Hi my name is Eric Zhang, and this is my reflection of my current english reading skills and knowledge.

For me, English is a VERY VERY hard language, reading in english has been my frustration since 6th grade. In this year, which is 9th grade, I have only read 1 full book (a true diary of a part time Indian), but thats not independent reading at all. in my independent reading, I find it very challenging, so I have only read like 40 pages of Robinson’s crew so far. I thought I had chosen an easy book, but it seems the opposite, there are tons of vocabulary that I don’t understand in each page. In the 40 pages I have read so far, a guy named Robinson had experienced a lot of things. He loves sailing, but his parents are very afraid because one family member once died because of sailing, but still he kept perusing his dreams of sailing. In one stormy night, the ship he is in drowned, but he surprisingly escaped in a wooden barrel, which resulted him to get captured by pirates, and became a slave. Soon enough, he met two friends Ismael and Xury, which then they decided to escape the pirate ship together later in the book (prediction).

Our success criteria stated that our product should be a toy that is fun for children to play with while demonstrating energy transformations. While researching about precedents, we found out about a catapult toy that clearly demonstrates potential and kinetic energy. In the beginning, we wanted to create a simple catapult toy controlled by buttons. However, we decided to iterate this design to involve a syringe lever when we stumbled upon a lever device that is controlled by 2 syringes compressing on each other. We took inspiration from the design, and we decided to implement this design into our catapult. We combined the two design ideas into a design concept. We decided upon a catapult that is controlled by a syringe lever. After our concept was developed, we started looking for materials and planning our design. We took measurements of the materials and iterated our models and plans according to our available materials

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This is my first time wearing a full-face mask, so I’m not very used to it. Also, the mask didn’t fit my face, which made it more challenging. But after I wore it, it made me feel that I’m a completely different person; I’m not eric anymore; I’m another random person in the future world. Overall, it’s a pretty good experience doing suck stuff with masks.

When we did chair duets, if it’s different genders, I think some kind of relationship is going on. I felt a bit shy while touching and getting touched, but overall I’m okay with that, I was trying hard to mimic different kinds of moves in the video, but I also think of my own movements that I created. I think the main challenge I have is to be more confident when getting touched.

For me right now, i believe that physical theatre is basically acting out and preforming out a story, sing a song and etc. i think that im pretty confident on my acting skills, but i might not trust my body on certain parts such as flexibility, but overall im trust my body and physicality.

In this project, we’re learning about the American revolution that took place in 1763 to 1783. We learned about the different events that occurs during the revolution which made it important toward the revolution.  In this video, we will be presenting the revolution’s different important events which lead to the major turning points,  we will be also introducing you to the effects that the American revolution have brought. This is the American Revolution in Plain English!  Enjoy!

I have made an prototype for detecting smell, it is based on a gaming character and a lightning rod, I think I can so better by doing the whole thing slower, I made it too fast and it don’t look good.