Book Club

      Book club is very interesting because you get to talk about the book you are reading with the group. Also you get to work with people. I think it's fun to work with people instead of working by yourself when you're reading. You can ask questions to your group if you don't understand a part and they can answer it for you. Or there's a word you don't know you can ask the group. We talk about the book and sometimes agree on each other. You get to talk about the meaning in the story. Overall I just think being in a book club is more fun then just reading a book by yourself. Get together and read with each other. How do you feel about book clubs?

Smile

.    The book I read is called Smile. There was a girl name Raina. Raina was hanging out with her friends and one of her friends mom dropped her off at her house. Her friends wanted to race her to her house. They started to run and Raina fell to the floor. Face flat on the floor. She knocked out her two front teeth. The next day she went to the dentist. Her dentist gave her two fake front teeth. She had those teeth for about a year. Then the other year she got braces. She had those braces for another year. After that, her two front teeth are permanently on.

Poem

Man Proposes, God Disposes 
Miroslav Kosek, Hanus Lowy 

I.
Who was helpless back in Prague,
And who was rich before,
He's a poor soul here in Terezin,
His body's bruised and sore.

II.
Who was toughened up before,
He'll survive these days.
But who was used to servants,
Will sink into his grave.

I'm feeling sad about this. It's sad that this person needs to go through this. Even other thousand or millions of people need to go through this. It's really unfair. No one should be treated horribly. Everyone wants to have a happy life. The people that were in the holocaust, they wanted to be set free and have a happy life.

Elementary to middle school

      Far back in 1st grade, I didn't know anything honestly. Every time a teacher points at a number and tells me to say it, I couldn't. I had a friend and her name was Karina. She was the only friend I had in first grade. She was really nice and funnny. Going ahead in 3rd grade, I knew how to say all the numbers. I knew my time tables and got all the answers right on the test which I think it was called "quick time". We only had a minute to do the test and I got all of them right. Moving on, 5th grade was kinda a great year. We went on field trips like to navy pier. That was when me and Samra started to talk to each other a lot. We knew each other since 1st grade but we really never talked to each other until 5th grade. I always hung out with her in indoor recess. When we entered 6th grade, Samra and I were very close friends. We couldn't separate from each other, we always have to be together. In 6th grade I was kinda improving in many subjects like for example math. 7th grade was the year of actual improvement for 8th grade. I did my best in 7th grade. I put my effort into it. 8th grade has came and I took two big tests to show if I improved or not. The test results came and said I improved a lot. I changed into regular classes. Now I'm with bigger classes for ELA. I am proud of myself for trying, trying, and trying. At once I wanted to give up. I told myself no and continued on to the journey.