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Audience: Middle School Students
Kendall- Gymnastics
Have you ever wanted to know how to do certain tricks in gymnastics? Flips, handstands, splits, and handsprings? They make me feel like I can fly. Let me tell you about some skills that make you feel like you can fly and more!
According to the Webster dictionary the meaning of the word skills is to be capable of doing something that takes training, experience, or practice. In order to have these skills you need to have confidence and to work hard. You can do this by practicing gymnastics at home or in a gymnasium. You can do gymnastics anywhere SAFE!!!!!! You can do it at home, outside in a open field, and a gymnasium, etc. Just remember to be in a SAFE environment and place. For example you do not want to do gymnastics in a small area with glass vases and furniture. This will cause your parents to get mad cause they spent all this money and you broke it !!!! Also the glass will break and it will cut you.
You need special gear for gymnastics like leotard, wristband, no shoes, and hair tied up.
You need a leotard so you can actually be comfortable and not rip your pants or clothes. Leotard are used because they have this special latex so it makes the leotard stretch. But if you do not have a leotard then get some gym shorts that are not tight and a short sleeve shirt.
If you are worried or wondering if you can do gymnastics well to answer your question, you can! Anyone can do gymnastics just remember to have confidence and work hard. Gymnastics specialist recommend that kids under 5 years old should have adult supervision.
You can start gymnastics at 3years old but can start earlier. According to Jensen and Media you can start as early as 2 years old.
Dear Arne Duncan and John B King,
ReplyDeleteHere are the reasons I don’t like PARCC test.
1. I don’t like the PARCC test because it is purposefully tricky. The questions have too many parts. I have to answer part A to answer part B. The questions are also tricky and try to get me to choose the wrong answer.
2. The test takes up my learning time. For the PARCC we have 2 hours to do it. I could be reading or doing ttm or ixl. We waste time practicing, too.
3. The test doesn’t show how smart I am. The PARCC just asks us questions from the stories. Also, all you have to do is read the passage and then write a paragraph about it.
4. I would rather use the NWEA test because it takes into account what we learned. It also takes less time than PARCC. I think it does a better job of showing how smart I am.
Sincerely,
Marcos Rios
Juvenile Prison?
ReplyDeleteWritten by: Sabre Alexander
As you know, lots of young people are sent to juvenile prison. Due to Drug Abuse Violations, Robbery, Burglary, having unlicensed weapons, Motor Vehicle Theft, Vandalism and even Aggravated Assault. The percentage of young African American youth in juvenile prison is 79%. The percentage of Latin youth in juvenile prison is over 18%. The percentage of Caucasian youth is 9%. When I saw the percentages of all races I was very disappointed. More so upset at African Americans because I don't think that it is acceptable for black young men and women to be in juvenile prison.
Me personally I don't think that it’s needed for all. Some do need to be disciplined. I mean everyone needs to be disciplined. But for adults to put young people in juvenile prison is very doubting. Meaning they lock teenagers behind bars and ruin their livelihood or like mess up their opportunity to get a chance to do something or be someone in this mysterious world. You could have a different opinion about my statement. But putting young people behind bars is not the best idea. It can start creating criminals. Young prisoners can start to make friends and or create gangs and start thinking of plans to kill people or steal from others.
Dear Kendall,
ReplyDeleteIt has been great getting to know you. I cannot believe time has gone by so fast. It has been almost a year since we have been working together and I have seen you grow so much! I am very proud of you and all of your work.
Not only did we learn skills and strategies for reading and writing but also from one another. I hope you have enjoyed working together as much as I have enjoyed working with you. I hope you have developed a stronger liking for writing and different ways to express yourself. I also hope that you learned new skills and strategies when facing challenging texts!
Thank you for teaching me about diamante and acrostic poems. I can now try them with my students! Your love for gymnastics has made me want to learn more about it and try some of your skills from your informational text!
I hope you take our lessons into your future academic years. I know you will do great because you are a bright and eager person. I wish you nothing but the best!
Sincerely,
Analí Guzmán
Dear Logan,
ReplyDeleteI can’t believe how quickly this year has gone by! It seems like only yesterday that we were first meeting in the clinic, and now we’re writing our final pieces together.
I hope that our time together has been as enjoyable for you as it has been for me. I have really enjoyed learning more about you through reading and writing. I love learning more about different topics that interested us in the fall. My favorite lesson was about child inventors. I remember you said you wanted to be an inventor. I hope you follow that dream!
I really enjoyed writing more with you. I know it was not your favorite, but look how far you came! Everyone loved the poems we wrote together, and you were able to write a whole essay, with research. You did such a great job pushing yourself.
I hope that you have learned new skills that are helping you in school, and that you have gained knowledge that has shown you that learning can be fun. If you are given the option, always choose to read and write about topics that excite you.
Good luck with the rest of your school year! I know you will be great!
Sincerely,
Sam
Wicker Park: Past, Present and Future
ReplyDeleteDNAInfo dubbed it the “hottest neighborhood in Chicago.” Others have turned their noses up at it for being too “hipster,” while still others wonder how to feel about the recent gentrification. Wicker Park has a rich history, which has resulted in many changes over time and shaped it into the neighborhood it is today.
Wicker Park has a long history. According to the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce website, this bustling neighborhood was established in 1837. The website also reveals the first people to settle in the area: Norwegian and German immigrants. These groups may have been the first to inhabit Wicker Park, but many other people followed. The Chicago Encyclopedia states that the population of Wicker Park was mostly wealthy until the 1930s. It was home to famous people, most notably the writer Nelson Algren. The neighborhood underwent drastic changes after the wealthy began to leave.
Slowly, the neighborhood shifted from wealthy to working class, according to the Chicago Encyclopedia. Then, after the housing crisis of World War II, the neighborhood changed even more dramatically. As wealthy homeowners began to move out, their mansions were converted into multi-family homes. By the 1960s and 70s, the same Encyclopedia describes the population as, “mostly poor and working-class Hispanic families.” In the few decades since its creation, Wicker Park had changed dramatically.
What happened in Wicker Park is a common phenomenon known as white flight. Bruce Norris described this phenomenon in his 2009 play, Clybourne Park. In the play, a black family plans to move into a predominantly white neighborhood. The character Karl Linder (borrowed from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun) warns the current residents, “It happens one house at a time. One family will leave, and then another” (Norris 37). Linder’s prediction turns out to be right, as the play later reveals, and this essentially what happened in Wicker Park, as families slowly left and the population shifted. The changes in Wicker Park were far from over, however.
What happened next is another common phenomenon known as gentrification. Much like white flight, gentrification occurs all over Chicago, and much like white, it is a highly controversial and polarizing topic. Essentially, gentrification is the opposite of white flight, as middle class individuals, usually young professionals, begin to move into historically low-income neighborhoods. This is what began to happen to Wicker Park.
Jeff Huebner describes “The Panic in Wicker Park” in his 1994 article for the Chicago Reader. This is when the process began. Hueber sought to identify, “what’s causing the anti-gentrification backlash?” According to the article, in 1979 developer Wes Andrews made the bold decision to buy the so-called Coyote Building on the corner of North, Damen, and Milwaukee, for only $110,000. Many people thought he was insane and maybe a little bit irresponsible, given that the street was occupied by “dopers, whores, muggers, junkies, firebugs, gangbangers, and debris” at the time (Huebner). However, Andrews had a vision, and was soon buying properties all around the area, including an abandoned market that was converted into a strip mall. As the population began to change, new residents began to gain interest and move in…and these residents were generally wealthy. Custodian Roberto Lopez, who had worked in the neighborhood for years, stated, “People with more money are coming in, displacing local vendors, and people with less capital are going down.” Through this quote, Huebner the distrust and disdain forming between long standing residents and new residents.
logan huffWhen we got there I saw a big ship I was so ready. I was excited and happy ☺ .We took a plane.
ReplyDeleteI was ready to swim but we had to wait for are bags.
We went To Mexico.
We ate food. In the morning, there was a line, but it wasn’t too long. Anything you could want for breakfast was there. Beans, cereal, fruit, milk, oatmeal, anything! Eggs, sausage, Italian sausage. After breakfast I would pretty much just go swim. The pool was big but it was saltwater. I would sit in the hot tub.
Wait for my friends.
And we would play on the ship. That was the best trip I’ve ever been on because it was the first trip in twelve years.