TAY'S Life experience

My Life Experience

My life experience from school helped me a lot outside of school because I read more at home and I sometimes talk to my mom about how I connect to the book. My life experience will always be with me because when i'm an adult I will have to look back at everything I learned from when I was in middle school and high school to make me an better person when i'm older. My life experience is also something I will cherish because it's how I've grown from an young adult into an adult. Also my 8th grade year is where I expanded a lot i'm more proud of my 8h grade year because that's where myself and all my teachers saw potential and that's what kept me going. I didn't do so well in the 1st and 2nd marking period I did ok I passed but my teachers and myself knew I could do better and that's what I did in the third and fourth marking period and i'm very proud of myself when they sent home our re-port cards I though they got it mixed up with someone else's that's ow much my re-port card improved and i'm happy to leave this school knowing I graduated doing my best.

Don't know where I would be without school and my teachers!!!

5 things I didn't do in september but I will always do now

5 things I didn't didn't do in September but I will always do now

1. I didn't ask as many questions.
I know to do this now because if I didn't raise my hand and ask my question I would be stuck thinking someone else was going to ask that question and they didn't. So i know to do a lot of that in high school now.
2. I didn't always raise my hand.
I never raised my hand in the middle of the school year but i do a lot of it now why??because if I didn't raise my hand the teachers would always call on me so I know to do a lot of that in high school.
3. Never put in a lot of hard work.
I can admit i'm lazy and that's not good because then I only do a half job on it and it only gets a half a grade on it to so that's another I need to work on in high school.
4. Participate in school events.
I never participated in school events because I just didn't like doing them but I started to because you should always want to participate in school events.
5. Thank my teachers.
why?? because without them coming to school everyday where would any of us be today.

Was It Worth Coming

WAS IT WORTH COMING???

Was it worth coming here trying to seek a better life style and not having the chance for an education having to work all hours of the day and only making up to 10-20 cents a day. Being evicted from your home because you can't afford to pay your rent every week living in 1 bedroom apartments with 10-20 people in a family house hold. Or having to send your children alone to America to work and to send money back to their family so they can have a chance to come to America or being sent to America because of PUSH and PULL FACTORS. push factors are when you are being sent to America to work off some of your families debt so they can go to America also. Pull Factors is when you hear about the good life in America and how it's the GOLDEN LAND. Then going there and knowing what you was told is a lie and having to work much harder before you came to America thinking it was the GOLDEN LAND. Having these beautiful dreams for you and your family and knowing they will never come true. I can relate to that last statement a lot because lots of people was always promising me things and I never got them or I never heard from that person again. I guess I didn't learn my lesson because I whined falling back into the same set of lies I've learned that i'm better off disappointing myself and lieing to myself if I wanted to be lie to so much. SO I ASK AGAIN WAS IT WORTH IT FOR ANYBODY them and i never get it or get to do it and that hurts a lot when you trust a person. That's what happened to those people who believed that America was the GOLDEN LAND and it really wasn't.
NEVER BELIEVE WHAT ANYBODY TELLS YOU DO THINGS FOR YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Writing mind Of TAY

In 5th grade I always loved to write. That was just something I was always good at so whenever my teachers would say we are doing writing work shop I would be the first person with my notebook in front of my desk. Sometimes it would look like I was the only excited one in the room I never got why that was. But I think the kids in my class came around to see that writing could be fun.
Then when I was in 6th grade it just wasn't the same as when I was in 5th grade. It felt like it always became an everyday thing and the paragraphs had to be longer and we had to write about one thing and then had to move on to something else. Then that's when I told myself that it gets harder because i'm becoming a better writer then when I was in 5th grade.
So that's when I started to do more in my writing so that it can challenge me so I wasn't the one still writing 1 or 2 paragraphs I was writing 2 and 3 page essays and reports. So i'm proud to say that today in 8th grade in the year 2009 my writing is great because my writing in 8th grade is different because when I go into high school i'm not going to get the same help that i've got since I was in 6th grade it's going to be all on me and making sure that it gets done on time
For example one way that my writing had grown since 8th grade is when my class did that Great Depression and how people came here seeking a better life style. And some of the struggles they faced when they came here in order to get where they wanted to be in life. Also how this was on the SS TEST and I had to take everything I learned about the Great Depression and use it to help me on the SS TEST.
When it's all said and done I plan to take everything I learned from here and take it with me into high school and everything I learn from high school I will take that with me into college and become the world's greatest writer of all time.

THE WRITING EXPRIENCE

Way back in the beginning of September I wasn't really interested in writing. I mean come on writing was not always fun.I use to be like I hate writing I would rather read that write any day.But truth is I love writing now it got so much easier for me.Writing was and still is a big thing for me.i didn't know how much my writing got better until I looked at my last writing in November and looked at the writing im doing now.My writing got way better because my humanities teacher taught me when to use capitals,fix my grammar and use transition words when its needed.You see im a big writer when I want to be I can write for days now.I improved a lot when the ELA test came around.Thats when I had to get use to the strategies.What really caught my eye was how every essay I wrote I planned it out before I began writing.Thats what really kept me organized and focused on what is needed in my writing.Now i see myself as an improved writer.Even though I'm not an experienced writer,writing is a part of my everyday life.

The Reading Mind Of TAY

Throughout the years of 6th&7th grade I hated reading I always made up an excuse so i wouldn't have to read.Then in the middle of the school year of 7th grade my humanities teacher recommended a book to the class called "BORN BLUE". It was 1 of the best books of my life I just couldn't put it down I guess the reason why I didn't like reading was because I didn't know how to pick out a good book. Now back to the important topic at hand this book BORN BLUE is About is little girl named Janie who was mistreated by her mother and was placed in all of these foster homes. So the only thing that kept her going was music Janie loved to sing so she did and ran away from her foster home she got involved in the wrong crowd and started doing things that she never done before and wounded up pregnant and found her mother a couple a years later and to also learn that her mother is dying of aids.
This book is very sensative and deep I also know a girl who is 17 and has a baby and a mother dying of cancer. My reading today in 8th grade is good im able to pick out a good book that catches my eye and deals with social and teen issue.
People ask me why don't I read other genre books and I try to read them but I don't connect to them as much as I do the social and teen issue books. I just enjoy reading those kinds of books because lots of the struggles in the books that I read I know people in the outside world that can relate to the problem.
I plan to take all of the things that i've learned from 6th grade until now into high school with me and to learn more things from high school and take that with me into college. I also plan to become a better person and start reading other genre books.

THE READING MIND OF QUE!!!

In the hot summer of 2008 I was really happy school was out:-) .until 8th grade came..........:-( I hated reading it seemed so slow and boring.until my book club teacher saw some thing no body including me didn't see.it was one of the best ways to find the books I like and the genre.

She saw I read more urban books faster and longer to the regular school books.I read street urban books faster because they interest me just like video games interest young boys today.I hate reading those fake boring books we have in our classes.it was really strange to me how in 8th grade I went from reading one book in a whole month,then reading to about 3 urban books through a whole month and they was not any short books.I mean these books was about 3oo and something pages long.thats amazing compared to these little books I was use to in 7th and 6th grade.
To me urban books show teenagers like myself the hard way of the everyday life and sometimes the good.books in the school library don't always have these books.back to the important part the difference between my reading is I even read on my free time. Im not saying I read every time I have free time but its a fun thing to do.in 8th grade I realized I can say that reading can be one of my hobbies.

Its one book that really connected me to the characters life. This book is the people vs cashmere .this book caught my attention because one of my friends life relate to it.its like my friends life biography .I say this because in the book cashmeres family looked like th perfect family until the secrets started coming out.then her whole world started crashing down.and the same stuff happened to my friend .but both of their life's turned out to be tremendously good for them.

im glad my reading exprience got better and my reading level got higher.entering 8th grade I didn't really no what I was getting myself into I thought in the end of the year I would have never got to 25.Now im reading my 43nd book and im glad to say I can read ova 30 books in a year and now