Reflection On Roll of Thunder Project.

Come to Life
- The guys should stop circling around the room and talk more clearly. They should also organize it a bit so that we can tell.

Who or What?
Try to find a much harder one and add key events for the person. Although good job on describing them in almost every way possible.

Into the Future
They did a good job on making up that story and the plot is well done. Some of the plot is a bit like a fantasy but some parts contain a piece of reality.

Interview
I think that we did ok and that we shouldn't tell that blankly and should speak and pause at the right amount of time. Also there were some typos in the script and we found out about it and tyr to change the words and the formation.

Reflection On Myth Presentation

I think that the Myth Presentation was really good although you can tell that some groups gave all the work to someone while the other person obvious first seen the powerpoint. I think that my favorite myth is the Daedalus and Icarus. Our team accidentally added a picture that wasn't suppose to be there but our team remembered that we changed the picture. I think that the best presentation is kind of hard to choose since that all of them were really good. I think that Alice and Michelle's group was pretty good and also Ophelia's and Lindsey's. Not to favor towards the girls but that there presentation was organized and seem very confident in themselves. I think that our group also went pretty well but we sometimes stumbled and the wording is kind of bad but the rest is okay. I don't really like the story cause the answer to the riddle was kind of horrible since it's a really predictable thing.

What is a Winner?

I think that everybody is a winner as you may have heard many people say a lot already. I think that winners are people who feel like winners and that they appreciate the title. Although sometimes I think that it depends on the balance of the teams so that it is fair for everybody. If in a basketball tournament you are against people whom are bigger, taller, and faster than you are and our team lost. Well it obviously doesn't seem fair so I don't think that that team is a winner. A winner needs to win something that is fair or else that it may cause a lot of people to argue. A winner also needs to work hard for it or else people might think that that is not a quality of a winner. Usually people think that winners are people who won from a competition, but I don't think so. As long as people do not cheat or  play fair then that person is a winner. That is what I think about a winner.

Is there a job you were born to do?

        I don't know if I have a job that I am born to do. I am not sure, but if you mean by that parents have been stressing you to do a job that they want you to do then yes, kind of. Parents always wish that you were born to do something probably what they have been doing. I think that yes in a way that there is something that is born for me to do since that I have to have a job for me to do in the future. 
        Although I don't know what to do yet and my friends all know what they are going to do when they grow up I haven't. In my opinion, I think that there has got to be a job that is born for me to do and I hope that job is a good job too not a bad one. I think that when I can determine there is a job for me to do is when I am in high school and then I can decide. 
        My mom also told me that I have to think of the job I need to do now or I will regret it so now I am trying to think of different jobs that I am probably born to do. And I hope that everybody can have a job they were born to do and that they are good at it and can become the best at different jobs.

What are you willing to fight for?

        I have a lot of stuff that I am willing to fight for, for example at school I fight in for grades and when we get older we fight for college applications with other people that we do not know of. In my home I would sometimes fight with my sisters sometimes for attention and chores so that we can have more allowance money.
      There are nearly competition everywhere but I usually fight for stuff that might effect my future for example good grades, when I get older SAT grades and extra credits or bonuses in some classes. And sometimes the extra credit questions are only for one person.
       Sometimes at home I would also fight for food since we live with our grandparents and I have two sisters so my home is crowded and full of people. Sometimes when my mom buys some snacks or we a neighbor gives us some snacks or candy to eat I would need to sometimes eat the food first before it is eaten.
     For example my mom once bought some bread for breakfast and I wanted the chocolate bread and then my uncle came home that day and didn't know about that. And he wakes up really early and just took the bread and ate it so I guess that I would sometimes fight for food in my home too.

Do you think before you act?

Yes I usually think before I act, but I might sometimes think too long and annoy some people. Still when the answer to a choice between two things is really obvious I would not think and just act. However sometimes the act I need to make is really hard, for example once me and my sister went to a restaurant and we each ordered something. I forgot what I ordered but it sounded good and my sister ordered something else. When we got the food I took a taste of mine and it was not that good and then took a bite of my sister's and it was pretty good. I regretted ordering that meal and thought that I should've asked the waiter what was the meal. I also regret on other stuff besides food, like on tests when I just guessed an answer before thinking it throughly and got that question completely wrong ugh I regretted that for a long time. After those incidents I started to think in everything before I act and sometimes it helped me a lot. Although sometimes like I said earlier I sometimes think too long for something.

How do seasons affect you?

The temperature affects my mood. Like in spring I feel a little drowsy cause of the rain and the humidity. In the summer happy, because of the sunshine and the hot day with ice cream. Fall I feel free and loosely because it is warm and the weather and humidity is no too bad. In the winter I feel good and comfy cause when I rap myself in blankets it feels warm and that there are no more mosquitos since it's to cold. So of all the seasons I refer fall cause it's just the right ind of weather that I like. Some people like summer however I don't like it that much cause it gets too hot and then I get tanned and I hate it when it is like that. So season affect me by the weather, humidity and the temperature. However it seem like that I don't like spring, but in spring we can see cherry blossoms which are pretty, so I guess nature affects me too.

Whom do you feel closest to?

I feel closest to my family and friends and also my sister. My friends I can tell what I feel about them and that they may give their opinion and also we can talk about stuff that sometimes my family doesn't understand. My family they care for me when I get hurt whether physically or mentally. I wish that there can be a person that is a mixture of my friends and family. I also feel close to my sisters to. I can play with them and have a good laugh sometimes. When they are around me I would feel comfortable and relaxed but when I meet other people I sometimes get nervous or don't know what to say. My mom and my dad they sometimes get what I am talking about but sometimes not because they don't get things with the 30 year age difference. i still think that the person I feel close to are my friends and family.

What is honor?

     Honor is like a badge that you would feel proud of when you did something that impresses people. Honor is when you did something that makes you earn this title. It is like a person whom is not that selfish and would do anything to help people not just for their own good. Soldiers for example are honorable cause they are willing to sacrifice their lives to help the country and also save people's lives. Their are different actions that make people honorable.
   
     There are lots of people in history who did a lot of things that are very brave and noble, like Martin Luther King Jr. who helped a lot of people by speaking what he did. I think that being honorable can be when someone needs help and you are willing to do something for that person. Some words like unselfish, helpful, courageous, and willing...etc, can be used to describe honor or someone being honorable.

     Also people might not think that they are doing something honorable in daily life, it doesn't have to be something that is very important or such a big event t can be small or big. Like just helping a woman cross the street would be a honor or defending someone when no one would stand up to help. In history class when you listen about a famous person we remember that name in history we remember that name cause he or she did something honorable.

      So think of this honor won't hurt anything it can be able to help too.

Why do we need memorials?

I think that we need memorials is because that people can be remembered by greatly for something that they must have done. Cementaries have plaques for those who die so that their family can remember that person or the descendant. For example the memorial of the Vietnam Wall for the fallen during the war. It hows how so many people lost their lives just because of it. I think that memorials honor people in a way so that they can be remembered and that they will not disappear. If there are no memorials then everybody would just basically disappear and be nothing and won't be heard again after ho or she died. That's what why I think that we should need memorials. If that person might have been close and died then that person might've cried every time that nothing in the world think he or she exists since there are no memorials.

Are all things connected?

I think that all things are connected in a way like the food chain, the food web, the nitrogen cycle....etc. In nature everything is connected to the Sun cause that is where everything started. If you mean it in a non literal way I think that yes. There are lots of examples in life where things in words connect, like Latin roots or the origin of a word. Things are connected in interesting ways that most people never think of, for example in Harry Potter there was the spell where you need to say Crucio, and that spell was used to hurt someone well it comes from the word to crucify which is to harm someone badly. Also snowflakes have 6 points and bugs have 6 legs so I guess that nature likes 6 but however in the Bible 6 is a bad number. The Bible also has some stories that are connected to other religions too. See how all these things connect in the world.

Reflection on First Semester of 7th Grade

I think that my first semester of 7th grade is good just really tiring. I was late for school for 2 times but I think that it is okay since I live in Taoyuan. I think that I am used to this school now and that the first semester went well to me. I think that English class is okay and that the homework amount is also good. The diary is hard to write since sometimes nothing happened on that day or at home so I sometimes don't know what to write but that rarely happens. I think that the stories for the literature circles are okay but I wish that we can read some stories that have fiction not always nonfiction or a auto-biography. I think the class is okay but sometimes I wish that we can have more time to correct our Holt readers so that we don't need to correct it at the end of every quarter or sometimes stay after school. The class journal is okay and that the topics are sometimes hard but I think that I am okay with it. The class is okay since I don't think that it is really that boring but I wish that we don't always have to be that late for lunch. I think that my reading skills should be better since that is where I usually make mistakes at reading skills on my test and defiantly the sentences and vocabulary.

Can where you are change who you are?

I think that no matter where you are still yourself. Your outer image mind change, but you know the old sayings its not what the outside counts it what who you are. You might get a haircut or catch up with the latest trends but your personality is still the same. I went to the US when I was little and I go there every summer, but I still liked reading and like to do the same stuff. I think that no matter where you are, you are still the same person and I don't think people will change the way they are. Only you yourself knows whether you changed or not. Some people change themselves to fit in but I disagree. If I were to change I would keep the personality I have and try to keep the original me unless my mom forces me to have a different kind of hairstyle or something like that. Remember its not what the outsides count, its what the inside counts.

Review on Video

I feel bad for the family because they are broke and they need to rely on the only thing they have their car. I wish that we can help them with anything we can. The whole family must need to help each other so they can have food to eat and they don’t even have a house. The whole family is close to each other and they are really happy to have each other at least. People usually think that they have a house that is bad and someone else’s house s better, after the video I found out that I am happy to have a family and a wonderful house to live in. with a family that cares and love me. I will also work harder so that I don;t end up in a car and that I don't have anything left to rely on. I wish the economics of the world can be better for the family in Florida. And I hope that more job options can open up for them. Lets all hope that these hard times for them can quickly pass.