Ava's Blog

    My quarter two has been a little rickety, there was a LOT of drama between friends that I got caught in the middle of and tried to deal with accordingly. Despite the drama there were many things that made me happy and proud of myself. I’m sure hearing my drama would be so much more entertaining than talking about my accomplishments in ELA but in life we don’t always get what we want.    I guess I’ll start with something that I improved upon so my mom doesn’t say “You need to focus on the positive things in your life instead of the negative things.” Don’t get me wrong, I love my mom but she can just be a little overbearing. Okay, let’s get started. I think one thing that I improved on was my reading skills. I went up around 12 points in my Reading MAP test and I was really proud of myself. I often think of the reason why I was placed in my Excellerated ELA class if there are smarter people than me that aren’t in ELA. Why was I chosen over them if they’re smarte...

      In ELA we recently did our Holocaust unit. After finishing a memoir written by a Holocaust survivor we watched a movie titled  Life is Beautiful . You might be wondering how life could be beautiful if he movie was about the Holocaust, even watching the first 30 minutes of the movie you would have no idea that it was focused around the Holocaust. Although the basis of the movie is based on the Holocaust it seems to portray time and time again how life is beautiful even in terrible times like the Holocaust.       The first sign you would see is falling in love. Less than 10 minutes into the movie Guido, the main, meets Dora, the “lover”.  Despite them only seeing once he persisted to find her and go out with her on a date. You can tell Dora also wants to see Guido again but, unfortunately at the time she is engaged to a man that Guido has wronged. One of the times Guido sees Dora again is when she is to be married and I believe they were at...