Category: Segal

Egyptian Tomb Website

For me, making a website is harder than you think. For making bullet points, you have to do a LOT of commands. Oh yeah, I made a website that would make small children  run home crying and then that night have nightmares. NO BIGGY! But really, if you are reading my blog, check if there are no small children hiding under the bed. I’M KIDDING! What I liked about making my website is it was challenging, and I thought I would be done last in class. But I finished it kind of early. (Early for ME.)

One thing I learned about coding a website is it is how to get a image in your page. It was really hard for me, (let alone a background) and I did it and I am proud of myself. Something I struggled with was bullet points, which I later figured out. It was so hard to figure it out, but then I saw all my friends with bullet points! Later I asked and figured it out.

I would like to do something like this again because it was super fun, and I am so glad I did it because I love writing, and I got to learn something new!

Here is my link for my website:

http://web.editey.com/0Bz0FAkVsWpxlU19CMm52S3lfa1k/index.html

Info Graphics Reflection

One thing I learned during the info graphics project was there is a death in NYC every 9.1 seconds. There were a lot of facts about the city, so it was a bit hard to choose. A skill I learned during this project, (I am not a expert) is masking things out of pictures that you want. At first it was a bit hard, but then later, I found it more easy, and fun, even though I only Photoshopped one picture. I thought I did a good job.

I think at one point this skill will come in handy, but I don’t really know when. Maybe at home, if I want to Photoshop something for a picture, or a project, then I’ll know how.  I really did like this project, and I felt that I was not stuck all the time, and that I was having fun with this project. I would like to use Photoshop again, Because I liked it. (I didn’t do Illustrator so I don’t really have a sense of that.) And I would like doing info graphics again, because I know what to do.

One thing I found difficult was in masking the image, because if I did something wrong and didn’t notice, and come back later, I could not do command Z. One thing I enjoyed was finding pictures and seeing if I could Photoshop it and if it was too hard. I really liked the project. It was fun for me because I felt like I knew something, and was not just stuck it a pile of tar and starting to give up because I needed a teacher all the time. In the end (now where else would it be) I don’t think I need a teacher 24 7, and that I can do it myself, mostly. I know it sounds cheesy, and I hate cheesy stuff, trust me, but I really liked this project, (I’ve said that a thousand times in the reflection, right?) even though I got stuck a lot.

 

 

Scratch Reflection

 

screen-shot-2016-11-06-at-1-45-15-pmI think that my presentation turned out good. (For the most part) I also think that I could have tried harder, for the programing. I struggled a lot with the sound quality, and trying to make the sound stick, and not having me every time to go back and put it there. I’m very proud of the timing of people saying things. I’m also proud of the background that I made myself.

The World’s Worst Children

the-world-s-worst-childrenTHE WORLD’S WORST CHILDREN

By Simone Sokol

 

The book that I read over the summer is called The World’s Worst Children written by David Walliams. (In the book there are several stories, but I decided to pick “Bertha the Blubberer.”) The main characters are: William, Bertha’s brother; Bertha; and her parents. The setting of the story is their house. The two main problems are: Number one, Bertha would wail. She could make herself have puddles for something little, like a leaf falling to the ground. Number two, Bertha and her lying, because she could make herself cry in a heartbeat. Poor William had to suffer her blubbering: “William pinched me hard on the arm!” or “William kicked me!” Sometimes she would elaborate on the lie by actually pinching herself to show her brother’s “beastliness.” The worst thing is every “crime” William would do, Bertha got triple pudding. Her favorite dessert. (Fun fact about Bertha: She once tried to sell her brother for a piece of chocolate cheesecake.)

 

The thing that changed Bertha’s lovely world of pudding was one day, to protect her from her brother, her parents were out in the garden; but they were watching Bertha. To get her brother in trouble, Bertha started pulling out her hair—but her parents saw what she was doing and didn’t come. So she kept doing it until she was bald. Her parents scolded her, and from them on they sided with her brother, even when he really did do something wrong. “No pudding for you young lady…      ever again!” said her father. That quote helped me understand how Bertha had blubbered one too many blubbers.

 

I loved The World’s Worst Children to bits because it was fun to find out how far David Walliams would go and what ideas he would come up with. It was also fun to notice how Bertha got treated when her brother was the favorite. One example is at the end when Bertha would get pinched, but nobody believed her. Another example is when her father scolded Bertha and she was so satisfied because she had a stash of chocolate under her bed, until he said the words “ever again.”

A third example is when Bertha and William were mean to each other, to see the difference. (They are related after all. They did the same tricks!) What kind of reader would enjoy this book is one that likes to be silly and who likes a good cliffhanger. Also toilet talk like “To reveal the queen sitting on the toilet!” I would rate this book four and a half stars because there is not another setting other than her house. But a million more stars anyway (if I could). 🙂 In other words, I really liked the book. the-world-s-worst-children