Weekly Reflection

Topic; Inferences
I recently had a conference with Ms. Capelli about inferences. I need to build on them. Something I could get stronger in is not making a prediction. The problem im facing is The past tense and pretense of when things are happening. I tend to predict what is going to happen in the the future instead of what happened or is currently happening in the text. I think something I'm good at is inferencing is going beneath the text but another problem I have is figuring out how to get there. Or being metacognitive.

Weekly Super Smart Note

Mark Zukerberg Non- Fiction

Mark Zukerberg came from right here in Ardsley High School. At the age of 12 he was already programming. He created a small network inside his house called ZuckNet. It was a system so his family could message each other from different computers.  As he got older he improved on this. and thus TheFacebook was born. No I did not make a mistake Mark called it thefacebook  all one word. It evolved from 2006 and just became facebook. Some college friends claimed that they had the idea first for facebook. They recently hired him for some programming in college. Then after Zuck dropped out the sued facebook for 60 million dollars. This lawsuit was portrayed in the movie The Social Network. Mark never has stated that is was there idea.. Nobody knows what happened.  But since Facebook makes about 3 billion dollars a year and, 1 of every 7 people (recent milestone) have a facebook account it is clear that Mark has and may very well change the future.

Reading Recommendation

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Recommendation By Will Jacobson

Excerpt

“How long I scramble along dodging fireballs I can't say...”
P.176
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This is the thoughts of Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games. In the future lies where once North America was and in the future holds Panem. Panem contains 12 districts. Then there's the big city or the Capital. The capital keeps the districts in line by forcing them to sacrifice 1 boy and 1 girl to fight to the death on T.V.


If you don't know already Katniss enters the Hunger Games in place for her sister so she wouldn't die. Her fellow tribute is Peeta Melark. He forms a romance for Katniss and she is forced into 'faking' it for the crowd leading up to the games.  But is she faking it will Peeta's love for her affect the games? Read the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and find out...

Reading Reflection - Choosing Books

My reflection this week is about my ability to choose books. Since its the beginning of the school year I needed to find a book.  I chose The First of the Lord of the Rings Series.  It was too hard for me. So then I had to search for a new book. For me I like to stay in the futuristic genre and the more fantasy books. I have to learn to expand my reading choices. It is really hard to find a good book for me.  This year I am going to try my hardest to read more of different genres.

SuperSmartNote

In the first few pages of reading, The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R Tolkien there was a lot if crazy vocab thrown at me.  This book is in a whole different land. This made me activate my schema on all I know about middle earth.  When the book said on page 43 "Rumor of the coming event traveled all over the shire." Without knowing my schema activated, thinking about how rumors "spread" through places. The shire must be the town or like the center of the town.  This helped me understand that the Lord of the Rings has its own sort of "language". i should do some research about middle earth.