My Favorite Villan

My favorite villain is Swiper from Dora the explorer. He is a great villain because he always tries to ruin the plans of Dora and her friends. The most evil thing about him is his unwillingness to not stop pestering Dora. Some characteristics of Swiper is he is a fox, which is not a very nice animal. He always wears a bandanna on his face, which robbers wear too and they are not very nice people. Swipers strategy's to get Dora is to usually hide behind a tree of rock and hopes no one will see him, but Dora always asks her viewers to watch out for him, and if they see him the viewers yell out "Swiper no swiping!", and after they say that he leaves. That is his only weakness. He usually comes to bother Dora when she is trying to get somewhere, she is always exploring with her pet monkey Boots and Backpack. Swiper tries to steal things from her too, hence the name Swiper and the bandanna.

Can we trust people to be good?

If people were stranded on a desert island I wouldn't trust them to survive because there is always one person who has to mess everything up for everyone then they all die. Even if there is food and water on the island somebody will need to step up and take change. If no one does that then they all die, or everyone want to be the leader of the whole group and there is a lot of arguing going on to find out who will be the leader. Only in a rare occasion one person will be the leader and everyone else will follow he or she. But eventually they will make a wrong choice and everyone will hate them. So they will try to pick someone else to be leader and they can't find the right person for the job. So they will not find food. they won't find water, they will start getting angry with each other, start fighting and all die. But i will never trust that people will be able to survive alone, even though it depends on a lot of thing most of the time they will not survive.

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

Last week I had to memorize this poem. I think what Robert Frost means in this in this poem is he stopped in the woods to admire the beauty of the woods. He thought his horse was confused because they stopped without a farm near, it was basically in the middle of nowhere. It was snowing and the wind was blowing softly. But he could not stay for long because he had promises to keep, and miles to go before he can rest. One of my favorite lines of the poem is the last stanza, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." because I interpreted it the easiest, I think it means that he would like to stay for longer but he can't because he has other obligations to up hold to. And it will be a long time until he can rest.
What I learned from having to memorize this poem is that I can't memorize it in one night. I knew this beforehand so I decided to learn two stanzas one night and the other two the next night, and take the third night to memorize it all. This helped a lot because I got a B as a final grade.

Holiday Season

The holiday season is my favorite season of the whole year, because it's that one time of the year when all your family from far a wide come together to spend time with each other. I have family from Guatemala and New York; all my aunts and uncles came from there just for the holidays. Even the ones that I haven't seen in years came just for the holidays. This season is also my favorite because I get money and presents from my whole family, and my family is big so I get a lot of money. Every year I always get something super cool. One of my favorite things about this season is the weather. The weather here is always hot and humid, but now it's nice and chill. And the best thing about it is there's no school for two whole weeks. During the break I spent a lot of time watching T.V., sleeping, and hang out with my friends. I also went to Orlando the day before New Year's Eve. It was my family's first time not being with the family on New Years. We went to Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios both days we were there. And the day we left we went to play mini-golf at a pirate themed golf course. On the way back home it was a three hour drive so we obviously got bored along the way, so we decided to play some games which made the three hour trip seem like twenty minutes. Then the day after we got home we decided to go to the soccer field and play because I haven't played that much over the break and I had to get ready for school soccer too. That was the last fun thing I did over the break. So that's why winter break or the "holidays" are my favorite time of the year.

Trimester one expectations

I think that the class and the teacher lived up to the class expectations. The teacher lived up to the expectations because he was friendly to all the students and always was always in a good mood. He graded fairly and helped student finish assignments. He also offered students help when he could like after or before school. The students lived up to the expectations by showing respect to the teacher and not giving attitude to him, and we were respectful to our fellow students by not bullying them. Most if us practiced academic honesty by not cheating on tests and quizzes, and we also helped out our classmates when they needed it, by calling them on the phone or texting them helpful things that they needed.

Odyssey character: Telemachus

I think Telemachus would be frustrated at his father because he hasn't been with him in 20 years. Once all of the soldiers who were with Odysseus returned to Ithaca, they wanted to marry Penelope. Just to become the new king of Ithaca. I can understand how mad Telemachus must be from watching men hitting on his mom just to become king. I think he would also feel sorry for his mom because she doesn't even know if Odysseus is dead or alive, or if he will ever return to Ithaca. Also she had to wait 20 years to see her husband, who she doesn't know is alive or not. What I think would probably anger Telemachus the most is knowing that he can't do anything about it. He can't find his father, and he can't keep the men from staying in his home because the men have a right to try to marry his mother. If I were Telemachus I would want to kick all the people out of my house because they haven't been doing anything but take my food and make my mom sad. I would also like to find my father. He was never around when I was growing up so I would want to catch up with him because after all he is my father. And I would want to hear all the great stories he would tell us about his adventures over the past 20 years that he was gone.

Reflection of a Lesson in the Odyssey

One lesson that I took away from The Odyssey is to never anger the gods, or the people above you. If you were to anger your boss then he might fire you or make your work life bad, like making you do more paperwork or staying longer hours. In this case Odysseus angered Poseidon by blinding his son, the Cyclopes, and then taunting him. Poseidon then made it almost impossible for him and his crew to return home. It took 10 years for his crew to find Ithaca, and then it took Odysseus another 10 years to go home because of Poseidon.