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How A Good Teacher Should Be

Now that I'm in high school, I've noticed that a few of my teachers aren't very good.

Here are the main points on how a good teacher should be:

• A good teacher should be nice and care about his/her students. If not, then his/her students will feel neglected by him/her. The students will also feel that the teacher isn't a moral person.
• A good teacher should have a plan of what to do each class, and he/she should tell students what they'll do next class, or have an assignment sheet posted online (like my math teacher has this year). Two days ago, I was really upset that my PE teacher made me and my PE classmates run the mile because I can't believe that she didn't tell us before (which is why I got an 8:55). If she did tell us before, then I would surely be more prepared for the mile.
• A good teacher would give out reasonable homework. In my science class, my science teacher gives out homework that will be about what will happen in the next class. This isn't good because I feel like I have to self-learn all these science topics, but I'm bad at self-learning. As a result, my science grade is horrible.
• A good teacher should be reasonable. I don't like the fact that my PE teacher makes me and my PE classmates run two laps around the track in under 4 minutes and 30 seconds (but she used to say 5 minutes). I feel like that it isn't reasonable to run every PE class because other parts of physical fitness, like flexibility and coordination, are important too.
• A good teacher should give out reasonable criticism. If a teacher gives out criticism to a student who actually can't do anything to fix it, then the student could show hatred towards his/her teacher.
• A good teacher should have common sense. My mom and I don't like that my science teacher gives out tests but then collects them after viewing them for a while because my mom doesn't feel that I'm learning from my mistakes I made on my science tests. 

In conclusion, these are my main points on how a good teacher should be.

20 Questions to Figure Out A Mammal

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Guess My Animal

This animal is very heavy, ever since it was born. Its size can be as small as a child, or about as big as the average height of a human being. Its head is round and big. It has a good sense of smell. It walks on four legs. Its claws are sharp. It has a short tail. Its eyes are not very easy to see. It has a triangular-shaped nose.  It has strong teeth, and a few of them are sharp. It has soft fur. Don't, however, try to stroke it because it is quite shy. Fortunately, it won't bite a person unless if that person do something mean to it. It can be found mainly in forests or zoos. It has small round ears. It usually is a loner. The camouflage of this animal is very effective. It is very good at climbing trees. It can even swim. It can make many different noises.

Travel Log for This Summer: Salt Lake City, Utah

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On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young and his pioneers discovered Salt Lake City, Utah. These pioneers wanted to practice their religion there. The city center is currently called Temple Square. The Salt Lake Temple had begun to be made in 1853, but because of the limited transportation for the materials to build the temple and making the temple perfect and sturdy, the building was completed 40 years later. During the 1960s, a place in temple square made a shopping center, so the business could thrive in temple square. Temple Square is the most historic place in Utah.

In Salt Lake City, Utah, I went to temple square. Temple square has many churches, and it even rained on the day I was there. In temple square, I attended a tour. One part of the tour was about watching the video that shows the family values of mormons. I also went to the Salt Lake Temple. The ceilings are high. If any normal sized human being jumped as high as gravity would let them in the temple, then they would still not touch the ceiling. There are many benches to sit, for which I believe that they are made out of wood. I listened to the what the people who led the tour explain the temple in Chinese and English. (For the tours around temple square, there were many languages offered.) Overall, Salt Lake City's temple square is very interesting to me.

The inn I stayed in Salt Lake City (called Crystal Inn), had WiFi. As a result, I could use Instagram. There was even a swimming pool, so I went swimming there. 

You should go to Salt Lake City, Utah by plane.

Travel Log for This Summer: Grand Teton National Park

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Grand Teton, named after the big breast-like mountains, has an alpine scenery. The first Anglo-American man to view its peaks was John Colter, in 1807. It was created on February 26, 1929, and is 309,993 acres.

Grand Teton is a national park next to Yellowstone that is really wild. There are many mosquitos and other bugs. I really despise bugs because I get bug bites really often during bug season. As a result, when me, my family, and some members of my extended family got out of our vehicles to see some of the Grand Teton scenery, I stayed in the car most of the time because I was bothered by the swarm of mosquitos. Grand Teton is a national park for people who don't easily get bothered by mosquitos.

Grand Teton is not very advanced in technology. In the cabin I stayed in between Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, there had been no WiFi at all. In the lobby for the cabins between Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, however, there is really horrible WiFi. I tried going on Instagram a few times, but there was no Internet connection. As a result, Grand Teton isn't such a modernized place.

If you want to go to Grand Teton directly, you'll have to go there by plane. If you want to go to Grand Teton after visiting Yellowstone, however, you can just drive there.

Overall, I think that Grand Teton isn't as good as Yellowstone. It was a fine experience, though.

Travel Log for This Summer: Yellowstone National Park

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Yellowstone National Park was the first national park of the United States, established in March 1, 1872. The park has 3,468 square miles. There are lakes, canyons, rivers, mountain ranges, and tons of wildlife. There is a super volcano below Yellowstone Lake that causes large amounts of geothermic activity. There are more than 300 geysers (such as Old Faithful and Steamboat Springs (the tallest geyser in the world) as well as hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles.

Yellowstone has wildlife you most likely won’t see normally. During my trip to Yellowstone, one of the most unique animals I saw were bison. I posted a picture of bison on Instagram. Even though they may look like they are in peace, bison will become aggressive when you get too near them. They are brown furred mammals with horns that are pretty big, taller than the average human being and even a car. They have huge heads and massive shoulders. They weigh 1000 to 2000 pounds. Bison are usually found in herds. During my 2 days in Yellowstone, I probably saw 100 bison. Because of the bison, Yellowstone is special.

Yellowstone has a lot of nature. One of the main things contributing to the nature are the geysers. I stopped by for a while to see them. I posted a picture of one of the geysers and again posted it on Instagram. Geysers are hot, so don't go near them. 20 visitors have died because of being burned by geysers. Yellowstone has nature, but even nature has its tradeoffs.

Yellowstone isn’t a very modernized place. The residential area has wooden cabins instead of hotels. In the national park itself, there's no WiFi. Luckily, there was WiFi in the cabin I stayed in (so I was able to post some of my Yellowstone pictures on Instagram). Yellowstone is not the ideal place to go to if you really like modern technology. Clearly, Yellowstone is a place that doesn’t interest everyone.

The best way to get to Yellowstone is first by plane. Then, to get to the national park itself, you'll need to drive there.

All together, for me, going to Yellowstone has been a good experience.