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toc =My Journal=

Water Issues
I like. I wish. I wonder.

I like how she was part of the river cleanup and told us about the strange objects she found. I didn't know that one gallon of gasoline can pollute more than one million gallons of water.

I wish that people would stop dumping sewage in the ocean. I wonder why people pollute water when we need it to survive.

A Long Walk to Water
If our government decided to make one religion our country's religion, then the country would break out into war over freedom of religion and the people would try to overthrow the government. The people then would protest violently and start riots. Eventually, the war would spread to another country.

More than 1.5 million people are in the Syrian refugee camps. Some of the camps are in other countries like Iraq and Lebanon. The USA needs to get involved because if the Syrian government finds out about the camps, they will attack by using chemical weapons like they did on their own people. The camps are having shortages on water and food.

Wonder
I feel different every day at school. I feel this way because I am interested in things that are either stupid in other people's minds or out of the "norm" for people my age. I also feel this way because I am bullied by people who think I am a minority.

What Auggie means when he says "the only reason I am not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way" is that you don't judge yourself by what you look like. He thinks of himself as ordinary, but others look at him as a monster or not ordinary. He does ordinary activities that kids his age do (eating ice cream, playing XBox) but people think he is a monster so he isn't ordinary to others around him, except his parents, Via, and his dog, Daisy.

The kids on the Grand Tour were surprised that Auggie was taking the science elective because it was the most challenging elective over all the other ones. I would think that other people would think that Auggie is mentally slow, but his parents don't. Charlotte was kind to August, but a bit self-centered. Julian, is a way different story. He was two-faced (a kid acts nice in front of adults but hostile in front of other kids). He was a jerk to Auggie, but didn't show it. Jack concealed himself on the tour, but was nice to Auggie throughout the 1st day of school.

Auggie's teacher probably didn' know about Star wars If the teacher had known about Star Wars, then she would have scolded Julian because Darth Sidious's face is wrinkled and scarred by Sith lightning. Julian probably knew what he was talking about when he asked August about the Emperor (Sidious), and if he liked him because Julian probably thought he looked like the Emperor or worse.

Mr. Brown had a sense of humor, and he used it when he was teaching. He was also very energetic and enthusiastic. I would want Mr. Brown for a teacher because of his enthusiastic spirit and his sense of humor. Jack triggered Mr. Brown's sense of humor when he asked about learning english when Mr. Brown was talking about precepts.

Even though Jack was a jerk to Auggie, I think that Jack will be a valuable friend throughout the book. Jack was a little two-faced on Halloween, though. Jack will probably ask Auggie to forgive him and they would be friends again. He will probably stand up to August a few times.

What I think that Via means when she says "the galaxy is changing" is that sometimes Auggie doesn't need to rely on her and her parents' help as much as he used to because Auggie is at school now. Just like kids don't need their parents to help them as much when they start 1st grade. He would learn the essential values and how to be a good student. I thought Via's speech about being "normal" was a bit harsh because she was telling Auggie that if he stopped school, Jack and all the kids that were jerks to him would have to say sorry in front of Mr. Tushman.

To the kids at Beecher Prep, Auggie is a freak, but to some kids, He isn't. Summer is one of those kids. She sat with August at the lunch table out of kindness, and people started calling her a saint. She just wanted to make him happy. At Beecher, anyone who even associates with August is an outcast. Savanna told Summer that Julian liked her, and he wouldn't be very happy to know that Summer associates with Auggie and she is unpopular because of it. Summer was just trying to be kind. After all, he's just a kid, a really weird looking kid, but just a kid, like everyone else at Beecher.

Jack calls himself a hypocrate because he acted like he was nice to Auggie in the morning classes. But, he wouldn't sit with him at lunch because he just didn't have the guts to be seen with him. A hypocrate is a person who says one thing and does another. Jack was doing just that. I think he was under peer pressure, but he also gets over this quickly throughout his part in the story.

I think we will learn what Justin thinks of Via and her family, especially Auggie. The author would have a part about Via's boyfriend because we would learn what he thinks about Auggie. I think his relationship with Via will have some kind of effect on Auggie. I think he will also befriend Jack Will from the comment that Jack said about Justin's fiddle case being a machine gun and he should say it is because no one will mess with him. Justin probably won't do this, but if he said anything bad about Auggie, then it would effect Via, also.

To me, Miranda's role in the novel was crucial in her friendship with Via and especially Auggie. When Miranda bought Auggie the astronaut helm, he used it to cover up his face so people wouldn't see it. After Miranda's part ended, Auggie's dad told him that he hated the helmet so much, that he threw it out and didn't tell him. August looked for the helmet for a LONG time.

Miranda feels safer at Via's house because her parents are divorced and her mother was never the same. Also, her mom never said she loved Miranda ever since the divorce. Auggie and Miranda almost had a brother-sister relationship with each other (Major Tom, Ground Control, etc). Also, Via has been friends with Miranda