English Portfolio

The story is very inspiring and motivational because Will the main character that is a person with no arms or legs, could manage to get over the obstacles that the people gave him. At the beginning of the shortcut he was used to make people laugh because of his special condition, then a showman looked at his situation and helped him, then Will discovered his potential and made an act in the circus with inspired a lot of people specially one kid that had a  disability, that made him incapable of walking, an after watching the show he went and thanked Will for giving him hope

Skills used: Creativity Information Management Adaptability Communication

My favorite vacation was this year, in my trip I went to Miami, Jacksonville and in a cruise to Las Bahamas.The best thing about the trip was that most of it was with my favorite cousin, we are like best friends. The first place I went was Jacksonville to visit my aunt and my little cousins, there, I met with some other cousins and family. Then I visited Miami, in there I went to different touristic places with my favorite cousins, his name is Luis, one of tthe places I visited was Little Havana, that is a place that has a lot of Cuban people, food and music. I also went to Wynwood that is a very cool place where you can do a lot of stuff, one of the main attractions there is called “Wynwood Walls” that is a place where different artists go and express themselves with paints in the walls and some sculptures. My dad had us a big surprise, we were going on a cruise, I was kind of suspecting about it, but I  never thought we were actually going, so I was very happy. The best part was

Model United Nations , also known as  Model UN  or  MUN , is an educational simulation and/or academic activity in which students can learn about diplomacy,  International relations,  and the United Nations  Skills  Creativity: to redact the text  Organizing information: to organize the information in the text  Problem solving: to try to solve the problem of child soldiers 

It’s the basic parts of the paragraph such as, the topic sentence, the body sentence, and the closing sentence. A text is also divided in introduction, body, and closing sentence. In the introduction you show the reader what the text is about. In the body you give the reader enough information for him to understand. Finally, in the closing sentence you sum up the information given in the paragraph. Types of writing Descriptive writing: it describes a person, place or idea. It is important to use words to describe the senses Narrative: tells a story by sharing the detail of an experience Persuasive: gives an opinion and tries to convince the reader to agree with it Expository: it gives information about a topic, and explain different things such as ideas, directions or show how to do something.