One area of strength for me this quarter has been decimals because I understanded the way to do the algorithm and memorized the important decimals very easily. Since my dad introduced me to decimals I’ve enjoyed solving decimals the moment I learned how to. When we started this unit I was very ecstatic because I’ve done this before. That section helped me learn more ways to solve the problems and more decimals I remember now. Here is a piece of evidence on my strength.
I learned that pronunciation and stroke order is extremely important in Mandarin. If you miss articulate a tone then the word would take on a different meaning. If you missed a stroke the character would be changed to a different character, which has a different word, which has a different meaning. I know pronunciation and stroke order is extremely important to Chinese languages. I also found pinyin dialect hard, because it is challenging to remember the different sounds that goes with each letter.
A small project we did was to create a calendar in Mandarin. We wrote in characters and pinyin how we thought a Mandarin Calendar would be depicted. I enjoyed this project because we got to practice writing a lot of characters. It was challenging to remember all the various characters and correct ways to write them. This project was beneficial because I mastered lots of new characters and their meaning!
I’m sorry that the picture is backwards.
This year we had a Chinese new year celebration, and as a part of the Mandarin class we had an opportunity to perform. Every grade had a piece to showcase on stage during the gathering. We learned exciting four character sentences and attempted to teach them to the audience, our performance turned out very well. In addition, we surprised the audience by using the Chinese art form, calligraphy, to write out the characters of our sentences on a special sheet of rice paper imported from China. In the end it was very enjoyable to go up and share my knowledge.
That’s us performing!
Writing a composition is really great, because it allows you to express your personality through music. It’s hard sometimes to find the right notes, and tunes in your mind and then to be able to put it onto sheet music. In other words it’s challenging to find the right melodic tune to express what you are trying to say. On the flip side I find it rewarding when the piece is finished and other people seem to enjoy listening to my music. I also really enjoy listening to other people’s music and seeing how much potential their pieces have. I like listening to my classmates music and then comparing them to mine to see what I can add. I think that it is very exhilarating and rewarding experience and hope I can keep creating music throughout my life.
The FBI wants Apple to create a skeleton key to bypass the security feature on the Phone of a terrorist. My dad and I talked about the facts, and our ideas on how to resolve the issue. Can we trust the government won’t abuse their usage of the key? A few years ago an employee of the NSA (National Security Agency) named Edward Snowden exposed information on the U.S government’s secret spy program on it’s own citizens. Since then companies have been taking extra safety precautions on privacy.
In this case the FBI went to a court to get a warrant to be able to search the iphone, in the same way they get a warrant to search a house. Search warrants are an important tool for policing our society, and after much discussion with my dad I believe that there is no difference from getting a warrant to search a house and a warrant to search a phone. Therefore Apple should work with the FBI rather than against the FBI. My idea for this is for the key to never leave Apple’s lab so it can’t be abused by the FBI or any other government agency. Apple can put the files that the government wants into a special flash drive. As long as the government gets a warrant Apple can repeat this process and help the government in the war against terrorism.
My partner and I read Bud, not Buddy. Our partnership was enjoyable and fun because we are so much alike. I really like my partner, Stella, and would like to work with her again. I’m proud that I talked more in our discussions. One challenge for me was to not read a head. I love just reading for a while and the book is so interesting.
Gun violence is shooting random people or groups of people for no reason. In my opinion gun violence is a real problem that Obama has not yet to fully fix. He has made it so you need to have a background check and a license to buy a gun, but even if someone is supposedly good they can still turn bad and shoot. My opinion in fixing this crisis is that the only people allowed to own and carry a gun are approved by their superiors and are a part of a safety department in the FBI or the Police Departments. The Government would need to change the Second Amendment to accompany this change, but I believe the constitution will do it if necessary.
I do not agree with NRA (National Rifle Association) and the Second Amendment because that puts everyone in danger of gun violence from mentally ill people and criminals. The NRA goes against my solution to gun violence in a way that they want everyone to be able to have a gun, but realistically not everyone is safe with a gun. A gun is extremely dangerous because not only is it long-distant, you can also use the metal part to knock someone out, and the bullets are super powerful. In conclusion guns are not safe and should not be passed around like a toy.
This is my Texture Paper Collage. We began making this collage by picking a color scheme of primary, secondary, or analogous color arrangements. An analogous color scheme is more than one colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. For example, I chose the analogous color scheme of red orange, orange, and yellow orange. Then we started to make six different texture papers with our chosen pallet, two for each color scheme. The different textures like bumpy, swirly, tiny circles, fluffy, rough, and smooth. Then we drew still pictures of animals and other objects displayed in my picture. I drew a turtle, a ball, and a vase/bottle. Finally we ripped up our texture papers and created our drawings into a collage. This was a project to test our knowledge on color schemes.
This is my Zoetrope! A Zoetrope is a form of animation, instead of using the computer you draw a bunch of pictures, and spin them really fast (normally in a cylinder). The speed that the drawings are going in makes an illusion that the pictures are actually moving. You have to make each slide of the Zoetrope move in small increments to make the animation look clean, similar to stop motion animation. By using tiny circles I learned to eliminate the absent spaces. I think this is an example of my best work!