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Why Should Students Blog?

From Mary Kruel, a teacher widely known for her online classroom work:

I think that the biggest advantage to blogs is that they provide an authentic audience for student writing and work in general. In the past the teacher was usually the only person who read student work. With a blog, student work can be read by classmates, parents, extended family members, school community members, project partners, classroom teachers, pre-service teachers, and anyone around the world who locates the class blog. (Personal correspondence, December 2008)

Washing Dishes

by Lizeth

The job that I hate the most is washing the dishes it is gross. It is gross because sometimes the dishes have left over food then you have to scrape it off. The dishes also smell gross. Doing the dishes is the most boring chore you just stand there washing the dishes. Sometimes I try to get out of doing the dishes by saying my stomach hurts or I try to get my sister to do it if she doesn’t want to wash them for free I try to ask her if she wants money to do the dishes.

Worst Job

The treacherous job of... cleaning the cooler!

by Shane

I’ve had plenty of bad jobs, for example I scoop the dog’s poop as a daily chore but no job will be worst then when I had to clean out cooler. Every year we close up the cooler for the winter and have to clean it out before we use it. Last year I had to clean it out me for spring break the moment in opened it up dried pigeon poop went every where. I had to take off all 4 cooler pads get them off the roof, without dropping them, and wash them. It took, at lest, a half hour for each pad to be clean and to dry. Then came the hard part, I had to dared each 40 pound cooling pad up the ladder, the catch with one hand. With that done, 20 minutes later, I realized I had forgotten to clean the main part of the cooler! It to me anther 4 hours to clean out the main part of the cooler and when your afraid of heights it is so not cool! Finally I got it to work with a lot of luck and a lot of duck tape. I partially shoved everything of the roof and went down the ladder so fast my sister commented that she never saw me go down a ladder so fast. All in all it took me 6 hours to complete. It was some of the worst hour of my life!

Cleaning My Room

by Shawni

The job that I dislike the most is cleaning my room. This job takes a long time to do and is boring. I always have to clean my room because my mom freaks out. If I don’t clean it she’ll yell me just get mad. Once I get tired of the yelling I start to clean.

When I clean I get really bored so I hate doing it. I always have to have a friend over or watch television. My room is always so messy so it’s even worse. It seems like it takes forever but its not that bad.

Once I strip my sheets and put them in the washer I can take a brake. Then I switch them to the drier and get back to work. Once everything is in its place I make my bed and I’m finally done.

It feels good to have it clean and my mom is happy. After it’s cleaned I try to keep it that way.

10 minutes

by Chelsea

5/29/09---

I think the hardest thing I have ever had to do is write a speech that is ten minutes long. It’s called a Valedictorian Speech and I have to write one because I have the highest grades in the class. It needs to be about my class and our motto and tie into our education, future, and what we hope we can accomplish.

I knew that I would have to be Valedictorian and write that speech because Paul got a B+ in English at the beginning of the year. All because of a book report that he didn’t turn in. I’ve been writing this speech for about two weeks and I’m almost finished. You’d think that I’d have a lot of pages written because it’s about people that I have spent eight years of my life with but it really isn’t. I went for three whole hours of trying to work on it but never being able to write anything I liked. I was so mad that I was going to go talk to Hubbard and tell him that I refused to be Valedictorian. But then my mom came in and asked me how much I had done. I showed her a blank page.

My mom started asking me questions like what I was going to write about and stuff that had happened to my class that had to do with the speech. I told her what I was thinking and she said I should write that down. She left and I thought about it for a while when I realized she was right. It was much easier to write from then on but I would still get stuck once-and-a-while.
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6/2/09---

I finished my speech last night and just read it to Mr. Hubbard. He thought it was pretty good and said it had a lot of excellent material. He also said he liked the way I opened my speech by talking about our decisions affecting our future. He said all the stuff in my speech was true and that he really liked it. The biggest thing he had to say though isn’t so good; he said that if my theme (thesis) was my class motto (which it is) then I would have to do some changing around to make that really clear because at this point it’s not very clear.
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6/3/09

Last night I started fixing up my speech because he wanted all my changes to be done by Thursday. I’m doing pretty good but I still have some questions.

My Worst Job

by Paul

Cutting tiles for the new remodeled bathroom

My dad assigned me to cut tiles with a tile cutter and I’m thinking that it would be easy. It ended up that when I cut it I had to break it also. I still thought it would be easy, but when I tried to break it would break crooked or break it in half where I didn’t want it too. Then since it did that I would have to cut it with a table saw and that was hard because sparks would be flying and it took a long time to cut it all the way. I also only had about 2 hours to cut all the tiles. Then I put it in it would be too big. Then I realized when we had extra tiles when I messed up I’d try to do it again with a different tile, but it kept messing up. I was getting really mad then my mom decided that we just put a messed up piece on anyway. Then when the 2 hours were almost out a piece was too small, but we put it up anyway. Now I get to look at my crooked piece right next to the bathroom window. It was hard and the chore that I most disliked and am hopeful that I will never do that again.

Chore

by Reenie

The chore I get most frustrated with is cleaning my room. The reason why I don’t like cleaning my room is because usually it takes 1 hour to make the bed. When I make my bed I have to spray Febreeze on it so it smells good or I have to change the sheets. I also have to organize my desk. I hate organizing my desk because it usually is messy. Another one of my chores is I have to put my clean clothes away in my closet. My mom used to do that for me but then she decided we have to do it. I also have to organize my closet. When I organize my closet I am so bored. It’s the most annoying part of the chore. Then the last part of cleaning my room is vacuuming. I hate vacuuming also because I have to move furniture around and then put it back and the sound is plain annoying. Cleaning my room is the most annoying and frustrating chore I have to do.

Raking Leaves

by Horacio

The worst job I ever had was when I had to rake all the leaves on the yard. I hate doing that because I had to be out in the sun instead of watching TV. I also have to put the leaves in trash bags. Then I have to throw it away and carry these huge bags of leaves to the trash cans. That is why I hate to rake leaves.

My Hardest Job

by Greg

I think the hardest thing to do is babysitting my brothers because I have to make sure everything is alright at all times. Like if my brothers are fighting I have to make them stop, or I have to change the T.V channel for my baby brother. There is a lot of things I have to do that it’s hard trying to list them all but the one ting I can’t stand the most is making dinner for my them. I can’t stand it because Brad eats like 5 times more then the normal man eats, Nick eats like 5 times less then the normal kid eats, and I need to make just enough food for all of us. Also I’m the one who has to clean up after dinner too like put the food away if there is any left, do the dishes, and sweep the floor. But after the night I kind of feel good because I’m made it through the day and no one got or anything and I think it makes me a better person because I did it. And that’s why babysitting is the hardest job.

Poor Bryan!

by Bryan

Sometimes when my mom leaves for a few days I need to keep the house in shape. I need to walk the dog and make sure they stay in the house because they like to run off. They also like to get in the trash so I need to keep them away from it. When she leaves my friends come over and help me make a mess around the house and my mom hates it when my house is dirty when she comes home. So I do the dishes and keep the living room clean.

Sometimes she will leave me with some stuff to do for her like leave a check for someone or wait for someone to come by the house so I need to stay home. But the cool thing about her being gone is that I can play music as loud as I want.