Test Prep Action Plan

My goals for test prep are to pay every bit of attention, to get a four, to do acuity at home, and to try to come to Saturday academy. To keep up with my goals I will read more often and that will improve my reading skills, when I get home I will do all of my homework and then do acuity, If I can read more pages in the book then I plan to I will definitely pay more attention, and to come to Saturday academy I will bother my mom until she says yes. The hardest question on the test for me would be the vocabulary questions because if don't get what the word means I tend to ignore it and I tend to get frustrated about not knowing what that word means. What I can do to improve the questions/ passages/ or Test Books for me would be to read and to think between the lines to try to comprehend what the vocabulary words mean.

"To My Parents: What I've Learned so far in ELA."

Dear Mom,

Some of my biggest accomplishments so far this year in ELA are my memoir entitled"Farewell", my political essay entitled"Who Will Win?", my blog in which you can visit any time by going to the website http://coraima802.blogspot.com.

My favorite unit so far has to the Strategy Unit because the five habits that we learned about Activating Schema, Making Predictions, Questioning, Visualizing, and Making Inferences really helped me apply that to everything that I read and that was great for me.

Us using technology in school has really helped because we don't waste as much paper and that has helped the environment because we don't kill as many trees.

Readers Response # 16

Title of book: Twilight
Author of book: Stephenie Meyer
Pages Read: Page 1 -Page 259

Chapters Read: Chapter 1- Chapter 12

About three things that I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him-

and I didn't know how dominate that part might be
that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably

in love with him

The book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer so far is about a girl named Isabella(Bella) Swan that meets a boy named Edward Cullen and they fall passionately in love with each other. The big conflict with their relationship is that Bella is mortal and Edward is immortal because he is a vampire.

The other conflict with their relationship is that Edward is always saying that they can't be together because he was afraid that he might have hurt Bella.

Readers Response # 15

Title of book: Why I'm Afraid Of Bees

Author of book: R.L. Stine

Pages Read: Page 22-Page 44

Why I'm Afraid Of Bees is a book by R.L. Stine that shows how a ordinary boy named Gary Lutz learns to enjoy and live the life that he lives if not he will have to stay in the body of a bee forever.

Readers Response # 14

Title of book: Why I'm Afraid of Bees

Author of book: R.L. Stine

Pages Read: Page 1-Page 22

Why I'm Afraid of Bees by R.L. Stine is about a boy named Gary Lutz whose body is switched with the body of a bee whil another bit named Dirk Davis controls his body and Dirk Davis's body is controled by a bee. And after the three boys find that out their lives are switched all around...

Readers Response # 13

Title of book: To Kill a Mocking Bird

Author of book: Harper Lee

So far in the book To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee I have learned about a girl named Scout that has this brother named Jem and a curious friend named Dill, and there are some other fringe characters that make this book so special to so many people. For instance, there is Atticus, there ia Author "Boo" Radley, there is Nathan Radley(Boo's older brother), there is Mr.Radley(Boo's father), and there are also a bunch of other characters.

After Mr.Radley died Nathan Radley came to watch over the house and Boo. But I think that Nathan only came to watch over things because he doesn't probably didn't trust Boo all alone by himself in the house. I say this becuase he didn't bother to come live in his dad's house before he died and he probably doesn't trust Boo because of what he did when he was younger.

Readers Response # 12

Tilte of book: Fear Street Nights; Darkest Dawn

Author of book: R.L. Stine

Pages read: Page 130- Page 182

At the end of my book Fear Street Nights; Darkest Dawn by R.L.Stine Jamie learns that she has to be careful with who she trusts because now she is in a tight situation in where she is forced to kill all of her five remaining friends.

Now that she is about to kill her last five remaining friends she has a few tricks left up her sleeve.

Listening Passage: Mona Lisa

The article "Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa" offers theories about who the real Mona Lisa was. Based on the information in the article, name one possible identity of the Mona Lisa. Use details from the article to support your answer.

One of the Mona Lisa's possible identities was that the Mona Lisa was a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. For example it a scientist named Dr.Schwartz compared the Mona Lisa to a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and found out that the pictures matched.

Reader's Response Journal # 11

Tile of Book: Fear Street Nights; Darkest Dawn
Author of Book: R.L. Stine
Pages Read: Page 35- page 130

Blog Questions:

In my book one of the main characters is Jamie. What makes her so important was that she had an accident with a horrible person that was killed named Angelica Fear, and now Jamie was at a flea market with her cousin Dana Fear and she sees this beautiful bracelet and her soon to be boyfriend Lewis stole the bracelet for her and she let him. I disagree with her decision because what is going to happen to her next is going to kill her. If I were in Jamie's situation I would have made Lewis either make him pay for the bracelet or make him go to put it back.

Jamie Richards is a senior for the second time in Shadyside High school. She would have graduated along with her close friend Lewis that they had a situation that they had broken some bones while killing Angelica Fear. In the book Fear Street Nights: The Darkest Dawn R.L. Stine didn't really mention Jamie's physical apperance.

Jamie has changed through out my book because she learned how to be careful in who she trusts.

Character Unit Intro

Question: Do people ever really change?


I think that people do change in some specific categories. But some people change because of a bad thing while others change because of good things. For example, there was this friend that i have (who will be unknown) that he changed because of the things that started to change around him like his sister got married and she moved out, they were really close so it was like he had lost his best friend forever. So he started to behave even better to show his sister that he will always stay and be good (just for her). Then I had another friend (who will be unknown) that her little sister (that will also be unknown) got everything that she wanted and she got tired of it so she started to act so rudely with everyone. Then her grades started dropping and she just stopped coming to school for a while.

Another example for me could be in this book that i read named A Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan that the main character Laurie Stratton changed by learning that she should be careful with the people that she trusts. For example, she went out with this boy but after a while he started to boss her around more often and told her what to do. And her twin sister was so nice when they first met (through astral projection-which is when you use your "spirit" to contact someone anywhere in the world) and then after a while her sister started to turn on her an tried to ruin her life!!!