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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein

Journey to Independence

April 19, 2024 / / 0 Comments

This is a journal written by Daniel about his experience in the revolution wars. Daniel is an 18 year old man and he is a part of the Sons of Liberty. He is a patriot and wants independence and liberty.


Even though the story of Daniel is fake, but the historical facts are real, and the American revolution was a very significant event in history. It shaped one of the first federalism and democratic republic in the modern era. The American revolution made a country build up from the basis of liberty, and peoples rights. Overall the American revolution is an epic victory in human history.

American Revolution Common Craft Video

March 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments


Made by Benny Xiao, Sebastian Shr, and William Jiang

This video is a summary and explanation of the American revolution that we are studying. The video talks about the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, the Battle of Yorktown, and the Treaty of Paris. We learned that the causes of the American revolution were because of the oppression by British policies, the lack of representation in the British government by colonists, and the taxation policies. These angered the colonists and ultimately resulted in the American revolution. We learned revolutions happen when the people are feeling like they are not treated fairly. Which is same for both the Russian and American revolution we learned.

Lost in Antarctic: The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance Central idea notebook pages

January 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Lost in Antarctic: The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance by Tod Olson is part of the lost series and is a literary non-ficton book about the adventure of Ernest Shackleton and his crew of the Endurance and their voyage to the bottom of the world (Antarctica). In the expedition their ship the Endurance gets stuck in ice and the crew was trapped in Antarctica. Slowly the Endurance cannot stop the pressure of the ice from squishing it and the Endurance was destroyed and sunk into the water. The only way back was to walk and they started a new adventure to walk back, during that time they met many problems like not enough supply of food and the winter of Antarctica.

 

This book is very good and you should read it. Here are some notes about the central ideas of the book

The first central Idea I found was people will do anything to survive, I found out some of the evidence that points to this central idea in the book:

The second central idea I found out was the importance of hope. Hope is very important to Shackleton’s team because without it people will give up trying to escape from Antarctica.

The third central idea I found about was about Shackleton and it is Shackleton is a good leader.

I also came up with a theme argument that argues nothing is more important when compared to human life:

I also analyzed the characters thoughts and made a pressure map showing what they are thinking

Last I found out the epilogue could connect with many big ideas, central ideas and also connect with other chapters.

In conclusion you should read this book because it is fun and about a very cool adventure and teaches us a lot about the world.

 

Are you a Humanist?

October 22, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Infographic: are you a humanist?

Are you good at Humanities, if so do you want to know if you are a Humanist and believe in Humanism? I agree with Humanism and I think I might be a Humanist. The place I agree most is Secularism and practicing Greek and Roman ideas. This is because allowing a religion to control a government may turn out into total control of the government by the religion. It also helped modern thinking about politics and government. I also agree in practicing ancient ideas because it can help us know what to do according to what they did and improve what they did.

App Design – Work in Progress

October 10, 2023 / / 0 Comments

This is the process journal for my project. It will be updated each class. Follow my journey!

Lather and something else

August 29, 2023 / / 0 Comments

The title of the short story my poem is about is “Lather and nothing else” and the author is Hernando Tellez. The story is about the protagonist being a barber and the antagonist who killed his people coming to his shop and getting a shave for his beard and the protagonist had a chance to kill the antagonist. The conflict in the found poem I wrote is an internal conflict because the protagonist is struggling between being a hero and being a normal person. The protagonist had the best chance to kill the antagonist but he hesitated. He would be a murderer if he killed the antagonist but be a hero or if he did not he would still be a good barber. Also if the protagonist kill the antagonist another person would come and continue to kill and might be even worse, so what was the point of killing the antagonist. My poem shows the conflict because I shown the struggle in the protagonists mind. I wrote “which murder or hero” showing his hesitate and confuse. Another way the poem shows he has a struggle is when the poem says “nothing more than blood and I don’t murder” it shows his eagerness of killing the antagonist and getting revenge but also not wanting to be like the antagonist and murder people. The pictures I drew on the poem are a razor knife for shaving with blood, a gold cup with blood writing hero on it, and lather with bubbles. I drew a razor knife with blood because I want to show how he thought if he killed the antagonist he would stain the job of a barber and become a shame. The gold cup means if he becomes a hero someone will die for it. Last, the lather and bubbles with blood in it means means the blood of his people and it everyone counts on this shave the part red bubbles and words are the reflection of blood on the bubbles.

Sewable electronics

January 17, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Share your original plan, in a picture and in words.

Write about how your plans needed to change (include specifics on what changed) and why they needed to change. Include lots of details here.

These are my original plans but I changed because I thought of a great and specific plan. The first one is a pacman which was already used and is boring so I did not use. The second one is a LED but it is very boring and has only one LED, the last one is a sword but the LED are too close so they won’t work and it was bigger than I though and harder. I used a new one and got inspiration from Harry Potter because I just started reading it again.

This one is a wand, I used brown for the wand and changed it into a bookmark because of its length. It is made from 2 LEDS and I used all running stich. I covered the conductive felt with the wand and left some out that looks like a lightning. THE LEDS are yellow.

This is another important part the learn to sew part. I learn running and back stich. I also learned bury and tie off.

This is starting to sew the back of the bookmark. This is when I met my biggest challenge, I had no thread left and I messed up. Good thing I learned the connecting stiches and cutted out the messed up parts and sorted it out.

This is the finished one when I flick the switch the lights go one

I learned how to sew, and I could help my mom now. I also know how to sew LEDs

Pet Chair

June 10, 2022 / / 0 Comments

My biggest succsess is making the water flow all over the table

My biggest obsticle was making the water go up and down all over in the water table/chair

One thing I would like to change is make the fish flow around the table/chair and go up and make the chair I sit in better

Welcome to Your New Blog!

August 3, 2021 / / 0 Comments

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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