I am very proud of all the work I put into this. Learned a lot of new things about this topic. I am super happy about this piece of work. And I hope you enjoy it!
From Protest to Progress
I am Sebastian Araujo, I am 35 years old. When the Revolution started, I was only 15 years old. My dad and I was poor peasants and we worked for the wealthy land owner. We, the peasants believe that everyone should have equal rights. When Diaz ruled, all land was given to his rich friends. We had no land. Because we had no land, we were super poor. Because we were poor, we had nothing. We wanted change, we wanted social reform and land reform. To be honest, I thought the whole country should reform.
After the revolution, some things changed but somethings stayed the change. During the revolution, the presidency format changed from dictatorship to democracy. After the revolution, Mexico kept having a democracy government format which is amazing. These things changed but some things stayed the same. After the revolution, war kept going on for a few years, and it was not pleasant. Although Diaz’s time already ended, some people still supported Diaz. But overall, the revolution was worth it, many things changed and many things stayed the same but most of them were good things. Mexico became great again!
The RED Carpet for Change
The Mexican Revolution took place from 1910 to 1920. Citizens in the Mexican Revolution wanted 3 things, only 3. It was social reform, land reform, and rights. They believe that everyone deserves equal amounts of everything. The revolution was a period of time when Mexico was consistently changing presidents. Because these presidents didn’t meet the citizens’ expectations. Finally, Obregon took power and met the citizens’ expectations. The revolution then ended there.
Things Keep Getting Worse!
Lost in the Antarctic, a nonfiction book tells us how the crew of Endurance persevered through one of the hardest journeys of that time. The story starts in 1914, and the protagonist, Shackleton wanted to explore the Antarctic. Shackleton is a very empathetic person; he cares about his crewmates. That is also why he is the leader of the ship, Endurance. During the journey, they encountered so many problems. Their ship sinks, and they are trapped on an island, and hunger. Can they overcome these problems; can they get out of the Antarctic? Read the book to find out more.
This page of my notebook is just FREE notes. I just took notes on what I thought was important. During one of the lessons, we talked about how taking a lot of notes is very helpful. Sometimes at the start of the story, you may not come to a very important, or attractive sentence, paragraph, or a section. But when you come closer to the end of the story, you might come to a moment where you go, hmmm, I think this happened before. But when? If you had taken a lot of notes, you may have that part in your notebook. If you don’t have that part written, you may have to find that part. That is why taking free notes, on no topic is very important. That is also why I took free notes in my notebook.
On this page of my notebook, I took notes on cause and effect throughout several of the pages. The pages are 127 to 148. It is really helpful to take notes on cause and effect because it could really make you understand the book better. Every effect always has a cause. If you can understand how the cause and the effect relate to each other, you can understand more about what is happening in the story, and why these characters are doing what they are doing on these couple of pages. 
On this page of my notebook, I took notes on cause and effect again. But the different part is, the cause and effect are not only on a couple of pages but the whole book. This method can help you understand the whole book better. It also helps you understand the format and structure of this book. It also helps you to make further predictions on this book. For example in my book, the ship sunk, and it affected the food on the ship. The food on the ship also went into the water. Now I can predict, without food, they might face hunger. See, that is a prediction. If I only know the ship had sunk, I have no idea what is going to happen. 
On this page, I took notes on quotes that support the central idea. This method for me is the most important one. It really helps you to identify the central idea. It shows what the author wants to communicate to the audience/reader. And we can see how the author communicates his ideas to us. As a reader, knowing the central idea is so important. (Also, it helped me a lot with my summative.) If you think the central idea, and the theme is very important for a book, then this method is also very important for note-takers.
Overall, I enjoyed Lost in the Antarctic so much. This book is written by Tod Olsen. The image of the book cover came from amazon.
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Part of my brain is a humanist!!
The Button with Blood
The found poem above was taken from page 4 of the novel “Button Button” by Richard Matheson. The poem itself shows an internal conflict by the main character Norma. In the story, the protagonist is having an external conflict with her husband. Norma wants to get the money and push the button, but her husband disagrees. On page 47 we can see that Norma doesn’t care about other peoples’ lives compared to the money. At the end of the story, Norma pushes the button and kills her husband. The person who gave her the button told her that someone she doesn’t will be killed. She wasn’t aware that she didn’t know her husband enough because her husband disagreed with her. I hope in the world, most people will not choose to push the button after they heard about the story.
Welcome to Your New Blog!
When you blog you create posts and posts are categorised according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you. If you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:
- An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category.
- Body – this is where you share your learning. This can include text, images, embedded videos from Dragons’ Tube or elsewhere. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging? Do they want to keep reading?
- Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
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