Throughout my first year of high school I have learned more skills and have changed majorly from the beginning of the year. In the beginning of the year I was very nervous about making a blog but it has been going a lot better than I thought. I haven’t just changed in Cyber English but also in all of my classes. But, Cyber English would have to be one of the biggest changes the whole year.
What I have learned throughout my whole year in cyber English I have learned more about internet safety, hyperlinks, sentence fragments, food safety. And we also read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. But the book I liked better was Speak because it was about a girl in high school and I thought it was more relatable since To Kill A Mockingbird was based on the 1930’s which was a longer time ago. By doing all of those units have made me become a better writer and a better reader. How it made me a better writer is by having my own blog to write about all of those units. How I became a better reader is from reading the books for the class, independent reading novels, and other documents for each unit.
The thing that’s most surprising that changed about me throughout the whole year would have to be my writing because I was never really good at it. But, now I’m becoming a better writer and actually proofreading what I write before I submit it to my blog. By having a blog I have learned a lot more because it’s something that anyone can see and you can read other people’s blogs to see their point of view on something. Having a blog affects how I write because it doesn’t hurt my hands as much as writing with a pen on paper and you have more time to think about it and not just typing random things. Some skills that I have gained from this class are that I now know more about keys on the computer like secret controls such as: copy and pasting, how to make a blog and pretty much manage it, having a wiki page, and better proofreading of sentences.
Looking back to the beginning of the year I wouldn’t want to change anything that we learned this year. I really like how every unit was different and not all the same. I feel that if anything was the same then we really wouldn’t learn anything. One of my favorite things we learned this year was the food safety because it was nice to know what’s really in the food that I’m eating and helped me make better choices of what to eat.
In this year of Cyber English 9 it was one of the best English classes I ever had. Mainly because of the diversity of the things we learned about and that it will help us in the future. I think it’s very important to learn about the computer because soon or in the future it will be all we have and there won’t be many people still writing on pen and paper.
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In Cyber English we just finished reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this blog post we have created a newspaper called Maycomb Times that could be similar to what Heck Tate would have written for his small newspaper in Maycomb.
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In Cyber English I currently finished reading the book Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz. In this blog post I’m going to share with you what character I think changed the most and what caused them to change. I hope you enjoy.
The character I think changed most in the book would have to be the lead character named Schuyler. How she changed is in the beginning she only had a couple of friends and she didn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the people at her school. And I think that the author made her that kind of person because every high school has people like that. The way Schuyler changed is that she started talking to more people like Jack Force who was the most popular guy in her school. And she seemed to be known more by other people that never really recognized her before.
Jack is in this group called the committee and all the people in that group are vampires (also called blue bloods). Schuyler’s not the only one who is invited to the committee. Another girl named Bliss who also is a blue blood becomes friends with Schuyler even though Bliss is supposed to be friends with Mimi who is Jack Force’s popular twin sister. During the committee meetings Mrs. Dupont would tell them all they needed to know. “Mrs. Dupont explained everything, like how the marks on their arms were just their blood shining through their skin and how the canine familiars that followed us home were just part of their soul that had transferred to the physical world to protect them” (145) Since Schuyler was a young blue blood that means she was turning into a vampire. What forces caused her to change was that she found out what she really is which is not a regular person. The fellow blue bloods would let her know what was going on with her so she doesn’t get scared about it. I think that her changing kind of made her more into a confident and social person and not so shy. Now she would actually want to be around other people then instead of being with just her friends and not socializing.
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In the beginning of the year my technical skills really weren’t that good. Some things I didn’t know were like shortcuts on the keyboard, how to make hyperlinks, or how to make a blog or a wiki. Since I’ve been in Cyber English I have learned more about a computer and how it works. Also I learned more about how the internet works too. What’s different from the beginning of the year and now is that I know how to get to websites on the internet faster and how to post stuff on the internet. Some things that I learned how to put on the internet are, posting things to my blog and wiki, and how to make comments on other people’s blogs or wiki’s. What I still want to work on is how I write or type. Most of the things I type are all ideas that are unsupported. Lately I have been trying to fix that and I think it has been going very well. What I would like to accomplish on my blog next year or the year after would have to be having more of a variety. What I mean is that I do my blog posts on the same questions for most of my books that I read and blog about. In the future I would like to change that and have different topics on what I do for my blogs so my readers won’t get bored, and I would love to have more people come visit my blog.
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Currently in Cyber English I have just finished reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. One of the main themes in this novel is loneliness and in this blog post I’m going to share with you the character I think is the loneliest and why.
The character I think is the loneliest would have to be Arthur Radley or also known as “Boo”. I think he is the loneliest because he doesn’t come out of his house very often or really socialize with other people in town. But, in the end you figure out he is more courageous than you think. Sometimes when you hear the word lonely it means there not really social and quiet or really keep to themselves. That pretty much explains Arthur but yet, there is this part of him that actually cares. An example would be when Mr.Ewell tries to hurt Jem and Scout. Arthur helps them and brings Jem home before he got killed.
Another reason that shows Arthur is a lonely person is he doesn’t come outside until night time. Since he doesn’t socialize with other people in the town they make up rumors about him, which I’m sure he doesn’t even know those were going around. And his brother Nathan goes to town sometimes to get food and I think that Arthur would get lonely while he’s gone. Maybe he didn’t want to hide anymore and it kind of seemed like Scout and Jem were his friends. They were never mean to Arthur and Jem and Scout have tried to make him come out of his house during the day. Even the one night of the fire he came out to give scout a blanket, but they didn’t even see him. Arthur Radley is a lonely person because he doesn’t have a lot of people to communicate with. Without anyone around everyone would get very lonely.
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Currently in Cyber English9 I am reading the book Blue Bloodsby Melissa De La Cruz. In this blog post I’m sharing with you 3 journal entries that are from the lead characters Schuyler’s point of view if she were to write in a journal.
Dear Journal,
A lot of weird things have been going on! Like: When I went to the club with Oliver I swear I saw Jack Force get hit by a car. But after the car went by he was fine! He also talked to me when I thought he was hurt. It didn’t make any sense. And I think he was totally flirting with me. Oh and how could I forget that Oliver and I almost got caught with fake ID’s! We were freaking out. And then the next thing I notice is that were inside! We just stayed cool and confident. This nightclub that we went to I wasn’t totally into. But, Oliver wanted to go and we usually don’t go out that often. The place was usually for people that are models or actors/actresses or sons and daughters of famous people. And of course Mimi Force was their. Mimi is Jack’s twin sister and is the most gorgeous girl in the history of New York City. To me she’s not the nicest person to meet.
-Schuyler
Dear Journal,
Today is the day of Aggie Carondolet’s funeral you know that girl that’s friends with Mimi? Yeah, that same night when I thought Jack Force got hit by a car she some how died and all her blood was gone. I know that there are a lot of ways that can happen such as aneurysm, heart attack, and diabetic seizure. What kind of animal could suck out all of her blood? Most people at school said she died of an overdose but Jack told me she was murdered. I wonder what happened. Too bad she’s not here to follow around Mimi anymore. But at least we get to miss school for her funeral. Also, it was strangely odd when Dylan said he saw Aggie last Friday night when we went to the club. He said he “met somebody” and that he never saw Aggie again after midnight.
-Schuyler
Dear Journal,
Now I know how Aggie died. And now they may come after me or other people like me. I need to stay on guard at all times. And Jack has been talking to me a lot too. I think I kind of like him. Since I was invited into the committee I will get to see him a lot more. But since I went to that first committee meeting I now know why everything has happened. Things that have happened: Aggie died, a dog followed me home, the marks on my arms, and a hunger for meat. Mrs.Dupont is the leader of the committee and she explained everything at the meeting. About how I’m a blue blood like some of the other kids. But not all so we have to keep is a secret. Blue bloods are also known as vampires. I really don’t get why I was chosen but I guess it runs in the family.
-Schuyler
De, La Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods. New York: Hyperion, 2006. Print.
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It’s really important to me that we get to choose our own books for independent reading because then we get to enjoy the type of books that we like to read. Some genres of books I don’t really like to read and if we had to read those kinds of books I most likely wouldn’t enjoy it as much as I like reading the genres of books that I choose. By choosing my own books it has helped me appreciate reading more because then I know that I will want to keep reading more books like the ones I choose instead of not reading anymore because its not a book I wanted to read. For example in past years teachers have made me read certain books that I didn’t want to read and I never ended up reading it anyways. But as I’ve read more books throughout the years I have adventured onto reading more books of different genres that I usually wouldn’t read.
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I’m currently reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and in this blog post I’m going to share with you about how the character Jem is dynamic from learning what real courage is from Mrs.Dubose.
Jem learns about courage when he had to read to Mrs. Dubose since he wrecked her flowers. Mrs. Dubose is a very sick person and isn’t always nice all the time. So, his punishment was to read to her everyday for a month. And each day she would say something mean about Jem’s dad that Jem and Scout don’t appreciate but there’s nothing they can really do. In the end Jem ends up reading to her longer but a couple months’ later Mrs. Dubose passes away. What Jem didn’t realize was that she was very sick and that when he read to her it made her feel not so scared about what could happen any second. The night she passed away Jem really didn’t know what reading to her really meant to her or what it meant to him. Atticus says this: “She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe…son, I told you that if you hadn’t lost your head I’d have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her- I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I knew.” (112) Since Atticus said that Jem has changed into a different kind of character from the beginning and has had a lot more courage toward his actions.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. Print.
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What I have learned during my research is that T.V. commercials are a really big part in getting teenagers to eat more food that’s unhealthy for them. If they eat only fast food then they could possibly die, which isn’t a good thing. In some of my research I have read that Super Bowl commercials can be a big contribution to show teens that they should be eating that because a lot of people watch that. I think they should have commercials that don’t have fast food restaurants in them. It would send a better message to the younger viewers. Also, I learned that when teens see exercise commercials it really doesn’t appeal to them. Sometimes they don’t really want to exercise like the people in the commercial because most of them are paid actors and it seems like their just lying to make more money. I think that television stations should only put real exercise commercials on TV and not ones that could be suspected to be fake. In class we also watched a speaker that I really agree with named Jamie Oliver and he mainly talked about how schools can make kids more obese by not teaching the students what foods are the best for them and not really having the healthy foods out during lunch. I think that adults that have kids or are teachers should really be educating this generation more about food or the problem will just get worse. I truly think this unit has changed my point of view on things that I wasn’t really so sure about before. And I now know more facts about what I eat and where it comes from. The best thing about knowing that is so I can share my knowledge with my family and friends. I would really like to help create this world to be a better place.
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Power School is an online website that can show a student his or her grades for each class during the whole school year. Being able to log on to Power School is very important to me because I really like being able to see how well I’m doing in my classes instead of waiting till the end of the quarter. Also, my parents really like seeing how well I’m doing in school. They are very proud of me when I get good grades on tests and assignments. Power School also lets me know if anything is missing from a class that I need to make up. When I log on I can see if I’m getting any bad grades and then I can talk to that teacher to see what I can do to make the grade go up. By having access to my grades it helps me be a better student because then I know what classes I need to put more effort into and that I need to improve on the tests or assignments that are given. I think that Power School is a really good way to stay organized with all of your assignments and keeps you up to date on how well you did on everything that’s been going on in that class.
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