Welcome to the Mexican Revolution! It lasted from 1910 to 1920 during a period of chaos, when Mexico underwent 5 different presidents. They were Porfirio Diaz, who ruled for 35 years, and was the main reason the revolution started, Francisco I. Madero, who overthrew Diaz in 1911 after the Battle of Juarez. Victoriano Huerta, who ordered the overthrowing and killing of Madero in 1913, Venustiano Carranza, who led the charge against Huerta in 1914, along with the drafting of the Constitution of 1917, and Alvaro Obregon, who finally ended the Revolution with him and Francisco Villa signing a peace treaty. Speaking of Villa, him and Emiliano Zapata played a consistent role across the entire revolution, often being the ones that were discontent with the new president and starting a new uprising.
Gavin
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
Category: Humanities
The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller is a literary non-fiction book with many facts that appear here and there that adds to the story, which follows Lizzie Borden as she becomes the main suspect of committing the homicide that saw her step-mother and father, Abby and Andrew Borden, brutally murdered. This leads into the trail of Lizzie Borden, also known as the “Trail of the Century”. This book will bring you through the beginning, when the crime was committed, through events full of detail, and all the way up until as the final verdict was given, along with the aftermaths of the incident.
I really liked this book, as as you scroll down, you will see what I think are the main themes and central ideas that the author was trying to convey. (Also, I needed to combine pages so the photos might be a little scuffed, I hope you don’t mind)
The most important message that the author is trying to tell is that society expect women to dress and act in a certain way (acting weak, needs someone’s saving, helpless).
Here, I have the cause and effect chart, along with the connections section. These 2 points are connected because it shows the flow of the story and one of the main themes, Sexism. This talks about how women had to change for social events, and needed to act weak or faint when under pressure.
Next, with this diagram, I show the 3 main issues of the book, Sexism, Classism, and Racism. This diagram also talks about the narrative and informational points that come up from the book.
Finally, the last page are definitions and examples of each of the main text types that we learned for literary non-fiction. It explores how each one can be found or used, with ones that I have looked into from my book.
Vivian is a high-school girl living in a small-town Texas. She faces many negative stereotypes, sexism, and problems with boy and girl friends alike. Take a deeper dive into this novel in this book-talk to learn more about the life and challenges of Vivian, along with the beliefs of the award winning author, Jennifer Mathieu, through the theme of this story which we will explore…
The found poem was made with the words form the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” written by Roald Dahl. The conflict of this story is Character vs Character (External conflict). The main character, Mary Maloney deals with her husband leaving her because of his job. Also, Mary is already pregnant, so she wants to have two supporting parents for that kid. Her husband keeps on wanting to leave so as a last resort, Mary takes the lamb leg that she was about to cook and whacks him in the head. My poem shows this conflict by adding the part where the husband says, “I’m going out”. My design connects with this poem by adding the lamb leg, a major part of the poem, and the scull, symbolling the dead husband. The setting is also in the kitchen, so I made that the background.
- I think I had a pretty good article name, as before, all I could think of for informational writings, or any writing in fact, was “Plastic Bans Aren’t Good” or “New Year’s Dinner!” REALLY CREATIVE NAMES...
- I think something I could improve on next time is that I should type my viewpoint into Google and see how many results pop up so I can change my viewpoint or main topic before I start to rethink my life choices after I’m halfway through writing my article.
- I mostly understand Ms. Rivera’s grades after I looked at them and matched them with my article, so I don’t have any thoughts on them. My grade for myself has some parts to it that probably could have been similar to Ms. Rivera’s if I had spent more time reading and match the article with the options.
- One problem I had was that my viewpoint for the topic I used was not one that the school resources and a lot of the other sources agreed with, so I had a hard time trying to find articles that i could pull information from. This is the reason why i had very little evidence in the body paragraphs. I partly overcome this obstacle by rephrasing my question from a direct “plastic ban is bad” to a “is a plastic ban good or bad” so that some articles with those types of titles would pop up. This is also how I came up with my title, asking a question instead of saying it directly.
In the book, “Percy Jackson and Olympians, the Lightning Thief” Percy Jackson makes a choice that maybe would have been better if he hadn’t been so rash and nervous. On chapter 3, page 29, after Grover told Percy to stay with him and go home together, Percy decides to just ditch Grover instead. I don’t think this idea of leaving Grover behind was very good because on page 19, Percy was “eavesdropping” on Grover and Mr. Brunner talking about him and the Kindly Ones. Then on page 24 and 25, Grover was talking about Half-Blood Hill. After that they saw some old witch-like ladies knitting socks, which Grover was really scared of. All of this shows that Grover knows something that Percy does not. Maybe if Percy had stayed with Grover, he could have asked him what Mr. Brunner and him were talking about. This action of ditching Grover had a big effect on Percy and Grover, Grover was kind of hurt by Percy emotionally when he got ditched and Percy kept on thinking about this moment, which bothered him a lot.
In the article, “Recognizing and Managing Emotions”, on the subtitle, “Positives Actions to Help you Manage Emotions”, there are 11 tips to help with managing emotions. Out of these 11 tips, I think there are three major ones that can help Percy deal with his emotions so that next time, he wouldn’t be so rash. Tip number one by the article is to be open and a what is going on around you.
In the book, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief” Percy Jackson is a very troubled and confused kid. In the book, page 1 and 2 in chapter 1, Percy says that he has some life problems such as almost blowing up their school bus and making the whole class swim in water. He also says, “Am I (Percy Jackson) a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that. I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it.” This shows that Percy’s life has been not so pleasant, as a lot of these “accidents” has been kind of weird. Later in the story, page 24 in chapter 2, Percy feels confused as why his best friend, Grover, says that he needs to protect Percy. Here is a part of the story where this shows. “He (Grover) nodded. ‘Or if you need me.’ ‘Why would I need you?’ It came out harsher than I meant it to. Grover blushed right down to his Adam’s apple. ‘Look, Percy, the truth is, I-I kind of have to protect you.’ I stared at him.” This shows that Percy is confused on why his friend is protecting him when this whole year, Percy thinks he’s the one that is protect Grover, not the other way around. All of these pieces lead to Percy being troubled and confused about the things that are happening around him.
This is the rulebook I made to go along with the board game I made for Ultimate Board Games. It’s my first time doing this type of thing, so… it pretty bad.
Here is my Thinglink Project about early human and our diet. Hope you enjoy it!
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