Language+Arts+and+Social+Studies

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 * For our survival books, I read __Julie of the Wolves__, by Jean Craighead George. I enjoyed reading this book because it taught me a lot about surviving alone. Doing my essay was fun, because I compared it to __Island of the Blue Dolphins__ by Scott O'Dell. Doing comparison is useful to me because, I think it helps me to 'read between the lines,' and think about the books more. There were some differences, and some similarities. That is very interesting, I think, because some books that you think are totally different, can be very much the same. I think that when we read our next book, something that will help me be better is to, raise my hand more, participate more in group conversations, and pay close attention. **

**__Island of the Blue Dolphins__ is the first book we read. I think that I did my best work on commenting about the book.** **At first** ** I did not follow directions, but then I learned my lesson, and now I am very good at commenting. **

**5E recently read __Maniac Magee__ by Jerry Spinelli. I think that I did my best work on our class discussion, because I had a lot of input in the conversation, and I did a lot of talking, comparing, and discussing. If I stayed more focussed on on the actual book, and not all my own personal experiences, it would have been a lot better. I think that my Maniac Magee web was my least successful, because I did not follow directions properly. When we begin our next book, I will do more proofreading, try to stay more focussed, and follow all directions. I saw a lot of progress in in my blogging, and class discussions. I think that Maniac Magee was a great book.**

**This I Believe**

**I think that I did a really good job on this Essay/ Glog because I think expressed my feelings about water in a way that others could understand. I also think I did a good job recording clearly, and loudly. I did good on my Glog because I had facts about water, and I got really good pictures to put on it.**
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 * I think I did a good job on this Essay/Glog because I stepped into the Bud's shoes, and inferences some of Bud's possible feelings. I think I had a bit of trouble on my Glog because I couldn't find a lot of pictures with 'family.' That was probably the most complicated part of it all. Next time, I think I will use Google, so that I can find images of family. That would help. I think I did a good job of recording clearly, but not very loudly. **
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 * About a month ago, we read a book called In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. We focused on identity, and we still do a lot about it during Social Studies. I think that it was a good idea to focus on our identity, because it's helping us to realize who we are, and where we come from. We had to find three important events in the story, and then we had to write an essay about it. I chose when Shirley moved to America, when she changed her name, and when she learned about baseball. I thought these were very important sections of the story, so I decided to write about them. Then we had to do a creative project, which basically means that I had to do something to represent 'identity.' At first I was going to do a glogster, but that didn't work out so well because I didn't follow the directions. So instead, I did an Animoto. (Which is an awesome website where you could put text, pictures, videos, music together to make a video about any topic you choose. I went to Google, and then I went on SafeSearch and looked up two pictures of someone who looked like how I imagined Shirley to look. Then I found some pictures of Jackie Robinson, baseballs, American VS. Chinese flags, and somehow I found a picture of a girl taking her mask off, which, to me, represented change of identity. **
 * Then we read a story called The Rainbow People. It really wasn't about a certain topic. It was full of mini stories that were put into different sections. We read a certain amount of the story every night, and then commented on the blog. Then after every assignment, we wrote summaries about each section of the story during Language Arts. **
 * About a month ago, we read a book called In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. We focused on identity, and we still do a lot about it during Social Studies. I think that it was a good idea to focus on our identity, because it's helping us to realize who we are, and where we come from. We had to find three important events in the story, and then we had to write an essay about it. I chose when Shirley moved to America, when she changed her name, and when she learned about baseball. I thought these were very important sections of the story, so I decided to write about them. Then we had to do a creative project, which basically means that I had to do something to represent 'identity.' At first I was going to do a glogster, but that didn't work out so well because I didn't follow the directions. So instead, I did an Animoto. (Which is an awesome website where you could put text, pictures, videos, music together to make a video about any topic you choose. I went to Google, and then I went on SafeSearch and looked up two pictures of someone who looked like how I imagined Shirley to look. Then I found some pictures of Jackie Robinson, baseballs, American VS. Chinese flags, and somehow I found a picture of a girl taking her mask off, which, to me, represented change of identity. **
 * Then we read a story called The Rainbow People. It really wasn't about a certain topic. It was full of mini stories that were put into different sections. We read a certain amount of the story every night, and then commented on the blog. Then after every assignment, we wrote summaries about each section of the story during Language Arts. **