Memoire Reflection

I decided to write about my Memoire because I think that I didn’t have enough information to make it a good position paper. When researching about the God that I choose I didn’t found enough information. That‘s the reason I really didn’t choose to talk about the position paper and I think it would be easier to work with my Memoire. I prefer to talk about my memoire and grade a work that I did by myself to see how I can put in words my experiences.

I would classify myself in between developing and Proficient/College Ready .I feel that the vocabulary I use to make it is really easy to understand. If I would use strong vocabulary I think that I would give myself an A. Even though I did like the way I develop my memoire meaning in chronological order. I wrote each detail in the way it happen and in sequence. The way it is written is how the events where developing at that time. Also I feel that if you read my memoire you are going to get confuse even though I put in parenthesis whose side of my family I’m talking about.

In analysis and inquiry I classify myself in developing relates works to personal experience and refers to other contexts. I rank in that position because I only talk about my personal experience that I when trough. I also talk of what is happening in both sides; what I mean is that I explain what was happening in Mexico and in the United States at the same time. That’s what I think that is referring on the part that say “refers to other contexts”. I don’t only talk about my experience but I also talk about how it affected other people for example my grandmother.

Structure and organization I rank myself in “Proficient/college ready”. I strongly agree to classify myself in that position because like I said earlier the events are written how they were happening. I try my best on remembering how it all of this happen and also with the help of my parents and successfully I was able to get every detail in sequence. This is the main reason that I grade myself in that position.  

In the area of Command of language I categorized my grammar in the position of “proficient/ College Ready”. Is generally free of distracting errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics is where I actually classify my work. I grade myself with this statement because I use simile and hyperbole so I wouldn’t make it boring. The way that I express the events that are important to the story (the main events of the story) not only the way I express them and that I use simile and hyperbole but everything is in complete sentence.

In conclusion, the grade that I give myself in my memoire is in between Developing and College ready. I think that is not that bad or that good to say that I can get an A. In the GPS grading grid I grade myself with developing in the grading part of Analysis and Inquiry. In Structure and organization I grade myself with “Proficient/ College Ready” because my events are written in chronological order. In the last part of grading which is Command of language I choose “Proficient/College ready” because I don’t have grammar errors and because I use figurative language.

3 Goals

1. Pass TAKS with commended performance is one of my main goals for next year because I would really like not to only pass TAKS but pass with commended performance. To be able to accomplished this goal I’ m going to really try hard, more than this year it. I can also accomplish it by doing extra work so I can be able to understand it better and be good at it. Another way that I’m going to be able to this is read books every day. If I read books more often is going to increase my reading fluid and understand better the reading.

2. Have all A’s in all of my classes is one of my three goals because I want to go to college; I need to accomplish my second goal to be able to get accepted. Not only for myself, but to show my parents that I do care about my education and that I what to be someone in the future; by accomplished them their dream to go to college and graduate. Having all A’s in my classes is going to help me by being recognized and it could help me get into college faster.

3. My last goal is to read more books during and after the class. I would read books that are out of class in other words I’m going to have my own books to read. I’m going to be able to accomplish my last goal by reading every time that I have time and plus the books that we are going to be reading inside class next year. I choose reading more books because is important to read so you can be less ignorant. In my opinion I think that books are powerful because they help in a lot of things, they have a lot of information that I don’t know.

Memoire

Month of Tragedy

On December 28 of 2009 I heard my dad's cell phone ringing. Just by hearing my dad's words I could tell something was wrong. I wondered what was happening. But I didn’t found out in till next day. It was when I got out of school to our way home my mom told me and my sister that my dad had receive a phone call from his cousin telling him that his uncle was on the hospital of San Luis. I kept hearing my dad talking every other day with his cousin. I decided to ask my mom how sick my dad’s uncle was. She told me that he had a surgery inside his stomach; days later he decided to go visit the doctor because he dint felt good from his stomach. When he went an visit the doctor, the doctors send him in a ambulance to the hospital as an emergency because his surgery wound got infected. My dad's uncle lasted five or more months in the hospital since the surgery wound got worst every day that passed by. My moms told me that it was really bad that it became to the extreme in were they had to actually open his stomach so the nurses could clean his wound 24/7. My eyes were open as big as a crocodile can open theirs when my mom told me that the doctor had him with his stomach open like for 2 through 3 months. When the five months pass the doctor told him and his son that him go to his house; that same day they arrived to his house, they got there like by midnight hours pass by it was down when his son realized that his dad had died. It was December 31 when my dad receive another call this time with more serious news, when he hang up he told us that his uncle had pass away.
It was 7:30 P.M. When my dad's phone started to ring again. I heard the first part of the conversation that my dad was having with his cousin. While listening to the conversation I realize that someone was sick. I was getting annoyed by the cell ringing every other day, but I had to put up with it because those phone calls were really important. Every time the calls became more serious every time he called; I could notice it by hearing my dad's voice. By the end of the week my mother inform me and my sister that our grand-grandfather (which is my dad grandfather) dint eat that much, he had lost his sight, and he became a little deaf at the same time. When the next week came by my mother told us that my dad had told her that he had heard someone telling her daughter that live with him that his brother had pass way ( my dad's uncle was my grand-grandfather son). When my grand-grandfather heard those terrible news, he eat less every day that passed by. He spend almost a month without eating since the 2nd week of December in till the begging of January. Those terrible news affected him more and became more sick. In till it became the day in where my dad receive another called by his cousin like at 3 in the morning that our grand-grandfather had pass away. My dad told my uncles that their grandpa had pass away. They plan a trip in where they decided to take my grandma but without telling her that his dad had died. They left during the week at the afternoon. When they got to Mexico our family members were waiting for them so they could begging the ceremony in the church. When they got to the church my grandma realize that her dad had died, because when they left from Houston they had told her that her father was sick.
Ring Ring Ring!! This time it was my uncle (my mom's brother) calling my mom. We were waiting for her to hang up, the sound of her voice told us that something was wrong. When she hang up we all ask what happen she told us that our grand-grandma had died. When she told us this devastating news we were all in shock, we just couldn’t believe it. I was thinking that it was a tragedy what was happening in my family. I started thinking that my 2 grand-grandfather's that I had left were gone, tears started dripping from my eyes.
My mom receive another called that same week from my dad. She say that my dad was on his way to the United States.; when my mom said that I was so happy because I was already missing him. 2 days later he got home I was so excited to see him again. On Sunday my aunt's dad called him (my dad's aunt is my godmother) to give him other bad and devastating news. My dads announce to us that our grandma was really sick, she was on bed. When he called her back to check on my grandma; my godmother told him that she had already took her to the doctor because she didn’t wanted to eat. She told my dad that the doctor told her that he wanted to send her to the hospital of San Luis because she was about to have a heart attack. When my dad heard those terrifying news he called my uncle immediately to let him know what was happening, it sounded like if they were making plans. Later I heard that he told my mother that he was leaving again with my uncle, I was listening to their conversation, I heard that and I got sad that my dad was leaving again and he just got here, but at the same time I was sad because my grandma was about to get a heart attack. My dads called to my house tho let us know that they were already in Mexico again. The whole reason that they went back was to bring her back to Houston. When my dad called that day he told us that my grandma was a little bit better, he continue saying that she had already started to eat. Like 3 days later I called him, he told me that they were in their way to Houston, I was happy and exited to hear great news. When they got here my aunt made an appointment for my grandma with her doctor. When the day of the appointment came the doctor told my aunt that to take care and not to be alone for an emergency. After having a month of tragedy we finally heard good news, but at the same time we were sad because of the members of the family we had lost.
Is about to be a year that this happen. I have overcome this challenge by thinking and knowing that they would be better in the after live being here and suffering the paint they have when they are ill.
What I learn about this is to cherish to whom I love when they are alive and here with us.