During this week, we worked on our student store on filing out the fundraiser application. We also looked up businesses and researched which businesses give donations. Were going to write a cover letter to give to the businesses so they can have our contact number to contact us. Also starting next week I'm going to start looking for designs for our cabinet and how to paint it. What I also did this week was talk to Mrs. Cabrera. We asked her if she could be our advisor for our student store. We came up with dates in which we would have our student store open. The days we decided we Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We would have the store open after school available for students.

2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their

development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build

on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of

the text.

literature.

     Last week, a few of My Lifers and I finished the book the Alchemist. We had to finish the book by Friday and discuss about the story. The theme in this story was to follow your dreams. The boy in the story, wanted to be a Shepherd who wanted to travel around the world to see new things and learn from them. The story taught many lesson as gave out good advice. Another theme I could say about the book would be, work for what you want in life. The boy worked a lot after giving his flock of sheep away. He worked enough in a crystal shop to recuperate his sheep and buy twice as more sheep than he already had. A quick summary about this book is A boy name Santiago always wanted to travel around the world. He came to see that shepherds would travel around with there flock of sheep. Santiago told his dad that he wanted to become a shepherd, and so he did. Santiago went around to small towns to sell the sheep wool. In a town he had stop at a store and meet a girl that he had falling in love with. Santiago decided to go with a gypsy prayer that would tell his future. She told him that there was a hidden treasure he had to go look for. And so he did and on the way he had meet a few people that helped him get to his treasure, the crystal merchant, Englishman, and the Alchemist. The hidden treasure was located in the Pyramids of Egypt. In the end the boy end up finding the treasure and going back to have a life with Fatima the girl he had met.

Civics - 12.2.3. Performance Standard:

Explain the roles of property rights, competition, and profit in a market economy.

This standard ties into the project I'm working on, with few of my life students, because inorder for the project we had to find a place we would sale our merchandise at (rules of property rights). So we had to find a location that would be perfect to get our booth stationed, with the condition of following the property rules of course. A location were we  would first start would be at the football games. Its a great way to get started there because lots of people attend the football games. We were thinking of selling snacks and drinks at our booth, but there is already a snack bar at the football games and that would just lead into (compettion). We thought about doing something different. We were thinking of making little key chains with the initials of our school and selling them. There is a lot of things we have in mind, but we just have to plan and see what happens. By selling these merchandise, we would come up with some good (profit). The more we would sell and the profit we would make we would increase our merchandise, for example if we would make enough profit we could start buying supplies for our silkscreen machine like t-shirts. But first, we would have to start by fundraisning.

During this week we have been working and figuring out how were going to work on our projects. On Thursday Mrs. Rempp, from the water board came to visit us to give us an update on the skate park. She gave us ideas in where we can get grants. One of the grants were the Tony hawk foundation. My Lifers are going to work together to get the grant application going. We hope to finish the grant application by January and meet all the requirements. This grant is by far a chance we have to make this happen soon. Other grants required almost two years at least to get all the process done. Lastly we discuss today that instead of doing an individual projects, we decided to make small group projects.  But yet all of My lifers are going to help one another succeed in their projects.