My Sons", Arthur's father's factory, reminds on the one hand, Frank's business, to sell suits for men. On the other hand, it reminds us of Joe's plant. Joe was used to excuse what he did and to claim that if he didn't sell the cracked cylinder heads, his factory would be closed. Also, he claims that he did it for his family because he was afraid of the fact that he wouldn’t have money to support his family.

The themes and issues that Miller writes about are related to the play. Joe excused his crimes with the fact that he did everything for his family and didn't take responsibility for his actions. However, Chris believes in social responsibility and claims that Joe must care about the society he lives in, they had conflicting views. He even thought about the option of extraditing Joe. Because Joe didn't take responsibility and only cared about his money, it led to a tragic end, to moral corruption – 21 pilots died because he sold the cracked cylinder heads. Chris, was an idealist. Chris showed us the beautiful side of the society, he showed us the justice. For example, when Chris said that he wanted to jail his father. 

In conclusion, the information helped me understand better the situations, in which each character was under pressure. It helped me to understand better the point of view of the characters and why they behaved the way the behaved, everyone had his own point of view and behaved in the way he felt. It also helped me understand how the society and family affect people.  

Well done!
(100)
Daphna

 

A Letter Of Complaint

15 Ben Gurion

Ramat Gan, Israel
November 1, 2013

Mr.and Mrs. Eti and Gabi Rotter
The managers of Castro company
Castro Ltd.
21 Ort 

Bat Yam, Israel

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Rotter,

Recently the prices of your products have raised by more than 30%. The prices' increase is unnecessary and I would like to express my dissatisfaction with your prices.

Yesterday, I arrived to the Castro's store at the mall and I found out that the prices were more expensive than they were before, and I couldn't buy myself anything. In addition, there were barely discounts on the products. Since I'm a student and I don't work, I can't afford to buy expensive clothes, as many families who don't have any money to buy these expensive clothes. Moreover, the winters' collection is out of fashion and looks like last winter's collection. Therefore, why should I buy this collection if it already had been last winter and it is more expensive?

Since I'm not satisfied, I would like to offer some suggestions for improvement. First of all, if you want to earn more money, you should raise your production, the more you expand the output, the more you earn money. In addition, you should open more shops because Castro is a big company that is very successful and it has a great demand. I'm sure you will handle this to my satisfaction and do your best for your customers.

I look forward to your reply,

Yours truly,

Marry Smith.

This is much better. Well done!
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Daphna

Volunteering

Over the years we can see that students are exposed to the great idea of volunteering. Unfortunately, not all the students volunteer. Indeed, we see an increasing trend in the issue, however, there are not enough students who want to volunteer.

One day, when volunteers from the community center came to my school, they showed us the options of the groups that volunteer in the community center. The group I liked  most was the music group. And then I understood that students connect more easily to something they like. One of my suggestions is that students volunteer in groups they like because if you don't like and love what you are doing it's not worth it. You will not have any pleasure or, you will be unsatisfied. Also, if you want to have more fun in your volunteering you should have some friends that are close to you.

In addition, students that volunteer are given great respect from the school on their volunteering. They are given a certificate of appreciation from the school, therefore, it's one of the things that makes students want to volunteer. It's important to give feedback to the students because then, they do more and that appreciation motivates to volunteer. In my school, every year there is an event that measures academic achievements but also volunteering accomplishments. Students enjoy the satisfaction of volunteering, but also the appreciation from the school because they contribute to their community. 

To conclude, volunteering is beneficial for students, because students can make new friends and contacts. Also, it increases their social and relationship skills and it gives a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

This is much better. Well done!
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Daphna

Post Reading

To be caught red-handed is when you feel like the world would end in a ew minutes,allegedly.
When you are caught, you feel guilty, something inside of you is not relaxed, you feel so embarrassed that you want to disappear in that moment. 

I was caught in eleventh grade. It was a Math class and we were supposed to have a test a week later. In the class I saw some papers placed on the teacher's desk. At first, I thought it just some papers and they were not supposed to be so important. But then, I found it was the Math test, that was supposed to be in a week. I told my friend who was sitting next to me, together we planned a plan how to take it form there. The plan was that I would delay the teacher and my friend would take the papers quickly. It worked until the next day. The teacher said that if nobody would admit, everybody would be punished. She knew it is us, she just wanted us to admit it. At first we both lied but then, we admitted and I learned a few important lessons.

The first lesson was that I couldn't succeed on my own because I could know the answers
and then get a fake grade. The second lesson that I have learned is that no matter what, never lie! When I lied I felt so embarrassed and nervous because of two things: the first thing was that the teacher knew it was me. The second, was that I lied and inside I felt so ashamed and guilty.

We were punished and we deserved it. Sometimes when you do things you have to think a thousand times before you do it. 

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Daphna

Poem of exercise 3

You didn't flush the toilet,

you never clean the room,

you didn't take out the 

garbage I bet,

and also you left toothpaste

on the sink I presume.

You are never doing homework,

and you broke me a cup,

so please do me a favor,

and grow up!
Excellent! I love it (and the picture....)
Daphna

Letter to the editor

   15 Ben Gurion

Ramat Gan, Israel
September 2, 2013

The Editor
"Haaretz" news paper
21 Zalman Shoken
Tel Aviv, Israel

Dear Editor,

I read your article and it was very interesting. There are a lot of schools that use tests to evaluate the students' academic achievements. For example, these tests exist in high schools and called Bagruiot. In my opinion, this is not the right way to evaluate students' academic achievements.

"Intellect shouldn't be graded, education is not about measurement, but about learning" that is what Yair Lapid said and it's true. Everybody is different.  Everybody is different in their qualities, and intelligence. Everyone has a talent or something he's good at in a different way than the other. These exams or any other tests do not give a chance to realize the individual potential. You can be excellent in one subject but weak in another. In addition, the tests make a competition between students, all they want is to get a better grade than others.Sometimes there is too much competition which students don't focus on their real goal, learning, they just want to "win"  the competition.

The tests might help students, however, they also can make a difficulty for them. As it is Written above, students  are not given a chance to realize their true potential in tests. Therefore, my suggestion is also to give them projects with grades that might help them get better grades than the Bagruiot or any other tests. I'm sure the projects will improve students' achievements.

Sincerely yours,

Marry Smith.

Better, Good work.
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Daphna