Year overview

MS51 is an amazing middle school and 8th grade has probably been the best year yet. I've meet the most and the best friends in 8th grade and 7th grade. The Romeo and Juliet unit was pretty fun but the book language was a bit hard. The performance was over all good but the note taking while reading the book was tedious. Overall 8th grade and ms51 has been fun science wasn't boring ela was useful math was also mostly useful social studies was fun but the worksheets quickly becam tedious and mostly boring art was great spanish was good and gym was fun. Lots of people want to be popular but I learned that being popular really dosent matter at all and that all it carries with it is drama and being fake which I don't care for at all. Overall ms51 is an awesome school and I would strongly recommend it to anyone trying to chose a middle school!

poetry project

Theo Russell 812

I think I will dream tonight

I will feel the lush grass on my feet as I walk through paradise

I will feel the clean air touch my face as I walk through paradise

I will hear the humming birds as I sit in paradise

I will hear the wind whistle as I sit in paradise

And when I wake up

I will feel the cold unforgiving ground and I will hear the cruel voices of the people around me.

This is a poem that I wrote as a homework assignment, and Its about a depressed person dreaming about a better life.

I feel so lost without you

When I reach to my side to pat you I feel nothing

When I put my hands over my mouth to call you you don't come

When I pat the side of my bed you don't jump up besides me

When i'm crying and I need you you're not there for me

Where did you go?

This is a poem that I wrote in class, its based on a person whose dog is lost and it's kind of based on my life and how my dog died and the sadness i felt.

I hear gunfire in the background in the background

I hear my fellow soldiers crying in pain

I hear the enemy shouting ahead

I see blood soaked dirt

I see the ground littered with shells

I see explosions ahead

I feel pain all over my body

I feel my head pounding

I feel dread and sorrow and I think

“when will it all end?”

This is the poem I made for the poetry competition and it's about a soldier that was drafted into the war.

My body hurts I fell on ice

My toes are really frozen and are cold

My feet feel weird and funny like fast mice

If I pulled the ice I would make a mold

I think I may have broken my right calf

I feel so hopeless and I start crying

My body is full numb in my south half

I feel no pain my body is lying

I can feel my body slowly sinking

this is the end of the line I know it

I am going to die I am thinking

If I go to heaven I hope it's lit

So I guess I am just going to go

Oh well I hope that I will not die slow

In this sonnet it started out with me learning how to make a sonnet and writing the line "my body hurts I fell on ice" and then I just went from there.

Reading response on heart poem

America McKay feels like an instant classic, it talks about America in such a way that you can relate. I like the word choice and feeling of the poem America.

The word choice in the poem America has a great effect on it. Words like "bitter" and "vigor" really make the poem feel alive. Also they give a personality to America these words make America seem a bit harsh.

The feeling in America is portrayed in a great way. Lines such as "her vigor flows like tides into my body" make you feel like America is a person and is a very lively and intense person. These kind of lines create a persona for America.

In conclusion I like the poem America by Claude McKay because of its word choice and feeling. The word choice makes America in the poem seem a bit harsh and the feeling makes America seem like a lively and intense person and creates a persona for America.

Reading Respanse on Teen angst? Naaah...

Everyone is different some people a little and some people a lot. Teen Angst? Naaah.... by Ned Vizzini is an auto biography about a teen going to high school and growing up. Ned is very different compared to everyone else around him. He is an extremely hard worker and becomes obsessed with studying when he needs to pass something like the SHSAT to get into Stuyvesant high school.

Ned Vizzini is different because he studies much more than he needs to. When he is studying to the SHSAT he buys study books and makes a bunch of flash cards. In the book  his mom says, "you are not allowed to obsess over this test understand?" to which Ned responds "yeah" but in his head he is thinking "but it was too late i was already obsessed." This shows that he is obsessing over the test which is different then what other kids would do.

Another thing Ned does that is different is he forces himself to learn. In the book he makes a bunch of flash cards things like pi equations and things he needs to learn. In the book it says, "I taped the cards to the wall near my bed so they would be the last thing I saw before going to sleep." This shows that he is forcing himself to study every night and make the flash cards on his wall be what he is thinking about when he falls asleep.

Lastly Ned is different because instead of doing things like having fun at the beach he takes his study book with him on vacation when his family goes to lake George. In the book it says, "a flubery old women was reading on the book. The presence of me with a test book annoyed her. She glowered and said, "whaddaya studying for? This shows that even though Ned is at beach he would rather study than enjoy himself.

In conclusion this connects to kids in the world by showing that some kids will become obsessed and work really hard to pass a test which is different than what other kid would do, Ned just studied instead of enjoying himself and his summer. This should show the reader that a lot of kids are different when it comes to to things like studying.

synthesis page: is the story fair?

Critical question: Is this story fair why or why not
synthesis page: book is not fair

1. In the book the main character wade lives in a place called the stacks and his parents both died and his aunt and her abusive boyfriend take care of him now. They take away anything valuable from wade to pay for his rent. He took away his best laptop so that they could pay fr rent. This is unfair for wade because he loved his mom a lot and his aunt is mean to him and her boyfriend uses force to take wades stuff
2. In the oasis which is the mmo that wade and most of the world there are a group of people called the sixers who are trying to win James hallidays competition (the Creator of the oasis) so they can take over the oasis and when they do they will make everyone pay monthly to access the oasis. Also they will put advertising everywhere.
3. Also the sixers (what people call the IOI corporation) placed a bomb on the stack that wade lived on and they said if he didn't give them the location of the first key he would blow up the his stack. He thought that they were bluffing so he said no to them. Then the sixers blew up his stack which killed his aunt and every one that lived there. Wade really didn't deserve this and was unfair.
4. When wade was starting to fall in love with art3mis (how its spelled in the book) they go to a party. While they are at the party art3mis told wade that she would not talk to him again until someone won the competition which left wade heart broken which he really didn't deserve.