3rd quarter blog

The Biggest improvement I made in the 3rd quarter is using TIQA more often because now that I use it most of the times, it starts to get more helpful and easy. Although I do struggle  with it sometimes I still think I’ve made an improvement on it.

Something that i’m proud that I accomplished is passing a retake in Math because most of the time I fail a retake and can't do anything else. But when I passed 2 of my retakes I was very surprised and a bit happy that I did pass. If i were to not pass it I would’ve been stuck with a 2 or a 1 in my grades.

Something that was challenging was to study on multiple subjects. This was very challenging because I didn’t know what I should study first and felt like everything was important and had to study all of them at their same time. I’m starting to solve this by studying one thing and another the next day

Night blog

   Throughout the story I see a lot of changes that Elie faces. In the beginning of the book, Elie was very pious about his religion as in the beginning of the book, there are many different quotes that show how pious he is about his religion.  "why do you weep when you pray?' He asked me, has though he known me a long time." (2) This shows that whenever he prays he shows a lot of emotion showing how serious he is when he prays. Elie is also a very clam person in the beginning of the book and wanted to be ahead on his religion

   Elie starts to change when he arrived at Auschwitz as in the book it says "Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which depreiced me for all eternity" (32) he is basically saying that his god is silent and every prayer he made was nothing. Not only that but his behavior is starting to change after he realized his god is silent and also claiming that his soul has been destroyed. Elie is nbow only focusing on surviving and getting out alive. This is a huge change because in the beginning of the book Elie was calm and pious but now he is thinking that his religion is nothing but a silent lie and says surviving is his only chance.

   Finally the biggest change is when Elie found out his father died and this is huge because he felt freedom when he was taken away and he had no prayers and didn't weep. This is huge because after all this time of taking care of his father, he did it like he was forced to but now that he was taken he seeked freedom and the need to do anything without any worries.

Butterfly Project

At Terezin

"When a new child comes 

Everything seems strange to him.

What on the ground I have to lie?

Eat black potatoes? No! Not I! 

I've got to stay? It's dirty here! 

The floor-why look, it's dirt, I fear!

And I'm supposed to sleep on it?

I'll get all dirty!

Here the sound of shouting, cries,

And oh, so many flies.

Everyone knows flies carry disease.

Oooh, something bit me! Wasn't that a bedbug?

Here in Terezin, life is hell

And when I'll go home again, I can't yet tell"
Teddy 1944


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Berlin Memorial Activity

The things that I have learned during the holocaust subject was that the jews were the ones who were most treated wrong. When Hitler came into power ,his first plan was to get rid of the jews but part of it has been stopped during the 1936 olympics in Berlin. He had to remove anti jewish items so German won’t look bad. Shortly after that Hitler started to make new laws and remove jewish rights.

The thing that I noticed about the laws in the past years were that the Jews were the only ones receiving restrictions and rules. Some years had short changed while some of the years had really big chances that took nearly every single one of their rights. Some laws affects their lifestyle and some laws can affect their emotions deeply.

The laws that I would have trouble the most would be No pets, No music, and no jobs and education. The pets would affect me because if I had a pet that I cared for months and it gets taken away from me like that, I would be really depressed. Music can sometimes feel relaxing but without music, the place just feels dead and uncomfortable. The no education and jobs can also be a huge problem because no one would be able to have money to afford clothes, food, shelter, and other things that require a lot of money.

Quarter 2 Reflection

We did many things over the 2nd quarter and now that it's about to end i'm going to write a reflection about the 2nd quarter. During the second we read a lot of books and one of my favorite books is Maus By Art Spiegelman. Maus is about Art's father experiences during the holocaust, talking about the many people who were involved and the horrors that takes place. So far I wrote 2 blogs talking about the book, one being the first one of the series and the other is the 2nd part of the series. I like this book. Because it is a very interesting tale when you read about the people who were involved and how detailed it was described by the images shown. Although is has a bit of graphic scenes, I recommend getting it if you are interested on reading about the Holocaust.

Now to talk about my biggest improvements and so far my biggest improvement is starting to understand more about annotations. In the beginning of annotations I was struggling a bit, by now I'm starting to get used to it and i'm actually proud of it because accomplishing something that I didn't understand before is a huge deal for me. Annotating could help me understand the article more and also answer my questions that I've been wondering about the article. 

The most challenging part of 2nd quarter is me keeping track on the things that I need to finish. Sometimes I forget to work on homework and write important stuff down during class. I can overcome this by reminding myself to turn in unfinished work or to finish work that needs to be done and turned in. Quarter 2 was very challenging for me and hopefully it's less challenging in quarter 3 and 4.

Book Talk: Maus II: and here my trouble began

The book that I'm currently reading is called Maus II: and here my trouble began by Art Spiegleman which is realistic fiction and is the second book in the series. In the first book it is about a jewish father named Vladek Speigleman who is sharing his stories in Auschwitz to his son who is writing a book about the experience his father had during the holocaust. The second book talks more about his experience but it is more dramatic than the last book. The mood of this book is a combination between shocking and sad because the book talks about some of the deaths and horrible experience to others who struggled in the holocaust. As of now I only read 75 pages of the book so the ending is sti a mystery for me.

Repealing and replacing Obamacare

It has been announced that on December 12, 2016 that president elect Donald Trump will be repealing and replacing Obamacare with something else. Obamacare also known as The Affordable Care Act is a health care system that is more affordable and helps people to support their family. Obamacare would no longer be supported in January 20 and this could affect 22.8 million people who are currently using Obamacare.

Obamacare being repealed means that many people would not have health care and have to find another one that might be expensive or poor. This could affect people because most cheap healthcare systems are most likely to have more problems. People who get hurt or seriously injured could have an affect if they don’t have health care because they would have to pay even more than before. Obama care is used by millions. This event could cause people to go broke to try and afford a different health care that is experience.