Personal Narrative

      Each and everyone of us has meaningful life experiences.It might not be that great but we all have done something in our life that we still remember.We do so much in our life that it could be either good or bad. No one has a perfect life and no one is perfect. Everyone one goes to bad experiences and good experiences.
     Graduating from elementary and walking stage from middle school was a special occasion for me. Graduating from elementary shows a lot about me. It shows how i am as a student . It shows how im ready to move on and do work independent because let me tell you once you get to 6 grade it is very hard.

Portfolio reflection

     We do so much in English class that it piles all up in our portfolio. My portfolio says a lot about my grade. I don't know for other people, but for me it does. Everything we do in class we either give it to the teacher or the teacher stamps it and we put it in our portfolio. The reason I say that my portfolio says a lot about my grade is because with so many work we put inside out portfolio you could tell if you have a good grade or not.

  I'm not saying that my portfolio has everything, but I know what I need to improve on one thing. I need to improve on writing essays, I do get a good grade, but I know I could reach for even a higher grade. The only reason why I need to improve on writing essays is not because they're bad. It's because I need to write more and explain more about what I'm talking about.

 See one of my favorite piece of work inside my portfolio has to be my progress report. My progress report is one of my favorite piece of work because it overall gives us a warning on what grade we have and it tells us what we are missing and what we need to improve on.

 As well as my portfolio says a lot about my grade. Also my progress report says a lot. For me it says a lot. Why because my progress report tells me every grade I earn for either getting a stamp on my paper or either because the teacher grades everything in our portfolio and gives us a grade on what we finish or half way finish.

Found Poem

            There are guavas at the shop an save. I pick one the size of a tennis ball and finger the prickly stem end. The guavas bushes grow close to the ground, their branches laden with green then yellow fruit that seem to ripen overnight .We raided the bushes as soon as guavas were large enough to bend the branch. A green guava is sour and hard. You bite into it and seeds crunching inside your head. While the inside of your mouth explodes in little spurts of sour. Your eyes water, and you finish the green ripped guava , but you go for more and more, to enjoy that acid taste in your mouth and the gritty texture of the unripe center. I had my last guava. It smelled so good i didn’t want to eat it, but i did. The last green guava i had was the best ripen guava i had. It had did sour acid taste and it smelled so good.

ELA STUDENT ASSESSMENT ESSAY

                  Digital privacy should be a expection in the 21st century. Why I personally think its going to be expected because a lot of people are not going to like that other people are collecting your data just to find terrorist. Most of the people are going to feel that the government is invading there privacy. Some people might just not like that idea and other people just think that collecting data from us goes to far. If I was giving my opinion then I would agree that this collecting data does go far, but also think it a good thing because there are trying to find terrorist. As long as they don't take it to far then it is right know then im good that they are trying to find terrorist.
                                  So many people might agree with me to about this collecting data idea. Other people might say it goes far and other people might say its right. They think its right because they trying to find terrorist, but also agree with me because it goes to far not only they want to collect data they wanted to collect telephone records and a lot of people think it goes to far. The last page #7 where it says "is this legal"? The second sentence sentences it supports my opinion because it clearly says that "As well as privacy advocates and lawmakers this data collection idea goes to far." The same thing I said just that to other people agree with me lawmakers and privacy advocates. Even though I think this goes to far and the government shouldn't be watching are private things they do have the right to look through are private things because there trying to find terrorist and I mean its the government he could do it even if people don't want to that's why a lot of people should be expecting digital privacy in the 21st century.
                              Even though this data collection goes to far and also the other things they want to find terrorist. I think this thin is a good thing because there trying to find terrorist. Its just something I really can like agrre in it because it invading are personal privacy , but yet trying to find terrorist. So its a good thing and a bad thing for me. Not only for me but for the lawmaker and privacy adovocates and also other people that disagree with this and also agree with this.
                         If this data collection or telephone record goes far then not only me but a lot of people are going to be expecting digital privacy. What im seeing is that in the data collection paper, the first page #4 "what happens to the telephone records?" letter a , its says that " our data cant be access unless a judge gives approval in a national security investigation.". Which is good because if your like me that think this goes to far , but yet its a good thing because there trying to get terrorist. They will can only view your data collection or telephone record and more if its approve by a judge and if the "government can show reasonable suspicion that they are relevant to terrorist activity". Which also is good because there not taking to far then it is now and the law makers and privacy advocates and other people like me don't have to worry about it.
                       Long to shorts I think digital privacy should be expected for the people that don't like other people looking through there private data. But if you do want the government to look at your data and you don't mind it then don't be expecting digital privacy in the 21st century.

Last Chance to Pass

                          
 

Final Last Chance To Past: Hunger of Memory & An American Story

      Hunger of Memory is a story written about this little boys inspired about his childhood. He wrote this story because he started school only knowing fifty words in English. He was the only Spanish speaker in his class. At this school called Scared Heart School in Sacramento California. This story began in his early boyhood. Where his parents managed very well in America.  His father had a good job and his mother managed the house they lived in . Long to short this story was also about they not being welcomed were they lived and being not wanted from the people that lived there. But they got over that and continued there lives there lives there even if they were stil not wanted they achieved it. Lastly this story was also about how the little boy remembered how he used to be the only one knowing  Spanish and a little English. Also how he remembered the intimidating sounds of English spoken from people in the streets were he lived. This is why I say that this storys theme is public lives vs private lives.

     An American story is based on this family immigrating because the Vietnam war that began in the 1950s and ended 1975. This war was pretty long if you tell me. This war was about the Vietnam and the united state trying to unsuccessfully preventing the communist of North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam. The story began in thanksgiving weekened. When this ten year old Vietnamese boy arrived to the country as a refugee. If you don’t know what the word refugee means it means a person who has been force to leave there country in order to escape persecution or natural disaster. The boy was with his family. His mother, his four sisters and a brother.  This family goes through a lot of thing in there way. They were called the Vietnam boat people. They travelled in boats to get where they were heading. Long story to short the family was escaping. At a point each of the people in that family got separated. The first remembered left behind were Viet Dinhs father and Phong dinh. Phong dinh was on the run because he escaped from the camp. His wife and children had left . Long story to short the family gets to reunite after  fifteen years of not hearing anything about each other.  This is why the theme for this story I think was some people go through immigrating and is really hard and dangerous. On what some people do to get a better life. It is a big risk that they take. The risk they can take is either not making it They getting caught by the patrol boats. Or because of food. These are risk they take not be healthy enough.

       These two stories had things not so common. Like I said each of these stories have different themes for me. One storys theme was public lives vs private lives .The other storys theme was about immigrating and taking a big risk in there lives. Something these to stories I think they had in common is that they both had something to do with there own family. Also that they go through bad things in there lives. Lastly these to stories finished with a good ending not a bad ending even though they been through not so good things in there lives.

Describing a Event

              My winter break begin on a beautiful Saturday. No school like any other Saturday, but there was also no school for three weeks because of winter break. Yay! No school for three week don't have to worry on putting on my alarm so early. Got to rest and spend the time with my cousins, friends and the rest of my family all winter break
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   Well before Christmas day what I usually did was pretty much the same thing I usually do. I did my chores, shower and then I go out  if I needed to. That week I went  out to  the mall to go Christmas shopping. My mom, my two sister and my aunt all went to the mall. We all went to go by our Christmas presents. Also my cousins presents and also my aunts an uncles presents.

 So when we got at the mall we went inside my favorite store to buy my gift for Christmas. I got some jeans from this store called Q. Then I went to my other favorite store to see what else I wanted and I got this pretty white sweater from H&M. Then my auntie said to choose what else I wanted for Christmas and I did. She gave me choices. The three choices were to get either boots, clothes or shoes for school. I ended up choosing the boots.

   So we went to my favorite boot store called Cathy Jean. So we entered and I tried on 4 pair of boots until I finally choose the boots I wanted. There were theses high knee boots, color black. Well we were finally done buying my Christmas presents then we went on to buying my sisters presents and my brothers presents.

   My sisters got clothes and also boots like me and my parents bought my brother some clothes to for his work. Then we stop it was around 6 and went to grab something to eat. So after we ate we kept on looking for clothes to buy my cousins for Christmas. So we kept on looking and we bought my cousin clothes and my aunt bought things for her sisters and we got to a point that we were done buying Christmas presents.
   Pretty much everyone from my family got clothes and we were all happy that day of Christmas that we got clothes. Its something little that we got everyone and something they should appreciate because a gift is a gift. And not everyone gets to get a present on Christmas day because they don't have enough money. Or not doing well at work that people cant afford to buy Christmas presents because they barely have enough money for food.

  So Christmas day was over and it was a few days before New Years . Before New years we went to this birthday party. Then New Years was here and we celebrated with making tamales and other kind of food. We were all together as family celebrating the New Year. Then after New Years what we did was rest a while because we went to sleep late and then we went to my cousins that couldnt come on new years day or Christmas because they had visitors over there house on  New Years and also Christmas day. Then lastly the last day of vacation came and it was my little sister birthday. We celebrated her birthday and my cousins came and also my parents friends. The next day I got up very early got dressed prepared my school supplies and headed to school.