My Favorite Meal

My favorite meal ever is macaroni and cheese with a jelly sandwich and chocolate milk. Macaroni and cheese has always been my favorite, especially when it's homemade by my aunt. For some wierd reason, I really love jelly sandwiches. I dont like peanut butter unless it's cooked into something, so instead of having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I just eat jelly on it. Chocolate milk is like a tradition. My aunt always buys some for me every time I go to her house. My older brother and sister both used to drink chocolate milk all the time at her house. My younger cousins are all starting to do it too.

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What Bugs Me

Something that really bugs me is when people look like they are sagging their pants because they don't pull them up. For example, this morning in the hallway I saw someone wearing skinny jeans and the waistband was too big. The pants fit fine except for in the butt. I think it looks unattractive and tacky. If the waistband on your pants is too big please either get a belt or pull them up. I will personally buy you a belt if you really need one. I think people should try to find pants that actually fit instead of wearing them like they are. If you have trouble finding pants that fit, ask your parents or grandparents to taylor them to your needs.


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City Museum

On Tuesday we had an AR field trip. We went to the City Museum if we had made out AR goals for at least three quarters. On the way to the museum I slept. When we got there we met up with our chaperons and started exploring. We went to the caves first. My group went down the five story slide because we were too scared to do the ten story one. Later we went to the art center. We painted our hands and made heart shapes on paper with them. I also painted my name and added splatter paint to it. They had a big chalk board there, too. You could sign your name or write anything you want on it. I really enjoyed the City Museum.

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Kid Nation Ep. 7

Positive Deviance- Divad went over her expectations and she showed positive deviance.She did more than she was required to do. She did much more than people wanted her to do. People in the town didn't really like it because it become annoying.The positive deviance she showed was not enjoyed by many other people.

Stigma- People in the town are labeled negatively by stigmas. Nathan was sometimes called a loser or nerd. Kids thought that Greg was a jerk. Divad was labeled as a suck-up. Taylor was called bossy and a pageant queen. Jared might have been called weird. Stigmas effected almost everyone in the town.

Social Sanctions- The town council meeting is a bit like a social sanction. When somebody recieves a gold star they are rewarded for good things. They might be punished for not cooperating with the town or their district. The town council members might be punished by having someone else take their place in the council. A social sanction could be good or bad.

Kid Nation Ep. 6

Cooperation- The council chose people from each group to help clean up the trash. They cooperated to pick up all the trash, take it out, and bury it in the ground. Taylor didn't cooperate at all and she was faced with the consequences. Her friend didn't cooperate at first, but realized she needed to help so that she could help out the town. When they cooperate together, they can get thing done.

Rationalization- They rationalize plans to get goals accomplished. They had plans to get the trash picked up. They rationalized a plan to get the water from the pump to the buckets. They rationalize what would be better for the town as a whole. They reason with eachother to decide what is best.

Authority- The council uses authority to control the children in the town. Zach used authority on Taylor to make her conform to the rules. But, Taylor needs more authority used on her because she won't contribe to the town whatsoever. DK uses authoriy on everyone because they get carried away and are too mean. Authority makes the town run better.

Kid Nation Ep. 5

Group- The whole town is a group. The red district is a group. The blue district is a group. So are the green and yellow districts.There's groups of merchants, cooks, laborers, and upper class. The group have their own jobs and responsibilities. 

Group Boundary- The groups in the town seperate eachother by havung their different colors. They have a red group and blue group. They also have a yellow and green group. They wear bandanas with their colors to seperate eachother. Almost everything they do involves their different colors to seperate them.

In-group- The girls in the yellow district like to not follow rules along with Taylor. They are the in-group from the yellow district. Once Taylor was voted out, the group will hopefully start following more rules. They targeted the rest of the people in the yellow district because they followed they rules and wanted to make the town better. Taylor's in-group didn't really care about the big picture.