Portfolio - My Educational Experiences

Due to my educational experiences, I feel that I am sometimes behind in all my school work, and it is also sometimes difficult for me to understand things that are talked about in class when they are review for most kids. Going to over thirty schools has effected my learning dramatically, but I always try to catch up. Sometimes while being a foster youth you move around so many schools that you miss a lo of school, and learning. Many Foster Youth are behind in school because of the several moves they have to endure. To make sure that I don't fall behind in school, I constantly do my work and try to pay attention in all my classes. By doing these things I have been catching up in all my work and it is becoming easier for me to understand things in classes. I hope to continue doing good in my work and at school.

Playwirghts Project Performence!

End of Year Reflection – Greatest High School Obstacle

I would say that for most people that the greatest obstacle while being in high school, is trying to deal with drama. I have had a lot of drama over the past two years. Most of the drama I have had has been over friends that were fighting over a boy, and I usually got stuck in the middle of it. I lot of the time there are many people who bring themselves into drama when it has nothing to do with them. Another thing was sometimes difficult for me was trying to manage my schoolwork while playing a sport. I played three sports in my freshman year, but I only played one sport this year because I had a job, and I was trying to work harder for school. There are many hard obstacles in high school, but I know that I can handle them as they come.

Free Choice Post

I have been working at Foot Locker for about three weeks now, and I am really stating to like it. I love everyone that I work with. They are always making us laugh and crack up. The funniest people that we work with are the two girls named B. B. and Shelby. Yesterday at work, Amy and I, barley did any work at all because we were to busy laughing with our manager B.B. She was making us laugh like crazy. It was a really slow day so we didn't really have any customers so it was OK that we were talking, because we were working at the same time. All we really had to do was clean a little bit, and fold some clothes that were in the front, because they were messed up. Even when we are having a busy day at work, I really like it because we can still be really busy and have fun at the same time. I like working with the customers and helping them. I thought in the beginning that work was going to be boring and long, but I was wrong. It's exciting and fun.

Playwrights Project Play Completion Reflection

I feel accomplished for finishing my play. I am so happy with my play because I have never written a play before. I think that my play is really good for my first time, because it has a lot of detail and i put a lot of effort into it. Now that we are done with them I can focus on all of my other school work, like all of my make up work that I need to do. Also I was getting behind in some of my classes because I was trying to focus on writting the play, so I am happy to be done with our playwrights. My favorite part about having Ms. Olivia coming in and helping us write our plays was when she would have us play all the games and activites that helped us to learn about writing and team work. I am excited for next year when we get to write another play.

SPA Prom 2011 or Free Write

On Saturday, May 20th, we had our prom t the Hotel Coranado. Everyone was so excited for it to happen. Right after school, everyone rushed home to get ready. I had to go to the mall to buy something at the last minute. I had gotten my dress all the way from China, because it was really cheap compared to all the prices anywhere else. My dress was black and had a lace design. I bought my shoes at Closet, in the mall. I was extreamly excited for prom. I was going to prom with Marcus, and we actually had a lot of fun. He was a really funny dancer. When we got to the Hotel we took a couple pictures, and then we went inside to have fun. When we were walking inside everyone at the hotel was staring at us, because we were all dressed up aand pretty. The music at prom was not that good, but it was still fun to dance. The food was also really good. It was a roast beef, with mash potatos, which were really good. My favorite part was the ice cream, because they had a lot o0f things to go alone with it. Overall prom was a lot of fun.

Week in Rap

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Weekend Rap

Quote, Summary, or Paraphrase Paragraph

Welcome students! Today, I am going to teach you about what evidence is, when to summarize and what a summary is, when to use a quote and what a quote is, when to paraphrase and what a paraphrase is. It will be easy to understand if you pay attention and listen. Evidence is text you find in a reliable source that helps to answer a question. Summarizing is when you retell the main ideas of the text using fewer words. You summarize evidence when it is a long selection of text, such as multiple sentences or a whole paragraph. Learning to summarize is very important in school, and you will use it many times for class. A quote is a direct copy from the text exactly as it appears in the text with quotation marks around it. You quote evidence if it is a short and very specific section of the text that you need to copy exactly to keep its meaning. Another thing you need to remember is what paraphrasing is. Paraphrasing is when retell the ideas using your own words. You paraphrase evidence if it is a short and simple selection of text that you can easily put in your own words. One thing you should do to help you remember this is to practice using it, this will help you to remember each one and what they mean.

Research Paper Word Cloud

Comment-Seeking Post

Everything happens for a reason, right? Lately things have been a little hard for me. I have been trying to deal with issues I have had with my family. Every kid has family problems, but recently mine have been over excessively wrong. I have been trying to focus on other things like school and work. I recently just started work at Foot Locker, and I really like it. It is a lot of fun. The people I work with are super funny and I'm always laughing at work. Going to work is probaly my favorite part of the day because I like spending time away from the campus and all the drama. My boss's name is John and he is one of the funniest people I have ever met. I love working there. The only hard part about working is trying to keep up with my school work. I go to work at 4:30 and I dont get back until about 10:00, so it is getting hard to fininsh all of my work for school. I hope that I can make up all the work that I've missed. School is sometimes fun, but my favorite part of school is when Ms. Olivia comes to our class on some days, because she makes class a lot of fun. I can wait until we finish our playwrights, because I can wait to see how everyones plays come out.

President Obama’s Big Announcement

To learn about Osama Bin Laden's death I read the article http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.dead/index.html and I watched the news the night President Obama announced the news. First the government got information about where Osama's location, that they confirmed that, that was his real location. President Obama sent out a small group of seven U.S. troops the find and kill Osama Bin Laden. Osama was shot in the head and killed. His body is now in the hands of the U.S. They gave him a grave at sea so that his grave would not be a symbol for the Al Quida.
Now that Osama is dead I predict that there are going to be counter attacks from the Al Quida, because we killed their leader. I think that the Al Quida are furious about their leader being killed, and also that many people from the U.S. celebrated his death. There are going to be many retaliations from the Al Quida. I beleive that the goverment has to be extreamly careful with their actions now that they killed Osama. I hope that the future of our safty in the country is still at a good level, to where we can not worry about attacks from Al Quida.