Favorite Picture

This photo is from our very first group project. It is a picture from my group’s photos. We were instructed to recreate 3 photos, representing three different scenes, from the book, Rebound by Eric Walters. This picture is from the very first scene featuring both Sean and David. It is when Sean and David had their big fight. Sean was about to take a shot at David, when his trouble maker friend, Scott prevented him from doing so. 

Favorite Journal Response

Quote of the Day

Quote: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Question: Do You think You are a Great Spirit Or a Mediocre Mind? Why do you think so?

Response:  I believe that I am a great spirit. My teacher gives us star wars stickers, when we do something well. Right now I have the most (75) star wars stickers. Some students cannot accept the fact that I’m doing better than them. There not going to applaud my success, only mourn their own.

A few mediocre minds falsely accuse me of stealing my hard earned stickers. It doesn’t matter how many times I plead not guilty to these allegations, they keep coming back. Everyone assumes that because I have 75 stickers in two months, I am suddenly a thief. I really don’t pay much attention to the garbage, I try to keep my head up and continue my journey through grade 8.

These ignorant people can’t accept that I refuse to just do the bare minimum. I try my best to go above and beyond in my journal responses, my math work, my blog responses and all the other work I do. I don’t want to be the kid that was “Mr. Average” who got 5 stickers a month. I want to be the kids that Mr. Cheney, will deem worthy of giving an example of to the future grade 8s. I will encounter flak, but I will also move through it 

Book Review- Wounded By: Eric Walters

     Wounded is about a boy named Marcus, whose father is a part of the Canadian special forces unit located in Afghanistan. Marcus lives on a military base. When I first started reading this book, i thought it would be another war story, but boy was I wrong. This book provided an insight on how war is really like, not for the soldier itself, but for their family. Always on the edge of their seats. When reports of deaths come, you're praying it's not your dad or husband. Even when soldiers come back they still aren't the same, beating their wives, abusing their kids, drinking every night. 
    Wounded really focuses on soldiers' post traumatic stress disorder. Some people think that after soldiers come back they live a normal life. But the fact stands, that they aren't the same. They change for the worse. we all stand for our two minute of silence on November 11th, but do we really know what it means? 
    This book was needed to inform people on how it feels to have an immediate family member at war, where they could be dead any second. It affects the family as much as it affects the soldier himself.