First Quarter Reflection

Prompt: Where are you in your 40 Book Challenge? How have your blogs been progressing since August? What strategies have benefited you? What have you learned about the world? How have your research skills improved?

          I have progressed a lot since the quarter started. Over the summer I kind of forgot everything I learned but throughout this quarter I gained my skills back and improved. I lost my vocabulary skills and my writing skills too. I forgot my vocabulary words over the summer and now I'm improving on that so I can become better. My writing skills dropped over the summer too because I didn't write much over the summer besides my blogs. The narrative that we wrote helped me improve a lot in my writing skills. With the articles of the week I have caught up on what's going on in the world right now, since over the summer I didn't watch the news as often. I've also improved on my blogs a lot. In the summer my blogs weren't as good as they are now due to the fact that I lost my blogging skills. I have improved a lot since the beginning of August. 

          The articles of the week (aow) have helped me a lot on what has been happening around the world. For example, I never knew that in the next year people would be able the travel to space. That was really surprising to me and I never expected that to happen anytime soon. I've also learned how many of the Syrian Refugees suffer. They have many decisions to make and they determine if in the end they will die or survive their journey. I never knew that they could go through such harsh things such as watching their loved ones die, being stranded on an island, no money, no food, etc. The aow's have caught me up on everything that has been going on and the stories of other people's lives.

          

          Over the summer since I only did two blogs, my blogging skills kind of dropped. My blogs weren't as good as the ones I did during the school year. They weren't good enough cause I didn't use a topic sentence and support it. Now I've remembered to do that and the quality of my blogs have increased, or I think they have. Also, my blogs weren't as good because people didn't comment on them. I say this because when people comment on my blogs saying that I made a mistake somewhere I try to my make blog better by fixing that error. Since people didn't comment on then I didn't really know where I had made a mistake. Though, I think my blogs have progressed a lot since August.

Blog of 10/12/15

The Kill Order by James Dashner

Pages read: 0-40

Prompt: Describe the main characters.

            In the book The Kill Order by James Dashner up to where I have read, there are four main characters. They are Mark, Alec, Trina, and Darnell. The book tells everything from Mark's point of view, so he's like number one main character. Mark is a young teenage boy who can be rough and sweet at the same time. Though the book doesn't say much about his physical, it talks a lot about his emotions.  For example, Mark has a lot of affection towards Alec and Trina. He feels safe and protected when he's by Alec, but when he's by Trina he feels a different kind of affection. Alec has a crush on Trina. In the book it talks about how he thinks she's pretty and how he wouldn't be able to live without her. The book says a lot about Mark's feelings but not his physical.

            The second main character is Alec. Alec is a retired soldier, who is now pretty old and gruff. In the book it describes him with busy grey eyebrows and pretty old. The book says how when Alec was younger he did a lot of military training and was now used to waking up early every morning. It also talks about how even though he is older he still has the ability to shoot and the speed. Lastly, in the book it mentions that when Alec was trying to get on into the berg (kind of like an airplane) he suddenly looked 20 years younger cause of all of his military abilities. 

             The third main character is Trina. Trina is a young teenage girls who loves to read and has a free spirit. She has blonde hair and green eyes. In the book it says that she is wearing a black T-shirt, a pair of worn jeans, and sneakers. In the book it says how she never had a good day after her 16th birthday. Meaning that her life has been bad ever since then. In the book it talks about Mark having a crush on her but Trina doesn't feel the same towards him. She kind of rejects him and ruins his day. Those are so far the three main characters of The Kill Order by James Dashner.

Blog of 10/9/15 (Life Line Poem)

My Inspiration

I remember every since I was born.

I doubted my birth...

Does God hate me? 

Did he curse me before birth? 

Though, me and my family 

Were living in a desperate time

Among desperate people

Among wars

Among famine 

Among epidemics

I still remember my father telling me

If you have enough desire to

outwork all other students

and you never give up, 

you will win the race

one day

My father had gotten 

The 2nd highest score 

Out of everyone...

He wasn't a full pledged doctor 

But he did everything a full pledged 

doctor would do.

So I did my best to follow in his footsteps

I never could imagine where those footsteps

Would lead me

My father used to tell me

It is painful for you now, 

but believe me, 

the day will come when you will thank me.

And I do father,

Thank you