My Favorite book that I'm currently reading, is The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. This is my favorite because it is a follow up on the original series of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, this was the first series Rick Riordan has made. This is my favorite book because it has most of the same characters from the first series, there have been more heroes (half blood as they're described/named in the series) that have been added which play important roles. Each character gets a chance to explain their backgrounds and how they managed to enter the camps. In my book they're two different camps that have different fighting styles and beliefs. One camp is Roman, which is the older belief in which gods were more violent. The second camp is Greek, which is more retro because they were believed to have gone extinct. Both camps don't like one another because of the different ways they live. The main characters who are in my book are Percy Jackson, and Annabeth. There's more but haven't been introduced yet. Percy Jackson is the Son of the god of sea (Poseidon in Greek, and Neptune in Roman), since Percy is the Son of the god of sea. He had the ability to use water as a weapon, Percy can also use water to move around when/if he is nearby the sea. Annabeth is the Daughter of Wisdom and Craft (Athena in Greek, Minerva in roman), Annabeth is a natural born leader and has great strategy in combat.
In my opinion, I've made an improvement when it comes to researching links that are credible. Now when I research I know what specific websites I can use to give accurate information, such as .Org, .Gov. The more I learned to find reliable resources, the better I can be when finding information in the future.
One thing I am proud of that I've accomplished this year is learning about the Holocaust and know some of the struggles many people had to go through in order to survive through the dark time. Before I didn't know that many facts about the Holocaust but as we read Night by Elie Wiesel I began to understand what people (specifically Jewish people) went through when people were taken out of their homes and taken to concentration camps. Most died before they even were put into forced labor, it was a hard time because most were starved and killed each other for even a small portion of food.
In my 40 book challenge, I am currently on my 28th book, this is counting the books we have read in class. But I have read books in other classes, such as Social studies and science. The independent reading books I've read have been mainly fiction books. I've barely started my book, but when I finish the book it will be the 29th book.
The most challenging part of the 3rd quarter is when we had to make our own butterfly and analyse our poem and give explanation on how life was for the original author. To overcome this I paraphrased what the author was describing, such as the mass killing for no reason and the number of bodies and open caskets that were all over the place. Then, I tried my best to perfectly put where I wanted to add the information so it would go with the topic.
Since August my blogs haven't improved in many ways, such as spelling and vocabulary and grammar. My word choices began to improve, if I made a mistake I would go back and correct it. Didn't matter if it was spelling or grammar, I would go back correct the errors and improve them.
T.I.Q.A and C.R.A.A.P, T.I.Q.A format has helped me get better at writing. In a way in which I could get information from a website, book, article, etc and use it correctly to tell my claim and the facts that come with it. C.R.A.A.P has helped me find websites that are reliable when it comes to finding support for an argument that I've chosen.
I've learned that the world has many different problems that not many people try to fix. Such as animal cruelty, whether it's a zoo, owner, or testing. No one has paid attention to find alternative ways to not make animals suffer. Racism and segregation is still happening in different parts of the world. Slavery still exist, people are still forced to work with no pay and bad conditions. Stereotypes have gotten worse, specific immigrant group aren't allowed to enter the United States because of the background of what's happening in their original home/country.
Like I said before, my research skills have improved because now I am able to tell which sources are reliable and which aren't depending on who wrote them. The most source that I believe is the most reliable, are the ones that end with either .Gov, or .Org. These give the bets quality information, in which that can be trusted.
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