I am proud of how I remembered a moment in my life and wrote about it. At first the memory was kind of blurry but as I started to put words onto the paper it all sort of came together in my mind. It was challenging to make my thanksgiving piece as interesting and exciting as possible without turning it into a fiction piece. Here it is.
This is my song that I have been working on in class. In order to create my song I used a website called soundtrap. At first I did not feel comfortable using the software because I was so used to our old software, noteflight. Then Matt taught me how to export parts from noteflight and import them into my soundtrap file. This helped a lot. As you may be able to tell by listening to it, it is not done. I will probably have one or two guest artists come and play in one of the sections. Hopefully this project will be a success and with that, enjoy.
This is my water log for science. It is tracking my water usage over seven days.
This test was about all of the things that we have learned so far in the quarter. I studied hard, and I think I did a pretty good job on it. It was sort of checking to see if you understand we were doing in class.
This is one of the many in class pop quizs that we have been getting over the past few weeks. I turned it in to Margaret and she was confused about what I did with two of the problems. I did the fraction and addition correctly, but I messed up with the fraction multiplication and division. She didn’t grade that one and explained to me what I was doing wrong. After that she handed me back a clean test and told me to do the bottom two again. I did the bottom two correctly and then I got a 3.
This is my score for a math multiplication facts study tool called xtramath. I have been studying consistently and I feel like I have made a lot of progress. Before I started xtramath I stumbled with some problems I can do now in the blink of an eye. It has helped me a lot with my multiplication facts and now I can solve complicated problems way easier.
This is one of my mandarin sets that I have been studying this quarter. It is called 哪国人. That literally means which country person in English. As you may have guessed, this quizlet set is about countries. It is also about languages and nationalities. It contains the correct characters that will teach you how to say things like, where are you from or, do you speak Spanish or, My mom is from france.
I chose the country Scotland for me to use for various activities in class. This is how you write Scotland in Mandarin.
苏格兰
Here is the card that I made for a Mandarin writing assessment.
This is my quizlet set that I will be using throughout the year. It has all of the new words that I learn.
We have also been following this really helpful youtube series called Growing up with chinese. Here it is.
We annotated the book Beowulf as we read it. We would underline important pieces of information, circle vocabulary words and look them up. In the end we would write a chapter summary. If we wanted to ask a question in the book we would point an arrow towards the part we have a question about and write the question above the arrow.
Annotating is important because if you have any assignments or anything of the sort you can know what happens in each chapter because of the chapter summary. You will also expand your vocabulary by circling words you don’t know. If you underlined things you could bring it up in a discussion about the chapter.
I think that I did a really good job on my chapter summaries because they are very clear and detailed. I want to improve on defining my vocabulary. I would circle them, but sometimes for some reason I skipped the dictionary search.
In the beginning of the school year we began to take experiences from our summer and compose them into a creative writing piece. The story would start as a fact and transition into fiction however you want. It could start out as fact and slowly become fiction or it could abruptly stop from fact and become fiction at any point. I am very proud of my piece because it has a lot of detail. I worked extremely hard on it. At first I just wanted to get it over with but as I started to write I really got attached to the piece. I felt like it was my job to finish it and refine it perfection. Here it is.
The Company
By
Oliver Eig
I am at camp on a field trip to a freezing cold river with extremely big rocks on the sides. They are small cliffs. Our counselor started to call us one by one to jump off into the water. He points at me and I say “Me?” “Yes, you.” he says as though it is the most obvious thing in the world. I am a little nervous not about the jump but more about the temperature of the water. I walk briskly towards the edge and I stop. I turn around to make sure nobody is gonna push me. I take a deep breath, then I close my eyes, and I jump down into the dark depths of the river. The water is as cold as a penguins bottom in the winter. I feel like I am having a seizure underneath the surface of the water. Finally I come to my senses and open my eyes in the water. It is dark and murky. I am a master of holding my breath so I decide to explore the dark mass of water. The river pool is 15 feet deep. At the bottom there are many rocks and holes. One of the holes is triangle shaped and is darker than the rest of the holes and crevices. I swim down like a frog and see that the hole is actually bigger than it looked before. I swim into the hole and fall down dead on my face on a cold cobblestone floor.
I open my eyes, dazed and hazy. I am sitting in a chair wearing one of those old hospital gowns. In front of me I see a wooden table with another chair on the other end. When I try to stand up I feel a jolt in my skull and then my brain tells my muscles to sit back down. I begin to freak out. I try to scream and yell for help except no words come out. I feel a dull pain in my mouth which is weird because I never remember anything happening to my mouth before I dove into the hole. It appears as though I am in a stone room with no exits. That is bad. I can’t find any way to escape. Suddenly a blindfold is wrapped around my eyes so tight it hurts. I hear footsteps and then nothing. The blindfold is then removed from my face and now I can see a man sitting in front of me. He is wearing a navy blue blazer with a blood red tie. His deep blue eyes look sharp and attentive. His hair is combed over like he is some kind of politician. He has a cruel smile on his face. I am guessing by his physical appearance that he is in his mid thirties. He looks dangerous, very dangerous. “I have been watching you, Oliver.” He said eerily. I try to respond but my mouth doesn’t open so I hum in my mouth. “I have temporarily deactivated your mouth muscles due to classified reasons. Anyway, you are a talented young man. Our organization will help train you to use that skill to our advantage so we were forced to lure you into our underground facility.” To me that meant he kidnapped me so he could use my so called ‘talent’. I have no idea what talent he is talking about so I am worried he will just kill me because I am useless to him. This day is getting worse and worse. I am thinking about jumping on him and making a run for it. I am about to spring but before I can move a limb he says “By the way, before you try to attack me you might want to get rid of your remote control taser headband.” He holds up a device that I’m assuming is the remote control device and presses a button. Immediately I feel a static jolt in my head again and I fall back in my chair limp. “Although, getting rid of it is impossible unless you have this remote.” He says confidently. Right now I really want to punch him in the face. I just want to break out of this place and figure out what the heck is going on. The man was about to say something but an explosion interrupted him. The stone wall behind him shattered to pieces. The force of the unexpected explosion flew the man out of his chair and sprawled across the table. His lip is bleeding a dark crimson. He then said in a rasp “You… You are dangerous.” I felt hands on my shoulder and I tried to pry them off and the second I got the hands off of my shoulder I turned around in my chair and saw two men in tuxedos getting thrown against the wall. They sported aviator sunglasses and an earpiece. I take out the earpieces and turn around. The wall that exploded appears to lead into a tunnel. I walk through the tunnel that is as dark as coal. I begin to worry. What are my parents doing right now? Do they even know where I am? What power was the man talking about? Was my power why the wall exploded and why the other two people fell? It is all very confusing. I round a corner in the muddy tunnel and see a small light ahead. As I grow nearer the light begins to expand. The light becomes so bright my eyes hurt. I finally reach the end of the tunnel and outside there is a meadow. I sprint far into the meadow and fall down laughing. It is good to be free. Now all I have to do is find my way to civilization. I’ll do that tomorrow. I think my ‘powers’ have drained the energy from me. I slowly drift away into the depths of my mind and I fall asleep, curled in the tall grass of the meadow.
Before
After
A week and a half ago I boxed up all my work and tried to cram all of it into small spaces. I noticed that I was doing that recently so in my later work I have been trying to space everything out to make it clear. I got rid of those ugly lines sectioning off all of the problems and split up my homework over two pages. My work looks a lot better than before. As the schoolyear goes on I will improve my work layout to make my homework look clear and crisp.