Thursday, April 21, 2011

Testing Tips, Strategies, and Plays Reflection

Knowing some tips and strategies can be a helpful thing to people when it comes to test taking. Some tips people can use are highlighting important things in the passage, and cross out some answers that don’t make sense. Using these tips can help people because if you highlight some important facts then you already know what you are looking for instead of going through the whole passage again. Also some strategies people can use are budget the time, and go back and make sure you answered all the questions with the correct answers. Using these strategies are important because if you don’t go back and make sure you answered all the questions you could have skipped a question and end up getting that one wrong and have a bad grade for one little mistake. So that is why it’s important to know some tips and strategies for test taking.

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Monday, April 18, 2011

My Feelings about the Upcoming CSTs

One word I would use to describe how I would feel about testing is apprehensive. When it comes to testing I am always nervous or a little bit scared because I might fail and get a bad grade.  I’m always apprehensive when it comes to state testing because I always have a bad feeling that I might fail every test and I will have to repeat the grade I’m in. Another reason I chose the word apprehensive because what if I do fail the test that mean I wont be able to graduate on time because I failed the state test.  Right now I feel nervous because this is the biggest test of the school year and if I fail this test I will have to take the ninth grade all over again and I won’t graduate high school on time. So that is how I feel about California standards test.

Friday, April 15, 2011

My UnGoogleable Research for an Eight-Year Old

Playing sports can be a good and bad career depending on the sport the athlete played. Some reasons playing sports can be a good career are, if the athlete is really good at the sport he can be one of the best players in the game and have lots of fame and fans. Another reason is if the athlete’s dream was to become a professional in the game then he accomplished his goal because they got to play in the sport. But also the sport can be an unsuccessful career because when you play some sports some injuries are bound to happen and a bad enough injury can end you career forever. Another reason sports can be an unsuccessful career is because once a athlete retires from a sport it can be hard for them to find something else to entertain them. Its important to know this information because if a person wants to play sports then they should think ahead of time and ask them “Is this sport the one I really want to play?” or “is this sport going to help me in the future or am I going to end up in the hospital?”

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Free Choice Blog Post

When I was in the fifth grade me and my friend we in the school playground talking about how we cant wait for the fourth of July because it was only a couple of days away and we couldn’t wait to light some fireworks. When I mentioned the word firework he looked at me with a huge but conspicuous smile on his face. So when I saw him put that look on his face I knew he was up to something and I knew he wanted me to help him with whatever he was going to do. So I asked him what was his plan, and his plan was thirty minutes before the bell rings we will go on the football field and put a bunch of cherry bombs in a water bottle and throw it in the air so it will explode in mid air. So while waiting for time to go by we were trying to find a water bottle to use and finally we found one in the bushes near the track fence. By the time we found the water bottle the yard duty blew the whistle and said there is half an hour left before school started so me and my friend went to the far side of the track and started to pack the water bottle with cherry bombs. When the bottle was finally full with cherry bombs he asked if I was ready to witness an explosion and I said sure. He took out a lighter and counted down from three all the way to one and when he got to one he light the fire works sealed the water bottle and threw it high in the air and ran to stand next to me. As the bottle was in the air my friend and I were waiting for an explosion and then all of a sudden there was a loud bang that sounded like a gun shot. When we heard that we both got super scared and ran to the swing set where we sat down and never spoke of the situation again.