What did you like most about our nonfiction study? The thing that I liked the most about our non fiction study is that it was nonfiction. I like to write nonfiction more than fiction because I like learning new facts that I don’t know and I like growing my brain.

Do you think you did a good job of including detailed information in your final piece? Explain(evidence). Yes because I had a lot of different text features like…

pictures ,

title,

heading,

bold words,

glossary,

and table of contents

What structure did you choose for your piece?

The text structure I used description, because I was telling the readers about different types of birds.

What new writing skills, strategies, or techniques did you learn during this study? I  learned to use glossary’s more because they are useful. They are useful because if there is a word you don’t know you can look at the the glossary and it describes the word that you don’t know .

Who is the person you interviewed ? I interviewed my dad

Where did you family immigrate from ?  dad’s family from Ukraine

mom’s family Georgia

what year did they immigrate? dad’s family in 1993

mom’s family 1995

why did they immigrate? How did hey get there? ( Ellis Island, Angel island

boat , plane, train…)

they immigrated as Jewish refugees from Former Soviet Union first to Moscow, second to New York, and third to Milwaukee. It took  about 3 days.

Are there any traditions that your family still has? Or is there anything still in your family from when they first came to the United States ?

some of the traditions is to keep Shabbat and still eat traditional Russian food. We still have vases, books, and family photos that my parents brought from Russia.

What other interesting stories or facts did you learn?

that Jewish people could not openly practice Jewish religions and customs in Russia. My dads grandma had 11 sisters.

Today in class we did a role playing activity about the civil rights movement. March was a thing where all different types of people would come and every one would come and walk through different states just because they wanted rights for every one.  People marched because they wanted to be treated the same.

My character is  a young white worker, 23 year old student tin Washington, DC, finding a job has been hard . I  have seen demonstrations on TV, but have never attended a civil rights demonstration my self  self .

would I go on the march yes / no?

I would go on the march because if I have a black friend than I would want to see him or/her sometimes but black and white people can’t be together so I would go on the march because I want the rights for black people and white people to be equal and be treated the same.

1.Volume:

How many responses do I have ? (I have 43 readers responses ]

Summary: Amazing Water, UGLY, Amulet, Believe It Or Not.

List Of Characters: Ramona And Her Father, Amulet, Who Was Serena And Venus Williams.

Connections: Ramona And Her Father, One and only Ivan

K-W-L: Amulet, Ramona And Her Father.

Stop And Jot: Armadillo Ray.

New Words and Definitions: Believe It Or Not, Ramona And Her Father, Amazing Water.

Character Sketch: Armadillo Ray, Diary Of The Wimpy Kid, Ugly

Predictions: The Water Horse

Answer Question: Mars, Everything Weather

Character Letter: Ramona And Her Father.

Do I have 2-3 readers responses a week ? Yes I do, every week I do independent read I take my readers binder out and I take my book out and I start writing readers responses sometimes it is hard to think what what entire I want to write about.

Do I have different types of entries? yes I have 43 entries in my readers binder I try my best to spell every thing write in my readers response note book.

What do I want to work on? doing more character letters , and I want to work on reading more poetry, And I want to work on reading more non fiction and reading less fiction.

My one word goal is Grow,

• Grow can mean growing your brain
• Growing your body
• learning is growing you brain. How I am going to work towards that is by trying new things, trying new genres when it’s independent reading and trying to do more math packets. I will try to do this by pushing myself to try new things.