Waves
Cool blue
Crashing over another
Moving towards the shore
Splash
I name this poem Waves. It is a cinquain. A cinquain has five lines, but there are many types. There can be one word in the first line, two, three, four, than five words. But I did type two, with a noun, adjective, ing word, a phrase, and another noun. There is imagery in this poem. I think it turned out well because each line describes a step of the wave.
My wire sculpture is my favorite piece of artwork that I’ve done this year. I like this project because it was challenging to make a body just out of wire, and a certain length. I think trying to make each body proportion the same was hard, but I liked it because you had to be really concentrated so you wouldn’t mess up. And I really liked how the ending product looked!
I’d like to name this piece of art Map of Freedom. I named it Map of Freedom because the sculpture is of a freedom tower, and there is map covering the sculpture. I created this piece of art by cutting out pieces of foam board, and then using pins to pin the pieces together. Then I cut out important places in New York to me, and cut the map in the shape of each panel and glued them on. To finish it off, I mod podged the whole sculpture so there would be a little shine. Some things I learned while creating this was that you have to be very precise to fit things together or else your project will look really bad and it wont look like what you want it to. My favorite part is how it is 3D and you can see it from any perspective. If I could change something about this, I would make the panels fit to each other more because some pieces are bigger than others, and it’s a little uneven. While I was making this I was surprised that the whole sculpture stayed together and it was super sturdy! Something else I want to share about this artwork is that the project is really fun, but challenging!
This is what my final piece looks like. I was going to do buildings below the building, but I wasn’t really sure what I would represent since I represented almost everything on the freedom tower. I can still do a little bit of cleaning up, like gluing down the map better. After I glued on the map pieces I mod podged it over so there would be a little bit of a shine on top. It was challenging to make this project, but once it was done I think it looked good!
In science we have been learning about human body systems. We just had a test on interconnectedness of human body systems. We made bubbles for each system and had to draw arrows to different systems to another of things that transfer through the system. Sometimes if you didn’t know where the part of the system came from you can draw a cloud. After drawing this stock and flow/bubble map I noticed how all the systems are so connected, and the circulatory connects to most of the systems. 
In french we had a homework assignment to take a picture of four meals/snacks that we ate during the weekend. For each picture we had to say what the food was, and describe them. The structure of the sentence was to say Il y a… and Je mange… A few weeks ago we started on a food unit, so this was one of our first mini projects we did with food.
Il y a les bretzels. Je manges les bretzels, et il y a les pommes. Les bretzels est sale.
Il y a du poulet et le riz. Je manges poulet et 
riz et les frites. Il est mon diner. (Je manges au restaurant. Le poulet est delicieux.
Il y a la salade. Je manges la salade avec les fruits. La salade estbonne.
Il y a des oeufs. Je manges les oeufs avec du sel. Les oeufs est dulce.
Je prefer le poulet parce que il y a beaucoup de differente nourriture et le poulet est tres delicieux!
Culture In Pakistan
By Marlowe, Oliver, and Olivia
Pakistan is a hotspot for culture. Visiting, you have chances to try new food, go to shops, buy clothes, and do many other things. If you are visiting make sure you bring Pakistani rupees because that is the common currency. A dollar can be traded in for 164.69 rupees.
Above is a chapti. Chapati is a common food in Pakistan. It is a flat bread similar to naan. It is a very simple recipe and it is very delicious. All you need is whole wheat flour, oil, water, and salt. But if you don’t want to make it, go to Pakistan and get it there! While you are there be sure to visit the shops, with clothes, and foods. You can find these at almost any street. Pakistan is drenched with culture!
Biryani is also a popular dish in Pakistan, there is also thariri which is the vegetarian form of Biryani. To make it you need basmati rice, chicken, fried onions, chopped mint leaves, sunflower oil, and strands of saffron soaked in hot milk.
Pakistan has a good sense for fashion too. Some common clothes you might find are, shatooshes which are made of fine underfur of the tibetan antelope. Shatooshes are very luxurious.
“I walk through the shop, looking at the woolen shawls stacked neatly, the soft colors mixed together like in and pull a woolen shawl from the pile.” Pg. 71 of Shabanu.
Shatooshes are extremely expensive. Some can be up to 15,000 dollars which is about 1,570,425 Pakistani rupees. This may be caused by the rarity of Tibetan Antelopes.
Pakistan is packed full of culture, so if you ever go there you should try their food, fashion, and be one with the culture.
Cutting out pieces to make the freedom tower
In art we are making a type of art with a map. We can choose any style we want to make and just be creative. One requirement is to show a place that is important or that represents you from the map. I decided to make a model of the freedom tower, and each side will represent a place that is special to me. Next class I will finish cutting out pieces of foam board, and then use mod podge to glue the maps on to the foam board, the mod podge will also make the map look a little bit shiny. One place I will represent on my project is where I go to school, since the map doesn’t say LREI, I will take a pin and put it right where the school is and then write what it is.
Marriage Doesn’t Always Work the Way you Want it to…
by Phulan
Tears came out of my eyes when I heard that the man I was going to marry was dead. I didn’t get to even meet Hamir, but his parents and family were so nice. Most of arranged Husbands and their families aren’t very nice, but I was lucky enough to meet a family and a husband who was kind and Dadi said “Hamir is noble and strong and handsome.” (pg 146) Hamir’s family also owned a large piece of land. But one day when Shabanu and I went to the canal to get water, Nazir Mohammad a land owner at the village of Mehrabpur was with some other men. Nazir wanted some of our land, but we wouldn’t give it to him. Dadi warned us about Nazir, so after the group tried to attack us we ran and told dadi. Dadi said to pack all of our important things and go to Derawar and he’d meet us there. Dadi was going to fight off Nazir with Hamir and Murad. Then when we were almost at Derawar, a ranger gave a message to us that everything was fine and we should go back to Mehrabpur. Dadi and Murad were fine, but they said that Hamir got killed by Nazir and his men. I guess that Shabanu will at least have a good husband from the family, she is going to marry Murad.
How to Make Chapati!
by Phulan
My family lives in the hot warm desert where we don’t have many resources besides a tiny bit of water and whole wheat. So every day we eat chapati. Chapati is a bread made from water and whole wheat, it is round and flat and cooked in a pan. Sometimes when we don’t have enough water from the toba, so we have to get it from the well. Unfortunately water from the well is salty, so when we make chapati with water from the well, the meal becomes more of a salty bread than a little sweet.
First you take some whole wheat flour and mix it with some water. We don’t have exact measurements… Sometimes you can add salt, but if our water is salty we don’t need to add salt. You can sometimes add salt for a little bit of flavor if you would like.Then kneed the dough and let it rise for 10 minutes. Once the dough has rised split it into pieces and pat it until the dough is thin. Once you’ve done that it’s ready to go in the pan, cook it until it’s brown and a little puffy!
I think that poetry is a fun and different way of writing, you don’t have to worry about punctuation and you can make your words in any form. I wrote a haiku about spring. A haiku is a type of poem that the first line has five syllables, then seven syllables in the second line, and then five syllables in the third line. Most of the time haiku’s are about nature and they have a kigo in it. A kigo is a word that indicates a season, like blooming trees represent spring. My poem was about spring, and in my haiku I tried to describe more about the scenery of spring than what you can do in spring. I think a strength I have when writing poetry is using describing words. A goal I have is to write poetry about something I may not write about that is hard to describe, instead of writing a poem about flowers or clouds. A challenge in poetry for me is to try to write a poem that makes a little bit of sense, not just random words that don’t really relate to each other even though they describe what the poem is about. This is my poem!
Beautiful sunlight
Bright colors of paradise
Blooming trees in sight