This week I was able to accomplish a lot. Some successes that I experienced include finishing the design of my trifold, and starting my speech. At home, I finished my trifold and my speech. I also printed out my brochures and speech. This week I had one struggle. My struggle was that I didn’t have enough time. This made me have to work a lot on the weekend. I still accomplished my goals even though I had a struggle. I didn’t make any adjustments this week, everything went according to plan. On Monday, we presented to the parents. It went great! I was able to practice my speech many times and almost memorize it! This made me more confident about presenting in class. This next week we will be presenting in class. We will be graded on how well we do our speech. After all the work that we put into for this project, I hope everyone does amazing!
Memories
Seventh grade has given me many fun memories, but here are three. First, I loved Knight at the Museum in core. Knight at the Museum was a super fun experience for me. This was an amazing memory because it was very fun to be with my friends. I was super happy that I could be with my friends at an afterschool event. I also loved seeing everyone’s awesome trifold and props. Also, I enjoyed the honor roll party. The honor roll party is a party during tutorial in which you get to eat ice cream and hang out with friends. This party was very fun for me because me and my friends got to work on homework, talk, and eat ice cream. Lastly, I thought that making my 20% Project was awesome. Even though I haven’t finished making my 20% Project yet, I have enjoyed every time we work on them. I love seeing other people’s projects while working on mine. I can’t wait to see how everyone’s projects turn out! These are three of my favorite memories from seventh grade.
20% Project-Week 5
This week I accomplished a lot. Some successes that I experienced this week were designing the layout of my trifold, cutting out the construction paper for my trifold, and gluing the paper onto my trifold. I also began thinking about my speech. At home, I will continue working on my trifold. If I am able to work a lot on my trifold at home, I will be able to start my speech on Friday. This week was a great week and I didn’t have any struggles at all. Because we barely have any more time to finish our work, I worked on my trifold instead of finishing the brochures. I will work on the brochures more at home. I will make one brochure for nature destinations, one for beach destinations, and one for city destinations. Next week I will be working on my speech and my trifold. I will hopefully be finishing my trifold and starting my speech.
My Mom
My mom is the most amazing woman in my life for many reasons. Here are a few of the reasons. First off, she supports me no matter what. She always motivates me to work hard and reach my goals. For example, I decided that I wanted to get better at tennis. She signed me up for many tennis classes and cheered me on. I am now much better at tennis than I used to be. Also, my mom has a great sense of humor. She has great jokes and knows how to make me laugh. She makes me happy when I am sad. She always knows what will make me laugh. In addition, my mom is super kind! She is always kind to me when I need it. She knows me so well that she knows what I am going to say sometimes. Lastly, my mom is super fun to be around. She is always great company and I enjoy being with her very much. I love going out to eat with her and doing fun things with her. She loves to surprise me by taking me to do fun things. Doing things with my mom is one of my most favorite things to do! So in all, I love my mom very much and she is the most amazing woman in my life!
Rad Reading-April
This month I read part of Sunrise on the Reaping. Sunrise on the Reaping is a 382 page, dystopian novel that takes place in District 12, a city in Panem. Panem is a futuristic North America. In the beginning, Haymitch is a 15 year old teenager who is having his birthday on the day of the reaping. He is terrified due to the fact that instead of only two tributes being chosen, there are four this year. This change was made in honor of the quarter quell. As the conflict develops, Haymitch is chosen because of his actions during the reaping. The Hunger Games is where teenagers are randomly selected from all around Panem and have to fight to the death. In the rising action, Haymitch is developing alliances between himself and multiple other tributes. That is the part that I have read so far.
I really liked this book because it perfectly connects to the first book of the series, The Hunger Games. It explains to me why Haymitch is drunk in the first book. If you have read The Hunger Games, then this book is perfect for you to read! I definitely recommend this book because it has happy, sad, and emotional parts.
My favorite character is Haymitch. Haymitch has many good character traits. My favorite trait is his determination. A quote that supports this is, “So, if it’s a machine, it can be broken, right?” This quote proves that Haymitch is a determined character. It tells of how Haymitch is determined to rebel against the Capitol and break the arena. He describes the arena as a machine because he stated earlier all machines can be broken.
My favorite quote from the novel is, “Which I could (a) throw or (b) drive into a peacekeeper’s heart, ensuring my immediate death.” This is my favorite quote because it is funny. The author writes about how Haymitch is deciding whether to be rebellious or not. He decides not to at the end but the fact that he was thinking about it is funny.
20% Project- Week 4
This week I got a decent amount of work done. It was less than I expected to get done but it I will make up for it. I will do this by working more at home next week. This week I continued working on the brochures for each category of travel destinations. I started working on them last week at home. At home I continued to work on the brochures. I have had a few struggles this week that I will share with you. I did not finish the brochures yet. I have only finished half of one. This is including the time I spent at home. They are already designed but do not have all the information on them. Because I didn’t finish the brochures, I had to make a change. I didn’t start working on my trifold. Next week I will work on the brochures instead of the trifold. I will most likely take my trifold home to work on. I will do this so I won’t be behind schedule.
20% Project- Week 3
This week I worked efficiently and got a lot done! I successfully completed finding activities to do at my chosen travel destinations. I found activities at destinations like Yellowstone, Fiji, Canada, Mexico, Florida, and Hawaii. These are just a few of the places that I am researching. These places will then be put on brochures for people to look at during my presentation.The brochures will be in front of my trifold. The trifold itself will have more information about places to travel to. At home I finished looking at the activities and started creating the brochures. This week was a great week and I didn’t have any struggles. Due to the fact that I want to have more time to work on my trifold, I will start making my brochures next week instead of looking at hotels. Otherwise, I made no adjustments. So next week, I will work on making and designing the brochures.
20% Project-Week 2
This week was amazing! I was able to accomplish a lot! First, I double checked all of the places that I chose to research. I made sure that all the places I chose would be good options for people to consider taking a trip to. After finishing that I began researching activities at the destinations that I chose to research. Here is my work so far for Alaska. This is an example to show you my progress for my chosen destinations. Alaska is a good place to go in the summer. A few good ideas on what to do are dogsledding, whale watching, and hiking in the beautiful nature. Alaska is an amazing place to travel to. A good idea from my experience is to take a cruise to Alaska with multiple stops. This gives you time to do all the must do attractions and you still get to enjoy the cruise. I had a great experience with Royal Carribean. I would definitely reccommend taking this trip. This is what I have so far for Alaska, more will be added every week. I had no struggles or setbacks this week. I also didn’t make any adjustments to my plans. Next week I will continue to work on finding activities to do at my chosen destinations.
My Favorite Room in the House
My favorite room in my house is the family room. There are many reasons that this is my favorite room but here are a few. In the family room there is a very comfortable couch. It is a reclining couch that is brown. By pushing a little button you can make the couch have a cushioned leg rest. If you want the couch to be like a bed, you can push back on the seat and it will go all the way back. I love this couch. It is a perfect couch to watch movies on, get cozy while drinking hot cocoa on, and even to sleep on! My second reason is that there is a very large T.V. screen in the family room. I can get comfortable in a blanket and watch a movie on the very large screen. The T.V. has a very good sound system connected to it that is up on the ceiling with multiple speakers connected. The T.V. almost makes you feel like you are in a movie theater. Lastly the family room is my favorite room due to how close it is to the kitchen. The family room is next door to the kitchen. This makes it very easy to get snacks while watching a movie. I can even watch a movie from the kitchen table. Although the view isn’t great, I can still watch a movie from the table. These are three reasons why the family room is my favorite room in my house.
20% Project-Week One
For my 20% project I chose to research travel ideas. The reason I chose to do this is due to the fact that I love traveling! I also have a passion for writing down places to travel to. Before starting my 20% project I still researched places for my family to go to during the coming school break. This week I was able to accomplish finding all the places that I will research about in the next few weeks. I found about 35 different places to research. This week I had no struggles! I accomplished my goals and finished the work I had to do at home. At home I added the categories for the travel destinations. I didn’t make any adjustments this week. I left off with a google slides presentation with each destination on its own slide. Next week I will work on finding the activities and hotels to go to at the vacation destinations.