KSI English Student Work

 Simon Barreto: Juana Carreño Maria Camila Chaparro Camilo Duarte: Nicolas Duarte: Sofia Herrera: Beatriz Viegas Martin Trujillo

 By Daniel Santiago - September 2024   Image: Goodreads  Before I start, If you like Greek Mythology with some humoristic twist, Stickman Odyssey: Book Two: The Wrath of Zozimos by Christopher Ford is a book that will take your attention and might be liked. While i was reading it i found that it has a lot of humour that is in every page you turn, is like a mix of mythology and slapstick cartoon comedy, that talks about the adventures of Zozimos, the incredible unfortunate hero.  Know before i got more into it, I expect that the hero journey was a book for all type of people, adventure and fights, but i didn't expect that Ford uses humour on this book, not just to be funny also to joke about dramatic or important moments of the original odyssey, and the absurdity of the gods to Zozimos. This book is read as a constant series of humour of inside jokes about the chaos of ancient Greek stories.  What makes this parody so effective, is the constant exaggeration and i...

 By Mariana Uribe, 10/04/2024 When I heard about this book, I decided to read it since I had read the tempest, a play from the same author, before, even though I had expectations, such as a love story, a happy ending, shakespearean accent which I don’t understand and loads of comedy that I saw in the tempest that I thought would be there. After all, both books were written by the same author (William Shakespeare) and the tempest had a happy ending with a reconciliation between the protagonists, even if the book had comedy or tragedy, when I was about to read it, I asked myself: Can it be a happy and romantic love story like stereotypical romantic books have?  Before I had read the book, in drama, when practising a comedy play, a classmate and I were supposed to be the main couple and the teacher said: You guys should be like Romeo and Juliet, just without killing yourselves. At that moment I thought, is it a tragedy then? Does it have a sad ending like loads of k-dramas? Will ...

 Luciana Romay -  27/09/2024 When I was reading the Nancy Drew book I was waiting to find more horror in the short stories inside it. I ask myself, “that's the scary thing?” But at the end the only thing I found was an attempt at something scary.  The moment I chose to read the book I was excited because it is a classic book that so many people have read. When I started reading I found interest that inside, there are four short stories that are completely different between them in factors like; location and setting, but the only thing that they have in common is the ghosts.  The first short story is about Nancy, the protagonist going to Japan with Bess, George and her dad, a lawyer that is solving a fight between manga artists Matsumoto and Kenji about the rights of “Ghost Warriors” a manga. But something weird happens by the appearance of ghosts that look the same as the characters of the warriors, that makes Nancy get involved by investigating the mystery and solvi...

 Mariana Bustillo It was a warm dark night, the chimney was on, adding warmth to the hot weather surrounding the house. This house was meaningful because it’s the house where I spent my childhood Christmases, with my grandparents, mom, dad, aunts and cousins. My six-year-old cousin, was playing “Turkish March” by Morzart in piano, he was a prodigy for it, he was the best pianist of his class who often performed on the streets, earning applauses, compliments and money. This house surrounds me in a wave of nostalgia everytime I’m here, as if there was someone throwing a bucket of cold water into my whole body everytime I look at this house, but instead of cold water, nostalgia.  The room was filled with the scent of pine and lavender, with the subtle smell of hot chocolate in all the room coming from the kitchen. I felt my world so calm in that moment, my heart was at peace, and my mind in blank. It was one of those moments where you know they’re never coming back, moments that ...

 Sebastian Reyes, Y11 Before i started reading the book i saw in various videos how politicians during the first world war called this conflict “the war to end all wars”.However, 21 years after the end of world war 1, world war 2 began and by reading this book i learned that world war 2 was almost 5 times as deadly as the first world war Just before I started reading the books, its title, the story of the second world war and its front page showing a German bombardment of what appears to be London caught my attention. I had some vague expectations of what the book would show me. like for example: how world war 2 started, every major event of the war, how and why Germany lost the war, important battles like Stalingrad and Kursk and a book which would emphasize the importance of the USA and UK in the war. something that i really don't like since countries like the USSR sacrificed and lost much more to defeat the germans. But, I still understanded since the book was written by a B...

 Miguel Angel Romero  All of us are born with one single life, we need to take advantage of it and take care of what we do, but not all of us are born with this curse, there is one animal on this planet that is blessed with 7 lifes, the cat. Cats are well-known for their cunning instinct and their multiple lifes that they have had since they were born, also they enjoy the fish a lot and during their living they learn from the mistakes they make during their whole life and most of the times one mistake means one breath that death would take away from him.  Nick is a black cat that lives in the coastline about 20 km from the sea, all the mondays he used to go besides a fish store and take a truck to the ocean for getting food for the whole week, but one day as he used to make, he wake up and run to the store for getting his transport but when he arrive there, the truck wasn’t there, so he wait and wait until he fell asleep in the middle of the road, causing a car to run ove...

 by Beatriz Viegas Life is a game Life is not real. I used to be just a normal teenager until I found out that my life was a complete lie.  One random night I woke up really scared thanks to my traumatising alarm clock, then I just took a shower, brushed my teeth and ate something because I couldn't sleep again. I was having a really weird sensation of deja vu, like I already had lived that moment before and like I was following a script I hadn't written. Right after, I decided to get ready and go to school. Everything was normal. I was simply talking with my friends when one of them out of the blue started glitching like he was a character in a poorly programmed video game and with a blink of my eyes, suddenly everything was normal again like this never happened. Was I losing my mind? Was I the only one who saw that happening?  When I got home, I spent hours trying to nd answers to this. I went for a walk to notice more glitches and weird things along the day. Conversati...

 by Mariana Bohorquez by Isabella Garcia by Santiago Muñoz by Juan Pablo Zea

 Santiago Rocha “The boy in the Striped Pajamas” is a book written by John Boyne in 2006, it is a book filled with emotion and horrors of the Holocaust, it is a book full of emotions and it is all viewed from the perception of a young boy called Bruno, Bruno is the son of a Nazi coronel. This book explores the deep impact of the story and its ability to remind us of the ability of humans to feel compassion and friendship even in the darkest times. The story focuses on a kid named Bruno who is a young German boy whose dad is a high-ranking Nazi officer. Bruno's family is relocates to Auschwitz where his father is promoted to a camp commandant, Bruno find himself being lonely and isonaled, But one day he sees what he believes to be a farm, some days later he goes to the supposed farm and he finds himself a boy named Shmuel a kid with similar age to him the only thing differentiating them from each other was a set of striped pijamas tha Shmuel used and barbed wire fence that separated...

 Kiko Sato, Y11 This book would be the first all-English book I picked up. I still remember buying it as part of my studies because I like mystery novels and it seemed easy enough for me, a beginner in English, to read.  When it was decided that I would go to an international school in Colombia, I went to a Japanese bookstore to buy textbooks to improve my English for preparation for my first international school. In fact, I had no intention of buying this book at all at the bookstore until my mother showed me this book and I opened it. I was not sure if I would be able to read the book, because for me it was as difficult as solving a Japanese maths problem to keep reading a book written with words and phrases I did not understand. In the end, I decided to buy the book since I knew it was perfect for English language learners, but I still had concerns about whether I could keep reading it.  This book contains 3 short stories from the story of Sherlock Holmes such as The R...

 By Pablo Gutiérrez, Y11 When thinking about Venom, one of the main antagonists in the Spider-Man stories, we mostly imagine the character of Eddie Brock and the Symbiote, the two components that form the Venom character, having a strong friendship with similar motivations. But, in this comic book the relation between these two characters has been changed to give it a more original touch to it.  When opening a Spider-Man Comic book the only thing to expect is a satisfying amount of action and an interesting conflict between characters. However, it also has to be intriguing and original but well, we know a lot of stories of Spider-Man and doing something new is difficult knowing the infinite quantity of comics that he has and regardless of that, surely this book satisfied my need for original stories. With help of its dark ambient, spectacular artstyle and new characterizations it gives it a new curious feeling.  This new story has us in a time where Spider-Man is already ...

 Maria Camila Chaparro, Y11 Fallout in our Stars is a book that opens your eyes to what the life of a person with one of the worst diseases someone could have, cancer, is really like. It is a very realistic book with several events in Hazel's life that make us doubt if it is really worth living a limited life, being afraid to do or say things or if it is better to live life to the fullest having several anecdotes to tell. I really liked this book because it taught me that you shouldn't be afraid when doing things because later you can regret it and be left wondering what would have happened or because you never know when your last day of life will be.  In the book, Hazel is a girl of 16 years old that's fighting with cancer, so her mom decides to take her into a support group where one of her friends called Patrick, who was the leader of this group and also Isaac, was someone that she got to know there. Over there she got to know a lot of people with cancer, ones that were ...

 by Mariana Bustillos, Y11 Have you ever thought about how differently and close you would be to approaching your goals if you treated every moment as a five-second countdown to action?  Before I opened the virtual library, I was looking for a book that is motivational and interesting at the same time, not a book that contains a really long intro and a slow plot that takes so much to develop a story. Then, in my book research I found The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins. I must say that the gold colour letters in the cover captured my attention. The genre was motivational. I thought it was also capturing the way it says the number “5” as the title, because it gives an idea that in five seconds maybe you can make up different things or something different will happen to you in a matter of five seconds. When I first started reading the book, I always checked how long it was, it wasn't that long. However, I didn’t read and advance as much as I should have done to finish the book sadl...

 Y12 created advertisements for the choice books they read: Juan Jose Castillo Juan Pablo Molina Maria Jose Vargas Isabella Wiver Hyogeun Jeong Laura Gomez

  Amazon Organization takes credit for the blowing up of the credit card buildings, as part of their ‘‘project mayhem’’.   Richard Chesler           March 17th, 1999 In a stunning act of rebellion against the financial system, a multinational secret organization named ‘‘Fight Club’’ has claimed responsibility for the destruction of various credit card buildings all across the country. Tyler Durden, who is the leader of this organization, has stated in a tv interview that this was an act part of their ‘‘Project Mayhem’’, and that it was just the start of an anarchical revolution. ‘‘We are the middle children of history,’’ Durden stated in the interview, ‘‘We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that f...

  Amazon After confrontation with Prince Henry, the First Son of the United States ruins Crown Prince Philip’s wedding cake.  Isabella Portilla October 30th, 2019  The First Son of the United States, known as heartbreaker Alex Claremont-Diaz, has once again made the headlines alongside his royal counterpart, Prince Henry, after they were spotted fighting at the royal wedding this past weekend, causing the royal wedding cake to fall off the table.  Prince Henry, second heir to the throne, says, “My brother Philip and his wife laughed about the situation! Of course it was misfortunate, but it was a friendly misunderstanding. Alex and I are very close friends, although we did get carried away.”  However, and despite the royal family’s attempts to alleviate the situation, an anonymous guest of the wedding hints at something different, as they retell, “It wasn’t a friendly encounter. From what I saw, Alex was mad! I wouldn’t dare to speculate, but their encounter hap...

  Goodreads A girl tries to solve a murder from years ago for her EPQ.   Sara Manrique            March 16th, 2023 Pippa Fitz-Amobi is a student who lives in Little Kilton, she is working on her EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) in which she decided to choose the subject of a murder that occurred many years ago in order to prove the innocence of the alleged murderer since that she used to know him and according to her he would never dare to do such a thing, so she tries to find every possible piece of evidence in order to prove his innocence. "He would never hurt anyone, he was the noblest and kindest person I knew," says Pippa, referring to Sal Singh, the alleged murderer, which is why the fact that many people spoke ill of Sal bothered her, "jealousy took his girlfriend and him to the grave,” said Max Hastings, one of several of Sal's friends who turned against him the minute they heard the shocking news. But not...

  Y11 students wrote news articles based on choice books they read Wikipedia Salome Florez March 8th, 1934  Unpleased mob caught during attempted lynching by a local attorney and his children.  Attempted lynching by an unpleased local mob was stopped last night by a local attorney and his children. Tom Robinson, was the man identified as the possible victim of the past incident; the event happened around midnight last night at the local jail of Maycomb county, on which Mr. Robinson is temporarily staying whilst his case is still pending to be solved in court.  “Although I refrain from commenting much about the past incident my client had to go through, I do long for the people to know yesterday’s event should be a matter of shame; threatening an innocent man and treating him with such a level of disgrace is not a manner of decent educated men.”  This was a statement given this morning by Mr Atticus, who is the lawyer of yesterday’s event victim. He argues it is ...

  Y11 students wrote news articles based on the choice books they read. Goodreads Why is war so complex? What is the real work of the generals? These and more questions are answered by Sun Tzu. Mariana Bohorquez 5th century BC Sun Tzu, the best general in China, explained to us the Art of War by talking about the techniques and risks of this ancient practice, sharing with us the vital importance the art of war is to the state. He tells us that war is the prime thing in a functional state, “For a country to be successful, it has to be strong in its military body, and to have a strong military we need intelligence, and a general to know how to control his army in the battleground!” He then shared with us the knowledge that a general should have, and how to make it work in the war, “The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one’s deliberations, when seeking to determine the co...