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Socratic Seminar is a debate-like conversation where students sit in a circle and discuss one topic. In my language arts class, we had two Socratic Seminars. Our first subject was based off of the book, The Watson's Go to Birmingham.We discussed the racial differences and whether or not the discrimination has gotten better or worse over the years. We also discussed what has changed to try to end racism. Our second topic was based off of the book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. During this seminar, we discussed all the things like labor and homeless that is mentioned in the book. I am proud of myself for being able to argue something that I think is right. I learned that rather than agreeing with what the other students say, I should still argue for what I think should be mentioned.

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My favorite thing that I read this year is "The Clique Series". I cannot pick my favorite book in this series. This series is very interesting because these books describe things that can happen in real life. I can relate to this book because the characters are my age. This series also teaches how to deal with bullying and mean people/cliques.

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This year in advanced ELA, I am most proud of learning how to present in front of a large group of people. I learned that I had to practice a presentation 17 times before I have really nailed it. Also, in this class, I have greatly improved in writing evidence-based writing/essays. I learned how to add context and how to make a great topic and conclusion sentence and paragraph.

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I wrote a business letter. I wrote this letter to a hotel in Las Vegas called Westin. I learned many things doing this assignment like how different a business letter is from a friendly letter.

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In this assignment, I was instructed to pick a song that sends a meaningful message.

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In this assignment, I worked with two other classmates to come together to think of a theme for the book A Monster Calls. As you can see, our theme was loss. The slide included a symbol, color, and image that represents our theme.

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In this obituary, the main goal was to come up with as many puns and some figurative languages to make this obituary. This obituary was written about ice cream.

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I wrote a 2 voice poem based on the book, A Long Walk to Water. The characters in this poem are Nya and Salva.