Jillian's+homework

5/8 One short term goal i have for myself is to get straight A's by the end of the year and get an award at the 7th grade award ceremonies. I have been working hard in all of my classes trying to get extra credit to get my grades up and a lot of my grades are really close to being all A's most of them are just B's but i wish to have straight A's by the end of the year. My parents have also been helping me with my grades they have been giving me more time on my homework and making sure I'm on task doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

A long term goal I have for myself is to be successful and not have a job but have a career. I want to graduate from college and I want to be successful in my life so I can be proud of myself and my parents can be proud of myself. I want to have good grades and I want to go to a good college that will help me make my life better and that will prepare me for my life after college. I want to go to a university. Soon I'm going to start looking a colleges and looking at what i want to do when I'm older.

5/7 When I woke up this morning I felt changed I didn’t feel the same. Something was different, I had wings. Last week I was walking on all 16 of my little tiny legs. But today I didn’t have leg I had wings. When I was younger my mom used to tell me stories about becoming a beautiful butterfly one day. She told me that everyone went through the same change and every caterpillar had to change into a butterfly I used to be really scared, scared that I wouldn’t change. Scared that people would make fun of me if one of my wings was different than another but as soon as I flew up from my flower that I had my cocoon lying on when I flew up all I saw was a bunch of beautiful butterflies everyone looked the same everyone had the same shaped wings and everyone was admiring each other’s wings and doing tricks with each other. Every year my village has a parade to show the entire butterfly that changed and everyone talks and has a bunch of fun. While I was growing up I would always imagine me being in the parade and it’s finally my turn its finally my turn to be in the parade. When I walk into my house I see all of my family getting ready for the parade. My whole family has already changed into a butterfly and they have already been into the parade so their all kind of making a big deal out of my first parade. As we all get ready and leave the house we all was in a pack. The order went my dad, my mom, my oldest, sister, me, and my younger brother. This year was the biggest parade my village has ever had. All the jr. high butterflies are all changing and turning into butterflies in order to be accepted into high school. After all the 6th graders went it was my turn to walk down the road all the 7th graders lined up and started to walk down the road. But everything changed when we saw the shadow of a human foot. Everyone has practiced this evacuation every year just in case it would happen but It never did. I never thought it was going to happen either. My village is in the middle of a huge flower meadow where no humans have ever walked in before. When we all evacuated I realized I couldn’t find my family. I was looking everywhere and my family was nowhere to be seen. When I saw two wings pop out from behind a flower I quickly ran over hoping it was my family and it was but when I arrived there I saw that my mom’s wings had been stepped on. “Is she going to live?” I asked my dad. “yes she’s going to be alright but she may never be able to fly again. When I heard this news I was very sad me and my mom always talked about when I got my wings how we were always going to fly together have races or just go on walks and talk about our days and now that she can’t walk she can’t do any of those things. it’s even dangerous having her come out of the house because if there’s an emergency she won’t have the ability to fly away like others. If I had the chance to give my wings to my mom I would but I don’t have that power so the only thing I can do is support her and help her.

4/22 The book that I read tonight was called Catching Fire its written by Suzanne Collins the first couple pages is about the two main characters Katniss and Peeta who, in the first book was choosen to go into an arena and fight to their death and who ever was the winner got a lot of money and got to live in a huge house with their families. In the second book Katniss and Peeta again had to go into the arena and fight with all the older winners. right now in the book they are train for the second hunger games.

4/21/14 If- review and assess 1. Respond: I think the hardest conditions described in this poem would be "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue" would be hard because what the line is saying is if you can be confident in front of large crowds or at really important times. I dont think i could do this because i'm really shy and I don't like talking in front of large crowds or even talking in front of my class.

2. (a) Recall: Five conditions that Kipling describes

4/16/14 review and assess 1) respond: I would like to meet the speaker of this poem because they seem like a creative and nice person and I think we would have a lot in common.

2) (a) Recall: Two things the writer compares himself to is a tree and a flower. (b) connect: The qualities that are shared between the speaker and the things he compared him self two are being unique, I because the speaker compares himself with a tree and not all trees are the same every tree is unique.

3) (a) Recall: IN the first four line he says that he will always be himself and nobody else. (b) Interpret: The message that this poem has is to be yourself and dont let anyone else change who you are and what you think.

4/15/14 Review and Assess 1. respond: I would rather spend the afternoon with the speaker of "I'm Nobody" because they seem like an interesting person and hey way they refer things to the swamp seems really creative. 2. (a) Recall: In lines 4 and 5 the speaker is relaxing and being alone. (b) interpret: This action is a celebration of self because the speaker is alone and the speaker can just think about anything.

3. (a) Recall: Whitman says that himself is a big enough world so i think what he is trying to say is that he is his own world he doesnt need anyone else in his life. (b) Infer: The image shows that whitman is very conceded he likes himself he doesn't see anything wrong with himself. (c) The advice that whitman is passing on to the readers is to be confident about yourself and to not care about what people think about you.

4. (a) Recall: Dickson says that they will banish her. (b) Infer: Her feeling about this is not good she doesn't want to be known as someone she likes to be a nobody. (c) Apply: A way that Dickinsons poem suggest some of the problems that celebrities have is that celebrities get alot of attention just like the frog admiring the Bog.

5. (a) Draw conclusion: two key differences that nobodies are better than somebodies is that alot of times the nobodies have their own personality. (b) evaluate: yes I do agree because i dont like getting alot of attention and I want to have my own personality.

4/9/14 Welcome to Innovation Middle Mrs. Labas. Here at Imiddle we use S.U.R.G.E surge stands for supportive, upbeat, responsible, generous, and enterprising. SU.R.G.E is supposed to be how the student here acts. Imiddle is a very small school. We only have 460 students. Imiddle has a lot of different activates that we do. Every progress reports we have an Iparty. An I party is like a celebration for ids that got good grades. The kids that get to come have to have A’s, B’s, and C’s they also have to have a good citizenship grade, which is E’s and G’s. Another activity we have is Fun Friday every Friday ASB plays music and has activates. We have a lot of fun activites at Imiddle.

3/18/14 I think that respect is a good characteristic because all our life’s we are taught to be respectful do everyone and anyone. I think it is an important characteristic because when younger kids are watching siblings or role models and they aren’t respectful then it shows the kids not to be respectful because those kids look up to those people. But when kids see someone being respectful they get the idea of being respectful to others. I think it is also really important to be respectful because if you meet someone new it’s really important to have a good first impression on yourself because you can never make that up and that person is always going to have a bad perspective on you. But if you have respect and are polite and respectful to them they would have a good impression on you. Another reason being respectful is good is when your applying for a job and you’re not respectful the manager might not want a worker like you especially if you’re going to be interactive with other people. But if your respectful the owner or manager would want you to work for them.

3/13/14 In this article it talks about how apple iTunes I worried about apple users streaming music on their apple devices. In the article it says “ A pple is worried that people are streaming music instead of downloading it through iTunes.” In the article it tells us that apple is worried that people are using Pandora, YouTube, Spotify and other music streaming apps. It says they are worried of losing money. I don’t really find this a very good topic because it says that apple is worried on losing money because people aren’t buying music but apple gets 1,000 and 1,000 of dollars everyday and they get money every time somebody buys an app. I don’t think they should worry about losing money because people aren’t buying music. I think apple should keep doing what their doing and they will be fine.

3/12/14 The article I read was called “helping homeless college students. What my article was about is in a college there are students that are homeless and even though they blend in with all the other students there their life is harder. In the article it says “ Most days, it went like this: Start classes at 8 a.m., finish up around noon, then head off to work. His life as a student at Kennesaw State University (KSU) was far from perfect. But he was able to handle it.” This quote is talking about a former student in college that is living in his car ad is going to college. In the article it also says that since fall of 2011 the colleges care center has helped 61 homeless students. Now more than 58,150 college student nationwide say they are homeless and are getting help. In the article it also says that people who are homeless don’t like to admit it. One person says “its embarrassing to be an adult and be homeless” there is probably more homeless student but they don’t want to admit is because they don’t see themselves homeless or they are embarrassed.

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3/4/14 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is an excellent book. It shows not to judge somebody before you know them because in the book some of the characters in both of that gang’s weren’t exactly like the others. For example PonyBoy, he was a greaser who is judged to be rowdy and bad who always gets into fights and in trouble with the cops. But actually in the book he was good in school and didn’t like getting into fights. Another example is Randy he is in the gang with the Socs and they are known for starting the fights with the greasers and normally winning. Well win one of Randy’s friends had gotten killed in a fight he told Ponyboy that he didn’t want to go to the big rumble against the Socs and the Greasers. Both of these characters don’t show the things that society had labeled them with. One of the most Popular Soc didn’t want to fight he said that he would rather run away than go to the rumble and possibly get killed and one of the greasers didn’t want anyone to fight he said several times in the book that he didn’t want the Socs and the greasers to fight anymore he wanted the world to be normal with no rumbles or anybody having to carry around a switch blade when they go on walks. This shows that just because someone is labeled or judged because of who they hang out with the aren’t exactly what they are judged to be and that you will never know what they are really like until you really get to know them.

2/27 In the end of the outsiders I think that PonyBoy and his gang are going to agree on not having fights and rumbles as much. I think that PonyBoy is going to realize that he doesn’t want to lose anybody else that is close to him. I think that when he realizes that he is going to talk to his brothers and the rest of is gang and try to become friends with the Socs.

Another thing that might happen in the last chapter is PonyBoy will realize that the Socs and the Greasers aren’t exactly the opposite they are actually very alike and that when they do become friends and not enemies they will find out they actually have a lot in common with each other.

2/26 February 27, 2016 Being a freshman in high school really isn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be I remember thinking when I was in seventh that being a freshman was going to be so hard because there’s going to be more people at my school and the homework is going to be hard and the teachers are going to be mean but actually their not their just like the normal teachers that I’ve had since I was in kindergarten. Also the homework isn’t really hard sometimes it can be challenging but most of the time I understand and for my grades they are maintaining at a good GPA and I am looking for a collage to get into now because it’s never too late. Yes there are some down sides to high school like I have to wake up really early to get to school and I have at least 2-3 hours of homework every night but other than that high school really isn’t that bad.

I am trying to get into Washington State University for my four year college and after that I would like to go to school to be either a psychologist or a physical therapist. Just because I am only a freshman in high school I still want to get all of my college stuff done so I don’t mess up and not get into the right college I want to get into. My best friend and I are still very close we have been going to the same school since we were in kindergarten and we have been best friends ever since. I play softball on the Varsity softball team at Cathedral High.

2/19 X-factor and American Idol are similar in many ways. One, they are reality tv shoes that people have to sing and perform for 3-4 judges and get rated to go to the next level or episode of the show. Two there are 3-4 celebrity judges in each show. In American idol the 3 celebrity judges are Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, and Harry Connick. And the former judges for x-factor 2013 were Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato and Kelly Rowland, and Paulina Rubio's. Another thing that is very similar with the two shows are there is a winner that get a recording contract and a money prize.

There isn’t as many differences in the X- Factor and American idol then there are similarities the only thing I think that is different is that in American idol you have to be 18 or older to enter the compaction and in the X-factor you only have to be 14 to enter.

2/18 Some of the difference between 6th grade and 7th grade at my school is there’s 7 different teachers. I think this is a big difference because in 6th grade I found it harder to learn and listen because I was in the same room with the same people every day for 7 hours and only have 2 breaks. In middle school you have 7 different teachers and you only have to stay in one class for 45-55 minutes and we get a 5 minute passing period in between each class. Another difference I think there is in 6th grade and 7th grade is the homework in 6th grade when we only had 1 teacher the teacher would give only 1 assignment everyday so you wouldn’t have as much homework but in 7th grade your 7 different teachers give you 7 different assignments each night so you would have about 1 hour to an hour and a half or homework to do every day.

Not much is different in 6th grade and 7th grade at some school because in some school you are already in middle school in 6th grade but at our school we only have 7th and 8th grade so I was still in elementary school when I was in 6th grade. But for most schools they have 6th, 7th, and 8th grade so the 6th graders already know what it’s like to be in middle school but when I was in 6th grade I didn’t so I think it was really different for me to change but everyone does it and its really easy to get used to.

2/11 Prefixes: dis, un, pre, re Root words: cover, employ. cook, do Suffixes: ment, er, ing, ed Discover, uncover, uncovered, recover, recovering, covering, covered, employment, employer, employing, employed, unemployed, uncooked, cooking, cooked, precooked, recooked, redo, undo, doing, 20 words

2/10 In the song Team by Lored. She says “we live in city’s you’ll never see on the screen but we sure know how to run things.” I think she is referring that not everyone has perfect lives and lives in perfect houses or perfect neighborhoods and that everyone has a different way of doing things in their life. Also that even thought you might not have a perfect life, you might still be a good person and know how to take care of yourself. Also in the music video there’s about 10-15 people living in this old abandon warehouse and those people look like they are homeless, they are all sharing food and helping each other, but even though they are homeless they are still taking care of each other and still living together. Later In the song she says “but were on each other’s team” which means that they are all still sticking together.

2/5 1. Where was Hinton born? (Coincidentally, this is where the novel takes place.) Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2. What influenced her to write //The Outsiders //?  She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like //The Outsiders//. 3. 3. What year was //The Outsiders // published? 1967

2/4 Reformatory- A jail for younger people like Pony boy, like juvenile hall. Bewildering- To take a break from something that is bothering that person. corn-poney- nickname for someone who lives on a farm. Premonition- something religious or has to do with church or people that go to church.

2/3 Peoples clothes can be a symbol of something because some people where different clothes because their religion. Some people buy expensive clothes to look good and sometimes it’s a sign that they are wealthy. Other people’s clothes you can tell sometimes that they aren’t as wealthy by the look of their clothes. They might be worn out or messed up. And other people like to make their first impression on how they dress like for a job interview or something special. Some peoples clothes can tell there personality like if the person is wearing all black then the person might have a dark personality or if the person is wearing a lot of bright colors the person might be nice.

1/28 In twenty years I will be 33 hopefully I will be happily married and very successful. In twenty years I want to be working as a female or child psychologist. I want to be graduated from college and be married. When I have kids I want 2 kids, I either want to girl twins or one girl and one boy. My kids will be well behaved, smart, and athletic. When I am 33 I want to be a psychologist, I don’t want to work with males I only want to work with either females or children. In twenty years I would like to live somewhere safe so that my kids are going to a good school and aren’t in danger. I want to be a good mother with a healthy family.

In twenty years I want to still be close with all of my friends like my softball team and my friends now. I would also like to have a good relationship with my siblings and my parents. I want my kids to have someone other than their parents to be able to take care of them. I want to take good care of my children just like my parents take care of me. I also want to be close with my nieces and nephews because now taking care of them they are just baby’s and I would like to see them grow up and have them be close with my children. I want to be close with my sister because now me and her are really close and hardly fight over anything and when I am older I want to be close with her just like we are now.

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This new semester I want to do different things in every semester to get my grades up. My last semester grades were not what I think they could have been. I think I could have done better. Now that 2nd semester is here I know what I am capable of. I know that I have to do different things that are not just in class to keep my grades up. I think I am capable of getting an A this semester because I know understand what my teachers want from me and what they expect in my work. Last semester I think I didn’t realize how important those grades were. This last semester I got a GPA of 3.5 and I now know to take my grade seriously and get my work done. This semester I want to keep my grades up and get all of my work done and focus in school. In all of my classes I want to make sure I do not turn in any of my assignments in on time or even early I also want to make sure if I am absent or missed any class time to make up any missing work.

In my first period class last semester I got a low A (93%) I think I was capable of getting at least a higher A. In ASB I want to make sure I do whatever I can to help out with activities that ASB plans or help on fun Friday and come up with more ideas to make Imiddle a fun environment where kids feel welcome and have fun but get good grades at the same time. In my second period last semester I had a high B (88%) I think I was capable of a high A. This semester I need to make sure I study and get my work turned in on time. I think my number one problem with my grade in Pre-Algebra was not studying and not being prepared for test. This semester I want to make sure I study and get better grades on my tests that I take in class and if I don’t get a good grade to make sure that I do a test fix up and go to tutoring and make sure I understand the problems in math to get a good grade. In my next two classes (science and history) I need to make sure that I don’t get distracted and turn in my assignments on time. For this second semester I want to make sure I keep my grades up and not to let them drop.

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1/14 Answer these questions in complete sentences with correct writing mechanics, spelling and grammar. There are no wrong answers for this one. Do you have friends whose social, ethnic, or economic backgrounds differ from yours? How do these conditions affect your relationship? I do not have friends from a different ethnic background but if I did I don’t think it would make a difference in our friendship. To what extent does a person’s environment determine their success and happiness? Is it possible to overcome your environment? If so how? I think it is but it would be hard because you have to get used to the environment. How is a gang like a family? I think a gang is like a family because you are always with them and they become to know a lot about you and they would look out for you like how in the book they all look after Johnny cade because they know that he doesn’t get a lot of love from his family at home. What do you think it takes to make someone a hero? I don’t think it takes much for someone to think someone is a hero. The person just has to think that another person did something that changed there life. It depends on the people. What is your definition of an “outsider.” My definition of an outsider is someone who isn’t like everybody else and isn’t afraid to be themselves. Or someone who doesn’t do what everybody else does.

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1/6 Yes say good bye to sports.

1. Athletics programs put a financial burden on cash-strapped schools. 2. America lags behind other countries academically. 3. When the sports were cut more students got better grades in school.

12/16 The movie I am comparing A Christmas Carol with is How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I am comparing these two movies together because they both have a character in the movie that doesn’t believe in or doesn’t celebrate Christmas. In the Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas both of the characters that don’t like Christmas, in this case scrooge and The Grinch, they both change their opinion about Christmas because someone proved to them that Christmas isn’t bad. In How the Grinch Stole Christmas a little girl invited him to a Christmas party even though she already knew that he didn’t like Christmas. She invited him because she was being nice and helping him like Christmas and in A Christmas Carol scrooge’s 3 ghosts helped him like Christmas. In both How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Christmas Carol the two characters had a bad past on Christmas. Every year on Christmas Scrooge was alone and sad and in How the Grinch Stole Christmas the Grinch was made fun of and bullied because of the way he looked. Because they both had bad memories about Christmas they both don’t like the holiday. That is why I choose How the Grinch Stole Christmas to compare to A Christmas Carol.

12/10 Early in the story Scrooge was very ungrateful because when he was invited to a Christmas dinner at Bob Crotchets house he declined the invitation and said that he didn’t want to celebrate Christmas because it was a waste of time and waste of money. That’s another character trait that I think scrooge was I think he was greedy in the beginning of the movie because when he we was walking past he carolers he wouldn’t give them any money and when the two men asked for money for the poor people he said that he wasn’t going to give any money to them because he already pays his taxes and some of the money already goes to that. Another thing that scrooge was in the beginning of the movie was negative because whenever Mr. crotchet would say merry Christmas Scrooge wouldn’t be thankful to have someone.

Someway that scrooge changed was that instead of being greedy he was very generous because when he walking down the street and watching the carolers instead of being rude like he was in the beginning of the movie he was nice and complimented them on their singing and gave them money. He also gave someone money for Christmas, gave the Crotchet family a giant goose to eat on Christmas and raised Bob Crotchets salary. Another way that scrooge changed was he is very nice and happy in the end of the movie he went to the crotchets house and took back all of the bad things that he had said about Christmas and he apologized to Mr. Crotchet about how he never met his family and his wife and in the end he ate Christmas dinner with the crotchets.

12/9 One thing that The Pearl and A Christmas Carol have in common is both of the stories have poor people in it. In the pearl Kino and his family lived in a poor community and in the Christmas Carol it was in the time where a lot of people were poor like scrooge’s assistant and his family. But when both of the families were poor they were happy and you could tell that the family wasn’t bothered by being poor.

Another thing that I found in common with The Christmas Carol and The Pearl is both of the main character wanted money and were greedy. For example when Kino found the pearl and found out it was worth a lot of money he suddenly became very greed like when his wife tried to get rid of the pearl Kino made a very big deal out of the pearl and abused his wife. And when scrooge heard that people were too poor to pay the taxes and that the taxes shouldn’t increase he said that if people didn’t want to pay taxes then the people could go to jail and if the people don’t want to go to jail then the people could die and it would decrease to population.

12/5 I think that scrooge is repulsive because when his assistant said “Merry Christmas and happy New Year.” All he responded to that was a very negative comment. I also think that scrooge is a very lonely person because when he was little he didn’t have a lot of people around him because when his mother was giving birth she died and his father blamed him for his mother’s death. Scrooge also living alone in a house and he is always alone in the dark. The reason I think that him being alone impacts on his negativity is because maybe he thinks that nobody likes him so he feels that he has to make everybody miserable when they’re happy. That is why I think scrooge doesn’t like Christmas because that’s when everybody is the happiest. Another reason why I think scrooge doesn’t like Christmas is when he was a child he was always alone at home with no friends or family to spend Christmas with and so when he looks back on all the Christmas memories that he has had he just remembers being alone so it makes him mad.

If I were to compare scrooge to someone I would compare him to Tiny Tim because Tiny Tim is kind and positive like when he was in his dads and he was crippled he and his dad saw the kids playing in the snow and because Tiny Tim was crippled he wasn’t able to play in the snow but he was still happy for the kids. Like when his dad said “one day that will be you” Tiny Tim responded with “yes father hopefully it will be.” That shows that Tiny Tim isn’t negative about being crippled. But when you look at scrooge all he is negativity. For example when he was walking through the valley and he saw Christmas carolers he was very rude to them and did say excuse me when he walked threw them he just said “move.”

12/3 There are both differences and similarities in the two TV shows Americas Got Talent and American Idol. First of all in Americas Got Talent you can have any kind of talent like you can have a talent in dancing, singing, or even magic it doesn’t matter you just have to have talent unlike in American idol you can only sing. The similes they have are they both have judges and good and bad acts. Another thing they have in common is they both have host that announce the acts. Something that is different about American idol is they have audition that are private then they go to live shows later on in the season. Unlike in Americas Got Talent they have every audition and show live so that everyone can see. Something that is similar to the two TV shows is that they both air live on television and they are both reality TV shows.

11/21 1. My mother, father, and sister are coming to dinner tonight. 2. I like learning English. It makes me tired. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">3. My sister was taller than me when we were young now I am the tallest, it is fun. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">4. I love school, I love learning. My teacher is nice. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">5. I don’t want much for Christmas. Just some chocolates and a little toy car. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">6. Blue is my favorite color. It is the color of the sky and the sea. It reminds me of my favorite insect which is the butterfly. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">7. When I get older I want to have a big family. I like big families. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">8. We usually leave at 11:00 but today is different, we are leaving at 10:30. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">9. I like Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays because the weekend starts on Friday. <span style="color: #cc99ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 16px;">10. We should get moving. There’s no time to waste.

11/20 The th<range type="comment" id="477308760_3">eme in glee is the outsiders coming in a</range id="477308760_3">nd becoming something the whole school knows about. In the television show there are many different and unique personalities. In the whole group there are popular kids, kids who get bullied, over weight kids, trans-gender kids, and kids who like different genders. In the beginning of the season all the kids are too scared to join because they are afraid of being themselves but in the end they all became like a huge family and all the kids who have so many different personalities come together.

11/19 Money can be a big part in someone’s life Evidence
 * 1) 1. Before Kino had the pearl he was happy with his family
 * 2) 2. When Kino found the pearl all he could think about it is how he was going to spend it
 * 3) 3. When Juana tried to throw the pearl in the ocean he risked her life just to get the pearl back
 * 4) 4. When the dealers said the pearl wasn’t valuable Kino wouldn’t believe them.
 * 5) 5. When someone tried to steal the pearl he killed the man.

11/13 7. As the doctor approaches, why is Kino feeling rage? He is feeling rage because last time he went to the doctor the doctor didn’t do anything because he didn’t have any money 8. How does Kino feel trapped by his own ignorance? 9. What do you guess the doctor gives Coyotito? I think the doctor gave Coyotito a poison that is easy to treat and the doctor would know how to treat it and the doctor can get the money 10. How does the doctor find out where Kino has hidden the pearl? He finds out where Kino hid the pearl because when he was saying that the pearl might get stolen he looked over to the area where the pearl was hidden. 11. After the intruder is driven off, what does Juana say of the pearl? Why? She says the pearl has driven in evil. 12. Why can Kino not do this? 13. Why is Kino afraid of making plans? He is afraid because he is not sure if he wants to do something that he might regret

11/12 In the opening the town is compared to an animal. I think he compared the town to an animal because a town has a lot of different people in it and every town is different just like animals no every animal is alike. It affects the priest because the priest might think that Kino would like him to baptize or do something for the baby or his family and in return to the favor Kino would give the pearl to him. The Shopkeepers might think that because Kino is poor he would like clothes and the shopkeeper would give him the clothes that weren’t worth anything and for those clothes Kino would give him the pearl. The doctor might think that since Kino went to him once with his son that the doctor would now take his offer and cure his son and he would get the pearl and the beggars might think that Kino is going to be nice to them and give them some of the money from the pearl. Kino becomes the enemy to all because he now has the pearl witch is worth a lot of money so all the people want the pearl and some people might get mad because he doesn’t want to share the pearl and what it’s worth. The news of the pearl spread very quickly like when the poisoness sting of the scorpion all the people in the town knew about it and knew that Kino was going to the doctor I think that the pearl brought the song of the evil into the house because it puts Kino and his family in trouble because someone might steal the pearl of murder Kino for it.

11/5 1. Who watches Kino when he wakes up every morning?

a) __Coyotito__ b) Juana. c) His dog. d) Their bird.

2. How many beggars are outside the church in Chapter 1?

a) __Two__. b) Ten. c) Four. d) Seven.

3. What city does the doctor dream of?

a) Paris. b) London. c) __Rome__. d) New York City.

4. Who knows all the sins of the town?

a) The beggars. b) The doctor. __c) The monks.__ d) The trackers.

5. What makes the insect that stings Coyotito fall into Coyotito's bed? a) Coyotito laughs and shakes the rope. b) The wind blows it into his bed. c) It lunges for his face. __d) Coyotito reaches for it.__

1. How are the homes of the poor different from the homes of the rich? Use quotes The homes of the poor were made out of plants and the home of the rich was made out of stones. 2. How is the doctor described? The doctor is described like an indigent person. 3. What does the doctor’s comment on page 13 reveal about his attitude toward Indians? The doctor’s comment was that he was a doctor not a veterinarian. He is also referring the Indians to animals.

11/4 They were really avarice when they won $1,000 they wouldn’t give any money to anyone. There were many different types of flowers with bougainvillea. In science we learned about the many different types of constellations. A robbery scandal mad the whole neighborhood very scared. If the mucus around your stomach isn’t there you can get stomach ulcers. The detachment of the big rope was a very long process. The man on the street looked very indigent because he had old clothes on and a sign that said need money for food. Everybody in their groups were moving in such procession. I was reassure that school was out on Monday when my principals called to all the families to tell them.

10/31 “The answer was 26” she answered “Mom, can I please spend the night at Cassidy’s house” I begged “I’m so tired I’ve been up since 5am” she groaned “I understand that what he did was a bad thing and he should be punished” she agreed “What was that sound” she shudders “Ouch that hurt” he cried “I can’t believe you did this to me” she fumed “Go and get your brother from the park” she demanded “I’m never going to be friends with you again” she cried “I’m so excited to go to the haunted house tonight” she rejoiced

10/24 I think that in the monkeys paw the family is going to make a wish and the wish is going to be the exact oppisite. The reason why I think this is because when they took the monkeys paw the man who gave it to them was saying to throw it into the fire and the man was saying a bunch of bad things about it. Another thing I think it might do is it might curse the man who makes the wish and the curse will make him wish for death so that he would die and it would be pasted on to someone else and it would curse them and make them die. The reason why I think that is because all the people that the man said they wished for things and their 3rd wish would be for death.

10/22 What is Victor’s goal in creating the creature? In what ways does he succeed and fail? Victor’s goal is creating a creature that can’t get sick by putting together dead corpses from grave yards and putting them all together and making a human. He fails because the creature he makes ends up being a monster and ends up killing people but he also succeeds in what his plan was because he wanted to make someone from the dead come back to life and that’s what the creature did.

The creature claims, “Only misery made me a fiend.” What does he mean? Do you agree? Explain. Because the creature was originally good but victor judged him before he knew what he was and that mad the creature mad so he killed victors loved ones as revenge.

Mr. De Lacey says, “Most people are friendly—unless they are blinded by prejudice.” What prejudice does the creature face? What does the play say about the effect of prejudice? The creature faced prejudice with how people treated him before anyone knew him like when victor first created him victor said he was hideous and evil and when people saw him that’s also what they said so he got mad and he began to be what the people called him.

Why does the creature want a companion like himself? Do you agree with Victor’s refusal to create one? Explain. The creature wanted a companion like himself because he didn’t want to be the only monster and he didn’t want to be the only one like himself so he wanted another companion because he didn’t want to be alone. I do not agree with victors refusal because him and the creature made a deal that if he made another creature that him and his companion would leave and never kill anyone every again.

Was it justifiable for the creature to murder Victor’s loved ones as a means of revenge? Explain no because the creature was trying to get revenge but all that he was doing was hurting others if the creature really wanted to get revenge then he should have just killed victor not anyone else

10/21 <range type="comment" id="462173450_1">As I walk up to school I realize that Halloween is in 4 days I haven’t gotten my costume ready yet. </range id="462173450_1">I can’t believe when I was little I would plan my costume a month before Halloween. I don’t think I’ll go trick or treating this year I think I’ll just let my sister get all the candy this year she’s still young and she need to enjoy her childhood before it goes away. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Ill proudly go to my aunt house and hang out with my cousin. “Hey Jennifer do you want to go to my Halloween party this Thursday” Lindsey the meanest girl in my school asked me the second I walk into my 1st period class. Why would she invite me she 2 years older than me and she hates me. “Why are you inviting me your 2 years older than me?” I ask her maybe she wants to be nice maybe this is her way of apogizeing to me after she poured Gatorade on me after talking to my crush at lunch. “Because you’re my friend and the party will be really fun and I heard you don’t have anything to do on Halloween” Lindsey said. How did she know I didn’t have anything to do I didn’t tell anyone but my sister and I tell her everything. “Um sure when and where?” “It will be at 7 o’clock at Lindsey’s house” said Alexis, Lindsey best friend. She’s another one of the people who hate me and bully me at school I’m that kind of girl who gets bullied a lot. But I don’t understand why I’m so nice to everyone I don’t understand what I ever did to them. “Ok I’ll be there.” “Great see you there” Emily said Emily is a part of Lindsey’s mean girl group the think that they are the queen of innovation middle school that’s the Jr high I go to.

The night Halloween at Lindsey’s house As I walk up to Lindsey door I get second thoughts on if I should go to this sleepover or not maybe she’s just playing a trick on me maybe she’s going to embarrass me again like she did in the 5th grade. As I ring the doorbell I look back to see if my mom was still there but right when I rang the doorbell she opened the door without any hesitation. “Hey welcome to my party.” Lesley said. There have only 4 people here I said and including me there was only tree people there now I really felt bad things about this place. “So what do you want to do Jennifer” Emily says. I don’t know it’s your party Lindsey. I answered back. “Ok how about we get some food then play truth or dare in my room.” She suggested ok I answered back knowing something was going to go wrong but I didn’t we not to be a party pooper. Ok Jennifer I dare you to do bloody Marie. What’s bloody Marie? I asked I really didn’t know but it sounds really scary. “Bloody Marie is when you go into a bathroom with the lights off and you say bloody Marie 3 times and she comes with blood all over her face and she haughty you.” Emily explains. Wow that sounds really scary but I’m not going to tell her that because they would think that I’m a scared cat and knowing Lindsey she would embarrass me in front of the whole school. “Ok I’ll do it as I walk into the bathroom and I say bloody Marie 3 times and I turn around and I see a face that’s really white and it has blood all over it. AHHHHHHHHHH I scream and turn on the lights all three of the 9th grade girls were on the ground cracking up. With tears down my face I scream at them “WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME I THOUGHT YOU WERE NICE TO ME I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND” you really thought I was your friend I’ve hated you since the 4th grade when you were talking to my boyfriend” Lindsey said back to me. “This was all just a set up and we videotaped it and I’m going to send it to the whole school.

5 years later when Jennifer is 18 I still haven’t gotten over that day I’m still scared of the dark, I’m shy and I can’t sleep unless I get so tired my eyes can’t stay open and I still hate that girl who did that to me. Sometimes I wish I would have turned away after I rang that doorbell.

10/17 Lindsey: “hey you want to come to my Halloween party on Saturday?” Jennifer: “Me? Your 2 years older than me why would you invite me” Lindsey: “because I want to invite you. Trust me it’s going to be so much fun so are you coming or not?” Jennifer: “yea ill come” Alexis: “good so see you at Lindsey’s house at 7 on Saturday” Jennifer: “ok see you then” Saturday at 7 o’clock at Lindsey’s house Jennifer: (rings doorbell) Lindsey: “oh hey Jennifer good to see you could make it” Jennifer: “thanks for inviting me. So what are we going to do first?” Lindsey: “let’s go play truth or dare” Jennifer: “ok” Lindsey: “Priscilla why don’t you go first” Priscilla: “ok, Lindsey I dare you to eat a whole cupcake” Lindsey: “easy as pie” Priscilla: “ok Lindsey your turn” Lindsey: “ok, Alexis I dare you to knock-knock ditch my neighbor’s house” Alexis: “ok” (Alexis runs crossed Lindsey’s neighbor’s house rings the door bell and runs back locking the door from behind) Lindsey: “ok Alexis your turn (Lindsey winking at Alexis) Alexis: “ok, Jennifer I dare you to go into the bathroom, with the lights off and say bloody Marie 3 times” Jennifer: what happens when I say it 3 times? Lindsey: “bloody Marie will appear and scare you, she’s really scary.” Jennifer: (nervously) “ok will you guys do it with me” Lindsey: “yea sure but you have to say it” All 4 of the girls go into the bathroom and turn off the light. Jennifer: bloody Marie, bloody Marie, and bloody Marie. (Opens her eyes) “Nothing happen… guys? (Looks around for other girls, turns around and suddenly sees girls with blood all over her face). (Screams) All the other girls, on the ground laughing. Jennifer: why would you do that? That really scared me (still crying) Lindsey: you really think that we would invite you if we weren’t going to do that? That was the plan the whole time to scare you. Jennifer: that’s not very nice. Alexis: your 12 we’re 14. If we weren’t going to scare we wouldn’t have invited you.

10/16


 * Characters- Jennifer (little girl), Lindsy (older mean girl), Alexis (older mean girl 2), and Priscella (mean girl 3)
 * Setting- Lindsy's house for a Halloween slumber party
 * Problem/Goal- 3 mean girls invite a younger girl to a slumber party and dare her to do bloody marie in the bathroom when she turns around one of the mean girls
 * Rising Action- girl gets scared by a prank while doing bloody Marie in a bathroom
 * Climax- she gets scared and realizes that the three girls on invited her because they wanted to prank her
 * Resolution- girl finally gets over the prank when she turns 18 and she realizes that bloody Marie is fake.

10/15 I think that I’m doing well in English. I have an A, and I have been helpful and I have not been of off task. I do very well with working with others and getting my work done. I think that I will maintain a good grade in English and stay organized. I think it’s good to stay organize and maintain a good grade because if you don’t then you can’t participate I fun school activities like the Ipartys and other school activities. I also think that it is good to stay organized so that if you need school work and you can’t find it then that brings your grades down and your citizenship grade also. What I think I should do better in the future is write longer and more detailed paragraphs. I also think that I should spend more time on my homework. What I can also do in the future is read my independent reading more often.

10/11 So far in English class the purpose was to learn how to write a persuasive letter. We started by writing some thing and coming up with evidence to support the letter. Then we wrote a essay on how kids should or shouldn't be on reality television and we had to use evidence from the article we read i class. Another thing that we did in English class was write a persuasive letter to Mr. Kline about what we want to see change in our school. The last thing that we did was write a 5 paragraph essay on how bullying is bad we had to include evidence, we had to include thing that other people said, we had to include a supporting paragraph to support the idea and we had to include references at the end of the essay to show people where we got our evidence from.

10/10 I think that I’m doing well in English. I have an A, and I have been helpful and I have not been of off task. I do very well with working with others and getting my work done. I think that I will maintain a good grade in English and stay organized. I think it’s good to stay organize and maintain a good grade because if you don’t then you can’t participate I fun school activities like the Ipartys and other school activities. I also think that it is good to stay organized so that if you need school work and you can’t find it then that brings your grades down and your citizenship grade als What I think I should do better in the future is write longer and more detailed paragraphs. I also think that I should spend more time on my homework. What I can also do in the future is read my independent reading more often.