Language+Arts

=What's up my dearest friends! Welcome to my language arts page, cause language arts rocks! (sort of...)=

=__Fifth Grade Wrap up__=

Language arts was pretty good this year. There were a few dumb books, and some good ones. All the books we read were: -The Green Book -Island of the Blue Dolphins -The Survival Books -Maniac Magee -Bud not Buddy -The Egyptian Books -In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson -Rainbow People -Tuck Everlasting -The Adventures of Ulysses -Crow and Weasle

My favorite book was Maniac Magee, because it was very well written and was funny and exciting. And my least favorite book was Island of the Blue Dolphins, because it really annoyed me, it was really boring and had no action. We talked about it too much, and now, whenever someone says "Karana", I scream.

Toward the end of the year, I think I got much better at sharing Ideas in class. I participated in a lot of the group dicussions.

=__Rainbow People__= = = I liked this book. I liked how there were short stories. A lot of these stories had morals and related to certain topics ("Tricksters", "Fools", "Virtues and Vices", "In Chinese America", and "Love".) There were about for stories per chapter. Most of all, I enjoyed the stories "The Changeling", "Trouble Snake", and "Natural Enemies." They were all in different chapters. On the blog, I was facilator for "The Changeling", and i was facilator at school for "Trouble Snake." I think I was able to keep up with this story, and could understand it more than Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, because it caught more of my interest, with moral stories. =__In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson__=

Personally, I found this story pretty hard to understand and keep up with. Shirley does a lot of stuff. There were somethings i didn't understand, but then there were some things i could understand. For instance, I love baseball, so i could easily keep up with all the baseball parts. The book was about a girl who moved from China to America, and fell in love with baseball. On the quizzes in class, i didn't do very well, cause the book was to complicated. On the essay, i think i did pretty good, i put tried to make it good, and i think i succeeded. For the project, i made a powerpoint, and it explained what shirley likes, and what her hobbies are. Here it is:

= = =__This I Beleive__=

This is my this I believe glog. I hope you enjoy it!

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Personally, I think I did better at my personal belief, because it is much easier to relate to what you believe. You believe it, so it is much easier to write about. The problem was, I had a lot more to write about, but it would be too long to say, so i had to cut it down to the max. I think it was much harder to write about the book character, then the personal essay, because you are writing from someone else's opinion, not yours. I think i could have made it better if i explained a little more of what happened in the book. I saw a lot of progress then former essay's because it is easy to write about what you like, and it is fun too. I hope all my essays could be as good as this one! = = =__Maniac Magee__=

Maniac Magee was my favorite book I read so far. It was very easy to read and at times was hard to put down. I feel I did better on this assignment because I paid more attention. What I think was my best assignment was the blog, because it was so fun to pretend to be a certain person in the book, and when it is fun, I do better! And anything fun will make me do anything! I feel like my web was my least successful assignment, because i didn't have many adjectives and detail, and those are usually my best parts. And I also don't use Inspiration much, and i'm not use to filling in bubbles. I think if I had more time to make the web, I could do better. For the next book, I'm going to try to work a little harder and faster, and maybe it will be better. And I think I definitely improved since last project, because I read a little more carefully. I hope I keep up the good work for next project! =__My Side of the Mountain__=

My Side of the Mountain in my opinion was a very good book. It was interesting and it could also be funny at times. I feel like I did Ok at this assignment, but like I said before in the island of the blue dolphins, it wasn't my best. I don't know why, but I can't find my best. I think I lost it in fourth grade. But anyway, I think I did good on the big chart, because it was fun, I got to make the bumper sticker, and I got to draw a bird. It was all good, and our thing turned out great, but I think it would have been funny if I did the conversation between Karana and Sam. I think the least successful thing I did was the quiz, because I had trouble consentrating to the book. I always have this problem, and I always have to go back and read it. I think I should read it slower, and take my time while I'm reading. So, I need to consenstate more to the book, and stay focused while I'm reading. I also think I should participate more in our group conversations, and try harder, cause if everyone contributes, then the job goes faster, and the work is better. I think if I follow these basic rules, I will be victorious!

=__Island of the Blue Dolphins__=

This was our first book that we read in class. I feel like I did pretty good work, but not my best. I don't see my best a lot, only once in a while. But anyway, I liked the book, and I loved doing the friendship essay. I feel like I did by best work on that, because I have a talent for writing, and writing about friendship, and character's in the book, I find fun, and entertaining. I wasn't a big fan for the web, because I'm not a very good note taker, and i didn't find it as fun as the essay. I always perfer typing a paragraph then making a web. I also made a glog, and usually I'm not that good at making glogs, but this time I think I did pretty good. But I think I could have had more details and information on Karana's character traits. Something I think I need to work on is listening, and consentrating on the book, and I also think I need to add a little more information. And something I think I got better at is detail. I always had a lot of detail, and now I have even more! I can't have a paragraph, or essay without detail! And sometimes I even feel I have too much! So, my new plan is trying to consentrate and listen on the book, and add more info, and I feel that if I mash that with my detail, I think I will be great! = =