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= My Journal =

Water Issues
I like. I wish.I wonder.

I like how she part of the river cleanup crew. I knew there were ways to polluate water indirectly but, I did not know there were so many way to polluate it with out knowing.I learned that one gallon of water can polluate about more than one millon gallons of water.I also learned the more trash or dirt put in the river causes it to heat up easier because, the deeper the body of water the harder it is to eat it up.

I wish that I could just get rid of all the trash and pollution in one day and thast we never pollute again.

I wonder if there are people out there that think this is all fun and games to them that we have a unclean river.

Long walk to water
Journal Question What might happen in a democracy if the government decided to make one religion the state religion as Sudan tried to do? There might be a fight for and a civil war might just break out.

Journal questions: This is an image of a present day refugee camps today. How many Syrians are in the refugee camps today? What can be done for them? Since your reading a novel with a character, Salva facing life in a camp like the one above, Do you think the U.S. should get involved? Why? How? Use your journal page on this wiki to share your ideas. Do some of you own research if necessary. It will be interesting to compare these two events.

There is about 130,000 Syrians live in refugee camps today.

I think the U.S. Should come and help out those people in Sudan. Most of the people in the U.S are not poor. We don't have to fight for water or walk eight hours just to get about a bucket of water then go back and do it again. Most of the time we can just get the water in a matter of seconds. I don't see a good reason why we should not help out the people of Sudan.

I think we should get involved because it would be the right things to do and you never know if Sudan will help us out.They should first make a charity to Sudan then use the money to build water well all over Sudan. .The question is about Syrian refugee camps today. Answer all the questions and share research and ideas.

= Wonder = 1/21/14 The first day I first went to Chinese school. The reason why I felt different is because I did not know what anyone was saying. The first teacher I had spoke very little English and basically all Chinese. I had to ask every 5 min what she was saying. It got to the oint where I had to set up front and then every 5 min she would say do you want to ask me a question now. It has a very embarrassing experience for me until I realized I has not the only one. My friend Justin -not Justin Bevier- had the same trouble has I did. That how I meant him and he became friends.

Chapter 1
Ordinary

August meant that just because his face is deformed he still the same kid. He play games, eat ice cream, everything a normal sixth grader would do but because of his deformed face people treat him different. Let say Thomas Edison had the say exact face as August does not mean he did not have brilliant ideas. With or without the face he still invented the light bulb. I mean without him we still probably be sitting in the dark. August has a different face does not mean anything at all. He still a kid with or without his face. He requires to be loved and cared for. I know for a fact if he did not have that face everyone would probably be nice to him.

Chapter 10
The Performing Space

The way they were treating him I would say yes. People do assume that if you have physical disabilities that you are mental slow. How I know this because I saw it happen with my own eyes. I have a friend who was blind and everyone treated him as if he was the dumbest person in the world. He wasn't though he had a IQ of 140! The way he said that it was to hard for August because of his face and because was home school makes me angry. I just want to say just because you look different on the outside does not mean you are dumb and not normal on the inside.

Chapter 16+17
Lamb to the Slaughter+ Choose Kind

The teacher did not know who Darth Sidious is in Star Wars. If she had been more knowledgeable about it she would have told Julian to stop being mean to August. Mr. Browne is a tall teacher with a yellow beard. He is not the type of teacher who is boring and just talk and talks about grammar. He the type of English teacher who talks about life and what we could do in real life and experiences. I would want to have Mr. Browne as my type of teacher. He the type who connects to the students and knows how to have fun. I imagine Mr. Browne as Mr. Key. He was the teacher you could just kid around with but can be serious while doing it.

Chapter 30
Bleeding Scream

August must be in so much pain right now. The way Jack Will talk about August, one of his few friends just talk about him behind his back as if he was a huge pest. This changes everything August feel about Jack. He probably in tears and feels he rather get eaten up by Aliens, or get suck up by a small black hole. I mean this changes everything I feel about Jack. I thought he was going to be one of August Best friend forever, but instead he stabbing him behind his back. This has happened to men before and I want to say it does not at all feel good. I think that Jack better make it up to him before i go inside the book and things get ugly!

PART 2 : Via
Via feels that she is not cared for the most in the house. She said " August is the Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family are asteroids orbiting the Sun. " She means that August is the biggest priority in the house. To the parents they seem to feel they need to take care of August more than Via. The thing she means when the galaxy is changing is that it means that now the family might be falling apart.This has been a phrase that my parents have used about our family.

Via is right about what she said to August. He has to toughen up and can not just give up after what happened at school. Everyone at one point in their life faced hardships. Now they must face the problem and go on. This Speech did help August go back to school. Without this speech August might have never gone back to school. She wants the best for August. I have face hardships in my life but I still had to face the problem and continue on with my life.

Weird Kids
Summer is the type of kid who does not care care about how the person looks or if they are not popular at all she only cares about their personality. Summer sat with August when he was all alone at the table to give him a friendly welcome. She really is the type who does not care about her popularity she just truly wants to help you. She the type who would never talk behind your back. I remember the first day in my Chinese school I was lucky to have found a friend who had my back. One of the things Summer said is " He just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a Kid" In total Summer is just a kid you can always count on.

Why I didn't sit with August on the first day of school
The reason Jack was calling himself a hypocrite is because of the way he treated Jack before. On the first day of school everyone was staring at August because of his face. Everyone was talking about him behind his back calling him zombie face. Everyone was shocked and scared of his face. Jack knew that August had no one to sit with and he was all alone, but he did not sit with him because he wanted to have a little normal kid time. August and Jack were together in every class and they always hang out together when they had the time. When August sat at a table Jack purposely moved to a table that was far as possible away from him. He met Isaiah and Luca who he played baseball with them at recess. After that they just became his lunch table. Now he sitting with August and Summer. To be honest when I was in third grade during lunch we could pick our lunch tables. Their was this kid who would constantly yell. I mean for everything he said he would yell it. He also picked his nose constantly. On the first day I sat as far as possible away for him. I did this for 10 days until the teachers started shuffling the tables so that we could meet everyone. I got stuck with him. I was thinking that he was going to be annoying and just gross but I learned that he was a pretty cool guy. He liked video games like me, we had the same interest in books, and we both lived close together. To this day he still one of my best friends.

PART 5 : Justin
The next part is Justin. I would expect to learn how Justin is going to treat August and how he would feel around him. I think the author would have a part for Justin is to see how he going to act. I mean August face really can be freighting to other people. I mean August gave Jack's brother ( Jamie) nightmares about zombies. Jamie said it hard to sympathetic because he so ugly. I think Justin has a Chapter to see how Justin will responded to his face and if he will not go visit Via at home because of August. To be truthful before reading this book if something like this came up I would not go to the person's house at all. Now I know a little bit of how that would feel to the deformed person and how bad it can hurt the person's feelings.

Chapter 73-80
2/05/14 I think why their is no punctuation in part 5 of Justin in because he talking inside his head for the most part. When you think inside your head you do not think of punctuation of the words you are going to say. I also think it to say how maybe he just talking to himself. Just recapping everything that is going on. He just streaming words in his head and he has no time to think about punctuation. This could be his thoughts. I have done this while writing to myself. If I making a personal note I usually do not think about punctuation.

Justin is a important character because it telling us exactly how someone who those not know August very well thinks. This helps us to communicate with the relationship between Via and Justin. This helps us get a little more in what Via is like through a person's eyes. This also shows how well we can trust Justin after seeing his face,. Their were times I felt like Via too embarrassed to bring someone because they will cause rumors or embarrass me in front of my friends.

Chapter 81-*6
2/10/14 This chapter have truly taught that everyone can have a hard life. It does not matter if you have mental or physical problems or not everyone can have a hard time in life. Miranda must truly be sad and miserable inside of her. She has faced many hardships in her life but, managed to still live on. Miranda definitely plays a important part in this book. It shows that even after Via and her split up she still cares and loves August just as much maybe even a little more. It shows how through her child life she loved Via even when her friends would not hang out Via because of August face. Even after Via and Miranda drifted away Miranda still cares and loves for her. This was with me and my friend Albert, even though we do not talk as much with each other any more were still friends forever.

Miranda feels safer in Via's home than her's because in Via's home her parents care for her and are protective of her. Miranda' s parents got divorced in the summer before 9th grade after that things went down hill. She almost next to never saw her father and her mother started acting stranger. She than just distanced herself away from Miranda. Her mother put on a fake smile for people but not for Miranda. This is what Miranda said " My mother is the kind who puts on a happy mask for the rest of the world but not a lot left over for me." Then Miranda mom never really spoke to Miranda about what she liked or how she was when she was a kid. She did not talk much about her life as a kid only saying hot she wanted to get as far away as possible from them when she got older. Via parents were different they loved to play talk together and really loved and cared for everyone in their family. They are very protective of August and Via and loved them with all their hearts. Miranda must feel when she in their house that she is loved and cared for. This has happened for me too. The safest place I feel in the world is also in someone's house.

I feel that Miranda and Via will be friends again. Miranda on the night of the play faked her sickness so that Via could play for her parents. Via must have guessed that Miranda was truly doing that for her. Via saw that Miranda truly cared for her as a friend and faked it for her.