Psych

In English class we watch Psych's first episode: Pilot. There we got to look for more elements of a mystery.

Crime: There was a fake kidnapping (they didn't know that until later) and a real murder.

Detectives: Sean and Gus.

Villain: Mr. McCallum

Victim: Mr. McCallum's son

Suspect: Mr. McCallum and the relative (son's accomplice for fake kidnapping)

Alibi: Mr. McCallum saying that his cut came from him trying to commit suicide because he missed his son so much and was sad when he went missing.

Witness: Son's dog.

Evidence: The bodies of the son and relative, the blood and piece of hair on the corner of the table, gun in the relatives hand, coffee mug on the floor, the bag where the ransom money was placed.

Clues: Dog's whiskers covered in blood, Mr. McCallum's sliced wrist, Medication recently prescripted for dog bites.

Red Herring: Katarina holding the same looking bag where the ransom money was placed filled with clothes for the thrift shop.

Suspense: When Sean explained everything to Mr. McCallum.

Surprise Ending: Mr. McCallum was the killer of his own son and relative.

Elements of a mystery. :)

Every mystery has a crime and the crime could be anything. Except the crime usually has a motive. So this picture shows that a crime has happened and that is why they put the tape to prevent people from going there.

Every crime also has an investigator or detective who solves the crime so this picture shows a detective with his magnifying glass ready to solve a crime.

ALL mysteries have villains or as some people call them bad guys. They are always there to start up the crime and do something wrong. Something illegal of course. That's why I picked this picture because he looks like a classic villain.

Every crime has evidence and in the case of this crime the evidence is a knife. The knife is a classic murder weapon because many murders include stabbing with some sort of knife.

Every mystery also has clues. Clues are the things that lead the investigator closer towards figuring out the crime. Sometimes the clues bring suspense to the audience for example the picture of footprints on the floor and they're marked there with blood.

Every crime always has a red herring. A red herring is something that throws an investigator the wrong way or further from solving the crime.

Monk !! :]

In english class we are doing an elements of a mystery unit so we watched MONK. We got the chance to see the elements of a mystery and the mystery was MONK and the voodoo curse.

It was interesting because there was only one crime even though three died and they suspected the owner of the voodoo shop was the murderer. There were also alibis but one of the alibis was a little bit hidden because no one really paid attention to it. Although the REAL victim of this crime was a man who was the uncle of a paramedic who works with a cellphone company. Anyway there was also a red herring in this mystery which were the two other victims (this is where the confusion clears up). The two other victims were an old woman named Martha (who was the first to die) and this other man (second to die) another red herring was that the killer made a voodoo doll for monks assistant/secretary to try and get monk distracted because he cared about her so much (her name was Natalie). There were many clues for example: when monk was at the uncles house he started looking around and realized that they had an upside down horseshoe above their door (upside down: all the luck falls out). All the clues led to the killer (of course) with the evidence which were the voodoo dolls. The old woman and the man were killed just by accident and the paramedic (ding!) was always there at every crime to try and revive each victim (do you get it ? The paramedic: the uncles niece, connection).

Near the end there was a car chase and monk suddenly put all of the pieces together and figured out the crime. The two murders before the uncle were just accidents and Angeline (the niece) sent an empty box to herself earlier and just waited until there was the right accident then she'd paste a new name on the box, decorate a voodoo doll, put it in the box, break into the person's house and placed it there making it look like it was sent 3 days or a week earlier because of the post mark. Then she murdered her uncle to get his money. She pretended he had a heart attack when all along she used an invisible drug to kill him and put lucky charms all over his house to make him look superstitious then when monk arrived she told him that she was upstairs and all of a sudden heard him scream and ran down to find him dead from a heart attack (the alibi that was a little hidden).

So in the end that was all cleared and we learned the elements of a mystery:

• Crime : murder of the uncle
• Problem solver/Investigator : Monk
• Villain/Bad guy/girl : Angeline (niece of uncle)
• Alibis : Angeline saying she was upstairs
• Suspects : Shop owner (but before the movie ended they prove he's innocent)
• Red Herring : other people that were murdered
• Evidence : voodoo dolls
• Clues : Angeline was at every crime scene (because she was a paramedic)
• Steps/Procedures : Monk arrives at the crime then the police and him investigate
• Surprise Ending : It was Angeline all along.

Plastiki ! :)

The plastiki is a very high tech boat that is made of 1200 gas filled recycled plastic bottles. It's a boat that is supposed to bring consciousness back to people so they can realize that they should start beating waste instead of live with it. The mission of this boat and its crew is to sail across the pacific from San Francisco until Sydney. Quoting the leader of this expedition David de Rothschild "We always wanted to create something that wasn't going to be just some sort of stunt. It wasn't just going to be a bag of bottles strapped together that we would be sitting on hoping that we would make it to the other side of the pacific." This is a boat made to show the obvious that waste is just living around us and we're not doing anything about it. The crew used solar power, fans and bicycles for an extra push on this boat and they hoped that maybe they would learn something from it after they got on shore. This boat also shows that the amount of electricity we use in our everyday lives and how much we need to reduce it. The plastiki technically shows us that we need to be me more eco-friendly because we're sending so much waste to the ocean and we're always wasting so much electricity when it's not needed. We need to reach deeper into ourselves and feel the same way the crew of the plastiki does. They're trying to make a point and the sooner we get it the better.

Vocab List 10 (Picture Definitions)

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Tactics -

Fixated -

Indignantly -

Stagnant-

Admission-

Blatant-

Specific-

Vocab List 7

1. Mildew

When you leave something wet behind in a cool place then finding it a week later when it smells bad and has dark spots in places where it was dark.

2. Out of the Blue

Thoughts that pop up from nowhere that have nothing to do with the subject.

3. Hesitantly

When you can't say something right. Ex. When you have to answer a question and you're stuttering.

4. Hatch (verb way)

When there is an egg that starts cracking and a baby chick comes out.

5. Orientation

When you are looking at things you know or you don't know. If you don't know you figure it out by attending an ORIENTATION where people show you where you are (what building etc.).

6. Chateau

A big beautiful home.

7. Thunderous

When somethings noise is very loud or booming.

8. Contradiction

A statement or sentence that starts an argument.

9. Fault

When you do something wrong. Ex. Fault in tennis.

10. Preserve

When you keep something in its original condition. Untouched, same color etc.

Journal Entry 2/2/10

Hey heyyy! :)

Subjects for the day: P.E., baking cookies and if I run out really quickly out of the blue thoughts.

P.E.:
Today P.E. was fun but tiring (as ALWAYSSS). Anyway there isn't a whole paragraph about P.E. this time so yippee for othersss. :P

Baking COOKIESSS. :D:
On sunday I baked cookies. The first batch were sooooooooo YUMMYYYY!!! Although the second batch weren't that great. You see the first batch were soft and moist, but the second batch was so HARD. So I decided that soft batch wins. In short 10 minute baked cookies are better than 12 minute baked. :P

Out of the blue THOUGHTS. :):
Well now it's out of the blue thoughts time. I just wanna clarify that this time I won't be as random. That's why I call it out of the blue THOUGHTS with a capital THOUGHTS. :D

1. I only have ummm around 5 minutes of thoughts to write.
2. Today in math/science class we were having lots of trouble reading our teachers cursive (cause she's gone and we have a sub so the sub put what she wrote on paper up on the projector and it was really hard to read. I guess she rushed it.)
3. All I hear now is fingers tapping on keyboards and kids talking loudly outside.
4. I guess the other class was sent early which always happens.
5. Unless it's just 8th graders.
6. I don't know why I put those things that are the same subject in different numbers.
7. About 2 more minutes of thoughts.
8. Our English sub is just staring at the clock waiting until it is exactly 1:55
9. I'm thinking of publishing now
10. Never mind. I'll publish when I must.
11. The clock keeps going tick tock tick tock.
12. In science class we're gonna have to copy more.
13. I know you think what? you had science. WRONG. Split block. so technically rightish.
14. I have to go!

BYEEE. :D