During the last unit of the year, also known as the capstone project, we worked on our informational essays throughout the month. My main topic was about plastic pollution and how it is affecting our world. Click here to read my essay.
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Lianna, a brave and strong 15-year-old girl experiences a total of 29 chaotic years of revolution. Taking life risking adventures, and coming across multiple events, find out how she has changed over the years and what happened in her point of view of the American Revolution here.
During the past week, Christina and I made a common craft video in humanities about the American Revolution in plain English. The American Revolution played a huge part in the American history. It was the big war of independence for the Americans against the British which started in 1620 and ended in 1783, accompanied with important laws, incidents, brutal battles, and ending with the continuity and changes. Click here to find out more.
The book Quiet Power by Susan Cain is a book all about introverts. In this book the author tells many interesting things about introverts that you might not usually notice. It explains why introverts act in certain ways and how to overcome being so shy and quiet if you also tend to deal with those problems. Throughout the book, the author uses real-life experiences from many different people and explains many situations introverts might be struggling with, and how to handle them. Here, you can also listen to Susan Cain’s TED talk about introverts.
First and most important central idea: Although introverts may be shy and quiet, they also have many unique but hidden superpowers. Throughout the book, the biggest idea is about proving how introverts are also very unique and powerful. The author uses many examples and datas to support this big idea and this particular central idea shows up many times.
As I read the book, I realized another central idea is that two or three close friends mean more than a hundred acquaintances. The author kept mentioning some situations between friendships and mainly how close friends were much more important than being popular and/or having a bunch of acquaintances, so that is another important idea to have in mind.
After reading this book my thoughts changed towards introverts since I used to think that introverts were just quiet and not concentrated, but this book explained and proved that they are actually listening and focused, so I recommend this book because after reading it, you would understand introverts more and have a smaller chance of misunderstanding them or looking down on them.
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This poem was made up of many words in the book, “Tuesday of the Other June“ by Norma Fox Mazer . I think the conflict in this story is external conflict because the conflict is mainly between character and character. In the story, June T. (the protagonist) goes to a swimming class and meets another girl also called June (June M., also the antagonist), and June M. does not like the fact that they share the same name, so she started bullying June T. June M. called June T. many names “The Other June got bored with calling me Fish Eyes. Buffalo Brain came next, but as soon as everyone knew that, she renamed me Turkey Nose.”, made fun of her ““Good riddance to bad trash,” she mocked.”, physically hurt her “In the locker room, she stepped on my feet, pinched my arms, hid my blouse, and knotted my braids together.”, and made her want to quit swimming class “I don’t want to take more lessons.”. But, June T. did not really stand up for herself and all she did was try to avoid trouble, so she got bullied by June M. continuously. At the end of the story, June T. stood up for herself and said “No” to June M. and stopped the act of bullying.
I was stuck in gym 3 with some swimmers after my first event. It was really quiet in the gym because most of the swimmers were swimming their events and I got bored since there was nothing to do in the gym. I didn’t know where Carina went, and I had to wait for my next event that was probably 100 years later. Then, I saw coach Ariel walking around in the gym trying to find someone.
“when is my next event?” I went and asked her.
“just sit and wait, I’ll call you later.” she replied.
She was right about to walk away when she turned around and said: “Daisy, why don’t you swim for the 12th grader’s medley relay. One of them didn’t come and we couldn’t find her.”
When I heard that I was shocked and, in my head, I was thinking NONONONONONONO WHY ME! I was confused as in why she would replace a 12th grader with a third grader since 12th grader’s speeds are way faster than me.
Head shaking, mind racing, “Naaah.” I said to her.
“Why not? You have nothing to do right now. Quickly get ready.” she said.
I hesitated for a long time but clearly, I couldn’t say no since she already said I was going to do it and she really needed my help so, I got my goggles, took off my jacket, and went to the place where the 12th graders in their relay team waited and I also waited there… not knowing what to do. There were a group of girls who were blabbing about the person that did not come to the swim meet, so I knew that those were the people I was going to swim for. When I waited there, there were many people standing there chatting even if they weren’t going to swim, and one of the people that were chatting suddenly pat my head from behind because she wanted to see who was going to swim for the 12th graders and then I turned around and she gave me some advice by telling me it would be better to cover my ears with my swim cap. I was like alrightt since I didn’t know what I should say. Then, Coach Ariel came and told them that I was going to swim for them, and they were like oookay while one of them were calling that swimmer that did not come one last time trying to find them. Then, coach Ariel told me that I was going to swim breaststroke for them, and I was like GOOD! THANKGOODNESS IT WAS A STROKE I WAS FASTER AT. Soon, we went outside to the place where you sit and wait near the pool and the other 12th graders that my team and I were going against looked fast. Among all the anxiety, the thing that scared me the most was “what if my goggles fall off when I’m diving or when I’m swimming?” that was literally the thing I feared the most when I’m at swim meets. Anyways, we finally got to the diving board. “BEEP!” the timer thing roared. The first swimmer dived into the pool and swam her 50 meters backstroke. While she was swimming, for the whole time I was pushing my goggles towards my eye socket so there’s a less chance of my goggles falling off. When the person was almost done with her 50 meters backstroke, I got on the diving block being ready to swim my 50 meters breaststroke. Once she touched the end of the pool, I dived in. Kicking, gliding, and repeating those steps, I swam my breaststroke and tried not to let the other people pass me. When I dived into the water it didn’t really feel so cold since I was too focused on keeping up our place in the relay. After I did my breaststroke, someone dived in; I got out of the water and waited till the other people in my group were done. Then, I heard some 12th graders behind me saying: “Wow this girl is actually fast. She did pretty good!”. That was nice to hear and I was glad that my goggles didn’t fall off, we were not last place yet, and we were pretty in front/faster than most of the other swimmers we were swimming against.
After the whole relay ended, we got second place and when I was walking back to gym 3, one of the members in my relay team came up to me and said: “you did really good! ”.
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