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Percy Jackson: My new best friend

              Percy Jackson: My New Best Friend

                   By: Meaghan

Who's your favorite book character? Imagine if they were your BEST FRIEND!!!! What would your's be? Mine would be Percy Jackson. Why? Because if you had a best friend that was a half a sea god you would like it too. That's right Percy is the son of poseidon. You got to admit that would be pretty cool to just be like sitting at home for the weekend and then Percy Jackson calls you and is saying "Hey, You wanna come over to my house and ride some Rainbow fish horses?" (I forgot what they are called) "Ok, sounds like fun. Be over in 5 minutes.".

Another reason is if someone is being mean to you or is bulling you, You can just tell Percy and BOOM problem gone.

It would be pretty AWESOME to have Percy Jackson as a best friend just because he will stand by you no matter what and he is a good friend to everyone. Also he can control water and that is like 3/4 of the world. He also has really amazing friends in the books he is featured in. Like Annabelle, She is really smart because she is the daughter of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. If you are friends with Percy you have to be friends with his other close friends right?

Who would your best friend be? Mine would be Percy Jackson as you can tell by this essay.

Reflection Of The first Two Weeks

When school started I was really happy to see all of my old friends (Alexa,Amber,Julia and Vainavi).
I had a lot of fun in the first week of school. I played with Alexa and Amber on the first and second week. We always play Color Tag at lunch recess. The Second week was just as fun! But we went to the water park on friday so that made the second week even MORE AWESOME!!!! Me,Alexa and Amber All stuck with each other for the water park. It was really fun. We went in the wave pool,The Lazy River,The Yellow Water slide and the purple Water slide that needed a tube.On the first week we also took our Rock Star pictures. That was really fun! I have to say I am looking forward to being a Rock Star in Mrs.Clayton's 5 Grade class! To the people in Mrs.Clayton's Class next year, I hope you have a great time!! I know I will!

Vowel Suffixs

Useful and Readable Text

"Mighty Moose-Big Backyard"

I would not use this article because It gives very small bits of info but not really enough for a paragraph.

"Life in the trees in a breeze- Ranger Rick"

I would use this article because it gives you TONS of info on orangutans and it gives you a lot to write about in a paragraph.

"Tropicical Deforestion-Observaty"

I would use this article because it gives you good info if you were trying to write a paragraph about Deforestion.

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Make sure you use a website that you can trust (national Geophrapic,Etc.)

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Find the same thing in about 3 places and they have to say the same thing

Look at the URL

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Things I learned

Add More words to the original search
Use specific keywords
Put quotation marks to be more specific about a word 
Try not to use words that aren't that specific,It could lead you to a whole different site than what you where looking for.