Friday, May 26, 2017
9 Questions
1- What are the three most important things you learned this year?
- I learned how to cite sources
- I learned how to punctuate properly
- Lastly I learned how to analyze quotes and explain them
2- What is something we did this year that you think you will remember for the rest of your life?
The Holocaust Museum and Hopefully the party we are going to have
3- What was the nicest thing someone in our class did for you this year?
-they stayed up to help me with my Ixl's
4- What is something you taught your teacher or classmates this year?
- Probably nothing
5- In what area do you feel you made your biggest improvements? What is something you accomplished this year that you are proud of?
Becoming a more serious person and being able to speak aloud without being scared
6- What was the most challenging part of this year for you?
-having to be up to date with the Ixl's and studying for the vocabulary tests
7- What was the best piece of writing that you did this year? Why do you think it is your best?
- I Believe Is my best writing piece because I poured my ideas and heart into it. It was originally 2 pages because I had so much to say about my statement but I didn't want to make it long
8- Of the books you read this year, which was your favorite? Why?
-Night because it was something that did happen and was interesting
9- What advice would you give students who will be in this class next year?
- Do your work and make jokes once in awhile but just have fun because this is an amazing class. This class has teached me so many things. Thank You Mrs. Larson you are a amazing teacher
I Believe
“Be Yourself”
May 18, 2017
I believe that people shouldn't let others influence how they act in their daily lives.
A few months ago I woke up and did what I do daily, but not this particular day. I started to think why do people follow what others do to fit in. Wouldn't people want to be different and stand out from the other people? Apparently not, because people want to fit in and be accepted by others. I started to think more and came to the conclusion that other people like to intimidate others and they get scared and they get influenced to do the same. All this stemmed from social media and it's sad to see a generation that many people call the closest to Einstein be the same generation that determines what the future is going to be like.
After I talked to people about it, I started to change my mentality and try not to follow what others do. Also to be creative because most people in this generation try to fit in with people and don't be themselves just so they can get accepted by others. Honestly it won't matter because in the future they might not be your friends and you practically spent most of your life trying to be like others people should just be themselves and stand out from other. There are amazing, creative people in this generation. People can use these abilities they have to make a better future for everyone
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Notes from the Midnight Driver 2
My book called "Notes from the Midnight Driver" is about a child named Alex. One night Alex decided to drink some of his fathers vodka and get drunk. He then choose to grab some keys to his moms Dodge and drive around drunk. Until he faced reality and crashed into the sidewalk and he got minor injuries but he thought he killed someone because a police officer on the scene said that there was body parts on the grass. Alex then started to tear up until the officer pointed out that he killed a lawn gnome and Alex then realized that there was no blood and that it was just a gnome.
My article is about teen drunk driving and it was interesting to find that most of the cases are high school students (16-20 yrs old) are at risk to get into a car accident because of drunk driving. It says in the article," The percentage of teens in high school who drink and drive has decreased by more than half since 1991." I asked myself what year does my book take place in because this might be a reason why. Another question that surfaced is why drunk driving decreased in the past few years. As I kept reading it was mostly because of new laws that were put into effect.
These two pieces of writing have many things in common. One of these things caught my eye, the topic of the two are very similar. The topic that is similar is both include drunk teens driving in cars and possibly killing themselves.
"Teen Drinking and Driving." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 02 Oct. 2012. Web. 12 May 2017
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Notes from the midnight driver. New York: Scholastic, 2015. Print.
"Teen Drinking and Driving." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 02 Oct. 2012. Web. 12 May 2017
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Notes from the midnight driver. New York: Scholastic, 2015. Print.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Notes from the Midnight Driver
In my book Notes from the Midnight Driver a boy named Alex decided one night to get drink a lot of vodka and drunk drive around his area. He then rode onto a sidewalk with the car and he hit his head really hard and he got a gash on his forehead. Later that night the police woke him and they were questioning why he was driving a car drunk and he thought he hit someone and killed them and he was trying to apologize to the officer when in reality it was a gnome who he decapitated. He was later taken to the hospital for his minor injuries. When he woke up again in the hospital he started to vomit and he had a hangover from the previous night of heavy drinking.
In my opinion this book to me is ok I expected more from the book. It's funny and has a good theme but I thought it would be more interesting. My favorite part so far is where he was taken to the police station and was hungover it was really funny because of what he did while there. He would make fun of the officer and he tried to be friends with him but I didn't work. Alex's nose was bleeding violently during this time.
My prediction for the future of the book is that Alex's mom will eventually find a boyfriend. Also Alex and Laurie will probably date by the end of the book or be close to. Also that the charges against Alex for drunk driving will be dropped or put her in jail. In my opinion he doesn't deserve those charges, although he did drive like that he's to young to be charged as a adult like that. He should at least get a fine or has to do specific volunteer hours for him.
All the characters are really interesting and they have a story behind them. I think Alex is reckless and or is rich. I think he is rich because he has his own lawyer and the dad has so much vodka that his son gets drunk. He also owns a Dodge which are expensive I don't know which car it is but they are usually expensive. When he crashed that car the mother or father didn't say anything about the car getting paid for the damage they got mad because they were arguing who let the keys on a counter and who left the vodka out for anyone to grab like in this case Alex grabbed it and drank a lot we can assume because he got drunk.
In my opinion this book to me is ok I expected more from the book. It's funny and has a good theme but I thought it would be more interesting. My favorite part so far is where he was taken to the police station and was hungover it was really funny because of what he did while there. He would make fun of the officer and he tried to be friends with him but I didn't work. Alex's nose was bleeding violently during this time.
My prediction for the future of the book is that Alex's mom will eventually find a boyfriend. Also Alex and Laurie will probably date by the end of the book or be close to. Also that the charges against Alex for drunk driving will be dropped or put her in jail. In my opinion he doesn't deserve those charges, although he did drive like that he's to young to be charged as a adult like that. He should at least get a fine or has to do specific volunteer hours for him.
All the characters are really interesting and they have a story behind them. I think Alex is reckless and or is rich. I think he is rich because he has his own lawyer and the dad has so much vodka that his son gets drunk. He also owns a Dodge which are expensive I don't know which car it is but they are usually expensive. When he crashed that car the mother or father didn't say anything about the car getting paid for the damage they got mad because they were arguing who let the keys on a counter and who left the vodka out for anyone to grab like in this case Alex grabbed it and drank a lot we can assume because he got drunk.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Night Blog
Night
Elie Wiesel has changed dramatically since the beginning of the book. For example in the beginning of the book it reads “One day I asked my father to find m3 a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala.”(Pg.1)His sanity was very strong and his faith was at its highest point. He went as far as looking for a mentor to teach him more about his religion and the God that he would pray to everyday. This all changed when him and his family were sent to Birkenau which is the registration part of the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz. Him and his family were separated from each other when they were in different lines. Elie and his father never saw the mother or sister again and I have pulled a quote out of the book to show it “Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother. I had no time to think, but already I felt the pressure of my father's hand…” (Pg. 27) Once he was in the camp the first thing he saw was people getting burned inside furnaces such as old men, women, and children because they were useless to the camps. As time went by his faith was going down such as his sanity level.
Another thing that changed drastically was Elie's reaction and emotions to things and how he feels about certain situations. For example on page 105 and 106 it reads “the officer came up to him and shouted him to be quiet. But my father did not hear him. He went on calling me. The officer dealt him a violent blow on the head with his truncheon. I did not move. I was afraid.” This shows that in the beginning Elie was not scared of anything but now that he went through many camps, he was afraid to help his father from the violent blow given by the SS officer. He did not want to risk himself getting shot or getting hit like his father.
Elie Wiesel has changed dramatically since the beginning of the book. For example in the beginning of the book it reads “One day I asked my father to find m3 a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala.”(Pg.1)His sanity was very strong and his faith was at its highest point. He went as far as looking for a mentor to teach him more about his religion and the God that he would pray to everyday. This all changed when him and his family were sent to Birkenau which is the registration part of the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz. Him and his family were separated from each other when they were in different lines. Elie and his father never saw the mother or sister again and I have pulled a quote out of the book to show it “Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother. I had no time to think, but already I felt the pressure of my father's hand…” (Pg. 27) Once he was in the camp the first thing he saw was people getting burned inside furnaces such as old men, women, and children because they were useless to the camps. As time went by his faith was going down such as his sanity level.
Another thing that changed drastically was Elie's reaction and emotions to things and how he feels about certain situations. For example on page 105 and 106 it reads “the officer came up to him and shouted him to be quiet. But my father did not hear him. He went on calling me. The officer dealt him a violent blow on the head with his truncheon. I did not move. I was afraid.” This shows that in the beginning Elie was not scared of anything but now that he went through many camps, he was afraid to help his father from the violent blow given by the SS officer. He did not want to risk himself getting shot or getting hit like his father.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Butterfly Project
"On a Sunny Evening"
On a purple, sun-shot evening
Under wide-flowering chestnut trees
Upon the threshold full of dust
Yesterday, today, the days are all like these.
Trees flower forth in beauty,
Lovely, too, their very wood all gnarled and old
That I am half afraid to peer
Into their crowns of green and gold.
The sun has made a veil of gold
So lovely that my body aches.
Above, the heavens shriek with blue
Convinced I’ve smiled by some mistake.
The world’s abloom and seems to smile.
I want to fly but where, how high?
If in barbed wire, things can bloom
Friday, February 10, 2017
Berlin Memorial
I learned that Nazis tried to make life harder for Jews. They started by slowly taking away things like taking away clubs, extra curricular activities etc. Then they started to put stars on Jews and started to change their middle names so that Germans know the people are Jewish. After that they started to take the privilege of buying basic foods like bread, eggs etc.
I think the Berlin Memorial was built to remember the Jews and how they had to sit on yellow benches and to bring back memories and for people to remember what happened to the Jews and why they had to sit there just because of their religion and nationality. I'm not quite sure what the music notes stand for but it might be a song the Jews sung while being transported or in Concentration Camps.
For some years the laws were not really affecting anybody but it started to slowly affect like kids in after school activities and not being able to get candy until the people couldn't go to school or graduate it so they had no ways of making money and living
The people wanting to go to school because some family's may of been poor. So then someone tried to get their family a nice life and nice environment and it completely stops because now Jews couldn't go to school or graduate to support their family's or pursue their dream job.
I think the Berlin Memorial was built to remember the Jews and how they had to sit on yellow benches and to bring back memories and for people to remember what happened to the Jews and why they had to sit there just because of their religion and nationality. I'm not quite sure what the music notes stand for but it might be a song the Jews sung while being transported or in Concentration Camps.
For some years the laws were not really affecting anybody but it started to slowly affect like kids in after school activities and not being able to get candy until the people couldn't go to school or graduate it so they had no ways of making money and living
The people wanting to go to school because some family's may of been poor. So then someone tried to get their family a nice life and nice environment and it completely stops because now Jews couldn't go to school or graduate to support their family's or pursue their dream job.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Aow Nazi Survivors
Back when Adolf Hitler was in power the Nazis launched an operation called Children's Transport and it was when children were transported to other places and left the concentration camp. The survivors of the Holocaust and the Children's transport share their story's and experiences of being and witnessing WW2 and the Nazis treating them badly.
The central idea of the article is that we can learn about diffrent peoples experiences in WW2 and how they were treated by Nazis. One important message I found in the article is that even though they were treated badly they were still able to get through the holocaust and grateful to be one of the few to survive the horrible event.
The pictures fall into the category of being primary because the people were actually there during the Holocaust and also they also have objects from the past when they were in the concentration camp like ID's and pictures of the camps.
Connotation: an idea or feeling that work invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Denotation: the literal or primary meaning of a word in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
The central idea of the article is that we can learn about diffrent peoples experiences in WW2 and how they were treated by Nazis. One important message I found in the article is that even though they were treated badly they were still able to get through the holocaust and grateful to be one of the few to survive the horrible event.
The pictures fall into the category of being primary because the people were actually there during the Holocaust and also they also have objects from the past when they were in the concentration camp like ID's and pictures of the camps.
Connotation: an idea or feeling that work invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Denotation: the literal or primary meaning of a word in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
Friday, January 20, 2017
Quarter 2 Reflections
This quarter I have definitely improved from quarter one. In quarter one I didn't want to do my Ixl's and do my homework and I was falling behind in my classes especially in Ela. When it was the day I had to go talk to my teachers with my mom about my school work I was doing really well in every class except in Ela. I got nervous what my teacher was gonna say to my mom and after I sat with my teacher I started doing even better in my other classes.
Something I accomplished after new year was very stressful at the time. I got accepted into the High School I wanted to go to. All of my cousins have gone to that school and the one that started the tradition is currently in College or University I'm not sure but she's doing really well. My goal is that graduate High School and go study something after High School but I haven't thought about what I wanted to do. It is a really good school and I didn't think I was gonna get into that school. But I am very proud of myself for doing well in school and to get accepted into one of Chicago's best schools.
The hardest part of quarter 2 was getting my school work and homework done and get good grades. I dont know how I did this quarter hopefully I did well, I think this is the hardest I've worked in school. This quarter I actually tried to get good grades and do school. Hopefully I succeeded and did good this quarter. I wanted the high school to see good grades from me so they could accept me because the school is strict and it's also a college prep which makes it a little bit harder so I needed to learn and know more stuff to get me prepared for High School.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Robberies In Cities
12.19.16
“Robberies in Cities”
A woman by the name of Amy Diaz was robbed a few years ago and also in her childhood church she witnessed people getting robbed. I interviewed her about her experiences. This is what she said,“Robberies are a big problem in cities around the world. My family and I have experienced robberies well.. it could happen for many reasons, people might do it because they have a necessity and others do it out of a bad habit.” I asked her what her experiences were like and she responded with “I've had a couple, when I was younger and lived in Puerto Rico, while in church druggies used to sneak in and robbed the ladies purses of course being of a young age I was scared; also about 7 years ago our garage got robbed by two individuals whom crashed into the garage with their car and took everything that was in it”.
According to The Chicago Tribune the amount of violent, property, and quality of life robberies have gone down since 2006. The year 2006 was the year were those types of robberies were at the most but through the years the crimes have gone down. In that year the stats for violent crimes was at about 3,500 reports but now it's at about 2,750. For property crimes they used to be at 12,200 but now they are at about 8,100. Lastly for quality of life crimes they used to be at 10,500 but now it is at 3,900. For people who don't know these types of crimes, violent crimes are when people use violence to get what they want like money, expensive jewelry etc. Property crimes are when a person steals things from a person's house and the owner may not be home so they will not be forced too because they are not home. Lastly, a quality of life crime is when people are people ruin the well being of other people loiter and gang activity.
Instances of robbery this month so far. There were three men were arrested and he bail was put at $90,000. Two days ago three men were in their car and they spotted a lone woman walking in a alley and they pulled up and put the car in front of the woman to block her path. The men then proceeded to get out of the car and proclaim they had a weapon and demanded the woman to give them her belongings. A nearby friend of the victim took a picture of the license plate and sent it to police. The police later pulled the car to the side of the road and were charged with other things besides robbery and having firearms. They probably robbed from her because they felt the need to have money or because they wanted to threaten someone for fun.
On December 11, 2016 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles a man was carjacked from his Mercedes Benz by three men. He was driven to his home and two of the men went inside of the man's home and took money and objects with value. The other man was inside the car with the tied victim waiting for the robbers to finish. When the robbers got to the car they went to a parking lot and fled the car on foot with the victim tied up and left inside the car with the engine on. Two out of the three robbers are in police custody as of now but the other robber is yet to be found. This probably happened because the man had a luxury car and he was probably rich so that's why the men targeted him. This sounds like something that would happen in Grand Theft Auto.
The last instance of a robbery happened in the south side of Chicago, which was on the December first. There was an Ups worker delivering packages to houses and two men walk towards him. They held the driver at gunpoint and took a majority of packages out of the back and left. The driver was unharmed but there have been no people in custody or suspected.The two men probably did this because they wanted to see what was in the boxes and if there was anything good they would of stole it. Robberies take away these Human Rights; Article 17 and Article 3.
We can reduce crime even more if people stay off the streets and we have more patrol in alleys and dark areas in the city or suburbs. Most of the crimes happen in dark places, and alleys.
“Robberies in Cities”
A woman by the name of Amy Diaz was robbed a few years ago and also in her childhood church she witnessed people getting robbed. I interviewed her about her experiences. This is what she said,“Robberies are a big problem in cities around the world. My family and I have experienced robberies well.. it could happen for many reasons, people might do it because they have a necessity and others do it out of a bad habit.” I asked her what her experiences were like and she responded with “I've had a couple, when I was younger and lived in Puerto Rico, while in church druggies used to sneak in and robbed the ladies purses of course being of a young age I was scared; also about 7 years ago our garage got robbed by two individuals whom crashed into the garage with their car and took everything that was in it”.
According to The Chicago Tribune the amount of violent, property, and quality of life robberies have gone down since 2006. The year 2006 was the year were those types of robberies were at the most but through the years the crimes have gone down. In that year the stats for violent crimes was at about 3,500 reports but now it's at about 2,750. For property crimes they used to be at 12,200 but now they are at about 8,100. Lastly for quality of life crimes they used to be at 10,500 but now it is at 3,900. For people who don't know these types of crimes, violent crimes are when people use violence to get what they want like money, expensive jewelry etc. Property crimes are when a person steals things from a person's house and the owner may not be home so they will not be forced too because they are not home. Lastly, a quality of life crime is when people are people ruin the well being of other people loiter and gang activity.
Instances of robbery this month so far. There were three men were arrested and he bail was put at $90,000. Two days ago three men were in their car and they spotted a lone woman walking in a alley and they pulled up and put the car in front of the woman to block her path. The men then proceeded to get out of the car and proclaim they had a weapon and demanded the woman to give them her belongings. A nearby friend of the victim took a picture of the license plate and sent it to police. The police later pulled the car to the side of the road and were charged with other things besides robbery and having firearms. They probably robbed from her because they felt the need to have money or because they wanted to threaten someone for fun.
On December 11, 2016 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles a man was carjacked from his Mercedes Benz by three men. He was driven to his home and two of the men went inside of the man's home and took money and objects with value. The other man was inside the car with the tied victim waiting for the robbers to finish. When the robbers got to the car they went to a parking lot and fled the car on foot with the victim tied up and left inside the car with the engine on. Two out of the three robbers are in police custody as of now but the other robber is yet to be found. This probably happened because the man had a luxury car and he was probably rich so that's why the men targeted him. This sounds like something that would happen in Grand Theft Auto.
The last instance of a robbery happened in the south side of Chicago, which was on the December first. There was an Ups worker delivering packages to houses and two men walk towards him. They held the driver at gunpoint and took a majority of packages out of the back and left. The driver was unharmed but there have been no people in custody or suspected.The two men probably did this because they wanted to see what was in the boxes and if there was anything good they would of stole it. Robberies take away these Human Rights; Article 17 and Article 3.
We can reduce crime even more if people stay off the streets and we have more patrol in alleys and dark areas in the city or suburbs. Most of the crimes happen in dark places, and alleys.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Goosebumps
The book I am reading is called Goosebumps written by R.L Stine and the genre is fiction. The book takes place in a place called Wheeler Falls. The main characters names are Stephanie Alpert and Duane Comack and they call themselves the "Twins of Terror" so they must be siblings but they live across the street from each other and trade lunches with each other at school even thought their parents pack the same things for them. They both go out at night and put on masks to go scare kids by going to their windows and staring at them or leaving rubber body parts and sometimes the kids are to scared to leave their houses.
The two kids love to scare people but they refuse to go around "The Hill House" because it's haunted. It was built two hundred years ago by a sea captain. In that house they have tours which are guided by a man named Otto and on Halloween night the kids decided to go check out the inside of the Hill House and they join a tour with Otto and go inside the building and the kids separated from the group to go look for stuff to do in the Hill House.
While they are in there they find a head which belonged to a boy that was their and the ghost of the captain decapitated the boy and left the boy to go find his head and has been there ever since going room to room every Halloween night but the kids did not know this so they kept looking around the house and they got scared and they left the house to see cops in the driveway and the kids told the cops that they were on tour and the cops told the children that the tours have been closed for 3 months and the kids turn around to see Otto holding a lantern and not alive.
I liked this book because it's a scary type of books and I like books like that because sometimes they can be scary or they can be scary but funny to read them. I would recommend this book to people that like scary movies and funny books cause it's was a mix of both genres and the part I remember most was the end when Otto was revealed to be a ghost.
The two kids love to scare people but they refuse to go around "The Hill House" because it's haunted. It was built two hundred years ago by a sea captain. In that house they have tours which are guided by a man named Otto and on Halloween night the kids decided to go check out the inside of the Hill House and they join a tour with Otto and go inside the building and the kids separated from the group to go look for stuff to do in the Hill House.
While they are in there they find a head which belonged to a boy that was their and the ghost of the captain decapitated the boy and left the boy to go find his head and has been there ever since going room to room every Halloween night but the kids did not know this so they kept looking around the house and they got scared and they left the house to see cops in the driveway and the kids told the cops that they were on tour and the cops told the children that the tours have been closed for 3 months and the kids turn around to see Otto holding a lantern and not alive.
I liked this book because it's a scary type of books and I like books like that because sometimes they can be scary or they can be scary but funny to read them. I would recommend this book to people that like scary movies and funny books cause it's was a mix of both genres and the part I remember most was the end when Otto was revealed to be a ghost.
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