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Pet Peeves

 As we grow older we pay more attention of our surroundings. What type of people we hang around, how people react towards you, and how others treat you. This especially happens in school. Sadly, you also notice it in your teachers, and how they are teaching you.

  A teacher can either be a good teacher, an ok teacher, or a bad teacher. No I am not talking about nice or mean teachers. I am talking about how well a teacher teaches you. Have you ever heard about that one saying teenagers say in eitherTwitter, Instagram, Facebook or any other type of media about teachers? That one saying saying "If all your students are failing it's not the students fault but the teachers". For example I had teacher in tenth grade who couldn't teach well. She was very nice and very patient but wasn't good at teaching. We had to teach ourselves everything! Those who didn't teach themselves failed. 

  There is also those teachers who don't help you learn but rather just give you the answers. Yes it will helps us with our problem and will give us the points we need to get a good grade on our homework. But what happens afterwards? What are the consequences? We fail our test, because the teacher didn't take her time to teach us the material well and we can't ask her for help during the test. This affects not only the relationship with the student and that teacher but with future teachers as well. The student will not learn and will keep asking the wrong answer instead of asking the right ones. We ask what's the answer to this question? Instead of asking how do I get this answer for this problem? As a student, I will try my best and push myself to look for the solution of the problem by asking questions that will help me accomplish the problem. Yes it will take more time to get the answer but during the test it will seem like a piece of cake.

  Yes I may to be the best person to talk about the teaching since I have not been a actual teacher. But I do know the perspective of a student and I know what a teacher should act and teach like since I have had my number of teachers before. I can strongly assume that being a teacher must be a hard job to do. But I strongly believe that if a teacher is being paid to teach us the least they can do is make sure we are learning what is thought isntead of assuming.

  Teachers are gift. They should be appreciated. But apart from being appreciated they should also be taken serious in all matters. They should as well take their job seriously as well. Our future lies in their hands, literally. What they teach us we will use in the future, and one day be thankful because they took their time to teach us well. 

My Reading Life

  As a reader I have grown so much in these couple of months, a big factor was that I started to read more during my free time. The books I have read are The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Jesus Freaks, The Infinite Moment of Us, Jumping Off Swings, Trance, Eleanor & Park, and I am currently reading The Curios Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time. This is a huge leap in my reading life comparing it to last year when I only read one book on my behalf which was The Fault In Our Stars. During the process of reading these books I have learned that there is some books that may not be appealing to us, and that's ok. It doesn't necessarily mean that the book is bad but that you have grown as a reader and need a higher reading level. For example one of the seven books I have read this year, The Infinite Moment of Us, was way below my reading level. I could tell how the book was going to end before it ended, I was never shocked by anything, and I felt as if it was too cliche to a romance book. One book though that I found a bit more challenging was Trance. This book was not hard in word choice or reading level wise but it was challenging in the sense that you really had to keep up with was said before and bringing it to the new topic. It made me connect the dots to what was once said. The book that I loved and will love will forever be Eleanor & Park. It is a book like no other. Once I got into it I couldn't let go of the book. It has everything you could wish for in a romance book, even a not so happy ending, but that's all up to you and how you want the story to end. Never have I read a book like this one, although I could say that it has a slight similarity to The Fault in Our Stars I. The sense of having a plot like no other but yet it was beautifully put together. Thankfully I find the time to read these intriguing books at night when I'm off to sleep. It helps me relax and enjoy my peaceful time I have for myself. What I would like to do in my reading life would be reading more challenging books, make my brain work a little more, so that I as a reader grow. Hopefully my goal will be made true and I will read at a much higher reading level.

  Reading to me has opened new worlds! I find myself reading a book so that I may escape this horrible world and enter a new one to which is controlled and precise to what something wants to be done. Reading is not just a pleasure in life but almost a need to me. It helps me hope for a better tomorrow because if that person in the book finds a happy ending so can I, right? Everyday I read something into a mind of someone else and it always fascinates me on how that persons thinks and writes. They are a creator of a person if you think about it and have given a character life I which he has the power to makes us hate it or love it. I am thankfull to have this skill that some people may not have. Reading a book is and always will be a gift to me that I will cherish.

Awesome

  You're about to sleep. You've done your usual routine noncommittally. Brush your teeth, flit to your war and inviting room, have set up your bed and got your covers all laid out, and have jumped implishly down onto your bed. You're smile was as big and ceaseless as the sun and was conspicuous. You knew Hypnos, god of sleep, was going to give you a good nights rest. The ecxcrusiating day you had wrought you and has finally come to it's end. End the misery of that day. The scary night was a beautiful thought. It beckons you to another world like a witch. Infact you could even say you were tired as a person who worked on a entire field of cotton on a hot summers day. Daytime has finally passed away and night is born. No longer was the horrible day and beautiful night coexisting.

  As you were falling into your deep slumber you hear a noise. A noise who has become horribly sweet in your life. The noise that used to haunt you when you were young has now become your best friend. Splat! Tick! Droop! Rain. The enemy of yours who has now become your best friend. The sound that will lullaby you to sleep just like the voice of your mother once did. Rain. A song in its own to claim. Hearing the similiar melody outside of your window makes you feel secured in its arms. The rustling of leaves, the whispers of the wind, and the tiny knocks on your window makes the sheet around you and your bed somehow even more relaxing than ever before riddancing  the day of today. Rain. A friend that decided to come and visit you at the right time, at the right place. Life at that moment can not get any better that that. Hearing the rain as you fall asleep is awesome!

#Writemycommunity

  A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. It is who we live with and share experiences with. Communities come in different places and sizes. A big factor in my life that is a community is my school, Lewisville High School. This matters so much to me because it is what shapes me to be now and in the future.

  High school consists of different types of people all coming together to learn and try to better in your position in life. As I grow older and get smarter each year in high school I see that we all are trying to reach a goal, graduating. We are all trying are best to learn, live, and love during these difficult time in our life. High school, our community as teenagers, shapes us to who we will be in the future and even now. Teenagers make mistakes and the learn. Teenagers hold back on life but learn to live. Teenagers are learned to hate but soon love because they see that everyone wants is love. We grow all together to be better for tomorrow.

  Communities are people coming together to support and make up that community. High school is all about support. Support from your family, friends, and neighbors to overcome this difficult hardship that they have went through or are currently in. This important community revolves what is outside of its doors and what's in the inside shaping you for the ouside world and making you stronger. When I am alone and feel as if life is hard I have to think about the rest of the thousands of kids who are going through the same situation as I am, and the millions who have overcome this difficult time. In high school I learn that you don't have to go through situations alone. In fact there is always someone there that cares about you and just need you to speak out, because a community is made up of a group of people going through a particular characteristic in common. This means that your never alone.

  Yes high school is hard, and there will be some people in the community that may not like you so much. Sometimes all you ver want to do is get out of this complex community and wing it in life. But we need to see the bigger picture. The bigger picture is the world that one day we will have to participate, a bigger community. We are being thought in this small community to be ready for the big one. A big community will always have it's bullies and hardships but we need to over look those troubles to see the beauty in the community itself.

  A community shapes us to who we will be. A community will always somehow push us to a greater community who will makes us stronger. But a community will also give us another reason to better. This matters so much because every where we go there always seems to be a community whether it's a town, classroom , or simply a neighborhood. Communities are always there to lift someone up or give that person a purpose. High school, a place you would least likely call a community but in reality may be the biggest of them all.

  

My Blog

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    I was making my idea for my project I stopped and thought what is one thing that has always and will always affect me. That's when I thought about how much I feel oppressed by society. The way I live is not always who I truly am, and that is what will always be a huge part of my life. Deciding whether or not to live the way I want to live. As I was doing this I thought about my word choice. One of them was rainbow, meaning the colors that a rainbow holds, and to me that meant happiness and showing your true colors meaning your life. Another word that ties to rainbow is grey. Grey to me means dull and a mixture of white and black that has been combined. Neither black or white grey. A mixture of what they want you too be and what you want to be. These words were a key factor to my short story by adding emphasis on how you live your life and how others make you be who you "are".

    As I was thinking of my short story and how I was going to write it I thought about how others would read it. I thoroughly read over my short story so that the voice behind it could be heard. This was not easy, of course, but i managed to make at least 3 rough drafts. All of these drafts were examined with a careful eye. Every single time trying to improve myself once again. The feedback really helped too. It gave me a better understanding on how the readers read my story. Not only was it helpful it also made me be more open minded to comments and helped me be a better writer by being criticized.

    While I was in the process of making my video I thought about the images. I thought about how I can capture a word/s in a picture. It wasn't easy but that was what it made it fun. I really had to think about what I was saying. It made me think about what I really meant. I got a better understanding of what I was saying, what I wanted in life, and why I felt such a way.

    In the end this short story was good. I think I could have impress others a bit more by slowing down the pictures, and really let it sink in both the words and the pictures. Was I happy with my work? Yes but with the final setup of the video not so much. As I showed it to the fellow classmates of mine I wished I would have found a way to slower down the video. But if not for the speed of the video I think it was absolutely perfect.