Jillian's+Journal

5/5/14 Last week I got a new book. This book has been pretty popular lately and I finally have the chance to read it. The book is called The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The book is about an 18 year old girl named Hazel Grace who has cancer and meets a boy who is a cancer survivor named Augustus Waters.

4/30/14 Today in PE we took a test about field and track. The test was all about the safety of track and field and what we have to do I didn’t get to finish my test because there wasn’t enough time. I am not looking forward to track and field because I don’t like to run a lot.

4/28/14 All this week is testing week the schedule is all switched around and 2nd period is 2 hours long and all the other periods are 36 minutes long. Common core is the tests were taking this year. The tests are all on the computer, which I find very annoying because today there were, a lot of glitches with the program. I would rather do them on paper because it would waste as much time and it’s easier. I don’t like to do testing because I find them very hard and stressful. Its also really easy to get distracted while your taking the test because a lot of people could be talking or doing something besides the test. I am not looking forward to testing for the rest of the week because I find test stressful and I don’t like taking them. But its good to get them over with and its only for a week so I think I can make it. 163 words

4/25/14 Today in my book Elisa (the princess) and Alejandro (the king) are traveling to Alejandro’s land to be king and queen there. Before they went to his land they went back to her land and said goodbye to all her friends and family. While she was saying goodbye to her sister her sister said something that sounded like a warning. She said that Elisa cannot trust anybody only her husband her sister and her personal nurse because she is very close with them. Her sister also said that she is sending pigeons with her so if she needs to contact her in emergences that she can write a letter and send the pigeons. When her sister told her that I made me think that something bad in the book is going to happen soon. I think this because Elisa says that her sister dislikes her and doesn’t ever talk to her and if her sister tells her to call her in emergences then she must not dislike her that much because she is looking out for her and making sure she is safe. 184 words

4/24/14 I read some more of my book, at this part of the story the princess and the king just got married and they are starting to get to know each other because before they did not know each other and they only married each other for the country that he lives in. I think this is a really good book because it has a lot of detail and I can image what every thing looks like and I can imagine what is going on in the book.

4/23/14 The book I checked out of the library it called //The Girl of Fire and Thorns// by Rae Carson the book is about a girl who lives in a palace and is forced to marry a king so she can become queen. The first 6 pages were about how she didn’t want to marry him. She’s 16 and she was talking about how she doesn’t understand how she has to marry him and not her older sister. She said the kings of the prince she is being forced to marry was saying that she wasn’t pretty like her sister but she was clever and the people like her so she has to marry him.

4/22/14 On Sunday my softball team did what you call “folded”. Folded means when the softball team is no longer together. My coach doesn’t want to coach us anymore because his daughter got an invitation to go to a better team. This news was very surprising and depressing. My team has been together for 4 years now and we made the team we are on now to keep all of us together. It was surprising because my coach didn’t give a lot of us a warning and now that we don’t have a team we can’t play softball. Also not everyone on the team has enough money to go on a different team that has the same level of competition that we did travel ball teams are really expensive and a lot of the families on the team don’t have enough money to pay for it. I am very sad that my team is no longer together because now all my really close friends wont be able to see each other anymore and I don’t have a team to play with. It’s very hard to go on a different team right now because not everyone is looking for a player.

4/15/14 Social media has taken over our lives. Almost everyone I know has a social media account my parents, my sister, my teachers, and my friends. Social media is the new way of keeping in touch with other people. There are old and new social media websites, for example Facebook, instagram, twitter there is a lot more but I would never be able to name them all. Social media could be good and bad. The good about social media is that you can keep in touch with your friends or people you don’t see anymore. The bad about social media is that a lot of people get bullied on it. Social Media is a really easy way of bullying because people could hide who they are and bully you so they don’t have to face the consequences. I think a lot of people have to be really careful one their social media accounts to make sure they don’t give out personal information. There is a lot of different bad things people could do to others on social media. 177 words

4/14/14 Paige’s blog about bullying is pretty good she has good detail and good quotes. She explains how bullying impacts people’s life and she explains that people don’t realize that other students are being bullied. She tells the readers that being a bystander is almost as bad as being a victim. She says that people get bullied more at school at the teachers don’t pay any attention to it until they do something like taking their lives. The comments I see this class putting is not bad some use good grammar and some don’t. One of the comments that I saw wasn’t even about the article. Other than those comments most of them were good and help the other student to make their blog better.

4/7/14 For the teacher Story Mr. Moss graded it an A, I think that grade was fair because my story had what a teacher does at work, how he or she has to get around obstacles and dialog. My story was 1 and a half page long and it had about 3 characters. My story was not finished and I still had to wright about the teacher’s day and how he teaches. I think that for my story only being half way done, I think it was good.

On the Language Skills Reflection Mr. Moss graded it a D at 60% I think that this grade was fair because I didn’t do the other half of the assignment. I only did my 3 paragraphs about what I think my worst, average, and best writing was. The other half of the assignment was to write about how good I think I am at reading, writing, listening, and speaking. I didn’t have time to do that assignment and when I finish it the grade on that will go up. For the three paragraphs I think I did well on I explained how I thought my best, average, and worst writing was.

3/21/14 This weekend I am going to a tournament in San Clamente. Last weekend my team won all 4 of my games. This weekend is the first tournament in a while. Our first game is at 8 am so we have to be at the fields at 6:45 which means I have to wake up at 5:00 to get ready and leave because the drive is 45 minutes and its going to take a while for me to get dressed and have breakfast. Sometimes I don’t want to play softball because its a lot of work I have practice 6 days of the week and games on two of those games. Softball is a lot of work but it’s worth it because I have good health and it’s a lot of fun. You always have to work hard to get to something or be good at something. I’ve been playing with my teams for 4 years and we always have a great time playing together. We are all really close and I feel that it’s a blessing to have a lot of people that are that close to me other than my family. 192 words

3/20/14 A list of things that make me happy. 10.My best friend 11.Old pictures/Videos 12.My sister 13.Drawing 14.ASB 15.Meeting new people 16.Church 17.Movies
 * 1) 1. My dog
 * 2) 2. My cousin
 * 3) 3. Friends
 * 4) 4. Softball
 * 5) 5. My family
 * 6) 6. Taking pictures
 * 7) 7. Our2ndLife
 * 8) 8. Music
 * 9) 9. Food

3/17/14 This weekend was really tiring. On Saturday I had to babysit my 2 nephews until 2:30 and on Sunday I had 4 softball games starting at 7:00 am till 5:00 pm. That is 5 hours of softball. Anyway we won all 4 of our games. The first one we won 4-1, the second one I won 5-3, the third one I won 15-2 and the fourth one I won 5-2. I think I did pretty well I pitched an inning and hit the ball up the middle but the short stop caught the ball. I think my team did way better than last week because last week we didn’t win a single one of our games. But it doesn’t matter because they are just friendly’s which are just practice games to get ready for big tournaments. Coming up in July I have a big World Series tournament in Reno. We are practicing hard for that.

3/14/14 On my progress report I got the GPA of 3.1 I have 3 A’s, 2 B’s, and still that one C. I got my grade up in 2 classes and I’m still working on getting my grade in math up. In my citizenship grade I have all E’s which stand for excellent. In a lot of my classes I don’t talk a lot because none of my really good friends are in my class. I always just wait till lunch if I ever have to say something that isn’t school related. That’s why I think I have an E. Today is Friday, which means the weekend is here.

3/12/14 I got 2 of my B’s up to an A and now I have a 3.5. Last time I wrote about my grades it was in the beginning of the 2nd semester and I was talking about how I wanted to have all A’s. Right now I have 3 A’s, 2 B’s, and 1 C. with those grades I will be able to go to the Iparty but I don’t think it’s the best I can do. I know that I am capable of having an 4.0 but its hard to keep my grades up because if you get a bad grade on something it drops your grade down really fast and its really hard to get it back up.

3/11/14 If I had a chance to change one thing about myself I wouldn’t change anything not because I think I’m perfect but because I know that I am the way I am for a reason and there’s no good reason to change yourself. Some people may think that they aren’t perfect but in somebody’s eyes you are. Nobody is perfect and if people think they are ugly or not perfect in anyway they are wrong. Other people are have more looks than others but everybody has a part of them maybe their personality or the way they act around others. Everyone is perfect in there own ways and if somebody thinks they aren’t perfect they are wrong. 118 words

3/10/14 The difference in the book and the movie the outsiders was the beginning. In the beginning of the book PonyBoy was walking home from the movies and the socs jumped him. But in the movie it open on him righting an essay then it goes into another scene of him outside of the movies with Darry and SodaPop. In the movie they left out how he gets jumped by a socs and his brothers come and help him. I think that’s a major part that they left out because it shows how caring SodaPop was and how Darry reacted to how PonyBoy was reacting to the fight. It tells what the characteristics were in the two brothers. If someone who didn’t read the book before the movie they wouldn’t know what the relationship was between the 3 brothers.

3/4/14 When I write about my sequel about The Outsider I am going to write about 2 months after the book everything is normal the socs and the Greasers get along and don’t cause fights anymore but when a group of some socs little brothers start a fight at school with some Greasers and when PonyBoy old English teacher finds out he contacts PonyBoy telling him about what happen and PonyBoy reads the essay he wrote to the little boys they realize that the fighting has to stop before anything bad happens like PonyBoy.

3/3/14 Yesterday I got my hair cut. I didn’t want to do something really weird or not normal. So I just cut 2 inches off my ends and I cut my bang. My bangs are kind of annoying because I can’t put them up in a ponytail and when I’m trying to do something they always get in the way. When the hairdressers did my hair they washed it in this sink and now my hair is super soft. I don’t like to cut my hair too much because I like my hair long. I do not like short hair because its really hard to put up and when I play softball my hair has to be up out of my face. I haven’t gotten my hair cut in a really long time the last time I went was in November. My hair had really bad dead ends and it looked really bad. Now that I cut my hair I love it. 161 words

1/28/14 The enchanted camera, tell a story or write a construction manual. When I was a little girl I was very interested in vintage or old things. One day I was going threw my grandmothers basement and I found an old camera. This camera did not look like the kind of cameras that we used this camera had many different color buttons and it stretched out really far. This camera did not have a screen where I could see what picture I took “oh, no” my grandmother said “this camera prints that pictures out on its own.” A Polaroid camera she told me. After I asked her if I could keep the camera she looked a little surprised but she let me keep it anyway. That night something weird happened when I took the camera home and took my first picture with it the picture didn’t look right the picture I had taken wasn’t on there, it looked like to me that the picture was of time square in New York there were lost of people and the people on the picture were moving and I could hear voices. I thought to myself, I thought grandma said that this camera doesn’t take pictures. Then I thought maybe I was going crazy with all that dust that was in the basement it could be possible. I decided to just go to sleep and see if I was actually going crazy. The next morning right when I woke up I looked at the picture. The people on it were still moving there were many cars and people walking. That day I walked over to my grandma’s house and asked her if she noticed anything weird about this camera. When I asked her she looked confused and told me that when she was a little girl that she only used the camera once and put it back in the box and stuffed it in the basement. So that’s exactly what I did when I realized I had an enchanted camera. 336 words

1/27/14 Describe someone who is a hero to you and explain why. Someone who I a hero to me is my mom. My mom is a really big hero to me because she is always helpful and is always doing things for my family. Without her I wouldn’t be here today and my family wouldn’t be the same. Without her in my life I would’ve gotten threw the things that I needed someone by my side to help me threw those things. Sometimes she doesn’t think that I appreciate the things that she does for me but I really do I appreciate every little thing that she does for me from getting me food to picking me up when I’m sad. In my eyes my mom is a hero she is very strong and amazing. Without my mom my family would be a mess we wouldn’t get a lot of things done. 153 words

2/26/14 I hate being sick because I have to miss school and when I come back have so much work to do for all of my classes. Another reason why I hate being sick so much is because I cant do anything but lay in bed and that’s really boring to do for 2 days straight. As you can tell recently I have been sick I missed yesterday and Mondays day of school so now I have 3 times the homework I originally had. All I did for 2 days were sleep do nothing in my room because I couldn’t move. I had the flu. I had a really bad cough with a stuffy nose and a sore throat. When I got back to school I didn’t know anything that was going on in math and I found out that I have a project that I due tomorrow for history.

2/21/14 I am going to have a great weekend, on Saturday I’m going to go to my aunts house. Uncle Joey and I will go on a plane to mobile Alabama and on that plane we will see the movie called The Chicken and The Dog. After that I’ll ask Uncle Joey which bread is the best. He told me that Tay is writhing about medieval manors.

There’s a new app on the app store for Google and Apple products and its called talking Angela the whole point of the game is to talk to this cat and a robot talks back to you. People are saying that the game got hacked by a man and the guy watches you threw the screen and stalks you. I don’t believe that its true because if it was Google and Apple would of already had the app down and disconnected form the store.

2/19/14 2 years ago I broke my growth plate on my right foot and was in a cast for 6 weeks. 1 week ago I sprained my right foot and injured my growth plate again. After walking with a boot for a week I went to an urgent care, there they x-rayed my foot and told me to call them the next day for the results. So the next day my dad called the doctor and they said that it wasn’t broken but because I broke my growth plate then injured the same spot that I irritated the brake and my foot is going to be injured ongoing for the rest of my life. The doctor informed me that I could still play softball and that I will be able to walk without pain but I have to know my limits and I have to make sure not to push to hard or I can hurt it again. My doctor also said that I have a greater chance of spraining my foot again and to be careful and get more protective shoes. So last night I went to a shoe store called Road Runner that store is known for the worlds largest shoe store and they also make custom made soles to go into your shoes. So last night I met with a worker at the store and they made me my custom sole it go into my shoe because I have a very high arch in my foot and it will help my foot injury. And I got new shoes that I can run in and do PE in. hopefully this will help the pain go away faster so I can begin playing softball again. 285 words

2/18/14 So far this semester I have all A’s but one b and a c and the reason that I have a C is because my teacher messed up on one of my grades. In science we did a video on the eye and had questions but I was absent and on PowerSchool in the description it says that if I was absent to tell my teacher and she would excuse me but my teacher was not here today so I will have to talk to her about it tomorrow. In English I have a B but I asked Mr. Moss and he said I can makeup my missing assignment. But in all of my other classes I have A’s. This semester I am trying to be on top of my grades and make sure that if I missed an assignment that I can make it up and to turn in all of my work. 154 words

2/3/14 This weekend I have my first tournament with my new softball team. The team isn’t really new because we have been together for 4 years now but we had to change our name and the league we were in because we wanted better competition. We used to be called Coastal Chaos but because we moved leagues we had to change the name to Fearless. But anyway we have been practicing for this up coming tournament for a while now. The tournament we are going to is called the TCS February Frost Tournament and if we get a high rank in this tournament we will be qualified for the World Series in July. We already are qualified and going to the World Series but its always good to qualify again. But this upcoming tournament this weekend is our first tournament with travel softball teams. Travel softball teams are more completive than playing in the league because the girls are more experienced and have been playing for a long time. I’m kind of nervous for this tournament because it’s a higher level of softball that we have only seen and few times. 190 words

1/31 1) PonyBoy says about Darryl, "He's hard as a rock and about as human." Explain this simile. Use other evidence from //The Outsiders.//

That simile relates to Darryl because in the book the three brothers lost their parents in a car accident and since Darryl is the oldest out of the three brothers he has to take care of them and because they live in such a dangerous place where a lot of crime happens Darryl has to be strict in order to keep the 2 other brothers. PonyBoy mentions in the book that SodaPop is always happy-go-lucky and grinning and then Darryl is all hard and firm. So in the book SodaPop is like the mom and Darryl is like the father taking care of PonyBoy.

2) Compare and contrast any two characters from //The Outsiders// (except Darryl). Better essays contain more inference. In other words, it's better to write about that you have to figure out, like personality traits, then to write about something explicitly stated in the text.

In the book there are two characters that are very opposite to each other, they are Johnny and Darry. Johnny is very shy and quiet. In the book it says that Johnny was abused by his parents and he has never been the loud one in the gang and that Darry was always the trouble maker in the gang and always stealing things. But even though they are very different Darry and Johnny were always getting along and Darry was always keeping an eye out for Johnny.

3) Foreshadowing is when a story gives a hint to what's going to happen next. (Can you think of any examples from a movie or The Pearl?) When the PonyBoy tells us "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong." Predict what that might foreshadow? There is no one correct answer, but you reply should make sense in the context of the book and be well-written.

In the book it’s said, “Johnny was breathing heavily and I noticed he was staring at they Soc’s hand. He was wearing three heavy rings.” That reminded me of when the book said that the Soc’s that one of the Soc’s that Jumped Johnny had rings on his hand and that’s what cut up Johnny’s face so badly, then I thought that that was why Johnny was so scared.

1/28/14
 * 1) Yes, you can borrow my car, but you must return it by 11:00 PM.
 * 2) An alligator caused a fright when it escaped from the Bronx Zoo.
 * 3) Mr. Lundberg’s class planted an oak tree along the walking trail on Arbor Day.

1/27/14 The book //The Outsiders// is a really good book by S.E Hinton. It’s about 3 brothers named Ponyboy, Dairy, and Sodapop. What I think is going to happen next is Ponyboys gang is going to get into a fight with the Socs and something bad will happen.

1/17/14 The character traits of Katniss from the popular book series and movie The Hunger Games are strong, mature, brave, and loving. Katniss is strong because she went into the hunger games not knowing what to do and how to play and ended up winning the whole games. She is mature because she took care of her younger sister when you mother was under depression and she helped raise her family and she got food for her family when others couldn’t. She is brave because she volunteered herself to go into the hunger games for her sister. She is loving because she takes loves her sister and helps her mom threw the hard times that her family has. Those are the character traits I think Katniss has 126 words

1/16/14 It’s unbelievable how fast the school year goes by. It feels like just a week ago I was first starting school and not knowing where to go and getting lost in the halls. Now it’s been 4 months and I know where to go and what to do. Its crazy knowing that just in 5 months were going to be going into summer vacation and after that I will be in 8th grade. Its weird how I always dread going back to school and not wanting to go to school everyday. But then the school day goes by so fast and before you know it is already the end of school and were going home. But the school year goes past so fast. 123 words

1/15/14 My goal for the end of the semester is to get my C in pre algebra up to a high B. In pre algebra I only have 2 missing assignments and my teacher told me that I can turn them into him by tomorrow so I am making myself do it for homework and my grade will be up to at least a B. In science I want to get my grade up to an A because right now my grade is a high B so tonight I am going to make sure I have everything done in my notebook and I am going to try to get a good grade on my notebook quiz tomorrow. And in history I have a B so I want to get my grade up to an A. For history I am going to find missing projects or assignments and turn them in so that can bump my grade higher. Those are my goals for the end of the semester. In the new semester I am going to make sure I do everything I can to get good grades. I will study, get all of my homework done, and see if I can do any extra credit. 203 words

1/14/14 Earlier this week I realized that I don’t realize the real things I need in life. A couple days ago my plumbing stopped working. So we couldn’t use the toilet, shower, or sink. If we wanted to go to use the shower we had to use my grandmothers and I had to brush my teeth with the sink in my kitchen. I don’t realize that I don’t need a lot of things but the things that I do need I don’t realize. Like for example the toilet I’ve never thought, “wow I’m very thankful that I have a working toilet” because some people don’t. All those little things that I have in my life help me every day and most of the time I don’t realize that could be someone who lives on the streets or I could be one of those kids who don’t have clean water and have to travel just to get water. I’m just now realizing that I’m very blessed that I have the things that I have even if they aren’t such a big deal in my life. 183 words

1/13/14 Yesterday was my birthday and I turned 13. On Saturday my six friends and I went to corvette diner. I think we were the loudest people in that restaurant. At corvette diner we had an hour and a half wait so we played in the arcade and we went outside and took pictures on the new canon camera I got for Christmas. After we ate we got balloon animals that soon popped when I dropped it in the grass. After we got home we did these challenges that were really hard, one of them was the cinnamon challenge, the cinnamon challenge is where you have to swallow a teaspoon of cinnamon and its supposed to burn your throat and who ever swallows it with out spitting the cinnamon out wins, I lost. Finally at 3:00 in the morning we went to bed. Then when we woke up we went to the Claremont square and watched a movie and hung out there. 161 words

1/10/14 Recently I started the Imiddle news. If you didn’t already know it’s a News video that goes out to the whole school about new and up coming events and announcements. The video goes out in SURGE every Monday or Tuesday. In Imiddle news I’m not going to be on camera because I’m the 2nd director. So I’m being trained to be director when the current director goes to high school next year. The Imiddle news is a lot harder than it looks. You have to make sure that the sound is right, the lighting is right, the clap bored says the right information, and the teleprompt says the right stuff. Then after all the filming is shot we have to take it back and edit it all. Its even harder to be a director because if something goes wrong it all get blamed on me. 145 words

1/9/14 Today in PE we played football. I have never played football before but all week we have been practicing football. My teacher picked our teams and my team had one player that plays football out of school and all the other players never played before. Even though most of the players on my team didn’t know how to play we were still really good. We started playing on Monday and my class was practicing Monday and Tuesday on Wednesday we had to run ¾ of a mile with our team. It was kind of hard because on my team there is fast runners and there is slow runner then there’s some people that don’t run fast or slow. So all the slow runners had to speed up and all the fast runners had to slow down so the whole team could run together. If we didn’t run together we had to wait for the people that were behind and it would take more time. All that practicing lead up to today and tomorrow we will be playing against each other. The football that we are playing is flag football so we wear flags around our waist and the other players have to pull the flags of in order for the player to drop the ball. 215 words

1/8/14 In 4 days on the 12th it will be my birthday and I will be turning 13. For the past 3 years I haven’t had a birthday party. So this year I want to have a small birthday party. I don’t want to spend a lot of money on my party because I know my parents don’t have a lot of money considering that Christmas just past. All I want to do I have 7 friends come over and have a sleep over. At my birthday party I wanted to have my friends meet at the bay and have a bon fire. Then go back to my house and watch movies, eat pizza and hang out. Then the next day I will be the 12th. On Sunday I am going to have a small dinner at my grand parents for my family birthday party. I haven’t had a birthday party in 3 years and my last birthday party was a bon fire. 162 words

1/7/14 In one month I will be moving to my grand parents house. I will still be living in Claremont. But I have to share a room with my 18-year-old sister. Not only will I be sharing a room with her but also I have to share a bed with her because there is not enough space in the room we will be staying in. My sister and I get along pretty well but when it comes to my bedroom I like everything clean and organized. My sister is the opposite. Her bedroom is a mess and it has been for the 3 years we have been staying at my house. Its sucks that I have to share a room with her because it will be hard to keep the room clean. But because we are staying with my grand parents house my mom and I are going to clean out the office that they never use and make it my bedroom, but that wont be till later after we move there. Even though I am going to have to share a room with my sister I am looking forward to staying with my grand parents because when I was little I lived 7 houses down from my grand parents and we would spend a lot of time with them. But when I moved we stopped going over there. Now that we are going to be living with them I can spend as much time with them considering that I only have so much time with them. 256 words

1/6/14 Today was the first day back to school from winter break. Over winter break I did a lot of stuff. On the first day of winter break I had a sleep over with my friend because she left to go to Arizona. The week after that was Christmas. On Christmas day we open gifts at my house then went over to my grandparents house. When we were finished opening gifts there we went back to my house and got ready for my family to come over for Christmas dinner. After Christmas was New Years. On New Years Eve I had a party at my house. All of my friends and family a came over and we play games and listened to music. At 12:00 am we all screamed and sang happy birthday to my friend who’s birthday was on January 1st. Later that day a group of friends and I went ice-skating and shopped in the mall. After all that I just stayed at home and waited for school to come. 171 words

12/16/13 This is the last week of school until we go to winter break. Over winter break will be Christmas and for Christmas my family is going to be coming over to my house and opening presents and eating Christmas dinner. In my family there are 30 people. They are all coming to my house and eating dinner. Every year at Christmas we all go up to my aunts house in Sun City. But because it is to far for my whole family to travel to so instead my family is going to my house. Some other things that I will do over the break will probably be hanging out with my friends, playing softball, going to my grandparent’s house, and relaxing. After winter break we will be in a new year, it will be 2014.

12/10/13

On the 21st of December my best friend Maria is moving to Arizona. I have known Maria for 4 years and she has been my best friend since the 3rd grade. Now that she is moving I wont have anyone to do stuff with. Maria has done everything together, like when we were in 6th grade we went to a circus and a One Direction Concert. Because she is living I am very sad knowing that I wont have my best friend with me. Maria goes to my church every Tuesday, she goes to my school, and she comes to my house every Tuesday and Thursday. So obviously we spend a lot of time together. Maria and I have been threw everything together if it was school drama or our little arguments we get in. she has always been there for me and even thought we are in different places doesn’t mean I cant see her. We promised each other that we would video chat and talk all the time. She will be moving away but she will always be my best friend.

11/14/13 "Kino don't you think the doctor is up to something? An hour ago Coyotito was fine and asleep and after the doctor came and gave him the medicine he began to be sick again. if you ask me that's a little strange." "Yes I had a bad feeling about him coming into the house and just all of a sudden. Just two nights ago he wouldn't treat my baby when he was ill." Kino answered "Yes and now hes going to have to treat you're baby and hes going to take your pearl." "Another strange think I thought the doctor did was when he asked me where I had hidden the pearl" Kino said "Yea there's something strange about this guy and i don't like it" "Well Coyotito is no very ill so he has to treat him" Kino said.

11/12/13 Evidence- The lawyer needed evidence to make sure that the person was correct.

Infer- I knew that my mom was trying to end the conversation with the costumer because she said she had to go to my doctor’s appointment but I didn’t have a doctor’s appointment.

Synthesize- His words synthesize his feelings.

Significant- He was very significant about what he was saying.

Benefit- She had a very big benefit with her dad being the president of the soccer league.

Inference- I made an inference when I did something wrong.

11/7/13 I think that the poem means that a lot of people all that they want is money and that everything in this world you need money for like you need money for food because if you don’t have food you can die, you need money for clothes because if you don’t have clothes then you would be bare all day and when its cold you can freeze to death, you need money for houses but if you don’t have a house your homeless like some people in this world. You need money for men and woman because when you are born you have to pay to go to the hospital, and you need money for the time to be lazy and listen to music because you need some kind of device to listen to music and you have to pay money to get that device. So I think what the author is trying to say is that is horrible to think that you need money to just live and take care of yourself. Because in the beginning of the poem it says that money is the root of evil.

10/31

I'm not too young to be going trick or treating tonight. I'm going to dress up as Dorothy from //The Wizard of Oz//. When i go too my neighbors' house, i will get Snickers, Skittles, and other candy, its going to be a lot of fun.

10/29 An Event That Changed My Life An event that changed my life is when my niece was born. When my niece was born I was very young, I was six, when my niece was born it taught me to be mature and take care of my niece when I needed to and I taught me how to take care of young children correctly. Now I am 12 and I am more responsible than my 18-year-old sister, and I baby-sit my 5 nieces and nephews. A lot of people my age aren’t as mature and me and I think its because I'm always in charge of a child so I have no time to act like one. I want to be a good roll model to my nieces and nephews I don’t want them to grow up and be bad children I also don’t want them to think of me as a child because I want them to look up to me. The reason I think that when my niece was born was an event that changed my life is because it made a good aunt and me responsible.

10/28 On monday at Hidden Valley Park in Arizona we played baseball against the Los Angeles Chickens. We played better then the last time. We won and went to the coaches house for pizza.

10/24/13 My brother bill and I went too a movie called //The// F//ast and the Furious// and then we went to Joe's house and ate some of his moms meatloaf and then he and I played basketball at Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

10/14/13 My favorite sport is softball because it the only sport that I play, only girls can play softball, and if your on a softball team you begin to become really close with you teammates and you can trust them. Another reason why I love softball is because have been playing softball for 8 years so its kind of become my life. I practice 4 times a week and I play games on the weekends. Another reason why I love softball is because it keeps me healthy and active.

10/1/13 Yesterday, Uncle Bob and I went to a movie called //An American Werewolf// //in London.// We went to the Chuck E Cheese in Los Angeles. We then played //Mario Kart// on the Nintendo Wii.

9/30/13 My favorite movies are the //Wizard Of Oz//, //Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows//, and //The// //Princess and the Pea//. I also saw //Charlie and the Chocolate Factory// when I was visiting New York City.

9/26/13 My favorite movie is “42” it’s a movie about Jackie Robinson and his life. It starts with him playing for an all black league. Then one day the manager for the Dodgers asked him to play on the team. Him and his wife get married. It shows him at the spring training and him getting picked on by all the other teammates just because the color of his skin. It shows him playing on the team and him getting kicked off of the field because his skin color. There was a lot of discrimination he wasn’t aloud in a hotel he wasn’t aloud on the field sometimes. Then it shows his manager selling him to another team. Eventually the movie ended and African Americans were aloud to lay with whites in the national baseball league.

9/25/13 //Battle of the Year// You’ve Got a Friend in Me //Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs// Gangam Style //The Wizard of Oz// Chicken Dance //A Bug’s Life// Party in my Tummy //Winnie the Pooh// Payphone //Toy Story// Wreaking Ball //Harry Potter// Royals

9/24/13 My hobby is reading or listening to music. When I read it takes all the things that are on my mind and they all go away. When I read I go from the real world and put myself in the world that’s in the book. I always imagine my self and imagine what the world would look like if I were the main character. And when I listed to music it just calms me and makes everything little thing that bothers me goes away. Whenever I listen to music I always feel like I’m alone. I always listen to music, I listen to music when I’m in the shower, before a softball game, when I’m getting ready in the morning, when I’m doing homework, and when I’m not doing anything. Just listening to music.

9/23/13 One time when I was really little I was lying down in the car on the drive home from chucky cheese and I didn’t want to put my seat belt on I remember my sister and I fighting over me putting on my seat belt. That night there was 7 people in my car and it was 12:00 AM. I don’t remember much just that I had my whole family in my car and we were all super tired. When my mom was turning down my street she crashed into a fence and I flung up to the windshield.Then I remember going to the hospital in an ambulance and my mom being right next to me. The doctor said that there wasn’t anything wrong and I wasn’t hurt but they just wanted to make sure I didn’t get any head injuries. Nobody was hurt just really shocked. Now I always wear my seat belt.

09/19/13 Going back to school after summer is like rain on the weekend, it’s like your mom telling you no to going to your best friends house. It sucks, you go without school for 3 months, you go to the beach, the movies, and you go outside in the sun. Its amazing then at the end of those 3 months you have to go to school for 9 months. Nobody wants to end there summer inside a stuffy classroom doing schoolwork. In San Diego the first week of school is always the hottest. So badly does everyone want to go to the pool or to the beach but they cant because they're in school. Another thing that sucks is you go without school work for a whole 3 months and then when you go back to school you have so many work and your brain is so dead.

09/20/13 Three goals I set for myself are to go to college, to play softball in college, and to be successful.I want to go to college to study marine biology. I want to because I have always loves the ocean and the creations inside of it. I’ve always thought that the animals were so interesting and amazing. Many times have I gone to the aquarium and studied the animals. Another reason why I want to go to college is because college seems to be so cool to go and live somewhere you really want to go to study something you want to do.I want to play softball in college because I’ve played softball for 9 years. It’s like my life. It would be so cool if I could play against other teams from other states or maybe even continents. And I want to be very successful because who doesn’t want to be successful and have a good job that make you wealthy. Hopefully when I’m out of school I will be successful with my life and my job.