Second Quarter Reflection

    To be honest, this a great start to my year. I'm half way to finishing my 8th grade and I'm doing great. Well at the beginning of the year, I wasn't so good at vocabulary. But as the time passed by, I have made a major improvement of the course of 8th grade. I've study extra to accomplish my goal, I still need a little more work to getting to my goal, but I'm happy where I'm currently at.

     One thing I was able to acomplish that I'm proud of is writing a successful blog. A mouth ago I made a blog that I'm cerentaly proud of.  Before I would made blogs that I felt like something was missing, but I kept practicing and learning new strategies and was able to put them into use in my writing. If you want to check it out, it's called Gun Violence. 

 The most challenge thing for me was probably the Harlem Renaissance web quest. The only reason I think it was difficult because I missed one day. That one day was when the class was introduced into the web quest. When I return to the class the next day, I was completely lost. But after I was asking my classmates for help, I was able to start my web quest and complete the assignment.

I honestly think I'm doing great so far and hope it will continue to go like that for me until I finish my school cereer. I'm looking forward for a great school year. How about you?

Book Talk

   The current book that I'm reading in called "The Death Penalty: Opposing viewpoints"  This book talks about many interesting things people did back then and what people do. Which is the death penalty. It's a way of punishing those who have committed horrible crimes, such as murder. But why do they resort to this? Isn't there any other way?

Before I go any further about this book, I just want to inform you that it contains many sad and gross things from the book. As stated in the book, "The moral defense of the death penalty is the principle of justice. In the case of premeditated murder, capital punishment roughly proportionate to the harm that has been done to the murder victim." (Pg77) This quote explains what the the higher end of the justice system think. And in a way they think that the criminal who caused the murder should feel the same way the victim did. But I feel that's wrong. Because you are dealing with the same criminal that caused a horrible action. Think about it though, if you give them the death penalty, wouldn't that make you the murder? Because you are ending someone's life. You will realize that you will look just as bad as they do. This is a problem that happen national and international. The author writes the informative book to raise awareness of what enforcement do to people.