I Believe Speech

In my ELA class we are doing I Believe speeches. The speeches are supposed to be about what do we believe in and why based off of our personal experiences. My speech is about how people aren't callow. Callow means when a person is inexperienced or immature. So my speech really says that  no one is nowhere near this definition because we all end up somewhere. Within what we learn now, it always leads us to tomorrow. We go up so far that it creates our future. I guess an easier word for callow is simpleminded. So what I mean is you aren't unexperienced or stupid because each day we individually illustrate something new. I think that my speech would lift up people's mindset about themselves because I personally know that at some point of every teenagers life we come to think that we are this definition.

Dinner Dance

Last night for one of our end of the year activities for eight grade our school had a dinner dance at a banquet. To me, as for we are graduating, I thought it was like a prom in middle school because it's activities went just like how it'll be when we're seniors. We go to Great American, we have a prom, and then we finally graduate to go to the next level for education. I could never compare how I felt last night like any other event. I had it just the way I wanted. I came home, wore one of my favorite burgundy dresses with my hair being its natural state with a little makeup, went to the event being welcomed by my friends, eating expensive looking food, and dancing my butt of like it was the last night I'd live. It was one amazing night with the best celebration. Even though earlier that day at school something happened that messed up my excitement for a little while, I still had my fun.

Activism Project Review:Girls Education Overseas

In class we've been presenting our own projects based off of activism. Activism means when you campaign for a society or world problem. My project was based off of girls education overseas. While I learnt about this certain topic I acknowledged that girls education in different countries is getting worse every year. For example, The U.S pays $26 billion each year just so all people around the world can receive basic education. And that's five percent less then what we give to the U.S military. I think that if the government wasn't spending money on war all the time and having their focus on it so much, we could help education overseas a lot more than how we are now. But because how I see America runs, our efforts to help aren't effective at all. If I were to be one of these girls I'd feel powerless and underestimated because I wouldn't be able to stop them from remove me from education I need for my future and I would be looked at dumb by people because I wasn't able to receive that information. I'd be looked at as if I wasn't worth anything because Ineouodnt be able to help out in things like I'd like to.

Class of 2017

Yep. You've guessed it. I'm writing about my last year in middle school. I know, Its sad, maybe even cliche. But, this year will be very interesting to me in many ways. I'll be in high school, experience things, learn difficult things, and create new friendships. But, this year will be very mournful for me. I'll leave friends that are practically family since I've known them all my years of schooling, I lose some based off their true colors showing, and I'd lose a lot more energy I'm losing right now. I can just think about how it was just yesterday when I was playing four Square in recess with my friends. Time goes by, not stopping for anything or anyone. I can just image the day of graduation. I'll definitely cry, because that's just the emotional person I am. Heck, I cried in fifth grade because I thought I was splitting from my people. No one had referred to me that I would see the same and new faces the very next three years of middle school. That was nothing. But this is totally different and it'll probably be worse when I leave high school. Moving from middle school to high school is probably the biggest step someone could take at my age now. This is the time when you actually get to live the moment instead of dreaming it. I just can't wait is there for me when the time comes.

"Forever..."Judy Blume

The first book I read the last quater of this school year is, "Forever..." written by Judy Blume. The novel is realistic fiction and it's mainly about a girl named Katherine Daziger and Michael Wagner. They're both seniors in high school and had met each other at a friends party. When they had seen each other, they couldn't have helped but looked at each other multiple times. It was technically love at first. After awhile they'd got together and spent as much of time together possible before they both went away to college. Throughout this book Katherine and Michael experience their firsts at things like physical relationships and teenage problems. As of how every teenager experience things around them, they take it very maturely and stick to their own pace respectively. That is until summer comes up, the month everyone dreams of after school, when their seperated due to summer jobs that are bot in different states for a long period of time.

      I personally like this book because it teaches and demonstrates that you shouldn't rushed to do anything you do or don't want to do. It also teaches how to respect others and be responsible with you choices. I'd recommend this book to people who can take mature content because it does talk about sexual interactions and teen suicide. Although this book is realistic fiction, the problems inside seem similar to reality problems. My favorite quote from this book is (Chapter 2:Page7), "It's true that I come on strong with my sarcastic act sometimes, but only when I'm interested in a guy. Otherwise I can be as nice and friendly as they come. Erica says that means I'm insecure. Maybe she's right – – I just don't know." I like this quote because I know for when I personally meet someone it's always as if I immediately put a mask on my face because I'm never confident in they way I might interact with that person. At points it's different also, it just determines the way they approach me. What I take out of this book is that you do t have to rush to do anything because you're not pressured to do things you don't feel comfortable doing. Taking your time is respecting your self and others. Thinking that the world isn't going to function because something bad comes up into your life is never the ending result. Things will get better and you'll learn from your experiences that you've faced.

Quick Write 2: Problems With Youth

I think a problem I'm facing is that us youth not having the confidence to say anything. The confidence to say that this is wrong or we have to stop this. I think basically we acknowledge what happens in our community but we dint do too much about it. Like on the news, you could hear how a school might get involved in protest or raise money for awareness to show that we do care. But I feel people really do t care what we say which discourages us. I think people might feel this way because they may think if what we say something about a problem, and nothing changes, it doesn't matter. I'm not saying that's it's our fault that we're not changing anything, I just think that more of the youth population needs to get involved to grasp others attention. Grasping others attention by little things can make a hugger impact on our confidence for better things.The more we have shows more that we want and need change for our future lives.

Quick Write 3: Powerful vs. Powerless

For anyone, there are times when people feel powerless. When they feel powerless, it's like when they feel like they aren't capable of doing something, such as accomplishing a goal. But people also feel powerful. When they feel powerful, it's like when they feel like they are strong and successful. For me I have felt powerful and powerless in times of my life. I remember when last year I went to my great aunts house and she'd asked me how were my grades doing everything containing school. At that time I was struggling with understanding the work and turning it in. I had told her that I didn't have the confidence to get help from my teacher because I didn't want to hold back any students that understood already for a period of time. She told me that I should have the confidence in anything in particular because I am the future. As this generation, what we do now determines what happens in the future. Meaning that we can control what can happen for the next generation to come. When she said this to me it made me feel powerful because it lets me know that I have the power to change anything and that no one can tell me different. Times when I feel powerless is when my parents or any adult in particular tells that I can't do something or have a say that contains for my life. Usually, goes to really saying that my opinion doesn't matter because to them it doesn't mean anything. When people do this, it makes me feel like I'm not worthy or capable to do anything. It gives me the hesitation to even demonstrate on how I feel. Especially when loved ones tell you this, it really brings me down and makes me think what's the purpose in trying.