Summary of The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian

This story is about a boy named Arnold Spirit who lives on an Indian reservation and is fed up with his crappy life on the rez, with his 20 year old math books and the missionary teachers. Arnold chooses to go to a school outside of the rez. and finds that it is the hardest move of his life. He finds himself trying to cope with the hardships of his family members dying and the PURE! white school he needs to navigate.
In this book, I liked the fact that it showed how persistent Arnold was to get a better education and to fit in with his new world. I also liked how the book had cartoons to show a brighter side of the hardships Arnold had to go through.
I learned that it pays of the know who you are no matter how hard it is to get there. It also showed me that there are actually so many choices we have to live with every day.

Thank you Mrs.Deraps

This year was actually very influential to me because I learned a lot about how I can get better grades on my writing projects. Mrs.Deraps made this year very fun with all her creative "artsy" projects, her humor that would make the most in depth "emo" kid laugh. I am very grateful that she was patient with my slow ability to comprehend why my papers were never 100% perfect, BUT now I know why. I will never forget this year and all the good, bad, funny, and especialy the ugly moments in Mrs.Deraps English class.

Favorite Play

My favorite play that we read this year was Merchant Of Venice because we were able to act it out (and acting is fun) I rely got into the character I was playing and found that I rely could be creative with the script.

My Writeing Projects

This year I stretched my thinking AND creativity this year was the vingette project where we were FORCED to use every ounce of creative thinking. I was an alright THINKER but writing wasn't rely a strong point but since we had to write AT LEAST 9 vingettes my writing got even better(especialy with the spelling) and setting up the words in INSANELY cool forms.