A will finds a way.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

I think this means that when you have the mean to do something and you persevere nothing is impossible. When you think and work hard then you will find a way to do whatever you need to do to accomplish your goal. You work as hard as you can and you can do anything. I’m not talking like, I can jump to the moon while i’m bare foot. I mean that when you persevere you can make anything happen you can build any thing you can make the world a better place, the possibilities are endless. But you have to have a will then you will then you can do all of those things, you will find a way to do them.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

EDWIN LAND

I think this means that people who are creative are the ones who almost think failing is best for them because, they have learned to learn from their mistakes. Then when you know it won’t work you have to be even more creative for a solution. So actually when you make a mistake you learn and you are getting even more creative to think even more outside of the box. When you are creative you have to be unafraid to fail because when you are creative thing will never go how you want them to the first time. So just persevere and expect failure because it will happen.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

EDWARD DE BONO

I think this quote means that to be creative you need to not think about the logical answer and go into a different world that makes you think the exact opposite. Now you are in the world of people who think about things not as they are but as they can, and if you work on it really hard, will be. Only then will you know true creativity because the world you are in is not earth but inside you. You can’t be creative if you think about things that are already thought about by other individuals. Then you are thinking off of another person therefore it is not your idea, and that is not known as creativity. You need to look for the answers no through other people but through you.

Creative people do not see things for what they are; they see them for what they can be.

JULIE ISRAEL

I think this means that people with a need to change the world are the only ones who see how. To see what you want you need to first be able to what you think that thing can be. Some people see what others can’t although others can see what they are looking at. The people that I am talking about see more in specific things than other people just look at them probably so they don’t crash into it. I think we can’t change the way we see, we just have to change the way we look at those things.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

WAYNE GRETZKY

retired professional ice hockey player

I think this quote means that all of the opportunity’s you don’t take are the ones that always failed or never worked. When you are afraid that you can’t do something when their is a possibility you can, it doesn’t help when you give up before you even try. Because when you don’t take the opportunity you already failed because it was never done. I get this guy is a hockey player so I will put it in that content, when you don’t shoot you don’t score, and I think everybody likes to score. That is why you always take the possible opportunity other wise you don’t succeed.

Me and my class went on a rafting trip this week. We where on the river for about three hours. We went through all kinds of water like rapids, going over rocks in the shallows, and smooth water that some of us almost fell asleep in until we started going through the rapids and got air. You should have seen the look on Marshalls face when it was time for lunch … and then it fell in the river the end, no just kidding but his face was the most hilarious expression I have ever seen.

End of the Year Reflections

What was the best experience of this school year?

Write about what you are most proud of accomplishing academically?

What would you like to change for the next school year?

Write some suggestions to improve our class; what worked, what can be improved?

Evaluate your learning this year. Are you satisfied/happy with your efforts? In which areas did you feel successful and in which areas did you not accomplish your goals?

I think that the best experience I have had this year was the first time I had math homework. It was kind of cool to have something to do at HOME and not at school. It may be math but it is fun.

I think that the subject I improved the most on is math. At the beginning of the year the fact that someone who is only one grade in front of me and doing something like 846 times 90 amazed me. Now I am doing stuff like 379 times 567 with no problem at all.

I would like to change my behavior for next year so my class mates don’t have to tell me to stop talking or put that pencil back in the table caddy. I think it will be easier for me and for them.

I think that I am improving on my behavior but some of my class mates still think I am the carless dope I am at the start of the year. I kind of want to stop that so I ma going to try the best I can to improve.

I think I accomplished some good things this year. If I can get a bit better at writing though I think I will be in better shape. I think I achieved most of my goals for this year. and I am proud of that.

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

I think this quote means that people don’t get along with each other because they fear and don’t know each other. Some people don’t like other people because they think they are mean and cruel, but really, if you get to know someone than they aren’t that bad. Don’t be afraid of people because you don’t know them instead try to think about the person that he is if you did know him better.

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

I think this quote means that you shouldn’t get so angry at someone that you hate him/her. Don’t let someone get so evil to you don’t think you can work it out or make so you don’t have pure anger/hate at them. That means that you think someone is evil and you can’t think about them without shouting insults of stuff like that. Because when you do that they think the same of you. It is simply not worth it.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think this quote means that if we do not cooperate with each other in a good way then it will be our perish as people that are not smart because we fought and we died because of it. War is a good example of this. We did not agree so we fought instead of negotiated. Many people killed each other and perished because we were fool and we did not live together. We were fools.  We are not wild animals and their is no need for war if we can talk. We must live together not die fighting against each other. It is foolish.