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Diana Bayless Mrs. McGee AP English 1A

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1.Letter to the Reader 2.My Bucket List 3.6 Word Memoir 4.First Writing Oscar Wilde Paragraphs 5.Soul Picture 6.Second Writing The Awakening, Response 7.Third Writing Response to Barbie 8.Option to 1 of 3 Artifacts Favorite Elementary Book 9.Option to 1 of 3 Artifacts Favorite Middle School Book 10.Option to 1 of 3 Artifacts Favorite High School Book

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Dear Reader, As I look back on the writing from even just this year and last year, I can honestly say that I have improved so much. It is really cool to see all the things that I have written about, and all the stories I have been able to tell through my writing. I hope only to learn more, and to write even better when I get to college. I truly believe that both my eleventh and twelfth grade English classes have prepared me for that. I am really excited to see what I come up with in the future!

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Have my own personal library with a collection of all the books Ive read Stick to a workout plan and a diet (stay healthy) Live in my dream home Visit the Louvre See a Burlesque show Get a Siberian Husky Plant my own garden and keep up with it Take a photography class Ride on a train for a long distance Visit Monets home, in Giverny Bike down the Pacific Coast highway Learn how to ride a motorcycle My Bucket List Be a witness to Aurora Borealis Eat a Grand Opulence Sundae at Serendipity in NYGrand Opulence Travel to Alaska (preferably by cruise ship) Swim with a dolphin Learn to speak a language, then visit the country its spoken in, and be sure to use it a lot Ride on a gondola in Italy Hike up the Cascades Learn to play an acoustic guitar Scuba dive off the coast of Australia Go to Las Vegas Win something at an art show Fall in love deep, unconditional, uncontrollable love Get a job I actually enjoy doing

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AN ENDING DREAM, OR JUST beginni ng ?

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Diana Bayless Mrs. McGee AP English 12 1B February 14th, 2011 Paragraph #1 (Page 22) For nearly ten minutes he stood there, motionless, with parted lips and eyes strangely bright. He was dimly conscious that entirely fresh influences were at work within him. Yet they seemed to him to have come really from himself. The few words that Basils friend had said to him-words spoken by chance, no doubt, and with willful paradox in them-had touched some secret chord that had never been touched before, but that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses. Paragraph #2 (Page 127) For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it. He procured from Paris no less than nine large paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colors, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control. The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it. Paragraph #3 (Page 219) A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he had begun it already. He had spared one innocent thing, at any rate. He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good. Wilde develops Dorian Gray throughout these three paragraphs using imagery and artful diction such like, dimly conscious, throbbing to curious pulses, prefiguring type of himself, and tempt innocence. The diction in the first paragraph is clean, like Wilde is wiping down Dorians slate, and starting him off new, to experience new things, and open up to the world that Lord Henry had laid out for him. The diction in the second and third paragraph is following the obsession of that world that Dorian had thrown himself into, and ultimately the one that he is trying to undo and get himself out of as well. Imagery in the paragraphs is used to depict the situation, for instance, the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control. This is like watching a train wreck happen. The reader slowly starts to see Dorian unravel at the seam, Wilde begins to tear apart the main character with his own Hedonistic obsession. By the third paragraph, the reader sees a cry of desperation and for sympathy from Dorian. He would be good, he tells himself. Dorian makes promises as to hope that they will give him a second chance for falling into deception and sin for so many years, and the diction portrayed makes Dorian look innocent again, like his current appearance.

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