"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
During this unit, we had 3 big assessments about the revolution we chose. This journal will be the last assessment for this unit. The Revolution I chose was about French Revolution. We had learned and worked for about a month on this topic/revolution, which means that we are pretty sure what really happened during the events. In this journal assessment, we had to come up with 3 entries with a perspective of the.. Read More
During this unit, we were learning about different Revolutions. The Revolution I learned about was the French Revolution. There were textbooks, videos, and seminars from teachers that explains the revolution. In this task, we had to work in 2 or 3 as a group and come up with a common craft video. As I said above, since we were learning about French Revolution, my partner and I had to come up with a video.. Read More
Quiet Power by Susan Cain is about introverts and explains how introverts can also change the world by their own personalities and abilities. This book also contains the lessons from the author which she wants the readers to know. People know that introverts are those quiet and shy people around us and people judge them by their personalities which is quiet and shy. In this blog post, I am going to show you.. Read More
This is a book talk about the book “The Sun is Also a Star” by Nicola Yoon. In our Humanities class, we were learning about Contemporary Fiction and our book talk books were based on that topic. Our final summative was making an online book talk about our books. We had book clubs where after we read to assigned pages, we had conversations about the book, we learned new strategies to track.. Read More
Link for the Infographic Hello, I am Julia Liu from grade 8. This blog is about an infographic based on Renaissance Humanism. This unit is about Renaissance and this project is about Humanism. Humanism basically means the revival of interest in the classical ideals of Greece and Rome or the other sentence to explain this is saying belief in human ideas/philosophy and a value of individuals (individualism). In this project, we have to.. Read More
The story “The Last Kiss” by Ralph Fletcher is about an eight-year-old kid’s last goodnight kiss from his/her parents, especially from his/her father. The main conflict that appears in this story is about the main character’s father does not give the main character goodnight kisses after he starts to get busy. The main character finds it a bit weird, so he/she tried several times to get a goodnight kiss, but after all,.. Read More