My Educational Experiences

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

Due to my educational experiences, I feel like I am  currently struggling in Math, and also in History. I have good grades right now, but I don’t feel like I can ever do it without help. Because missing a lot of school during fifth grade and sixth grade, I feel like I did not learn anything. It is also my fault for ditching school, but I have my own reasons. While going into seventh and eight grade, I had the worst grades. I did not know how to do a lot of things that other people have already knew and learned. I feel like during fifth grade and sixth is where you learn most of the things you start doing in seventh grade to high school. Even though I got in the system around that time, I remember not learning anything, there was no teaching. I remember how much I was struggling with school, because I did not know most of the things the teachers were teaching and saying. Eventually, when seventh grade started; I asked for tutors. Until around going into high school in the ninth grade, I knew I was doing bad so I tried to help myself by getting a few tutors every now and then. It actually helped me a lot for the upcoming things that we have been doing in school. Also, being at a school like San Pasqual Academy; I am actually learning.What I currently do now to keep me to be successful in school is checking my grades frequently, trying to get all my homework and classwork done. I also now, study for my tests.

My school website-San Pasqual Academy

Free Write

I recently applied for Hot Topic and Fashion 5. I am super excited for either jobs if I do get hired. Especially Hot Topic, because I would want to dress up as if I really shopped there. It just sounds so fun to work there. Plus, I would most likely spend my first pay check there :) About Fashion 5, I don't really care to work there. I just really wanted a job at first, I didn't care what job I can get. Plus, I have never shopped at Fashion 5. I think if I did start working there, I would probably start shopping for my clothes there. I find it to fancy, plus I don't like dressing up into something I don't feel comfortable in.

Playwrights Project Play Completion Reflection

Now that my play is complete, I feel relieved. Like there’s nothing weighing on my shoulder anymore. I feel so good that I actually want to go outside at night, when 7:30 comes along. I remember struggling with writing my play because I had no idea what to write. I even cried because nothing came to my mind when Ms. Priester told us that we had to write a play. I was so frustrated! Even though I was working on different scenes than other people were, at least I turned it in on time. I am still a little upset that I did not get to proofread it myself, because I was rushing. I did not even get an adult to proofread my playwrights. Although, I did not get it corrected/proofread..I still believe I did really great on my play. Next week, watching the plays be performed by actors are going to be very exciting. At the same time I feel like I would be embarrassed by all my grammar and errors I had made that weren’t able to be fix at the time.

Free Write

I spent my weekend with my family. My 3 sisters and brother in law and I went hiking at Mission Valley. It was the longest hike I ever been to. I was so tired, we are all planning to do it every Sunday. I also got more tan lines on my body because I was wearing a sportsbra and shorts. I also saw my cousins there, they were already walking down from the hike. We were barely walking up. Next weekend, is Michael's birthday and it is his first birthday. I am super excited for him, the whole family is going to be there and friends. I might be able to see family members who I have not seen in years. So that's also exciting, I had a great weekend.

Field Trip

I went on a field trip with Beedle’s class to look at our school’s art at the County of Education. Everyone took pictures, ammired the artworks. It was cool to see how much talent our classmates have. After, we went to the Museum of Contemporary Art. It was my favorite part of the trip, the art were amazing and very interesting. My favorite art piece was the Donkey, they had a real donkey sitting in he middle of the room. Lastly, we went to the La Jolla beach and ate lunch. We saw Seagulls, Seals, different kind of birds. It was a chill day, I would do it again.

-What do you want to read about in the next scene of my play?
-What is the best part of my scene?
-What could I add to this scene to make it better?

Kids in the Mud Scene

Scene one

Character: Kailey-Mai Crenshaw, 7 years old.

Character: Jordan ken Myatt, 8 years old.

Setting: Near the trailer at the beach, living in Idaho, Boise.

At rise: Kailey and Jordan laughing and smiling at each other.

Kailey: You're so funny! Your my best friend.
Jordan: Thanks your funny too. I like you.
Kailey: [blushing, she covers her face] I like you too Jordan.
Jordan: Can we kiss? I see my mommy and daddy do it all the time.
Kailey: I don't know how to...do you?
Jordan: We can try!
Kailey and Jordan: Mmmm..I don't know.
Kailey: Jinks you owe me a Sunny D!
Jordan: Awwe man! You win.
Kailey and Jordan playing in the sand, throws sand on her feet.
Kailey: [smiling] she looks at Jordan.
Silence...
Jordan kisses her.
Kailey: [gasp, starts laughing]
[Holding hands, they both laughed]

Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote Peers’ Posts

Summary 
This is a summary of [Heather's W]'s blog post titled [UnGoogleable Research- What I Already Know]. To access the full post, click here. Heather wrote about her Marriage, and what she already knew about it. Heather does not agree with wedding rings because she thinks that if the people are committed in a relationship and love each other; why do they have to have wedding rings to show it. Other than that, she does not really know anything about marriage except that you wear rings when you're married, and she wants to learn the history of marriage.

Paraphrase 
This is a paraphrase of a section of [Rebekah M.]'s blog post titled [Comment-Seeking Post]. To access the full post, click here. Rebekah has been having a hard time back and home. She now works at Foot Locker, she really enjoys her job; because it's fun and her boss is very funny. It is also very hard for her to go to work at the same time because she has homework from school. She tries very hard to catch up with old homework.

Quote 
This is a quote of a section of [Amy C]’s blog post titled [Comment-Seeking Post]. To access the full post, click here. "I don't why people will go back out if they already broke up and tried to be together, but it didn't work out. I can go on with this list, but the point is most relationships on campus don't workout."

Quote, Summary, or Paraphrase Paragraph

Welcome students! Today, I am going to teach you about how to record evidence, when to summarize and what a summary is, when to use a quote and what a quote is, and when to paraphrase and what a paraphrase is. Evidence is a text that you found in a reliable source that will help to answer your focus question. Summary is a long section of text, you would want to use it when it is a short written paragraph. It is to retell the main ideas in the story, using fewer words. You want to use a quote if it is a short an simple section of text that you can find easily to t in your own words. Quote is something that someone said and you will have to use theses signs “ “. Paraphrase is ti retell the ides using your on words, you would want to use it if it a short and simple section of text that you can easily put in your own words. To help you remember this, I highly recommend you study.

Research Paper Word Cloud

Comment-Seeking Post

Leaving significance, meaningful blog comments are done like this. Before I go onto examples, blog comments should be appropriate. Meaningful blog comments should be helpful to the person who had written the post. While you help yourself,it help others. Also, do not be mean and write mean comments; always positive! Includes great punctuation, grammar, spelling, etc..For example, “I don’t entirely agree with your opinion on Osama Bin Laden’s death, should not be celebrated. Do you ever think how big their celebration has been, when 9/11 happened. Oh, also many of our troops dead. What did they do? Celebrated! You know they were celebrating big time”! Another example, “From your post, I learned that I should be nice to people when they’re trying to help me, and not push them away and give bad attitude. Please post nice, helpful, smart,  blog comments on your classmates blogs.

President Obama’s Big Announcement

       To learn about Osama bin Laden’s death, I read an article online from a website call Fredericksburg. Here is the link to the article that I read, it has too pages by the way. I learned from the past of what he did, how many people were killed and how he was such a bad bad person. The article I read talks about the excitement and surprise of Bin Laden’s death. They mentioned that it is wrong to celebrate someones death, but Bin Laden’s is so acceptable. I agree! They compared him to Adolf Hitler. I also watched the news too. I watch where our president Obama announced on Sunday that Osama Bin Laden is dead. People on the news are talking about how great the Navy Seals did and also gave a lot of credit to the president. They mentioned how the other day, Obama pulled out his birth certificate to prove people and then Sunday, he comes out of no where with the best announcement that the most wanted terrorist is killed. By the way, I don't like capitalizing his name.
       In the second paragraph, I want you to write about one or a few changes that you predict will happen as a result of his death.  After everything, like the articles and watching the news I think that worst things are going to happen. I predict that there are going to be more terrorists and the anger they have for us now for killing Bin Laden, are going to be bad. We will need more troops, I feel like sooner or later they’re going to attack us. I hope that everything will cool down after all this that had happened. I wish the war was over! We are really a huge target now! I just want to end it with this. For some people on Facebook that I know who are saying that "Shame on you America". Shame on you for thinking that it is "rude" that we are celebrating his death, everyone's happy. He was a terrorist for goodness sakes. Learn what happen before you stand up for Osama Bin Laden, learn what he did. Plus, you are an American! Many Troops died, much money was spent to find him, people and families lost their lives because of this monster! He's a shame! Shoot, if I was alive when Hitler died, you know for dang sure i'll be celebrating his death like i'm celebrating Osama's death now! 
-Sorry for the anger.

Posters in the Hall

Do I think that it is wrong that SPA students just post the words of Caucasian men in our halls? It depends, it you’re thinking that it’s wrong. I do not find it wrong, I don’t think anything of it, maybe the students just went to Google or something and just type in “inspirational quotes”,  and that’s what popped up. I do not think that they specifically looked for words of Caucasian mens. If they did do it on purpose and did not include any other races, yes it’s super wrong. I do not think they did it on purpose, maybe they weren’t thinking.