Category: Classes

Photoshop First Project

For my first project this year in digital art i was able to have full creative license. The assignment was to experiment with Photoshop and create a piece that incorporated grayscale, scaling, and a photo taken by myself. i started with my base image and went from there. My final project incorporated a black a white bomb in the background, a high quality image of me laying down, and a a scaled down version of a door and multiple birds. The project took about four classes and was an amazing entry into Photoshop. Having digital art this year is a great addition to art, and after having a few classes i wish we had been learning it for all of middle school. i am exited for the classes in digital art to come and happy that we finally are being taught it!

French Comment

I feel that this year in French I have learned to follow the different sentence structures we have been learning about, and have learned new vocabulary from Quizlet! I think I have become a harder worker, a more committed student, and a better speaker. I feel that my accent has progressed and my work habits have improved drastically since my prior years as a French student. While I do feel I have progressed in many areas, I still think that there is room to improve. First off, I can be less thin-skinned and learn to accept failure when it comes my way. I also think I can build on my ability to write in French. I have learned how to follow many different sentence structures, but my ability to write without a certain structure has not quite reached its full potential. I loved working on the city projects as well as our sport projects. I think I have learned more about how to make a presentation and Sharyn has helped me progress. I can also learn more about failure and all that Sharyn can do for that is be strict with me about not being thin-skinned. All that I really want to learn for next trimester is how to fail. While I do want to know more about how to freely write in French, as well as how to improve on my accent, learning how to fail is my main priority. I have loved the past two trimesters in french, and hope they get even better!

Unit Rates

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This month in math we have been working with unit rates. Unit rates are basically the amount of something in ones. If you had 10 lollipops for 15 dollars, and 6 lollipops for 11 dollars, and you wanted to know which was the better deal, you would use unit rates. All you have to do is set up a proportion and simplify the lollipops to one to find out how much one lolly costs. We are also using an app called Recap, which we can videotape ourselves on, explaining different math concepts.(A link for one Recap video is at the top).

Liam’s Lourdes Project!

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At the beginning of the second trimester we worked on a city project. First, we went onto a sight were we were got to see important cities in France. I picked Lourdes because . Then we were slowly given new tasks to complete, like researching a high class a mediocre and low Restaurants. Then we got to record our own voices on top of the research and pictures we put. I think that was my favorite part because it really came together when I added the voice. With the light music, the cool pictures, the traditions between images, the facts, and voice, it all seemed to work. After watching the whole video I was really happy about how it looked and I really  liked this project!

 

 

Mathematical Similarity Summary

Figures are mathematically similar if they have the same general shape. This trimester in math we have been learning about similar figures and what makes a figure similar. The very first rules of similar figures we learned, was that all corresponding angels are congruent for similar figures. This is just one of the many rules that make shapes similar. If the corresponding angels of two figures are congruent, that means that the angels are in the same position for the two figures. If you are looking at two triangles and you want to see if they are similar you can identify the corresponding angels and then check to see if they are congruent, or exactly the same. This is just one of the things to look at when identifying similar figures. you have to look at a group of rules to actually identify a figure similar, because a shape can have corresponding angels that are congruent, but not have the same general shape. If you are looking at a triangle and you think is similar to another triangle, you can find the scale factor. This means that you will look at two of the corresponding side lengths and divide one of the side lengths by the other. What you get is the scale factor, and from there you just have to multiply another side length by the scale factor and see if that is the answer to the other figures side length. You can also compare the ratios. When you compare the ratios you are simply seeing if a group of corresponding side lengths are divisible each other. Looking at the ratios is another way of looking at the scale factor. Any two rectangles are not similar, because while their corresponding side lengths are all congruent, there might not be a scale factor. Any two equilateral triangles are similar, because if you were to change the size in any way you would have to change it in every direction, so basically you would have to make each side length grow by the same amount, and it would be similar. Since every angel has to be similar, the side lengths have to match up in a certain place so that all the angels will all be the same. If only one side was to grow, the angels would change, and not all be the same.

 

Liam’s Science Journal

screen-shot-2016-11-09-at-6-49-38-pmRight at the beggining of the year we were given a document called, science journal. The first assignment we were given was to write in our science journal about the consumers and producers of the food that we eat. We named three foods from our weekend and then wrote about them. The second project we did involved us reading an article that we were sent. In it, it showed a few ways to help our city cultivate new organisms and plants. We wrote these ideas in our blog and added some new ideas to it. I have really like our science journal because we usually have time to do it because it is homework and it seems to be a very different assignment every time.

French Halloween Progect

In French this Halloween we made a poster. First we were given a series of pictures that we got to talk about. Then we were given 7 questions to answer. An example of one would be what is this persons name, or what is this person doing. We were also given a quizlet set that had enough vocab for us to use. We used both bags and regular adjectives, which was focus of this project. Since we just learned about clothing we knew how to say everything they were wearing. My favorite part of this activity was describing the clothing, because we got to test the stuff we learned. I wrote about a vampire, a ghost, a witch, a clown, and a fairy. This was actually a really fun project and I would like to do something in the same realm as this.unnamed

Art Value Chart

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For the very first art project in art we made a value chart. We learned about different techniques to shading and adding contrast. First we learned hatching witch is displayed in the very first 6 columns. Hatching is basically shading going in one direction. We used a selection of pencils that varied in value hence, the value chart. The second technique was cross hatching. I am pretty sure this is the most famous technique because I had heard of it and used it before we learned about it in art. It is almost the same as hatching but the lines cross creating many tiny tiny squares so when you shade you are not using to much pencil and all the extra pencil will shade into the white spaces. The third technique is stipple it was created using sharpie and varied the separation of tiny dots. The last technique was random marks. We could choose any mark and we consistently put it down it different amounts to create the change from dark to light. Rohan said that we are going to use this chart in most projects this year and I know we already have started a project using it which is us drawing our own eye. We have already created a miny value chart on the eye drawing and are starting it now!

Liam’s check up 2 (math)

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This is the second math check up we have had this year. The first check up tested are skills of inv. 1. Inv.1 is basically the first unit in our math workbooks. The second unit is Inv. 2 and this check up was based off of that. The first page is basically testing our skills in similar figures which actually was talked a lot about in Inv. 1. We got to draw a rectangle similar to the one we were given but it would not be congruent. This was very simply because all we really had to do was draw a figure with a scale factor relating to the original and it was similar. The shape was not congruent because the corresponding sides were not congruent to each other. We did the same thing with a triangle and then we got to draw a figure not similar to the given rectangle and triangle. On the back we were given a series of shapes. We had to identify which shapes were similar by seeing if they had a scale factor. Then we explained what their scale factor was and wrote it out.