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    Since the last time I wrote in the book Matched by Ally Condie Cassia has started to have stronger feelings towards Ky. She is confused for she doesn't only have feelings for him but for Xavier as well. She feels as if she has betrayed Xavier for he is her match. But she can't help but always think of Ky and what he has done for her. Ky has taught her how to write and read in their hiking trips. They have broken rules but she doesn't mind for Ky has awaken her inner bravery.  Things are starting to stir up both Ky and her feel something big coming. The officials seem on the edge and they seem more suspicious than usual. The only thing is that they both think it might affect them. Not only that but Cassia has found out that Ky might have been her true match for he was entered in the matching pool. He had also received a micro-card with her face on it and she was supposed to be his match. The same way he was supposed to be her match.
     The main character Cassia is caring and brave. She is caring because she doesn't keep her love for Ky a secret instead of hurting Xavier more than she would. She tells him instead the feelings she has for Ky so that if an official tells him it might not hurt him that much and won't think of it as betrayal. "He deserves to know about Ky, and he deserves to hear it from me. Not from an official in a green space,today or some other day." This proves that she cares enough to tell him she doesn't feel the same way than to let him find out from someone else and hurt him more. She is brave because when they tell her to sort people from better to worst she finds her self debating on putting Ky in the higher group so that he gets a better life. Even if that decision might cost her safety or be separated from him she thinks of his well being. " I sort Ky into the higher group and close the data pod as if the decision has cost me nothing at all".

Matched

     In the book, Matched by Ally Condie, Cassia Maria Reyes has turned seventeen. In this story every time a boy or girl turn seventeen they are invited to a banquet. In the banquet he or she is matched with another person who they will marry. Cassia is matched with her childhood friend Xander Thomas Carrow.  They are both given a micro-card filled with the background, picture and information about your match.

     When Cassia opens her micro-card she doesn't see Xander's picture but instead a whole different person. She is at first worried that she might have two matches but the officials tell her it was a mistake. Deep down she wonders if Xander really is her true match or was it the person she saw. In the society she lives in every person is to die at the age of eighty. So when her Grandfather turns eighty years old she feels disappointed and sad. The officials control the feelings, movements, dreams and everything in their life, they believe it is better to know when one will die instead of wondering "Will today be the end". They all live in a world where all they do is follow rules and are never themselves.

     Cassia Reyes main conflict in the book is man vs. self.  Her conflict is whether or not Xander is her true match or is it Ky Markham. She knows who Ky is but doesn't really interact with him. She feels intrigued and wants to find out more about him.  The thing is he doesn't let anyone read his emotions or tells a lot about himself to anyone. 

Welcome 2015!

     My academic goal on this new year is to get straight A's on the last two quarters of 8th grade, and hopefully keep them that way for freshman year. I would like to achieve this goal because it will be beneficial for me later on in life. I will achieve this goal by staying on task and asking questions when I need to. This might be a hard task but I will try my best and be more attentive in class. In conclusion this year I will try to finish strong and start strong in freshman year.
     My person goal this year is to improve my vocabulary. I would like to achieve this goal because it will help me sound more professional and mature. I will achieve this goal by reading more books and if I stumble around a word I don't know I will look it up. Another thing I could do is pay more attention to classes and picking up new words. In conclusion by the end of this year I would like to make my vocabulary stronger.