Mecca

**Hi, my name is Mecca Clark. I am 11 years old and I have 3 siblings. My favorite activities are dancing and reading.** **I go to BRCPS in Hyde Park and I have been going there for 7 years and I’m in the 6th grade.** **BRCPS is a charter school and it’s one of the best schools in Boston.** **The core value that I am going define is love. Love means caring for people. Love defines me because I love all my family and friends and I care for them. This Eportfolio will talk about my skills and my favorite subjects. It will describe me and what I’m like.**
 * 1. Introduction**

**2.ELA** **ELA is about reading, writing, answering questions, and writing open response. We do center work and we get weekly homework packets. The assignment that I am going to choose is one of my homework packets. It was assigned Monday October 11th 2011.** **For the assignment we had to read an article called “A Vegetarian Diet ”and answer 8 multiple choice questions. Then we had to do “ Graphic Definitions” and draw a picture representing each vocabulary word. Lastly we had to do a writing prompt about your best vacation ever. My best vacation ever was going to Adventure Isle for me and my dad’s birthday.** **The packet was connected to what we do in ELA because it involves vocabulary words that we use weekly.** **From the assignment I learned that if you try your best you’ll get the grade that you deserve.** **I am very proud of this assignment because I got an A+ on it. Another reason I’m proud of it is because I felt like it was one of the best assignment I've done in ELA.**

**3. Social Studies** **In Social Studies we learned about some things in history. We learned about the jewish holocaust and utopian societies. For the jewish holocaust we read a book called" Number the Stars". It was about a family and their daughters friend Ellen was jewish. And they were hiding her from the nazis.** **Then we read this book called " The Giver". It was about a utopian society. Everyone was the same and did the same as each other. There was absolutely no color. It's just gray. One of the characters Jonas had to take a baby named Gabe to safety so he wouldn't get released. For the giver we did a project. We had to make a map of a utopian society. We had to draw buildings, houses, cars and more. When it was due we had to present it to the class. The assignment related to what we do because it's like our community. Houses, cars, and buildings. I am proud of it because it looked really nice and detailed.**

**4. Science** **Science is one of my favorite subjects. We learn about the earth's atmosphere, life cycles, weather, and things to know about planet earth. ONe of the assignments was a sheet 2 sided. One side was questions about the earth's atmosphere and the other side was about weather fronts. You had to read pages in the "c" section of our science textbooks and gather the information. It related because as a class we talk about weather fronts and the earth's atmosphere. The assignment that I'll explain is our food web. My partner was Aryanna and we broke it down for breakfast lunch and dinner. I am proud of this assignment because we made it look nice and we used our favorite foods. It relates to our daily routine. Eating breakfast lunch and dinner.**

**5. Math** **Math is sometimes hard and sometimes easy. It's adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying. In math we do a whole lot of reading because we get word problems and you always have to read either word problems or just an equation. The assignment that I am going to choose is one of our test. It was based on properties of equality. It was assigned December 9th 2011. I had to answer multiple choice questions. The packet was related to what we do in class because we work on properties of equality. From this packet I learned that writing a proportion is easy. I am proud of this because I got 100%.**

**6. Specialty** **The specialty that i will choose is art. One of the assignments that we did was to make characters out of circles and designs out of circles. It was assigned in october and we had to make a circle and create our own cartoon character. My character was a sun and Colorful circles. It was connected to the things I do at home because I draw at home and so do my brothers and sister. From this project I learned that you can be very creative with your work. I was proud of this assignment because I really like how they came out on the movie I made with my friends.**

**7. MCAS** **MCAS is a test that you take 3rd grade and up. We take MCAS because it's a test the state makes us take to see how we are doing in school. And to see what the school is teaching us. To prepare for MCAS I studying hard and use ALL my strategies. For MCAS you should use every strategy that was taught to you and read each question carefully. Be sure to answer the question that was being asked in the OR.**

**8. Technology** **The technology skill that I learned is typing and it's my strongest skill. It takes time and practice to be a fast typer. It's my strongest skill because I can definitely** **use it in high school when I have to type reports. And when I'm an adult I can get my job done faster when typing things fast.**

**9. Citizenship** **Being a good citizen means to do good or helpful things for your community. Something I do is during dismissal I help Ms.Mason clean the classroom. Like cleaning the board and organizing the bookshelf. I do it with my friend Aryanna. We are asked to separate our notebooks from the folders. Helping in this project can make our classroom look cleaner and neater. It makes me become a better citizen because I help make our classroom a comfortable place to be in.**

**10. Career Goal** **My career goal is to become a doctor. In middle school and high school I can study a lot of mathematics and science and do the same in college. I hope to go to UMASS and be successful in every class I take.**

**11. My Future** **My future is to attend UMASS and become a doctor. I have to work hard to achieve this goal. This was my E- Po****rtfolio.**