Lesson 5: Encyclopedia of Me
Today you are going to create an Encyclopedia of Me. Write at least 1 entry for each letter of
the alphabet, retelling something special about your life.
Let’s look at an example from Amy Rosenthal’s Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life:
Here’s another example:
https://jsteltz.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/encyclopediaofanordinarylifeshsstyle/
I’m going to write an entry and then it’ll be your turn to write in class today.
Mrs. Elshoff’s entry example:
Now it’s your turn! Your objective is to choose significant (important) life experiences and
write with wellchosen words and sensory details. Optional: add in your own drawings or
pictures, like Amy Rosenthal did in her book.
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d. Use precise words
and phrases, telling Student expertly Student uses Student uses Student uses
details, and sensory uses precise precise words imprecise words vague words and
language to convey a words and and phrases, and phrases, phrases, lacking
vivid picture of the phrases, sensory sensory sensory in detail. Life
experiences, events, language, and language, and language, or experiences are
setting, and/or details to convey details to convey details. Reader not conveyed
characters. a vivid picture of a picture of life has difficulty clearly at all.
life experiences. experiences. imagining the life
experiences.
Appreciate
I think appreciating is one of the most important thing for which human needs in their life.
Lots of people in these days doesn’t know how to appreciate to stuffs that they have. For
example when I heard some kids complaining about their allowance. When I heard that I was
like “ My parents doesn’t even gave me.” I try to appreciate to everything, it doesn’t matter if
it’s something really precious or normal so we doesn’t even realize it’s something we really
need for our life.
Block B
I love celebrities. My dad always complains with it, but I can’t help with it. I don’t care if it’s
actor, model, or singer. Reason why I like them is, they always try hard for their dreams, and
they looks fancy and gorgeous. My mouth gets open widely when I saw them. Block B is my
favorite one right now.
Cook
My mom and dad is really really good at cooking. My family love my moms food, but
sometimes she create new foods. It’s good sometimes, but it’s really bad sometimes. I don’t
want to hurt my mom’s feeling, so I usually say it’s good, but my brother always tell her how
good it is and how bad it is. Sometimes he try not to say it’s bad, but he can’t hide his
disappointment and futility in his face. It’s kind of funny to wait and see what he’s face is going
to be.
Dogs
My family love animals. Especially dogs. We had 7 dogs at once before, and it was
awesome. My dogs love to run and hide, so want time one of my dog was like 5 month years
old, and she was gone for like 2 days. All of my family was anxious, in panic, and running
around like a crazy people looking for her whole day long, and we found her under the deck.
When we found her, we were are relieved that she was safe, but we got really mad that how
much she made us worried. My mom is kind of scared to dogs, but my dad keep bring dogs to
house. Me and my brother think it’s crazy but we love it when he brought new dogs without
my mom’s permission. But, My mom is the one who usually takes care of the dogs, because
my dad goes to work, Brother is at dorm, and I come home late.
English
English is my secondary language. It’s hard to learn a new language that I didn’t know. But
learning several languages will be good for my future, so I’m try to learn other languages.
Facebook
I can’t live without a facebook. I’m on a facebook usually half of the day. I can contact with
my friends, see variable pictures and videos. My friends always say that “ Shannon is on
facebook 39/7 on day.” That doesn’t make any sense but I agree with them.
Global
I always heard from adults “ You have to be global”, and I agree with them. Korea is a good
country, but the world is big, and Korea is small. It would be awesome to go to the other
country and learn other cultures and languages.
Home
Home is my favorite place in my whole entire life. When I feel really tired or having a hard
time, I just want to go home, take a shower, and take a rest. I feel peace, relax I always say “I
wanna go home”, even though I’m at home right now.
I
I. Me. Myself. I always try to think who I am, but it is hard to find the clue to figure out who I
am. I think there is no clue of who I am.
Jeremy
Jeremy is my 3 years older brother. We fight every time when we see each other. At the
airport the day that I was leaving to America, all of my family was crying but my brother was
smiling really happily, and waving his hand and shouting “ Bye!!!!”
Kis
This is my first year at KIS, Korean International School. They give to many works and I have
stuffs that I still don’t understand. There are too many confusions and misunderstandings.
LOL
I always love to laugh. I laugh really big and loud. But the sad thing is that it’s hard to laugh
now. To many works and to many things to think about. Getting older and growing up, my
worries are growing either.
Money
I’m sure that everyone does it, but I love money ( not like greedy). I usually save money for
quite long, and use almost half of them at once. There is a tradition in Korea, that they put
several stuff such as mike, money, pencil, stethoscope at their first birthday party, and let the
baby pick one, and I pick the money.
Notre dame de Paris
Notre dame de Paris is one of my favorite book and a musical. My dad loves movies, music,
and musical, so he knows lots of good movies, music, and musicals. I saw the film of this
musical when I was really young, and it was really impressed, even though the language was
french so I can’t understand what they were saying, the acting and the songs were fabulous.
October
October is one of my favorite month in a year. I like the weather during october. It’ not that
hot, or not that cold. It’s little bit windy and the color of the scenery is so beautiful.
Pink
Pink is my favorite color. I usually like all the colors especially pastel colors, but the pink is
my favorite color.
Question
Having questions are good. Too many questions may bother you or someone, but I think
question is kind of showing attitude that you are paying attention or showing that you want to
learn something.
Respect
My grandma always teach me to respect the adults and have manners. I know that everyone
must have manners and respect others, but in Korea, being respectful to adults is really
important. It was hard to respect and polite to adults, and can’t understand why do I have to
do this when I was younger, but I realized that, that was the way to be loved from them.
Siyeon
This is my real name, and My English name is Shannon. My family and friends also call me
Sean sometimes. It’s usually for boys, but if you pronounce Siyeon really fast, you can hear
Siyeon as a Sean. I feel special when they call me with Sean, so only my family and the best
friends call me Sean. All of my names starts with S.
Time
My dad always said “wasting time is the foolest thing ever”. I try to use my time wisely, but
it’s hard to do. I’m just a 16 years old girl, and my dad expect me to read books or do
something precious instead of sleeping at weekend.
Umbrella
Rihanna is one of my favorite singer. She has lots of good songs, and Umbrella was the first
song that I listen to her music. I still like RIhanna’s songs.
Volcano
It’s hard for me to calm myself. But if I get organized, my passion explode like an eruption of
a volcano.
World
One of my dream is to travel all around the world. After I graduate the high school, and get
the permission from the college, I’m going to defer the admission for a while . I’m going to do
parttime job to earn money for the trip. I think the time that I travel will make me think about
my future and make me firm.
X
X can be an alphabet, but it can also be unknown quantity. My dad was a highschool teacher, and
he is a SAT teacher now. He loves math the most, but I hate the math the most. I couldn’t understand
why does he like it, so I asked him one time, and he said there is a successfulness and there are lots of
ways to get the answer and all of the ways are fun. I made really dumb face like telling him WHAT THE
HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! My brain gets mass up when I saw the numbers. Also I hate the
expectations from the people because my dad is smart, so I’m would be really smart.
Youtube
Youtube is a video sharing website. When I have time I like to watch movies, TV shows, and
listen to musics, and youtube have most of the videos. I usually watch TV shows and listen to
music with youtube.
Zoo
I always wanted to have a zoo, since I was like 7. Having zoo is one of my dream for the
future. Imagine that you are living in the zoo. When you wake up, there are giraffe eating a
leaves on a tree right inside your backyard, tigers and lions chasing each other. Don’t you
think it’s cool?