Lately, I haven’t found Portfolio Post Tuesday very exciting. I feel like it’s been losing it’s fun vibe that it used to have. I think that they have the potential to be fun, but now, they feel kind of boring.

Over break, we took a trip to Canada for French. On that trip, I was introduced to maple taffy. Maple taffy is made by a very simple process. You boil maple syrup to 235 degrees and then pour it on snow. You then wait for 10-12 seconds and take a popsicle stick and roll it. It tastes really good and I hope I can do it in the U.S.A.

I think that Quizlet is a very useful tool. Quizlet is a tool that is very useful when studying for a test because you can master any test subject in a matter of minutes which I find to be a very useful thing so I can do well on my tests.

Something that I learned was that you aren’t always good at everything that you do. I learned this because our basketball team has been playing very badly so I realized that we aren’t the best basketball team to ever cross the face of the universe. (But we’re God damn close).

(  ) -Eli’s words

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My favorite project this year was the grid drawing project. It was my favorite because I had a lot of fun doing it and experimenting. I worked really hard and it was a lot of fun.

Baseball

Amazin’ Mets

Winning, Demolishing, Winning

Let’s Go METS

Champions

Here is my cinquain. We learned about them and immediately, I wanted to write one. They are so broad, so many ways that I could choose to go. There are many types of cinquains. The format that I chose to use was by the type of word used. A Cinquain is a five line poem that follows a rough structure. There are many different structures though. Here is the one that I used:

The Cinquain Format That I used

Line 1: 1 noun

Line 2: 2 adjectives

Line 3: 3 -ing words

Line 4: 1 phrase

Line 5: Another word for the noun

This is not a Haiku though. Remember that a Haiku is 5 syllables in the 1st line, 7 in the next and 5 again in the last. A Haiku also most of the time will contain a kigo, which portrays a specific season.

It took some time to put thought into this cinquain. It might not seem like it because there are few words in the poem. I wrote this poem line by line. It was hard getting the right word because it had to be descriptive and a specific type of word.

These are some of the things that we worked on in our first meeting at our guilds. They are faces made of balsa foam.

This is a picture of me working on my geometrical pattern. It isn’t quite done yet but we are using x-acto knives right now. We are cutting out some shapes that we will then use to put our shape back together or come up with a new idea with the same shapes.