Language+Arts

=Tuck Everlasting=

In think I am doing a great job reading for understanding. I did a extremely good job on the in class quizzes I am really getting good at those. My first spotlight writings were not the best. However after I kept doing them I got really good at them. My last one was especially good. I did a good job in the in class discussions. I thought I participated a lot. I thought my character project with Parker was pretty good. I thought Parker and I put a lot of thought into it. I recorded it and it is tight below. I thought my favorite passage was okay. It was good but I just did not have a lot of time to say it.

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= = =﻿RAINBOW PEOPLE=

I did a very good job in the Rainbow People unit. The summaries and introduction were very easy for me and I think that is sokmething that I have improved from the beginning of the year. For my easy of the new stories for Shirley I did a good job relating why it would be good for Shirley. Facilatating dicussions was a stength because I had good questions. I did a pretty good job on the blog commenting on the blog. I did a okay job in group dicussions I felt I could have talked a little more. Twiducate was not one of my stength it was hard becasue I prefer to talk not to type. I did a great job leading discussions becasue I was prepaired to lead it. Reading at home improved a lot.

=﻿= SHIRLEY TEMPLE WONG

For the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson I think I did a pretty good job. For some of the quizzes I do not think I did the best job but for some of the quizzes I did very well. The questions that you had to give a opinion really tricked me up but the facts questions were really easy for me. At the back of my quizzes for my reflections I think most of them were accurate and I got good ideas to do better. When we did small group discussions I did as well as I could do and that was minimal because everyone was interrupting me every time I talked. I think my LA quality in work has really improved from the beginning of the year. The thing I will try to do to improve my work even more is to read over and do it carefully.

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=__This I believe__= ===In the This I believe unit I did very well. It was fun because we did not have to read those long chapter books. We just had to read some speeches. The only thing that I did not like about the unit is that we had to write like 5 essays. I did write very well in that unit. My essay about what I believe in was very good. It was good because I took my time and was prepared to write. Overall I liked the this I believe unit and did a great job.=== media type="file" key="Ian This I Believe.m4a" width="300" height="50"

__Maniac Magee__
===I thought I did a swell job in this unit. I thought my best work was the friendship essay. I think it was my best work because I took my time, I was prepared to write, and I wrote a lot. I thought I made a huge progessen in quality my work from the last unit. I improved by putting more effort into all my work. My least best work was the quizzes I thought I did a good job but I had a little bit of trouble with remembering all the details. The thing that I will try to improve on is remembering more of the little details. I did a amazing job of remembering the big and important details.===

This is my Maniac Magee essay about his friendship with Mars Bars.

Friendship

Friendship is a bonding between two or more people. Even if you get in a fight with a friend you will always makeup with that friend because that is true friendship. You can always trust a friend, if you do not trust friend you should not be friends with that person. A example of friendship in real life is if somebody is picking on you, a friend will always be there to stick up for you and if you fall down a friend will be the first to pick you up. In the book //Maniac Magee// by Jerry Spinelli one of the main ideas in the story is about two kids Maniac Magee and Mars Bars Thompson friendship throughout the book. Maniac does not really know what friendship is in the beginning of the book because he does not really have any friends in the beginning of the book. Mars Bar has a lot of experience about friendship, but he does not really have any true friends because they are just sucking up to Mars because he is the cool kid in town. But now the two will experience the best friendship they will ever have. In the book there are two parts of the town, and it is a very segregated town. One part of town is called East End were the blacks live and the other part of town is West End were the whites live. So one day a kid named Maniac comes to a new town and he does not know that this town is segregated. Maniac is white and he runs into East End and bumps into a black kid named Mars Bar. Mars Bar is thinking, “What the heck is this whitey doing in my town?” “He is probably trying to act all cool and stuff.” Then Mars Bar gives Maniac a bite of his candy bar. He was not trying to be nice to Maniac but he was daring him to bite it. What do you know, Maniac takes a bite of it. Then Mars Bar gets embarrassed a tries to cover his embarrassment with anger. So, he starts to fight with Maniac. Then an old lady comes and breaks up the fight, but that just made those two just hate each other even more. This is related to my big idea because it was the first meeting in the book and the hatred begins witch changes over the course of the book. You would probably think that nobody could be friends after a first meeting like this, but Jerry Spinelli made them friends because I think to show you that you can be friends with someone after many rough times. The race between Mars and Maniac is a huge part in their friendship. First, Maniac goes to East End and he encounters Mars again, but this time Mars is bigger, stronger, and faster than before but Maniac has always been super fast. Then Mars challenges Maniac to a race. They then get ready for the race, and there was some confusion. They did not know what to say to start the race. They could not make a starting line. They finally get started and Maniac starts to take a big mistake he runs backwards and crushes Mars. Then Mars gets mad a starts saying that Maniac pushed him but of course Maniac did not. This was important to their friendship because know they have the same interest and a couple days later they start running together they do not talk to each other just run. I think Jerry Spinelli is trying to tell you that you do not have to talk to each other to be friends you just have to have a killer interest. I think this topic was important to the book because if Maniac and Mars would not have been friends the whole town would still be segregated. Also, I think if they would not have been friends Maniac would not have a home. Maniac Magee changed a lot over the course of the book. He realizes that he cannot be friends with everyone. He as an individual changed the town for the better by being friends with a black kid. I learned in this book that you do not have to talk to a friend to be a good friend. All you need to be a good friend is to have a great interest.

__They Cay__ __ ﻿ ﻿I saw much improvment in my work from are last unit __ //Island of the Blue Dolphins.// I stopped rushing my work and I took more time into my work. I thought my best work was my Book Project because I took a lot of time into it but I think I could have wrote just a little bit more. I thought my least best work was ansignment number 1. I could have made it better by putting a litle more effort in to into it. In coclusion I think I am making much improvment in my work.

I __//sland of the Blue Dolphins//__.

This is my insperation on Karana's character traits. I put this on my wiki because I thought it represents my best work on __//Island of the Blue Dolphins//__. I thought is was my best work because I didn't rush through it and I was prepared to write it. I though my my worst wok was the second web because I think I rushed through it. I could have made it better by not rushing through and maybe read I little more carefully. On the next book we read I think I could read a little more carefully, and not rush through my work.