Know your rights are important for your community and your country because people need to know what they are doing wrong. They need to know what others are doing wrong and in order to know what they are doing wrong then you have to know your rights. Voice your opinion is important for your community and our country because others need to know what you think and you need to give your ideas or opinions because it would be considered pitching in to help and if you don’t like something then you need to tell them that you don’t like it. Respect the rights of other is important because others have the same exact rights as you treat others the way you want to be treated.

If I would of been at this party I would of called my mom sooner and  like right before they started playing the game I would of went down the stairs to call my mom to tell her to come get me now and I would of told her what they were doing at the party. I would have told her to talk to her mom for me and she would and the kids would get punished. She could of not went to the party or she could of went down the stairs and talked to calli's mom or she could have helped calli's mom with things down the stairs and said that she was tired and wanted to go home then tell calli's mom what was going on upstairs. Jodee should not be blamed for the punishments the other students got from their parents for what she did because she did the right thing. If i were a student that was at this party when my parents got called and came and got me i would of been whipped really hard and I would of gotten grounded for like ever and I would of gotten chewed out too. I dont think that the treatment jodee is receiving from her classmates is fair because like I said before she did the right thing and she did not want to tell her mom and she did not want her mom to talk to calli's mom because she knew that she would end up getting bullied again at school. If I were a kid at that party I would of been on Jodee''s side and I would of went down to tell with her and I would be her friend at school too.

Some things that our group agreed about was that the only reason that the kids at jodees school made fun of her was because she hung out with marianne a deaf girl that is handicapped. Also the only reason why the kids made fun of marianne was because she was deaf and handicapped and because she had any good clothingand because she is four years younger than them and, she lived in a poor neighborhood.    We did disagree with one question in our group do you think that jodee will have the same problem at the next school ? (why or why not) some of us said no and some of us said yes and we explained why we thought what we thought . The topic that created great debate was about that one question about do you think that jodee will have the same problem at the next school? why or why not.   The question do you think that terry and jo ellen really wanted to be jodee's friend again or were they just pretending?why The things that jodee thought changed in 5th grade like she was invited to two slumber parties in the first week and the popular girls wanted to play tag and stuff with her. Then people started bullying  her again just because she was hanging around a little deaf handicapped girl named marianne and she was just tying to be nice but she actually liked her as a friend.                                                  

"It was either shun or be shunned. The meaner you were to the "rejects" the more popular you became with members of your clique." It meant that the meaner you were to the not so popular kids then you would become more and more popular with your group. that is very sad how they treat the not so popular just to become popular it kinda makes me angry to and i feel sorry for the people that get bullied.

I do not agree with the quote it really is not nice it makes me feel sad how those people treat them how they can just sit there and bully them around and it does not even hurt the bullies heart . I would never be able to be mean to someone unless they were being mean to me first but i would  just go tell a grown up first then if that does not help then i would have to talk to my parents about them bullies at school then my parents would contact their parents. I have been bullied before too so I know what to do in some bulling situations.

Well one time we were outside on the playground and lilly and george and cathy and tracy were following us around talking about us behind our backs and then we told them to stop but they did not so we went up by the big bars by the wooden playground and then george spit on me and then jen spit on him back and then they kept on threatening us about stuff. Then we went and we told the principle that they did all of that stuff expeccially about him spitting on me and it was so gross. Then i went home and told my parents and then they contacted the school about it.

I rate MY summer as a 9 because it was so much fun.  I hope we have a summer exactly like that every year. The best thing that we did was go to WORLDS OF FUN=http://=http://=http://!!! Here is all that went, my sister Paige, my brother Dylan, my other brother Herman, my Mom, my Dad, our friend Racheal Sowers,and me. Dylan, Paige, Racheal, my Dad, and I rode the Prowler three times, the Detonator 1 time, the Mamba three times, and the Patriot twice. My mom and Herman went to Camp Snoopy and then we had to come and find them.  Then we had to go ride the Fury of the Nile as a family and the Viking Voyager as a family. Then we went to ride the bumper cars and the taxi cars.  Later on we went to the souvenir shop at Camp Snoopy. There was a stage and Snoopy was on it and two other directors.  They said to raise your hand to go up there to sing and dance to This Old Man. Paige and Racheal ended up going on the stage and they pointed at my dad and said, "This ones for you dad!"  He put the basket ball in front of his face. It was really funny!!  We all got a keychain of Snoopy and his shirt said Joe Cool.  He also had on sunglasses. Later that night on our way home we went to McDonalds to get something to eat. It was the best summer I have ever had!!!

 

"A person should experience a nervous reaction if she is worried about failing, not because she is scared of succeeding." 

 I have experienced that kind of thing a lot. It was a very upseting feeling. I also feel sorry for the people who have those kinds of feelings. I encourage them that they can do it and even though they dont think they can then I will keep encouraging them until they believe in themselves. Usually when I have that kind of feeling then I just encourage myself by saying I can do it over and over in my head and sometimes I say it out loud.

April is not scared of succeeding but she is worried about failing. I think she is accually confident about herself and I think that people like her for who she is because she goes out for sports, she is a good student, and she is a hard worker. The reason why I think she is worried about failing because her mom/dad is the teacher and expects her to succeed. They also probably encourage her to do her best and they prabably help her sometimes too.