Category: Writing

Immigrant Project

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A couple weeks ago our teacher assigned us to interview an adult immigrant. I ended up interviewing my mom Ana because it was easier and more efficient. After I picked my interviewee I had to write questions, this was a pretty easy and quick thing for me because I am good at generating questions. But after I wrote my questions it got more difficult because I had to make sure my questions weren’t repeated so I would get the information I  needed to make a video.  After a few days, I used my questions to conduct an interview. The way I did my interview was that I recorded the interview on my mom’s phone and I got the questions onto my phone and I did ask the questions and she gave responses. I later used the video to write a narrative of my mom and her immigration journey. It was very hard for me to write the narrative and I ended up not finishing it and going straight to the script. The script was basically a plan for the video. I started making slides by just narrating all the slides then I went back and added pictures, and text, and edited everything. When I saw the final video I kind of liked it but when we watched someone else’s in tech class I ended up not liking mine. I had a crazy idea to start over and I tried I wrote a really different script and used a different approach and after I put everything together it turned out really good. In the end, it wasn’t such a crazy idea.

 

Something I learned from this huge immigrant experience was that no matter where you are you can always find a way to be happy even if it means you have to give up some things. This is very meaningful and it makes me very grateful that we had this project. I also learned a lot more about my mom and her life.

 

While doing this assignment something that surprised me was how much information I can learn from one interview. Another thing that surprised me was how clueless I was about my mom’s life and why we moved. Looking back at the immigrant journey we went on I finally realized why we moved and how important immigration is because being an immigrant because of part of your identity.

 

The most frustrating was when my first version didn’t turn out that good because I had to redo and it was really stressful because I didn’t think I would make it. But in the end, it turned out pretty good and was a good experience.

 

Overall I really enjoyed this experience and I think it was very memorable. Especially when I showed the final video to my mom and she started crying.

 

 

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The Journey Of Moving To America Writing and Reflection

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This is my reflection of my narrative. I used a couple strategies in my narrative but this one stood out. I like show not tell. This is when you take a simple word and extend it. This helped me take short simple words and turn them into sentences. It helped my process by giving me hope that I can write a long story. I still want to improve my writing in internal thinking. I think I can make it more detailed and expressive. Internal thinking also shows emotion and what you think. I think my story could have been more internal thinking. I am really proud of the way I put actions after my dialogue. I think it helped my story by showing what I was doing while I talked. It adds interest and details.

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This Was Our Pact By Ryan Andrews

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I am reading This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews. These are some thoughts about one of the characters Ben.

Ben is kind but wants to impress his friends. Even though he wants to be nice to Nathaniel but his friends will be mean to him. He is selfish and wants his own popularity so he drags Nathaniel down so he can rise high. On the other hand, he rescued Nathaniel from the women’s basement. I think this is important because it shows how Ben cares about Nathaniel even though he doesn’t always show that. To add on it also shows Nathaniel that Ben is a loyal person. Another why ben is loyal and true to his word is that he never backed out of the pact even though a lot of people left he didn’t. Even after a lot of dangerous and scary things happened he wanted to keep going. To conclude Ben wants to be nice to Nathaniel but needs to hide so other people will be nice to him but at the same time Ben is kind.

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This Was Our Pact By Ryan Andrews

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Nathaniel is very kind and welcoming for example when they ran into the bear Nathaniel treated him like an old friend this was very important to the bear because no one has talked to him and usually they just run away but Nathaniel didn’t. He is also brave and willing to take risks for other people. He took the risk of following the bear because he felt bad and took the risk of taking ben with him. To conclude Nathaniel wants others to be happy and he will do anything for that to happen.

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Soccer Game Epic Win

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We switched  goalies. Anne went in goal. I was middle midfielder.  Running each step with sweat sliding down my face. I was exhausted yelling for a pass. “Pass I’m open”. ” DO A BIG KICK TO ALEXA SHE’S ALSO OPEN”. Finally, my team mate passed the ball to me but the other team stole the ball from me. They almost got past us but we put the ball back near there goal. 

But sadly…The other team got past us and scored one goal  wa wa waaa. Then something else happened the coach called me out because everyone gets equal time playing. But at least he told me I did a good job. 

I sprinted to get my water and my umbrella then I sat on the bench. We have no back rest. From the bench I saw my team taking really hard high balls, I was really proud . I saw my them cheating balls and doing a lot of big kicks keeping the ball from going in our goal. 

Parents were yelling to their child. It was so loud. I took a sip of my water it was freezing cold. I shot a water spray gun that Alexa brought at my face. It felt so refreshing. The water was so cold. I was burning up like a hot potato. It was like I was about to faint. So I took another sip of my water bottle. It felt like I was going to get a sunburn. Finally, a little breeze went by. I was praying for rain. After a couple minutes past I found out that we won the game!  My Mom told me good job sweetie!

The End.

 

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What I Learned About Magnets?

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Today during Science I learned that different magnets work in different ways, for example, Magna Tiles stick together where ever you put them, because  there are tiny little magnets on the corner so then the magnets stick together.

I also learned that a couple of magnets can actually move some type of iron dust  in a frame. I really thought that it was AWESOME + AMAZING +EPIC all at the same time.  I had the best time experimenting  around with magnets, on my third station me and my partner Cindy played sardines with the magnets they were just regular magnets. I also learned that the Earth is a gigantic huge magnet. We had two more stations left. I had so much fun.

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