Category: Grade
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
https://app.letsrecap.com/public/r/75eaaa217781c10a729f3cd89d773958
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).
Art Value Chart
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)
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.
Liam’s map art
In Finished In progress
For this project Jeremiah gave us a map and told us to show it in away that was personal to our experiences of New Your. Giving us such wide boundaries was harder for me and even up to this morning I was still thinking up ideas. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of the finished project but I am really happy of how it turned out and I think it went in a much better direction just from these last 3 classes. I was having trouble with the look of it and the dimensions of the different cut outs, but once I paper mashed the map on the whole house really came together.
Meal description(French)
Il y a pour le petit déjeuner. Je mange des œufs, et des baies. Je ne mange pas l’avocat, et le tomates. Le baie est bleu. Des œufs a chaud de chaud sauce. L’avocat a salé. Le tomates a rouge.
Il ya pour le snack. Je mange des jolly ranchers. Des Jolly Ranchers a bleu, rough, vert, et violet.
Il y a pour le diner. Je mange de saumon, et des asperges. Je ne mange pas des riz, et citron. Le saumon est rose. Des asperges est long. Des riz est blanc. Le citron est acide.
Il y a pour le dejeuner. Je mange moitié de sandwich. Je ne mange pas moitié de sandwich. Le sandwich est bonne.
Je prefere le snack car le snack est doux.
This projects theme was french food vocabulary. I started off by just taking pictures of my food and seeing what I could write. I started writing in english and then I translated in into french. This project was set on this structure: for _____ I ate _______. I did not like____. I liked_____. I did not eat the______. I really actually liked this project and I would love to do something like it again. It was interesting because if I was in France I could easily use this vocabulary in daily life.
The painters son(Liam’s Poem)
The Painter’s Son
His soft fluid motion
drawing me in, with his paradoxical movements.
This surreal moment will stay with me
for an eternity.
My heavy head
struggling to move with
His
Nimble hands,
and his impeccable form wrapping me in. His soul is captured in this,
only this.
I can hear his heavy breath, rapidly increasing.
His head swiftly turning,
breaking me out of this hazy trance.
My gaze turns to a pot on the sun lit windowsill. I don’t look back,
petrified that I will fall back in.
I actually wrote a few poems before this one, just trying to find my barrings. At first I was using crazy language and not even writing full sentences. I felt like I was starting over. I didn’t know if I was even aloud to write about something that wasn’t a natural disaster. I ended up looking at some poems which gave me inspiration to write this one. I wrote about painting because it can sometimes be very discrete even when the painting is write in front of you. Painting are like that, but for some reason they make perfect sense. I thought that if I wrote this poem about a painting I could do the same thing. I hope that when reading this poem people will interpreter the painting in so many different ways. I think that that is what poetry is about, all different kinds of interpretations.
Structure Fits Function
Structure fits function
5 types of joint: Condyloid, Saddle joint, hinge joint, ball and socket, hinge joint, pivot joint.
The joint are the connecting points between the muscles and the bones. There are 5 different types of general joints. The ball and socket joint is made to almost move on a 360 degree angle. There are a lot of ligaments because of how much movement it can do but since there are so many ligaments a lot of things can go on. The ball and socket joint structure is good because when protecting or blocking yourself human instincts are to cover yourself with your arms using your ball and socket joint. You have to move your arms in many directions so the ball and socket joint is very useful.
Hinge joint:
You will find this joint in your fingers. This joint only moves one way. It is just like door.It only moves forward. Our human body has adapted to picking up things so now our hands only need to one way, but who know what we would be capable of if we could move our joints backward. Where would your nails be. Our life would be very different if our fingers were more like the ball and socket joint. The animals before were digging so this joint was an advantage. It would make your joints stronger.
Condyloid: A good example of the condolid is the wrist bone. The condyloid is what gives the wrist bone flexibility to move in different ways. But it doesn’t get all of the flexibility that the ball and socket gets.
Saddle joint: You can find this joint in your thumb. The thumb sits on a kind of bone that sits on another bone. The saddle joint is also what gives your thumb to move in different ways, like how you can touch all your fingers on your hand with only your thumb.
Pivot joint: The pivot joint you find in your elbow and that makes you rotate your elbow in different ways.
Dream house.
This quarter we have done a fun activity called your perfect house. We looked up a picture of our perfect house, and then we wrote a sentence in french about each room in the house. We used bags rule adjective which means that the adjective goes before the noun instead of after. I learned that there are a lot of bags adjectives that we use in daily life. I really enjoyed studying quizlet and learning different adjectives.