November 11

Music 1st Quarter

This year in music we have been using a site called Sound Trap. It is a site on which  you can record and create music, by your self or by collaborating with others. In this semester we have been writing our own music pieces in sound trap. Each piece has to have: a beat, a cord progression and a guest artist. One special feature that it has is a MIDI device so that you don’t have to record the instrument that you want to use with a microphone. But you also don’t have to use the computer keyboard you can just plug the MIDI device into the actual computer and it acts like part of the computer. For example if you are using the computer keyboard to play the piano then instead you can use a MIDI device which plugs in and the it plays as though it is an actual piano but instead of having to use a microphone to record the piano you can just play the MIDI device and it automatically will translate into the sound trap song.

Here is the piece that I have made in sound trap:

I don’t have a guest artist yet but I should have one soon.

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November 1

Mandarin 1st Quarter 2015

Here is the link to one of the mandarin sets that we have been using this year to study:

This is the link to the other Quizlet set: 

Another thing that we did in class was that we made a dialogue andd memorized it. this is me and Wyatts:

Wyatt- 你是哪国人？
Gus- 我是爱尔兰人。你也是美国人
Wyatt- 不是，我是匈牙利人。
Gus – 你会说中文吗?
Wyatt – 对，我会说一点中文，也会说英文。
Gus – 和我一样

 

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May 18

Making My Website

Making a website is fun but tiring. It took me about 3-4 weeks to make mine. If you look at my site you will think that it looks easy but if you were to try and understand out the coding you would probably get stuck. But it was definitely worth it. I learned a lot about coding.

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April 14

3rd Quarter Mandarin

This quarter in mandarin we have worked on a lot of things. First of all we have been learning about simple sentences and school surplice, we also learned about the chines new year. Last of all we learned calligraphy. One of the thing that I found most interesting was the chines new year because we learned a lot about a culture that I never new that much about. The thing that I found second most interesting was the school supplies, because that is something I would not have thought about learning.

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November 6

My Personal Narrative

Don’t Rock My Boat

By Gus Dotson

It was a late summer day and my family was on the beach. We were paddle boarding and swimming. I was coming out of the water, when my Dad asked me if I wanted to use the canoe. I said, “Sure!” over the sound of water sloshing against our dock and the sailboat moored farther out.

Our family had been talking about using the canoe but we hadn’t gotten around to it. So, we decided that it was the perfect day. First we pulled out the canoe, then we got some oars. Finally, we put the canoe in the water. I was the first to use it so I got in and paddled out. As I paddled, I remembered when my friends and I would go canoeing in the Great Swamp in Westchester. The Swamp is in a nature preserve that is home to many species of turtles, birds and other living things. We used to go there with my mom and some of the guides she worked with at the Nature Conservancy. We would take friends and go out to see the wildlife.

Then all of a sudden I snapped back because a wave shook my canoe. I almost fell, but I caught myself. The water was fairly calm and there was a small breeze. I was excited and nervous. As I kept paddling, I thought I might flip at any moment. But after a minute I got the hang of paddling. So I picked up my brother and sister and we all went out together. At first we stayed close to the dock, but after a little while we started to go out farther and farther. The farthest we got was a quarter of the way to the East Dumpling.

 

The Dumplings are two small islands out in the harbor; there is an East Dumpling and a West Dumpling. This spring I hope to paddle all the way to the East Dumpling. The East Dumpling is an uninhabited island that has very good fishing areas around it. A lot of people like to have picnics on it. Also there are a few birds that live in it.

 

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