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Yesterday In Ms. Carney's class the students were taking notes on the usage of seen vs saw. I had forgotten how to distinguish which one to use when saying what I have seen something. I thought it was good that the notes consisted of when not to use seen and when to use saw. On the notes they were writing on piece of paper they were using which consisted of four lines. One line had an X and the other a Check mark. The ones that had an X on it would be a bad example of seen or saw and the Check mark was a sentence that was written correct. After that she put them to test by handing them a paper where they could write four sentences and choose one that was good and one that was bad so that she could tell if anyone had any trouble with distinguishing seen and saw in sentences. They wrote their good and bad sentences on a website called "Today's meet", I remember she had used this method before and I think it's very affective. It's like communicating through facebook. I believe it's fun for the students and I've seen that the children enjoy being on the laptops.

My coworker "Chase" has been telling me to see this movie that he and his girlfriend had seen a long time ago, it's called " Real Women Have Curves". He mentioned to me that he enjoyed the movie very much and recommends me to see it immediately. I managed to see a glimpse of the movie and I did not like it, only because the parents of the main character are idiots. They don't want their daughter to go to college but to work in a factory. The main character "Anita" is a marvelous student who managed to go to Beverly high school and graduate from there, being from a poor family, and a poor neighborhood. I was impressed by how much the girl had achieved but not about the parent part. Every child should have the guidance and support in everything the child wants to achieve. It makes me so angry when parents do not let their children try to become better people. There was something that absolutely bothered me about the movie, there was a part where the father was finally thinking about letting their daughter go to college but the mother protested that Anita should work and work and only work because that's all she ever did when she was a little girl. She had also added that a women should only need to know how to cook, clean and bear children. The mother obviously was miserable through out the whole movie I saw part of. Why would you want your child to live the same life when the opportunities of living a better life was right in your face. Well I'm not going to see the rest of the movie because I do not want to see the unreasonable type of parents Anita has. They make me angry. Anita's mother had also said that it is unfair that Anita could live a better life than she had lived. ANITA'S MOTHER IS A HORRIBLE PERSON!!!!!! UGHHH

I left early from school and started my journey to the middle school. I can tell you right away that it was hot! Good thing I had two water bottles and I could feel a little breeze as I was power walking to the middle school. As I walked in Ms. Carney's classroom every child had a laptop. They were writing in "TodaysMeet" which is a website similar to texting. It's pretty cool that when Ms. Carney writes a question every student receives it, and who even answers back, everyone can also see it. Today I guess they took the NJ ASK test. I noticed most of the messages Ms. Carney asked were about the questions and the writing part of the test. Most of the children did not remember but some did. The ones who remembered mentioned that they wrote an essay and only had 30 minutes. Also that Shakyra(student) had used simile in her writing. Shakyra added that the language arts part of the test was less difficult for her but the other students had more difficulty with the material who did not have Ms. Carney. I thought it was awesome that this student sees the difference between her and the other students on tests and in Ms. Carney's teaching. I already knew that Ms. Carney's teaching was very effective and very attention grabbing. Ms. Carney once again let technology come into the classroom. She used the smartboard like last time so that the students could make the arrow spin on the graph. One graph had "explanatory topics" and the other "writing techniques". The explanatory pie had topics like person you admire, experience with peer pressure, your favorite place to eat, etc...The writing techniques pie consisted of create a hyperbole, create an alliterative title, create an idiom,etc... This time the students had to write about themselves. Ms. Carney had mentioned that the student would be writing an essay about themselves. I think it's a great idea when you ask the students to write about themselves because it gives them the opportunity to express themselves and let others know who they are. Every student loves to tell everyone what they like and who they love, things they want to achieve,and who they want to be in the future. Ms. Carney is an excellent teacher who makes learning so much more enjoyable and in a modern way. Keep up the good work Ms. Carney I'm glad your my sponsor.