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Feature Article Reflection

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Ideas, Details, Drafts, Intros, Text Features, Color Changes, Final product. You heard me right, you have to do all of this to make a feature article! At first I thought this would be a week or two but I had no clue how much determination it would take. Now it’s finally worth it.
The first lesson we all had to come up with a few topics, and see if you had enough information. I knew I wanted to do Disney World because I just came back from a surprise trip. But I realized it was too broad and I didn’t have enough information on everything so I loosened it up to just a few that were my favorite, truly my favorites were Magic Kingdom and Universal but Universal wasn’t a part of Disney World so I faced a new problem. Which one would I choose? I thought it over and chose Universal more specifically Harry Potter Land (My Favorite.) I thought why is Harry Potter World so good and right away I just thought because it’s better than all the other places. Well it didn’t come that fast you needed to make sure you could defend that I made sure I could and I was ready.
The most enjoyable thing for me is the last few steps before I’m done. I love seeing all my hard work fall into place after spending a lot of time on it. The last few steps include looking at it in slide show mode, making the text boxes transparent, and adding a color scheme if you choose to (I did.) One of the most challenging parts for me was starting a new body paragraph. This probably isn’t one of the most common things to say but some of the paragraphs I couldn’t dig as deep as I needed to, but when I did I found elaborating much easier.
I used a bunch of interesting techniques when making my feature article. Simply to make it more interesting. First, I added a glossary for some confused readers. For me, this is a must. Then, I added photos that simply give you a reference of what I’m talking about. The other thing was adding a signature color. For me I choose light blue. I add bars to the top and bottom of all of the pages in that blue. Next I made my subheadings, Glossary, And fun fact boxes blue. I felt like this was just a great touch to my feature article and recommended it to anyone else who is planning to make one or is currently making one.
I’m most proud of the certain paragraphs that I found challenging and really took time into the thought process of proper punctuation and choosing the best place for a sentence to go. When I look over it now, even though it was hard for me at the start it looks and seems the most thorough.
To conclude, making my very own feature article has been the best! Some parts were hard but many were really fun! The question is would you ever make a feature article, if so what would it be about?

Read my feature article

Expert Book: Women’s College Basketball

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I came up with “ Women College Basketball” because I was going to do one all about basketball. Then I decided to do it just with a few popular teams. It took me a few days to come up with Women’s College Basketball! I was watching a Stanford game against another college I do not remember. I think they won 99 to 84! I was expired! Then I did some of the other colleges I knew Pen state, Stanford,  Harvard, USB and Northwestern. In the end I decided to choose Stanford, Harvard and Penn State! I couldn’t wait to start jotting my ideas about each school.

I had to brainstorm the table of contents, chapters, slides, links, paragraphs, pictures and much more! It took me around three to two months doing everything! 

A few things were difficult for me. The thing that was the hardest for me was spelling everything correctly! I went over the whole entire book like 10 times! I tried to make it look really good and that meant the spelling should be correct. Another thing was hard was that I had two glossaries and I did the same pictures for both pages so then you can go back to the page you were on after you learned the word. But the pictures had to be at the same spot. That really made me struggle. The last thing that was difficult for me was editing, making everything look good. It was really hard for me!

I needed the most help with glossary linking in my glossary, adding pictures in my glossary and it really just made me struggle.

My favorite part of writing my expert book was just typing. I found it fun just to type what I’ve been working on for months. It was just fun to be putting down on the piece of paper. I like to type and I just like to just let things that I worked on for a long time go on a piece of paper with all my corrections. That was so fun for me!

During the process of writing my expert book. I fingered out that I was a pretty fast typer and liked to put pictures everywhere and add a lot of links. It was a fun, long and exciting process to talk about something that I liked a lot and knew a lot about. It was fun to be adding better and newer stuff to things that I know about. It was really fun.

I learned that I am pretty fast at typing and putting enough words and picture space and much more stuff I tried to fit everything. 

I felt amazing about my final project. I loved everything in my books the words, the pictures, the jokes, the links. I felt really good about everything. I felt really proud too. I tried my hardest and it felt really good about every part of the process. It was really fun. Everything that I did in my book I enjoyed. I hoped you liked my book.

This is my expert book.


Thank you for reading!

Personal Narrative Reflection

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I think I use really good punctuation. Like when my grandma said “CHARLOTTE come here so we can pay for your ice cream,” or “I can’t wait, we’re only at scoop shop,” we took a sharp turn right with my hands swaying in the air.In every sentence I ether used periods, question marks, exclamation mark and much more.

Probably the hardest thing for me was editing. I liked my story just how it was. But I tried to edit the ending and I think I made it better. 

 

There’s No Bad Gummy

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I can’t wait, we’re almost at Scoop Shop!”

We took a sharp turn right with my hands swaying in the air. I pushed open the car door as the car said, “You arrived at your destination.”

I looked left to right with a smile on my face. As we walked across the street my Grandpa said, 

“What are you going to get?’’

“Cookies and cream ice cream,” I said. 

 With a big push on the door I ran to get cookies and cream ice cream before anybody else did.

‘’YES!’’ I said with a big push on the lever. SWISH in a flash it was filled to the top.

Then I went to the toppings table. I took a big scoop of gummy bears while licking my lips.

 ‘’CHARLOTTE!’’ my grandma called, “Come over so we can pay for your Ice cream.” I hurried over.

“Thanks again for paying for my ice cream,”  I said with my eyes shimmering.

“My pleasure sweety,” my grandma said and handed me my ice cream.

 I took a big bite, “YUM!”  So I took another bite. This is heaven I thought. So I took another bite. “EWWWW!” I screamed. I was shocked I didn’t like it! So I decided to investigate. Red,blue  and…

“EWWWW!” I spit out the gummy. While sticking out my tongue. It was an icky, gooey ORANGE GUMMY!

I’m never going to have any gummy bear ever again, I thought. But the next day at my kitchen table,”I can’t believe I was actually going to give up on you, only the orange ones,” I muttered. I grabbed a big handful of gummy bears poking around to see if they were any orange gummy bears. I took a deep breath in and threw a pile of gummy bears into my mouth.

 

“Uhhhh so good “ and licked my lips.