Language+Arts

This part of our year me and my case read, "Tuck Everlasting". THis book had the tensions getting higher and higher. It was a book the you juts couldn't put down. When I read I read swiftly yet thoroughly. The night before I got the questions I made sure to go over everything just in case I blank out the next day. When ever I read I made sure it was a quiet and peaceful place to read so I wasn't read but not remembering the words. If i did do that it would be like the words went from one ear and out of the other without letting my mind soak it in. On chapter 13 I knew it was short but I made sure I knew why this was so important. (Because it is the mid chapter, exact.) When I got the questions I would always either get all of them right or only get one or two right. This book was probably my best book of the year for paying attention. From teh beginning of the year and now I can tell that I have improved my paying attention a lot. When I wrote my "Out of the Spotlight "post I think I git better and better and git reeky descriptive On the last two I did. On my figurative language posts I did a great time. On the first two assignments I didn't know where it was so I didn't do them but I started the post I did a great job. I even got one of them for an example.Also on the in class disscutions I think I really contributed and got to get my share to get to say something. something for the character groups. I think this was really and truely my best book that I read this year.

Me and my 5E colleagues just read the book called, "The Rainbow People".

For my summaries I did a really great job especially for the Virtues and Vices category. For my introductions I did a pretty good job. The one I did best was for the Fools category. I did a great job on essay that the stories would help Shirley throughout life. I did a OK job on that because in the first time I did it it was my birthday and I was out to dinner and I did not have that much time to do it. So I got a 2nd chance to do it. or the commenting part on the blog I did a really good job, I didn't forget to or do just say something like, "I liked this book." and that was it. In this I think I did do a good job in the small group discussion and participated a lot.For the twducate it did prety good as well, I would keep it going. When I led the small group discussion I didn't really run out of questions but I did have trouble forming the questions so it would make sence so it took me a couple minutes to say them but that was it for group discussion ledding. Also when I was at hoem i did fantastic, I read in a quiet place go through it easily and knowing everything that happened instead of reading something and not knowing what it means.



he book the we just read is called "The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson".

On all of my quizzes except for one were all good but just a few mistakes here and there. But sadly on the June, July, and August I got them all wrong. But I think that one was only because I read my book until late late the night before and just wasn't very straight that day. I noticed that as i got closer and closer to the end I was getting better and better. On my group discussions for the first one I didn't contribute that much. but on the second one I did a lot better but people would keep cutting me off. I would contribute addresses on topic and lead them to a new discussion is what Gigi, who was my reviewer, thought. She says that I must speak more but when ver I do speak it get out good ideas. She also says that I display self- control very well too. On the second on she reviewed she said that I needed to speak up too if I wanted to get the thing I wanted to say out.But in the end when people were listening to me I had some great ideas that were just held in.





For the This I believe paragraph I think I did really well. For our last paragrph I planned everything out the night before. The next day everything went well and I got through really fast. I had my stories, examples, and how I was going to do this all ready. This was just about my best assighnment. I did have to rush and i said everything very clear. In the end I just needed to fix some missing words and miss spelling. This I Beleive Assighnment was easy because I planned it out and I felt really confident in myself on this SA assighnment. But for the I believe Maniac Magee I did pretty well. By that time I had all of this down and I was ready to go. It was also good to try all of this to get our selves all ready and when it came to our last SA I was so ready. When we were listening to the I believe podcasts I liked the baseball one the most and the Martion Luther King was also very good.

Maniac Magee was a good book we read in 5th grade.

During the time of reading this book I did way better than my last two books. Some examples are like I thought about the ideas more carefully and I did the final way better then last time. I also participated in the discussions more. Some of my best work was the web. The reason I think it was my best work was because it was very organized and I explained everything very well. Something I could've made better on it was explaining the three adjectives in the center bubble. The worst assignment that I did was the quizzes. The reason it was my worst is because when I was reading I raced through it more than take my time and I didn't really get all the facts and I didn't do well on the quizzes. Something I could do better next assignment would be taming my time and explain somethings better. When I am going to fast while reading I'll stop myself and read slower to fix that habit but to fix my other habit I'll take my time and try to explain really well. Right now for this book I made progress on the webs.

Friendship is a relationship with someone that you like and want to hang out with. An example of friendship is like when you are being picked on or someone is making fun of you your friends are always going to defend you. Another example is when your in a fight they still like and you will always make up. In this book Maniac Magee, we are thinking about Maniac and Mars Bar improving their friendship together. In the beginning I think Maniac has really no idea about friendship and hasn't really had a friend yet and is just lonely.

The first time Maniac and Mars meet, it started off ruffly while they bump into each other. As in a dare Mars say, "You wanna bite of my candy bar?" and Maniac does not realize it is a dare. So then Mars is embarrassed and thinks he is challenging him. At this point Maniac and Mars are both very confused and when Mars got confused he got angry and went to start a fight. But just then, a lady came along and made them break up and told Maniac to go home meaning that she won't always be there with him to defend him. This scene Is related to this idea because it is the first time they met and it could be like a friends first fight. Another way it is related to the topic is because Maniac knows Mars and Mars knows Maniac. Right now they hate each other but that will most likely change over the course of their partial friendship. It seems like they have a weird friendship. Right now we can tell that they don't like each other and are both confused. Its obvious that is hard to make a friendship and yup can't say "You! Be my friend."

This 2nd paragraph is about the last time they meet. Right now Maniac lives in the zoo and Mars had found him in their. At this point their friendship is organized and they like each other this time. Now they are still having two conversations but they aren't confused and know what they are talking about. This is their last time meeting in the book and their friendship improved a lot since the first time they met and the way it had improved is because by being together in the race (the scene with Mars and Maniac before this one) and being together for a while sort of makes them get to know each other. So over that time Maniac and Mars have gotten a lot closer and they have a good friendship. They have come a long way and they did a great job on the friendship. I can tell they will have a good friendship.

At the end of the book you should think that they will be good friends and you should have learned a good lesson that you don't judge a book by its cover. Now I think that Maniac thinks that his friendship with Mars will be a good and smooth one now. He also knows what friendship is like. He is also happy to have a friend. Now my final thought about maniacs and mars friendship bis they actually like each other and wants to stay friends. They also are really nice to each other. I think Maniac and Mars have had a up and down friendship. But now they have a very good friendship and will be good friend for a very long time.

My Side of the Mountain ia the second book I read in 5th grade

I think my essay on comparing the two books was my best peice of work. I would have made the web better. The web was the worst one because ididn't take my time and just rushed through it. Icould have thought more about the web instead of zooming through it to makke it better. To make it better next time I'll stop rushing through it and take my time. To improve my habbit I will stop myself when I realize that I am rushing.

The first book we read was Island of the Blue Dollphins.

When we had are assignments for __Island of the Blue Dolphines__ I read the chapters carfullyand in a good place for me. When I read I normally thought about the ideas and events taking place. I barrely get in a rush and didn't have time to think about it. I made a great progress on my ability to make an infrence because I put more exsamples in and not what I thought about it.I did ok with the questions on the homework but sometimes I had to rush. I thought about the answers sometimes but Not all the time. The answers on some of my homework was not my best but the other half was my best. I listened to the class decsions and what was going on, I also paticapated in the class descussions. The ideas i got from the descussions did help me understand the book in a different way. I sorta did my best work on the 2 webs. I did my very best work on the RRJ SA on Karana's friends. I did my super best work on the final web assignment.

I picked this assignment because this was the one I did my very best work on.