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This is my Mandarin Movie that I made with Kate and Emily. We had to make a movie about a Chinese holiday, so we did The Mid-Autumn festival. Xin said that we did a good job, but we needed to focus on our movie making skills a little bit more.
This picture is showing good note taking because it’s neat and I got all of the information that I needed to get. It is neat and clear, so when I look back on it to study, I can tell what I wrote. I looked back into my notebook and I realized that I’m very good at note taking, so I don’t really have any bad notes.
In vocal majors we have been singing a bunch of different songs. I have been put in the swing sections, so that means I sing both alto and soprano in different songs. My goal for the trimester is to focus on my notes. Sometimes I end up singing the soprano part when I should be singing the alto part, or the other way around. From now on I’m going to focus on listening to the notes that I’m supposed to be singing. I think that I am able to focus in the classroom.
In this picture, I am working on my value chart in art class. There are four different techniques in each chart. The one that I’m working on is the stipple. To do a stipple, you have to make a bunch on tiny dots. You can’t do this in pencil, so we used Sharpies.
I love math. My favorite year of math so far is 5th grade. For some reason, it all just clicked for me. I had never loved math in lower school. Math and I had a strange relationship. I would dread going to class every day and I would rush my homework as much as I could. My parents always pushed me to do better in math and I would always complain about it. But when I got to middle school, something about the learning environment or being in middle school made me start to love it.
Last year, I struggled a little bit. I think that I just wasn’t taking that many notes, so I fell a little bit behind. Also, Margaret was very helpful in having me take more notes and slowing down when I asked questions. Over the summer, my parents had me do a math tutor* and I think that REALLY helped. I will be continuing doing to extra math during the year, to help me with all of my homework.
I love math because of how precise it is. I love to organize things and I feel like math is just organizing numbers. I dislike math because it can be hard. My parents and lower school teachers have told me that I don’t work as hard as I can, and you have to work really hard in math.
I think that I am a good math student, because math is normally the class that I get the best grades in. My routine for studying is when I get home, I do all my homework and study afterword. I try to study for about 15 minutes in each subject. When I get stuck, I always have to remind myself to ask questions, because my instinct is to just ask a friend later.
A few things that you might want to know about me:
My favorite operation is multiplication.
My least favorite is division.
My favorite type of math is geometry because I like finding the area and perimeter of everything. After we learned geometry in 6th grade, I went home and found all of the triangles in my house and measured them.
I am really looking forward to this year in math!
*It isn’t exactly a tutor, it’s just to help me keep up my skills during the year. (At least, that’s what my parents told me.)
For annotations in this book, I made a list of character traits for Winnie Foster and Jesse Tuck. I also gave evidence for each trait.
For Winnie:
Fiesty- ” ‘I will, though. You’ll see. Maybe even first thing tomorrow, while they’re all sleeping.’ ” Page 13. In this quote, Winnie is talking about running away from her family. Her family is very orderly and strict, but Winnie doesn’t feel that way.
Grateful- Throughout the whole time that Winnie is staying with the Tucks, they are asking her how she is and if her bed is okay and so on. When they ask her, she says that everything is good in an especially grateful way.
Scornful-” ‘It sounds like a music box.’ ” Page 21. Winnie says this after her grandmother thinks there is elf music in the forest. Winnie doesn’t believe her, just thinking that it’s a music box. “Winnie did not believe in fairy tales. She had never longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince, and was scornful-most of the time-of her grandmother’s elves. ” Page 42. (In a way, she is a lot like me!)
For Jesse:
Secretive-“He looked at her anxiously. ‘Well, me, I’ll drink anything. I mean, I’m used to it. It wouldn’t be good for you, though.’ ” Page 29. He is saying this to Winnie after she asks to drink some of the magic water. (She doesn’t know it’s magic at the time.) He is really anxious and reserved.
Sarcastic- ” ‘Alright, I’m one hundred and four years old,’ he told her solemnly. ” Page 28. This happens when Winnie asks him his age. (We later learn that this is true, but to Winnie, it is VERY sarcastic.)
Caring- ” ‘We could get married, even. That’d be pretty good, wouldn’t it! We could have a grand old time, go all around the world, see everything.’ ” He is looking out for her future and he wants to make sure that she will be okay.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
To All The Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before by Jenny Han
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks
Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill
Persepolis & Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig
Tumbling by Caela Carter
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
This poem is Friendship.
She was my best friend,
And we would depend,
On each other.
We did everything together
We said friends forever.
But promises never come true
We froze our friendship
We were friendless
It had ended
The new start of the year changed everything
No one thought it would change anything
But it changed everything.
The inspiration behind it is my friendship with Dora. We were best friends when we were younger, but then we drifted apart.
This isn’t a certain type of poem.
The element of poetry in this poem is repetition. We use repetition in the end.
I like how the poem turned out. I think that we need to add a little bit to the end.
The title of this poem is The Glass Ceiling.
They’re standing up there,
Triumphantly
I wonder,
How did this happen?
If I had been born differently, would it be different?
Would I be triumphant?
Instead of sitting here,
Watching their success.
Their happiness.
Their non-existent sorrow.
Why are they standing there?
Not even breaking a sweat,
While I’m down here, sweating hard,
Earning 79 cents to their dollar.
I would raise my voice if I thought it would make any difference.
But as I look up at them, and they work unseeingly, I realize,
They feel no remorse for me,
Or anyone else down here.
They only care for their own prosperity,
That should have been mine.
They say I’m not working hard enough,
Deep down, I’m wondering if it’s true,
If they really are working harder than I am,
And as I sit beneath them,
I ask myself why
I’m looking up at a glass ceiling, while they look at the sky.
My inspiration for this poem is sexism. When Margaret and I wrote this, we were trying to convey our feelings about sexism.
This isn’t a certain type of poem.
The element of poetry in this poem is imagery.
I am REALLY proud of this poem because it conveys everything that I wanted it to and I think that it could really make a difference in the world.
The title of my poem is Autumn.
The crisp autumn breeze
Wind whistles through the branches
Leaves fall to the ground.
My inspiration for this poem was the season fall and how I feel during that season.
This is a haiku. A haiku has to have 5 syllables in the first and last lines, and the middle lines have 7 syllables.
The element in this poem is beat. You have to read it slow, so it doesn’t seem like the poem is going by really fast.
I really like how my poem turned out. I’m proud of this poem because it really expresses my feelings about fall.