CAHSEE Reflection

My reflection on my experience of taking the CAHSEE today was fine. I was scared at first, mostly about the essay section. Believe it or not, I think I did so great on the essay part that I could not stop smiling. All the other part of the test was tolerable. Most of the question was easy but the answers were dumb and obvious but it made you think what answer to pick. Plus, There were like two words that I have never seen or ever heard of. I am a little proud of myself, I am praying to past the CAHSEE; including the math section tomorrow. Becky has helped me look over math problems and a test that Fenick has made to prepare for the math part of the CAHSEE. I feel very positive but I am just afraid I would not even remember how to do the problems by tomorrow. I have to stay indubitable!

“Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” Enlist Paragraph

Long time ago I wanted to join the Air Force and the Army. There are a lot of reasons why I wanted to actually be in the Military period. I wanted to be hardcore and strong HA HA. But then I changed my mind because I have been told by my brother in law and cousins that it is not that great and there are many risk. Plus, I do not want to be away from my child for months and years. That is why my brother in law took a long break out of the Army. He wanted to spend time with his wife and watch his son grow, he did not want to miss anything. I support him. Watching him go and come back is very hard and especially on my sister. Plus, I have other dreams I want to accomplish; such as NASCAR, CIA, or SWAT. If I was ever drafted, I would probably go through with it.

Primary and Secondary Sources Comparison

Primary and secondary sources both have in common is that they both expresses itself with the same information but just in a different way, in events and viewpoints. Primary source makes it different from secondary is that primary is firsthand account of an event. Such as if the person was literally there. A few examples of primary sources are speeches, oral histories, eyewitness news report, interviews, literary works, pubic documents, this such as that. Secondary sources is different because it is express in a secondhand account, it is written by a writer who did not participate directly in the events, they are not literally there. A few examples of secondary sources are encyclopedias, biographies, reference books, history books, magazine articles. Primary and secondary sources are helpful because it expresses many viewpoints in different ways such as first-hand person and second-hand person.

Feelings about the CAHSEE

My feelings about taking the CAHSEE is that I feel like I am not 100% ready and I am scared of not passing the test at all. I am afraid of taking again next year if I don’t pass it this time. Writing the essay today as a practice, was a little okay but I still was a little shaky. I felt like I didn’t know what to do, when I was writing I didn’t think it made any sense at all. I am not looking forward to taking the test this year and I don’t know what to do now. I need more help. My classmates says it’s easy but to me it isn’t easy. I get nervous and one little mistake can ruin the whole test score. I feel sick knowing it’s coming up very soon, I did not prepare myself at all.

"Ex- Basketball Player " Paragraph

Athletics in school are important to me because it keeps you in shape and also if you want to go pro in a sport in the future as a career, it will be easier because you are experienced. It prepares for young people in life a lot. It mostly depends who you’re and what you want to do. For example, especially for boys they would want to be a Basketball player, Football player, and or Baseball player. Playing sports in high school will prepare you and automatically you’re good enough to play pro. Additionally, people get injuries over injuries and its hard to stick what you want to do, there are risk. It is important to me, as a female. If I did not have my dream jobs I could even go pro in Softball and Volleyball, it just depends. I could play in college and everything. It has many good things about athletics as a young person in life, especially in the future.

Google Moderator Questions and Answers

Do you think that people set very high expectations for themselves that are unrealistic? Why.
-I think that some people set very high expectations for themselves that are way unrealistic because people who don't even try won't make it. Plus, a lot of people have other plans in life and also gives up easily.


Does this make you want to change your dream job to something more achievable?
-I am sticking to my dream job no matter what. Unless there was something going on with my family lives that I need to help with first. Other than that, I am going to stick with my plan.


Why did John Updike write the poem?
-I think John Updike wrote this peom for people to think about and realize that things you planned and dreamed of aren't always going to come out as the way you want it to. You have to keep trying and work hard.


What do you think happened to Flick, why do you think he didn't become a Pro- NBA star?
-I think that Flick did not become a Pro-NBA star, maybe because he had given up after highschool and things went wrong and he didn't have any motivation or support.


After reading the poem does it change your prospective on which is more important.(Yes,No) Why?
-After reading the poem it made me realize somg things like, setting your goals and sticking with it but things can come up that might ruin things.

Persuading You to Read a Blog

My dear classmates, class of 2013. Not a lot of people read freshman blogs. Why? Maybe because we find that reading our classmates blog- because we are sophomores, that our blog is more amusing than the freshman. Who knows? Commenting on the freshman blogs will help them a lot with their future. They will start learning how to use complete sentences and also be more engage into the world of writing on web. Comment more on freshman blogs. Our criticism towards what we comment on their blog about what they have posted, will make them have more of a clearer mind of what to fix next time. Sooner or later the more we do that; they will start to see the mistakes in their writing and to also encourage them to keep writing and doing their assignments also. It is going to be very effective to the freshman to see that we have taken our time to read and comment on their blog post. So please, comment on the freshman blogs and encourage them to keep doing better. They really appreciate it even if it does not show.