What color represents you? Why?

The color that represents me is orange because I am enthusiastic, fascinating, happy, creative, determined, attracting, successful, encouraging, and stimulating.

SPA Prom 2011 or Free Write

I didn't go to prom this year, but I had a really great time at home. I made a very tasty chicken sangwitch. I was qiute intriguing. I was riding a housemate's bike up and down the only street that we have. On Saturday, I spent time with my girlfriend and I went off campus to go on a food-run. It was awesome. My Sunday went really well. I played basketball and then I got chocolate. Yummy, the kit-kats were delicious.

Quote, Summary, or Paraphrase Paragraph

Welcome students! Today, I am going to teach you about what is evidence and some ways to use evidence. Evidence is a thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment. You summarize evidence when you do research papers. To summarize you write the main ideas in your own words and it is usually shorter than the information given to you. You quote evidence when you copy the words of another, usually with acknowledgment of the source. To use a quote you pull a piece of information from the evidence. You paraphrase evidence when you want to use a sentence from the evidence, but don’t plagiarize, switch up a couple of words to make it your own. To paraphrase you rewrite pieces of the evidence in your own words. To help you remember this, you should practice it when a teacher assigns a research project to the class.

Comment-Seeking Post

We all heard that Osama Bin Ladin is dead. They even talked about it on the news. To me, he is still alive. The way the U.S. acted upon his death by celebrating and cheering "He is dead, he is dead!" It was not appropriate. I think that he is still alive, that the United States shot a decoy. Or maybe he is dead but it was part of a plan. It's sort of an easy thing to think of getting back, like retaliation. The U.S. shoots him, Afghanistan plans for revenge, and they kill somebody that is a leader to us. It's a non-stop combat between the United States and Afghanistan.

Check-In Letter

Hi Ms. Priester,

How are you doing? I have been doing great. I've been working hard on catching up with my missing assignments for your class. So far I only finished 16 assignments and still increasing, but I think I'm going to need some help on some things. My day has been going good so far and I'm hoping that the end of this quarter I have at least a 2.5 or a 3.0.

I'll see you in summer school. We are going to have a lot of fun together. Can't wait until spend my whole summer vacation with my favorite teacher. I want to pass the 10th grade so I don't have to be behind on credits. This experience would be beneficial to me because it's letting me know that I need to work harder and get all of my work done and turned in on time.

This year's extra curricular activities were very hard with not being eligible to any of them. I don't want to be on academic probation when football comes around next year. I was on the baseball team and it was something I enjoyed doing, but I didn't stay on top of my school work and I wasn't eligible to play anymore.

Fourth Quarter Goals

My goals are very simple for fourth quarter. My plan is to try to get a 2.5 or a 3.0. I have a great support group who support me every step of the way, improving my grades. Another one of my goals is to improve my behavior in class and try to stay focus on my work. I have been noticing that my behavior has change but it’s okay. I’m sticking to these goals because I want to graduate with my Sophomore class. It’s is going to be awesome n shocking if I get an outstanding GPA this year. I’m looking forward to the awards assembly.

Testing Tips, Strategies, and Plays Reflection

Knowing tips, strategies, and plays can help me on testing because they are given hints. My feelings about the upcoming CST is very relaxed. I'm not worried about it because if I follow the tips and strategies, it would make the questions easier and if I know my material it would make the questions more understandable. I just need to take deep breathes and not spend too much time on one question. I think I'm going to do great on the CST this year. I hope all of my classmates pass the upcoming CST. This is going to be a lot of fun.