Theresa+Cruz

Theresa Cruz

Background information
Theresa Cruz is a regular kid at school. She is the sister of the soccer player, Tino Cruz. She is also the sister of Luis Cruz, maker of the "Golden Dawn Tangerine". She brought Paul Fisher around the school on his first day. She is a little shy, but she sure gets the work done. She was surprised when Paul asked about the soccer team of Tangerine Middle School. She then lead Paul to the soccer team where almost everything else happened. Theresa Cruz is a character very important in everyone's life. She lead, helped, and supported suggestions and ideas of others. She helped her Science group to be one of the best in class. She makes life run smoothly, and tries to resolve problems peacefully. She doesn't use force or curse at others. She is well-trusted by many students like Paul. This means that she can be relied on, which also means that she can be a good friend.

Good Traits
Theresa Cruz has many good traits that we can follow. As a leader, she gives her time to attend to the members, and ask if they need any help. She also plans ahead of time, that's why Theresa and Tino already had an idea on what kind of agricultural product they would be using. This makes her have an upper advantage because planning ahead of time makes you finish early, get extra credit, and not have the need to cram. This would make her studious, and diligent in her studies. When she already had a plan on what to assign to the members of her group, she did it flawlessly. This tell us that she isn't scattered nor unorganized. She assigns roles properly to her members so that everyone will have an equal amount of contribution to the group. She is a great leader. This is shown just by the act of responsibility. She showed all of this by assigning tasks even before there were any further instructions given by the teacher. She is also smart. She had ideas on how to solve problems logically. She is trust-worthy too. She never let Paul or Henry down. She helped them to do their work by letting them into their house to finish their research about the "Golden Dawn Tangerine". She also tries to keep her friends as much as she can, although her shyness limits this. To sum it up, she is a very responsible person who is able to handle the job well and may be capable to be the best student in the county.

Bad Traits
Every person has their own set of good traits and bad traits. Theresa has a unique set of bad traits. It isn't the usual ones like arrogant, or boastful or something like that. She has a tendency to be shy. Shyness is more on an emotional setback. When you're shy, work would be harder to accomplish since you don't want to express what you think to other people. She thinks that they might give bad criticisms. Shyness contributes to your attitudes towards interacting to other people. She had a chance to help Joey cool down the day he got really mad, but she didn't really do anything. She just watched and said some words to try to make Joey stop, but that was it! Theresa sometimes gets quiet. During the tour, Theresa was showing Paul around Tangerine Middle School. She didn't talk that much to Paul. Once Paul asked something about the soccer team, Theresa was surprised. Only things that seem familiar to her could wake her up of her quietness. She only speaks up when she needs to. She doesn't talk that much, this is all caused by shyness. If she never had shyness, she would've been number #1 on the list of candidates because most of her bad traits come from a common source which is shyness. Given this, she also might be lonely. She seems to not interact with that many people. She minds her own business, and she doesn't like to mingle with other classmates of hers. She doesn't have a lot of friends, but she is good to her few friends. Her shyness conquers her. Her shyness is the bad trait that leads to other smaller branches of shyness. Shyness limits what you want to say to others. She could've been a much better student without shyness, but with this trait, it's pulling her down.

What makes her qualified?
Theresa Cruz is a clear hands-down candidate. She might not be the best, but she goes through all the qualifications in many different ways. She has all these traits that make her very unique in a way. That way is a LEADER. She is a leader, she has many traits of a leader. Her good traits give us an idea that she can be a leader. Being a leader is very important for being one of the best students in the county. Her shyness is the down part though. Shyness makes her qualities very limited. With all these traits and justifications, ** do you think she is qualified? **

**comments:** **- very good discussion and characterization** **- very good characterizations** **- good justifications** **A**