Academic Vocabulary Second Semester

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Portfolio - Improvement

Over the past two years, I have improved a lot I am not as immature as I was in middle school. My writing skills weren't that good because I used to not like to write I thought it was pointless. My writing skills are way better now I write how I am supposed to write for my grade. I improved my writing skills because I knew that it was a requirement for High School I started to practice my skills. I had very good reading skills in middle school but they improved in high school because I kept reading harder and harder books. My reading skills are a little bit better now because I already read high skilled books in middle school it got a little bit better because I kept reading and never stopped. My speaking skills before high school weren't as good as there are now because I used think that everytime I spoke in front of a group of people the would be talking about me. My speaking skills now are great because I am not afraid to speak in front of a crow and I don't care what people say about me anymore. I improved my speaking skills because I spoke in front of my family. My group-work skills before high school were horrible I didn't like working with people because they would irritate me if they did something wrong. My group-work skills are a lot better because I can work with people I don't like, I worked on group-work skills by having some patience. My technology skills were down the drain I hated technology, My technology skills are way way better now thanks to Ms. Priester. I improved my technology skills by being in Ms. Priester's class. I will keep having respect towards my teachers and I will keep doing the things I am doing now.

Greatest High School Obstacle

When I was in freshman year I didn't listen very well to intructions that came from adults and Ms. Priester told me to do an assignment that I didn't feel like doing and she sent me out to the hall and we both argued with each other. I felt mad because I knew even if I felt like I was right she was the teacher and she most likely would have won the arguememnt so there was no reason to even try arguing with her. The incident changed me because I learned not to argue with Ms. Priester because I would never win the arguement we would argue about.

Personal Changes Blog Paragraph

When I was a freshman, I was disrespectful. Now, I am respectful because I feel like I act different.
For example, people used to look down at me without respect. This shows that people didn't have respect for me because I didn't have respect for them. This also shows that I used to not get so many privileges that I get now because of my disrespect towards people. In addition, I now get a lot of respect from staff and teachers because I show respect towards them. This shows that I get more privileges from staff and teachers. This also shows that teachers and staff respect me now and take me more serious because of the respect I give to them. By my senior year, I hope to be one of the most respected students on campus and the most trusted.

Parents of teens should not be responsible for their child's damage. One reason is because punishing the parents for something they didn't do, the parents doesn't COMPUTE should the parents pay for the damage their kids did when they did not even know that was going through their mind. Another reason is, a lot of parents in the U.S are middle class and can not ACHIEVE the amount of money that the vandalized place or company is asking for. Additionally, parents should have to pay for their kids damage because they were not the ones that made the damage, SPECIFIC people should pay for the damage caused because they were the ones that caused the damage. In conclusion, parents should not pay for their child's mistake.

Academic Update Blog Paragraph

My career goal is to work in a area that has to do with animals. This job involves getting dirty and also not being scared of the animals you work with because it sometimes can affect the animals. I want to do this because I love animals and I think I would be very passionate about the animals I want to work with. I also want to do it because my very close friend Calvin loves animals too and we both want to work in the same field. I will achieve this goal by not quitting in school because the career I want to work in you have to have good grades. I will remain motivated to become a animal specialist by thinking about my future so I cannot quit and give up on myself.

Academic Language Week 30 - "D" Grades

Schools should not eliminate "D" grade. One reason is because if teachers eliminate the grade D more students will drop out of high school and teachers won't be able to COMPENSATE  the students. Another reason is with all the high school students dropping out of high shool the students wont have the time to INTERACT with their teacher and learn what they have to learn to be able to get accepted in a college, Additionally, if students know that they can pass high school with a D they are not going to try hard enough. INITIALLY if they get work that they understand they will try harder and won't get any D's
In conclusion, Schools not eliminating D's not so many students will drop out of high school and will go to college.

Academic Language Week 29 - School Conferences

Topic Sentence: -Parents should not face jail time for missing their child's school conference. One reason is if a parent is to busy because they work or because they have other children they need to attend to teachers can SEEK ways to get in contact with the parent. Another reason is maybe the parent can't make it because an emergency came up the teach can find some kind of RESOURCE to get in contact with the students parents. Additionally, If the parent if just to lazy to go to the school and talk to you because they are exshousted you can find a way to TRANSFER the students information. In conclusion, I dont think parents should go to to jail if they miss a conference because they  can just be very busy.

Rain, Vacation, or Zombies vs Vampires Blog Post Paragraph

Rainy days are relaxing because the weather makes people just want to sit down and relax rather than be ouside doing stupid things. For example, on rainy days I feel like not going to shool and just laying in bed all day drinking something hot all day. This shows that most people will feel lazy and not want to do anything which makes them sit down and watch telivision all day. Additionally, some people get bored of just sitting in the house not able to go outside  or even go anywere because of how wet it is outside. This shows that if kids wont come out less kids will be getting in trouble because they will be to lazy to do anything. The next time it rains, I hope it will be a weekend so I can just sleep in and lay down all day and just relax.

Testing Thoughts Paragraph

      I feel scared about taking the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE). I feel scared because most students speak of it like it's the hardest test ever but other students talk about it like it's so easy. Half of the teachers make us prep for it like its a hard test but the other half of the teachers don't. It kinda confuses me because half of the teacher and students say it's hard but the other half say it's not so I gotta find out which category I am. 
   I know that I have to prep myself to take the test because I don't want to walk in not knowing what to do. I am prepping myself on English because our teacher is helping us write essays and is also helping us how to begin one and what do to, for example before writing an essay you can do concept map to get your ideas. My math teacher is helping us how to prep for the CAHSEE because he is going over on how to do it he is also teaching us the steps.
      I am a little concerned that I will not know what to do and will get stuck and fail. I am also scared that if I don't pass it I will stay behind a year. I am also concerned that I might get distracted because there will be other students who most likely will be talking. Another thing I am concerned about is not knowing how to do the math part because I am not good at math.
      I am confident that I am going to pass the English part because I am very good at English. I am also confident that I will pass the essay part in the CAHSEE because I am practicing and I am getting better at it. Another thing I am confident about is passing the math part because I have been studying the step on how to do specific problems even if I'm not good in math at all.
      When I see my CAHSEE scores, I hope I feel excited because I would feel like I accomplished my goal. I would also feel happy because I would know that I wouldn't have to re-take it. I would hope not to feel sad because I would feel like I failed at something important when I knew I should have passed it. I would also feel like I wasn't good enough because I failed something very important.

Homonyms Practice Blog Paragraph

She slammed her phone onto the table and told her parents my boy friends parents are dumb.THEY'RE so strict and they are not letting me go to my birthday party. She went down to the kitchen and asked her parents are THERE any food in the refrigerator I'm hungry and I need to let my anger out. Her parents owned THEIR own big house so she was going to have a pretty big party.  She called her boyfriend again and told him " YOUR so dumb why can you ask YOUR parents to please let you go". Her boyfriend asked again and said he would clean the house. He asked his parents YOU'RE going to the movies that night so why can't I just go please?" they agreed and said okay.

Poetry Unit Assessment Project

http://screencast.com/t/OYMHNFuSnxM

Technology in school paragraph

Teachers use technology to help me learn. For example, in 8th grade, my teacher used to help me explain my homework. It helped me because I got my homework done more often.
Also, in 9th grade, my teacher used to help me with the class work. It helped me because I got a lot of my work done. In addition, in 10th grade, my teacher used to tell us how to do our homework. It helped me because it meant I wouldn't have to have help with my homework. Future teachers can help their students to learn by explaining the work.

Academic Language Week 24 - Online Learning

Online learning is not effective to educate students because they won’t get that one on one help they might need also they might not won’t to do their work because they don’t have teachers or classmates to motivate them, like you would in a regular school. They won’t have teachers to DIFFERENTIATE things they might not understand or need help on because their teachers would be only grading their work from their computer. Some people need their teacher to CLARIFY homework or essays or even how to do the AREA of math. Online schooling isn’t for most people that have an IEP or need other kind of help like special ed. because they won’t understand if it isn’t explain in their own past. That’s why I don’t think online learning is not effective to educate most students.

Academic Language Week 23 - Dog Fighting

Dog fighting should be illegal because dogs are like humans they have feelings to. The dogs are thought a FORMULA to learn how to fight with other dogs till the death. If dogs get thought how to fight they could start being abusive to other dogs and there owners. Dogs have distinct attitudes that have lost when exposed to violence. People have the potential to make other humans stop from making their dogs fight other dogs, because if dogs keep on dying because of their owners then the dog population is going to decrees. That’s why I think dog fighting should be illegal.

Imagery in “A Blessing” by James Wright

The poem is called " A Blessing" by James Wright this poem helped me learn more about imagery because it gave me a lot of good examples on being prepared to write a poem using all the technical uses that are supposed to be in a poem

Imagery In poetry Blog post paragraph

For Halloween I was going on pass on the way there I saw little kids already in their costumes. I was leaving SPA to see my family that I really don't get to see. The air was thick that night and it was hard to breath. I was getting ready putting my costume on my costume had the rand new smell on it. I finished getting dressed and whent to the kitchen to see what my mom was cooking and tasted some sea good it tasted so delicious. The night whent on without a worry and I had so much fun.

Academic Language Week 22 - Felons Voting

I think Felons should be allowed to vote because they are just As normal as anybody that is not a felon. I think Felons can get scared top vote because a SOURCE can trace their past and bring things that they don't want tho get brought up. I donth think it's RELEVANT when people debate if felons should vote or not because I think they should have a right to know.

Poetry Previous knowledge paragraph

I have experienced poetry because I used to write poetry. I used to write poetry when I was upset about something or needed to express my feelings. Here in San Pasqual Academy grandma Gene had Poetry slam where every Thursday we would go and read our poetry not a lot of students would go because they didn't find it interesting but for those who did go it was easier to read their poetry to the people who were there.

When I was in Elementary Scool, I used hear about poetry a lot from my teachers. The teachers would talk about the people who wrote about poetry and how much of a passion it was for them. When I was in Elemetary School I didn't really care about poetry it wasnt really in my mind. I used to see some of my older peers write their feelings down in a piece of paper but I never really knew that it was poetry.

When I was in Middle School I started to learn more about poetry and started to get more interested in it. My teachers were starting to teach us about Shakespeare and his passion for poetry. I also learned that Shakespeare turned his poetry to plays. I also learned that poetry isn't all about love I learned that it's all different kids of poetry from sad to happy to birthday poems.

Outside of School I read poetry and tried to get inspired but I didn't really succeed at that. I started to write poetry and found out I was really good at it I didn't let anyone read them though because they were mostly about my past. I started to go to the library and getting books about poetry and learning more about it.

This year, I hope to get closer to poetry and learn more about it and it's history I also want to learn more about Shakespeare and his background and his childhood. I also want to write more poetry myself and get more informed.

Spelling list for week 22

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Academic Language Week 21 - Steroids

No I don't think that athletes should be allowed to use any type of drug because it's a dangerous thing to do to your budy because in a PERIOD of time your body will get sick of it and may even kills you. I guess you can say that it's a TRADITION for athletes to use drugs such  as stereoids because it makes them better at whatever sport they are playing. I also think they shouldn't be able to play with the use of drugs because it makes the game unfair kinda like if they cheated because they get better than the other players making them more noticable to fans which means they get payed more. Some athletes dont use drugs such as stereoids and are big and strong but sometiimes can't compete with the players that are using them.

Second Semester 2012 Goals

My goal for the second semester of the 2011-2012 school year is to turn in all my work. I selected this goal because I know I can do it. I will achieve this goal by turning in all my work on time not late.At the end of the semester, I will know I achieved my goal by checking my gradebook.

First Semester Projects

Plot Reading Assessment Project
http://kai-jennifer.blogspot.com/2011/09/prezi-with-jennifer-b-ema-g.html

Character Reading Assessment Project
http://emairaneligspa2014.blogspot.com/2012/01/character-assement-project.html

Narrator Reading Assessment Project
https://docs.google.com/document/pubid=1y3errdm4T_YcCpDRgtXMBCKo70Nraiw2e6PtSTOgKbg

Narrative Essay
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Fe_j-MujAoVUZDS1Hxe8MV1eWXOKKdfb-unW5XzIO6E

character assement project

Study Spelling Words List 20 - Final Exam

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Persuasive Essay: Opinion Statement Brainstorm

There shouldn't be an honor house.New kids shouldn't be able to move to the nice houses right away.
There shouldn't be so many staff in the houses.
Kids in SPA shouldn't have roomates.
SPA should offer co-ed housing.

JCCS Academic Language Week 18 - Teen Drivers Interview

Mellisa thinks teen drivers should have special restrictions placed on their drivers' licenses because what people are doing now and it saves life's and I think it's a good thing

Chad thinks teen drivers should and should not have special restrictions placed on their drivers' licenses because I have mixed feelings about it.

Jeff thinks teen drivers should have special restrictions placed on their drivers' licenses because they are in experienced.

Hunter thinks teen drivers should have special restrictions placed on their drivers' licenses because it takes a while to learn all the skills to drive safely

Doug thinks teen drivers should have special restrictions placed on their drivers' licenses because it's saf to gradually become a full on driver.

My Confession ---- I need to log out!

Students of San Pasqual Academy I have a very important confession. My confession is that I like the whole basketball team they are so cute and I think they won Tuesdays game for me. I don't know why but there is something about them that I like so much I think its cute when they are running down the court dribbling the ball because I could look at their booties and watch them move side to side it's so cute. I also like the way they look when they are sweating and the sweat drips down their face all the way to their chest it looks so adorable because they are working their hardest and I think it's so beautiful.

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