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5th Grade Wrap Up

I have been very LA-Atical!!!!

During this fifth grade year we read many books. I really like around three of them. These three are __**Maniac Magee**__, **__Ulysses__**, and **__Tuck Everlasting__**. I liked MM because I was interested in the two topics it was about. (bullying and segregation) Also because I could relate to the character, because he was around my age. Since I liked the person who wrote this book, Jerry Spinelli, I did my author study laurel about him. I liked Ulysses because it had great characters, adventure, and a good story in general. People have loved to read it for thousands of years, so I guess it's not surprising I didn't like it. __**Tuck Everlasting**__ was interesting and showed me knew views on several ideas. All of the books I just mentioned I really liked, those are books I might want to read again. In all of the books I read I really didn't like Island of the Blue Dolphins. It was boring to me. I just wasn't interested. By reading all of these books I feel like I made progress in sharing ideas. The skill I made most progress in was writing essays. I have gotten so much better at it since fourth grade. Overall I've had a great fifth grade, and I'm looking forward to getting even better next year.

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 * __In the Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson and The Rainbow People__**

Shirley group work- I think I did pretty well, but I should have participated more. Maybe I could try thinking more before the conversation about how I am going to talk, but overall I think I did well.

Essay and Blog- I think I did really well on my essay. I had lots of ideas and good detail. Although I should have put more work into my glog. Also I should have worked more on my commenting on the blog. I will focus on that in the future.

In class quizzes- I did well and answered all of the questions but I should've put more detail. Next time I will try to focus on having enough to say.

Leading discussions on the blog- I thought I did a great job, my questions started good conversation, but I could have added one more question to make the conversation better.

Writing introductions- My first two introductions were not very good, I think because I wasn't sure how to do it. Although as the project went along the introductions got better, until I thought they were really good.

New introduction- I think it was very good. I added good stories, and made good points.

This I believe
This is a review of the This I Believe assignment. I think my best work was my essay about what I believed in, my other essay wasn't that good. I feel I used good strategies and defended my belief well. In the I end it turned out better then I expected. Something that would make it better would be if I had touched on a couple of other topics. It felt a little bit empty to me at the end. I think my worst assignment was commenting on Edmodo. My comments were not very thoughtful or detailed even though I listened to a lot of pod casts. . I probably should have thought more about what I was writing before I posted. I see a lot of progress in my essays. They are better than some of my other writings.

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The third book we read this year in language arts is __Maniac Magee__
==== In Maniac Magee I think my best work was my web. I think my web was the best because I got the big idea and was able to defend my adjectives. To make it better I could have given more details, and provided more adjectives. My worst assignment was our class discussions, because I didn't pay great attention, or participate very much. To make it better I could have payed more attention. In our next book I will try to pay more attention and concentrate on what I'm doing. To improve my habits I won't sit next to people I'll talk with. Something I see progress in is my web making skills. I'm sorry I can't figure out how to make it readable. ====

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**The second book we read in Language Arts this year is Hatchet** I think my best work was my essay. I think so because I did a good job proving my thesis statement and providing details about differences and similarities.It would have been better if hadn't used the same word so many times though. I feel my worst assignment was cause and effects. I never fully understood. To make it better I could have payed more attention in class. To improve that in the next book I will make sure I pay attention when things are being described. To improve my habits I will make sure I sit next to people I usually don't talk to. My best work was this essay comparing Brian and Karana.



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I feel I did my best work on the web's we made. I really focused and did a good job, although I could have added a few more details. One of the things I think I did really well is finding a good place to read, infrincing, and participating in discussions. Also I really need to work on my blog posting. I only had a few good ones. Focusing is a problem for me it is one of the reasons I didn't do that well on the blog. As school move's on I need to make sure I don't procrastinate that much. I think I progressed in infrencing I was very bad at it last year but I got better. I'm going to make sure I fix some of my problems in the next book. =====