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

Bridging - As I Grew Older

Langston Hughes was an African-American poet. In his poetry he tried to captivate the hearts of his people and to capture their experiences and their emotions. Also, in his poetry he was proud of the fact he's black and wrote about his African heritage. In addition, he was a leading figure of the "Harlem
Renaissance", which believed that African-American art, music and literature could bring to equality and integration.

The poem "As I Grew Older" is about racism. The poet is black and he has a dream to "smash" and "shatter"  racism and get equal rights. It's written that Langston is proud of the fact he's black and expresses this -pride in his poetry. In the poem "As I Grew Older" he says "I'm black" and not ashamed to say it. In his poem he says that he wants to "smash" the wall  (racism) and he needs help. "Help me to shatter this darkness", he is helped by his people in the "Harlem Renaissance" and they together try to "shatter the darkness", it means to shatter the stereotypes and the racism by their writing, poetry and art.

In my opinion the speaker in the poem is really the poet because  the fact that we have, Langston is black and he said in his poet "I'm black". Also, he works hard to prevent racism and smash the wall to find his dream, his dream to shatter the stereotypes. The occurrence in the poem reflects events in the life of the poet because the poet tried to integrate in the society and to break the racist laws and get equality as white people

In conclusion, Langston tried to break racism together with his people and to get equality as (reflected in) the poem, when he tried to break the night and break the wall.

How can poetry be taught?

The way teachers teach poems or literature today is to take a poem or story, read it before the class and then try to analyze them. Teachers do it all the time and don’t understand why the students get angry. In my opinion, poetry should be taught in other ways.

Teachers teach us literature or poems to enrich our language and develop our thinking abilities, intelligence and skills to analyze the poems. The teachers don't understand that all the students want is to understand what the meaning of the poem or the story is. Poetry should be more fun and you can't always find what it means. If we analyze the poem the meaning competing with the poem itself and all we do is try to understand only the meaning and not the explore the poem. 

In addition, the teacher wants the students to analyze the poem the way he understands it and the students can't express themselves. If the students analyze the poems or the stories they get angry all the time and they won't concentrate in the poem only its meaning , because they will always worry what  is the meaning of the poem . In my opinion, teachers should allow students to express themselves more, and not analyze every little thing.

In conclusion, teachers analyze every little thing and they have to do it less. Also, they shouldn't deal all the time with what the meaning is and they have to allow the students to express themselves too.