Technology..........

Technology has improved the lives of many........ but just how much? There are now things such as computers, television, cellphones, and ipods. Sure, these things are fun and now a drug to children.


Techonology is now one of the biggest things in the world!! At home, in the car, walking, exercising, and even doing homework. Now we can go online and search up anything we desire. For instance, a student doing math homework doesn't know what 12 x 134 is. Instead of asking a parent or teaher to help who understand how to do multiplcation with pencil and paper, she goes online and searches the answer on google. Techonolgy has made an easier path in education.  Some people use their i pods, or computer to listen to music. I do that too, but sometimes i get so addicted to music that I listen to it while I'm doing homework. What's the big deal??? If you were to study while listening to music, your brain absorbs the information, and the music. That's why when you listen to a song all the time; you know the lyrics without looking it up. So while studying, and listening to music at the same time, your brain adsorbs everything and it gets mixed. The next day, during that test, even though you studied for three hours, you're still not going to remember anything at all because of the music that you were listening to. The same thing applies to homework, writing essays, Study Island, or even doing blog posts (even though I'm listening to music right now, guilty) One of the reasons people procastinate is because of technology, I do it too. One second, I'll be saying " Anthony!!!! Get off the computer I have to do homework!!!!"(jerk) Five seconds later I'll be on youtube looking up something stupid that amuses me. Tons of students do it. Then we end up not doing it at all.

Welcome to Our Class Ms. Carrol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to our class Mr. Carrol!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoyed your day at Mrs. Patalano's class!!! My name is Elena Elias. I came from Lincoln Elementary School, and I am twelve years old. In my free time, I like to play sports such as soccer, laugh and hang out with my friends. I like alot of things in Middle School like, seeing my friends in the hallway, having four minutes between classes, and how in gym we play games. My most favorite thing about Middle School is how you don't stay in one class and time goes by faster. If  I don't like one class, in 46 min I get to go to a different class. The one thing that I really hate about english is that we have to do essays a certain way,  how the teacher wants you to set the paper up, or how long it has to be. I realize that you can't have just one paragraph in an essay, but I don't get why it has to be a certain length.The one thing I do like in english is how we students and teachers have a fair share of work we do. The teaher takes time to do the work she/he wants us to do. For example, the teacher just doesn't say, take out your book and answers, so and so. That just means that the teacher didn't put work into what the student are doing. My strength standing up to others and being strong. If a friend is being bullied, I would shut the person up and tell them to go get a life. One of my weaknesses is getting distracted. I get distracted alot with my surroundings. Sometimes I look out the window, or talking to the people surrounding me. One thing you should know about me is that I am, I guess you could call it an average student. I get good grades, if I do poorly, I would do my best to catch up, but I am a very active talker. So if you yell at me for talking, don't be surprised.

Our english class is my favorite class. We always talk and Mrs. Patalano gives time to listen. Our class is also very funny. Our teacher is very hard working and I can tell she takes pride in her job. The very best thing I like about our class is how much fun we have. Our class is very bright and our teacher is one of the most sarcastic person I will ever know, but in a very funnny way. My favorite activity we do is when we do the grammer sheet because we get alot of fun stories out of the wrok sheet. The one thing I don't like about the activities is acutally, I really don't have anything that I don't like. Everything thing we do is fun. In the begging of class we do our regular everyday grammer sheet,  

Career goal?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?

I always knew that I had to make a desicion sooner or later. I well, yea most of you know for me is later. If I had to pick though, based on the career choice the computer thing chose for me, i would do out if all of them, honestly, arts. Either arts or soccer.( obviosly for the people who know me TOO well) Not like arts as in, painting, drawing, or free hand, yea no, I stink at that. Arts as in music, singer, actress, director, that stuff. Yes, some of you would be like, Im sure your good at drawing. My stick figures look like a deformed hand. Trust me, I learned the hard way. My plan for being succesful to becoming a famous soccer player is to play in High School, through out College. Train people and referee for a part time job. Then go to try outs for a good soccer team that is succesfull. For arts, well, actually, don't really wanna tell you because nobody knows the other side of me, except  for some people that are like a brother and sister. Even if it is for school work.

New years resolution

People look forward to the New Year because it gives them a second chance to make a first impression. This year I intend to stop biting my nails. I often bite my nails and they turn out to look very gross and this behavior is not good for my health. I hate biting my nails because they turn out looking really gross and it looks like I need to get a manicure. One time, I was at soccer practice, and my coach was giving a speech about the game that we just had. In the middle of the speech, my friend decided to shout out to the world for me to stop biting my nails. Well, that didn’t go to well because the next thing I knew, my coach started making fun of me, and I definitely don’t want that to happen again.  To succeed on my resolution, I will start painting my nails more often so I won’t bite them. This way, since I know that nail polish is toxic, I won’t bite them. If I accomplish this resolution, I’m sure that I will have healthier nails.

Elena Elias