Journal 59: Epic Language

I went into the math classroom this morning  like I always do. Put down my bag on the chair beside me. I stared at the teacher's desk and saw a stack of exams. I said to myself, this is the math Mid-term and it is very important. When our teacher Mrs. Sue passed out the worksheet, she told us that we have the whole class to do it. So we took our time as we did our test. The first section was very easy. Only a few simple calculations to do. On the second page, there were multiple questions that require us to read and choose the answer from the word bank. The third page was questions that need us to fill in the answers ourselves. This was a little bit harder because when we get the answer out, we're not sure if it is right or not. When I got to the last page, which is the fourth page, the questions require us to make a chart and calculate a lot of things. Suddenly, the bell rang and the test end. I put down my pencil and turned in my test to the teacher. I believe I did a good job and I will get a good score.

Journal 58: Luck?

What is luck? Luck is the possibility that a thing could happen or not. In real life, luck is very important. For example, if we are lucky all the time, we can get high scores in tests, score in basketball when we shoot, win a lottery, and everything will go as we wish they will. In the book Hatchet, Brian says that he was lucky because he survived in the wild. I agree. This is because he needs to be lucky to stay alive in the plane crash and in the moose attack. He also needs to be lucky to make a fire out of his hatchet and get saved by the plane passing by. All of this requires luck, so I think Brian is very lucky to be able to survive and go through all this. When the moose attacked, he needs luck to run away and survive. When Brian was starving, he needs luck to find food that are not poisonous or so. This is why I think Brian is very lucky. I hope I am as lucky as Brian too if I was trapped in the wild.

Journal 57: What Makes Fire?

What makes a fire? In our lives, a lot of things make a fire. Electricity, heat... these things can all make fire. A fire needs three important ingredients, heat, oxygen and something to burn with. In the wild, it is very hard to create a fire. It is very hard to create a fire because it is hard to find enough heat to make a fire. In the book Hatchet, Brian uses dry wood, his hatchet and some grass to make a fire. The dry wood is the material to burn with, so the fire keeps burning. The hatchet is for making sparkles. When Brian uses his hatchet to defend himself during the night, he threw it and it hit the wall and made sparkles. Because of this, he began to notice that sparkles can create fire because of the friction that made the heat. The grass is also for the fire to go on. These are the materials to make a fire and how Brian made a fire in the wilderness.

Journal 56: Lost in the Woods

In the book "Hatchet", Brian was lost in the woods in Canada. He was lost and no one could find him or rescue him if he didn't try the best to survive. If it was me that was lost in the wilderness, I would try my best to stay alive too. Staying in the wilderness without anybody accompanying you would be very scary and dangerous. In the wild, I may not survive because every animal is trying to stay alive by eating each other and finding food for themselves. I believe that in order for me to survive I have to work very hard and try to find food too. I would try to remember everything I've learned for survival and use it while I am trying to stay alive. I think that in the wild, everything is dangerous and you're on your own. In order to survive, we will need a lot of things and we will have to fight for own lives.

Journal 55: Personal Assets

In Hatchet, Brian has to survive in the wilderness. In order to do this, he has a lot of things to do. For example, he has to stay optimistic and keep himself alive so that he believes in the rescue plane will come someday. If he was pessimist, he would not have prepared  fire or signal for a plane that flew by. If he was pessimist, he would have been sad and desperate that he had a plane crash and he would have just done nothing. I believe that the assets Brain has in order to stay alive were being optimistic, trying to stay alive, and the knowledge he learned from before. Those assets helped him stay alive by giving and telling him what to so when he faces danger, he can overcome the fear and survive. My assets are very different from Brian's. My assets are, for example, my temper and my grit. When I do things, I won't give up easily. Although this may turn into stubbornness, I still believe that if we have grit, we won't give up and we will succeed at last. Having a good temper is also very important, because if we have a good temper, we are usually optimistic and we can handle things more easily.

Journal 54: Solving Problems

In the book Hatchet, Brain was going to visit his father. When he was in the flight to Canada, the plane which he was in crashed because the pilot had a heart attack. Brian was trapped inside a forest in the Canadian Woods. While he was trying to survive in the wilderness, he learned that everything needs food to survive. He learned from the television that turtles lay eggs on land. Because of this, he found food. He also found food on the trees that were beside the lake he had fell in. In my life, I have met a lot of problems too. When I solve these problems, I use the information that I have experienced. Some time these information are from television channels I've seen, the newspapers, or even movies I've watched. I use these information and put them together to solve a problem. From these information, I can know what I should do and shouldn't do, and I will not make the same mistakes that someone has made before. Another way to use these information is to use them in real life. For example, if we know that certain types of plants are edible, we can eat that in the wild and we will not die that easily. This is how I use information in movies, books or television to help me solve my problems in real life.

Journal 53: Triolet

I like basketball

And it's fun to play

Basketball is harder then volleyball

I like basketball

In basketball, you must be tall

Or else it would be hard to play

I like basketball

And it's fun to play

How do we write a poem

We write it in rhythm

And it should be awesome

How should we write a poem

When I wrote this poem

Nothing rhymes with rhythm

How do we write a poem

We write it in rhythm