to The Principal

12 Eli Cohen Street

Holon 23158

11 March 2014

Mr. Adar Arad,

The Principal

Kugel High School

Motta Gur Street

Holon 34256

Dear Sir,

I am a student at your school .I have heard that you have decided that students who disrupt the lesson should be automatically expelled from school after the second warning. I personally don’t agree with your decision for some reasons.

First, I think that this punishment is too severe. Even good students may disrupt lessons from time to time because it is difficult to study such long hours. Teenagers can't not talk all day long because it isn’t natural for them in this age the teenagers like to talk and sure gossip

Second, I think that two warnings aren’t enough and that the punishment of expelling a student just ,for disrupting a lesson is exaggerated. After all, if there isn’t any violence involved in the disruption this punishment isn’t appropriate.

In addition, I have some suggestions about the subject .I think that you should take the students who disrupt the lessons and explain to them that their behavior isn’t acceptable and that they harm themselves the most. I also think that the best punishment for them is to change positions with the teachers for one day. Then they will probably understand how difficult a teacher's job is.

I hope that you will consider my suggestions and that you will change your decision.  

Sincerely yours,

May Doron.

Well done!
92
Daphna

Hard Work vs. Talent

Hard Work vs. Talent 

Some people believe that success in life depends on talent and others believe it depends on hard work. In my opinion, talent without hard work is wasted talent. For success in life, hard work is the most important thing.

First, I think that some people are naturally gifted and talented, while others  work hard to be as good as those individuals. I feel as though with a hard work, you can achieve anything. For example, I am way better at maths than I am at history class, but with hard work, I am able to maintain the same grade in both classes. If you have a talent, it doesn't mean that you don’t have to work hard to be successful. Always there is something that you need to work hard at to succeed in life. Therefore, I believe that hard work can supersede talent.

In addition, if you have got a talent but you don't work hard, it's not possible to get very far. It's much better to rely on hard work than to rely on talent. When a person works hard, he develops his skills and overcomes challenges and difficulties. He learns new skills and implements them to his life. A person, who has talent but doesn't work hard, doesn't realize his talent and the talent is wasted. For example, a Soccer player who doesn't exercise can not succeed.

In conclusion, hard work is the key to success much more than talent and without it, you will not be able to succeed in life. Even though you're blessed with a talent, you must work hard in most cases in order to achieve your goals.  

Very good work.

(93)

Daphna

The day after the end of the play

The day after the end of the play

2^nd January,2014

Dear diary,

Yesterday was the most terrible day in my life. Yesterday, my father shot himself and 
died .It was awful…He did it because he finally realized that he was guilty and that 21 young pilots were killed because of him. Another terrible thing that he finally understood was that his own son Larry committed a(מיותר) suicide because he was ashamed of the terrible things that his father did(gr.-use the past perfect). I also found out about those things just yesterday and I was shocked! All those things are too much for me. I know that my father did something horrible but still, he was my father and I am really sad because of his death. Now I have lost half of my family.

I don’t know how I am going to continue from now on and what I am going to do with my life. On the one hand, I feel that I can't go on, but on the other hand, my mother told me not to take (it all) on myself and(מיותר), to forget all those things and the tragedy that our family had(ww.+gr.). She told me to live and that is what I have to do. I have to continue(ww.-go on with) my life and 

marry Ann .I should raise a family and have children of my own. I should live!!!

Very good.
(94)

Reflection

1. When I read a(ww.-the) play I understand the story through the words of the characters and I can imagine them and their feelings through the given by the 
play(phr.) writer(ww.). At first, it was a bit difficult for me to read the play because it was different from reading other stories, but later I enjoyed it because it was an interesting play with an important message.

2. The character that I found the most interesting was Joe because he completely changed during the play. At first, he was friendly and I thought that he was just a simple man who cared about his family. However, at the end of the play I found out that he was really lying all along and that he was responsible for the death of the 21 pilots. I thought that he was interesting because although he did those terrible things I didn’t really hate him and I even felt a little bit sorry about(ww.-for) him and his family especially when he couldn’t bear the pain and he killed himself. 

3. All those thinking skills helped me understand the play better because when I used those skills I understood many things that weren’t specifically stated and I learned more about the attitudes and the feelings of the characters .Through using inferring I understood in(ww.-at) the beginning of the play that they had  a secret. For exampel(sp.), when the mother say to(ww.+gr.-told) Keller (to) be smart because George is(gr.-was) coming.

Very insightful. I can see that the play really interested you and that you understood its meaning and importance.
Daphna   

Bridging Text And Context: "All My Sons"

Bridging Text And Context: p.117- A

The play "All My Sons" was written by Arthur Miller, an American playwright, whose family lost everything in the Wall Street Crash. Miller usually wrote about personal responsibility and the danger of moral corruption by materialism and greed.

In the play, the main character is Joe Keller, an American businessman, who feared losing his factory during the war. Therefore, he surrendered to his greed for money and sold cracked cylinder heads to the Army, which led to the death of 21 pilots. Keller didn't take responsibility for his actions, he excused his actions by saying that he did it for his family. He was morally corrupt, caused by his greed and the fact he started from nothing.

Keller believes that he is only answerable to his family and his war crimes should be justified because he did it to save his family from ruin. Chris on the other hand, believes in social responsibility, that we must care about society and that we are responsible for the all people of society.

Only at the end of the play Keller understands that he was responsible for the death of his son and of the pilots.

The background information helps us understand the play better and the playwright's connection to the play. In his life, Miller lost everything he has(gr.-had) and in the play Keller feared to lose everything, we realized what this fear can make a person do. In addition, I understand the difference in(ww.-between) Chris's and Joe's attitude towards social responsibility. 

Excellent
(100)
Daphna

Complaint Letter

Complaint Letter

(wo.) 5 Balfour Street  

Tel aviv

51245

April 9, 2013

The Manager

Zara Company

POB 69143

Tel aviv

Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm a permanent(ww.) customer at your shops in Israel, and I noticed that recently the prices of your products have raised by more than 30%. I am truly disappointed by that unreasonable increase in the prices and I want to express my dissatisfaction with your prices.

Buying (high quality) fashionable clothes in high quality(מיותר) and(מיותר) in affordable prices is not an easy task. I love your store very much and I always buys(gr.) clothes from your store because the prices were reasonable. However, after raising the prices by 30% I can't afford to buy anything in your store. I think that even(מיותר) other clients won't be able to buy in your store after this sharp(ww.) increase of prices.

Zara has always been a store with quality clothes that everyone allows(ww.) to buy and the Quality of the products has not changed, so I don't justify the price increase(phr.). In addition, there are many clothing(ww.) returned from previous seasons(phr.) at much higher prices than it was and it's no makes sense to me(phr.).

To sum up, I hope you will do something to improve the prices of items in your store, because I'm sure you'll lose a lot of permanent(ww.) costumers like me, who can't afford 

shopping at your store anymore.

. I look forward to hearing for you

Sincerely,

Bar Doron

(77)

Daphna

Being involved in our community!

Being involved in our community!

There are many problems in our modern society such as, old people that are poor and neglected, handicapped and retarded children and other problems. In my opinion, schools and their pupils should be active and involved in helping their communities in order to solve these problems.

Schools today encourage their pupils to become more active in their community(ies) through different projects, that are usually called "Personal Commitment". These kinds of projects encourage the pupils to volunteer in different areas and they get assessed in their certificates according to their participation and contribution.

 Many pupils, for example, can help old people who have no families. They can help them with their shopping. They can clean and paint their houses .In addition, the students can collect donations in order to help them financially. But the most important thing is to keep them company. It is especially important if those old people are Holocaust survivors.

Many students can also volunteer in schools and other institutions of handicapped, retarded and autistic children. They can organize activities with 

these children in order to make them happy.

 I think that it is very important that students will be involved in their 

communities not just to help others but also in order to improve themselves and become better people by help(ing)  other people. 

Excellent!
(100)
Daphna

post reading

 Post Reading

Two weeks ago, something unpleasant happened to me. I was caught smoking a cigarette by my mother. It was very embarrassing.

A friend of mine, whom I haven't met for a few months because she had moved to a new school in a new neighborhood, came to visit me. We went to my room and started talking. Suddenly, she took out a packet of cigarettes and started to smoke one. I was really surprised and asked her about that. She told me that she had started smoking because of her friends in her new school. She told me that it was fun and persuaded me to try too. At first I refused, but after she continued persuaded, I became curious and decided to try one cigarette. I thought that one cigarette  wouldn’t hurt me. I started smoking and I didn’t like it at all, but I continued because I felt pressure to continue.

 I thought that I had locked the door, but suddenly the door opened .It was my mother .She caught me red- handed. Surprisingly, she didn’t shout at me. Her face just became upset. She said nothing and just left the room and closed the door .I understood that she was disappointed by me and I felt really bad about the whole incident. I felt bad especially because I knew that my mother was really against smoking. I also felt bad because I didn’t really want to smoke and I did it just because of the peer pressure that I felt.

The lesson that I have learnt was that I shouldn’t do things that can harm my health and the relationship with my mother .I also understood that I  shouldn’t do things just because they are popular and I should always act according to my common 
sense.

Excellent work!
(95)
Daphna