SoL 6

SoL 6: Horse Fair

*Fake name is going to be used for privacy reasons* 

   On Saturday, my some of my family and I are going to Wisconsin to go to the Midwest Horse Fair. The fair is going to be all day, so my aunt decided for us to go on Saturday, and on Sunday we will just wander around Wisconsin then come back to Chicago in the afternoon. The people who are going to go to the horse fair with me is my aunt, Auntie, my aunt and uncle, Tia Eli and Tio Bert (fake names), my cousin, Camila (fake name), Camila’s older sister, Margaret (fake name), and my other cousin, Mindy (fake name). Auntie decided to print out the page where it said all the events, so we can highlight what we want to see.

     What I decided to highlight was the “Quarter Pony Morgan Donkey”, I didn’t know what else to highlight, so I talked to by cousins about it. The reason Auntie got us tickets to the Midewesf Horse Fair was because she loves horses, and since we ride horses she thought it would be nice to invite us to go.

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SoL 5

SoL 5: Writing a Story

* Fake names will be used for privacy reasons*

  As I walked into my ELA classroom, I met up with my friend, Santiago (fake name), and started to start our story. The story we named was The Murder of my Brother. This story was based off of Wednesday, where someone threatened my brother. The story takes place in the present, the main character is sixteen years old, while her brother is twelve. The main character’s brother gets killed but no one knows who did. The story is going to be a thriller/horror and a mystery story. We are starting to plan out how we are going to structure our story, right now we have that it is going to be told in first person. The middle school the brother went to is going to be called Abraham Middle School. We didn’t know what to call the middle school, so we did what any other person does, we named it after someone famous. Our first choice was about Abraham Lincoln, we couldn’t call it Lincoln Middle School, since a building already has the name Lincoln in it. Being to lazy to find another name, we decided to call the middle school Abraham Middle School. We decided to have the brother as twelve, for he can be in middle school but also show that he was young.

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SoL 4

SoL 4: Yesterday...

* I put fake names because of privacy reasons *

*Italics used when talking about the story*

    When I put away my saxophone outside of the band room I walked downstairs to the gym. I looked out for the people I usually sit with, I see my cousin, Camila (fake name), talking to one of my friends, Santiago (fake name). I walk over to hear her talking about yesterday and the days leading up to it. She began on Monday, where at 3:22 pm Camila and I walked into the sibling pick up, my brother, Samuel (fake name), was looking upset. Samuel told us that someone’s sister took away his tiger ticket, claiming it was hers. When Samuel got the tiger ticket back, the girl hit herself to make herself cry, then she went up to her older sister saying that Samuel took her ticket. The girl’s older sister grabbed the ticket out of Samuel’s hand forcefully. Camila took a deep breath and looked over and me to see if she missed anything, I shook my head. She then looked over to Santiago to see his reaction, Santiago was confused, “Why would she do that just for a tiger ticket,” He blurted out looking worried. 

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SoL 3

SoL 4: IAR Testing

    Today was the first day of IAR Testing, ELA Unit 1. Luckily it was only eleven questions. As my excel teacher was passing out our student’s testing ticket. Using the words “student’s testing ticket” made it sound like we’re going to a train to test, all aboard IAR testing! All aboard! IAR testing is leaving the station! My excel teacher finally passed out everyone’s tickets, and we were ready to start the test. When I was on the second question of the test, my excel teacher gave out mints. I never really liked eating the mints, it was just too minty for me. Which meant I never ate them, which my brother enjoys a lot. My excel teacher told us that when writing the essay part of IAR testing to first write it in scratch paper, which took most of the IAR testing time. Finally, I finished the ELA IAR testing, showed it to my excel teacher, and started reading. When I got to page 92, my excel teacher informed my class that Berwyn is having some plumbing issues.

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SoL 2

SoL 2: Writing

    When I finally finished my homework I wanted to make a story, the only thing was that I didn’t know what to write about. So, I went to the internet, I searched up “writing prompts” trying to find one that will inspire me to write something. After looking at love prompts, thriller/horror prompts, and even fantasty prompts, I saw one that I wanted to write about. The writing prompt focused on death. It was an interesting prompt, but it wasn’t what I wanted. The prompt went, “I didn’t know what to do, I just knew it needed to stop. Grave after grave after grave. I got tired of burying my friends.” I liked how the prompt was set, so I decided to make my own spin on it. The main character would accidentally kill their friends every night and right after their ‘funeral’ he will go back one day to relive the death. The thing is, the death will be different each time, from a different kind of death or a different friend that they would kill, they would have to live through all of that. 

    After finding the prompt I wanted to use, I’ll bring out my journal and begin writing. First, I wrote prompt, then I started writing the story.

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SoL 1

SoL 1: Reading

     The thing I struggle with the most while I’m reading is finding the perfect place to sit. The problem is, is that I’ll decide to read but not find a comfortable place to read. After hours of wondering around my house, I’ll decide to sit on the couch. As I’m also finished with the book I’m reading, I decide the spot on the couch wasn’t comfortable anymore, so I stand up and look around for a few minutes deciding where to sit. Finally, I get tired of looking so I sit on the living room table.

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Blackfish review

      Blackfish is a movie about trainers being murdered at SeaWorld, this movie is bias towards orcas should be in the wild not at an aquarium. The main orca shown in Blackfish is Tilikum, a orca who killed three trainers.

    The movie did show clips of the trainers being hurt or killed by orcas, which at times was hard to watch. Blackfish also showed different accidents from other aquariums like the SeaLand incident and the Lorca Parque incidents.

   The SeaLand incident was when Tilikum killed Keltie Byrne, who was a 21 year old competitive swimmer who was working at SeaLand as a part time job. Keltie slipped and fell into the pool where Tilikum, Haida II, and Nootka IV was.

   The Lorca Parque incident was when SeaWorld sent Lorca Parque a few orcas, the Lorca Parque trainers were unexperience but they continued to run their show. One afternoon, one of orcas (who had Tilikum’s DNA) attacked Alexis Martínez.

   Another thing Blackfish talked about is that SeaWorld kept Tilikum because of his genes, they used Tilikum for producing babies.