BR 2-03: Rotten Apples

I read ‘Rotten Apples’. Roderick Hunt wrote it. I chose this book, because I was interested in the title ‘Rotten Apples’. It was about a horse that eats too many rotten apples. Now, I am going to introduce this story roughly.

The main character of this story is Biff who is a kind girl. One day, she helped her mother’s job. Her job was to pick up the apples that feel down from the trees. She picked up a lot of apples, but some of the apples were rotten. So she put them in the box. When she was carrying the box, Kipper called to her. He said, “Come and see this!” There is Harry Smith who liked by everyone. He sold things with his horse. Biff gave an apple to the horse. The horse liked it. Then, the horse ate all of the rotten apples. After that, Biff and the other children rode the horse with Harry Smith. Suddenly, the horse began to run too fast. “Slow down!” shouted Harry Smith, but the horse did not listen his warning. The children were afraid of the happening. After a while, the horse stopped in a car park with he made funny noise. The horse went to sleep. Harry Smith thought that maybe the horse was drunk. Actually, the rotten apples made the horse drunk! However, Harry Smith did not mind. When the horse was sleeping, he sold everything from his cart. He was happy because of the happening. So he gave the children a present.

This is a very interesting story. I did not know that rotten apples made animals drunk. Is it truth? I do not know. I want to read interesting stories like this.

[286 words]

Portfolio for Writing IV, Section 1c

Student ID: 07148

Portfolio for Writing IV,
Section 1c

(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. Essays

(See: Note 3, below.)

Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates yy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
Website review 08.09.29 (375+ words)	Rewrite SR 2-01: Wikitravel	08.10.04	5	443	0	2	1	0
Favorite place(-s) 08.10.20 (450+ words)	My favorite place	08.10.18	6	466	0	0	0	0
Mrs. Doubtfire 08.11.04 (500+ words)	MR 2-01: Mrs. Doubtfire	08.11.04	5	507	5	0	1	0
Community life 08.11.17 (default length*)	community of my part-time work mates	08.11.17	5	290	0	0	0	0
Kumamoto's best-kept secrets 08.12.01 (5+ ¶¶)	A little known aspect of Kumamoto	08.12.01	5	289	0	0	0	0
Learning with computers 2008.12.15 (6+ ¶¶)	Learning with computers	08.12.15	6	325	0	0	0	0
Totals	---	---	32	2320	5	2	2	0

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media included in post
*: "long enough to cover the ... [communities] you choose," Writing Studio Blog, Preparation for Next Essays, 2008.10.29)

1.2. Best Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of those six assigned essays do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• I think ‘MR 2-01: Mrs. Doubtfire’ is my best essay, because I reflected about the movie when I wrote this essay and the essay is longer than my other essays.

2.0. Comments

Showcase	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*	I didn't comment his blog.	---	---	---
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*	2008/11/19 11:45	08.11.19	39	I wrote her essay's good points.
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*	November 19, 2008 10:18 AM	08.11.19	48	She wrote some reasons about my essay's good points.
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*	MR 2-01: Mrs. Doubtfire	08.11.04	161	They wrote about my essay in detail.
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	08.11.05	---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	49	I responded each of them.
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*	I did't get any commets.	---	---	---
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	---	---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	---	---

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes them good comments.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

• My blog displays recent comments from blog visitors in a top of a sidebar.

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

• I got few comments and I wrote few comments for my classmate's blog. I should wrote more comments for them.

3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates (yy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
2-01	BR 2-01: The Shoemaker and the Elves	08.10.13	182	0
2-02	BR 2-02: Lost Love	08.11.26	304	0
2-03	BR 2-03: Rotten Apples	08.12.17	286	0
2-04	BR 2-04: Harry's Great Big Burp	08.12.19	274	0
2-05	BR 2-05: Don't Be Silly	09.01.06	153	0
2-06	BR 2-06: The Bully	09.01.06	169	0
2-07	BR 2-07: Mum to the Rescue	09.01.06	181	0
2-08	BR 2-08: The Go-kart Race	09.01.06	150	0
2-09	BR 2-09: The Christmas Disco	09.01.27	195	0
2-10	BR 2-10: Quiz Night	09.01.31	609	0
2-11
2-12
2-13
2-14
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18
---	---	Totals:

Note: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• I think ‘Harry’s Great Big Burp’ is my best book review, because I wrote my impression and story in detail.
  
  

4.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking, & Media

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog display an archive?	○
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?		○
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?		○
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?		○
4.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?	○
5.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	○
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	○
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)	○
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)	○
"movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)	○
"brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")	○
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?	○
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? __15_ other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. holidays (21) my friends (15) about me (12) typing topics (11) eatings (10) feelings (10) part-time jobs (10) hang outs (7) drinkings (6) shoppings (6) classes (5) lists (5) computers (4) favorites (4) speaking (4)	---	---
4.3. Links & media	---	---
4.3.1. Does your blog include photos or other graphics?	○
Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?		○
How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics? __12_ posts including photos or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?	○
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links? __1_ posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?		○
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? __0_ posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here: ... ... ...	---	---
What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yy.mm.dd) for reference. ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date)	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

1. I changed display. I used many color on my blog.
2. I tried to list many photos.
3. I changed layout.

5.0. Additional reflections on your blog and your writing on it

Please feel free to include reflections on both spring and fall semester work, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, and reflections).

• My typing speed became faster than before, because of blogging.
• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' was very interesting movie.
• It was a little hard to write blog.
  

6.0. Advice and suggestions for yourself, your peers, and your successors

• Keep writing blog everyday.
• List many photos and media.
• Express your feelings.
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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from the templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVcWriting III, §§1a & 1c (Fall, 2008). portfolios (2007-08), and
2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 2nd (fall) semester PPF first.
   
3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derives from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).
   

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Learning with computers

I am going to talk about learning with computers. I think that learning with computers is good thing, because there are a lot of good points of it. Learning with computers is very convenience for me. Also many people probably think so too. Now, I am going to talk about the good points of learning with computers.

I can get a lot of information that I want easily when I use computers. Most of the computers have search function. So I can get many kinds of information through the Internet. It is very useful for me when I write reports and do assignments. I can acquire knowledge when I use computers.

We can do mail and chat through the Internet. These are very useful tools. We can communicate with other people easily when we use these tools. If we use Internet, we can communicate with people who live far from each other easily. It is very important to communicate with other people so computers are very useful.

There are a lot of useful tools in the computers. In the reading class, we do power words. Do you know it? It is a tool to learn vocabulary. We can learn a large vocabulary through the tool. We can enjoy learning vocabulary when we use the tool. Also we can challenge other tools.

Millions of computers worldwide connect to Internet. So we can connect with people who live all over the world. We can connect with people when we are in our house. Also we can send mails, photos, movies and so on through the Internet. We can connect with other people through the Internet easily.

Learning with computer is very convenient for me, because there are computers everywhere for example KGU, library, home and so on. We can use computers any time. We can get high quality information through the Internet. Learning with computers has many good points. So I want to use computers more often.

[325 words]

Maedori

I will come of age next year. We wear kimono and attend the coming of age ceremony in Coming of Age day. I took some photographs for the Coming of Age day. It is said ‘Maedori’ in Japanese. I got up early this morning. I went to a photo studio with my mother. First, I had my hair set and makeup at the dressing room for the photography. Next, I had dressing. This was a first time for me to wear kimono. It was very hard for me to wear kimono. My stomach was constricted by obi. After finishing photography, we went to my grandmother’s house to show my kimono. Also we paid our respect at a grave. After that, I took off my kimono at last. I could relax. I am looking forward to the coming of age ceremony, because I can meet a lot of my friends. The alumni meeting of junior high school is going to held when the Coming of Age day. I want to enjoy it.

[171 words]

Cars and other transportation

I attended speaking class today. We talked about the theme ‘CARS AND OTHER TRANSPORTAION’. I talked with Saori about the theme too. So I am going to talk about it.

I have a car license. I got the car license last year. I have ever driven the car. My family has a ‘wagon R’. The car is purple and square. I have moped. The moped is brown and cute figure. I do not like to go moped riding, because it is very, very cold when I ride my moped in the winter. I think I am not a careful driver, because I sometimes drive my family’s car too fast. I have never been in a traffic accident. I want to ‘Land Cruiser’, because it is very cool. I went to Kumamoto Driving School, because it was the nearest driving school from my house. I like driving car, because driving car is very interesting and cars are useful. I go to school by train, but sometimes I go to school by my moped. I have ever paid a fine because of speeding.

Saori has a car license. She got her car license last spring. She has ever driven a car. She has an ‘ek wagon’. The ek wagon is silver and square. She has a bicycle. Her bicycle is orange. She does not like to go bicycle riding, because she usually uses her car. She thinks that she is not a careful driver, because she drives her car too fast. She has ever been in a traffic accident. The car accident left a dent in her car door. She wants brown car next, because she thinks that brown is very cute color. She went to Kikuchi Driving School, because it was near from her house. She likes driving her car, because she drives her car everyday and cars are useful. She go to school by her own car. She has not ever paid a fine.

[324 words]

Reading books

I attended speaking class today. We talked about ‘Reading books’ in the class. There were some questions of the theme. I talked with Kana about it. Now, I am going to talk about it.

I like reading books, because I can pass my time by reading books. The last book that I read was Ryuseinokizuna. It was a mystery novel. Keigo Higashino wrote it. I read it about a month ago. I took about two days to read the book. I liked it, because it was interesting. It was about three brothers whose parents were killed when they were children. The best book that I have ever read was Tegami. Keigo Higashino wrote it too. I read it about a couple of years ago. It was about brothers. The older brother killed other person. I like mystery novel and romance novel, because I can enjoy reading. I usually read one or two books in a month, because I have no time to read books. However, I want to read more books. I usually read books in my house, because I can relax in my house. I go to the school library about twice a week or so, because I have a lot of assignments. I usually use personal computers when I go to the school library.

Kana does not like reading books, because she is always tired of reading books. The last book that she read was Aozora. It was a romance novel. Natsu Hoshino wrote it. She read it about a week ago. She took two hours to read it. She liked it, because she was moved it. It was about a girl who lost her precious person. The best book that she has ever read was Koizora. It was a romance novel too. Mika wrote it. She read it when she was a high school student. It was about a girl whose boyfriend got cancer. She likes romance novels and romance comics, because she likes these stories. She reads books once a year, because she does not like reading books. She usually reads books in the train, because she goes to school by train. She goes to the school library about once a week, but she does not read books there. She does her homework and studies when she goes to the school library.

[386 words]

Free-writing: Learning with computers

I think that learning with computers is convenient, because there are computers anywhere for example, school, library, home, Internet cafe and so on. So I can use computers whenever I want to use. If I use Internet, I can get a lot of information easily. Also there are many convenience tools for example, dictionaries, translation tools, educational games and so on. I can enjoy learning with computers with these tools.

[70 words]

Brainstorming: Learning with computers

Communication
Typing
Writing
Reading
Listening
Information
Blog
Convenience
Easy
Internet
Speed
Knowledge
Pictures
Mail
Educational games
Connecting
Helpful
Dictionaries
Movies
Useful
Translation
Chat
Searching
Challenges
Tools
Qualities

[27 words]

Parfait

After classes were over, I went to Hikari no Mori with my friends. We went to Rakeru to eat parfait. I ate chocolate parfait. It was a little big, so I had eaten sufficiently. My friends ate omelets containing fried rice and parfait. The omelet containing fried rice looks very delicious. I want to eat it when I go to Rakeru next time. After that, one of my friends went to driving school. I went to Joyful with another friend. We were in the same high school, and he is a KGU student now. However, I seldom see him in KGU, because we are in the different departments. Today, I met him after a long separation. We talked about various things, and we had a nice time.

[127 words]

A little known aspect of Kumamoto

I chose the Kusunoki Summer Festival for a little known aspect of Kumamoto. Do you know it? This is a local summer festival. Probably, people who live in near the Kusunoki area know the festival. However, I think that other people do not know it. So I am going to introduce it.

This is a local summer festival. It takes place in Kusunoki central park in August every year. A lot of people who live in near the Kusunoki area go to the festival. Kusunoki central park is near the Kusunoki junior high school. So a lot of the students go to the festival too.

In the festival, there are many kinds of performances for example, karaoke, the Bon dancing, performance by brass band and so on. Various people enjoy doing karaoke and dancing. I belonged to the brass band club when I was in the first year in junior high school. So we played several tunes in the summer festival. It became one of my important memories of my junior high school days.

One of the good points of this festival is that we can meet a lot of local friends. Each of us go to different schools and work for different places. We hardly meet daily life. So this summer festival is good chance for us to meet. We are all looking forward to the festival.

There are a lot of festivals in Kumamoto, but I think the Kusunoki Summer Festival is one of the good festivals of Kumamoto. The festival is not so popular. However, there are a lot of interesting events. You will be able to enjoy it. If you have never gone to the festival, I would like you to go to the festival.

[289 words]

Fukuoka②

I did shopping with my friend in Fukuoka today. I like shopping, so I was looking forward to today. We got up early this morning and we went to ‘Tenjin CORE’ and ‘Soraria Plaza’. Both of us are indecisive people, so we wavered what to buy. There are a lot of shops in Tenjin. So we were enjoy shopping very much. I bought black coat, gray short pants, necklace, black pumps and salmon pink long T-shirt. I was satisfied with them. My friend bought a lot of clothes too. She bought coat, parka, long T-shirt, and so on.After we finished shopping, we went to Kego Park. We could see illuminations. These were very, very beautiful. I like illuminations very much. We can see the illuminations until Christmas. If you have chance to go to Fukuoka, please see them. We had a very nice time today.

[146 words]

Fukuoka①

Today, I went to Fukuoka to go to the EXILE's live concert with my friend. We met at Musashizuka bus stop at 1 p.m. We waited for a bus to go to Fukuoka, but there are too many people. We could not ride in a bus easily, so we waited for about an hour. We went to Fukuoka airport first, then we changed from a bus to a subway. We arrieved at YAHOO DOME at 4:30 p.m. I went to YAHOO DOME for the first time. It was very big and there are a lot of people. I was looking forward to the live concert, because I like EXILE very much. This is the first time for me to go to the EXILE's live concert. I can usually watched them only on TV, but I could I enjoyed the live concert and I was so happy. I really want to go to the live concert next year too. After that, we wemt to a hotel but the hotel was very far from the YAHOO DOME. We took a lot of time to go to the hotel. We were very tired when we arrived at the hotel. So we went to bed as soon as possible. We had a very nice time today. We are going to go shopping tomorrow. I am looking forward to do shopping tomorrow.

[227 words]

BR 2-02: Lost Love

I read ‘Lost Love’. Jan Carew wrote it. I chose this book, because I was interested in the book’s title ‘Lost Love’. There are five stories in this book. These stories titles are Lost Love, The Doll, The Other Man, The Charm and Journey’s End. These are all different stories, but something strange happens in each stories. I am going to introduce the story of ‘Lost Love’ roughly.

I thought that this is a love story when I saw the story’s title Lost Love. However, this is not a normal love story. The main character of this story is a woman. One day, she was lost in the country with her car. Unfortunately, her car stopped because of a lack of petrol. Then, a girl came. She thought the girl was very pretty. So she spoke to her. She explained about her circumstance. The girl invited her to the country. So she went to the country with the girl. She thought something strange when she arrived at the country. She went to the girl’s house. There were the girl’s father, mother. They were very kind people. So she liked them very much. She had a nice time that day. In that night, the girl said “We have to say goodbye tonight. You have to go now.” She did not want to go, because she liked the girl very much and she could not understand why she had to go now. However she decided to go now. After that, she knew the fact. The girl that she met was a ghost, but she liked the girl very much. So she wanted to meet the girl again. After ten years past, she went to the country again.

I enjoyed reading this book. The stories were all interesting and strange. I want to read romance novel next.

[304 words]

Free- writing: A well-kept secret or little known aspect of Kumamoto

I chose the Kusunoki Summer Festival for next essay’s topic. This is a local summer festival. It held in August in Kusunoki central park every year. The park is near the Kusunoki junior high school. So many students of Kusunoki junior high school go to the festival. Also people who live in near the park go to the festival too. There are a lot of stands for example shaved ices with syrup on the top, grilled chickens, cotton candies miso soup and so on. In the festival, there are a lot of performances for example karaoke, performance by brass band and so on. I went to the festival every year when I was a junior high school student. I was looking forward it very much then.

[126 words]

Brainstorming: A well-kept secret or little-known aspect of Kumamoto

Kusunoki summer festival
Lively
A lot of people
Yukata
Summer
Performance
Night
Stand
Junior high school
Kusunoki central park
A shaved ice with syrup on the top
Grilled chicken
Karaoke
Enka

[31 words]

The best movie review

I found the best movie review for “Mrs. Doubtfire”. I could read her review easily, because she used many colors for some important points. Also she wrote her opinions and feelings in the review. So I think her review is the best movie review.

This is Resaaa’s review → MR2-1: "Mrs.Doubtfire" Please check it!

[54 words]

community of my part-time work mates

I work for a cake shop. The name of the cake shop is Takarabune. Do you know it? I have worked for one and half years. So I am going to write about the community of my part-time work mates.

There are seven part-timers in our shop. Of course, we are all different age. There are housewife, university students, part-time worker and so on. I am almost with my friends who are the same age as me when I am in my university. So I think that it is very good experience for me to work with older and junior. I can hear about their various opinions. These are all benefit me. Also I can learn a lot of thing from them.

By the way, we can talk many things with each other. We often talk about our part-time job, because we have a lot of things to do. So we think the easiest way to do our jobs. Also we talk other things with each other for example, work, friends, love, future and so on. When I am worried, they always give me good advises. I appreciate it.

We sometimes hang out together. We like drinking so we often go drinking. My part-time work mates are all talkative and funny people. So I like drinking with them very much. Also drinking with them is one of my many pleasures.

A Christmas season will come soon so we are very busy recently. However, I cooperate with them in to do our work. If I did not work for the cake shop, I may have not met them. I think it was a casual meeting because we are different age, different hometown and different school. Lastly, I like them very much.

[290 words]

Free-write about my part-time work mates

I work for a cake shop. Name of the cake shop is Takarabune. Do you know? I have worked for the shop over a year. I wanted to leave the part-time job when I started to work, because there were a lot of things that I had to do. Also I had to memorize a lot of things. I was very tired every day. In the cake shop, there are people who have various characters. Also we are all deferent ages. I like my coworkers very, very much. I think it is very good thing for me to work with elders and juniors, because I spend a lot of time with my friends who are same ages of me in the school. I talk with my coworkers many kinds of things for example part-time job, life, future, friend, love, feeling and so on. We consult with coworkers each other. We sometimes go drinking together. They are all talkative people. So drinking with them is one of my many pleasures.

[169 words]

Brainstorm about my part-time work mates

older people
junior people
smile
work
chat
learn
service
mutual help
kind
drinking
respect
life
meeting
sweet
event
Christmas
fun
serious
cooperate
memorize

[23 words]

My friend's birthday

My friends and I held a birthday party for chisato who is one of my friends today. Her birthday is November 6, but we were busy the day. So we held birthday party today. We went to BOOTH. Do you know the bar? It is a very good bar, because it is a bar with a good atmosphere. We ate Caesar salad, broiled chicken, pasta, fried chicken and so on. They were all delicious. We enjoyed eating and drinking. Also we enjoyed talking. I let them know how I have been getting along on. We talked about jobs a lot, because one of my friends gets a job with Apparel Company next year. I am very care about jobs, because some of my friends doing job-hunting recently. Let’s get back to the subject. We gave birthday present for chisato. We gave her a bag, balance ball and album. She was pleased with it. So I was happy too. We had a nice time today. I like them very much!

[169 words]