Hotel Rwanda

According to the sources and the film, how did individuals, groups of people and the world community fail the people of Rwanda?

The people failed Rwanda in many different ways, because even the groups that were supposed to help them did not succeed. These U.N soldiers were mostly what the Rwandans were counting on and they did not help. They had failed because they did not believe that things could be fixed in Rwanda. Then they backed out on Paul just because they didn’t think he would succeed which was because he was a black African. These U.N groups thought he was ‘dirt’. When the soldiers came, all the Rwandans were so happy to see themselves on the verge of being rescued but even after that, these soldiers walked away, leaving them helpless. Also, their own kind failed themselves. Just because the people of Rwanda were separated into two groups, the whole country was in war with one another. Even the Rwandans that were supposed to help each other did not want to help. The staff of the Hotel Rwanda did not want to listen to Paul because their Boss was no longer there. This was a way of failing the people of Rwanda. Also, just the world community failed to help because there were many clips on news that showed how bad things were in the country and how people were getting shot and killed. Even though these clips were on news, no one had really helped. All people spared for them were pity and that would not help them in anyway unless something was done about it. Ladies with little puppies in their hand just walked out of the hotel leaving pity for the people and climbed on to the buses which would save them. When they go back, they will still be at their rich places when these Rwandans stay here getting no help. Also countries from the outside sending these weapons with everyone being allowed to just come in to take these weapons. Just sending these in the first place was a failure. This helped the ways for Hutu to control over the Tutsi.

African political cartoon evaluation

Some of the main visual elements of this political cartoon are that Africa is being stepped on. There is big foot step dug into the country and mostly in the center. This political cartoon is about the issue that Africa is having with the Europeans. They had absolutely no control over the Europeans because the Europeans took whatever they wanted. Also another visual effect is the land of the country is black and the foot step is white, which shows a lot of racism. There are many different way for the cartoonist's position because he/she could either feel good about how the Europeans had control over the Africans and took control of their land, OR the cartoonist wants to show how hurt Africa got. Either way, the cartoonist is trying to show how badly taken over Africa was. Other techniques the cartoonist had used was that when he drew the foot steps, you can see that the foot step dug deep into the land of the Africans and i think that shows how the Europeans dug deep, taking away its many precious resources. The way the cartoonist made the foot step really big and deep made the most effect on it. Also how his idea, of showing that Africa got taken over by drawing a foot step was a good and persuasive way to show it. The artist could have made the cartoon a little more effective by maybe having more contrast.

The Scramble for Africa

To claim land, we used the strategy of starting from the coast line and building into the more land surface area so that we can have easy transportation and so that we can build into Africa and onto the places with natural resources toghether. Some of the factors we considered for claiming land was that the land should start from the coast line where there will be good natural resources and then go deep into the Congo area and into the Congo basin becuase the basin has alot of good resources. France won becuase from looking at the land that they claimed, you can tell that they are sticking to the coast and one side of Africa. I think staying toghether is the best strategy becuase transportation of import/export items can be sent easier when they are next to each other and also that most of their land branches out from the coast and builds into surface areas so ships can be a useful source of transportation as well. Spain lost becuase they did not have many places with good natural resources becuase some of their land went onto the Sahara which is a really dry dessert and there arn't any really good resources there. Also none of the land that they own start out from the coast and the land is extremely scattered which makes it very hard to travel. Also the fact that all of their land is surrounded by other countries makes it very hard becuase they have no access to the water to use ships as transportation.

five themes of geography

Movement
Region
Human Environmental
Location
Place
Mr Help is a mnemonic used to help us remember things like the five themes of geography easier.

Movement is anything that travels trough out the world, whether it'd be ideas, products, or people.

Region is a group of things that have things in common. A township is an example of a region.

Human Environmental are things like the weather and environment related things that lead people to what they are. If the weather was cold, you would see people from the region wearing sweaters. Also mosquito nets are an example of human environmental.

Location is where a place is located whether it is decided by describing the places or shops around the place and the exact area by latitude and longitude or addresses.

Place is what makes the place unique and special and different from other places.


There are the five themes of geography in the books we are reading now.
the book my group is reading; waiting for the rain.
Examples;

Movement; Tengo moving to Johannesburg is an example of movement. (pg88-89)
Region; The township that keeps the blacks and the whites separate. (pg 62-63)
Human Environmental; When Tengo was sitting outside with Emma on the steps and drinking lemonade which showed that it was hot outside. (pg 169)
Location; Outside of Emma's house when they sat on the footsteps. (pg 169)
Place; The house of the millers winchester drive number 77 (pg 90)

Analyzing cartoon

Some of the main visual elements are that it's an octopus grabbing on to all the other countries. This political cartoon is about how the man in the middle by the name of England is taking over all the other countries around the world with his octopus tentacles and taking over. The cartoonist's opinion is he thinks that England is extremely strong and they are trying to take over all the countries so they would be the richest country in the world. It shows that england is very rich because the man in the middle is wearing one of those hats and only people like bachelors wear those types of hats. For making this cartoon more persuasive, he could have made the hands like they were grabbing onto the countries instead of just laying a finger on it. Also to make it better, he could've made the countries names so that we could read them. In terms of CRAP, this cartoonist did a pretty good job. The cartoonist maybe could've made the colors contrast more, so that the picture grabs you. For repetition, it repeats a lot. The colors repeated in the countries and in the tentacles. How the tentacles all branch out from england is repetition also. The cartoonist did a very good job with alignment because there was an equal amount on the left to the right, and on the bottom and top. For proximity, everything related to one another because this cartoon is very straight to the point.

"Violence leads to more violence"

"Violence leads to more violence" is true because the only way you can get violent is because someone else is. So if someone is violent, the others will want to challenge them and revenge them back which will lead to more violence and more violence. Violence can be taken away with an agreement which is being able to work with others which leads to one word - peace. When both sides are peaceful about it, they can agree to one answer. In Caesar, the conspirators and Brutus decided to kill Caesar, that was violence. They might have thought that it was the right thing to do and that it brought them peace, thats not what others will think. This lead to Antony wanting revenge on them and winning the hearts of the other people. Violence ( killing Caesar) led to violence ( Antony saying the speech about the conspirators). In the outside world, wars for example. One country starts a war with the other. The other country will want to take revenge and fight back. This can only be stopped when both the countries decided to make an agreement. In Caesar, if the conspirators were to make an agreement with Caesar and Antony, Caesar might not have died.

So in conclusion,
Yes, i agree to the quote "Violence leads to more violence".

good leaders

The quality of a good leader is a person who can work well with everyone. It’s also someone that everyone else can accept to work with. Qualities include simply being able to lead, take over, and make decisions. They have to set the rules and make sure everyone else can follow them. I think that the most important quality is apart of your personality. It’s how you are to the rest of the group and how well you can lead and make the right choices. I think that the student leaders of grade 8 would probably be Lucas, Asim, Joel, or Jake. They demonstrate the qualities of a leader because they speak up in most of our class discussions and in Socratic seminars, they’re usually who gets the point across. I think participation is a lot about being student leaders.

Parent Teacher Confrence.

Something from first quarter that I’m proud of was probably my Industrial Revolution Museum. I got a good grade and lost only two points. The only thing that kept our grade from 50/50 was because we hadn’t put the citations in alphabetical order. We didn’t loose any points for the visual because we had put everything so that it followed the rubric. We had all the points that the rubric stated. Our overall grade was a 96% which was a good A.

Something that I found challenging in my first quarter was some of the writing pieces for the Industrial Revolution Project. For example my news article piece. That piece of writing is the one I got worst on compared to all my other writing pieces. I’ve learnt that there are many ways writing. News articles, I found challenging. I hadn’t written a lot of pieces like that but for my next news article like pieces, I’ve learnt some points on how to write them better.

Feedback WOW 2007

Week without Walls is definitely something we want to take time to enjoy from our normal education. If we weren’t to have a week away from school and visit out, it would give us as students nothing to look forward to in school. We wouldn’t have something that we want to remember about the grade. Also we wouldn’t have things to write about when we get back. We wouldn’t have anything school related and special to write for humanities memoirs. Wow helped me get closer to some of my friends, and get to know some of their talents. And soon you find to appreciate people you once didn’t. This helps your normal days at school because you’ll know these kids better and you learn to work with them. You know their talents and you can learn to accept them into your groups. Another one of my points that was useful about wow was just education itself. We want a highlight about 8^th grade, and for a lot of us, normal classes like science math and humanities are not it. Wow is usually the highlight for many people. Most people want to get out of 8^th grade wanting to have a memory from it and river rafting with their friends is probably it. In humanities or other classes you have something that’s a memory and that you want to write about. Another point is that you find out more about yourself. And this effects school a lot because you know what type of person you are. Adventurous or maybe not so adventurous. I’ve found to like hiking and river rafting a lot because of these five days. So taking just five days out of a year is really worth it when you make new friends, find out your own and others qualities and leave school with having a highlight that you want to remember forever.

Feed back, Oct 3rd.

My goals for were to improve my discussion skills and descriptive writing. If not all the way, i have definalty improved in making my writing much better. My skill, becuase of all the writing pieces we had to do for the IR, my writing skills improved. Especially my editing skills. I took the time to read over what my friends had to say and most it their feedback was very helpful. My first draft and my final draft usually showed alot of change. I need all my writings to be gone over or be editied by, becuase after that, it's so much easier for me to edit it myself.

Another one of my skills was DISCUSSION. Recently, we didnt have any more socratic seminars but we did have class disscussion. I didn't think i participated that much, but i did share my ideas. When we were told to talk with out neighbors and discuss about a topic, it was much easier for me to do that.

Some goals that i want to set is to keep on improving my disccussion skills. There is always room for improvement. And for both the discussion and writing skills -- i can do that.

IR Museaum Expoisitory piece

Steel Mills.

Steel mills in general are industrial mills where pig iron is converted into high quality steel. Pig iron is raw iron. Pig iron has very high carbon content. Pig iron was converted in to high quality steel by blowing out the impurities. Steel mills were made for that process. A very well known man by the name of Henry Bessemer had gone public with this idea, after William Kelly. William Kelly actually introduced the idea. However, due to his financial problems, he was bankrupt. Therefore, he was forced into selling his patent. This is the part when Henry Bessemer comes in, to continue with what William Kelly left behind. Every steel product we use today is produced using what the British inventor, Henry Bessemer, had left us. The converter called the Bessemer converter is used for blowing air into molten rock. This process itself is naturally called, the Bessemer’s process.

Child labor was used a lot in the days of industrial revolution. Many of the steel mills had used child labor. Child labor is when children of six or above are forced to work for owners who pay them little and feed them little. There are many people who grew up crippled because of these dangerous machines.

In conclusion, Steel mills are very useful because they turn molten steel into ingots through hot rolling. An ingot is a piece of metal heated into a bar or block. Later on, they would be melted into other forms in industries. Steel mills help us today, and will help the future. Again, thanks to Sir Henry Bessemer and William Kelly.

IR museum Discriptive Journal

Dear Diary,

As my first journal entry, I’ll have to start with the beginning of my life. It wasn’t pleasant, but then again, it still isn’t…
Starting at the age of four, my child hood was tough and ruined. My father had passed away leaving me, my younger sister Sarah, and a sick mother behind to go on with our lives. My mother’s sickness only got worse and she was sent to the London hospital soon after my father’s death. The worst thing my sister and I needed was another family member passing away. We prayed, wishing God to let us have her back healthy. We didn’t pray hard enough. She only got worse, and her sickness was soon incurable. The hospital could only keep her in for a few more days! Or we would have to pay for more hospitality. I had no experience of making money just yet. The following week; she passed away, leaving me, a five year old, to take care of my younger sister, a two year old. We couldn’t afford to live the way we had used to live, and so I was forced to work, to be able to pay my bills. I would be taken to the country, fed well, paid well, and eat well. The government even said that my sister would be in a care home, and she would be treated just as well as I was. I was more than lucky, to work and get a reward for it, so I accepted the generous offer. Days later, a group of boys my age, and myself were taken out of the country and sent to an immense steel factory. The owner studied us with a close eye and soon enough, they scurried us away to work with machines we knew nothing about. We were not instructed on how to handle machines, but forced to, even then. When we made a wrong move, we were spat at. The rooms were hot, and dark. The work was exhausting and the nights were damp and cold. Working in steel mills was anything but generous. The owners were greedy and everything was for them. Pay days never seemed to arrive. New batches of young boys were brought into the country to suffer the same way like we did, and they were enlightened to have a perfect life planned ahead for them. Dinner was cucumber soup and nothing better. Around 20 boys were forced to sleep in a tiny room made out of stones and a small door which was locked to prevent escapes. I had flashbacks of my life with my family and sister. To only think that now, I am stuck in a stone room with boys I just met. I wished factories didn’t start, and us kids were not forced to work. Everyday, a child seemed to injure themselves terribly and wouldn’t be taken care of. Death was no issue. Everyday a new batch of boys was delivered thus, plenty of new workers ready to work themselves to bits. Sometimes molten rock burned poured on to us, and burnt us badly on our hands. Sometimes machines had poisonous explosions. And sometimes, they crashed on to us. If we didn’t get injured that way, we would get killed slowly. The coal dust hanging in the lungs, cause a lifelong disease. Years past by; and I managed to survive, even though, I had injured myself quite a few times, I took care of myself, with the help of my friends here and then. I never got to see my sister again, and I didn’t even know if she was out there, living. If what the government said was true, I doubted it. I was told to have a life of care and respect, and what I got was the opposite. Soon I made my way out. Children were they’re only productive workers because they fit well to crawl under the machines to fix them. Till now, and forever on, I’ll have terrible memories to look back to. And a future with a life disease.
-Patrick J.

IR museum News Article

BESSEMER RECIEVES CREDIT FOR KELLY’S WORK.

An American Citizen William Kelly introduced to the community, an idea on how to create steel. Kelly unfortunately resulted in Bankruptcy due to financial problems, and is now forced to sell his patent. His patent “blowing air through molten rock to reduce impurities” seeks its buyer. Not so long ago, Henry Bessemer, our British inventor, purchased this patent and is currently building onto the idea. He is making minor changes to increase the level of creating successful steel. Bessemer, for building on with what Kelly left, naturally became known. His name later on was used for this process.

William Kelly was born in Pennsylvania. In 1846, he purchased an iron manufacturing company, and changed its original name, Eddyville iron-work, to Kelly & Company. He started his experiments by air-boiling, which is the process of blowing air through molten iron to reduce the carbon content.

William Kelly was educated in metallurgy, during his college. At the same time, Henry Bessemer received little education on metallurgy from his father. Henry Bessemer was known for other useful inventions, such as railway operation, and sugar refining. He had very limited education on metallurgy then, but he was able to build a working converter on creating steel. It was called the Bessemer’s converter.

Soon after Bessemer’s converter went Public, the people took it that Bessemer had come up with the idea and manufactured this converter all on his own, with no outside help. The story is now uncovered. Bessemers’ help and kick off, William Kelly, is well as much part of the process. Bessemer’s name was used for the process and naturally, so was its converter. Kelly, unknown, spent the rest of his life manufacturing axes, and working in banking.

-SA
(Sabei Aung)

1870 stock market feedback

I didn't think that i was the best entrepreneur but i made more money than what i had in the start which is $80. It was really easy to sell things, but buying things that was in high demand was really hard. Mr.Coyle's phrase "you have to spend money to make money" is absolutely one of those phrases that i have to totally agree with. You MUST buy stock, to sell it. A lot of it has to do with luck too. Educated guesses are extremely useful too, because for the great northern railroad, it started off really low, and each stock was very cheap. So i bought about six Northern Railroad's and did not sell until i got the price i wanted. I bought it for really low, but when the stock prices changed, i sold it for really high. This is when another one of Mr.Coyle's phrase "buy low, and sell high" comes in. When stocks are being sold for really low, you might as well buy it because even at the end when the stock prices are low, you can just sell them, and still make SOME sort of profit. The Comstock silver had very low stock prices, so i just bought more, and at the end, it raised quite an amount.
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" That metaphor could me a lot of things, but one of them is PROBABLY don't buy the same things. It's okay to buy about 6 of the same thing, but don't don't buy just all the same thing. Don't spend ALL your money on the same stock because if that doesn't make good money, then you will not gain profit.

Feed back Sept 10th.

I think after getting the Socratic seminars done, I've accomplished one of my goals. It was to 'participate' in the class
discussions a lot more, and now i feel much more comfortable. I think i wasn't as comfortable in the first because we were
all new to class, and we were getting the feel of the class room more, so we must've been less comfortable.Another one of
my goals were to improve my writing skills. And i have in many ways. Just recently, our homework for writing in interviews,
was a tough writing piece, and unless we were very detailed and descriptive, it wouldn't have gotten a good peer edit score.
Time HAD to be taken, to write these pieces, and i did. It took me time, to think and i had to revise over and over again.
Now, i even have some pointers of how to make writing much more effective and interesting for the reader. Over all, yes, I've
met my goals i little more, but there's always room for improvement.



Pros and cons for the industrial revolution.

Pros:
1. Countries became much more productive.
2. The common people had access to much more products, and not only the rich had to be able to afford buying these products.
3. Much more people were educated.
4. Gave a lot of work opportunities.

Cons:
1. There was a lot of pollution.
2. Good quality products were rare.
3. The use of natural recourses increased.
4. It endangered the lives of many younger children.

Sir Henry Bessemer Interview

Ready to roll, Sir Henry Bessemer leaned back into the sofa, settling in for a short interview about his life’s great achievements and inventions!

An English man, Henry Bessemer was born in England January 19th, 1813. “I chose to take the same paths my farther took.” He admitted. Bessemer’s farther, Anthony Bessemer was an inventor of a machine that led him to his fortunes.
Henry Bessemer first went public and titled the idea “Manufacture of iron without fuel.”

A skilled engineer and inventor, Henry Bessemer had introduced to us the first economical industrial process for the mass-production of steel. His invention then, helps us now and will help the future generations. I even had a strong feeling that he had grown up from a young boy into an enthusiastic engineer. “After leaving school, I begged my father to let me remain at home, and learn something of practical engineering.”

His name Bessemer was chiefly known in association with the “Bessemer’s process”. The famous process for manufacturing steel had help Britain, for before this process, they had no practical method of reducing the carbon content of pig iron. He admitted, “It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.”

The Bessemer’s process was to manufacture steel by blowing compressed air through molten iron, to burn out excess iron and impurities. Bessemer had manufactured steel from molten pig iron. The heat of the oxidation increases the temperature of the mass and keeps the molten iron, molten during the operation. Bessemer’s process included its own machine, naturally called the Bessemer converter (a machine that holds about 8 to 30 tons of molten iron). The wide end of the converter is through where air is forced upward the converter during the process. The way Bessemer manufactured steel had topped the other techniques before. Ever since Bessemer had introduced this to England, it had been used through out the nation. For one to come up with a brilliant idea like this, time must have been involved. “My life at this time was pretty much one of hard work and steady attention to business, from which I could only snatch short intervals.”

The Net Effect of The Industrial Revolution

Negative.

• The lives of the factory workers were not very good, because it was dirty and also dangerous.
• There were death and serious injuries involved.
• The working hours for all the workers were a very long time, and there were not much income for them.
• Children were forced to work because they were small and could go to fix things under working machines.

Positive.

· Families got money, and houses to live in.

· For the supplies, the other people got more to buy and use for their daily household jobs.

· Products have been produced in mass production and in a commodity.

· Instead of the child going to work alone to work for the family, all the family got to do their work together.

· Lives would run by clocks, so people could get to work on time.

Factory game 2.

The factory game part two and part one is quite different from one another, even though in both cases, we are creating these toys. Factory game part one, was self-sufficient, and our goal was an invention that attracts customers. We had worked completely alone for a production. Today, from the inventions, we picked out the best one for our factory to produce and found our MASS production. We had a limited amount of time, to produce as much of the mass production as possible. This time, it was NOT self-sufficient. We all had worked together. There was management and labor involved. Some of the laborers excelled in cutting, some in coloring, and some in assembling, so we parted and did what we do best and put it all together to produce as much as we could. Therefore, yesterday’s factory game, and today’s factory were not quite similar. Because, yesterday was more self-sufficient, and today we worked as a group, and like a cottage industry.

The Factory.

I thought that building the toy was a good experience. It also gave us an idea of what it might be like, for the inventors out there. For the creation to be liked, it had to be…CREATIVE, artistic, and well made for the people to buy these products. Also, some resources are scarce and you can’t find them around everywhere. So there is a limit to what you can use in your invention. This is sort of giving us an idea of what scarce resources may be like. We were only able to use, what was there, and nothing more. I liked this activity, because it puts us on the spot. And gives us a better idea, since this time, WE’RE the inventors. It put an image in our head of what it is like.

ROLLAR COASTER.

The ascending railings of the roller coaster, made my heart beat faster just by looking at it. The height of the thin railings, and the delicate shape looked as though the seats were going come soaring out. I laid my feet on to the tiny step of the roller coaster. And saw the sickness coming my way just by looking at the previous riders step out of their seats, sours looks spread across their faces. I buckled up myself tightly, shifting around on the smooth leather, getting comfortable. The noise of the metal crashing filled my ears, and the vibration from the base stormed up the soles of my feet. I gripped tightly on to the metal bar in front of me, my hands already sweating from the pressure of my grip. The seats started to move slowly under the roof, then sunlight stroke my eyes. I felt myself bending lower and lower. Then the cold air punched my right in the face. The soothing and fresh air made my ears stretch back, and my cheeks felt as though they were going to burst apart. My heart sank cold. I saw millions of people, the size of ants from my view, moving around the campus. I saw the panoramic view from the top of the roller coaster. Other riders of the roller coaster screamed on the top of their lungs, and screams plugged my ears. The sides of the view blurred my eyes, and made them water because of the dust. It was as though the world around me was spinning. Loud blows of air made my ears chill. And I felt my spine tickle its way up. When I screamed, the sickening taste struck my taste buds. It felt as though small particles of dust were swimming back strokes on my tongue. My throat became rough, and felt as though I had choked on rapid air. The roller coaster stopped, and darkness filled my eyes, once again.

FRUIT ROLL-UP

The fruit roll up wrapper, has rainbow colors, all over the place. There were color splatters. The wrapper gave information that the fruit roll up inside was going to have tattoo's on it for the eaters to stamp on to tongues. When i had torn the wrapper starting from the top, it had made crinkly plastic noise. When i tore it all apart, and took out the fruit roll up it self, the fruit roll up was covered with plastic so it doesn't stick to the inside of the wrapper. I wanted to get to the actually EATING the fruit roll up, so i ripped the plastic peel of the fruit roll up. The smell of the artificial tropical fruity raspberry filled the air. The fruit roll up felt very sticky. On some parts, it was slightly oily too. The surface of the fruit roll up was crinkly, and not smooth. I tore the fruit roll up in to a smaller piece to eat it. When i was tearing the fruit roll up, it made no such noise. It tasted very tangy, and fruity. Sweet at times, and sour too. A mix taste.

What I think about 'necessity is the mother of invention'

I think, that when people say "necessity is the mother of inventions" it means, that without the mothers, we wouldn't be where we are now.Most of the times, the mothers help their children study, and support them, and push them to study harder. Even though, she may NOT be the one who had invented these things that help us in many ways today, it was BECAUSE of her. Mother necessity, probably means we NEED the mothers, because without the mothers, we would not have all these things we have access to nowadays. Invention
means, to create something new. And the mother had help their children, with support. Therefore, the mother is a necessity because without the mother, there would not have been inventions. Any of us, wouldn't be where we are today, and have access to all the latest inventions and technology if it was not for mother necessity.

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How do i learn best?

I am a kinesthetic and an auditory learner, because, I enjoy building things, or doing an activity and be learning at the same time. Also, listening to things maximizes my learning. When I am listening to a teacher or a classmate talk, I take the information in better. When I am in an activity, or building something, I take the information in as I am doing the activity as well. When I am taking notes, while the teacher is explaining, and study them later on, I also understand the things much better. If i need to memorize something, i do it better when I'm at home. I can concentrate much better. So note taking helps. Note taking has alot to do with visual too. AND listening also has a lot to do with this. Overall, i am 3 types of learner, becuase learning visually, auditory, and listening maximizes my way of learning.

My Gang

The most important people apart of my gang are Cathy, Khujista, Allegra, Beka, and Cerys.
Cathy is one of the most important people that matters most to me. She is always there to make me feel better, and be by my side on everything. We have been thorough an uncountable number of things, whether it’s good, or bad. She always sticks up for me, and I can pretty much always count on it. She is one of those people, I say everything I want to, and do whatever I want, and be totally comfortable about it.
Khujista and Cerys are the hyper ones. They are the perfect ones, who never mess up on anything. They can make just about make EVERYONE feel welcomed in just about ANYTHING. They’re always nice, and always seems to make me be happy all over again, when ever I was in a down mood.
Allegra is always the one; I can always go to with problems. She always seems to know how to solve them. She always understands and whenever I come with a ton of problems, she tells me what SHE thinks, and then makes everything go away.
Beka is defiantly the one I can be whoever I want around. We can be super crazy together and show up in pajamas at a proper dress party. I never feel like I HAVE to be doing something. When I’m with her, all there is to care about is dogs, getting crazy hyper, and pajamas.
Over all, all of them mean a lot to me, because they are all different in their own way, and makes me feel like on top of the world.

feed back August 8-10

Two of my highlights from the first week of school, would be that I have very nice teachers and friends for my classes this year. Also, i got the electives that i chose in 7th grade. So i am looking forward for this year. I am quite pleased with how my schedule turned out this year.
Another one of my highlights would be, everything in general. For example, how us as 8th graders are the oldest of middle school. And, how we have to be very responsible of a lot of things. My first impression of Humanities, was i am going to enjoy it. I look forward into improving a lot of skills in this class. Like, self awareness skills and communication skills.
My two goals for humanities this year, is to improve my writing skills, and class discussion skills.
I would like to be more descriptive in my writing pieces.