For my 20% Project I chose American Sign Language (ASL). For week three I worked on finishing the five sentences that I will be presenting in front of my audience on May 15th. This week, I learned the following sentences “I’m learning ASL,” “How was your day,” “Do you want to go home,” “Do you like” and a lot more. In week three, I struggled with some of the sentences, but I was able to sign three of my five sentences correctly after 30 minutes of practice. Accomplishments, I completed all of my five sentences that I will be presenting to my audience on May 15th. I was able to completely sign three of the five questions. I also learned some new words to sign. Next week, I will be working on signing my entire five sentences. I hope to be able to correctly sign all five of my questions. I also plan on learning a few more words.
My favorite room in the house is the living room. I think the living room is the best room in the house because of three reasons. The first reason why I like spending time in the living room is because I can go there to sleep, rest and relax on the couch. Secondly, I like watching sports on the T.V and learning how to get better. My most favorite reason is spending time with my family talking about our day.
In week two of learning American Sign Language (ASL) I continued to practice the alphabet which I learned last week. I did not struggle when I signed the alphabet this week which I was happy about. I also started to write some basic questions and responses like “How are you,” “My name is,” “What is your name,” “Nice to meet you,” “Do you like ice cream” and a lot more. I plan on writing five sentences which I will be signing in front of my audience on May 15th, but so far I have only completed three. I should have all five of my sentences completed by Friday, April 19th. Accomplishments, I have learned how to sign the alphabet without any problems. I have three of my five sentences completed. My goals for next week are to learn how to sign one or two of my sentences and learn a new word.
Sandoval! Gonzalez! Our football coach called us over to go head to head against each other. I ran to the cone while the coach tossed me the ball. I saw Sandoval’s teeth clenching on his mouth guard, my teeth were clenching on my mouth guard. Our teammates were cheering us on. I was nervous and in Sandoval’s eyes I saw he was also nervous. Our coach said, “Ready, Set, Hike” I ran around the other cone while I ran as fast as I can, I met Sandoval in the middle of the two lanes of cones. I dropped my shoulder while I hit Sandoval. I thought he would knock the football out of my hands and put me on my back, it was him on the ground and me running until my coach said “Touchdown!” I was excited because I won in one on one Oklahoma’s.
For the 20% project I had chosen American Sign Language, I had chosen this topic because my mom and uncle know this language. For week one I had planned to lean the alphabet in sign language but I was able to lean the alphabet and leaned some basic questions and responses, when I was practicing the alphabet in sign language I was struggling a little bit but I was able to get it down. I also learned some basic sentences like “Nice to meet you,” “How are you,” “What is your name” and more. I had looked at posters of the alphabet in sign language to help me learn the alphabet in sign language I also watched a video to help me learn basic sentences in sign language. I had left off on learning basic sentences in sign language, next week I will be making a sentence that I would be presenting in front of my crowd.
I would like to invite three people to dinner, they are T.J Watt, Shohei Ohtani and my brother. I would invite T.J Watt because he is an athlete and eats a balance diet. For breakfast he has eggs, turkey bacon or sausage, potatoes, fruit and granola. For dinner T.J eats lean proteins and vegetables. T.J Watt also has set goals to make him healthy and it’s three balanced meals a day. I would also like to invite Shohei Ohtani because he is my favorite baseball player, he eat the right foods like chicken, salmon and tuna. The third person I would invite is my brother because I know he would love to see T.J Watt and Shohei Ohtani, we do everything together. At the dinner table would be vegetables, seafood, burritos and a lot of talking about sports.
In March, I read the book Allies by Alan Gratz. Allies is a realistic fiction book about a sixteen year old German boy named Dee. Dee hates the Nazis for what they did to the jewish people. Dee and his family moved to the US when he was five years old. Dee, is not his real name, Dee was short for Douglas Carpenter but that wasn’t his real name either, it was Dietrich Zimmermann. Dee lived in Philadelphia and at age 16, Dee and his friend Sid lied about their age and enlisted in the Army. In 1944, Dee and Sid landed on Omaha Beach during D-day and fought the Germans in a chaotic battle.
I really enjoyed the book, as the characters all seemed real. Dee and Sid had a special bond and went through a lot of struggles together during the war. Alan Gratz did a great job describing the horrible and chaotic D-Day invasion. Alan Gratz description of D-Day made me feel like if i was there with Dee and Sid fighting the Germans.
Dee is my favorite character because when he was shot during combat he never quit fighting. As a 16 year old boy Dee was very brave because he wanted to serve his country and fight for what he believed was right. An example of Dee’s bravery is when he was shot and was taken to the hospital and the doctors told him he would not be able to continue to fight, Dee told himself “he had to keep fighting, he had to make up for what his former countrymen were doing to the world.”
My favorite quote in this book is on Pg#299 “Can I get back to fighting soon.” Dee asked the medic. I like this quote because even though Dee is injured and in the hospital his mindset is to continue to fight for what is right. I also like this quote because it is an example of bravery and selflessness. When I have a bad day in baseball, I tell myself “to get back in the fight.”
The job that I would like to have is to be an American football player. I would like to be a football player because of four reasons, the first reason why I would like to be a professional football player is because I like the physical contact. My brother and I like to watch and play football. I also like how the game is played with helmets and pads, throwing, catching, hitting, running and blocking. My second reason is because I like to stay active and it keeps me busy, while having fun. The third reason why I want to be a football player is because I want to travel around the country and explore different cities. The final reason why I want to be a football player is because I would feel like a kid because it will remind me of my childhood, those are the four reasons why I want to be a professional football player.
In the month of February I had finished the book Project 1065 by Alan Gratz, the book is about a thirteen year old Irish boy and his family that are spy’s for the Allies to defeat Adolf Hitler. Michael the thirteen year old boy, wore a uniform of the Hitter Youth which he called it the “Germany’s version of the Boy Scouts” because he was a Nazi even though he hated it. Michael’s father was an Irish ambassador to Germany and has been stationed to Berlin. Michael says that Berlin has changed in six years from when they arrived in 1937 and now it was 1943. Berlin had been a wonderful place when they first arrived people had faces full of smiles and laughter but then the wonderful place of Berlin was gone the war started and all of the smiles and laughter on peoples faces were gone.
The truck stopped at a dirt road a half an hour outside the city, all around them was farmland and a barn. It was an obvious place to hide, Michael and the Hitler Youth were trying to find a British pilot. Michael needed to find him if he didn’t find the pilot he would be a dead man. Michael started searching the barn, the barn was two stories and that was the place he haven’t searched but he is scared of heights. Michael’s legs were shaking and then said “Hello” and “are you up here, I am Irish. I’m here to help you” in English. He waited and waited, then nothing. Michael’s head became a helium balloon and the world spun and fell over the side because he was scared. At the last second his friend named Fritz grabbed him by the shirt and wrestled him back to the edge. Fritz and Michael cleared the barn but when Michael walked out he saw fresh blood. He saw a line of footprints, Michael thought that it must be the pilot. As Michael and his group followed the trial of blood. Michael’s group didn’t know that he was pointing them in the wrong direction. Michael was still a head of the group but then he saw the missing British pilot.
Michael was thinking of a place to hide the British pilot, in the barn. Michael then said “Stay here, My parents will pick you up tonight.” It was dark when they went to pick the pilot up. They were able to find him and ask “what’s your name, son?” Da asked. “Lieutenant Simon Cohen, sir” he said.” Simon was a Jew, taking a Jew into Berlin was a big problem because it was a Jew-free city and the heart of Germany. If Hitler discovered people were hiding Jew’s in their home, they would be sent to a concentration camp. Simon said that the Nazi’s were developing a new plane that does not have propellers it’s called project 1065 Simon said that it’s super fast and can do a lot of damage. When Simon and Michael were talking about project 1065, Fritz told Michael a secret something worth hearing. Fritz pulled out a big blue piece of paper that can change the course of the war, it was a blueprint of project 1065. Michael grabbed a pencil and a piece paper and sketched out everything he could remember from the blueprint for Simon.
Michael went to Fritz’s house to get more information about project 1065 but then he realized that there is twelve more pages of project 1065. Since Fritz didn’t know how to fight they made a deal. Fritz teaches Michael to get rid of his fear of heights and Michael teaches Fritz how to fight. It was for the Hitter Youth and they had to pass the test. Even though Michael hated Hitter and the Nazi’s he did this because he needed to get close enough to those blueprints. After all the tests they announced that O’Shaunessey, Michael was going to be in the Hitler Youth. Fritz smiled and had tears because he had made it.
SS-Obersturmfuhrer Trumbauer told Fritz “I’m putting together a special team,” “And I think you would be a prefect fit.” Then when Michael asked about the team Fritz said that it was a science team but Michael knew that it was a joke. When he got back home his mom, dad and Simon all said that they were obviously up to no good. Michael needed to get the last blueprint because Simon has to leave tomorrow night. The day after Michael went to Fritz’s house, the blueprints weren’t on the wall. On door to the dad’s study was a thick folder, Michael lifted the flap and found the blueprints. Michael had a weird feeling someone was watching him, it was Lina (Fritz’s little sister) in the doorway staring at Michael. Lina didn’t seem to care so Michael tried to memorize the last part and hurried out of the house. Michael gave the pages to Simon, Michael’s mom and dad and thought of a plan to get Simon out of Germany. “When the nightly air raid comes- and it will, as sure as eggs is eggs-you’ll wait until three forty-five in the morning and then make your way to this alleyway, here, were Michael will meet you…Michael, you’ll take him here, to this corner on Friedrichstrasse. That’s where you’ll hand Simon off to one of my agents. You’re to tell the agent, ‘This air raid sounds like the finale to a Wagner opera,’to which he will respond, ‘I prefer Beetthoven’s symphonies, myself. ‘ That’s how you will know he’s our man. If he doesn’t give you the correct pass phrase, move on.” Michael glanced at his watch 3:15 then a trail of fire and smoke, they actually shot down a British plane then Michael looks at his watch again. 3:27. He still had time to kill. A guy on the science team said to Fritz. “How do you expect to kill a scientist if you can’t even shot down a plane?” Then Michael knew what the science team was, it was to kill the scientist. Michael was able to get one of the guys on the science team to spill the beans they tried to kill a Jewish scientist, named Hendrik Goldsmit but two guys named Max and Michael got into a fight when Max was about to attack him he had exploded. With Max out Michael can get on the science team and sabotage the plan.
Michael looked at his watch and it was 3:46, he was late. He ran but when he got to the spot Simon was gone. He didn’t know what to do without Simon then I started to cry out, but a man slapped a hand over my mouth, it was Simon. Michael was trying to get into the science team but noticed that to be on the science team he had to die for Hitler and love him so Simon said “You have to turn me in.” A flashlight clicked on and they saw Simon, Simon was caught. Michael had turn in his parents and Simon. Simon yanked himself free but then shots rang out and Simon fell, he was dead. Since Michael had turned in his parents and Simom he had a spot on team. They were never able to find his parents, they can be anywhere now.
Michael had the project 1065 papers on the side of his body but the guards at the science conference would easily find the papers with one tap of the side of my body. So Michael tried to hide them on a stone wall with a little opening, then a voice asked “What are you doing?” It was Fritz but he didn’t seem to know though. The plan was that there was two suitcases but one of them was a bomb. Michael was able to hide Hendrik Goldsmit and told him that a group of boys have been sent from Germany to kill him. Michael ran for the place he put the papers but weren’t there, it was Fritz but Michael had to get Hendrik Goldsmit out of there so they went on a cable car. Something heavy was on the roof but when Michael went up there Fritz was there on the roof of the cable car and he had the suitcase with the bomb. He had waited for them but he started the timer and he was ready to fight. Fritz’s eyes filled with fear as the suitcase fell off the side of the car into the snow, Fritz and Michael watched the bomb explode down the side of the mountain but Michael was able to hold on and Fritz couldn’t he fell over. Hendrik Goldsmit was safe and Michael was able to find his parents since they were spy’s nobody could know what Michael and his family had done.
My favorite quote from this book is on page 303 “Even though nobody would ever know what I’d done, what my ma and da had done, what Ireland had done, we’d stood up to Hitler and the Nazis with the rest of the Allies.” I like this quote because even though nobody can know what Michael has done in the war he is still happy for being a spy. My favorite character in this book is Michael because he hated to be on Hitlers side, even though he saw Simon die in front of him, he still got up and fought to win. It shows Michael is determined to win the war. To show that Michael is determined I quoted from the book on page 302 “I had just risked my life-and theirs, and sacrificed Simon’s life- to get the plans for Project 1065. To save Professor Goldsmit.” I like this book because all of what Michael had been through at the young age of thirteen he still fought and won.
I woke up on a sunny weekend and I got out of bed, I looked at the mirror and noticed I was invisible. “I couldn’t see myself!” I was shocked, I couldn’t believe it I was in invisible. I started to think about what I was going to do. I thought of three things that popped in my head. One of the things that I would want to do is to sneak into a professional football or baseball game. The second thing that I would do if I was invisible is I would want to haunt my brother. The last thing I would want to do is to travel around the country. The reason why I would want to sneak into a football or baseball game is because I enjoy playing and watching those sports. I would like to see my favorite teams and players play. I would also like to haunt my brother because my brother and I like to scare each other. I would want to scare the life out of him. Finally I would want to travel around the country because I want to explore the world, I would like to see the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn bridge, the White House and many more national monuments. Being invisible will be a fun day.
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