3rd quarter blog

       My biggest improvement in English Lanuage Arts was that I started to finishing my assignments with some effort and without cheating. During 1st and 2nd quarter I used to not finish my assignments and I ask people "what's the homework for ELA" then tell them to give me the answers. Now in 3rd quarter I learned my lesson by  just doing it on my own, and its so much easier to do it on your own than asking people. Another improvement I've made this quarter is that I haven't had any problems with the teacher (Mrs. Larson).  Back in 1st and 2nd quarter Mrs. Larson and I use to have trouble understanding each other. She usually pick on me in front of the whole class or take me outside of class to have a word with me. Now in 3rd we understand each other and why she was picking on me.
       One accomplishment that I've made this quarter that I'm proud of is that I have improve my grades. In the last 2 quarters I was being lazy and my grades were down, my parents were telling me, " You grades better go up or else you will not be going out with your friends and you will not be playing basketball." after I heard my parents say that I was on my game. I was doing my homework like Terminator trying to hunt down Sarah Connor. 
       The most challenging part of 3rd Quarter for me was that to managing my time. I mean that to find time to do my homework for ELA because once we run out of time to do homework in ELA and I haven't finished the homework, I barley have time do it at home because I have other homework for other classes too. I overcame this by using my time in the Youth Crossroads, in this program I usually finish my homework for all my classes, and this program helps a lot with my homework especially ELA. 

Night Blog

             Elie Wiesel was a very pious man until he went to the concentration camps. Start of the book he is explaining how his life was before he started going camps, “One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of cabbala” (Wiesel 1). This is explaining that he is trying to look for a master that can teach him more about his religion. A few pages after Wiesel say, “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul…” (32). Elie is thinking that he’s the lowest that he is ever been. Then he saying that his God is gone and will not come back.
             Now he is starting to lose his faith on God. In the book Wiesel says, “During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple” (1). Which shows Elie is very passionate and emotional about Judaism. Then he announces that, “Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (31). Elie is beginning to question his faith in God.

Elie and his father always had a strong father and son connection until they go to the concentration camps. Elie says, “They're bombing Buna! Someone shouted. I thought of my father. But I was glad all at the same time” (57). This is showing that Elie is carrying for father and he's worried about his father when something is going to happen to the camp that someone can be killed. When Elie is about to finish with misery camps he's starting to pass over his father. The novel says, “ Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread” (Wiesel). This is analyzing that Elie was questioning about when he was free he didn't want to kill the people who killed his father that shows he has given up on him.                              

Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York : Brighton books, 1982

Butterfly project

 


ON A SUNNY EVENING

On a purple, sun-shot evening
Under wide-flowering chestnut trees
Upon the threshold full of dust
Yesterday, today, the days are all like these.

Trees flower forth in beauty,
Lovely too their very wood all gnarled and old
That I am half afraid to peer
Into their crowns of green and gold.

The sun has made a veil of gold
So lovely that my body aches.
Above, the heavens shriek with blue
Convinced I've smiled by some mistake.
The world's abloom and seems to smile.
I want to fly but where, how high?
If in barbed wire, things can bloom
Why couldn't I? I will not die!

--Anonymous, 1944

I commented on: Christian's, Erik's, Melanie A, Juan's, and Kiana 

Berlin Memorial Activity

I learned loads of things when Hitler became leader of Germany. I learned that the Reichstag was starting to dissolve when Hitler started becoming the dictator of Germany. Another that I learned he made lots of rules/restrictions and the jobs away from the Jews. He made over 400 restrictions/rules. Examples are, Jew are expelled from sports clubs, Jewish actors and actress prohibited from performing, Jews to hand in drivers licenses, Jews are not allowed to have pets, and etc.

        I believe the monument was built because to overcome the discrimination that Jews faced during the Holocaust.

       I noticed that there were a lot of laws passed in certain years, like in the very first year there were more than five laws maybe even ten passed against the Jews. Then, the next three years there were 7 laws passed in total, it keeps going like a pattern. I believe I know why this was happening, I think that they started off big then gave it some time so the Jews would get use to it, then go back to big, the doing that as a pattern so the Jews don't panic as much because they're getting use to it.

       Out of all the restrictions laws , the one that I'll have trouble dealing with is not having pets. I say this because I have a dog named Yoshi and he's one of the best things that ever happened to me. He's been with me since I was in fifth grade. Without him is like losing a family member to me. He always puts a smile in my smile face. Like the the time I got detention on Monday and I came home all depressed,  but when I saw him he was very eager to see me waving his tail uncontrollably, that one moment made my day.

2nd quarter Reflection Blog

2nd quarter Reflection blog



Where are you in your 20 Book Challenge?

               In my 20 Book Challenge, I have only read 10 books. I have read: Marijuana, Hooked, Drugs and Trying to be Perfect, Drugs and Friends, Drugs Testing , and more but I have forgotten the names of the books. I think could've read more books, but I have a lot of school work to do and I'm just too lazy to read. In the future I'll try to read more books, my goal when 4th quarter ends is that I'll have read 20 books.


Of the books you have read this quarter, which was your favorite? Why?

               Out of all the books that I have read in 2nd quarter my favorite book will have to be, Drugs Testing. This is my favorite book because it explains, what is drug testing, and how different drugs could last in your system. Then, it tells a story about a high schooler, how he had been drug tested by his school, he was then tested positive, so he cut from his basketball because he was tested positive for drugs. Overall, the book was very detailed, and I really recommend reading this book.



What has been the most challenging part of 2nd Quarter for you and what did/can you do to help overcome this?

               The most challenging part of 2nd quarter in ELA was that we had to much homework to complete. I had a bunch of homework to do in my other classes , but when you include ELA into the conversation it's like I have trillions of homework to do. One of the strategies that I use to overcome this problem as by going to the After School Program and doing my homework there, and I'll ask one of the teachers in the program for help if I don't understand one of the questions

Book talk

The book that I finished reading was, Hooked. This book was talking about people having addictions and how addictions gets started. There were many people who were talking about their addictions, but I’m going to talk about one character that has caught my attention. In the book it talk about this girl teenager in New Jersey, she was a little out of shape, and she wanted to lose weight because kids at her were making fun of her, so she woke up 6 in the morning everyday, and she was grinding hard until it got a little bit out of control. Her parents notice she had an addiction of exercising when she didn't want to go to her grandmother’s for Christmas, they had been going there for many years for Christmas.

I really do recommend this book because it talks about all kinds of things that can happened to people when they encountered any contact with anything. It gives you advices about what to do with these situations. So if anyone how is going through this kind of stuff, the picking up this book will best suit you. Or if you want to just want to have background knowledge about these things, then pick up the book.

Investigative Journalism article

“Human Rights.”
By: Gabriel Chavez

Torture/abused

          You know that each and everyday there are people who are breaking the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” The “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Then, in December 13, 2016, Ahmad Ishchi told the New York Times that, he had been rape, and tortured, “Tuesday that he had been tortured and raped with an assault rifle after being abducted by General Dostum last month.” Ahmad Ishchi said that General Dostum, “ I can kill you right now, and no one will ask, General Dostum told him. He claimed the Vice President stepped on his throat and pressed down after he had already been beaten and bloodied.”, this shows that the VP of Afghanistan was abusing a human being. This explains how VP of Afghanistan has done something really horrific, and broken a human right, but the VP something else to say, “General Dostum’s office. This website  “Claiming Human Rights ”, it explains this human right, “ No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

Slavery

            People in the whole entire world are still being slaves for the lasts 100s of years. The slave owners are breaking one of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”, it says that,
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”, this explains how people shouldn't be slaves no matter what. “There are tens of millions of people trapped in various forms of slavery throughout the world today.”, says “ United for Human Rights.”. All over world they're millions people trapped in many places, according it says, “There are tens of millions of people trapped in various forms of slavery throughout the world today.”, this explains how they're people trapped in many places.



Education

             Kids all over the world could have an education, but they're lots of kids that don't attend to school, according to this reading, “GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP for EDUCATION.”(GPE) it says that, “In total 121 million children and adolescent are currently out of primary and lower secondary school worldwide - a number that has remained essentially constant since 2007. 78 million opt these children live in GPE countries.” This explains how millions of children all over world cannot attend school, but in the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”, it say that, “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.”, the GPE are trying to help, the article says that, “Promoting the use of GPE funds to ensure that more children get access to a quality education.” This explains how the GPE are trying to help kids that don't go school, so they are promoting funds. This is one of the ways that kids could attend to school.