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This New Year, my resolution is to improve on my math.                                                

I am planning on working on my multiplication and division. I always find myself stuck on some questions because I have forgotten a math fact, so I want a better understanding of my times table and division tables. Sometimes I need to rely on a calculator if I don’t understand the question.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               I have already asked my mom to buy some flash cards or math textbooks so I can work on them and get better at multiplying and dividing questions. I will work on my flash cards with my aunt every day for 15 minutes. I will do 2 pages a day in my text book and tell my aunt to ask me random multiplication questions from 1 to 12 while I’m eating dinner.

My other resolution is that I want to improve on my piano.  I want to improve on my piano because when I get a new song to practice, I always play with one hand the next week. So I want to spend more time on playing piano. I decided after I come home, I start playing piano from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm.      

I really like this Korean pop band called BTS and one of their new released songs are called “spring day” and I printed out the music sheet and I want to play it. So I also decided after I play piano from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, I will practice the song at 8:30 pm and hopefully I can finish the song.                                                                      

I hope I can get a better grade at math and finish the song.

“Now here is my secret. It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.’’

-Antoine de Saint Exupery

I think that the quote above has a lot to do with Jack because Jack decided to be friends with Auggie even though Jack knew that everyone else didn’t like Auggie because of his face. I think that Jack decided to be friends with Auggie rather than Julian because Jack knew that Auggie wouldn’t mind that Jack’s family wasn’t rich like Julian would because Auggie’s family wasn’t rich either.

Also, Jack was able to see through Auggie’s face to his heart and Jack was able to see that even though Auggie’s face looked different from everyone else’s, Auggie had a good heart and he is very smart, nice and funny. With his eyes closed, Jack was only able to see what everyone else saw and what Auggie looked like on the outside, (ex. his face) but when Jack used his heart he was able to see what Auggie was like in the inside which is caring, nice, friendly, and funny. That is why you shouldn’t judge people by what they look like just like you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Instead you should try to get to know them and see/respect them as who they are (you probably don’t want to get judged right?)That’s another reason why Jack probably likes Auggie more than Julian because Julian only wants to be friends with people that are popular and he isn’t able to see through to people’s hearts while Auggie has learned to see past people’s faces to their hearts because Auggie himself has been bullied because of his face he knows how it feels to be judged by your face and it feels really bad. Everyone’s face is different because everyone is different just like there are no two snowflakes that are the same there are no two people that are the same not even twins. After all, you probably wouldn’t want to live in a world where everyone is exactly the same, would you? That would just be boring and since people would be exactly the same you wouldn’t be able to learn anything. That’s where the saying “different strokes for different folks,” comes in. Different people look and learn differently but that doesn’t mean that they can’t be friends. Take Auggie and Jack for example, they are very different but they are still friends. Diversity is something that we all have in common and we should celebrate it.

At the beginning of the story, Jack was like everyone else and he didn’t like Auggie. But then he gets to know Auggie a bit more and then he becomes Auggie’s friend after looking at Auggie’s heart. Then he and Auggie get to know each other a bit more until Halloween. On Halloween, Jack says some mean things that he doesn’t mean to say that he later regrets. So Jack goes to apologize to Auggie and they make up. After that, Julian starts bad mouthing Auggie and Jack doesn’t like it so he punches Julian in the mouth. Then, Jack goes home and starts sending texts to Julian, and Mr. Tushman about how sorry he is for punching Julian but he gives a little hint about what Julian said. Go a bit farther into the story and the whole school goes on a trip to the nature reserve where Jack and Auggie get lost in a forest where they meet Eddie and a gang of grade sevens. The grade sevens make fun of them and then they get into a fight only to be rescued by Amos, Henry, and Miles. Unfortunately, Auggie loses his hearing aids in the process but Jack and his friends comfort him and Jack could not have done that if he wasn’t able to see Auggie with an open heart.

In a video I once watched when I was young, there was a bear who went to the supermarket to buy apples. Once he got to the supermarket he bought two apples. When he got home he decided to peel the apples but he took a good look at them. One of them looked good on the outside and the other looked rotten on the outside. The bear was just about to throw the rotten apple away but then he decides to peel them and see what they are like in the inside.Much to his surprise after he peels them he sees that the apple that looked good on the outside is actually rotten on the inside and the apple that looked rotten on the outside was actually good in the inside so the bear throws away the rotten on the inside apple and keeps the good in the inside apple. Now let’s compare Jack’s relationship with Auggie and Julian to the story I told you about the bear and the two apples. The bear (Jack) goes to the supermarket and buys two apples (Auggie and Julian).Then, Jack goes home and decides to take a good look at the apples. One of them looks rotten on the outside (Auggie) and the other one looks fine on the outside (Julian).Jack was about to throw the apple that looked rotten, (Auggie) away but then he decides to peel them (look at their insides).When he peels them, he is surprised to see that the apple that he assumed to be rotten (Auggie) is perfectly fine and the apple that he thought was fine (Julian) turned out to be rotten in the inside. So, Jack throws away the rotten in the inside apple (Julian) and keeps the apple that is fine in the inside (Auggie).

In conclusion, I think that the quote by Antoine Exupery relates to Jack because he is able to use his heart rather than his eyes to make friends.

“Now here is my secret. It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye”.  –Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

I think this quote was at the beginning of Jack’s perspective because when Jack said those mean things about Auggie.

He didn’t know that the person in the bleeding scream costume was Auggie and he heard that Jack was saying mean things about Auggie. Jack didn’t know why Auggie was ignoring him so he asked Summer why and she said “bleeding scream” as a hint. He didn’t know what it meant so it was like the part in the quote “What is essential is invisible to the eye” where he didn’t see the important part.

At first Jack was acting nice to Auggie because Mr.Tushman said so and after that Jack wanted to be actual friends with Auggie. Jack wanted to be friends with August because he didn’t find the popular boys group fun at all and he actually wanted to play with Auggie instead, so after he said those mean things he didn’t know why he said it, it just came out of his mouth and he wanted to know why Auggie was ignoring him because he wanted to play with August not with the popular boys.

Julian didn’t see Auggie as a friend just because of his face and everyone should be treated equally but Julian never experienced anything with Auggie so he treats him very badly. He also said that “What’s the deal with your face were you in a fire or something” and that was very rude.

I always liked writing since grade 1 it was always fun for me to write and draw a picture along with it. My grammar was always bad I would understand that in grade 1 but not in grade 5! So my new year’s resolution is to fix my grammar.

My new year’s resolution is to try to improve my grammar. I would like to improve my grammar because I was getting bad grades in the past such as c- or c+. I am trying my best to improve my grammar this goal should be done by the end of 2017, this is a hard task for me because writing isn’t my best ability. Some of my lamp posts would be to practice writing at home for 15 minutes every week day. Or get a journal to write in or I could try writing tests to test my grammar or my speed in writing, this could affect my homework schedule by eating into my time so I will have no time to do my actual homework. I could try to reduce my time writing so I will have to time to finish my homework.

I am look at my friends work to get inspiration for my writing sometimes I have trouble coming up with ideas so I will borrow ideas to take suggestions by other people. This can sometimes help me or effect my work, I don’t like when a teacher points out that me and my friends work are quite similar. This has happened twice in my life and I would always have to explain that I have trouble writing and I borrow ideas from my friends but I always ask permission before borrowing their ideas. So I would like to try to fix my grammar, get better writing speed and stop borrowing ideas from fiends. Thanks for reading my article

This New Year, my resolution is to improve on my math. I am planning on working on my multiplication and division. I always find myself stuck on some questions so I want a better understanding of my times table and division tables. Sometimes I also rely on a calculator if I don’t understand or know the question but I don’t want to do this anymore. I already told my mom to buy some flash cards or math text books so I can work on them and understand the multiplying and dividing questions. I will work on my flash cards with my aunt every day for 15 minutes. I will do 2 pages a day in my text book and tell my aunt to ask me random multiplication questions from 1 to 12 while I’m eating dinner. I hope better practice will get me a better grade this year!

“Now here is my secret. It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly what is essential is invisible to the eye” ­–Antoine de Saint Exupery

I think this quote is related to jack because they do not have things that are essential that we average people have. Such as water and food because as we learned is the story jack and his parents don’t have much money. Not having very much money can lead to very negative things like having no home , food and water as I mentioned before.

Jack and his parents are very positive and try to think positively even if the problem is big or small here is an example of what I mean. When Auggie, Amos, Henry and Jack were running away from the 7^th graders after they think they lost them they were hiding behind a tree, and everyone was high-fiving each other jack was very happy and was thinking positively. He was trying to think that they will make it back to the camp and not get lost. He was not thinking that they will get lost and never make it back again. That was just one example of jack thing positively but there is many more that I didn’t cover in this paragraph.

I think jack does have access to water and food but not much of it that is why Julian is rude to jack because Julian is very rich and spoiled while jack does not have much but is still happy with what he has. Julian he being rude to jack for hanging around Auggie because Julian did not like Auggie in the first place but to see his friend hanging around him just made him even more mad. That is why Julian is bullying Jack because he did not want to lose a friend so he was trying in every way to be rude to him and occasionally would try to get jack back on to his side.

My conclusion will state everything I have previously talked about. So I think that jack has access to water/food but not much of it and that jack is always friendly and in a positive mood every day. Jack is overall a good person and have a lot for good things about him but still has some things to fix like not talking trash to his friends. But that is all I will state in this blog there is still much to cover in future blogs about different characters in wonder. There is not much more to say about jack he could use some improvement like I said before and he is very smart and joyful. And with this I will conclude my blog.

I think that Auggie is very important to Jack because he think Auggie is a very good friend, and he was very sorry about hurting Auggie, Jack say if you can chose anyone in the class he will chose Auggie.

In the story have a part Julian and Jamie was talking about something bad about Auggie, they say when they saw Auggie he has nightmare and they say if they saw Auggie, is like watching scary movie.

Auggie doesn’t want to be friend with Jack because Jack hurt Auggie, so Jack was trying to be friend with Auggie, and he what to find out why.

He went to ask Auggie’s friend why he was feeling so bad, Jack was very sorry and he what to be friend with Auggie, but no one tell Jack why, but he only hear bleeding scram. Jack doesn’t understand what’s that mean, but he still want to be friend with Auggie.

I think that Jack’s Perspective is talk about if you don’t use your heart to hear or say, you well never understand.

I always enjoy a new year. Last year I always played video games, this year I want to spend more time on learning math and science. I want to make my report card grades better in this subjects.

Last year, my math and my science work was very bad, when my parent saw my report card, they said I needed to get A or B, but I got C+. I will study more, in math, I will learn about Canadian money. My plan is that next time my parent go out to do shopping, I need to go with them, not stay home and play video games. When my parent buy something, I need to count how much it cost I want to figure out how to make change. I need to practice using Canadian money, this will help my math. For science I want to read more books about space. I plan every times, when I go to library I need to get least one books about Science

I hope get a better grade on my next report card.