The Hunger Games Chp. 16-18

• What has happened so far that has changed your perspective about a character?

I'm speechless because this book just gets better in every chapter! Fox Face has been really quiet in the hunger games. She hasn't killed anyone shes just in her own little word. When Katniss was trying to burn the careers food, she saw Fox Face she was stealing some of the career's items and she didn't know Katniss was watching her, and when she was stealing the food Katniss saw that she was going toward the pile of items but she wasn't walking, she was walking toward the items really suspiciously, as it someone was stealing a diamond. Then Katniss was thinking and she found out that the boy from district 3 probably reactivated the mine bombs so no one can steal the food. He's smarter than i thought

The saddest thing that can possibly happen, Rue died :(. I have said before Rue was one of my favorite characters and its so sad. I knew that she was going to die but i didn't want it to happen so soon. Rest in peace my little friend, but i really liked that Katniss covered Rue with flowers before the hovercraft took her body. Another sad part was when Katniss blew up the food her ears became deaf, when i was reading that part i was trying to put myself into her shoes but its pretty hard since i can't really relate to her. The thing that surprised me the most was when Claudius Templesmith announced that there was a rule change and the rule change was that if 2 people from the same district were the last ones left they would both be announced winners, and the first thing that came to my mind were i hope Katniss and Peeta win.

The Hunger Games Chapters 13-15

• What would you do if you were (character) at this point in the book?

I am so amazed! What happened in these chapters were the game makers were getting bored of what was happening in the arena and so what they did was while Katniss was sleeping they threw fire balls near her so it could make some really good t.v, and while they were throwing the fire balls Katniss got burnt on her thighs. That must hurt a lot but she wanted to look brave because she knew the cameras were on her and if she looked weak then she wouldn't get a lot of sponsors and then Primm would be worried if she did. If i were to be Katniss i would be really scared because she has a really big burn on her thigh and shes kind of giving up on the games because she thinks she will never heal but then Haymitch decides to giver her this ointment for burns and so that took care of things, but before that she really had no hope. I think my favorite part in these chapters were when Katniss was sleeping in her sleeping bag up on a tree and then she heard the careers coming and they were right under her so she yelled at them because she knew that they couldn't climb as high as she did so they tried to climb high enough to aim and kill her but they always fell then she saw eyes sparkling and she thought it was a possum but it was rue and rue pointed at something on top of Katniss and Katniss looked up and saw a hive, she found out it was a hive of tracker jackers. Tracker jackers were genetically modified for the war but then they didn't need them so they let them go. And there stings has a effect that when they sting them the bump gets as big as a plum.so she chopped the branch that was holding the hive and it fell on the careers and they all got stung. Glimmer and girl from district 4 were stung so many times they died. And i think my other favorite part was when Katniss and Rue made a alliance

The Hunger Games Ch. 10-12

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• What would you do if you were (character) at this point in the book?

Another few great chapters! I can't believe that Peeta is actually trying to help the other people kill Katniss. So far in these chapters, they started the hunger games. There are only 13 people alive so far and many of them died when they were all trying to find the cornucopia which has weapons and almost everything you need to survive. Its a good thing that Haymitch told Katniss not to go after the cornucopia or else she would have died. If  I were Katniss i would be really mad and shocked at Peeta because she thought they would work together but he kinda back stabbed her. But you may never know because Peeta might have a really good plan. So in this part it was almost sunrise and Katniss was sleeping up in a tree so no ones will see her and no one did, but then she woke up and she heard branches cracking and she looked really close and it was a person. But she didn't know who, luckily who ever it was they didn't see Katniss. The person was making a fire and so Katniss was looking the whole time and then some one comes running after the person and so Katniss hears the person scream and thought she was a girl. So the person killed her and then a whole group of people came to where the fire was and they were all together and so she heard there conversation and she heard Peeta's voice. I'm really exited to read the next few chapters!!

Terms And Formulas

10 terms and formulas that i learned last semester was :

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One thing that I learned this semester that i will never forget is how to do fermi math problems. At first I was really confusied and it was really hard but wes helped me get through and now I can do fermie math for the rest of my life! Lets do a example problem. How many times do i blink in one day. First you get the average number of someone blinking in one minute so for example im going to use 27. then multiply it by 60 because theres 60 minutes in one hour and so that would be 1,620 and so then you muliply that by 24 since theres 24 hours in a day and you will get your answer which is  38,880, so the average person blinks 38,880 times in one day


Ten terms and formulas 

• Multiplying fractions: multiplying across and cross canceling\
• Dividing fractions: flipping the denominator and the numerator of the right fraction and multiply instead of dividing
• Adding fractions
• Subtracting fractions
• Distributive Property
• Subtracting fractions
• Finding the area of a circle: Pi r squared
• Associative property: (J+k)+L= J + (K+L)
• Area Of a Triangle: A=1/2*bh
• Circumfrence Of a Circle: C=pi*d

Hunger Games Ch. 8-9

• What would you do if you were (character) at this point in the book?

Wow! So much has happened in these few chapters. In these few chapters there actually getting ready to do a interview in front of everyone in the capitol and its going live to all districts. Katniss is having a really hard time practicing because Haymitch told her the she has to pretend that she likes the people and she doesn't because there betting on how long shes going to live and she doesn't like that. If i were to be Katniss at this point i would be really nervous. But when they started to do the interview, Katniss was probably the most liked person there! She did so good that i think that she will get a lot of sponsors. And then it happened... Peeta told everyone in his interview that he likes Katniss! I would have never thought that Peeta would like Katniss since they have to fight to the death. I think that in part 2 of this book will be about the games. I think this will be the best part ever! I really want to read ahead but i can't. The person that I'm worried the most for is Rue because shes kind of my favorite character even though they never talk about her much. She said that shes hard to catch, I'm still afraid that she will die because shes the youngest there, and a lot of the other kids are a lot older and probably more trained then her. I'm really exited to read the rest of the book and see what else surprising will happen in this book!

- Rahim

STAR Test Math

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In our class we took practice problems for the STAR test. One thing i learned from doing this was read the question very carefully. Sometimes the questions can be very tricky and you might think it said something but it might have said something else, which will effect your test score.


Another great thing i learned was guessing. Everyone comes along really hard questions in this test and many people don't want to waste time so they circle a random answer to move on. It only takes a couple more seconds if you just read the problem and then take away the answers that you think that are wrong immediately so you have a 50-50 % chance that you will get the answer and for me this has been a great help

One more strategy that i learned was to check your work to see if you missed a step in a math problem or if you read the math question wrong then it would be better if you correct it then skip it and not care about it because it will effect your grade alot. You would be really suprized if you look back and see how many problems you might have skipped or did it wrong.

Pea Growth Rate

In our 7th grade science class we were studying about the pea growth of 2 different kinds of peas, one was the Oregon Suger Pod 2 and the Mamoth Melting Snap. We planted our plants on January 13 and started data around january 17. We measured the hight in centameaters and found out that the Oregon Suger Pod 2 was bigger then the Mamoth Melting Snap, at least in my group. above this blog is a picture of our graph that we made on google docs from gathering our data. we didn't get to continue on and see how much bigger the peas got but some sort of rodent ate the plants.

Tomorrow-Cast 2032

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My topic is over spending on jails. The government spends $44,000 a year for 1 inmate, and they use our money ( tax money ) to pay for them. If they continue paying this much, we will be in a lot of trouble. Because the percent of inmates increases so much. If we take away some of the luxuries that people in jails have, we would save a lot of money. I think that my topic will effect living organisms in 2032 because we spend so much money on jails  that we wont have enough money for schools. If we stop this we will have enough money for schools and if we do this we would lower the percent of people going to jail.

1)anomie- a breakdown in and disappearance of the rules of social behavior.

2) criminogenic- factors thought tho bring about criminal behavior in an individual.

3) labeling theories-theories emphasizing that the causes of criminal behavior are not found in the individual but in the social process that labels certain acts as deviant or criminal.

4) control theories- theories holding that criminal behavior occurs when the bounds that tie an individual to society are broken or weakened.

5) classical criminology- a school of criminology that views behavior as stemming the free will, that demands responsibility and accountability of all perpetrators, and that stresses the need for punishments severe enough to deter others.

6) biological explanations- explanations of crime that emphasize physiological and neurological factors that may pre-dispose a person to commit suicid

7) Inmate-  a person who is confined to an institution such as a prison or hospital

8) life sentence- when someone guilty of murder or other serious crimes is sent to prison for "life": "He's currently serving two life sentences for murder."

9) felony- a major crime

10) prisonization-The process whereby newly institutionalized offenders come to accept prison lifestyles and criminal values

The Hunger Games, Chapter 1 - 7

What do you think is going to happen to (character) in the future? Make predictions.

So far it looks like Katniss is going to win because she got a really high score when she was showing her skill to the game makers. While Peeta is being a little bit quiet and probably has a really good plan to win. The person who really interests me in Rue, Peeta only got one more point higher than Rue, which was 8. Rue is only 12 so there is a big chance that she wont really win. So far i think its getting to the interesting part. I wonder whats going on in panam and how Katniss' mom and Prim are doing. At the moment, if i were Katniss i wouldn't trust Peeta because when they are in the arena he might have Katniss as a big target because he already knows her really well and her techniques. I really dislike Haymitch because he is a big disadvantage for Katniss and Peeta because there mentor, which is Haymitch, directs them and helps them what to do in the arena and since Haymitch is a big fat drunk, they probably wont need help from him. I think the author should write a book that's just about the people who aren't mentioned very much in this book like Rue and Effie Trinket because i would read the book to find out more about the character and how there life's are. How i feel about the book at this point is that i want to keep on reading and it is getting really interesting now.