3rd Quarter Reflection

In what areas did I improve the most? I feel like the area I mostly improved on was my blogging. After the butterfly project, I feel like I did an huge improvement. My committing and things like have become better also. I use better vocabulary often.

One thing I did that I'm proud of accomplishing is getting all my vocab right and and getting 2 wrong on the roots and prefixes. I'm getting better and better on my vocab week after week. I hoping that by next quarter, I'll be able to get all correct answers on my test.

I think the most challenging part for me this week quarter is me finding evidence for my counter argument. I can't find it. But I will persevere and continue to look for my counter argument. Once I find that, it will be a breeze for me to finish my argumentative piece.

Life is Beautiful blog.

For starters, the father - son relationship is brought into the movie. Like in the book Night. Another thing that is similar is how the father and son traveled in the indecent conditions you can ever imagine. Some differences are that the book tells they were in the ghetto. While the movie the father and son were caught. By The gestapo invading their house.

Another similarity is the fact that both sons of the movie lost their father to the camp. But the difference is that Elie lost his father because he became tired and to weak to continue to survive. He eventually came to stop and laid on the ground, to rest. While in the movie Life is Beautiful, the father died from protecting his son. Also he died because he try reuniting with his wife. But couldn't do it. He was caught, and shot.


Between the book and the movie, there point of view is completely different. In Night, the point of view is from the child, Elie. It's really bias to his opinions, thoughts, and experience in the holocaust. While in the movie Life is Beautiful, the point of view is a combination of 1st & 2nd point of views. In the first half, it's the father’s point of view. However, towards the middle, the father focuses on the child. In the movie they use humorous effects to interact with the audience. Also to use them as a hook, to get them to focus into the characters more. It’s also serious, but it has some bits of humor in the movie. While in the book Night, it's a very formal and serious tone throughout the book.


In the movie, there are many ways of showing how life is beautiful, one of them is falling in love. The movie really demonstrates that in the beginning, Guido chased after the love of his life constantly and was trying to impress her in many interesting and humorous ways. Another thing that showed how life is beautiful was family. Guido protected his child at any cost. He invented a game to prevent him from finding out the terrible truth. He also thought him to hide and blend in with the others. He also tried to connect with his wife and reunite them together with their child in the end.

"NIght"

How do Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust change him as a person? Elie was a survivor of the Holocaust, so he changed in many ways, from the beginning of his terrible experience till the end.

His transformation affects his faith. Elie was very pious. He seek for further assistance so he can use the best of his abilities to stay pious. He even seek a mentor for help to study the Cabbala. But he would pray often. For example,  according to the book, “ Why do you pray? he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 2). This shows he is confused from the question he asked. That's why he seek for further assistance. Which shows that he is very pious. However, since he is being in a concentration camp, his faith in God has faded dramatically. He begins to questions God and his faith. For example, according to the book, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never” (Wiesel 32). This shows how his faith fades, and how he begins to doubt God.

Another conversion is his humanity. After being in the consecration camp, his personality has changed significantly. What do I mean? Well since he was very pious He was always kind and considerate. Even at the beginning of the terrible experience, he shares with his father with the little he has. But then he sometimes turns on him and let's all his anger on him. But sometimes there things that Elie doesn't understand. For example, according to the book, “I had watched the whole scene without moving. I kept quite. In fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. What is more, any anger I felt at that moment wa directed, not against the Kapo, but against my father. I was angry with him, for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (Wiesel 52). This shows how his relationship with his father change. Although it’s not his relationship with others, it's his patience also.

These are just a few ways his experience of the Holocaust change him as a person, like his faith and his humanity.

 

Wiesel, Elie . Night . N.p.: n.p., 1956. Print

"The Closed Town"

"The Closed Town"

Everything leans, like tottering, hunched old women.

Every eye shines with fixed waiting
And for the word "When?"

Here there are few soldiers.
Only the shot-down birds tell of war.

You believe every bit of news you hear.

The buildings now are fuller,
Body smelling close to body,
And the Garrets scream with light for long, long hours.

This evening I walked along the street of death.
On one wagon, they were taking the dead away.

Why so many marches have been drummed here?

Why so many soldiers?

Then
A week after the end,
Everything will be empty here.
In the middle of the street will stand
An empty, dirty
Hearse.


                                                                                                  Anonymous



I committed on my: Gabe, Christian , Jaclyn, Dylan, and Nathaly.

Berlin Memorial

What did I learned? I learned that Hitler had a very strange but affected strategie to help him concur his territories. They were very affected towards Jews.

Why do you think this momentum was built? This monument was build to remind those who tried to ignore the horrible laws hitler had made. Also it was there to make a law stand out in a way so Jews could realize Hitler was in power.

What did you notice about the number of laws passed in certain years. The number of laws that were created were huge during his time of power. It started huge then little by little, he added more laws. Which was meant to be for torture.

Which restrictions do you think you would have the most trouble dealing with and why. I would not be able to deal with anything without music to be honest. That's the only thing I can't not live  without. I listen to music every single day. I listen to music when I'm bored, upset, or happy or etc… The laws that prevent d that were passed between 1938 - 1939. That's one of the restrictions I can't deal without.

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.