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Ohio high-schooler Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station. Upon entering, she hears a male voice calling for help. She finds a wounded man, who points a gun at her, but they each put their weapons down. His other hand is under his jacket and as he takes it out, she sees a glint of metal and kills him. He was holding a Christian cross and the screen cuts to black to show her backstory.A city-sized alien spaceship is circling Earth, containing extraterrestrials referred to as "The Others". Ten days later, The Others unleash their 1st Wave, an electromagnetic pulse that permanently destroys all electrical power, including vehicles and causing flying aircraft to fall. The 2nd Wave has The Others manipulate the planet's geology and fault lines, causing earthquakes and megatsunamisthat completely decimate coastal cities and islands. For the 3rd Wave, The Others weaponize a strain of avian flu virus, with birds carrying the infectant across the planet, with Cassie's mother being one of the casualties.Cassie, her father and her younger brother Sam, find a refugee camp in the woods with roughly 300 survivors. A few days later, an army unit with working vehicles rolls into the camp. The unit's commander, Colonel Vosch, claims there is an imminent threat of a 4th Wave and they will take the children to safety at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, intending to bring the buses back to retrieve the adults. Cassie is separated from Sam, and witnesses the army massacring all the adults, her father included.Cassie scavenges her way toward the base, but is shot in the leg by an unseen shooter and passes out. About a week later, she wakes up in the farmhouse of a man named Evan Walker, who saved her. Cassie leaves towards the base with Evan, but learns that he is an Other, sent years ago as a sleeper agent and merged his consciousness into a human host. The sleepers roam their designated zones, killing human survivors. Evan admits his humanity was reactivated when he saw her, disagrees with the invasion and lets her leave. He warns that Colonel Vosch and the military are possessed by the consciousness of individual Others.At the base, the military have used deception and technology to convince the rescued children that the humans outside the base have been possessed. They provide military training to the children, forming them into squads to go on kill missions outside the base. Sam has been placed into a squad led by Ben, a boy Cassie had a crush on, along with Ringer, a tough teenage girl, Dumbo and Teacup. While out on a kill mission, Ringer removes her military implant, causing her to register as an Other-possessed human on the squad's scopes. The squad deduces the plan to have them kill real unpossessed humans, making them the 5th Wave. Ben sends his squad into the woods and returns to base, claiming his squad was killed, for the purpose of retrieving Sam, who was left behind.Ben confronts Colonel Vosch about child warriors being the 5th Wave and Cassie kills Sergeant Reznik during her one-on-one indoctrination spiel. Ben and Cassie find each other and leave to find Sam. Evan sets off numerous bombs and advises them to quickly find Sam before the destruction of the entire facility. Colonel Vosch and the surviving military evacuate with the human children by military aircraft. Cassie, Ben and Sam escape, with help from Ringer, just as Evan completes the destruction of the base. Ben's squad is reunited and Cassie ponders the strength of hope as humanity's driving force for survival.

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Ohio high-schooler Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station. Upon entering, she hears a male voice calling for help. She finds a wounded man, who points a gun at her, but they each put their weapons down. His other hand is under his jacket and as he takes it out, she sees a glint of metal and kills him. He was holding a Christian cross and the screen cuts to black to show her backstory.A city-sized alien spaceship is circling Earth, containing extraterrestrials referred to as "The Others". Ten days later, The Others unleash their 1st Wave, an electromagnetic pulse that permanently destroys all electrical power, including vehicles and causing flying aircraft to fall. The 2nd Wave has The Others manipulate the planet's geology and fault lines, causing earthquakes and megatsunamisthat completely decimate coastal cities and islands. For the 3rd Wave, The Others weaponize a strain of avian flu virus, with birds carrying the infectant across the planet, with Cassie's mother being one of the casualties.Cassie, her father and her younger brother Sam, find a refugee camp in the woods with roughly 300 survivors. A few days later, an army unit with working vehicles rolls into the camp. The unit's commander, Colonel Vosch, claims there is an imminent threat of a 4th Wave and they will take the children to safety at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, intending to bring the buses back to retrieve the adults. Cassie is separated from Sam, and witnesses the army massacring all the adults, her father included.Cassie scavenges her way toward the base, but is shot in the leg by an unseen shooter and passes out. About a week later, she wakes up in the farmhouse of a man named Evan Walker, who saved her. Cassie leaves towards the base with Evan, but learns that he is an Other, sent years ago as a sleeper agent and merged his consciousness into a human host. The sleepers roam their designated zones, killing human survivors. Evan admits his humanity was reactivated when he saw her, disagrees with the invasion and lets her leave. He warns that Colonel Vosch and the military are possessed by the consciousness of individual Others.At the base, the military have used deception and technology to convince the rescued children that the humans outside the base have been possessed. They provide military training to the children, forming them into squads to go on kill missions outside the base. Sam has been placed into a squad led by Ben, a boy Cassie had a crush on, along with Ringer, a tough teenage girl, Dumbo and Teacup. While out on a kill mission, Ringer removes her military implant, causing her to register as an Other-possessed human on the squad's scopes. The squad deduces the plan to have them kill real unpossessed humans, making them the 5th Wave. Ben sends his squad into the woods and returns to base, claiming his squad was killed, for the purpose of retrieving Sam, who was left behind.Ben confronts Colonel Vosch about child warriors being the 5th Wave and Cassie kills Sergeant Reznik during her one-on-one indoctrination spiel. Ben and Cassie find each other and leave to find Sam. Evan sets off numerous bombs and advises them to quickly find Sam before the destruction of the entire facility. Colonel Vosch and the surviving military evacuate with the human children by military aircraft. Cassie, Ben and Sam escape, with help from Ringer, just as Evan completes the destruction of the base. Ben's squad is reunited and Cassie ponders the strength of hope as humanity's driving force for survival.

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In the past year I have learned about how to red and write, getting better at those are hard and are not easy tasks for me and that is because i am usually off task and i am usually getting caught back up over the weekends and then i get less time to play.I have also been doing noredink and vocabulary .com to help me learn about my project. Most of these websites you can log in or create an account and be able to get better at what is a noun and vocabulary.
here are the links:
https://www.vocabulary.com/
https://www.noredink.com/
https://padlet.com/ritter_thomas24/26y3aoi8ep4s
here is my padlet so that you can see what i am doing and how I am doing

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3/13/17

Email to mom

Dear mom

Today I will be talking about my grades and what I am doing.  I am going to start with language arts and then go to math then science.  Last I will be talking about geography.  After that I will do orchestra and then etc or p.e.

In language arts I have an f and I am trying to raise my grade before the end of the quarter and get the f to a c or b.  I am going to work with ms cribby so that I can see if I can raise my grades.

In math class I have a and I will try to raise my grade the best that I can and I would love to get an A.

I have a b in science and I would like to raise my grade by the end of the quarter.  If I could do anything I would do better at my work and effort.

In geography I have a b and I would get an A if I worked hard .  I also like the project that I am working on.

In orchestra I have  a B and I also like that our new project is harder and a lot more difficult to do.

In p.e I have an A in volleyball and I want to do better.

In technology I do not know my grade and I really hope that I get an A FOR ALL OF MY HARD WORK.

LOVE THOMAS,

P.S.I WILL STILL WORK HARD EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING IS TURNING IN EVERYTHING.

Pie day

3.14

So today I will be talking about my grades and what I am doing in each class.

In social studies I am learning about the Western Hemisphere and what rules they had or could the king do everything he wants to do.  In language arts I am learning how to become a better writer and editor.  In math I am learning about proportional rates and ratios.  In science I am learning about the water cycle and all of the words used in the water cycle.  In orchestra I am learning about how. To play different types of notes on the violin, my grade is a A.  In pie I have a B and I am learning how to play volleyball.

Love Thomas Ritter

Since I have been sick I will be doing it today(15)

3/13/17

In my story I am writing about a couple of scientists who are trying to study under the crust of Europa ice.  Then they are trapped and take apart their spaceship and use it to help them survive on the cold moon.  Then they find all of these creatures and the creatures teach them on how to live on Jupiter's moon.

3/14/17

From reading my peers ideas and stories I think that in my story at the end I could write on how they get back home by taking the parts of the ship and making a ship that can hold all of the creatures and them , so that they can take their new friends home.

3/15/17

Here are some things to do when working on a story:

Organization

Punctuation

Capitalization

Word choice

Paragraphs

No run on sentences

Before you type word that is new to you, look up the definition of the word

3/16/17

Here are some others thoughts

Run ons

Voice

Action

Punctuation

Capitalization

Spaces

2/23/17

I skim and scam the story and I think that Jonas is emotional about how the town has made it so that you can not see color and not allow them to see the snow or animals.

2/24/17

A goal for (no red ink) ,I think that I need to work on vocabulary words because i am not using them correctly . I think that my goal should be a 3-4.  That should always be the goal because if you get something lower it will ask you to do it again and retake the noredink work.

Self evaluation

I think that I deserve to have a 3 because I did as I was supposed too and I made sure that it was a complete.

2/27/17

The reason that My emails are good is Because I have what is supposed to be in my “ email to mom” about all of my grades and what I am learning.  I also think that it is so good because I use a lot of paragraphs and I do not use words that I am not. Allowed to use.

Self evaluation

I think I deserve a four because I did as I was supposed too and I answered the question.

2/27/17

I think that I have improved my emails because at the beginning of the year it was too sentences, now it is like a really long paragraph. This was the only email that I found in fireworks 3:

Dear mom,

In language arts I  have an F.

My Goal For Today

My goal for today is that I  get better at punctuation and that I finish all of today's fireworks and fire ups so that I  can get an A  in language arts.If I do not raise my grade I  will not be able to watch the basketball game.

I think that I  can do it and i will not stop till I get an A + so that i can relax on christmas break.

I am going to ask Ms.cribby about how I  am going to raise my grades and I am starting now with this email.

I love the fact that this email is going to raise my grade and I will try my best on all of this stuff for the rest of the week.

This is going to be hard but I think that I will be able to do it and even If I do not get the best grade I will work over Christmas break to finish and raise my grade.I think that this will be progress at my language and i am already started to a great third gorter .

I have gotten better than this and I will keep getting better at this.

3/1/17

I think that the story was very sad and I want to help in any way I can.  I think that if I could I would donate hundreds of dollars to them if I was a billionaire.  If this happened to me I would be so thankful for the volunteers helping me because no one should have to go through pain.I  was so surprised on what the article said and it is very sad.  It is surprising that cancer or any type of cancer can hide in your body for along time without you knowing.Braden Stevenson is a sophomore at Longmont High School.  Last winter, at a routine exam, Braden fell and broke his leg. While repairing his femur,  his surgeon noticed that the bone did not look right. He  was diagnosed late in 2016 with osteosarcoma, a malignant bone cancer.To endure the events that occurred that day, as well as all that have followed, takes a special kind of strength, the strength of a fighter and of a true Happy Smackah. We are proud to announce this young man, Braden Stevenson, as our 2017 Happy Smackah.On March 1st, Braden will be undergoing the treatment he chose. He was offered three ways to fight this cancer, and he chose rotation plasty, which will essentially be an amputation of his leg above and below the knee.  His ankle will become his knee.  He’ll have a few months to heal, and then he’ll be fitted with a prosthetic.  I think that I deserve A four because I learned a lot and I got right to the topic.

3/8/17

In the United States, Women's History Month traces its beginnings back to the first International Women's Day in 1911. In 1978, the school district of Sonoma, California participated in Women's History Week, an event designed around the week of March 8. So to me women's history month is about that women could not do anything and they could not vote,drive a car , be in the military (etc).

3/9/17

A good question is both a question that your fellow students can answer and a question that requires analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and critical thinking in order to answer it. Your questions based on a particular passage should both encourage and challenge us to articulate and uncover meaning in the text.

I think that this make sense because you should be able to answer a good question

3/10/17

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Use these words: metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification: define them in your words and find examples.  For instance: metaphor:  a way of comparing to unlike things to build meaning.  "Thomas is a reading machine."  

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simile: image: http://www.yourdictionary.com/index.php/image/articles/18771.ThinkstockPhotos-80603461_nutty.jpg

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way. To help you identify a simile versus a metaphor, know that the words “like” or “as” are typically used in a simile.
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-similes.html#gsdTEFoPAW6ZU3IQ.99

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The rising action was that the chief elder skipped Jonas and then apologized and apologized to Jonas and then she explained what the receiver was.  The chief elder said that their would be physical pain besides scraping his knee.  Then the chief elder said that Jonas was the new receiver.

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II shoveled snow and played with my Legos.

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Scrooge was mean and he did not like Christmas and he said that Christmas was a humbug.I think that he learned his lesson and he helped a boy who was going to die and then Scrooge became the kids best friend forever and Scrooge saved the kids life.

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I learned that Scrooge was pretty mean and he did not like Christmas or children. After Mr. Scrooge saw the future , past, and now he was A lot better.

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I made it by following the instructions that my teacher gave me.

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The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Fire works #3

Thomas ritter

Grades

Thomas Ritter

1.  The bias in this is that Ms.cribby loves the story, “A Christmas Story

This was written by Sam degen

“I am very bias for skiers. I do not like snowboarders. Here are my reasons why: First of all,  I am a skier myself and I have skied my whole life. (since I was two) I have never tried snowboarding. That leads me to my first problem with them: I do not like that you can't really move your feet. It looks dangerous and scary for me.   Second, they scrape snow off steep hills and make them icy. There is only one thing you stand on when snowboarding and usually when a snowboarder goes down the hill they just lean a bit back and just go down. It scrapes the snow off where they go down and gets it all icy and it annoys me so much! Lastly, if you ever sit next to someone who is a snowboarder on a chairlift it can get annoying. The person's board is hanging everywhere and sometimes just sits on your on skis! Most chairlifts have bars and when you pull down the bars there are places to put your skis. Not snowboards! sometimes I just want to shove them off!   I I always want to deny and argue with someone who thinks that snowboarders are better Of course this is just me being bias towards something I have never tried.”

I think that this person deserves a 4. I think this because they discovered their bias, showed how much that they unfairly hate the other topic, and was very upset with the opposing topic. This is slightly an opinion piece because they have reasons, but they then showed their bias later on in this response. This piece definitely deserves a 4.

“ A Christmas Carol “

The reason I chose this one was because it was more like a book.I will give you some reasons why I think that it would be easy to read.
1.I think that it would be easy for me to read is because I am used to reading books that way and that is how a book is supposed to be written in my opinion.
2. It will be easier for me to  get what is going on and where or how something happened. I believe that it is also A “ proper” way to write some thing unless it is a poem. If this story was a poem you could still write it like it was a book or write it as a poem.
3. We are supposed to write stories as paragraphs because that is how we where
Taught and that is the proper way, now that is just my opinion on how you could write and I am not trying to say that you can not write that way I am just saying that it the way I would do it.

Tone

Tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject. While journalistic writing theoretically has a tone of distance and objectivity, all other writing can have various tones.

If we were to read a description of a first date that included words and phrases like “dreaded” and “my buddies forced me to go on the date”, we could assume that the individual didn’t really enjoy the date.

Some tone words include:

POSITIVE TONE WORDS | NEUTRAL(+, –, or neutral) | NEGATIVE TONE WORDS
admiringadoringaffectionateappreciativeapprovingbemusedbenevolentblithecalmcasualcelebratorycheerfulcomfortingmiccompassionatecomplimentaryconciliatoryconfidentcontenteddelightfulearnestebullientecstaticeffusiveelatedempatheticencouragingeuphoricexcitedexhilaratedexpectantfacetiousferventflippantforthrightfriendlyfunnygleefulgushyhappy | hilarioushopefulhumorousinterestedintrospectivejovialjoyfullaudatorylightlivelymirthfulmodestnostalgicoptimisticpassionateplacidplayfulpoignantproudreassuringreflectiverelaxedrespectfulreverentromanticsanguinescholarlyself-assured sentimentalserenesillysprightlystraightforwardsympathetictendertranquilwhimsicalwistfulworshipfulzealous | commandingdirectimpartialindirectmeditativeobjectivequestioningspeculativeunambiguousunconcernedunderstated | abhorringacerbicambiguousambivalentangryannoyedantagonisticanxious
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Tone

Tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject. While journalistic writing theoretically has a tone of distance and objectivity, all other writing can have various tones.

If we were to read a description of a first date that included words and phrases like “dreaded” and “my buddies forced me to go on the date”, we could assume that the individual didn’t really enjoy the date.

Some tone words include:

POSITIVE TONE WORDS | NEUTRAL(+, –, or neutral) | NEGATIVE TONE WORDS

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| commandingdirectimpartialindirectmeditativeobjectiveqrstated | abhorringacerbicambiguousambivalentangryannoyedantagonisticanxious
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WHY I CHOSE THE ONE I CHOSE!

I chose this one because i want to see how this character died so that i can figure out how and when he died so that i can start to understand a bit of it so i can see what they are meaning to or are trying to say.

I also want to figure out if he died around noon or if he died in the morning. To see if he died in the morning or afternoon I have to figure out the timestamp that the article said.I must also have someone who knows what some of the” BIG” words mean to figure out what they are trying to say.

I want to see if the story says who found the body so that i can see what they could be feeling like.This is because i want to see if he died of old age or if something else happened, like he fell and hit his head  or maybe there's something suspicious going on.

I also want to figure out what city he was in so that i can see what he saw.He could be in florida or colorado ar even china or england.

I think that i deserve a four because i answered the question and i have explained why i chose that specific part of the story.I have many reasons why i want to keep reading and i could end up loving this story like Ms.Cribby

The mood in this would be that marley has died and scrooge is now thinking about the past. Scrooge is a person who does not like Christmas and then he met thee ghosts.

I think that  if scrooge had just liked christmas that he would had a much easier  life.

Vocabulary.com

College  means -   a complex housing an institution of higher education.Employ - means to engage or hire someone. Politics - means the activities involve a state or a government.

Aquarium means that their is a giant pool of water with sea creatures.

Divide means to take apart or separate.

Perform means to carry out an action.

Wound means an injury to feelings or pride.

The opposite of divide is unite.

I learned that village is a noun.

My Goal For Today

My goal for today is that i get better at punctuation and that i finish all of today's fireworks and fire ups so that i can get a b in language arts.If i do not raise my grade i will not be able to watch the basketball game.

Dear mom,

In language arts I  have an F.

My Goal For Today

My goal for today is that I  get better at punctuation and that I finish all of today's fireworks and fire ups so that I  can get an A  in language arts.If I do not raise my grade I  will not be able to watch the basketball game.

I think that I  can do it and i will not stop till I get an A + so that i can relax on christmas break.

I am going to ask Ms.cribby about how I  am going to raise my grades and I am starting now with this email.

I love the fact that this email is going to raise my grade and I will try my best on all of this stuff for the rest of the week.

This is going to be hard but I think that I will be able to do it and even If I do not get the best grade I will work over Christmas break to finish and raise my grade.I think that this will be progress at my language and i am already started to a great third gorter .

The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. He fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs, slowly too: trimming his candle as he went.

You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom. Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.

I did it

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you can do what you want and I can see what you post.
make every day a good day because we are strong.
thomas