Bamboo grove final post

1. I loved the end of this book. I thought it was really good because in the end Yoko, Ko and Hideyo all met and so now Yoko and Ko can go places because they have a male guardian now. I am so happy that they finally met because Yoko was starting to get really depressed because they had no money. Now they have Hideyo.

I feel really bad for Hideyo because he needs to find out that his mother died. I would hate to finally come home and see your sisters for the first time in months and the first thing you find out is that your mother died.

Now that they have Hideyo back they can get more food because now Hideyo can work to. I think the Kawashima family's life is slowly getting better. When they first started this trip they we starving and had no idea how to take care of themselves.

Now they know how to get food and water. In the book on page 151 Yoko suggests that they get food out of the garbage and Ko responds by saying " I wont let you do that anymore" in other words Ko thinks that now that they have somewhere to live they can by there own food so they don't have to eat in the trash anymore.

Yoko is getting better at taking care of herself. She is willing to eat in the trash so she doesn't have to spend mothers money

2. The Kawashima family was originally from Aomori japan, where the Cherry blossoms grow. The family even though they lived in Korea they still had there Japanese customs. When they where in Japan they both bought beach other special presets for new years day. Ko bought Yoko rice cakes and Yoko bought Ko Green tea fish and miso soup. Even though they were in Korea they still where every Japanese.

The mother brought the family's sword because it had been in the Kawashima family for years and she didn't want to forget it at there house.

3. I respect Ko the most because she is the one the whole time who is taking her none of them would have survived. Ko was the one getting the food the whole time. She was the one who got everything ready for food, who found out where they would sleep what they would do. If Ko had died so would they have because Ko is the best she is the one who took care of them the whole time. Even though she is young Ko is mature for her age.

Probably second i would have put mother no offence to Yoko but all she did was whine the WHOLE TIME!! i understand why Ko was always mad a her. Because she was the one doing everything and Yoko was just complaining about how bad everything was when she was trying to make it better. I respect Ko!!!.

4. In this book i learned about the Korean war. Basically all the Japanese people who where living in Korea where now treated as trash because the Japanese had lost the war so in the book the Koreans where happy. In the book the Koreans where raping Japaneses girls because they we celebrating there new fond freedom.

I admit that i would be happy that i got my freedom after 50 or so years but i wouldn't go around raping little girls for fun!!. I mean who would do that?

5. Always be thankful for what you have because you don't know when it could be taken away. i used that because in the beginning Yoko wouldn't eat carrot because she didn't like them and in the middle 0f the book when she was starving she would have been happy to eat those carrots.

Always be nice to your sister/brother because no matter what they say they still love you. This one is because all through the book Yoko is always describing how she hated her older sister because she is always being mean and in the end Yoko finds out she did that because she loves her.
All in all I loved this book and hope i can read it again

OP # 4

1. i think Mr. Naido helped her because they are the only 2 people who the girls are mean to in the class. They bath understand each other and are both the same in a way. Yoko when she first met Mr. Naido was really nice to him and she helped him bye making him not studder. So they became friends. And Mr. Naido helped her bye selling cans and bottles and giving her school supply's.

2. yoko thinks that Ko is a mean sister because she stays home after school on new years and so yoko is really mad and she goes to go sell some little doll things and sees ko shining shoes for money for a treat on new years. Yoko goes out and buys fish and miso soup she also buys a tea pot and green tea for Ko. When co comes home she gives yoko rice cakes and yoko gives her green tea after all Yoko knows that Ko is really a great sister.

3 How has yoko changed during the book?

well in the beginning she is a pampered girl who chooses what she wants to eat like in the first chapter she dosen't want to eat carrots and in the middle of the book shes starving and wishes she had the carrots she changes from a week pampered girl to a tough smart girl who knows how to take care of herself.

OP # 3 bamboo grove

1. so what because they start seeing girls getting raped all the time and they are starting to get worried about Ko because she is a girl and you can tell well... because she has "a chest" so they had to bind her chest so you couldn't tell they had to go to the bathroom like guys AKA standing up so after all of that they decided to go to Pusan because from there they can take a boat to Japan where they can go see there family so thats why.

2. i would have because they really had no chose they had to go otherwise they probably would have been killed or raped so they as a family decided to leave for the family's safety yes i know its horrible to leave Hideo behind but they really had no choice.

3. why do you think the Korean Communist army killed there own soldiers?
i mean whats the point of killing someone on your side it dosen't accomplish anything i think he did it because he wanted to show the other soldiers that he "was in charade"

OP #2 bamboo grove

1. well so far i the book Hideo has shown that he is really strong because all through the book he has taken charge of himself and his family imagine coming home and finding all your stuff trashed and your family gone i mean you would have to be really tough to live throught that and also he has waled for a long time and had to throught dead bodies of his people of a clif i would never be able to do that but he did.

2. i would bring my dog first because i lovoe her so much and i would be soo sad if i left her behing. secong i would bring my traveling clothes because when we were waling or what ever we would to i would use them to keep me dry. Third i would bring my expensife toys lie my ipod and my computer hard drive i would only bring thease if i had space. i would bring water and food for me and my cats and dogs i would also bring a mess it maches and a rope so i would do the same thing the kawashima family did.


3. i thin the moast upseting thing so far in this book is when they were on the train that whole part really made me sad with the mom killed herself because the baby died and all the people throun of the train i would hate to see that be done this boo is sad!!

OP #1 bamboo Grove

1. so far in the book Yoko has shown that she is a strong minded person she knows how to take care of herself but she is still just a little girl so she cant do much. She doesn't like being bossed around by her sister Ko as you can see in the book on page 46 how shes describing what horrible sister Ko is and then Ko comes and brings her across the bride and she feels bad about that. But still she doesn't like being bossed. I cant imagine having to be a kid back then it must have been so hard.


2. Yoko admires and loves her older sister. The only thing she doesn't like about her is that she is so bossy in the book she announces several times that she doesn't like how bossy Ko in and on page 46 she has a small tantrum about how bossy'' honorable sister is'' so all in all Yoko loves her sister but doesn't love how she's bossy.


3. what they did on the train was incredible they risked their lives trying to save these poor woman it was so sad how that one woman found out her baby was dead and killed herself bye jumping of the train that really made me cry and also Yoko shared her blanket with the woman who had just given birth which was a great stand for Yoko Shes so cool!

writing responce

Words:

Nape: bottom or edge of something

Dwindling: Getting Smaller

Picturesque: picture like not real looking

Desolation: destroyed sad depressed

Shambled: walked slowly scuffling feet

Reading responce

Name: Ashlen DATE: November 14

TITLE: Twilight TIME: 2 HOURS

AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer

PAGES: 67-157

TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 218

RESPONSE:
OK so Edward Decided he wanted to drive Bella to the nearest town because He heard she was going anyway and wanted to talk to her and bring her and so Bella was really nervous because she liked Edward and so she was nervous. So she was at school and Edward sat with her at lunch and talked to her which was weird cause he only ever sad with his family so theirs proof he loves her!! ok so after that she went down to the local Indian reservation and saw a old friend which is the son of her dad Charlie's best friend and so they talked for a while then she tried to flirt with him and got him to tell her scary stories about their ancestors and about how they thought the Cullen's (Edwards family) were vampires and so she went with him to the nearest town which was called port Angeles and they had dinner and talked and she said he thought he was a vampire and she said he was after a long time of trying to convince him so yeah and thats were i got YAY i cant wait what will happen what do u guys think?

sad

And for all of you who know who this is Robert Jordan Died :'( waa
(hes a writer)

Reading responce

OK so i finished Eclipse so now im reading New moon By Stephanie Meyer seriously she is the best writer ever and i have read ALOT of books so in my book write now
Bella the main character just got to her home town which is forks (i don't exactly know where Forks is but.......) Well she went their to live with her Dad Charlie who is divorced from her Mom Renee. So when She gets to town she metes this boy whose name is Edward She can tel their is some secret about him and she really wants to find out what it is so eventually she talks him into telling her and thats were i got............

Words

Verbose: Being able to talk easily


Stipulation: a gift of some sort


Adjoining: together


Prattled: talk


Meek: shy

reading responce

The book that i am reading is Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer IT IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!

Reading Responce

Ashlen Sepulveda November 1, 2007

Reading response 6:16pm

Stephanie Meyer 50

50

Response:

Question: If you could change anything that the author did what would it be?

I would change Bella falling in love with Jacob. Firstly because I think it just messed things up with Bella and Edward. For all you many people who have read the whole Twilight series I think you would agree, first because I think that Bella (the main character) Should have been with Edward(her sole mate) and not with Jacob(her best friend) I truly cant believe that the author made Bella fall in love with Jacob, I mean Bella was Made for Edward!!! I cant even imagine them apart! Well I love that book and hope all of you will read it! And for you twilight lovers Stephanie Meyer is making 2 more book, Midnight sun which is in Edwards point of view and Breaking Dawn which is another in the Bella series!!! YAY you can read the first chapter of midnight sun of Stephanie Meyer’s site.

Family history project reflection

Name: Ashlen Sepulveda

Project Reflection

Project Title: Family History project (FHP)

Class: C Date: October, 18 2007

PURPOSE

The purpose of this project was to learn about our family and their history. In this project we had to interview a family member who was alive in a historical event. I interviewed my great aunt Hinda who is 87 years old. She was alive as a child during the great depression. She lived in Wisconsin at the time, we had to write a paper about the subject we were doing and so i wrote my paper about the great depression because thats the subject i interviewed my aunt about. Then we had to write up our interview we had with out subject in my case my Aunt. After that we had to write a small piece of literature, I wrote two, one about my and my family's eyes and the other about my hair. Both i put in my album winch had all the other pieces of literature. In total we learned how to work independently and much more.

WHAT I LEARNED

In this Project, I learned how to work as a historan, i learnde how to work independently and how to take care of my own worck so that i didint have to make my mom skedual everything. Now i cand worck by myslef and do everythig independently i have leaned how profetional writers worck. With the hard due dates i have had to keep up with everything eventualy making it so i am responsible for my own worck.

REFLECTION

I Loved this project because i loved learning about my family history. My brother did this project two years ago and ever since sixth grade i have been looking forward to doing this project. I am always trying to get stories out of my family members so this was a great excuse to have them tell me some. I LOVED this project and wouldn't change anything about it. I think all the due dates gave enough time to work but not to goof of. It was a great project and i hope the sixth grades will have a chance to do it next year.

ARTIFACTS

In our project we had:

Historical Narrative: a paper on the subject we chose to do( 3-4) pages long

Interview: an interview with the subject of our choosing

Personal Narrative: A piece of literature about anything we like

Artifact(s): Notes, papers, pictures anything that had to do with your period in history

Family tree(optional): a drawing of picture of your family tree

Final wave post

1. I think that means never let yourself be ruled by other people you should stick with your own

decisions and not go with others, That you should be true to yourself.

I Can apply that to life for example, if someone asks you to join a club were only people who have joined can come in and you exclude all other people that means that the message is telling you not to join, not to exclude other people for race, religion,sex(male or female) or looks. Don't be mean to people with diferent color skin because they are the same as you they just have a different colored skin because their ancestors come from a different place. WE ARE ALL HUMAN!! no matter were we come from what we look like or anything like that we are all equals and the same.

2. Robert at the start of this book was a unpopular nerd no one liked him because in their eyes we was weird ''un cool'' and stupid. From the second the wave started Robert almost became a different person instead of slumping in his chair during class he excelled sat up strait answered all the questions, was equals for one with everyone else and was the new class hero. He sat with the cool kids at lunch now and was vehement about the wave, firstly because it changed his life and second because it finally made him stand out, it made him ''cool'' and special. He would hurt anyone who was against the wave because he didn't want it to be taken away, which it was sadly in the end.

I think now that w=the wave has ended Robert will still be popular because now the kids have seen his best side, they have seen how cool and nice Robert can bee. They seen how he can stick with something till the end and can also be really good friend.

3.The wave was against everyone that apposed it . In the wave Ben Ross was the dictator h was then one giving the orders on what to do. The wave members where his army they followed out his orders on what to do without any questions because they knew that it would be for the wave . My example is How Adolf Hitler murdered all the Jewish people because of their race. He sent them to concentration camps were you would their bury the dead or die in the gassing chambers they killed thousands of Jewish people by the time it was actually stopped.

I have gone to the museum of tolerance it is one of the saddest places i have ever gone because it shows how brutally murderer the Jews were how they would dig giant hole and pile in the dead i read a paper about a girl who was put into a gassing chamber. A gassing chamber is a big room where they would put 100D's of people and send out poisonous gasses into the air so you would breathe them and suffer a pain full horrible death . i hope nothing like this ever happens again in history

4. Avoiding Mob Mentality: A Practical Guide by A Middle school Student, for Other Middle School Students.

One way you can avoid mob mentality is by not joining any clubs,groups or gangs, one you join something you can get caught up in something horrible but at the time not even notice what your doing. Don't try to fit in by doing stupid hurt full things to yourself and other people. mob mentality is when you get in a group or mob to do something and you all have the same idea together and you'll do anything to make it happen. And i mean anything take for example the Holocaust, the German where subjected under a dictator(Adolf Hitler) they all thought that the Jews were bad , dumb stupid, they thought that the German people were a superior race that they were better , in the end they ended up wiping out almost all the Jews.

In the end i really liked the wave i thought it was a really good book adn i would probably recomend it for the 6th graders to read when they come to 7th grade.

The wave

2.''poor Robert, Ben thought. The only one who had anything to lose in this whole thing. he walked over and put an arm around the trembling student'' i REALLY feel for Robert i mean gheeze he could have told them a little nicer i man ahhg it makes me so mad Robert became all popular and cool and everyone liked him he became one of the cool kids in school and then he just lost it all i hope that Robert stays popular then it would have been good.

3. what do you think is going to happen to Robert after this?

The Wave OP#4

1. I think that he likes the wave and is to preoccupied to notice that its getting out of hand hes allowing kids to be his body guard ands not doing anything about the kids that are getting beat up because they don't join the wave. what happened to everyones an equal?

2. ''maybe we should give ourselves a name,'' Alex said. '' if they're the Wave, we could be The Ripple'' I chose this scentance because i thought it was funny its really describing how idiotic and stupid these people think the wave is to them lets all hope the wave people don't beat them up.

3. What do you think Laurie and her friends are going to do to stop the wave?

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The wave op #3

1. First because the kids are starting to chant the waves motto in class even when Mr.ross dosen't tell them to and they are all starting to talk about it and incorporate it into their daily lives like in the football team.

2. '' Our salute! he ordered. Around the room students jumped to attention beside their desks and gave the wave salute. Strength through Discipline, strength through Community , strength through Action!!'' I chose this small paragraph because I thought it really showed how dedicated all the students were to the wave.

3. What do you think Laurie is going to do about the wave science she dosen't like it?

The wave

1. Because the student is Mr.Rosse's history class have felt the feeling of unity that discipline brings and like it they can see how it is is changing all the student and want to change themselves one of the ways the people have started using th wave out of school is in the football team they are tired of loosing and have seen the wave in action and want to bring in in to their football team so that they can win.

2. "wow that was weird mad it was like a rush, Brian gasped with uncharacteristic enthusiasm"
I chose this passage because it is describing how happy and exited the kids where when they finally learned some discipline.

3. why do you think that Mr.Rosse's wife docent like his experiment?

Keep up the good work!

Daniel did 6 comments over all on all of our blogs (including 2 on Johns)

Erica did one on mine and 2 on Daniel's

Derek did 1 on Erica's and one on Daniel's

John did one on mine one on Erica and one on Daniel's

And i did one on Daniel's and one on Erica's

The Wave

1. The Wave experiment happened in a high school history class in Paulo Alto CA in 1969. It is based on a true story of what a school teacher did.

2. First of all they used film projectors with celluloid film instead of video cassettes or DVDs like we use now. Also, everyone was smoking and its very rare for people so smoke now in California. Furthermore, the only person who had a computer in his home built it from a kit because he want to become a computer engineer when he goes to collage. finally In school they used typewriters instead of laptops like we use now.

3. The school used bells to tell when the end of each period was. Almost all the children smoked. homework was optional and not at all important!! The y had a cafeteria in the school that served hot dogs on plastic trays and finally they where allowed to sleep and do whatever they wanted in class. Man they had it easy!!! but how did they ever expect to become anyone important or do anything or value?!!?

Post's

Well good job everyone (In my group) all of you have done your post's really nicely you've all done everything except for john but i think he's sick or something? i dunno well keep up the great work team!!

PS:email me if u have any prob's or questions
~Ashlen

The Great Depression

Go to this site!if to want info about the great depression Click here

reading group

Our reading group chose to do question 1.

Betty Ann

1."Why don't you girls like Betty Ann? she likes you..."
I chose that sentence because It showed how worried and sad the mother was for her daughter who had no friends and who everyone made fun of. This was not a happy story but to me that was by far the saddest part because it can, and dose happen to people and that makes is real.

2."Have you eaten any maple sugar candy or watermelon kiddo?"
At that point i think i would have told my friend to stop being mean and stood up for Betty Ann because I know thats the right thing to do in that circumstance. I think that if she has and became Friends with Betty Ann she would have probably changed her life.
PS:( maple sugar candy is awesome)

3.I think it means... don't be so insensitive to one person that you don't notice the pain you're causing them and hurt them to the point were it will affect their lives mentally and physically.

7th grade

1. "Frenchie oh wewe gee in September" I chose this sentence because it really made me laugh. I thought it was funny the way the author wrote the boy trying to speak French. It was so far off from real French that it made no sense. But at the same way it was funny.
2. I could relate to the part when Victor thought his friend was acting really weird when he was making weird faces because my friends act weird all the time. but its fine with me

TEST

1. "She would have passed from sweet easy sleep to the dark heavy sleep of death, nothing between"
I chose this sentence because it really made me understand the sadness he was feeling for killing this little girl. The way the author wrote it it was sad and depressing at the same time even thought he didn't actually kill her, or so we think. It makes you really wonder about if it was a dream or true fact that he killed the little girl by the way that he is feeling.

2. I don't think the test was fair because no driver has the right away to pull out in from of him while he is passing in the first place which caused the accident. I think they should just do a normal test and he shouldn't have been sent to jail because they TOLD him that it was just a dream, so that he believed he didn't actually kill her, therefore he shouldn't have felt sad.

3. I think the ending was accurate because no one knows for sure that anything is fact at all. I really think is was a good ending for the story because it made you want to read more to find out what happens next in the story or book and thats what authors are trying to accomplish when they write a book.

planet earth

Today in class we watched the series Planet Earth. The biome we learned about was the tropical grass land biome. We learned a lot about grass in general. Grass covers 1/4 of the land in the world and can grow all over the world from extremely hot to extremely cold places like the arctic tundra. Snow geese fly the entire length of north America just to get to the arctic tundra for the summer, they nest and lay their eggs, and eat the grass. Their nemesis, the arctic foxes, eat the geese but summer there is very short, so soon they have to leave with their babies and go back home. Another place that is the complete opposite of the arctic tundra is the plains of Africa, and even there where there is barely any water, grass can grow. This grass supports the whole food chain of Africa and gives food to all the animals. After we finished watching the program about the grass lands we started to watch the one about tropical rain forests. Just so you all know, for vacation I went to the Amazon to the exact place where they filmed the Planet Earth series on the Amazon, and it was awesome because I saw it all in person!

Twighlight

The main character Bella Swan arrives in a new town where she thought she would be an outcast at the school she is going to. After the shock of how easily she fit in, she soon realizes who the real out-casts are. The Cullen family who sit in the corner of the cafeteria room. They captured Bella's attention, especially one of them. Edward Cullen. He saves Bella from a near death experience. But when Bella looks further into the Cullen family history she discovers a cold deadly secret about who they are. As Bella and Edward get closer and closer there is a deadly barrier between them both that they have to find a way to overcome.