Laguage+Arts

Tuck Everlasting

I did not do great on this book for the assignments and I did read ahead by about 8 chapters at a time. On assignment #1 I got 75% of 8. On #2 I got 33% out of 6. On #3 I got 4 out of 7. On #4 I got 60% out of 10. And finally on #5 I got 5.5 out of 7. This all equals a total of 23.5 out of 38. Not so good as other books and I will try to not read ahead. And I think that it was all my fault about this and should do better in the future and in middle school. My blog posts were at first impossible to be called posts but as I got to the last 3 posts, they got to be very big long and good. Most of these were out of the spotlight posts. The fig. Lang. was almost as good and was not bad either. Class discussions were not my best work and I didnt put much into them. Character project was not great but it could still be called ok. The fav. Passage was good as always.

Rainbow People

I think I could have done better and put more work into the summaries and introductions. They were long, short, or had wrong info from what I was supposed to do. But that was only for less than half of each.

On the next one, I ran very late and had to stay out of a few classes to finish so this wasn't great but it was better than the first two.

I stunk on facilitation on blog.

Comments on blog are about a 3.5 out of 5.

I didn't participate in group discussions that much at all.

Twiducate group discussions I did ok in.

I did ok on this next and final part.



In the year of the boar reflection

I think I did fine on the class discussions I participated in, but I also think I was quiet and didn't contribute very much. Very little come to think of it I was very quiet and I never brought up new ideas, I just added to others. I know I did not do too much nor did I do too little. On the other hand, I don't think I did a straight A+, nor did I get a solid F-. I did not get too good on the quizes and it was a rather bad time for it, but it wasn't my worst.





**This I believe reflection**
reading, listening, and songs were just as easy to understand in all 3 forms. the songs reapeted their stories while listening to their voices was easy because the details are just boring but the big idea is put in either humor or in something unique.

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**Maniac Magee**
I did well on the quizes and the reading, but not this self assesment sheet. the quizzes were done well and accurate while the reading I did in a comfy place and did so with care. Overall it wasn't as good as other books to read and, not just because of lack of interest, but it was still as good book to read and report.

Essay: Home is important to everybody on earth as food and water. Home is a warm, cozy, comfy building where you live happily ever after in peace and quiet. Even though I love my home, sometimes I feel jealous of other houses. Like one house has a mid-1900s monoplane in the front yard and another has a basement the size of the small gym with a bedroom that runs right over the driveway. But I never want to move, ever. I am going to discuss the Beales and Grayson. Maniac thinks of home as something vital to him, but he knows that not every house and family would like to take him in, but family is a whole different story. The Beales of 728 Sycamore ST gave maniac Amanda's bed and tried to make him part of their family. He loved living there and he never wanted to leave. If you were a runaway boy looking for a shelter at least, you would love the feeling of other people taking you in as one of them. MM's aunt and uncle would never think of the idea of taking Amanda into their house. Jerry's idea of home is not only that it keeps you out of the rain and cold, but it keeps you close to your family and let's you live a happy, fun, long life. Grayson found double-M at the zoo and took him in and gave him soup and a blanket at the band shell. He cares and loves 2-M and loves him a lot. He gave Maniac a home and that's what's important. Grayson loved Maniac more than the glove he used to strike out Willie Mays in the Minor Leagues. A house needs to have an address to make it homy. That is why maniac wrote 101on the band shell door, to make it better for him. We learn that home doesn't always have to be a house. It just needs to have a family. Now we have learned that home is more than what it says in the dictionary. Things like "It doesn't just keep you out of the rain and cold" and "You need a home to live a happy, long, life". Home is where you have fun or spend time with friends and family. Nobody can live a mostly happy life without a home. Thats why you give money to the hobos on the streets playing the saxophone.

__//KENSUKES KINGDOM//__ is about a kid who has an adventure. It is a great book that gives a lot of history and science in a fun way! But wait! There's more! It teaches survival and other things like how to kill jellyfish poison, spear fish, use a mattress sheet as a moskito net, lite a fire, play soccer and fight a bear.

__//Island of the Blue Dolphins//__ is the first book I've read (Sept-Oct). my best assignment from my opinion was the web of Karanas character traits because it had good work and less comedy. My worst work was my RRJ paragraph #2 because it had some innapropriot humor such as dumb, stupid, idiot, dork, duffas, and lame. To make the next book better than this in my work is to use less innaproproit humor and reread my written work such as paragraphs and see if it works and makes sense.