Journal 82: My Last Journal Entry

Yeah! I can't believe it's my last journal, and I can see the class has made 82 post, but I don't think I didn't do all of them, I failed on the poem parts, because I am bad at making poem. A message to the next year 8th graders: "You guys should beginning writing your journal in class, when the teacher gives you time, because once you get home, you won't have enough time to think and type journal at the same time.", you all should write it in class so that when you get home, you can just copy what you write at school and put it on the blog. That is how I do sometimes when teacher gives us enough time and I always finish more than 200 words, once I get home, I just copy what I write, and it's very fast. I think this journal is kind of helpful because it improves your writing and your imagination. You also can know your friend better by commenting on their blog. You can make up writing journal's habit and in the future, you can write a story really fast. What I don't like about this journal stuff is that you need to use internet blogger, you can't write on piece of paper, because sometimes you got problem accessing your computer, you can't type journal anymore. I think we should improve on this part.

Journal 81: In Defense of My Treasure

I think I would protect my treasure. It depends on who is the one who is trying to steel or destroy my treasure. It depends on the treasures value. If it is my parents who is trying to touch my treasure. I 'can't say "No" to them. Well, they won't do it most of the time. I think I did that because I don't like people touch my treasure except that person it's my best friend, but some treasure, even my family can't touch it, I don't think I would be able to give up protecting my treasure. How I will protect my treasure, I will first yell at people who touch it. If they continue doing it, I will push them away. If they are way to over, I will fight with them. My treasure is untouchable. I will never give up protecting my treasure, I will fight for it and I believe people will say this thing too. In the story I think Lemon Brown protect his treasure because he think that is very awesome because himself and his son both think this thing is very awesome. Lemon Brown will never give up on his treasure even the three gangsters is beating him up to death. I like his attitude.

Journal 80: My Treasure

For me, my treasure I think it would be my bed, because it's kind of like treasure to everyone. You protect it well, you always rely on it. I really protect my bed, because that is the place I spend most of my life time. I want my bed to be clean and comfortable, so I don't allow anyone to lie on it, unless that person is clean too. The things I am also treasure was my computer, it gave me most of my fun time, it solve my question on anything, like homework, game, etc. There was one time, my mother is trying to destroy my computer by ripping all the wire off from it, and I am really sad. My mother say I spend a lot of time on my "treasure" instead of with family. Talk about family, it is something to treasure too. You family gave you most of the support and no matter what they did to you, they always love you, except some other parents. I don't know, in the fairy tales, the step mother is very mean and ugly. I think my parent is the best. Also I think something to be treasure is my friendship, because when you are lonely, your friend always stay with you, but unless you find the true friend. If you find the wrong friend, that person will stab you in the back or blame anything on you if they have trouble. Friendship is good, but depends on what you chose.

Journal 79: My Background

My background will be that I was born in Taiwan and when I was little, my parents were busy the all time, so it's always my grandmother took care of me. Also I live in the country side, so if you need or want anything, you need to get it yourself and very far. This thought always keep in my mind, and sometimes getting what you want is hard because you live in the country side, no supermarket, no Seven-Eleven. When I move to the city and I found it's so convenient because you can get what you want by walking, cause Seven-Eleven and super market are close. Right now, I am moving back from city to country side again, but it's turning to be city, because people start taking away farmland, build big buildings. The scene I saw when i was young was all farmland and now it's all gone. Also when I was young, I have a lot of time to play and exercise. I turn a lot when I was young, but since I move to city, I stay home a lot because it's very dangerous to run beside traffic. I really miss the time when I was young because I don't have any pressure and all my family is healthy, I don't have any problem with anything until now. 

Journal 78: Style

       I think Toni Cade Bambara's style in "Raymond's Run", she like to use dialect in this story because when we read, we know about the personality of the main character. Dialect is speaking of the narrator, and sometimes narrator talks about themselves in the story. Like in Raymond's Run, Squeaky keep talking how awesome is her, like saying she is like Raymond's big sister even Raymond is older than her, she say this because she think she take care of Raymond's and protect him most of the time, which is true in the story. Also, she keep saying she run very fast, and keep telling reader that her classmates call her "Mercury", which is a god and that god can run very fast. She think she run fast because she always win during her life, she talk about during elementary school's sport day and the "May Day Program" about she keep winning the big prize every year. Which is also true things in the story, because her family could run very fast too. I think the only style I could find from "Raymond's Run" is that the writer use a lot of dialect in the story. I suggest people should read this story.

Journal 77: Slang

Example and meaning of slang words, the first one I will talk about is the word "Slang", this word means abuse. The second word is "Cool", it's describe something that is very good. Like we always use, this thing is cool. Also the word "Chill, it means to tell someone to calm down, like we use to say "Chilled out, dude", means to tell this person to calm down, it can also mean relaxing etc. Like we say "We are chilling at Sean's house". The common slang word we use "Dude", it can be use to refer to any person whether they are known by the speaker or not. Examples are "Dude, what are you doing?", and "That dude is stealing my car. "Booze", it means alcohol, it is pronouns funny and it looks cool. They also say nose, say "schnozz" very funny. I found a really good website talks about some slang word that people use most of the time. Like "idiot", "moron","third degree","Slut"(sorry for this one). Idiot came from a Greek word Itiotes was used to refer person who was a private individual. Moron also came from Greek word, Moron meant foolish or stupid. Third degree means to be thoroughly questioned, we all know what slut means.

Journal 76: Analogy

My analogy will be "To make someone in our class to tell truth, its like telling her to jump off building". I mean to tell this person to tell some truth which is impossible. Someone in our class likes to make lie about people like telling this person how bad is another person. It can cause misunderstand, and makes people hate each other. The truth is the person who keep saying how bad is someone and didn't tell the truth about the person is the one should get hate by everyone. It's because that person is not honest, for example, A is the person who always tell lies and A is a female in PAS 8th grader. B is the friend of A and C is the person who is hate by A and was the victim. A is friend with B but A hate C, B doesn't hate C and both of them don't really talk to each other. A want to make B hate C too, so A keep telling B how bad is C, but non of them are truth! That makes B think C is the bad person and B start to hate C. In the end A and B both hate C, but B hate C because of A, I think C will be a boy in our class, and A and B will be two girls in our class. A hate C, so A tell B to hate C. That is very bad and very disgusting act to A. Well, in the end, C is the one who got all friends and everyone hate A because A is tricking everyone to hate C, but B is falling for it. I hope B can understand the truth and get rid of A quickly. C person is best !!