Journal #7

Please post your timed writing on here.

For those who missed the class this morning, the writing prompt was:

Describe (in a narrative form) the most memorable event in your school years (time frame: 10-16years old). Do your best to remember something from long ago, for some, not so long ago.


The Unforgettable Event in My Life

When I studied high school, I dropped off one day to play soccer with my friends. On Monday, I had to go to school. So my father picked me up to school when he went to work at his company in the morning. Actually I didn’t come in my class. Then, I went out side with my friends to play soccer. I really like soccer, so I usually play soccer on my spare time. My friends invited me to enjoy with them. Therefore, I agreed with them. After that, we had to go so far to play because my friends had set up this match before. This match was so excited more than I expected. On that day, our team won on the match. So, I had party and came back my house so late. I known I would come home late, so I called my father. Then, I said “I will come home with my friend”. He knew that, so he didn’t pick me up in the afternoon. However, I didn’t know why my mother came to my school to pick me up in the afternoon. Everything upset when she came to my class. Suddenly, she called me and she said “where are you? Come back home right now.” Actually, I stayed in my friend’s house where so is far from my house. I couldn’t come home at that time. I thought if I came back home, I would also be late. So, I enjoyed the party until one hour later. After that, I came back my house. My parents complained me why I didn’t say that to them before. I didn’t know what I had to do at that time, so I only said sorry with them. I promised with them that I would not do like this again. Finally, this event is unforgettable in my life.

Journal #6

After sending me a second draft of your writing assignment, copy and paste your paragraph unto your journal #6.

Second draft
Name: Tai Huynh (Tyler)
Class: Composition section 2
Date: February, 21 2008
Fire

I am going to talk about fire. I don’t remember exactly the day. Actually, fire happened in Irvine few months ago. In the afternoon, I remember, I went my friend’s house to pick her up to go somewhere. I saw a lot of wind and the weather was not good. On that day, when I was having dinner with my friend at Little Sai Gon, my aunt called me. She said “where are you? The fire is happening in Irvine. Come back our home right now”. I heard that, so I quickly came back my home with my friend. Terrible day, there were many fire events at many places such as Irvine, Malibu, San Diego and others in California. Suddenly, I didn’t know what I would do at that time. First, I quickly came back my house with my friend. Luckily, the fire only happened near my house three miles. I had enough time to do everything. Second, I prepared every thing that was important document or something like that such as my passport, visa, etc. These things were pushed into my car. Then, I came in my house and listened to, watched news about fire on the television in order to move another place when the fire came in my house. There were many people had to move another place because the fire happened at their house. For example, my aunt had to move to my house. Everything was terrible at that time. For example, the traffic jam happened, the trees fell down, the wind grew up more. However, everything became better five hours later. The fire was slow down. Therefore, I didn’t need move. Until midnight, everything was okay at my house area. Then, I picked my friend up to her house at Fullerton. Finally, I came back my house again at 2 am. To sum up, these things which I was unforgettable were happened at near my house.

Journal #5

n class, we examined the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We looked at the different past tenses used in a narrative. We also looked at how to write an effective narrative.

Write your own version of a fairytale story you remember from your childhood. Pay special attention to the use of different past tenses, and the components of a narrative.

Eat fruit give gold

In the old time, there were two people: Nam and Thanh. Nam was Thanh’s older brother. Their parents were not lucky and died soon. Nam was crafty. Opposite, Thanh was so honest. So, Nam despoiled everything from their family and became rich man. Thanh only had a poor house and a fruit tree. One day, a big bird came to Thanh’s house and ate some fruit from fruit tree. After that, a big bird picked Thanh up to the island to get a lot of gold. Nam heard that; he gave all property to Thanh to get fruit tree. Then, he did some thing like Thanh and the big bird also came there to eat fruit. Next, the big bird also picked him up to island to get gold but he was very avaricious. Actually, he got more and more gold so the big bird couldn’t pick him up come back his house. The big bird kicked out him on the pacific. Finally, he died there.

Journal # 4

Write a narrative account of your first arrival to the United States.

My first arrival to the US

I am going to talk about my first arrival to the US. That is a feeling which I am unforgettable in my life. I remember, I really don’t know every thing real in the US. I only know them through movie, watching television or something like this. I never go abroad before so I feel nervous for the first trip to the US. I don’t have any relationship with anybody. That is a problem and my family is worry about that. Actually, when I had only four days to leave my country, at that time, my family found a person who is my father’s friend. So, they would pick me up at the airport. That was funny because I never known them before. At last, I arrived the airport; I tried to find my father’ friend there. This was difficult to find because I never met him before. I had his phone number and I tried to call him by public telephone at the airport. Finally, I also met him, so I was overjoyed at that time. That feeling was so difficult to describe. Then, I would come his home with him. I saw many things on the street when I was coming with him. Everything was new with me. I had the first dinner with his family at his home. I missed my family so much when I had dinner together with his family. After three days, I came to the ALP office to pay tuitions fee there. My English was not good so I had to ask many times and speak carefully but some people could not understand me. That made me a little nervous. Later, everything was okay. To sum up, these were something and some feeling when I went to the US first time.

journal #3

Free journal means you can write about anything you like. You can write about your week so far in your classes for example. Or you may write about a problem you might have encountered trying to get your classes. It is open to anything at all. Just remember to keep it clean...and interesting.

Weekend

I have weekend about two days. I am not going to have special thing. I think I will sleep so late on Saturday because I usually go to bed late every day. I will go some where on Sunday. Such as, I go to Little Sai Gon to find something to eat there because Little Sai Gon is VietNamese town that have a lot of VietNamese food there. Then I will visit my uncle. After that, I am going to come back my house and watch television, listen to music and do my homework. Maybe, I finish my homework and I visit my friends. I want to drink coffee and go some interesting places with my friends. To sum up, I have some things to do in my weekend.

journal #2

Write this journal using the skills you learned this week (writing a proper topic sentence with good supporting sentences).

1. Choose a topic sentence you wrote for homework about your major.

2. Write sentences that support the controlling idea.

(hint: Turn your topic sentence into a question. Develop your answers into proper sentences and they should serve as good support to the topic sentence.)

Name: Tai Huynh (Tyler)

My major is business. I tell about some reason that I choose this major. First, i like business. Some people like engineer, others people like doctor or another that is normal. Everyone can choose one or more major that you like. If they like their major, they can work so hard and enjoy more in this field. Example, when they finish high school and they choose their major follow their advising parents. I think , they will leave this in the furture or they don’t want to enjoy more in this major. So I like busines and I choose this. Second, I can earn much money in this field. I don’t know what everyone think about but I think I can get money when I run my business. That is why I choose business. Everyone can choose many ways to earn money but business is good way to earn much money mor than others. I graduate and get degree in business field, I will get the job and work there to learn experience that is good for me in the furture. Then, I will open own company and run my business by myself. Thirst, business is so interesting field. I can learn more skill that is so interesting such as how can I sell something to customer but they don’t need it, how can I know about customer’s thinking, how can I manage many people in company,etc. many interesting skills that I can learn in business field. finally, these are three reason I choose my major.

journal #1

Describe yourself as a writer. How do you go about writing? What kinds of things do you like to write about? What do you dislike? What is hard for you? Easy?

Name: Tai Huynh (Tyler)

Writing is very important and so difficult in English. There are many steps to go about writing but actually three steps to go there that is to get ideas, organize ideas and find vocabulary or example to show, to support these ideas. First step, that is to get ideas for the topic. This is very important step because the writer has no ideas that they can’t go about writing and they will stop here. Everything always starts from ideas. The writing is good or bad that depend ideas. If they get normal or bad ideas, the writing will be not interesting. So the writer must be careful thinking about their topic to get good ideas. Second step, the writer has to organize these ideas. They have many good ideas but they can not organize these that mean nothing. These ideas will be confusing and reader will not understand these mean what. That is reason when they write about something, they have to make outline before. Third step, the writer must find the vocabulary or example to show, to support these ideas. When they tell something to someone, they have to support that is true or real. This step is so difficult because the writer must know a lot of vocabularies in many fields and they also read many books, magazines or others document to know a lot of things. Finally, these steps are very important to go about writing to become good writing.
So difficult to talk about kinds of things that I like or dislike. Actually, I don’t like writing but I have to write because that is my job in composition class. I remember about my writing at high school that is terrible. I usually get low score so I hate it.
Everything in writing is hard for me. I have poor vocabulary; so difficult for me to get ideas in some field that I really don’t know before or not my study field. One thing is easy for me that write a poor writing.
To sum up, writing is so difficult but this is very important in English. So, I will try more and more to improve my writing. I hope, I will write good writing in the future that is my target in composition class. To get it, I have to read many books, news paper, learn more vocabulary and do many things to know the way to write good writing. Special thing, I have to attend composition class and listen to the teacher in this class.