on I didnât have a book when we went to the library last time, so I started one day later reading my book :âThe unfinished life of Addison Stone.â I just found it in the mystery section and decided I will try it. And for my reading plan, I think itâs starting to work and I will try to manage to read 30 minutes a day.
on For me, some of my strengths is having a regular reading schedule and maybe having writing as my strength quite well. In the summer I was being assigned a lot of classes for reading and writing so basically the work I did on the two skills will be much more than I focus on my listening and speaking.
Since I was transferred from the domestic primary school to ISB in grade 3, so it was a big turning point for me. And because the teaching of English in domestic schools was different from here, I was in EAL in Grade 5 and 6. So for me, one of my weaknesses are I probably donât know really much vocabulary.
Goals For this year:
The sources available for me right now is basically the classes I have one by one and for toefl. I have basic classes
on My name is Claire. I was someone in a needy family. Until that day where thereâs an inequality. I grabbed out my old notebook. It was full of dirt then, but I still can use it. But for now, itâs an emergency. Talk to you later!
Something has changed. Iâm not sure what, but I know that it has to be the revolution. If you have asked me, then Iâll say itâs about the monarchy, liberty and equality. From 1789 to 1799, perspectives have changed, and things have changed. Peopleâs thinking was being changed about how things should be done. When I attended to go in the march of Versailles, just at that moment, I finally know what they are thinking. Itâs about the inequality and how theyâre fighting for themselves because of the prices they canât afford. So, they were still trying to fight for it even if it wonât really happen.
Also notice how the peopleâs beliefs were changed. How it went from a fight of complete monarchy to a country for freedom and liberty. I remembered for that time when the terror had happened. A lot of people was brought out and was being killed. Itâs not fair for us and we decided to protest. My beliefs were changed by how the people stood up and won new laws. The French revolution ended by Bourgeois, when he installed a new government which followed the principles of freedom, liberty, and equality for everyone. There were things that didnât change though, for example how there were still people that didnât get happy, and how the ruler for the country stayed for a male ruler. I grabbed out my worn-out journal again, and decided to write my fantastic journeys throughout the revolution.
on on âFlesh &Blood So Cheapâ is a book by Albert Marrin that explains real events happening in America around the 80âs and the 90âs. In an accident, a serious fire happened in New York that led to new laws changing the whole country.
The book mainly talks about a fire tragic that happened in 1911, itâs a disaster that changed the whole country. Uncovering the unequal social climate and unfair working conditions that led to the death of 146 people. At that time, there is no such thing as a safety net that can insure you from work safety.
One theme of this book is fighting âInjustice.â After the âTriangle Fireâ accident has happened, over twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States from Europe. âBy 1800âs Malaria, a disease that has become epidemic throughout the whole Europe. Which then made a lot of people fled back to US. Also because of natural disasters, crop failures, poverty, prosecution or just a want for a better life. After about in the twentieth century, industrialization has made the United States a world power.However, life for most Americans during this time was a harsh struggle for existence. People was commonly injured or even will be killed on the job, and there were no law safety to protect them.
For example, at the first part of the book, âHuddled Massesâ it said that Frances Perkins personally witnessed the âTriangle Fireâ and was so shaken by what she had seen that she then devoted rest of her life such a horror would not happen again.
âThe sight of people jumping from windows affected her so deeply that she vowed such a horror could not, must not, be allowed to happen again.â
I think that we should read this book because of how it lets us explore the 80âs through the 90âs and what people has been through. Also because how the story told us about the âTriangle Fireâ that affected lotâs of peoples regular lives. I was inspired by how Frances Perkins put her life into how she said that the horror would not happened again. Later on in the story, it is said that :â The fire led to reforms, and many new laws have been enacted since then to better protect the safety and health of workers.â
In this unit I learned how sometimes a person got so affected that she or he decides to put all their life into doing this to not let this kind of problem happen again. Also, I learned how sometimes you need to search online for more information and not just find it in the book. Sometimes internet will help you more for you to dig deeper into your topic.
on Should Boxers Deserve A Bad Reputation?
Claim:
A group of Chinese people formed a Rebellion that tries to defend China being controlled and they sought to end all foreign influence in the country so that it could be stable again. But the âBoxer Rebellionâ should actually deserve a bad reputation.
Evidence #1: The Shanxi Province
The boxers tried to force all the Christian foreigners who was sought to change peopleâs belief, and so the Boxerâs gathered them in one place and just killed all of the people because they âbetrayedâ them into changing peopleâs belief in their country.
Evidence #2: The Opium War
The Boxers tried to force the Chinese government to let them sell and buy goods . That is for British Merchants that wants to sell opium which made China weakened because of this drug.
Reasoning:
In this opinion, my idea is that the âBoxersâ shouldnât treat the Christian foreigners that bad, and since they did the wrong thing, they should try to make a law about how the foreigners canât influence people in China for the beliefs, so that there shouldnât be the opium war and the Christian foriegners wouldnât be killed after.