Saturday, December 10, 2016
Journal Question #8
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When the new year arrives, many people make "new year's resolutions,"
meaning they promise to improve themselves in some way during the coming
year. For instance, this January 1st people may say they will quit
smoking or learn a musical instrument or lose weight or be kinder and gentler in 2017. In that spirit, what is your new year's
resolution for 2017? Explain why you are making this change.
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- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
from Maria:
ReplyDeleteI have two new year´s resolution. The first one is to get my homework done on the day that is due. Sometimes is I just because I forget I have homework. The second one is to clean my room more often. In conclusion, I need to be more responsable. I love new year. It has lots of pros. For example you can evaluate yourself and start over again trying to get better in facets that you aren´t good. It helps us learn to set and obtain goals.
For the new year's resolution, I don't think I will have many things to change. Actually, I even cannot find out a lots problems of myself. I think I am having a great life now. If I must change something, I think I will change my lifestyle a little bit. After the thanksgiving break, I spent more time on gaming, instead of do something reviews about my study. That's not good for my study. If I keep on doing that, my study will get worse , and this is the only thing I don't want to face here. So when I come back from the Christmas break, I will change my lifestyle. Don't stay up late for gaming, have more time to sleep. So I won't get asleep at class. Put more time on doing homework , and check if I lost something about. I always miss some homework these days, and when it's time to hand it out, I even cannot remember that. Make sure get up early everyday ( except weekends and holidays), so I won't miss the breakfast sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThat's my resolution of 2017. A new year is coming soon, I am not sure what kind of people will I become in the new year, but just remember one thing- don't miss my assignment ever again. That was a huge mistake these days. The most important thing can affect my grade isn't the teat, is the assignments. If I did better on my assignments, my grade will get much better.
In this year, I haven't really concentrate at school much. so my scores sometime are bad. Because of this my resolution for 2017 is becoming a more active student. Since I am quite lazy this year so the next year I will try my best to be a hard working student.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that when the new year arrives many people make new year's resolutions to improve things that they would like to improve during the year. But I'm not that kind of person, actually I haven't done that before. I think that I don't need a new year to make new resolutions, if I wanna improve something I started it from the same day that I got the idea. I couldn't wait for the rest of the year. I also think that people, like the one who smoke, always say that they will stop smoking for the next year but actually they never do that. Maybe there's few that can make it but probably more than the half that smoke can't. Anyways apart from that I think that it's good for the people to make new resolutions, if they thinked about it it means that at least they wanna try and improve.
ReplyDeleteThe new year, I have two resolutions, the first is to increase the amount of exercise, so that their own to maintain good physical condition. The second is to improve their vocabulary as soon as possible, so that their better integration into the classroom and life, thereby enhancing their knowledge reserves. This is my new year you want to change, let yourself become better.
ReplyDeleteI think I have two new year's resolutions . The first one is that I wish I can speak English much better than the past year. And the second one is that I hope I can grow ten centimeters taller. But resolutions are resolutions, not something you just need to say then it can achieve. So a new year is a starting point for you to achieve your goals. There is a Chinese sentence said,"don't let the opportunity to come to you, you have to find them ". In the end, I hope everyone has a great vacation and achieve their resolutions in next year.
ReplyDeleteFor the year 2017 how have at least two resolutions. One is to do more exercise and stay more healthy. The other one is to improve in my grammar and other scholars academics like in math, I'm doing well, but I think I can improve. Not much mor, I think I'm already perfect, and I like how I'm, so I don't want to change nothing else for the moment.
ReplyDeleteFor the up coming new year, I have two new year resolutions. The first one is to lose more weigh by doing the exercise. Make myself thinner and more powerful. The second one is to improve my academic studying. Mostly is on the English. Hope in the next year I can talk to local students more smoothly.
ReplyDeleteMy New year resolutions are improve my English and get great body. I'm studying in the U.S. English is very important for me I have to do that then I can get good grade on everything. Get the great body are lose weight and get six abdominal muscle. Every girls like that , and is healthier!
ReplyDeleteWhat I am doing is I wish I can do better on my project.
ReplyDeleteBecause if I do well.I am not wasting my family wish.
2017 is coming. My new year's resolution is reading more books.
ReplyDeleteI read several books in 2016, and I’m glad I did that. The time I spent on reading was happy. Also reading is important, it is how we discover new things. Books are great learning tools which require the ability of reading and understanding the meaning . We live in an age which we overflow with information, but reading is the main way to take advantage of it.
My new year resolution is sleep earlier than now. Now I always sleep around 11:30 it's kind of late. Sometimes that's will influence my class make me hard to focus on teacher. Another one is finish my homework effectively. Now I always playing phone during I do my homework and that's make me so slow. Hope I can done those.
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It has been 2 years already since I left my family in order for go to school in Thornton Academy. I can't imagine how fast the time has travelled. I believe that a resolution or resolutions for the new year will be a good idea to improve yourself in someway. I have two resolution for the new year which is 2017. My first resolution is to stay alive because I believe that I'll have to face a lot of challgenges in the following year, however, they might seem impassible to be completed. My second resolution is to spend more time with my family. In fact, everytime when I went back to China, I spent more time on video games than I do with my family. So next year in 2017, I'll spend more time with my family than usually.
ZhaochengZhong20@thorntonacademy.org
For the new year's resolution, I do not think I will have many things to change. I wish I can speak English much better than the past year. There is a Chinese sentence said,"don't let the opportunity to come to you, you have to find them ". In the end, I hope everyone has a great vacation and achieve their resolutions in next yearI have two resolution for the new year which is 2017. My first resolution is to stay alive because I believe that I'll have to face a lot of challgenges in the following year, however, they might seem impassible to be completed. My second resolution is to spend more time with my family.
ReplyDeleteI hope I can achieve higher English skill, in the New Year in the New Year I want to find more friends, every year in the repeat, but in the year after year we cannot set flag but not action, and hope in the New Year I can get more credits to more AP classes, also can go out with Bamby which is my favorite girl travel outside of the world.
ReplyDeleteMy new year resolution is having a better grade next year. My grade was not very well this year even I try to do better. Especially my biology class was not so well. I also will try hard to do my every work next year. And I also want to have a driving license next year. Because I always get up late in the morning. If I can drive my own car to school, I can sleep more in the morning.
ReplyDeleteI think thats why because we have every year a NEW YEAR and so a lot of people say " pledge that..." because if you really want something you can tell that you can now do it not just dream it every year there are new possibility nities as every day every month you have another possibility to reach your goal.
ReplyDeleteMy new year resolution is lose weight. This is the most important thing, and second I wish my families can all be healthy. I also want make more friends next year.
ReplyDeleteMy new year resolution is getting better grades and spending more time on study and sports activities. Don't spend lots of time on playing vadio games. I want to change myself because spending too much time on games that I can not improve my learning skills. Also I need to speak more English not Chinese.
ReplyDeleteActually , I don't know the specific thing I want to change,I want me be more outgoing , I want to lose weight , I want me be taller. But I know some of those are impossible to achieve this year.I will try to do it though.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of resolution in the new year because I want to become a better person. First of all, I need more practice for my speaking English. Second, I hope that I can pay more attention in school. Third, I would like to work out more time and make me stronger.
ReplyDeleteA new year’s resolution is a promise a person makes for the new year. 2017 is coming, many people make their resolutions in other to stimulate themselves to improve their life in the coming year. Also, some people make the resolution to change a bad habit, such as quit smoking and or eating less junk food. My new year’s resolution is study hard and lose weight. In the coming year, I’m going to be a Junior, I think I have to read more books and study harder. I need to prepare my SAT and TOFEL test. For my dream college, just improve myself and become more powerful. I want to lose my weight because I think I ate too much this year. I don’t want I will be fatter. So, I have to keep on a diet, and do not eat junk food and oily food. The other one is I don’t really like eat fruit, so in order to lose my weight, I need to form the habit of eating fruit. Also fruit is very good for health. This is my new year’s resolution, just improve myself in the coming year. Hope you all have a great Christmas and happy new year!
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ReplyDelete2017 is coming. For me, the new year resolution is to be more planned and I want to be more taller. First, In 2016 this year, I didn’t completely follow my own schedule as well as I could. Plans can’t keep up with change, but I can use the best ability that I can to avoid the change. In the new year, I will finish my plans more regular, and make it as a routine. Second, if I want to be more taller, I will do more exercises and do some sports to make me more heathy. Also I need to have good sleeps too, so I will go to bed earlier to make sure that I have good sleep.
ReplyDeleteNew year is coming.For me I don't have a lot of resolution.I m good person ;))I don't use smoke or another staf.But I have a one resolution about soccer.I need hardworking because ı need improve my soccer skills.I want going to profesional soccer practise and ı want going profesional team.I hope I will find soccer team.And world people has a two big problem.We have two problem terorisim and hunger.Thıs year a lot guys dead about terorısım and a lot people dead ın the africa about hunger.I hope thıs year we are leaving safe world.I hope battle ends and ı hope hunger is ends have a good chrıstmas
ReplyDeleteEveryone have a new year resolution. My new year resolution is to get better grades, and play more sports. Everyone wants to become better, I also want me to become better in 2017, so I will spent my time wisely, play less game and do more sports, try harder on classes hope I can become better in 2017
ReplyDeleteIn the New Year, first of all, I want to wish all Thornton academy teachers and students a happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteIn the New Year I hope I can speak the language well enough to work harder and get more progress, can get more recognition in terms of performance.
Also hope to be able to in ice hockey and golf brings honor for our school.
Can make more friends.
Many people have new year resolution. But I don't have it. I just try to do my best all the time. Some people say they will stop smoking. But few days later they still smoke again. I used to have new year resolution, but now I don't do it. In 2017 I just want to keep pushing myself to be better and be happy.
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ReplyDeleteMy new year 's resolution is getting taller and learn spanish. The reason why I want to get taller is that I am short now. And I clearly know that I can be taller in this year. Also, we have to learn second language there fore I want to learn Spanish. One of my roommates is Spanish.
The new year,I have 2 new year resolutions.I want to get higher fractions than last quarter,work hard to get A,because that I can show I'm improved.The other new year resolution is to grow up to 1.7meters high,I think I'm short,my mother want me to grow taller,so this is my new year resolution.Finally I wish you all happy new year!
ReplyDeleteMy New Years resolutions are the same resolutions that I have during the year I don't need to wait until New Years to make my resolutions like most of the people do and most of these people after a couple months forgot about their resolutions that they made in New Years. If you want to do something you are not to wait until New Years and if you really want you gonna achieve it and not forgot you resolutions after a couple of months.
ReplyDeleteMy Biggest New Year's resolution is to play less computer but more sports. In the past four months, I spent a lot of time in front of my computer, it attracts me a lot, but wastes time a lot. I think in the new year, I should go out of my dorm and do something healthy for my body, it would be helpful for me to defend the cold of Maine.
ReplyDeleteMy new year's resolutions will be focus on my academic achievement. As a junior, college is always in the top of the list that things to do. As you know Mr. Griffin, my power school didn't look that good at 2016. I already waste 1/3 of my junior year on some stupid things, now it's time to get back on something real. 2017 here I came.
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Mr.Griffin
Journal
Dec 31, 2016
Time goes very fast, it is new year again. New year means new beginning, and hope. If you haven't done something or did something not good enough, it is ok. Because with the new beginning, you will have a new altitude to face the challenge of life. This is called "new years' resolution". My resolution is hoping myself to be working hard on my class, improve English, and make myself stronger and healthier, and to be happy every day. Also I hope my friends all have good time in life in the next coming year.
Hayley Um
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1/4/17
Journal
My new year's resolution for 2017 is listen to my parents. I want to make this change because I always don't understand and arguing with my parents. However, actually, many people say that we need to respect and listen to what parents said . So I decided to stop shouting or being rude to them. And I will try to control my self and I will try to understand their mind and their thinking. I hope we don't argue a lot this year.
For the new year, I may improve my grade and join some activities. The new year is coming, I hope I can become better than last year. Forgot all the bad things for last year, a new year start. Try to achieve the goals you hadn't down last year. I hope I can have more friends, and connect with American's culture.
ReplyDeleteIn 2017, I hope I can read more English books, I am ready to read the English book of 30000 words. I want to make myself more self-discipline, the morning get up and wash, work can be completed on time and correct, not to eat too much unhealthy food, spend more time to learn, not to let the outside factors, i. I want to improve relations and help them in the home, while others are in trouble. At the end of the year, I hope I won't regret.
ReplyDeleteMy New Years resolutions is to get myself working more hard in school. I think I will pay more time in my study and less time in my computer game. I want really get improv my great and my English, because I'm getting close to take the TOEFL taxe, also I really want to get to good university in the future.
ReplyDeleteMy New Year resolutions is fix my problem. I don't want to change a lot because maybe i have 50% percent to change more bad. I prefer fix my problem. Such as i am a lazy boy. In new year, i will study more hard in school. Last year i don't spend too much time to do exercises. This year i will spend more time to do exerise.
ReplyDeleteIn the new year, I want to improve my English skills. Not only reading or writing, what I want is to own this language.English is often to use now days, it also own the biggest percent of all the language that people say. Now I realise that is important to get and use this language. So I would have much time more than last year that I use to learn English, and try to talk more, to put time to do this.
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ReplyDeleteIn the new year, I will not miss school homework. I sometimes forget my homework. This year, I will not forget my homework. I finish produce my next music in new year. I almost finish to make music. And I want improve my English. I think English skill is important.
ReplyDeleteI have three resolutions for the new coming year, the first one is improve my writing and study hard, the second is increase my vocabulary , and the last one is making more friends .
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ELL Journal
Mr. Griffin
January 8, 2017
New year is coming, which means we are older now and taking more responsibilities. For the new year's resolution. I hope that I can get a good score on both TOFEL and SAT, and get the chance to go to my dream college as well. The second resolution is that I can improve my English skills, this is the most important thing to me.
A new year’s resolution is a resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior. My new year’s resolution. Hopefully the new year will allow me to manage my time well. I will be able to arrange everything, I need more time to prepare for my TOEFL and SAT and read more books.
ReplyDeleteIn winter, it's a terrible season, because it can cause snow blindness, in a world in which all of them are white, appear drab.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we can hold to a positive attitude in the face of it, but I don't like it, it can let a person become lazy, not activities.
Although we can make a snowman, snowball fights, but I have seen some kids, snowball fights the tragedy of the accident.
So I just want to stay in the room reading a book.
In the new year, I will study hard. I hope I can get good grade and then I can go to good college, but I need learn English better. I also hope I have good luck this year.
ReplyDeleteIn the new year,I have many resolutions. I hope my English is better than before. And the important things is I hope my family is happy and nice. I want to study in America collage.
ReplyDeleteIn 2017 I would like to improve a lot of thing, but kost of them are not important, so I dont really mind, like run faster, or be a better football player... The important things for me are, for example; be nicer with every single person I like or dislike, treat better to my parents (because they have given me everything I have right now), improve my grades, that means work harder and study more.
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