Themes in to Kill a Mocking Bird.

   One Major theme in To Kill a Mocking Bird is how racist some people are in Maycomb. The way the other reveals this theme is For Example, Atticus says in the book it is wrong to kill a mockingbird because all they do is sing beautiful songs and never harm anyone.What he means by that is you shouldn't kill a black person if they haven't done anything wrong. 

  Another Major theme is when Atticus tells Scout and Jem that we never really know a man until we stand in his shoes and walk around in them. What he means by that is you don't really know who somebody is till you meet them.

Test Prep Action Plan

My goal this year is to get a 3 or higher on both the ELA and Math test. On the ELA Test my plans to get a 3 or higher are to do all my work in class and ask Ms.Johns for help on things I need help on. I will also study I don't really like to study but I'm trying to achieve my goal so I must do what I need to do to get a 3 or higher on the ELA test.

To my Parents.

Dear Madre,

What I have accomplished so far in ELA so far in this year is learning how to make smart decisions while doing a multiple choice question test. Also, how to figure out what a word means by using context clues. We have been using the laptops in our ELA Class this helps me more
because typing is better then writing in my point of view.
My goal this year is to get a 3 or higher on the ELA test. Reading and writing is important in my life because I'm going to use in my everyday life.
Your Son, Algenis Ramos

Reading Journal #4

Title: Runaways
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Today I read runaways. It was very interesting a lot of things happened. The reason why I Say this is because The pride split up many parents died. Now the runaways that were left are now on there "own" now they are trying to be "superheroes".

Readers Response #4

Title : Runaways
Author : Brian K. Vaughan

So far in my book the runaways one of them is a Mole. Meaning that the mole will turn back on the group and get with The Pride. So The mole is Alex He attacked almost everybody and told Nico if she wanted to join Alex, And leaving everybody else behind. I just started the fourth book.
I predict that the rest of the Runaways will get strong and get Alex back for what he has done.

Mona Lisa Listening Passage: Q2

Question:
Explain why people today are still fascinated with the Mona Lisa. Use details from the article
to support your answer.

Answer:
The reason why people are still fascinated with Mona Lisa is because she's still a mystery no body know who she is. Also, because the painting is so old and people wonder how it's still around because the painting was drawn in 1503 and took Da Vinci about 3 years to finish.

Mona Lisa Listening Listening Passage: Q1

Question:
The article "Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa" offers several theories about who the real Mona
Lisa was. Based on information in the article, name one possible identity of Mona Lisa. Use
details from the article to support your answer.

Answer:
One possible identity of Mona Lisa can be that the portrait of Da Vinci's wife.
The reason why is because she was some one very special in hes life, And wanted to have something to remember her by. Or maybe because he taught he could of made a lot of money out of the portrait and he did.

Readers Response #3

Title: Run Aways
Author: Brian K. Vaughan

Today during Ms.Johns class we were independently reading for the 30 minutes. The book I read was Runaways. I got to finish the book and I like the way the book finished at the end because it left me wondering with what is going to happen in the next book, Kinda Anxious. I Also like the way the book finished because everybody in the city are mutants or apart of The Pride. The pride is a group with mutants and other weird things.
I predicted in the beginning of the second book that Alex "One of the main characters" was going to make a plan and save the "Club" The club is the children of the Mutants, Aliens, Time Travelers and much more. So that's what Alex did he took everybody to a Cave and there they hid because there parents framed them and told the police that they committed a crime which they did not do it was there parents. They killed a innocent girl.
The title of the book goes with the book because it actually makes sense, Since the children all are "Running Away" from the parents. So there for the title of the book is "Run Aways". I Think the author made this book the way it is and made people do the things they do because it makes people anxious for the next book since it's so interesting.

Election Reflection

This election is historic because Mr.President Barack Obama an African-American was elected has President of The United States of America. This election means a lot to me because we got rid of George. W Bush also because Obama made history. To the country it also means a lot because hes going to make a "Change" to the USA and that's what we need. Today I feel refreshed because we are starting all over with Barack Obama. I predict that Barack Obama will do good in the next 4 years and hopefully the next 8 if he gets elected again.
The issues I hope he takes care of first is the war in Iraq. The reason why is because there's a lot of soldiers dying in Iraq for no reason. We need to get out of there as soon as possible and finish Afghanistan and then get our soldiers ready in case Russia plans to attack us or does attack us. I Don't think he will have a lot of pressure on him because hes a good president and a lot of people are supporting him as president of the United States of America.

Ghost Story; The Sheriff

There was once a guy called Osafo Blue Luis. He was a sheriff in a town in Amarillo,Texas. He was successful in life. He was married and had triplets. They were boys and they were only 7 years old. He was a Captain in the Police Department. He also loved playing football. One day him and his friend went to a bar and drank and drank. They then decided to go to the border and cross it to get to Mexico which was a bad idea.
When they crossed the border illegally and in some strange way, They were seen by border patrol and chased for a while. Osafo decided to pick up a object that looked like a gun. It was really dark out side and windy. Osafo came up with the dumb idea and point it at the police patrol so the patrol shot him and killed him right on the spot. The rest of hes friends left and were never seen again. People say they died or got killed. Osafo's family were terrified. Osafos ghost haunts the border so any body that goes near the border gets hurt or killed just by hes ghost and spirit.

Readers Response #1

Title: Make Lemonade.
Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff

Today in class i read The book Make Lemonade. In class we all read for 30 minutes. During those 30 minutes i read about 35 page. The book is not boring but at the same time not interesting. Before I started reading the book I asked my self question's. One question that I asked my self was why did Verna Lavaughn become a babysitter Verna is one of the main characters in this book. Today while I read I found out the answer to my question. She became a babysitter because her mother didn't have enough money to pay for all her college tuition. She only could afford half of it. So Verna looked for a job as a babysitter for she can pay the rest of her tuition when she goes to college

RAFT This Land is your land.

How does the information in the box " A day in the life (of me!)" help the reader understand the article?

The information in the box in " A day in the life (of me!) helps the me understand the article because it explains what she's doing in her life mostly every day. For example, in the text it says that she Stretches from 1:30 till 2:00. Theres more things she does and its timed, its a schedule.
So, everyday she works and does things that the schedule says.

Readers Reponse 2

Make Lemonade
Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff

Today in class I read Make Lemonade. Ms.Johns told us to read for 25 minutes so we did. The book at the moment is very interesting. The reason why is because the main character LaVaughn. She wants to go to college so she talks to her mother about it constantly. Her mother says that she doesn't have money for that at the moment. Then later on she said that she had some money for the college. So LaVaughn's Mother made a bank account for her. In the mean while LaVaughn is babysitting and were she is babysitting she pretty much hates it. Theres cockroaches always on the walls and every were else. Also that theres a mess in the house and she can't even place a book any were to study. She is also very very more a school girl because she loves to go to school and she loves to study and do all her work. In the book i ask my self why is there like a different chapter after almost every 2 pages.
I Think that the author named this book Make Lemonade because LaVaughn has to squeeze her way through everything. Like babysitting and saving money for she can pay for her college. Also i think that LaVaughn is going to quit babysitting because she just can't hardly work there babysitting in house that is so dirty. But it's going to be difficult for her to find a new job if she quits because she has a lot of stuff on her. Because she has to worry about good grades, Save money, and always talk to her mom about college.

Readers Reponse 1

"A Chilled Called It"
Dave Pelzer

One day i read the book " A chilled called It" This Book is very Sad. I Say this book is sad because The boy "It" is really Dave Pelzer, But hes mom calls him by "It". Dave Gets Abused by hes mother and there was even one time when Dave's Mother made him eat hes little brothers feces. She treats him like her own personal slave. She makes him starve for days. She even sometimes made him sleep outside on a Cot. In the second book he ran away cause he got tired of not eating and tired of getting abused by hes mother. He then was in a found by a guy in a store. The guy questioned him and then called the police. When the police arrived they called hes mother. He then ended up back in to hell. Dave's mother made him wear the same clothes to school almost for a month. Dave would steal lunches from kids in school because he would always be hungry. A lot of kids made fun of him. A counselor in hes school noticed he had a lot of bruises on hes body. She talked to the other teachers about it and she knows that he gets abused and Dave was scared that they called hes mother because she didn't want any one to know about this. He ended up going to a foster care.