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Kai Aida's Blog

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This is my blog with my English class work You can also leave feed back if you want to. 

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For the this I believe project I chose Me volunteering at my church for a soup kitchen because it taught me valuable lessons. This experience of writing this helped me make one of my best work of writing and it was a fun project to me.

Volunteered,helped,appreciated. I believe in helping people. Six months ago, along with my confirmation classmates, I started volunteering at a soup kitchen once a month on a Friday night. I have found this experience to be rewarding.
The first time I volunteered at a soup kitchen was In New York City, as I walked to the church from the train station, it gave me some time to think about what I was about to do. I was nervous since I have never done anything like this and I didn't know the people in my new Confirmation class. I also didn't really know what to expect. When I arrived, I had put on a baseball cap, plastic gloves, and an apron so that I could help to prepare the food. We made chicken, broccoli, salad, pudding, and bread. I helped cut some bre...

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For the this I believe project I chose Me volunteering at my church for a soup kitchen because it taught me valuable lessons. This experience of writing this helped me make one of my best work of writing and it was a fun project to me. Volunteered,helped,appreciated. I believe in helping people.

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This is the link to all the work I have done in English class so far! Enjoy and please leave feedback!

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For this project, we had to read a book and discuss it with our group throughout the duration of the time we were reading it. Then, after we had finished the book we had to create a book trailer showcasing the book and its main ideas. This was a really fun project for me and this is the trailer. Enjoy!

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For this project, we had to read a book and discuss it with our group throughout the duration of the time we were reading it. Then, after we had finished the book we had to create a book trailer showcasing the book and its main ideas.

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Here is the link to my blog! It's a collection of all my English work so far. Please leave comments and enjoy!

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Journalism Essay This unit was to experiment with out investigative skills and put it into a persuasive document. We learned how to smoothly incorporate facts and arguments while weaving quotes in from the interviews we conducted. In our interviews, we had to pick a faculty member in school that could give us clear information about the topic we selected. The topics were based off of things we would like to change or things we noticed in our everyday lives. Because I am very involved with sports, I chose to write about the difficulties of going to school that doesn't have easy access to sports fields or tracks.
Challenges of an Urban School Sports ProgramThe United Nations International School (UNIS) offers a vast array of choices for the sports program, one of the many contributors to why this is a great school. Many middle schoolers look forward to the day they finally reach M3, the grade they are eligible to try out for the UNIS sports teams. Boys and girls stay after-school ...

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Journalism Essay This unit was to experiment with out investigative skills and put it into a persuasive document. We learned how to smoothly incorporate facts and arguments while weaving quotes in from the interviews we conducted. In our interviews, we had to pick a faculty member in school that could give us clear information about the topic we selected.

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This is my blog with all of the work I have done so far in English.

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This assigment was one of the easier ones for me. I felt like both Feed the book and The Truman Show the movie had so many different topics you could talk about. Each were detialied and had overlapping themes, and touching messages. I enjoyed writing this piece and using this essay as a ending Piece for this unit.

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This is my blog with all my English work through out the year.

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Reflection:
Ella Jongkind was born on the 5th of October 2004, she has two siblings and she was born in the Netherlands, Holland. She lives in New York, Manhattan with her parents and two siblings and she goes to the United Nations school, she has been there since M2. She plays soccer on the girls middle school soccer team and plays in midfield position. She would love to spend any day in her bed watching Netflix, she also enjoys reading her favorite series,harry potter. When she grows up she would like to work as a physiologist in Backin Singapore because she would like to help people and she also finds physiological problems interesting to solve. If she could have any superpowers it would be invisibility because she could easily hide from any of her fears. She admires her friend Sasha because she thinks Sasha is inspiring and intellectual because she can always make her laugh, and she would swap lives for a day with her friend Alex because she loves her dog dutchess.
She wants to solv...

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Reflection: Ella Jongkind was born on the 5th of October 2004, she has two siblings and she was born in the Netherlands, Holland. She lives in New York, Manhattan with her parents and two siblings and she goes to the United Nations school, she has been there since M2.

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This is the blog - it has all the pieces of writing I have done this year. Feel free to see any of my essays, especially my "This I Believe" essay.

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I believe that everyone deserves criticism, even yourself.

I have, for better or worse, grown up in a very sassy and opinionated household. Whenever my parents would read or watch the news, they always would scowl at their phone or the tv because of their disagreement with what went on in the world. This didn't matter to me until I was about 5. At this time I finally thought to ask my dad why he was making faces at the tv. He told me that a politician was trying to get a law passed that went against my dad's opinion. I asked him, in a five year old's vernacular, what this sort of expression was called, he said that it was "criticism" that was my introduction to the world of criticism.

A few years later when I developed my addiction to youtube videos I came across a genre of video that was very popular, commentary videos. These videos aimed to tackle a specific issue, usually having to do with the youtube platform, by pointing out exactly what the issue is. After explaining what the issue was, the commentator would then insight the problem with the issue, and point out alternatives that uploaders could make to the platform. Actions like: starting social media campaigns to make even non-youtube audiences aware of the double standards of monetization on youtube, and regularly monetized channels speaking up for those disregarded by youtube.

But the main thing I picked up from these videos is that I disagreed with a number of these channels. That by listening to the opinions of these "youtube critics" and commentators, I could form the basis of my own opinion and disagree with the people telling me what they think. I started to apply this way of thinking to almost everything, absorbing information and making my own opinion on the spot. A couple of weeks later I found myself watching the news with my dad again. There was something about Hillary Clinton and the policies she wanted to bring as president, we watched and I absorbed all the information Wolf Blitzer told me from the tv. After the report my dad and I discussed her policies after, we had thing we agreed upon and things we didn't agree upon. But most importantly he said something that stuck, something that has influenced me to this day, he said "Your beginning to become a critical thinker Miles."

Learning to become a critical thinker has influenced the lense through which I view all aspects of my life today. For instance, now when I see my parents scowl at the phone, I can engage in a debate with them and I am able to form my own opinions and support them with ideas and evidence. This skill has provided me with another way to connect with my family as well as to develop a better understanding of the world around me. Criticism is the ultimate way to seek knowledge, because if we think something is right but it is not, the first step to finding the answer is point out the problem. This is why I believe that everyone deserves criticism.

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I believe that everyone deserves criticism, even yourself. I have, for better or worse, grown up in a very sassy and opinionated household. Whenever my parents would read or watch the news, they always would scowl at their phone or the tv because of their disagreement with what went on in the world.

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This is my blog - a portfolio of my work in English class. Please view and comment!

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We broke off into groups and chose dystopian books to read over a month. Our group first read Animal Farm but finished it quickly, so we moved on to 1984. I believe it was a great choice to read two books by the same author (George Orwell) since we were able to see and figure out the connections and similarities. Then, to summarize the reading we created a book trailer. We were considering creating a double trailer by mixing the stories of both Animal Farm and 1984 but decided that was too ambitious and settled with the latter. Here is the finished product:

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We broke off into groups and chose dystopian books to read over a month. Our group first read Animal Farm but finished it quickly, so we moved on to 1984. I believe it was a great choice to read two books by the same author (George Orwell) since we were able to see and figure out the connections and similarities.

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This is the link to my blog. Everything I posted is all the work that I have done in English class this year. Feel free to comment.

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Reflection:
In class, we are writing 6-word memoirs. A 6 -word memoir tells a story and describes who you are as a person. This assignment was very hard at the start, but then I realized you just have to say things that come from the heart. Before we started, we looked at a few examples. One of them was, "Baby Shoes, for sale, never worn." This was written by Ernest Hemingway. The first time I read this 6 - word memoir I thought about a baby who died after it was born. My 6 - word memoirs are about my life and what I like. For example, the last memoir is about my passion for tennis. I used canva to create these 6 - word memoirs.

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Reflection: In class, we are writing 6-word memoirs. A 6 -word memoir tells a story and describes who you are as a person. This assignment was very hard at the start, but then I realized you just have to say things that come from the heart.

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Six Word Memoir - Reflection

This is what I learned to do in my English class. A six-word memoir are basically 6 words that could tell a story, a feeling, or something the writers want to express to the readers. It's interesting because people can write about what they think individually. There's not much limit and sometimes I really like the six-word memoirs other people write.
These following images are what I made for my three six-word memoirs.

I translated this from a saying in Chinese. I agree with this because I'm always afraid of ghosts so that keeping this in mind may make me less scared whenever I watch a scary movie.

This is about myself, like what I've been through.

I also translated this one from a Chinese saying, but I think US people know this as well.

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This is what I learned to do in my English class. A six-word memoir are basically 6 words that could tell a story, a feeling, or something the writers want to express to the readers. It's interesting because people can write about what they think individually.

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This is a blog
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This project was quite stressful for me since I struggled with time management, this is because I had a play on the whole time and homework. because of this, I had no extra time to read the book or even listen to the audio, on some nights I would be going to sleep to the latest hours of the night. thankfully I used the website shmoop which has good book summaries as I only read a few chapters.

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This project was quite stressful for me since I struggled with time management, this is because I had a play on the whole time and homework. because of this, I had no extra time to read the book or even listen to the audio, on some nights I would be going to sleep to the latest hours of the night.

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite school books so far. It really showed censorship in a book. One of my favorite quotes was "It was a pleasure to burn."because it's simple but so sinister. Working with my partner Uta went well and we didnt have any conflicts.

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This is the link to my blog that contains every thing that we have been doing in this English class. Feel free to look around and leave any comments.

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for this assignment, we had to write about a person in our class. These people were randomly assigned and were a way to get closer to our classmates since it was the beginning of the year. After we assigned who we were going to write about we all got an envelope with some Q&A that helped us think about what we might want to write about. Although I wasn't able to get that many stories I think this was a great way to get to know your classmates. This is my essay about Ansel.

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for this assignment, we had to write about a person in our class. These people were randomly assigned and were a way to get closer to our classmates since it was the beginning of the year.

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This is my blog with all of the writing and other work I have done in English this year! I will continue to add all my work to this blog! I would be happy about any feedback!

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Reflection:
This assignment was very interesting as it really made us think about how the book we were reading and the movie we had watched related. This assignment also made us think of how accurate these stories (they were social commentaries), and how much we see things they were warning us about in our daily life.

Truman/Feed Essay
Written on December 18, 2018
The comedy movie "The Truman Show" is about a man named Truman whose entire life is a show without him knowing it. Feed is a novel by M.T. Anderson about a bunch of kids who have technologies that are incredibly advanced, implemented in their brains. What do these stories have in common? A lot, actually. Both stories are social commentaries, that are making very accurate comments and predictions on our society. Therefore not only the filmmakers of "The Truman Show" but also M.T. Anderson are making an extremely powerful argument. But these two stories have more in common, once looked at deeper, they are both making comments on a lot of the same themes. Therefore it is highly likely that Anderson would agree with what is being said in the movie. In this essay, I will look at the common themes and how they relate to the present day world.
One of these themes is that companies are building fake worlds for and around us. This is obvious in "The Truman Show" but not so clear in Feed or in our world.
Either way, the foundations of the fake world are our trust. In "The Truman Show" the only way the show is able to keep the fake world alive is by the trust of its viewers that are trusting them to be doing good to Truman (which of course they aren't). We know that the viewers are trusting the show as at one point during the interview when the host of the interview says that only a small minority of them are troubled by what the show is doing to Truman. If there was no trust from the viewers, people could easily put the show out of business or let Truman know. In Feed, the general population trusts the feed with literally their entire lives. This includes all the appliances they use, such as cars, gardens, weather, time of the year (that they can change), and all other information. Furthermore, the feed knows all their thoughts and can control their bodies. In short, the feed is their second (and more powerful) brain! People trusting companies/appliances is also a common practice in the real world. For example, we trust the internet when we are shopping, when we are on social media, and many other times, even when just socializing we are constantly giving away our information and trusting companies and other people with it. We even trust ("smart") garbage cans to buy groceries for us!
By trusting things so much, people (in the Truman show and in Feed too) are immersing themselves in a process that caters to the companies' advantage. Due to our trust, we give the companies information. With this information, they can set up traps (customized for us based on the information we give so they are more effective) that make us trust them more, and give them even more information. Once the companies have acquired enough of our trust, there will be no more need to be transparent and the companies will be able to do whatever they want! This makes it easy for them to create a false world...
In the real world there is a constant race to the top and therefore companies are willing to do almost anything it takes to become the best, including deceiving us.
In "The Truman Show", Christof, the producer, has created an entire fake town for the purpose of his show, called "Seahaven"(where Truman lives) In this world everything is artificial and articulated; the sun, the moon, the people, his job, his wife, and even the island itself! But worst of all, his friends (Marlon) and family, who are supposed to be people who support you and who are with you in life, are just fake and there to control him and what he does. In Feed, companies are hiding world news from the general population. When Violet talks about the villages in South America that have been covered with the black goo and found dead or the images of riots that were put in their feeds by the hackers, Titus knows none of it because it hasn't appeared on the news. Furthermore, even the president is on the companies' side as even he denies that lesions and other medical conditions are due to industrial activity (although they clearly are). Even in our world, a lot of the information we give so freely is used for purposes we are not aware of, and we will likely never entirely know of, but it is quite clear that it is being used as an advantage for the companies.
By creating such a fake world in which companies are only portrayed as good makes them seem like the protagonists. In "The Truman Show" being the best means being the most realistic show making tons of money. In Feed by believing the companies are good and only mean the best people will continue to buy from these companies and continue trusting them while companies are behaving irresponsibly. In the end, no matter which story, this fake world had the result of us being powerless as we have no real information against the companies and everything we shouldn't know is hidden. This makes it easier for them to control us and make us to their puppets which is very clearly seen in our world, feed and Truman's world.
Perhaps worst of all the companies stop anyone who attempts to reveal the truth to the real world.
In the Truman show, there are multiple attempts to reveal to Truman he is on TV. There is a guy who hides in a Christmas present, a guy who parachutes into the studio and finally Sylvia. All of these trying to make things right for Truman ended unemployed or kicked out. In Feed, although the police seem to have come to stop the hacker from "hacking" people, perhaps they also were worried about him revealing any information on what is going on in the real world. Further, the kid's feeds were scanned and all images were removed to hide everything. Finally, the news were even asked to be more "gentle" but probably instead of asked forced, to make it seem like no big deal.
This behavior allows companies to keep their role of leading/ being in command and this, in turn, helps them make more profit.
Another theme common to both commentaries and the real world is finding your purpose in life and/or finding meaning in life, and how through inquiring we become happy.
In the real world people sometimes feel like they would like there is more to life and begin wondering how they fit in. This is also seen in the Truman show and feed. When Truman begins becoming suspicious that "[his] whole life is building up to something", he begins wondering what that might be and how he might find out. For example, he begins inquiring about it with his friends he begins paying more attention and noticing things. Eventually, he finds out about his fake life and leaves the studio and lives a (probably) happy and normal life. Meanwhile, in feed Titus and Violet are also the two characters that inquire the most. Violet is naturally curious and Titus seems to be following her. Perhaps the reason Violet began being so curious is because as she says "[her] idea of life is from the credits of a feed show" and she was curious was an "actual and fun" life would be like. Either way, while alive, Violet and Titus too noticed little things and built an understanding of the world and enjoyed this. In contrast, Titus' other friends who had nothing to do with this seemed to be going to parties and just pretending to and only being half happy in the moment, but not in general
Perhaps the message the author of the book and the director of the movie are trying to send is that generally, humans need to begin paying more attention and inquiring more so they begin to care, and care more about things, unlike Titus' friends so they begin to inquire!
In conclusion, although different in style, type and scenario both "The Truman Show" and the Novel "Feed" make an accurate and similar commentary on how the world currently is, and if we don't change, just as they warn us, we will end up like them.

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Reflection: This assignment was very interesting as it really made us think about how the book we were reading and the movie we had watched related. This assignment also made us think of how accurate these stories (they were social commentaries), and how much we see things they were warning us about in our daily life.

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Soccer, Running, Tennis, the fun things.

My knowledge is nothing without focus.

Unis, 8 years, my second home.

When I wrote these memoirs I thought about what motivated me to do better and how I can build a better life for myself. This 6 word memoir is a statement which I need to remember because sometimes I know I can do things but then I don't because I don't focus.

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Soccer, Running, Tennis, the fun things. My knowledge is nothing without focus. Unis, 8 years, my second home. When I wrote these memoirs I thought about what motivated me to do better and how I can build a better life for myself.

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Reflection:
For this unit, we had to write a biography of another student in our class. At the beginning of this process, we all had questions that people would ask us and those questions and answers were put into envelopes. Then once we knew who we had to write about we had to use the information to write a biography about them. This was a challenging yet fun experience because we got to learn more about our classmates. While it was challenging because we had to find a way to make all of that information flow well together. This is my biography about Akari.
Biography:

Akari is a 13-year-old girl going to M4 at UNIS. Akari is from Tokyo Japan and is currently living with her mom Reina, her grandma, and her stepdad, whilst her dad Norio is living in Quebec Canada. She also has one step sister and a step brother who is going to a different school. Akari's friends would describe her as a fun, upbeat but also an immature person. " Be yourself everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

Akari does ballet, she started ballet when she was 3 years old and has been doing it for over a decade. She says that ballet is " graceful and intense and at the same time." She performed in the Nutcracker and midsummer night's dream, at New York City Ballet. She performed the Nutcracker twice, once when she was 9 and once when she was 10, she also had performed the midsummer night's dream when she was ten.

When Akari grows up she wants to have a job in the medical field, preferably a neurologist. She also admires Oliver sacks because he is a neurologist and his writing is really admirable. If Akari could switch places with someone for one day, she would switch with a surgeon because Akari really wants to see the stress during a procedure and to see about the medical world. What got her interested in the medical field was Oliver Sacks books, which made her want to learn more. She wants to be a neurologist because she thinks the brain is really fascinating, there are a lot of cases that Oliver sacks brought up in his book and the neurology field is really big. She also thinks that she could go into other things and still be interested. It could relate to human disease and why they act the way they do.

Overall I got to know Akari a lot better then I knew her before this project she is also a very nice and fun person to have around! She does ballet and wants a job in the medical field as well as being an incredible piano player!

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Reflection: For this unit, we had to write a biography of another student in our class. At the beginning of this process, we all had questions that people would ask us and those questions and answers were put into envelopes.

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For this project, we had to write stories about our life that were only 6 words long. We did this project to develop the skill of word choice. We created these six-word projects on an app called TypiMage. The reason I choose a hippo for my first 6-word memoir is because hippos are my favorite animal.

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How Grey's Anatomy Changed my Life This project was inspired by a section that NPR used to have. That section was called This I Believe. NPR would have someone record their This I Believe essay and put it on the This I Believe website.

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Step One Rinse With Clean Water Some people wash their hands before they eat and some don't. Many people think it is not important and others think it is repulsive if you don't wash your hands before you eat. For many people it can be a routine task but for others it can be something they do only when they are at home. Some people learn to wash their hands from their parents and some learn at school. I was taught to wash my hands before I eat because it keeps germs and bacteria away. This could be important or it could be utterly useless. One incident where people have gotten sick because of improper hygienic practices happened in December 2017. Approximately 332 people reported stomach pain aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise. The large number of passengers became ill likely because of improper sanitary measures which could have been addressed by frequent hand washing, especially around mealtimes. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there are over 76 million cases of ...

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Step One Rinse With Clean Water Some people wash their hands before they eat and some don't. Many people think it is not important and others think it is repulsive if you don't wash your hands before you eat.

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Reflection:
Our task was to reflect on important moments in our lives and what we have learned from them. We were inspired by a website and podcast that contains thousands of "This I Believe" essays. The most difficult part of the project was choosing a memory to expand upon. We did exercises in class to identify the important moments in our life. Once I found an idea to write about, it simply boiled down to express it in the context of a life lesson I learned from the experience. Bellow is my essay as well as a recording of me reading it. Enjoy!

A Mountain View - Ansel Scholl

I believe that perseverance pays off. If you have a goal, do all you can to reach it because the reward is worth all the hardship you experienced and, moreover, could change your life.

Every year over the summer I go to a ranch in Wyoming. The summer camp, called Elk Creek Ranch, is located in the middle of nowhere situated near the base of a unique mountain called Steamboat. The mountain resembled a grand steamboat bursting from the ground with a huge bow and smokestack seemingly carved into the mountains bedrock. The ranch itself has been around since my mother was my age. It's mainly focused on work-crew in the morning (this entailed doing tasks such as fixing fences or working on the roof of a cabin) and riding in the afternoon. For the whole camp, each rancher got to ride and train their own horse. In the final week of the camp, all of our previous work with the horses culminated into a 3-day pack trip through the Wyoming mountains.

Fast forward to about a day into the pack trip and my group had set up camp for that afternoon. We had just set the horses out to graze in the short stubby grass that grew 5,000 feet up in the mountains of Wyoming and the other campers and I had some time to kill before it was time to prepare for dinner. We had decided to set up camp next to a little creek that crisp water that trickled down the small valley. The valley was situated between two picturesque mountains that seemed to be plastered to the deep blue sky. To the right of the creek was a clear half a mile or so of land that stretched up to the ridge of the nearest mountain. A small group of my friends and I decided to run up the mountainside in order to see the unknown view that lay beyond it. We set out just as the sun was setting, and the growing crispness in the air only heightened my desire to see beyond the ridgeline.

Quickly we realized the trek up the mountain would not be as easy as previously thought. The steep angle of the hill plus the 5,000m altitude hindered our progress, and frequently the group had to stop among the stubby grass and mountain brush that was scattered around our path to catch our breath. What once had been a group of 6 people began to thin until I was alone, desperately inching my way up the incline. At about 3 quarters of the way up I stopped. What once had been a moderate briskness in the air, had turned into a sharp chill that seemed to pierce through the riding shirt and jeans that I was wearing. I looked back longingly at the warm cooking fire that had sparked at camp and began to question my decision. Was it, I thought, worth the discomfort that I was experiencing? The reward being unknown only added to my growing uncertainty. It would be much easier to proceed back down the mountain to camp, warmed by a crackling fire, and forget this whole endeavor. No, I thought. I have to reach the top. So I continued, periodically stopping to catch my breath, until finally as the sun was dipping below the horizon, I reached the top.

It was as if time had stopped. I stood there, panting, on the ridgeline for what seemed like an eternity as I gazed at the breathtaking scene that met my eyes. The golden light from the rapidly disappearing sun soaked the miles of chiseled mountains that lay, as if in a painting, sprawled in front of me. The sparse groupings of fir trees and crystal blue lakes sprinkled among the sprawling land added to the scenes heaven-like appearance. The frigidness that had haunted me on the hike up left me, and I stood there in total awe of nature's beauty. I felt totally and utterly free.

Many times throughout my life I have questioned the necessity of a task I have either chosen or been instructed to do. It's easy to quit; to end something the moment you lose interest in it. What I have found though, is that even if the progress may be slow, or the task may be time-consuming, stick with it because you never know what could greet you when you complete it. This I believe.

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Reflection: Our task was to reflect on important moments in our lives and what we have learned from them. We were inspired by a website and podcast that contains thousands of "This I Believe" essays. The most difficult part of the project was choosing a memory to expand upon.

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During English, we created a blog. We needed to think of 6 word memoirs, and we had to add them to our blog. 6 word memoirs should be able to tell a meaningful story in just 6 words. It could be personal or related to life. At first, I was skeptical of the idea of writing a memoir in just 6 words but then I thought; hey, if Ernest Hemingway can, then I can!

We had the option to use different sites to create our memoirs and make them as interesting as possible. We had the options of using sites called retype, pixlr, or canva. I used canva. In order to create a 6 word memoir, I had to think of an interesting story and apply an appropriate background.

I enjoy making these memoirs as it really allows you to think outside the box. Also, I can share my personal stories with everyone in the class without bieng afraid of anything embarrasing to happen. Overall, 6 word memoirs are a helpful and enjoyable experience for me.

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During English, we created a blog. We needed to think of 6 word memoirs, and we had to add them to our blog. 6 word memoirs should be able to tell a meaningful story in just 6 words. It could be personal or related to life.

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This is my digital portfolio of my M4 English work this year. I've been working on it all year, pleases leave feedback.

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This is my digital portfolio of all of my M4 English work from the whole year. I will continue to update it

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We created six-word memoirs in English class. You are meant to create a story with only six words and leave the rest up to the reader. In class, we looked at six-word memoir by Ernest Hemmingway, "For Sale: Baby Shoes Never Worn." After we began to create our own.

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This is my digital portfolio for all my work for English. I will be updating this throughout the school year with new assignments.

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This assignment was part of the journalism unit in English. This was one of our first units, and I was new to the Chromebook, as well as the monitoring software called GoGuardian. I had never encountered this type of device monitoring before; the kind that allows teachers to view your browser real-time, and also close tabs for you. When the opportunity arose to write an essay on an issue that was relatable to many students, I thought GoGuardian was the perfect topic. I enjoyed writing this essay because I had an opportunity to dive deeper into the issue of trust between teachers and students and I was able to collect the opinions of my peers along the way.

Is GoGuardian Really Necessary? Should GoGuardian be used in school? That is a question many UNIS students, parents, and teachers have to ask and answer. In short, GoGuardian is software that filters through students' web browsing activity and allows teachers to view what their students are doing on their computers real-time. Some stu...

For this assignment we read Feed by MT Anderson, and then watched a movie called The Truman Show. This movie and this book both have some of the same themes, and in the end we wrote an essay comparing the two. My essay was based on the question "Truman's knowledge of what the world is like changes through the movie. At what point in the movie does Truman's knowledge of the world most match your knowledge of the world? Explain. How does the knowledge of the kids in Feed compare to Truman's knowledge, and yours? In each case, explore how we know what we know. How does our perspective change as our knowledge evolves?"
I can relate to Truman, Violet and Titus in many ways about how perspectives change about the world. Though their perspectives about the world changed under drastically different circumstances, the thing that Truman, Titus and I all have in common is; as we grow, we learn. As knowledge evolves, so does perspective of how the world works. First, to gain more kno...

Reflection:
"This I Believe" is an essay topic created by NPR for one of their shows. People submit essays about their over arching beliefs and values, and the best ones are picked to be recorded for the show. This topic was chosen for an assignment for our English class. I chose to write about my personal relationship with persistence, and how long term happiness is more important to me than instant gratification. Writing this essay was relatively easy for me, because the essay was based on my own experiences. I usually have a harder time with other essays in which I have to formulate my own opinions and arguments. I particularly enjoyed this assignment because I had a chance to look back on my own values, and I though recording the podcast was a nice touch as well.

Drink the Lemonade Later I believe that persistence is the key to happiness, and instant gratification is less important than long-term happiness. Surprisingly, I needed to be reminded of this multiple times befor...

These memoirs are all personal and are things that I have thought about frequently. As you can see, the first one came from a long time of trying to think of a 6 word memoir. I found it surprisingly hard to think of some deep memoirs, mostly because most of the ideas I had could only be expressed in just less than 6 words, or more. As hard as I found writing these memoirs, I enjoyed the challenge of brainstorming ideas and trying to find the best ones that could also fit the template of the 6 word memoir. Although the last memoir looks a little bit depressing, it is truly a thought that I have quite often. While most people might find that kind of thought quite sad and morbid, I use it as a way to remind myself to live life to the fullest, and try to find a meaning to exist happily. Overall, I quite enjoyed writing these memoirs even though it was very frustrating at times. I would definitely do it again, and I recommend it as a fun writing challenge to all!

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This assignment was part of the journalism unit in English. This was one of our first units, and I was new to the Chromebook, as well as the monitoring software called GoGuardian. I had never encountered this type of device monitoring before; the kind that allows teachers to view your browser real-time, and also close tabs for you.

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My blog with all my work in English class this year.

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Journalism Essay Uta Nakamura Reflection In this assignment, we were asked to research a topic in our daily life that is forgotten or hidden; and interview people and write a journalism piece based on your research, interviews, and background knowledge.

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Check out my digital portfolio and view all the writing I've been working on all year. Please leave me feedback too!

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Six Word MemoirsJanuary 16, 2018

Six word memoirs have been very popular, ever since Ernest Hemingway created one that became very popular; For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. This memoir paved the way for millions more to be created, from acclaimed authors to students alike.

In class, we were tasked to create some of our own. These ones were some of my favorites out of the ones I created, and I used the app Retype to format them. For me, if I couldn't think about what to write, I chose a picture then went from there.

I really liked this experiment, because it allowed me to be creative with how I made these memoirs, and how I portrayed them. It also taught me to use words carefully, because you can only use six of them. You have to make them count.

All in all, I really enjoyed making these. To make your own or get inspired, you can go to one of the many websites online, and you can use Retype, TypiMage, or Over.
Toodles for now!

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Six Word MemoirsJanuary 16, 2018 Six word memoirs have been very popular, ever since Ernest Hemingway created one that became very popular; For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. This memoir paved the way for millions more to be created, from acclaimed authors to students alike.