Character Extension Essay

In today’s world everyone goes through pressures, no matter who you are we all have to struggle with pressures. These pressures help you grow because while overcoming these struggles you not only learn about life but you also learn about yourself. Some of these pressures can be easy to confront, while others may be difficult. Let’s face it, no matter how hard or easy your pressure is, when you confront them it represents that you’re growing stronger mentally. Well, in the book Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, Melody Brooks has a lot of pressures she has to deal with, but what stands out to me about this character is how she overcomes these struggles.

In this book Melody Brooks is a 11 year old girl who has a disability/disease called “Cerebral Palsy,” this disease affects her body movement but not her brain, which makes her have to sit in a wheelchair with a board of words to communicate with other people. All Melody wants is to communicate with her classmates, family, and other people verbally without having to point at words on a board and to just fit in with all the other people in school. But there was no way to actually make her talk and communicate to people clearly, and her classmates and everyone at school thinks she’s weird for being in a wheelchair. So she spends most of her time with her neighbour, Mrs. to study new vocabulary to make her smarter. Then using the knowledge of these words, Melody received a device that let’s her actually “talk and communicate” by a push of a button, this not only changed Melody’s life but she also got to use this knowledge to prove to people that actually she was really smart  

Throughout this book you can tell that Melody has many struggles in her life, aside from her disease another hard struggle she has is making friends. Melody only has one person who she can actually call a friend at school, and that person is Rose. Even though Melody spends most of her school day at a special class with other disabled kids, when she has a class with all the normal kids they either make fun of her or try to avoid her. Especially these two girls named Claire and Molly, but not only do these girls treat Melody badly but they also treat the other disabled kids badly. They say, “Hey Claire!” Molly said, twisting her arms above her head and bending her body so it looked crooked. “Look at me! I’m a retard!” She laughed so hard, she snorted snot. Claire cracked up as well, then let spit dribble out of her mouth. “Duh buh wuh buh,” she said, crossing her eyes and pretending to slip out of her chair.” (pg. 94.) This scene clearly shows that Claire and Molly always judge people by the way they look and not how the person acts, and also that they care more about people’s flaws instead of their own.

In conclusion of this pressure point, Melody changes mentally instead of physically. She doesn’t let people’s words hurt her too much, and accepted that she would never be like everyone else. In that way, Melody serves as a mentor for a lot of us. We need to accept ourselves for who we are even when it seems like it’s hard. So the next time you are faced with a huge pressure in your life, remember how Melody accepted herself that she will never be like everyone else and confront your own struggles.

Partner Talk 2

This is my second partner talk guide. In this video I talk to you about what I do well on in my own partner talks. I think in the first one I said "yeah" a lot, and for this one I try to add on to my partners by piggybacking off them. I think one thing I could've improved on was to find more quotes in the book to support what I'm saying.

Science!

Today I've been looking at many science websites, and I have many favorites but there is one website that I thought was the best. And that website was Bill Nye's website. If you don't know who Bill Nye is  he is a scientist who makes funny videos that makes you understand things about science. People also call him Bill Nye the Science Guy. One thing I really liked about his website is when ever you go on another page on his website a different fact will show up in the top corner, a lot of the facts are interesting. If you visit the website you would want to go to the tab named "For Kids & Teachers" you will find lots of things like pop quizes, episode guides, and many other things. I liked doing the pop quiz even though I didn't get a lot of things right. One thing I didn't really like about the website was that many of the posts have many words and it's a bit long. Another thing that was great about the website was that there was a variety of things like the website had many photos, videos, and text. If you wanted to learn more about Bill Nye then also check out the "About Bill Nye" tab, you will learn lots of things you didn't know about him or things that you knew about him. If you are looking for a great science website then I would recommend Bill Nye's website.     

My Thesis

                                                      Dogs Are Great!

I think a good persuasive thesis statment on how dogs make good pets:

 Dogs Make Great Pets!

 Even though dogs take a lot of responsibility, dogs make great pets because they make really good friends and they teach you how to be more responsible.

Crunches Reflection

One of the tests we have in P.E. is the crunches test. This is a video of me doing crunches. I think I did a good job. One thing I would try to improve on is not going too high when I'm going up, because when you watch the video you can see me going too high when I'm going up. One thing I think I did good on was that my feet were on the ground the whole time. That was a video of me doing crunches and a reflection on how I do my crunches.

Book Trailer

Making the book trailer was fun even though it took a long time to make and that we had to edit the movie until we knew we didn't have any mistakes. On one of the last days my book trailer on IMovie had things deleted and whenever I tried to change something on it would do something to the rest of the movie. It was very frustrating, but in the end I fixed it. I think I did a great job.One thing I think I would change about it is not having so much text on one page. One thing I did good on was that I put a lot of photos to cover and white space. I think I did a good job.

EI or IQ??

If I could pick to have a high IQ or a high EI. I would pick to have a high EI because if you had a high IQ you would take everything really seriously because you would want to know everything, but if you had a high EI you wouldn't take everything so seriously you wouldn't care that much about a score on a test you would think about a friend or how you treated someone that day. Another reason why I would choose to have a high EI is because if I had a high IQ I wouldn't care about people's feelings I would just care about my scores and I wouldn't have any time for friends, but if I had a high EI I would care about my friends and their feelings. Another reason why I would choose a high EI is because friends are really important, and if you don't care about your friends you are not going to have any friends and then you are going to be really lonely. The last reason I think I would choose a high EI is because you would put your friends first before your scores, so you would always care about your friends and how they feel. Those are the reasons why I think I would choose to have a high EI instead of having a high IQ.

Joycelin and An Yu's Extremely Weird but Good Smoothie Reciepe

Hey smoothie lovers! Me and An Yu were having a playdate, and we wanted to make a smoothie. We looked around my kitchen and found some fruits that could make a good smoothie once it was all mixed toghether. So we decided to share the recipe with you guys! I hope you guys would read this, it's not that long, just 13 easy steps!

1. Prepare the blender
2. Take out milk," Macadamia Nuts" ice cream, one banana, seedless grapes, one slice of guava with no seeds, and it may sound weird, but take out some peanut butter.
3. Pour the milk into the blender, at least one full cup if you want to make a cup of the smoothie for yourself and a friend, but if you are doing it alone then you should put half a cup of milk.
4. Scoop at least 5 chunky scoops of "Macadamia Nuts" ice cream and put it into the blender.
5. Take a banana and break it in half, then you put it into the blender.
6. Grab a bunch of grapes ( at least 6) and a big slice of guava then dump both of those fruits into the blender.
7. Blend it for 5-10 seconds
8. WAIT STOP!!!
9. WE FORGOT THE PEANUT BUTTER!
10. Quickly stop the blender and place two scoops of peanut butter into the blender.
11. Start blending again. Blend until the smoothie is thick.
12. Pour it into a cup.
13. ENJOY!!!!! :)

The smoothie my look a little disgusting, but once you take the first sip, you would want take another! We hope you like the smoothie!

Flight or invisibility?

If I had the choice to have the ability to fly or to be invisible I would choose to be able to fly. One of the reasons why I would choose flight is because if you forget something somewhere or your late for something you can just fly to that place faster than a bus, taxi, or a car. Also when you're bored or you just want to go somewhere you can just fly to that place and if u want you can even visit your friends and family that live somewhere far. When you are flying in the sky you can see many things up there in the bird's eye view, you might even see things you have never seen before! Also when you're flying it would be so much fun to be in the sky you could see planes, birds, and other things. I would love to be both invisible and be able to fly but I would really love to fly, so those are the reasons why I would pick the ability to fly instead of being invisible.