My favorite store is Vera Wang. This brand was created by Vera Ellen Wang who is an American fashion designer based in New York city. From the store window, you can see the beautiful wedding dresses clearly that are the dream of all the girls when they are young. Though it is the dim light inside, the wedding dresses are looking gorgeous. The delicacy is quietly revealed in every detail.

Yongqing Zhu (Cathy)

My Favorite Store_Kai_02/28/13

                                 Diesel

     Diesel is my favorite brand and when I pass by one of Diesel store where is located in Market Street in downtown of San Francisco. I was attracted by the store windows. If you have been downtown of San Francisco, you would know that it was located at the corner of Market Street and Stockton Street. So it has three windows. There is nothing special on the north of the store but the clothes are put up. As the south of it are the watches and sunglasses. Through that clear and bright window, they exhibited so many different types of watches and sunglasses in a good order. Next to that watches and sunglasses display table, something special which are the helmets are display there. According to the staff who works here told me, that was the cooperation production by Ducati. The most attractive window is the corner of Diesel. It was similar with the other stores, there are some models that showing the typical stlye of Diesel.After what I said, you will pay more attention when you pass by Diesel which is my favorit store.

Homework for Friday

1. Complete the questions on Page 35 (main ideas 4&5 , details) on  handout

2. Do the 'Annotating and highlighting' on Page 36 on handout, and do back to task on Page 32--34
    (Do Not do Page 37)

3. Do 'vocabulary' on Page 38--39 on handout 

4. Write at least one paragraph for 'what do you think' question 1 on Page 36 on handout and post it to blogger.


Have a good day.

(by Chen)

H.W DUE WEDNESDAY

1:  Work on the final draft of your essay.  Make sure that you take it to the writing center and have them make comments on a clean draft (one that hasn't been commented on by anyone else yet). 

2: Read page 127 - 133. 

3:Read the Garage in 133 - 134.



IMPORTANT!! Please Bring All Your Essay's Draft With Your Mate's Comments On Wednesday.



Saud Adi



Peace Be Upon You.. 

President's Day----Jessy

I want to move out of school next semester, so I looked on the Internet and found one that I really like. My friend and I went to the house together, all of us felt this house is very good, it's beautiful and big, and the most important is this is a new house. So we rented this house. I think we'll be very busy in next two weeks, because we should buy some furnitures to decorate our snug house. And the house owner told us as soon as we bought the furniture, we could move in! I think I will buy all things in this week. :)

Homework for Monday

Write feedback for the second essay from today's group (we did one in class). Bring the essay and comments to class for your partner on Monday.

Work on the final draft of your essay. It is due on wednesday. Make sure that you take it to the writing center and have them make comments on a clean draft (one that hasn't been commented on by anyone else yet). 

Read 'The Quilt' and 'Border Culture' on pages 135-141 in your books. Be ready to discuss them in class. 

Have a great weekend and see you next week. 

Prof. Vahle 

           On the president day, I got up at 9:30 and went out with three friends at around 10:30. At the

beginning, we went to the downtown. I needed to buy some running shoes and sport clothes because I

want to exercise everyday ( a beautiful wish). After that, we ate some delicious breads in the ground

floor in westfiled. I never try that store before though I have been to there many times. At the afternoon,

we took the funny and famous San Francisco tramcar to the final stop---the fisher bay. This was my

first time to take them, so I was very excited and happy. We saw many fresh and special things there.

Many people performed in the square. I also saw the animal shaped large breads. In the afternoon, we

have lunch?dinner in the crab house. I wanted to eat in this restaurant for a long time!

On President's Day, we went to the eat Crab House in Fisherman's Wharf. We seated near the window enjoying the delicious food and beautiful sights. That day is pretty well, I dramatically love the sunny weather in San Francisco.

Yongqing Zhu (Cathy)

President's Day

Presidents’ Day ---- Chen Qiu

I did nothing special at the presidents’ day but I finished the art assignment during the holiday, the picture is what I drew. It was really hard for me to draw this picture because I didn't learn any professional skills for it. So I followed the steps which I was taught at course and drew straight lines to separate the different parts in original pictures. I also separated the parts with lines on my drawing paper. I drew structure in every part so it was easier. It took me long time to paint it black, it should be pulled a lot strength at pencil which is very tired. After finished drawing, my wrist was sour but I felt satisfied because I tried my best to do it. I was pond of myself to be patient to finish a drawing which is complicated for me.

President's Day

On the President's day weekend, I've done so much interesting things.  I rented a Chevrolet Camaro but the standard one. I rented the car because I was so bored and wanted to see beautiful views.  I went to so many beautiful places and views around San Francisco.  I liked them, and I wish go again and again.  I enjoyed sitting on a rock up in the cliffs and looking at extremely pure lakes, where you can see wild gazelles, rabbits, eagles and other colorful birds in one place.  I wanted the relaxation, so I got it!!.



By Saud Otaibi

Presidents' Day Weekend_Kai_02/21/2013

     On the Presidents' Day weekend, I did the same thing what I used to be. Presidents' Day was nothing but a day which we could have a good rest or did some homework. Today we had a quiz on Macroeconomics, so I spent a lot of time on preparing the quiz. However, I was not feeling well today. I realized that if I didn't prepare for it, I would hand in a blant paper. Besides that, the Essay 1 draft 2 was the most annoying homework to me, because I was always confused that what should I write in my essay and I was not sure if my essay was a good narrative essay. No matter what confused me, I finished it and got Prosfessor Peter's precious advice on Wednesday. Moreover, I got a bad day on Tuesday, I got a really bad headache and I had to have a rest at home. That was my Presidents' Day. There was a confusing, annoying, painful but normal short vacation.

Kai.

Homework for Friday, Feb. 22

Do a revision of your essay based on the comments I gave you in our conferences today.

Make an appointment to bring your essay to the Writing Center. You must bring it AFTER having done the revisions I mentioned today.

Bring 2 hard copies of your essay to class on Friday. You will need them to share with a classmate.

Reading: In We are America, Read 'Fathers Playing Catch with Sons' on Pages 280-282. Be prepared to discuss.

Blog post: Please write one paragraph about something you did over Presidents' Day Weekend and post a photo (if you took any or find one that relates to what you did).

Homework..

Hi Mates..

Our Next Homework Will Be:

• Post 2 vocabulary words from Foghorn article on the Blog.  Use one post for the class please!! 
• Write a second draft to your essay and email to the professor's Email by Monday night!!  
• Make corrections and revise your essay.
• Meet for conferences On Wednesday. 

Have a great long week-end.  Please Do Something Especial!! 

Saud Otaibi 

Blog sentence corrections

San Miguel. Saud Otaibi

I was recommended by a librarian who works at USF library to read about this book.  The hope and the freedom are the main goals in this novel.  

In a deserted island called name is San Miguel that located in the coast of Southern California, there have been to families, one in the 1880s, and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and find dreams of self reliance and freedom even though face a lot of struggles.  The book is written by T. Coraghessan Boyle. 

Saud Otaibi..

H.W due Feb 15th, 2013

Hi Mates..

Our homework due Friday will be:

1: Do the Blog Errors Sheet.

2: In the Handout:
    - Continue on page 51.
    - Do activity #8 on page 52, 53.
    - Read page 53.
    - Do activity #10 and and read "BRAINGSTORMING" on page 55.
    - Do activity #11 on page 57.
    - Do activity #12 on page 58,59.


REMEMBER!!! You don't really have to do activity #9 on page 54.

Have a nice night.. <3

Saud Otaibi

Novel---Jessy

The novel I'd like to read in this semester is "The Great Gatsby". This book was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's a story about Gatsby's love and life. But this is a story with a sad ending, as you can see the woman in the picture is crying.

I watched this movie last semester, so I want to read this book.This is the picture of the movie "The Great Gatsby". And I've heard that there would be a new version of this film come out in this year by Leonardo Valencia. The following picture is a stage photo from new version "The Great Gatsby".  Do you want to watch it?

Animal Farm -----Chen QIU

  My novel’s name is ‘animal farm’ which written by George Orwell who was born in Bengal. The novel is published in England in 1945. And it was my friend who recommended me to choose this novel and told me it was really creative and it was valuable to watch. And the novel tells about a farm which is managed by animals who live in the farm, and the novel describes the things happened in the farm during the managed time by themselves such as how to distribute the tasks and work efficiently. I think the novel use the animals to make complex situation easy to understand. And this is the comment from The New York Times for Animal Farm: A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times. And the novel is a masterpiece which was admired by many people as well.

Yongqing Zhu (Cathy) / The Lovely Bones

                                                                                                            Yongqing Zhu (Cathy)

The book “The Lovely Bones” was written by Alice Sebold.  It presents a story that a 14-years-old girl Susie Salmon is murdered by her next-door neighbor named Mr. Walker in suburban 1970’s Pennsylvania. Susie is always in the place between Heaven and Earth where she can observe and comment on the lives of her family and friends. Her body is never discovered and her parents suffer an unimaginable pain. The dramatically agony leads to the living of her mother. Her father continuous to probe and maintains contact with the police. From this process, Susie also watches the long list of victims by Walker. In the end, the murder gets punishment by God and her family becomes happy again. Susie also realizes that she should throw away all her past and began her new life.

The novel is told by the fresh and spirited voice of a little girl builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. It presents about the love, memory, joy, heaven and healing.

The Synopsis of Novel_Kai_021213

Seven Years to Sin

    "Seven Years to Sin" had been spent 9 weeks on both New York Times and USA 

Today best seller lists, which is wrote by Sylvia Day.Honestly, what the novel 

told is not my expectation. I just pay more attention about its title and it is 

wrote by a famous author. The purpose of reading a novel is that we can practice 

our reading speed, learn more vocabulary, recognize how to organize an essay or 

study more from reading novel, especially for foreign students.

   

    "Seven Years to Sin" mainly talk about Seven years ago, on the eve of her 

wedding, Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a licentious scene no innocent 

young miss could imagine.She married a stranger and had passions for this love 

game and him who is the stranger. But through 7 years of serene, unremarkable 

marriage, Caulfield’s image  remained burned into her imagination, fueling very 

illicit dreams.

------Kai

Novel Shirley

                 ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' is a 2003 mystery novel by British

 writer Mark Haddon. The hero is Christopher John Francis Boone, a fifteen-year-old boy with an

autistic spectrum condition, lives in Swindon England with his father. He describes him as '' a

mathematician with some behavioral difficulties''.  He discovers the body of his neighbor's dog,

Wellington. Then, he decides to investigate the dog's death by himself. However, the investigations are

tough because of Christopher's fears and difficulties facing the world around him. He writes down the

whole adventure process in a book: ''a murder mystery novel.'' During his investigation, Christopher

meets many persons who live on the same street but never notice before. Finally, he knows that the

 murderer is his father and know another mystery about his mother. He goes to London on his own to

 find his mother according to her the address on his mother's letter after a short fighting with his father.

 In the end, Christopher found his mother and lives with her. His father want to rebuild trust with him

but Christopher can't forgive him.  The book ends with Christopher optimistic about his future.

Homework 2.11.2013

1, Post a synopsis of your novel on the blog.
2, The handout page 169 & page 170
3, Read text book page 124 "Rules of the Game". And page 122,123 " To be Thankful".Ready to discuss.
Kai

Homework T^T

Hey everybody,

our homework due Monday Feb 11

1) Write a summary of <Mother> (on page 108) on journal

2) Continue on handout, and finish it.

3) Read newspaper and be ready to discuss

4) Thinking about a topic of the essay we'll write next week

5) Bring your novel next class

Have a nice weekend :)

Jessy

HW 2. 4

Our homework :

1) review what we learned and prepare to have a quiz next class.
    including:

• vocab 20 words from the blog post on 'The Good Daughter'. (please note, if not everyone posts the two words you had as homework, I will randomly choose the remainder of vocabulary from other blog posts)
• blog details about your classmates. Make sure you read about and know your group. 
• information from class discussions and the board (all board work) 
• general information from the readings. 

2) read the book p33-51, do not do the tasks in the book but be prepared to do them in class on Wednesday.

Room Change!!!

Hi Everyone,

please note that effective today, February 4th, our class will meet in room 346A in Lone Mountain. I had requested a room with a whiteboard and so now the switch has been made. I'm sorry for the inconvenience and I look forward to seeing you in our new space.

Peter

Introduction_Kai

Hello everyone, I am Kai. I came from Beijing, China.I have been the US and studied in the university of San Francisco for 1 year. I am still a freshman but already fimilar with here more than other freshman I think.Finance is my major, however I didn't register much courses about what I majored.You can easily find that I was crazy about playing basketball, but KOBE is not the player who I admire, Michael Jordan is my favorite. As for the uniform that I wore, that was the gife my friend gave me.The picture I showed is taken around 4 years ago.Those two guys are my best friends. According to what I said, I was crazy about playing basketball. Now, I spend more time on playing vedio games and watching movies.Those are the activities that I love to do during the weekends.

Vocabulary_Kai

1, incentive: (N)
Definition: Something that encourages you to act in a particular way.
Related word forms: incentivized (V)  

2, psychological: (ADJ)
Definition: Relating to the human mind and feelings.
Related word forms: psychologically (ADV)

3,applicable(ADJ)
Definition: affecting or relating to a person or situation.
Related word forms: apply (V)

4, hierarchy: (N)
Definition: a system or organization in which people or things are arranged according to their importance.
Related word forms: hierarchical (ADJ)

5,pension: (N)
Definition: money that is paid regularly by the government or a private company to a person who has stopped working because they are old or ill.
Related word forms: pensioner (N)

6,recognition: (N)          
Definition: -when you accept that something is true or real.(accpet)
            -when someone is publicly thanked for something  good that they have done.(honour)
Related word forms: recognize (V)

7,rotation: (N)
Definition: - to turn in a circular direction, or to make something turn in a circular direction. (turn)
            - to change from one person or thing to another in regular order.(change)
Related word forms: rotate (V)

8, corporation: (N)
Definition: a large company or group of companies.
Related word forms: corporate (ADJ)

Homework for Monday 02/04/2013

Hello Guys !
This is the homework list for Monday

1- Start looking and choose a NOVEL from your own choice

2- From the SF Foghorn Newspaper : Read 3 Articles and find one article that you do not agree with, explain why do you disagree in your journal . ( OPINION PAGE is suggested )

3- Read about the Writing Process from Page 28 - 33 and prepare to discuss about what you read in class

4- Finally we have a QUIZ next week on Wednesday ! ( Check the blog next week for more information )


Good luck everyone and have a great weekend !!

Ghassan,,

The vocabulary of the good daughter

1. obeisance: respect for sb/sth or willingness to obey sb.

2. ransack: to make a place untidy, causing damage, because you are looking for sth 

(by Chen Qiu)


1. Flippant : Lacking proper respect or seriousness

2. Squinted : of an eye : looking or tending to look obliquely or askance (as with envy or disdain) /of the eyes : not having the visual axes parallel

(by Ghassan Khalid)

1. abyss: a very deep wide space or hole that seems to have no bottom

2. devastaste: to completely destroy a place or an area

( Jessy)


1. Mirthless: not showing real enjoyment or happiness

2. to pale in comparison: to seem much less serious or important when compared with someone or something else.

(Kai)

1. clear-cut (adj)= easy to understand or be certain about.

2. to reap (v)= to get someting as a result of what you've done

( By Mohammed Bakhsh )

1.Disintegrating: adjective of disintegrate, break up into small parts

2. to straddle      : sit or stand with one leg on either side of

(by Shirley)

1. a washout: an event that is spoiled by constant or heavy rain

2. a paradox: a statement or proposition that, despite sounds reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion

( by Cathy)

1: squinted: to look at something with your eyes partly closed in order to see better:

Anna squinted in the sudden bright sunlight.

 
2: to catch someone off guard:  to surprise someone.

Saud

Vocabulary Words..

Saud Adi 

02, 01, 2013 

1: to emphasize:  

to say something in a strong way.

2: to summon:

to order someone to come t a place.

3: modification.

a small change made in something such as a design, place or system. 

4: spare.

a ball shape.

5: inadequacy:

a feeling that you are not as good, skilled as other people.

6:flick:

a short quick sudden movements or hit with part of your body.

7: executive:

a maneger in an organization or company who helps and make important decision.

8: Demonstrate:

to show or prove something clearly.