Monday, August 9, 2010

Compliment Guys...Happy!


On the question, it asked when was the last time I received a compliment, so, the last time I received a compliment was when my mom told me that I am improving in badminton. That compliment made me feel really happy and makes me want to improve more. It gives me more determination to improve. The last time I complimented someone was when I told my cousin that he was really good at doing card tricks. It made him feel happy and he thanked me for saying that compliment. I really think compliments make people more determined so it is a good thing.
The reason I chose this picture is because as you look at it, for me it makes me feel happy as it is colorful and when I look at it, it makes me feel like I have just received a compliment when I did not.
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This picture is by Verna Weatherly and Ralph Auf der Heide.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Final The White Mountains blog

In the next book, I think they will still continue to fight the tripods and Will would save Eloise and probably get married for good. They might also meet some new friends along their journey in the next few books. There are I think three more books left and the story about the tripods and Will will end in the last book, unless the author( John Christopher) makes a new book. I think they might also use more advanced weapons instead of grenades. They might also discover that there might be humans inside the tripods controlling them to move and all.

Dear Henry,
At the beginning of the story, you use to fight with Will and all. During this journey, you still fought a bit with Will but less. You two boys were lucky you met Beanpole, or else the story would have ended really quickly. Do you think you and Will would've survived the journey to the White Mountains without Beanpole?
Sincerely, Junn Meng

Dear John Christopher,(author of the White Mountains)
In the story at first it was hard to understand, as soon as I read further, I kinda got the hang of things. Why did you make the book have so many ups and downs, my thoughts for this book is that this book is a kinda okay book and hope the next books are better.

I think in the story, Will has changed the most. At the start, he wasn't so stubborn as he was during their journey to the White Mountains. I think the relationship with Henry and Beanpole changed Will and made him become jealous. But at the castle, Henry was jealous of Will as Will got the nicer beds and more luxurious things. At the beginning he was confident that he could reach the White Mountains, that personality of his hasn't changed as it kinda stayed the same. Thats all for now!

Monday, February 22, 2010

The White Mountains 3rd blogpost

The tripods control people by putting these metal caps on their head. The tripods only control their actions, therefore, they cannot control their emotions, feeling, etc. But still, when some people are capped, they can still be kind like Eloise in the story. The evidence from the novel is "But not Eloise. I had thought her free, like myself. I might even have come to the idea-its beginnings,I think, were in my mind already- that when we set off once more for the White Mountains, there might not be three of us, but four. All this was rendered futile by the sight of her bare head. I had come to think of her as my friend:perhaps more. But now I knew that she belonged, irretrievably,body and soul, to the Enemy" this was the evidence. Well, Will doesn't feel comfortable about being capped, and thats why he is going to the White Mountains. So, the evidence to show how Will feels on being capped is : "I was sorry at the thought of leaving her,and my father,and of their unhappiness when they found me gone. The Caps offered no remedy for human grief. but I could not stay, any more than a sheep could walk through a slaughterhouse door, once it knew what lay beyond. And I knew that I would rather die than wear a cap."

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Zhan-pole (bean pole)

Okay, so now I am doing my second blog post on the White Mountains.

Beanpole is the smartest out of the group, Beanpole is a really helpful to the group as he is intelligent. Without Beanpole, I think Will and Henry would really struggle to get to the White Mountains as Beanpole knows the language and the way around the place. Will and Henry really need Beanpole, or else they would be hopeless.

Beanpole also knows the way of the tripods cap, so he can help Will and Henry with plans and stuff. Also if Will and Henry get captured, Beanpole will be able to help them as he speaks French too. Beanpole is a very helpful person to Will and Henry, they are lucky they met Beanpole, or else their journey would be all over. If Henry and Will get capped, the book ends from there.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

How is Will like me?

Now that I've read the chapters 1-2 in the White Mountains, I will tell you how Will is like me. Will is like be because Will is shy, which is sometimes like me. I can at times be shy if I am not comfortable with the area I am in. Over time, I will be more comfortable with the area and speak up.

The other thing that I have in common with Will is that Will and I are both adventurous. I really like to explore and discover more on what is around me or places I go to. Will is like me as Will is really willing to explore the White Mountains. But I think that the purpose for Will to explore the White Mountains is because he doesn't want to be capped. I also think he went to the White Mountains is also because he wants to prevent other villagers to get capped.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Resolutions!!!!

My resolutions for the new year is to improve academically and socially, learn new skills in writting an essay, improve on my grammar and help other students who are in need. I also think I need to get healthier. When I am sick, I always think, what am I going to miss on the few days of school while I am sick. In school, you will always learn something new in each school day. Academic and social resolutions are both important resolutions to me. I need to improve my grades in every subject, and I also want to make more friends. I think that if you help students in need more, the more friends you will get.





I want to improve on writting essays because the essays I write are not well structured. For me, essay writting is an important skill to learn because in life, everyone will need to write essays. I want to improve essay writting for my future, like when I am finding a job. This skill is a skill that I really want to learn. But improving academically and socially is my first resolution, next is learning more skills, then help other students and lastlly, getting healthier.




Improving my grades and making more new friends is my most important resolution. Helping other students is a bit part of the social goal. I hope that I am able to maintain my grades to at least a B+ or maybe I'll try to get them to become A's. And the social goal is to make more friends and help students. I don't really help students so this is a goal that I could really try doing more.



Getting healthier is another new year resolution for me. I think that I need to get healthier as I miss a few days of school because of my sickness. I needs to do more exercising is on thing I need to do more. And overall, my new year resolutions are listed:
1) Improve academically and socially
2) Learn new skills
3) Help others
4) Getting healthier

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Wordle

I have achieved the academic goals and the social goals that I have set out at the beginning of 6th grade. My academic goal was to achieve better grades in each subject. I have achieved some better grades for each subject but I am still trying to do better, especially in humanities. So far, I think that my grades are what I had expected and I am happy with my grades. My social goal was to make more new friends from different countries which I did. The first few friends I made were Asuka, Brandon, Roemer and Amin. When Ian came on his first day, I made friends with him and I was happy as I made a new friend again. As the day passed, I noticed that Ian was in five out of my eight classes which made me really amazed.

The skills that I have learnt was collaborating constructively. I learnt this skill by working in groups in various classes such as humanities, science, sometimes in math, spanish and sometimes in P.E. class. In humanities, we had to make the mobile with a partner about ancient Sumer. I also learnt thinking creatively in humanities, spanish, health and spanish. In humanities, we had to think creatively on how to create the mobile and how the mobile would look like. We also had to think creatively when we had create a song about one of the empires from Mesopotamia. And in health, we ha to think creatively on how to create a skit and things like that.

The skills that I want to learn are more about the history in humanities class, more songs to play and learning new notes in band, more danger about your body in health, learning more stuff about convection in science and learning more skills and ways to do math easier in math.

The goals that I wish to set for the next six more months of school are to raise my grade in each and every subject as know I understand what topics I am doing in middle school for each class. That was my academic goal. For my social goal, I would like to make more friends than I have now because having more friends won't make me feel lonely and it will make me fell good about this school. Having more friends is also good because in classes, your friends can help you whenever you are in need. This was my social goal.