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Parent I’m Most Like

Prompt: Which one of your parents are you most like? Include a description of the parent, so that we can picture them in our mind.  Use sensory language: see, taste, touch, smell, hear.

Out of my mom and my dad, I think I’m more like my dad. My dad has black hair and dark brown eyes, with tan skin (just like me). Even though some family members say I look like my mom I have more characteristics from my dad.My mom said that (for my face) from the eyes and up I look like my dad, but from the nose and down I look like her.For example, a physical trait is that my dad has pretty thick eyebrows and so do I. Also, my dad and I have a similar taste in food. For example, my dad and I like steak more medium well, while my brother and my mom like it medium. We also like to have sweet treats once in a while, but my brother and mom normally don’t eat sweets. I mean, who doesn’t like a tasty-cake? They’re soft and chewy and super sweet. Another thing we have in common is that we like to watch NBA (National Basketball Association) more than the rest of my family. A lot of times when there is a live basketball game, my dad and I are the ones on the couch.

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Economics

Prompt: We have been learning about economics for a few weeks.  Now is your chance to tell us everything you know about economics! Tell each other what you know about goods, services, opportunity cost, supply and demand, etc.  Talk about how your classroom checkbook and finance lessons have helped you gain more perspective to economic issues. Will you be a saver or spender when you grow up?  Why is it important to save for a “rainy day?”  This blog post will be graded and if possible, please print it out with your name on it!  Happy saving/spending! 

We’ve been learning about economics and personally, I think economics is interesting. My favorite part about learning about economics is the classroom checkbooks. This definitely helps with learning to save money. I think that I’ll most likely be a saver when I grow up. It is important to save for a “rainy day” because you never know if it would rain so much that it floods. And if it was a really bad flood your house would need some maintenance for the water damage. Or even if it didn’t flood the rain could still cause rain damage on the house’s exterior or on its foundation.

We learned that economics is the study of the allocation of resources among alternative uses to attain desired ends. There are many concepts of economics such as socialism and capitalism. Socialism and capitalism are examples of how an economy should be run. Socialism is when the government or state is in control of the production or distribution of goods. Capitalism is when there is a private or corporate ownership of the production and distribution of goods. Another concept we learned was goods and services. Goods are anything that anyone wants or needs, and services are the performance of any duties for another. There are also three types of goods consumer goods(food or clothing), producer goods(raw materials), and capital goods(machinery).

You can’t forget about needs and wants. Wants are goods or services that aren’t necessary. Needs are goods or services that are required. (Although sometimes wants can seem like needs to me.) There is also supply and demand. Supply is how much of a good or service is available. Demand is how many people wish to buy that good or service. Think about what it said in the slideshow we saw in English Language Arts (ELA), as prices rise, product supply rises because people buy less. It also said as prices fall, product supply falls because people buy more. Something else important to economics is opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is when the value or benefit of something is given up so that something else can be accomplished. It’s almost like a trade.

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My Dream Age, 19

Prompt: After reading the passage, Eleven, explain why the author does not like being age 11.  If you could choose any age to be, what would it be and why?  Use evidence or related topics from the passage if possible.

In our class, we read Eleven by Sandra Cisneros. I think that the author doesn’t like being age 11 because there are kids that she doesn’t like and kids that don’t like her. Personally, I think the character overthinks too much. I mean, when you get hurt really bad or if something really sad happens, it’s okay to cry (just don’t cry all the time). Instead, the author is like I cried the way I did when I was four. I think if she didn’t overthink she’d be more confident and have more friends.

    

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If I could choose an age I would want to be nineteen years old. I would want to be nineteen because there are many advantages to it. Plus, 19 is my favorite number. Nineteen is also the number I am in attendance for all of my classes. When I’m 19 I’ll be going to college, and that is an experience I’m looking forward to. (The college I want to go to now is Stanford University.) At that age, I will be working a job as well. I always tell my parents that right when I turn 16 I want to get a job, but they say that they want me to focus on school instead. So, I at least think I’ll be able to get a part-time job and work when I’m nineteen.

At nineteen I think I’ll feel more like an adult because I’ll be driving, have a job, legally already be an adult, and because I’d most likely be living on my own by then. I think it’d be nice to live on my own. I mean, I love my family, but I would like to know how it is to live independently. Plus, my parents don’t want a puppy no matter how much my brother and I ask. They say that once we live on our own we can own a puppy of our own. When I’m around nineteen I’d be able save up and soon get a puppy. For me, nineteen seems like a nice age to be.