My NYC Poem

This quarter we have been learning about poems and mainly haikus. A haiku is a poem with three, lines the first has five sylables, the second has seven sylables and the third has five. Originaly hiakus were about nature so tecically this is just a poem with the same format as a haiku.

We bassed these poems after the poems entered in a poetry contest for the New York Times. All the poems entered in the contest were all themed on under 6 topics the island, strangers, solitude, commuting, 6 a.m. and kindness (each of these is an aspect of NYC if you didn’t notice)so first we had to read some of the other poems and get a sense for what they where about.

Next we started our own NYC haikus. To start we choose a topic to base our poems of of. Then we found words that fit structure. Them we began to write our poems. We all helped edit each other’s poems then once we had our final product we read them to the class for some constructive criticism. After that we went back and worked on them some more. And then we finished by editing tha final product.

So now that I have said all that… here is my poem

Strangers:
Walking by a school
You see your unfound best friend,
But never again…

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April 14

Structure Fits Function Circulatory System

Of course, the heart is an important organ. Without your heart, you wouldn’t even be alive. However, the heart is a lot more complicated than “it pumps blood.” Sure, it pumps blood but that blood is also carrying oxygen, which helps all your cells live and fulfill their own functions. Plus it is carrying white blood cells which destroy other cells that are sick. The heart is like the engine of a car in that we refer to these parts as being responsible for running the larger system. However, just like an engine, the heart must still rely on other parts to work. Just like a car needs gas and a driver, a heart needs oxygen and a brain, as well as many other assistant systems.

The Heart

A Car Engine

Structure	Function
Right+left Ventricle	The place in the heart that is in charge of pumping oxygen-drained blood to the lungs. The right + left ventricles are two of the four sections in the heart. The Atria are the other two.
The Pericardium	A fibrous covering that holds the heart in place. It has a fluid that “lubricates” the heart in the pericardium space to prevent friction. It has two layers, one of which is a visceral layer, which covers the heart. The other forms a sac, which has a fluid in the pericardial cavity.
Right+Left Atrium	The atria are chambers that receive blood from the veins. The ventricles are chambers that pump blood out of the heart.
The Myocardium	The myocardium of is a muscle heart wall and constantly needs oxygen because it is hard-working so there is an extensive network of veins to supply oxygen and nutrients so it can function properly. It’s other purpose is to dispose of waste.
Valves	Pumps need valves to keep the liquid going in one direction, and the heart isn’t an exception. The heart has two kinds of valves that keep the blood going in the right direction. The valves between the atria and ventricles are atrioventricular valves (also called cuspid valves), while the ones at the bases of the large vessels leaving the ventricles are semilunar valves. The right atrioventricular valve is the tricuspid valve. The left atrioventricular valve is the bicuspid, or mitral, valve. The valve in between the right ventricle and pulmonary trunk is the pulmonary semilunar valve. The valve between the left ventricle and the aorta is the aortic semilunar valve. When the ventricles contract, atrioventricular valves close up to stop blood from flowing back into the atria. When the ventricles relax, semilunar valves close to stop blood from going back into the ventricles.

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April 12

My Fabric Collage

I feel that I did a good job on my Fabric collage because I Put a lot of time into itand when I( thought I might be finished I kept on pushing to do more. I feel that I ould have worked bit faster if I hadn’t gotten distracted by friends but over all I did a Pretty good job

Here is a photo of my piece

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April 7

Mandarin Q3

This year for our Lunar New Year project we performed a set of tai chi moves for all the families of Mandarin students. This was a new experience because we really got to be part of the culture. From my past experience I find that if you want to learn a language it helps to be part of the culture. To perform this we had to memorize all the moves and then sync that information to the music that was playing. My favorite tai chi move was the move where we would slide from one side to another: the reason I liked this was because it felt very graceful. Click Here To See Photos.

Another project that we worked on this year was our description project. In this project we had to choose someone from the LREI community and describe them in Mandarin using the describing words that we had been learning for the three to four weeks prior. The only notes that we were allowed to have with us were the sentences, but even they were entirely written in characters and we could not have any pinyin. one word that I really like is “Juǎn fǎ” Characters: 卷发. I like it because it looks like it sounds. Sorry I don’t have any photos. 🙁

Some other things that we have done this year were: we learned the words for different countries, we learned the words for different colors, we learned about words to use in class (some phrases too), and many other words and phrases! We have started this quarter with a unit on food words which I have been looking forward to for a while.

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April 5

My Illuminated Leter

The reason I am posting about my illuminated letter is because I feel that it really shows my best work because I spent a lot of time on it and even stayed after school for an hour to finish it. Also I feel that (not to brag) it looks really good compared to some of my other work. One thing that I could have done better with this would be to have kept the paper clean. Here is a photo of it.

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