Language+Arts

=Tuck Everlasting=

For Tuck everlasting I felt like I did a really good job on the reading part of it. I felt like I read ahead which helped me when I had to do something that was in the last minute. For the inclass questions I felt like I did ok I felt like I did the best that I could do but inclass questions are not really my thing. For the blog on the out of spotlight I felt like I did amazingly good because I made my inferences according to what was the big topic of the chapter and then what was the details that made the big idea. For the inclass discussions I felt like there wasn't enough to talk about becauase I felt like Tuck everlasting was a book that you can read but not really talk about it in class. For my character project with Kyle we had a good strategy that worked with us and the strategy was that I would do the written part and Kyle would do the visual part and that worked good because we had to worry about our own things. For our figurritive language favorite passage I felt like my paragraph had soem figuritive language but it was more the start of the book. the paragraph that I did was the paragraph on page 30. Overall for Tuck Everlasting I felt like I did very good on it but I think that we should've read a different book that we could talk more about in class.

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In rainow people it was short stories and for every story we had to make a little 2-3 sentence summary. I made a lot of summaries and I felt like I did a really good job on them because I got the specifics without making a run on sentence. I liked making the summaries and they really helped me practice making them. Slso for the sections we made introductions because we thought that the one that the author gave and put into the book wasn't that child friendly and we just thought that they were not so good introductions. For my introductios they were medium sized and I felt pretty good on them and I tried not to put to much detail in because they are summaries. We also picked some of the stories to make them stories for Shirley and mine were virtue goes to town, breaker's bridge, and professor of smells. I think that I did good on these but I think that making stories for another person just isn't my thing but as I said I felt like I did good on them and not terrible. Also for Rainbow People we would lead discussions on the blog and the one that I facilitated was Breaker's Bridge and I did amazing on facilitiating the discussion. We talked a lot about the book and basically we did the same thing that we did on the blog but you were talking in a group and people on the outside would talk in twiducate about how we did and about our ideas. Overall on Rainbow People I think I did pretty good probobly the best book that I have read this year so far.



= The Fourth book that I read this year is called In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson =

I felt like I did good on the quizes but the questions that I missed I usually misunderstood them. I read over again which helped a lot on the quizes but thee questions that I missed where the ones that readin over didn't help me that much with. The book was very good and i enjoyed it a lot. The final assignment which was focused on identity which i felt like I did great on. I felt like I expressed all my ideas perfectly and got some good details in along with the big picture.



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For the unit "this I believe"
I felt like I did a good job because I expressed my feelings enough and got my ideas in there. I liked the "this I believe" for when I did one for myself because I felt like I did my best work on it because it had everything that I believed in the topic. I liked the unit better than normal LA because we listened to a lot of speeches and I felt like I really understood it. Overall I felt like I did a good job on the unit. media type="file" key="Carter this I believe.m4a" width="300" height="50"

= The Third book I read this year is called Maniac Magee. = My best assignment is the fixed-up blog. I felt like I did my best work because I got in all my Ideas and I gave the kid a life. I could have made a better ending by doing the kid going him. My least successful assignment is the quizzes that we took. I went through the book fast and when we took the quizzes I couldn't remember that much for the quizzes. I could have read more slowly when I was reading the chapter. When we start our next book I am going to try to try my best to improve my work and spend my time on the work. I can read a little more carefully as a new habit for this next book. I think that I am proving my points and explaining things better now. Overall on this unit I felt pretty good but I need to slow down.

Final Writing Assignment For Maniac Magee

Family is a group of people who care and love each other and have a home. A family doesn't have to be related to each other because in the book most of the families were not related to maniac. A example from real life is when I fell down the steps and hit my head my family came to help me. One of the first family's in the book are the Beales. The Beales were a very good family to Maniac Magee. Maniac lost his mom and dad when he was little. Maniac also went to another person called Grayson and created a family with him. Maniac feels strongly about family because if he does one thing wrong he is sorry about it right away.

The Beales were a family to Maniac. They cared about Maniac because they gave him a home when he had none. Maniac cares about the Beales as much as the Beales care about Maniac. The Beales were a very good family to maniac and they were a family that maniac loved. We learned that Maniac needs a family to live and have fun and be happy. I think that Maniac was very thankful to the Beales because they gave him a home. Maniac learns that he is a trouble for the Beales and leaves.

Grayson found Maniac living in a buffalo pen and decided to take him to somewhere to eat. They went around town eating butterscotch crumpets. Then when they went to dinner Grayson asked him where he was living before he found him in the buffalo pen maniac said that he lived on the east end on 728 sycamore street. Grayson asked him all sorts of questions about the African Americans. Maniac told him that they were just normal people. Grayson decided to give maniac a home so he took him to the baseball storage place in the park that he worked at. Grayson and Maniac soon became a family. The thing that made them a family is that they cared about each other and also had a home. I think that if it weren't for Grayson taking Maniac out of the buffalo pen maniac wouldn't have a family. Maniac learns that a family doesn't have to be a mom and a dad and a kid it is people who care about each other.

I think that if someone reads this book they should think about family because it drives the story most out of the other ideas in the book because Maniac lived with the Beales, The Mcnabs, Grayson, and his aunt and uncle. Maniac has changed his ideas about family because he really went through a lot of family's in the book and he understands that it isn't just a Mom, and a Dad it is a group of people who care, and love each other and have a home. I think that some of my final thoughts are that maniac is a person who needs a family to have fun, laugh, be happy, and to have a home. Maniac understands that a family doesn't have to be related the people just have to care about each other enough and have a home that they can go to.

= The second book that I read this year is called The Cay = When we did the addignments for The Cay i felt like I did my best work but I didn't prove my ideas when I wrote. I think that my best assignment was my book comparison with Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Cay this was my best assignment because I got all my ideas in and i worte with sparkle. If I could have made it better I would have proven my points more than I did. I think that my least succesful assignment was letter because I got to listy. To make it better I could have put more sparkle in my writing with my letter. To make my next book's assignment's better I am going to put more sparkle in and prove my points more. When i read the next book I will read things over again if i don't get it.

This is a example of my best work.

= The first book we read in fith grade is The Island of the Blue Dolphins. =

When we did the assignments for Island of the Blue Dolphins I felt like I did my best writing but didn't express enough ideas. I think that my best assignment was my Inspiration because I felt like I got all the facts, and Ideas. It was also very organized. If I could have made it better I could've made some Infrences. I think that my least succesful assignment was my RRJ assignment because I felt like I didn't put enough ideas. I think that when we start are next book I should put more ideas in. Something that I should work on to improve my study habbits I could listen carefully. I think that I made progress in my work because I saw my pharagraphs get better.

I think that this is a example of my best work because I got all my ideas in and the facts for each character trait. It was also an organized assingment.