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Half way to the best day of my life!

polkadot102 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:42:43 +0000

The first half of the school year was okay , because I don’t really like school . Having a new teacher is pretty cool .Exams were pretty hard because I had no idea what I was doing on any of them other than math , because I am actually good at math for some odd reason. I’m not good at any other subject so I didn’t think I would do good at any of the exams , and I didn’t, I did good in math tho. I don’t know what I put in my letter but academically I think I did pretty good one of my marks is in the 90s two almost in the 80s and one almost in 70s , I think that is pretty good considering im not very smart.

The first half of the year always is the slowest part to go by, since we are done it im so happy, school is okay sometimes but I would rather be out doing something. This year having three teacher is something I like. I can’t wait till next year when I can have more teachers, having more teacher is cool because you’re not with the same teacher all day because being with the same teacher is like your reliving each day over and over. I think that the second half of the year will be better because it is closer to summer break. Summer break is awesome till it ends and then you have to go back to school. My six word story was: it has been sort of hard. The reason why I said that was because I thing that is hard and it is always going to be hard, school is for you too learn and you’re not going to learn unless you are taught stuff that you don’t know , which may be hard stuff. This is what I think of my first half of the year.

Sign language.

polkadot102 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:06:40 +0000

While working with everybody i learned a little bit about sign language not a lot because we weren’t organized , being not organized messed us up a lot. While working i learned that the first chimp that was taught sign language was in was hoe was a chimp that was taught sign language for 47 years.One of the earliest written records of a signed language occurred in the fifth century BC. Learning about sign language4 wasn’t that interesting it was sort of but not really i guess if i understood it more and knew how to do it , it would be a more interesting topic to research. I think it would be pretty cool if you knew how to use sign language as another language that you could use instead of just English.

Their are lots of other languages in the world a second main one is french we are taught french because their are french people in are colony. Using sign language is sort of like talking you cans still express your feeling but you cant do it fro someone to hear you . Sign language is usually used for someone who is deaf because they cant hear what you are trying to say to them . Being deaf and having sign language is like having your hearing because you know what people are saying to you , you can understand what their saying but you can hear them.

sign language.

Working on google docs.

polkadot102 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:30:25 +0000

for our task we are working together on google docs and we are put into groups and given a topic for each of us from their we have to make a presentation but before the presentation we had to research about our topic so that we knew what to put on the slides. Work ing with students 2700 kilometers away is harder than working with students in your class much harder because in your class you can see how somebody body language is and when your on the computer you can’t . When your working with four people its harder to agree on things and lots of people wont compromise and get mad because they don’t get their way.I don’t really like working over the computer I would rather work with people in your class because they know how you act and the people on the computer don’t know your being sarcastic. I think it fun to work on the computer but by yourself and in general I don’t like working in groups because I think I can get more done by myself . I think its cool in-all to get to work with people out of your class room but just not on google docs I think it would be cool to work over Skype or something where they could see you so there wouldn’t be so many people thinking your saying rude stuff when your actually just being sarcastic.Everybody has their opinion on what they think about this and mine is probably different from most people but you should be able to tell your opinion to everybody. What do you think about working online together? likes or dislikes?

Google is where we do all of our stuff most of the time.

Things in common!

polkadot102 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:05:51 +0000

Hi my name is Cassie and we are doing this post about things we have in common with our class mates and with our class were working with in ontario.The people that I have the most in common with would be twenty people and that would be having the same favorite site which would be face book.I don’t have anything really in common with a bunch of people but I do have the same favorite TV show as Shelby, Kori, Alyssa, melimast and Cassidy which would be pretty little liars.Something I have in common with a few people would have to be my favourite food the people I have this in common with is, Chantal , Riley, Mr. fisher. I’m the only person that wants to be a comedian . The person I am most alike with from the other school would be Cassidy because we both watch pretty little liars we both like Facebook and we have the same name. I learned a lot about wingham from last year and this year so I don’t see that I need to know more.

Passions

polkadot102 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:48:23 +0000

I don’t have a passion because I am interested inn thing but not passionate about thing. Some of the things that i am interested in is volley ball and basket ball I love camera and taking photos.It sort of ruins in the family to play these sports. I just like when bumping the ball back and fourth and just it being intense. I sort of like taking photos and just having the camera in my hand and just being able to catch all of lives moment on film and being able to look back at how ever long you want and seeing what was going on than or what you looked like and what you look like know i think its pretty cool but that my opion not everybody.

About me!

polkadot102 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:29:19 +0000

My name is Cassie I live in Manitoba my favourite activity here to do is skidoing and quading . My favourite book is hush,hush it a pretty intense book. I play volley ball I like to play basket ball and soccer.My favourite colours would have to be blue and purple and yellow. My favourite artist’s would have to be Nicki manaj ,mac miller and eminem my favourite songs would have to be where dem girls at and super man and donald trump . My favourite tv shows would have to be pretty little liars , teen mom, keeping up with the kardashians, big brother and south of nowhere my life wouldn’t be complete if these shows werent invented . I love walking around and not being stuck inside I love hanging out at the beach in the summer getting a tan. I love visiting Newfoundland in the summer its pretty fun their just being with the family.My favourite part would have to be driving the quad because it’s really funny when you get stuck.

The Final Chapters of the wave!

polkadot102 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:24:35 +0000

RETELLING: The last four chapters went by really fast and it was the most important chapters of the book. Laurie so far is the only girl who isn’t in the wave and is proud of it. Nobody will belive her when she says that the wave is bad and they should stop it. All of Laurie’s old friends were mad at her because she put a bunch of stuff in the newspaper about the wave but bad stuff. So her friends wait for her after school and David goes and talks to her and he gets mad so he pushes her down. When he pushes her down he realizes how much the wave is affecting them . He apologizes to her . The next day they go to Mr.Ross class room and says that he needs to stop it . Laurie and David are pretty much the only two kids in the school that aren’t in the wave. The wave has went so far as in you have to give the salute to get into a ball game. Laurie refuses to do the salute. Mr.Ross left school early that day because he couldn’t handle what was going on and he had to find a reason to stop it. Mrs.Ross comes home and she had been looking for her husband all day and she couldn’t find him. When she gets home she see him reading book and asked him why he was home and he didn’t reply he didn’t even look up from his book. Mrs.Ross says to him I need to talk to you and he snaps and says he needs to finish tomorrow class . Then she says that what I need to talk to you about . You can’t keep going on with this you have to end it Mrs.Ross says to Mr.Ross. At the end the wave finally gets ended and everybody is glad except Robert because he actually liked the wave because he had friends when he was in the wave and know he doesn’t.

RESPONSE:The thing that confuses me was why did David push Laurie down when not even a week ago he was dating her. I think it was good that they broke up because what if he had hit her while they were dating. I loved when the wave ended because everybody was relived and happy except Robert but I think he can get over it. If I were a character in these chapter’s I would want to be Amy because she stood up to Laurie for the first time and told her what she tought of her. I didn’t think that Laurie friends should have done that too her since they were friend and if something like that were to come up and they just bail on her about nothing then they really weren’t friends. I think that since David got so mad and him and Laurie broke up because of nothing then they really shouldnt have been together ever. The part in the story that surprised me was how he would push her down even if they had broken up even if you had broken up then you should still love her because there is a chance that they could get back together and after the wave ended I think they did get back together.

The Wave Out of Control.

polkadot102 — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:11:53 +0000

RETELLING: Mr.ross just think that the wave is just an experiment but it’s not everybody is taking this way to far and the whole school is in on this and they are having a pep rally and handing out stuff . All the students are practicing the motto and the salute. Since doing that they are finishing their work and projects faster than usual. All the kids are now all prepared for class when most of them just used to walk into class tired now they are all excited. They spend half of every class on the wave because they are so well prepared they finish their lesson in only half of the time they used too. Mr.ross got called down to Principal Owens office Mr.Ross was so nervous to be going down their he was thinking it was something about the wave. Mr.Owens said he has had complaints from people to stop the exsperiment.Mr.Ross honeslty never thought the wave would spread this far and effect so many people. Ben began thinking that kids were skipping classes and sitting in his. David and his friends that were in mr.ross class have told the football team about it and they got into it too. Laurie is starting to wonder about the wave since she got that letter from an animus person that a senior was bullying him to go in the wave. She just can’t get it out of her head .Then when she sees two people fighting. She know who one is but not the other and they are fighting because of the wave so she is thinking that is the person that send her the letter. She was talking to David about not going to the rally because she didn’t want to and he got mad so they broke up. I think Laurie knows what she’s doing because the wave could go to far. Laurie broke up with her boyfriend David and she is pretty upset about it . Her parents were right after all the wave was not a good idea!

RESPONSE: I think the rally for the wave is not a good idea because most students are feeling pressured to go there and to join because if they don’t join they will lose their friends. I think that lots of kids are getting bullied or made to join this and they are handing out flyers and telling everybody to join.I think it was a good idea for Laurie to drop out of the wave and dump David because everybody is getting hooked on this and they don’t know how its going to end up.I think my favourite part would have to be when Laurie broke up with David because all he cared about was the wave and why would you want to date somebody that only cares about that and them selves.The part that surprised me was when the kid wrote to the paper and was talking about the wave that was my favourite part because the person expressed how they felt about the wave and it wasnt a good thing and that would be the first person to say anything. If I were one of the characters in these chapters I think it would be fun because there is so much drama and drama is so fun sometimes. If I were a character I would want to be Laurie because I think she is an awesome character. Laurie is one of those really pretty girls but is also really nice. I think she is one of the best characters in this story because of how she acts which is a good thing.

Mr.Ross , Starting The Wave

polkadot102 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:22:22 +0000

Retelling:In the last four chapters have been quite interesting. In Mr.Ross history class everybody is really into history. Every time he asks them a question they have to sit straight up and yell the answer. Mr.Ross has taught them discipline. Mr.Ross history class have been using it other places for example David Collins and using it in the locker room so that his team so they could play good and get along. Every day when the students come into Mr.Ross class they are excited and what makes them excited is these three word :STREGNTH THROUGH DISCIPLINEst keeps going on and on about the discipline. It has been getting weird in their class lately instead of the students just dragging into class they were in neat rows and sitting there and not talking. Mr.Ross wanted a symbol for their group and he went up on the board and drew a wave and that was their new symbol. Laurie was telling her parents about the last two days of history . Mrs.saunders didnt think it was such a good idea. Mr.saunders didnt know why his wife was saying that but he just let her think whatever. Laurie on the other had loves how Mr.Ross started the wave and how the whole class is into it and lots of people in the book . A quote that Mr.Ross said that the class liked was” its the feeling that your part of something more important than yourself. The reason why Mr.Ross choose the wave as the symbol because it changes it moves and it has impact. The thing they do all the time is the salute if Mr.Ross salutes them they salute back!

RESPONSE: I think the wave is a good idea but at the same time I don’t think Mr.Ross knows what he is doing what could happen when he does this too these kids it could come as something good but also as something bad. The quote that I talked about in my retelling I really liked because Mr. Ross said ” it make you feel as a part of something more important then yourself” and I think it means you are important no matter who you are and I think that a really good thing to know especially if you are always down on yourself. The only thing that I wonder about is why they picked the wave for their symbol and why they salute instead of hand shake or something I just weird that you don’t know why they picked these things and why they happened. I think my favourite part was when they all were excited about history class when in a regular school not many people are excited about history or even like it . If I were a character in this story I would like it for the middle part but I don’t think I would like it for the begging and the ending. My feeling really havent changed about the characters at all because they really havent done anything the only one they changed about was David because he is trying to get his team to work together and not fight which is a good thing!

The history project that went to far!

polkadot102 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:31:07 +0000

RETELLING:Laurie Sanders is one of the main people in the book she is one of the students in english class and is talking to Mr. Ross about the nazi and how could they follow hitler in what he was doing to the Jewish people. Laurie’s best friend was Amy Smith. Just this year Laurie decided to take history because she thought it would be interesting because last year she took french and it was really boring because of her teacher. Laurie was dating a guy named David Collins. Laurie has n took a lot of interest into what hitler had done to the Jewish people and how the germans let this happen in the first place. Robert is another one of the important characters and he is having a hard time because his older brother was a straight A excellent student in highschool and he just thinks he has to be like him and live up to what he does but nobody pressures him to do it he just thinks he has to do it. Robert always sits alone and none will even talk to him its weird because him and his brother are total opposite because his brother was very popular in his school and did everything good but Robert isn’t like that.Laurie is still bothered by what happened in WWII and she really seems to care about it but its over now and she can’t let it go . Mr. Ross isn’t getting why so many people are asking him questions about WWII and the nazi and hitler!Bens wife is a wrestler and has beat the person she has never beaten before. Mr.Ross is so confused because he can seem to answer the question his students has asked him.

RESPONCE: I think that mr.ross was confused about not being able to answer that question and usually if someone asks you a question you can answer it . My feeling about the characters are pretty good I like pretty much all of them right now but once I get into the book I might not like them as much as I did at the start of the book. I think that Laurie’s boyfriend is going to be the character that I don’t like at the end of the book because he doesn’t seem like he is a good character at all.My favourite part I think was when they were all so concerned about what had happened in the holocaust and WWII . I think that everyone will become more interested in finding out what else went on with hitler and want to learn more about it. The part that surprised me was how many kids asked questions about it but also that Laurie did because she doesn’t seem like the girl who would care about something like that. If I was one of the characters in the book I would be scared that this might happen again because this book wasnt made far from it. The only thing that I wonder about is how old their teacher is and if his parent were in the holocaust.