Author's Note: In the reading lab Ms. Hanson read us a 3:15 story and had us predict what was going to happen to Jamie. This is what I thought what was going to happen.
I think that the wind is coming from the reflecting pool and that she is going to see Mrs. Prat in the mirror repeating the phrase "Don't take anything from the store." I also think that Jamie has started to feel really bad so she is going to run to the store and go tell Mrs. Prat what she did and Mrs. Prat is going to be sitting in the big plush chair and hold up the jewelry and say "I know." and smile.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Character Development
Author’s Note: In the readin lab we leearned about Character Development. This is My Character Development piece with the books Deep Down Popular and Pictures of Hollis Woods.
A shy girl, practically hiding in the shadows. Her crush, the most popular guy in school, suddenly gets a bad limp and has to start wearing a leg brace. Her teacher picks her of all the other students to help this boy while his leg is injured. Her dream is coming true. From then now, her friendship with him grows and she completely transforms into a much more confident person. In Deep Down Popular by Phoebe Stone, Jessie Lou is the girl who changes from shy to confident around her crush, Conrad Parker Smith.
At first, Jessie Lou has no clue what to say to Conrad. To her, he’s way too popular to even acknowledge her. She just thinks that she’s the girl in the back of the room, in a completely different world then Conrad. Jessie Lou has liked Conrad since they were little, as it says in the book “In second grade I covered Conrad with kisses whenever I could. In third I gave up my swing or my cookie or my bus seat coming home. By fifth grade I never said anything to him at all”. You see, as time goes on she becomes farther and farther from him. So by the time she’s in sixth grade, during the time of the story, she’s shier than ever.
After Jessie Lou’s teacher picks her to help Conrad, it’s whole new step. She has to talk to him now. Soon she even relieves that. When they both started to hang out, Jessie Lou just talked the bare minimal to her crush, like when they were first walking home together. What broke the ice was when Conrad’s bike fell into the river and she pulls it out. From then on they start to really communicate. The more she’s around Conrad, the more she seems to talk to him. Their friendship grows until the end, when Conrad kisses her on the cheek. “Conrad’s kiss feels like a little butterfly fluttering against my cheek” as she says and for any girl, their crush kissing them is a dream come true.
This change is like Hollis from Pictures of Hollis Woods, who is a girl who has been from foster home to foster home. When she is sent to Josie, she could care less. She barely wants to be there, but soon she starts warming up to Josie, their friendship becomes very strong. By the end of the book, Hollis would do anything to be stay with Josie because she finally feels wanted. Hollis and Jessie Lou change in almost the same way by growing a strong friendship.
The shy girl comes out of the corner and starts being herself around her crush. Just by having more confidence, Jessie Lou completely changes her relationship with Conrad. Throughout the book, she completely changes for the good and her shyness completely floats away. By that point, she is like a completely different girl.
A shy girl, practically hiding in the shadows. Her crush, the most popular guy in school, suddenly gets a bad limp and has to start wearing a leg brace. Her teacher picks her of all the other students to help this boy while his leg is injured. Her dream is coming true. From then now, her friendship with him grows and she completely transforms into a much more confident person. In Deep Down Popular by Phoebe Stone, Jessie Lou is the girl who changes from shy to confident around her crush, Conrad Parker Smith.
At first, Jessie Lou has no clue what to say to Conrad. To her, he’s way too popular to even acknowledge her. She just thinks that she’s the girl in the back of the room, in a completely different world then Conrad. Jessie Lou has liked Conrad since they were little, as it says in the book “In second grade I covered Conrad with kisses whenever I could. In third I gave up my swing or my cookie or my bus seat coming home. By fifth grade I never said anything to him at all”. You see, as time goes on she becomes farther and farther from him. So by the time she’s in sixth grade, during the time of the story, she’s shier than ever.
After Jessie Lou’s teacher picks her to help Conrad, it’s whole new step. She has to talk to him now. Soon she even relieves that. When they both started to hang out, Jessie Lou just talked the bare minimal to her crush, like when they were first walking home together. What broke the ice was when Conrad’s bike fell into the river and she pulls it out. From then on they start to really communicate. The more she’s around Conrad, the more she seems to talk to him. Their friendship grows until the end, when Conrad kisses her on the cheek. “Conrad’s kiss feels like a little butterfly fluttering against my cheek” as she says and for any girl, their crush kissing them is a dream come true.
This change is like Hollis from Pictures of Hollis Woods, who is a girl who has been from foster home to foster home. When she is sent to Josie, she could care less. She barely wants to be there, but soon she starts warming up to Josie, their friendship becomes very strong. By the end of the book, Hollis would do anything to be stay with Josie because she finally feels wanted. Hollis and Jessie Lou change in almost the same way by growing a strong friendship.
The shy girl comes out of the corner and starts being herself around her crush. Just by having more confidence, Jessie Lou completely changes her relationship with Conrad. Throughout the book, she completely changes for the good and her shyness completely floats away. By that point, she is like a completely different girl.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Patriot's Pen
Author's Note: This is my Patriot's Pen that I did in the writing lab. This piece is about the pro's and con's about our very own U.S.A
Hey Everyone! I'm from the future, and I know what happens after you sign that piece of paper you have there, so I just wanted to let you know what happens later, in case you want to change some things.
First off, some really good things happen like 1. We all have freedom, 5 major ones actually, freedom of speech, religion, freedom of the press, petition and to assemble peaceably. It's pretty awesome, it takes a little while to get used to over the years but later it will work, somethings that get changed are that woman will have more freedom and even later colored people will too, because right now you are just benefiting yourself's and other white men which is really, really unfair. Colored men and woman get to vote from the time that I'm from which is really nice, I don't exactly approve of the president but that's not what you should be worried about. Secondly, in the future, Education is much, much better. Kids now use a device called computers, which has all of the resources you could ever need and with these, kids do way better in school. For example, if a student wanted to know what a capital of a state was or how stars were created, all they would have to do is look it up on his or her computer. It's very nice to say the least but it's not all fun and games, there are some pretty bad things going on later in the future.
The first bad thing I would have to name off is Discrimination. Most people accept the fact that colored people are equal to us, but others not so much. Some people just see colored people differently, they tend to categorize them as drug dealers, street walkers or even terrorists.
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