Monday, December 22, 2008

"To kill a mocking bird"


The author reveals the theme by showing you what the character learns at the end of the chapter or paragraph.
I think some characters will learn how to be respectful, also how to behave in a adult and mature way.

the lesson i think harper lee wants us to learn at the end of the book is that we are gonna be more respectful.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Test Prep Action Plan

My goals for test prep is to learn new things from any passage also to improve on my reading. I think that by the way i can meet my goal is to go every day to advisory because there we learn test prep or sometimes read. Some of the 8Th grade ELA exam has for shadowing questions and some authors purpose. I think that by the way i can improve in questions/passages/or Test Books are by reading any passage again and again until i understand it.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

"To my parents"

Dear Mom and Dad,
One of the biggest accomplishments is making doing the Ning project. I'm also reading this book called "To kill a mocking bird" which is a great accomplishment for me because i learn new words and Defenitions of t every time i read with the class. My favorite unit so far is the ning project one because it is kinda like Myspace but just that you are a character from the book me and the class is reading. Some of the work I've made to this project is making my homepage on Ning also writing on other character wall .

Using Technology have been easier because we make more in here than just using a notebook or paper. Using technology help me improve in writing and reading because we have to type it like with an excellent grammar and if we do it wrong it marks it and then we are suppose to fix what is wrong and make it right.

My goal for this school year is to try my best at everything and do all my home work to do good on the test also to improve in everything i don't know.

Reading and writing are important to my future because i am going to use it in my everyday life and if someone wants to get smart or to have fame you have to know how to read or write.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Mona Lisa


The conditions under which the painting was kept was that it has been painted by da vinci until he sold it to the king of france (king froncois).For example , on the mp3 player it said that da vinci sold the mona lisa painting to the king , before da vinci had died. mona lisa has been kept in many places ,dirty , clean , and safe places but she never had that much time to stay in safe places because people kept robbing the painting. Then after a while museums kept the painting in a safe place.these places are different from the others because some of them were dirty and dark and some of them were clean and with man light. the condition that the mona lisa was kept was that in the museum the painting was safe also was bullet proof and everyone can see it. Before every one wanted to see the painting or maybe steal it, But now it's safe and sound in a museum.As you can see the Mona Lisa is a very famous painting , painted by da vinci. now that painting is safe and sound. So people can see it and not steal it. I think if that painting got stolen again it would make a big problem , Because a Mona Lisa painting can be worth about a wealth of money.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Readers Response

Title: diary of a wimpy kid
author: Jeff Kinney

This book is about a kid that thinks being a kid stinks. He gets picked by and his brother makes fun of him every time ... like one morning at about 2:00 am
patrick's brother woke him up in a summer time and told Patrick it was 2:00 in the morning for school Patrick's brother had his school clothes on so Patrick did belived him.


i can compare this book to my brother because my brother is really hard headed and he plays alot with me so is like if my brother were patrick and i were patric's brother.

Readers Response

Title: Jason and Marceline
author: Jerry Spinelli

This book is about two people that have been friends since seventh grade, but now they are in the ninth grade. And then Jason starts to think that since they know each other from a long long time they can even be more than friends , Also Marceline thinks that they can be more than just friends too.

I can connect this book to every one in the world. Because there are people in the world that have been friends for more than ten years and then they think of being more than just friends. Also that some people in the world think that if they be more than friends they're friendship might end.

what i think about this book is that it's a good book because threw out the book things go changing. for example Jason and Marceline changed threw out the book by thinking they can be more than friends.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Character Unit Intro

Do people ever really Change?
I think that people can change , because I've seen people in movies and in real life that just come out of jail and you can see that they've changed. For example in the book called "Tears of a tiger" a friend's death changed the other friends life and how they acted. I can connect this topic to my uncle because he was a really bad man, not to me or my family just like he did not care about no one's feelings or life except his wife , if he had something good to say he turns it right into a bad thing , he also like to start fights , so i can connect it because his wife died years ago and he changed every part of him , he changed the way he Spoked , he loved every one like he never did . So i guess people can change.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Election Reflection

Obama's election is important to me because he won this election and now he's the president of the U.S.A , and he's also going to run our country and also what's happening or wrong and we are the ones who are going to live in his beliefs. I think that Obama is really smart because he talks about important issues in the United states. One of the important issues is health care and the economy. The way I predict Obama in the next four years as a president is that we will have The United States in good hands and in good power. I would want Obama to work on the issue of education and health care because those issue are really important and also because those issues are really important and we all care about kids staying behind and we want no kids staying behind. Now that obama is president i feel that this country is really in good hands and now i feel that we will have the best life also the best leader also the best country i also think that what made this election historic was because the issuse grew in a big way.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Reading reasponse: Questioning

Obama Counts on the Youth

3 skinny question:
  • what day did he visit Michigan?
  • i can't understand when he says "Engineers didn't know what to do and how to make it happen, but it did, and that is what I am promising to do with our energy and fuel."
  • how do people send the text messages to Obama?
  • did Obama only talked about gas and fuel in Michigan?

3 fat questions:
  • why did people text the Obama campaign?
  • why do young peoples vote matter a lot?

RAFT: This Land is your land

How does the information in the box "a day in the life (of me!)"help the reader understand the article?


the information in the box "a day in the life (of me!)"help the reader understand the article better because she include the time and what she does from when she woke up and when she went to bed! like for example :she included in the article that at "6:30 get up" and at the end of the schedule "9:30 or 10:00 bet time!". Thats what made the reader understand the article better.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

readers response #1

title:SPEAK
By:Laurie Halse Anderson
page read: 5

speak

This book is about a girl named Melinda , And she is in a high school called merry weather high. she gets really stressed out for the first day of school. next when Melinda got to the class she was trying to find one of her ex-friends , she did not find one she just sat alone without friends.