Defining Words

1. Main Idea: The central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage.
2. Supporting Details: Are facts and secondary ideas that an author uses to develop and sopport the main idea.
3. Context Clues: The sentence, paragraph, or passage that surround a word and make it meaningful.
4. Authors Purpose: Determine whether the story or article is written for information (to give facts), for entertainment (for your enjoyment), or to persuade (make you think a certain thing).
5. Organizational Pattern: Ideas in some clearly organized way.
6. Fact and Opinion: Facts is based on direct evidence, actual experience, or observation and opinion is a statement that expresses an author's beliefs, judgements, and values.
7. Bias: A predisposition, prejudice, or prejudgment; bias may be in favor or against something or someone.
8. Tone: Is the attitutde or feeling he creates in writing about his subject; the reader can recognize a mood or feeling in written material in the same way as he would recognize a mood or feeling from a speaker's tone of voice.
9. Relationship within Sentences: A contrast between parts of a sentence.
10. Relationships between Sentences: A difference between parts of a sentence.
11. Valid Arguments: A statement that fits into a logical pattern of reasoning and/or which makes use of revelant, verifiable proof to support a particular conclusion.
12. Inference and Conclusions: Is that a reader thinks the writer is suggesting through the words or ideas presented, because he can assume things that are not ddirectly stated by the author.

My Life Style

At my elementary school year, I was in my country, I don’t really remember the name of the school but I had fun. I still remember things that I did while I was there. All my teacher were in love with me. They really liked me. One day, some reporters went to my school and started to question my teachers, and they were asking her questions about moms, I don’t really know about this but the only thing that I know is that I came out on a magazine. I still have the peace of magazine where I came out.

When I came here to the United States, I started middle school in 7th grade. I went to Lakes Stevens Middle School, where I participated in the soccer team and also in the softball team. I almost got a medal for being a good player but I didn’t because I got into trouble and I got suspended. But after that I just concentrated on studying. In middle school I had a lot of friends, I had fun as everybody, even thou I didn’t go to field trips but I still had fun.

After middle school, I went to American Senior high, where I graduated with a GPA of 3.7. I was I really good student, but I think that I could of done better. As a fresh man in high school, I played in the soccer team. It was hard for me because the practices where after school and till late night. But I just wanted to have fun I wasn’t taking it serious. Once in 10th grade I decided to play baseball, and I made it into the team. I was happy because baseball is my favorite sport, and I always wanted to play in a team, here in America. It was like a dream for me. But after 10th grade, as a Junior I didn’t played anymore, because I didn’t go to practice. So I just study. That was the time that I got better grades and starting to bring my GPA up. But once as a senior, I started to feel more comfortable about my self-getting out of high school. Is like, you care less, you start to skip with your friends to the beach or anywhere. But I didn’t get in trouble in all my senior year, so it was perfect for me. I will never forget all the time that I spend in the school, all the teacher that helped me out, and counselors and even friends that I still have.

Now that I’m here in college, everything is different, now I have more responsibilities and I now that all depends on me now, if I want to be someone in life, I have to take advantage of this opportunity and just do my best. Im here to accomplish all my goals.