Quarter 2, Week 7 Critical Reading Passage

China’s economy has grown very quickly over the last 30 years due to the number of
1) __________ they send to countries like the United States. It is almost impossible to name a product that Americans use that is not 2) __________from China – toys, clothes, electronics, and furniture. The Chinese government has spent more than $568 billion on improving transportation in China in order to increase the Chinese economy. One recent development has been the introduction of a bullet train that runs between two major Chinese cities.
Its 3) __________ is not just to transport passengers, but to help increase China’s economy by helping to transport goods between cities faster.In 2009, China became the world’s largest
4) __________ of goods to the rest of the world. It is expected that China’s economy will become the world’s largest by 2027, beating out the United States. It is difficult for the United States to compete with China. We 5) __________ four items from China for everything
6) __________ that we send there. This means fewer jobs for U.S. workers and more jobs for Chinese workers. The benefit that Americans receive from the high number of Chinese imports is that it allows U.S. stores to offer lower priced goods. However, many Americans feel that the U.S. government’s 7) __________ is to decrease this trade deficit if the U.S. wants to remain the largest economy in the world.
1.) exports
2.) imported
3.) function
4.) imports
5.) export
6.) functions
7.) function

The people from china should buy goods from the U.S because we could help them make more money. The could guarantee that those iteams that they try to sell us work. Also that they should add a one year replacement if it has a difunction. the U.S should just lower there prices and stuff wouold just get bought.

Q2, Week 6 Critical Reading Passage

What would you do if someone gave you a credit card with a $20,000 limit? - I would use the credit card to buy some clothes, haircut, and some other stuff. I would have fun with the card. What would you do if the credit card company asked for all of their money back and 10% interest on what you had spent?- I would tell them that they are crazy because they didnt tell me I had to pay them back plus interest. I also would give them the stuff I bought if they got all crazy.
What are some of the consequences of bankruptcy?- You lose your house, car, and other stuff that you owned that you bought with that card.

Q2, Week 5 - Critical Reading Passage

1. Is it dangerous to use a cell phone while driving?
- If you know how to talk and drive no. It is against the law to do that though. I could talk and drive it isnt that hard.
2. Should cell phones be banned completely while driving or are they safe to use with hand-free devices?
- No they shouldnt. What if the person that called you has an emergancy and they cant tell you so you wouldnt even know.

Week 5 Grades

Algebra-69%, Home room-66%, L.A-79%. I aint happy about my grades and Ima try to make up as much work as I could to improve my grade. I have 9 missing assignment right.

Week 4 Critical Reading Passage

1) Do you think social networking sites have made a positive or negative impact on your life and our society? - The internet made life easier but also it can be bad because the way people use the internet.
2) How have social networking sites changed the structure of social relationships?
- Many people use the internet to look for people to date and go on online dating sites.
3) As of 2011, it is legal for colleges and businesses to view the social networking profiles of applicants. Do you think that is a violation of their privacy?
- I dont think it is a violation of private property.

1. Impact- the force with which one object hits another
2. Percieve- to notice something, especially something that escapes the notice of others
3. Structure- the way in which the different parts of something link or work together, or the fact of being linked together

Week 4 Grades

       Algebra is 53 percent, English is 80 percent, Homeroom is 65 percent. I am  not happy with my grades and I am going to improve them. I am going to do the make up work to improve my grades. I am going to have no missing assessments after today but I have 6 missing right now.

Q2, Week 4 Critical Reading Passage - Should Human Cloning Be Allowed?

I dont think that they should start cloning people. If they start to clone people then the population would get bigger. Also they would take up many jobs and they would do crimes and if they look like us then we would get locked up for their crime. I personally wouldnt want a clone for myself. The clones would be dumber.

Q2, Week 4 Vocabulary Definitions & Cloze context, equate, evaluate.

Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically 1) __________ to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have 2) __________ the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different 3) __________, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab.

Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this 4) __________, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.

Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they
5) __________ that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.

1.) equate
2.)evaluate
3.)context
4.)context
5.)equate

Equate: to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent

Evaluate: to determine or set the valueor amount of; appraise

context: the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect

Q2, Week 3 - T-Chart & Paragraph

-It intertains people, takes time, have group family time together

I think that kids could play violant video games if they want. The results interpret that only very little people think that violant games turn kids violant. It is one way that kids use there time instead of doing bad stuff and being on the streets. I play violant video and I anit a bad kid. That is just what a certain percent of people say about those games because they havent been involvedin those games when they were little. I am done stating my opinioun.

Violant Video Games interpret, percent, and involve

Ninety-seven 1) __________ of twelve to seventeen year olds in the U.S. played video games in 2008, thus fueling an $11.7 billion domestic video game industry. In 2008, ten of the top twenty best-selling video games in the U.S. 2) __________ violence.Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in the 3) __________ of students being bullied, and violence towards women. Critics say that these games make players less sensitive to real-life violence, reward players for simulating violence, and that children 4) __________ them to mean violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts.Video game advocates 5) __________ the research on this topic as deeply flawed and say that there is no relationship between video games and social violence. They argue that violent video games may reduce violence by serving as a substitute for rough and tumble play and by providing a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings.

1.) percent
2.) intepret
3.) percent
4.) interpret
5.) interpret

Week 2 Vocabulary Defintions & Critical Reading Passage

Do kids who are involved with playing violent video games tend to be more aggressive?
- I dont think kids who play violent video games are more voilant towards other people.
If and when you have children, will you let them play violent video games?
- Yes I wouold let my son play violant games with me and by himself.
Are there benefits to playing violent video games?
- No its just to take up time while at home. It actually is bad for their brains so people say.

Interpret: to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate
Involve: to engage or employ
Percent: one of a hundred

Week 10 Definitions and Critical Reading Passage

consest- to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to  or an infinitive)

emphasis- special stress laid upon, or importance attached to anything

 

 

criteria- a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.

 

                I think they should have euthanasia passed as a law only if the paitent wants to have it done to him/her. I think the courts should not have it on their deccision.I do not think that the doctors should have a word in taking some one eles life.The pacient should be able to tell them if he wants to take that euthanasia shot, and the courts should not pass this dumb law.They should have the consent of the paitent first.the court gave great emphasis on this topic beacause its vevery inportant. They dont even know the criteria of the situation.

T-Chart and Practice Paragraph Quarter 1 Week 9

I think junk food should stay in schools. It should stay because a lot of kids buy it and then they have PE so the junk food could get burned out. If they take out junk food then kids would ditch school to get junk food because they got munchies. In my previous school there were kids selling munchies. They came up with that alternative to sell there stuff cheaper then the school to have more custemors. They had a good stragety to go to TJ and buy there stuff cheap and then sell them cheap and still make some money at the same time.

Week 9 Vocab Defintions and Close Reading Passage

- strategy some schools are using is providing tasty snacks for their students that are lower in sugar and fat content

- alternative other than to force healthy eating

- previous years, schools have sold many high-fat and high-sugar items to their students, including cafeteria food in which the main vegetable is too often french fries

 I think that they are trying to take some junk food out of schools. I think all vendy machines do have pure junk food in them. They should put salads in them too. It is effecting the kids health and is getting the kids fater.

Week 6 Vocabulary Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

This is verifing what he wants to do.

There is a certain sequence of movment.

This simplifies the model of these guns.

Verify - check, confirm, prove
Sequence - succession, chain
Simplify - make simpler, make things easier, shorten

Week 6 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples

Verify-to ascertain the truth or correctness of, as by examination, research, or comparison  - Whenever you are absent, Julianna calls your mommies and daddies to verify your absence and make sure you are actually sick and not just skipping school!
Sequence- the following of one thing after another - Your personal narratives should follow a logical sequence of your story - the "before" you, the story that changed you, and the "after" version of you.
Simplify-to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier:  - You should try to simplify your life by simply listening to your teacher sometimes!

Week 5 Vocabulary Paragraph

I had to illistrate a picture for art class. It had to have a positive impact on everyone. I had to estimate how much paint to use. I got an A on the project. She put it on the wall.

Week 5 Vocabulary Sentences

I am a positive role model for my brother.
I was positive for weed so I had to go to drug classes.

I had to make an estimate of how many people are in class today.
They estimated that 20% of the class was smoking weed.

I had to illistriate a picture for school.
i illistriated a picture for my wall so it isnt plain.

Week 5 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

 a. Positive - optimistic, constructive, affirmative
b. Illustrate - demonstrate, show, exemplify
c. Estimate - approximation, guess, calculation





You smoke this you could come out positive for thc.

This is a picture of an illustration.

This kid is making an estimate on how much gum balls are in this jar.



Week 5 Vocabulary Definitons and Examples

a. Illustrate- to make clear or intelligible, as by examples or analogies; exemplify. -EX: She illustrated a children's book about the effects of smoking on your lungs.
b. Estimate-to form an opinion of; judge  -EX: I had to get an estimate of how much it was going to cost me to fix my car before I had the work done.
c. Positive- explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: -EX: I am determined to have a positive attitude today  so don't make me mad! :)