Second Quarter Reflection

     I think I've made my biggest improvement on citing evidence and using the TIQA format because at the beginning I never knew how to use the TIQA format or how to cite evidence, but now I know how to use it and how to cite evidence from different articles. Another thing that I think I have improved in are my blogs because at the beginning I used to make some mistakes in them. As I kept on writting more and more I have gotten better at them. Sometimes I make a little mistake, but I know that I have improved on my writting. The most recent AOW, in my opinion is the best one I have ever done. I made sure I added the essential question and chose the best peices of evidence.
     Something that I have accomplished since the new year that I am proud of is getting good grades on my vocabulary quiz. I used to miss some of the words on the quiz, but then I started studying harder and I got a good grade on the next vocabulary test we took. Another thing that I accomplished was making the boys soccer team. It was the best time that I ever had I played with my friends and I learned new things about soccer that I never knew about. My coaches trained me very well I ended up making some goals, sometimes I messed up and I missed, but I had fun playing what I like to do.
     The hardest part of second quarter for me was testing because we had a lot of test during quarter two. The thing that I did to over come this was studying hard a being focused on what I was doing. Some of the test that I took we very easy, but the others were challenging I tried my best on all the test that I took. I hope for the best when I get to see results from the test that I took. That was the hardest part of second quarter for me.

Book Talk

Diary of a Wimpy Kid THE LAST STRAW by Jeff Kinney the genre of the book is realistic fiction.

     There are many different settings in the book some of them are Greg's house, school, church, and Roll-a-Round. The main characters of the book are Greg Heffely, Rowley Jefferson, Holly Hills, Susan Heffeley, Rodrick Heffely, and Frank Heffely. The problem of the story was that Greg's dad Frank wanted to make Greg more tougher. Greg's dad threatened to send Greg to military academy. Greg's father get tougher instead of going to military academy. So Greg manages to change his mind by not going to the military academy. The mood of the story was funny because throughout the book it made me laugh.
     I liked this book because it made me laugh and it was very interesting to read about what Greg was going to do in the story. The thing that I remembered about the book was that Greg and Rowley dug a hole in Rowley's back yard because Greg's mom wouldn't let him dig it at his house so he went to Rowley's house to do it. Once they finished digging the whole they got a shoe box and they seated putting things inside of it once they finished putting things inside the shoe box they dug it and left in Rowley's backyard. I would recommend this book to my friends because if they want to read a realistic fiction book and laugh while reading then that's the book for them, but if they don't like the book there are many different types of books to choose from. The viewer should go out and get this book because it's funny and interesting.

"Are Police becoming more Violent?" By Christian Jimenez

Police Brutality is a problem because people are getting hurt or killed by policemen. Once someone gets killed by a policemen other people are going to start a protest about what had happened. The people are going to be on the news, they are going to tell the news what they saw, what happened, and why the people are protesting. There is going to be a lot of different articles and sources about police brutality. That is why police brutality police brutality is a problem.
    A police brutality happened in Chicago on a Saturday before presidential election. In the article it states that, "Donald J. Trump had cast during his campaign as the nightmare of urban America, a Chicago police officer killed a 25-year-old black man (The New York Times)." This quote shows that police brutality could happen anytime. Another quote from the article is, "The next day about 20 protesters with the group Black Lives Matter Chicago showed up at the scene of the shooting, in the far southwest neighborhood of Mount Greenwood (The New York Times)." This quote shows that protesters showed up to the place where the man was killed, and they started protesting about him and to the policeman who killed him. In a CNN interview Father Michael Pfleger said, “Whether it's a racist cop, whether a vigilante, whether black on black crime murder is wrong.” This quote means that it doesn’t matter what type of crime it is murdering people is wrong.
Another incident happened on June 15 at Portillo’s in River North. Khaled Shaar which happened to be an off duty cop hit and punched Terrence Clarke on the day that the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2015. In the article it states that, “Clarke had become combative, according to police report, after Shaar asked him and his family to leave because it was closing time, and Clarke threw out cheese at him (Chicagoist).” This quote means that the police officer asked him to leave and he just threw his food at him and that’s when the off duty cop arrested him. Another quote from the article is,“He also disputed the police narrative of what happened: According to the lawsuit, Clarke told Shaar that his family would leave the restaurant once they finished their meals, and Shaar was angry that Clarke would not get up immediately, WGN reports. According to the police department, Shaar is being investigated and is not on street duty (Chicagoist).” This quote shows Clarke side of the story and what had happened during he got arrested at Portillo’s. All in all police brutality is wrong people shouldn't be getting killed or hurt by policemen it's terrible to see things that had happen on the news about police brutality.

Article of the Week Impressions Blog

Today in ELA class I learned many things one of was that a school made up a mock election. The students got to vote on who they wanted the president to be. The school was in New York city more than 380,000 students voted for the next president of the United States. Hillary Clinton won with 57 percent of the vote, while Donald Trump took 32 percent on the vote in the polls. Some of the students who voted came from California, Illinois, Texas, and New Jersey. Eight states were red, but they turned blue meaning that those eight stayed voted for Donald Trump experts predict that this will happen in the real election. After the entire school voted the kids played their part as pollsters and analyzed the school results.
Another thing that I found important during the gallery walk was Trump elected president in surprise win. Trump wants to repeal Obamacare, he also wants to unagree an agreement they had with Iran because of terrorism because he wants to keep everyone safe. Another thing that happened was Hilary won popular vote, but she lost the presidency. Those are things that I learned during ELA class today.

Police Brutality

     Police Brutality is a problem because people are getting hurt or killed by policemen. Once someone get's killed by a policemen other people are going to start a protest about what had happend. The people are going to be on the news and they are going to tell the news what they saw and what happened. And why the people are protesting there is going to be a lot of different articles and sources about police brutality. That is why police brutality police brutality is a problem.

     A police brutality happened in Chicago on a Saturday before presidential election. In the article it states that, "Donald J. Trump had cast during his campaign as the nightmare of urban America, a Chicago police officer killed a 25-year-old black man (The New York Times)." This quote shows that police brutality could happen anytime. Another quote from the article is, "The next day about 20 protesters with the group Black Lives Matter Chicago showed up at the scene of the shooting, in the far southwest neighborhood of Mount Greenwood (The New York Times)." This quote shows that protesters showed up to the place where the man was killed. And they started protesting about him and to the police man who killed him.

Nonfiction Responses

     The nonfiction book that I am currently reading is called Leonardo da Vinci by Stuart A. Kallen and P.M. Boekhoff.  This book is about where Leonardo grew up, what he has created, and his history
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in a home on the slopes of Monte Albanoa above the village of Vinci. Leonardo was the only child and he lived in his grandparents and their adult children. His mother Caterina married a man named Antonio Achattabrigha and his father Ser Piero married a woman named Albiera di Giovanni Amadori a year later Leonardo was born.
     An important thing I found interesting was, "For Leonardo was a legend in his own lifetime, and his paintings such as Mona Lisa and the Last Supper have secured his reputation as one of the worlds greatest artist in the nearly five centuries since his death in 1519." This passage from the book is interesting to me because I just thought that Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa, but he also did the last supper. I do agree that he is one of the worlds greatest artist. That is what I found interesting in that passage from the book.
     Some things that I learned so far in the book. Was that Leonardo lived with his grandparents I could relate to him because my grandma lives with me. Another thing that I found interesting was the his parents married different people his mother married a different man and his father married and a different woman a year after he was born. Those are just some things that I learned so far in the book I can't wait to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci.

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Graditude Blog

     There are so many people I am thankful for my friends, teachers, aunts, uncle, and family. The one person who I am thankful for is my brother. My brother is the best brother that I could possibly have. He is always there when I need him we do everything together sometimes we fight, but at the end everything turns out alright. We always play video games his favorite game is mine craft I don't like mine craft, but I play it anyway because it makes him happy. My one favorite thing about my brother is that when my mom comes to pick me up after school he gets out of the car and he gives me a big hug then he says, "Christian how was you're day at school?" That makes me very happy because I know that my brother cares about me and that he loves me very much. I said once and I will say it again he is the best brother that I could ever have.
     I am also thankful for my parents. Without my parents I would be here my parents are the greatest they are the best partners that I could ask for. They are always there to keep me safe and to protect me they are very supportive and they care about me and my brother very much. Sometimes they could get a little annoying from time to time, but they are the best. I am very grateful for them they give me great advice for everything my dad gives me advice about soccer because he used to play soccer and he teaches me the runs that I have to make. And my mom gives me advice about school like how to do this and that and how to get good graded when I am doing an assignment.
     Finally I am greatful my grandma. My grandma is the best she lives with me, my brother, and my parents she used to live with my aunt, but she decided to move with us because my parents worked a lot and there was no one to take care of my brother and I. When she moved in it was the best day of my life because I hardly ever got to see my grandma and it made me so happy to see her again. She is the best she cooks the best food and it taste really good she helps me with my spanish because when I was a little kid I only knew how to speak english and she taught me how to speak Spanish. Over the summer I helped her speak english. She would tell me how to say this and that at first it was a little annoying because I would tell her the word and she would say something entirely different, but I got used to it. That is why I am thankful for my grandma.