Personal Reflection

If I have to evaluate myself, I will divide my evaluation into participation, behavior, effort, efficiency, and assignment. On participation part, I will give 6 to myself (total 10). The reason I give 6 is that I usually don't fall a sleep in class, most of the times I listen to what the teachers say. However, I don't raise my hand very often, so I give myself a passing grade 6, which still has a lot of improvements need to make. On behavior part, I will give myself an 8. I give 8, because I respect every teachers, and most of the times I do work. That is a not bad grade. On effort, I will give myself a 7. I give myself 7, because most of the times I put effort into every assignment. Sometimes I may just become lazy,and copy other person's homework (rare). 7 is a OK grade. On the efficiency part, I will give myself 6. Well, I say this, because sometimes I got distracted by video games or something when I was doing my homework, and that slow down the speed of doing homework. For the assignment part, I will give myself 8. I think I have completed most of my work, and most of them are not too bad. The total grade is 35 out of 50, which is a OK grade for me. Of course, I still need to improve myself.

Style

The style that Toni Cade Bambara uses in the story "Raymond's Run" are situational irony and dramatic irony. I say the story is a situational irony, because at the end of the story. Squeaky and Gretchen both shows respect to each other, which is kind of not what I have expected. From the previous paragraph, the story has shown that Squeaky is an cocky and suacy little girl. She keeps on believing herself the fastest and the swiftest in the neighborhood. Also, she keeps on saying the people who are good bad. She thinks that they don't deserve it. From these characteristics of Squeaky, it is pretty hard to imagine that she will respect Gretchen after the race. I thought she will laugh at her, or do something that can embarass her. Another elements of style in the story "Raymond's Run" is the dramatic irony. Squeaky always think that she is the fastest, but we all know that is not true. Second, we all know that she say those bad things to Gretchen is all because she afraids that Gretchen will beat her in the race. She is just jealous and scared. However, Squeaky herself doesn't know.

Brainstorming a Poem

Jessie Liu is an important person in my life. She is my mom.
Tall, smart, caring, kind, hardworking, tender, quiet, generous, thoughtful, humble
Jessie has a long hair. She is tall, and has a normal facial looking.
Mom always wake me up for school.
She has no smell usually, sometimes people can smell shampoo from her.
Her skin is smooth and soft.
work, cook, clean, read, wash

Jessie Liu, my mom
Tall, smart, caring
kind, hardworking, tender
generous, thoughtful, humble
Long hair with normal looking
Wakes me up for school, call me down for dinner
Smell of nothing, sometimes shampoo
Smooth skin with softness
Work and clean every day
Cook and read every night
Wash our dirty cloths
And that is my dear mom

End game

The game that I orginally wrote about on the blog is very different that our group has presented today. The two game's similarities are they are both involved in killing and surviving. The player can both win the game by kill all the players in both games. Also, both of them have blocks that are for the players to walk. Both games are using dice to determine how many steps to go. The maxium players for the board game is 6 players, minimum 2 players. The difference of the game I plan before and the game that we actually design is that the way of killing people. In my board game, player kills people by hire assinator, and assinator will be able to level up. The game that my group has designed involve more finiding who is the killer, but not killing other players. The game that I designed is more similar to monopoly, because all players get 2000 dollars. However, the game that our group has designed is more similar to the clue game, cause the main idea is to find out who is the murderer, and race to the end. I am pretty satisfied with the game that my group had made. I think it is very colorful and interesting.

Slang

The slang that the modern teenagers use a lot are like wtf, wth, lol, 88, fxxx, and sxxx......Dialect is olny for a specific region of a people, but it can also be for a specific type of people. The slang examples that have just made for almost all the teens around the world. Well, most of the teens like to swear and curse, they say fxxx or sxxx when they face something unfavorable for them. Well, of course they all know that swearing is bad, so when they swear, they will try to change the word. Like when they say shxxx, they will say shoot instead. The old people will not understand what we are talking about when we are talking slang. Personally, I think it is very fun for people to have slang, because it is like a secret code that nobody understand except for some specific people. I think slang is very interesting, and people can try to say them.

Analogy

My analogy for this blog entry is doing spanish homework is like swimming in the lava. I say they are related, because both of them are very painful for me. When ever it is Sunday, I will complete all my homework that are due on Monday and Tuesday. However, I will always leave out spanish homework, I always do it on Monday 10pm or even later (that is why I didn't finish my spanish homework a lot of times). I don't know why I do that, it just feels so painful and tired to do these questions. Sometimes, Mr.Robertson told us to do some reading and answer questions homework. When I opened my text book, and turned to the page that I was assigned to read, it just feels like the world is upside down. Another thing that is very painful for me is swimming in lava. As you all know, lava is very hot. Honestly, you can't even swim in the lava, cause once you fall into lava, you're dead. After reading this entry, I believe people can understand how painful it is for me to do the spanish homeowrk.

Fighting Words

I have gotten into an arguement because of someone say bad things about my pets. I hate when people say something about the thing that they know nothing about, espicially when they are saying something bad about it. Before they talk about that thing, they should at least know about that thing first, not just say something that is not true and fake. I will fight the people who say terrible things about my family. Well, if it is just a joke, that will be ok. However, if it is extremely rude, I will beat that person up. I have never fought someone because of someone say bad things about my family, and I hope I will not in the furture. The only reasons that I fought somebody in the past are they tease me and they are playing my stuffs (they didn't say bad things about my stuff, they were just playing with it. I told them to stop, but they didn't listen). I think it is sometimes necessary to use violence to defend yourself or someone else. I think we should use violence sometimes, because there are just some people in this world don't know how to be thankful or grateful. When you treat them nice, they will think you as a wimpy kid, later he or she will just start picking on you, and that is just very repugnant.

Quiz or Circle

I think reading circle is better idea. One good thing about reading circle is people share their ideas about the novel, which can help people to understand more about the book. It will be pretty boring if nobody talks, every one just sits their and waiting for someone to speak first. Reading Quiz is a good way for making sure that the person actually read the book himself or herself. It is, because you need to find the answer from the book by your self. Even though reading quiz is a good way for checking whether you actually understand what the story is about, it is very wasting time and hard for me to just look for every answer for every single questions. Reading quiz and reading circle are both not bad, but I still like reading circle more. Reading circle can help student to understand what the other students think about one specific event or one specific part of the story.

OOPS!

When I was 7 years old, I knew a kid that was same age as me in my neighborhood. His name is xxxx. He plays a lot of video games, like Maple Story, LF2, Mario, AVA......Not only that he plays a lot, but he is also very good at playing them. I and the kid then later became friends, we went to each others house very often during the weekends. We play video games, playing chess, and talking. His grades was indifferent when he was in elementary school, and he wasn't a very hardworking student, he was just a normal student with normal grades with normal life. After a couple years, we both went to middle school. I went to Pacific American School, and he went to San Ming (三民). Surprisely, he became so hardworking after he had gone to middle school. He became so hardworking that he sometimes brought his text books to my house to study. His grades become much better compare to elementary school, espacially his english. He used to score 60 or lower on his english final when he was in elementary, but now he scored 80 or more. We got less chance to play together since middle school, but that is ok for me, cause I know the stress of being a local middle school student. They need to start prepare for the coming up test, which will decide which high school they will go to.

Below the Surface

Yes, I did discover new things from someone. The new things can be either good or bad, which either makes you happy or disappointed. For example you meet a person. The person looks nice and generous, however, he speaks bad words all the times, that may be very disappointed. Even though the discovery on someone can be sad, there may be happy discoveries on someone. For example: you saw an ugly guy. He is not too smart, but later you found out he is a very generous person. He is treating other people in a polite way. I think other people have judged me just by appearance, and I have think none of them are good things. Well, some of judgements are true, some are not true. Anyway, I think people shouldn't judge other people just by their appearance. I think that is very stupid and mean. For example if you saw a fat and ugly guy, you think he is stupid. We all know that is not true, because ugly,fat people can be smart. It is just that some people just think fat people are stupid.

Your Game

My board game will be similar to monopoly, but there will be more fun. The maxiumum players will be 6 players, and minimum 2 players. Each players will first have 2000 dollars, and they have to use the 2000 dollars wisely. The number of steps will be decided by spinner or dice, same as monopoly. There will be cards that the players will pick when they arrive certain place, the cards will be either good or bad. The players can buy things like rice factory, market, weapon factory......They buy this stuff in order to make more money. People can also hire assassins to kill other players. I havn't thought of a way how the assassin things are going to work, but I will think of a solution. The level of the assassins depend on the amount of money.The higher level the assassins are, the more possibilities that mission will succeed.The goal of this game is to get a lot of money, so that you can kill the other players, the dead people will lose the game. If the player has no more money, which mean he or she bankrupts, that person lose the game also.

Your Ending

Louder! Louder! Louder! I can't hold this anymore! I scream, shout as loud as possible as I can. The two police officers look very nervous, one of them use his hand to shut my mouth. I gone wild, I bit his hand as hard as I can. All the sudden, blood burst out from his hand. He cried and beg me for stop biting him, but I couldn't do it. I felt like if I let go, the heart beating sound will only become louder and louder, and will drive me crazy eventually. The other police was very nervous, he tried to push me away, but it was hard. After a long time of struggle and battle, I finally couldn't hold anymore, I let go. The hand that I bit was cover with blood, saliva, and pain. They were scared, they ran out of the house fast like a wind, and slammed the door hardly! My teeth was now covered with blood, I was tired. After about 10 minutes, I saw some police cars outside. The car noise had woke me up, I was nervous, really nervous! I broke the glass window, and ran towards the darkness. Why do they do this to me? I am not crazy, I am just nervous.