Test prep action plan

The things I would do to be able to get a three on the ELA test is work on test prep in after school. I would do test prep in Saturday school. I would stay in advisory and do acuity. The hardest types of questions are main idea because i worry about the extended questions a lot. I could look back on the passage every time I feel that it is hard to answer. I also think that the unfamiliar words are hard also they seem to be harder than the main idea questions. To make it easier I could use context clues tto make it easier for me to use unfamimlair words.

"To My Parents: What I've Learned so far in ELA."

Dear MOM,

My accomplishments in these units were outstanding. Then, we did a political unit on the debate between Barack What I learned so far is that we start to activate our schema. I learned how to log in on my computer. It is i so easy to do things on the computer. First we did the reading strategies in ttheObama and John McCain. We worked on Nelson Mandela and how we had to compare him to a change maker. We created Blogs to help us with the readers response journals we do. We worked on a famous painter named Frida Khalo. We also did anther famous painter name Leonardo Di Vinci. We started a ning project. We are reading a book high level book . One thing about the technology in this school is so convenient and very easy to handle. So far my favorite unit was the political unit because it was so high level and we wanted to let the teachers in the building know that we did understand politics and we did care about who won and how it would affect us.

Readers response 4

I think the author wrote this book in poems and stories because it gets into the children's mind as high schoolers. It shows how they feel and when they read on open mike Fridays they really express there feelings. I think the title "Bronx Masquerade" fits the book because the word means to disguise and when you write poetry it makes perfect sense. My favorite poem so far in my book was the one by a student named Steven Ericson he called it "DOUBTLESS" Ericson really dug deep about how he felt as a young boy. He used rhyme, rhythm and repetition. He states at the end of the poem "REMEMBER:PACK YOUR DREAMS. THERE PORTABLE". That was a metophor and he was trying to get it in the readers mind that you have to keep your dreams no matter were you go.

Listening Passage Mona Lisa

One of the possible people who could be Mona Lisa is Leonardo Da Vinci because Lilian Sworts discovered that the painting looks like him as a woman. She says it actually looks like him as a female but can also be his mother. I think it could be a self portrait. But the only hing is that he looks like a woman.

Character unit intro

Do people ever really change?
People have the power to change whenever they want emotionally,mentally and physically. For example Dave in the "A child called it" changed he was a child beaten by his mother for no apparent reason and now in life he helped with the army. For another example, a mother of one of my friends was on drugs and she changed by getting help and joined a rehab center for drug addicts. " Do people ever really change? I say it depends on the situation.

Drama club blog 1

I would like to talk about being in this club and how it will affect my extra curricular activities.
There is really nothing that I can suggest but we can work together and we will become a family. we can learn together, we will grow together and we will walk together to get what we want out of drama.

Election Reflection

The thing that made this election historic is that Barack Obama is an African American who ran for president.He is the first African American to win in the United States. I feel that Obama will keep his word when he says " the road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term , but America, i have never been more hopeful then i am tonight that we will get there. I promise you we as a people will get there." I believe him when he sayed that. He sound true.

Ghost Story: Purple Princess

"Stay away you ugly young children" said the young Purple princess. Being that she was so beautiful the jealous children called her the ugly princess.they accused her of being ugly with a mask on her face. She did not like the fact that they were so jealous. So she seeked revenge. Purple Princess did not have time to seek out the kids. The people of the town in Pennsylvania went after her.They murdered her and tore her face of they buried her face in the lower part of Philidelphia. She was known as the purple faceless princess. Her ghost spirit came to seek the kids.One kid was walking on a vacant block she scared theholy dodo out of him. One holloween all the children were out trick or treating and were now known as the "victums of the purple princess. Her body seemed to come

Readers Response 3

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
A novel by Sherman Alexie
Pages 89-103


So far in this book in the book that I'm reading for the day Junior is with his new friend Gordy. Gordy is helping Jr study and teaching him how to study."You have to read a book three times at least to understand the concept of the book" Gordy told Jr.Jr feels that he should be Gordy's friend but when he mentions it to Gordy he takes it as if Jr is homosexual. After all that happened Jr's sister wrote him an e-mail and said, "Hey Jr hows it going, I'm good here in Montana with my husband and we actually rode a horse. I can't believe the Indians here still ride horses." Jr felt that because he had not seen his ex-bestfriend Rowdy he could draw him a picture and give it to him by visiting him at his house. Rowdy's

Reading Response Questioning

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Skinny Questions:
1.What are McCain and Obama debating about?

2.Do they feel the same opinion on this problem?

3.What are they doing this for?

Fat Questions:
1. Why does Obama look at the last eight years to discribe what is going on in the present ?
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3.

Readers Response 2

Three Little Words
By:Ashley Rhodes Courter
pages 120-130

In my independent reading book Ashley says "By now I was accustomed to all sorts of workers coming to visit me and my brother in our various foster homes."page 114 I can infer that because she had already went through so much over the years she has gotten used to the fact that she had to deal with whatever problem was on the table.
She went to school and Mrs. Merritt said"This wiil be your last day at school."She knew right away what Mrs.Merritt was talking about. page 122. I can

Readers Response 1

Three little words

A memoir by: Ashley Rhodes Couter

pages read:99 to 120

So far in my book Ashley lives with her brother in the Merritt's.
She talks about how her mom was on cocaine and how her brother does
not belong to her mother but to her step father Dusty. She visited her mother
and no one arranged for her to get picked up to another place to see her mother .
I can infer that she was sad when she thought she could not see her mother.
But in the long run she was glad that she saw her mom. I can infer that even though she
was being mature she was not glad when her brother could not see there mom because
he now belonged to Dusty, her mom's ex boyfriend.

Being that Ashley always ran into her mother's arm's I can infer that even when she hated when her mom was not there sometimes she still loved her regardless.When Ashley found out that her trail had to go on for a longer time period she was devastated that she had learned her mom was doing cocaine/drugs. I think that the next thing that will happen is that Ashley is gonna be sepperated from her brother again because, there is a constant 360 circle in the foster
care system.