The White Mountains Post#4

The quote on page 111 relates to the theme by saying that if you have courage but gets capped, what is the meaning of courage without a free mind? The rest of the chapter also talks about freedom. When Will found out that Eloise is also capped and has no freedom, he abandons his love and escaped after Eloise left in the next chapter. The people of the red castle also thinks that capping ceremony is a way of growing up, like from a boy to a knight or a girl to a lady. Will said in the passage that all good things are wasted when they are capped. I think the reason he said that because Eloise is capped and Will loves Eloise so when he learns that she is capped, he felt that she is wasted.

The White Mountains Post #3

The Tripods were able to control people by capping them using a metal cap. They control thoughts and knowledge but not emotions and feelings. The Comte, Comtesse and Eloise are all capped but they are still kind and wants to help others. Will is comfortable living in the red castle, he is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse and Eloise has been capped. The evidence or quotation from the novel: "But not Eloise. I had thought her free, like myself. I might even have come to the idea-its beginnings,I think, were in my mind already- that when we set off once more for the White Mountains, there might not be three of us, but four. All this was rendered futile by the sight of her bare head. I had come to think of her as my friend:perhaps more. But now I knew that she belonged, irretrievably,body and soul, to the Enemy." One evidence or quotation of what Will thinks about capping from the novel is:"I was sorry at the thought of leaving her,and my father,and of their unhappiness when they found me gone. The Caps offered no remedy for human grief. but I could not stay, any more than a sheep could walk through a slaughterhouse door, once it knew what lay beyond. And I knew that I would rather die than wear a cap."

The White Mountains Post #2

Beanpole helps Will and Henry on their journey to the White Mountains by making sensible choices since he is the most intelligent person in their group. An example of how he is intelligent is that he read a lot of books and learns English by himself. The reason he wants to go with Will and Henry because Beanpole is smart enough to realize that the Tripods are using caps to control people's mind. With out Beanpole, Will and Henry might not be smart enough to make it to the White Mountains.
Another way Beanpole helps Will and Henry is knowing how to speak french, so he can communicate with the villagers and get them out of trouble. Later on in the story, when they are caught, Beanpole spoke to the people and said Will and Henry is his deaf cousins. If Beanpole weren't there, Will and Henry would be locked up and capped and will have no chance of escaping.

The White Mountains Post 1

Will is like me because we both have friends and it is important to have friends, Will's only friend is Jack(Soon Beanpole)before he was capped. I also have friends except I have more than 1, about 6-7. A few of my main friends are Roemer, Junnmeng and Danniel. Henry and Will might be friends, but sometimes they fight and tease other, in chapter 3 Henry tries to make friends with Will. This is one of the similarities we have.
Another reason that Will is like me is that we both are wanting to discover new things, like Will wants to discover the truth about the Tripods. I want to learn new things as well discovering some. Will discovered some friends he never had on the way to White mountains later on in the story. Learning new things like how to survive far away from Will is a challenge for him, for me the things I need to learn is how to be a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen like the ISKL statement says.

Resolution for the Year

My resolutions for the year is to learn a new skill, get healthier, help other students and improve academically and socially. The new skill I wanted to learn is to be better at writing essays and other writing tasks. Getting healthier is another goal I have for the new year because I sometimes get really sick and have a high fever. Academic and social resolution are another important resolution, I want to improve my grades and have more friends. Helping other students is another thing I need to do.



I want to be better at writing essays because some of my essays are not well structured. Other writing tasks includes narratives and blog posts. The structure of the essays are separated into many parts and that makes it kind of too many paragraphs. This new skill is the one I wanted to learn and it is also important. Learning a new skill is my number 3 on my resolution. The order of the resolution is improve academically and socially ,then get healthier, new skill and the last is help other students.



Improving my grades and make new friends is the most important resolution, it also involves helping other students with things they need help with.In this paragraph number 1 and number 4 is mentioned together, because the socially goal is a bit like helping others.The academic goal is to maintain my grades as A's and the social goal is to make more friends as well helping other students. Helping students is one of my resolutions because I don't help other students a lot. All of my grades are at A's at the moment except Math, which has dropped to B+ because of a test.





Getting healthier is another resolution that I made. Growing taller is made by being healthy, so in order to grow taller I have to be healthier. Exercising is something I need to do more often to be fit. Overall, I made all 4 resolution for the year and here is the order of them:
1.Improve Academically and socially
2. Healthier
3.New skill
4.Help other students

Wordle

I have achieved most of my goals that I set out in the beginning of 6th grade, academically and socially. My academically goal is to become a better writer, not only I became a better writer, I also improve my grammar. Like compound sentence and complex sentence, when to put a comma, learn what a article and conjunction is and much more. Social goal is make new friends with new students, I made friends with Junn meng, Asuka, Chung su and more. All my goals have been achieved and I will try to make new goals, both academically and socially for next semester.

The skills I have learned are how to Collaborate Constructively, Communicate Effectively, Think Creatively, Learn Enthusiastically, Live Ethically and Reason Critically which is the SLRs. Collaborate Constructively in Health class skit, Communicate Effectively in Humanities, Think Creatively in the Ancient Sumer mobile, Learn Enthusiastically which I do for every class, Live Ethically for Art and Reason Critically in Math. In Humanities I gained lots of knowledge of history, writing and reading. For history I learned about the Hominids like the Australopithecus Afarensis and the Homo Erectus, the Neolithic age and the Paleolithic age, the problems in Sumer, the characteristic of a civilization and the 4 empires of Mesopotamia. The length of my paragraphs increased and I sometimes take a pencil when I read.

Skills I want to learn are other civilization like the Egyptian and the Romans in humanities, more drawing techniques for art, more complicated math and how to play better in band. Egyptian and Romans have Characteristics of a civilization which interest me to learn more about them. My art grade is A but I wanted to be better at art. Sometimes the math is already review for me, so I want more complicated math like the extension. Clarinet is the instrument I play at band, but my techniques are really poor, so I wanted to learn how to improve.

My goals for the next Semester, mentioned earlier are 2 academical goals and 1 socially goal. My 2 academic goal are to score higher grades and to keep them high. The social goal that I think I need to improve is to speak more often. The things I will do to achive my goals are to double check my work, studie for every test and to raise my hand more often. Those are my goals for the next 6 monthes.

Final Literature Reflection

I liked the book a lot because the author used a lot of action and description. Like the part when Charlotte climbed the bowsprit which has a lot of description and the part when Captain Jaggery fell overboard and plunged into the ocean which has a lot of action. The book also has a hook at the end of the chapter that pulls you to the next chapter, Avi really included all the techniquesof a well written story. He also included the rising action which is the mystery getting stranger and stranger and the climax is when Mr. Hollybrass died and Charlotte was blamed for it.

My favorite part in the whole story is when Charlotte abandon her unloving family to join the crew which she felt is her family because Charlotte followed her heart and chose her own future. Charlotte abandoned her real but unloved family to the crew who treated her like family, she felt that she doesn't know her real family anymore. So that's why she ran away from home. one of our group members said that in the beginning Zachariah said that Charlotte and him have a lot in common, they both ran away from home.

I think the message of the story was to trust one another. Charlotte at first only trust the captain, but as the journey goes on she slowly trust Zachariah and the crew and Zachariah and the crew trust her back. The crew didn't help her when Charlotte was sentenced because they thought Zachariah had killed Mr. Hollybrass and they were afraid of blurting out the secret of Zachariah. Captain Jaggery lost trust in Charlotte after she whipped him with the whip, so he started to treat her badly.

I liked the Literature circle very much, because I can read great books and discuss the book with other people. My suggestions for the Assignment is that more people in the groups and more vocabulary words in the discussion sheet. My favorite thing in the discussion sheet is passages, because I can put down my thoughts. Responses to questions is also one of my favorite thing in the discussion because my responses are long.

Thunder cave is the novel I would want to read next, because one of my friends said it is really exciting. Like lions and saving some one's father sounded like it has a lot of action. There isn't a lot of long descriptions in Thunder cave like Charlotte doyle. It was my second book I chose when we could choose our own books at the beginning of the year.