#1) Original Problem: 40=20% of what number?
40×5=___ 40=20% of 200
Story Problem:
Jimbo went out to buy s’mores materials all together the tax was 20% of the whole so the tax was $40.00. How much did the materials cost without tax
#2) Original Problem: 8.5% of 500=___?
0.085×500=42.5
Story Problem:
#3) Original Problem: 18=___ % of 150
18=___% x 150 18/150=0.12 12%
For this blog post I chose to talk about my Parzival Essay. In my Parzival essay I showed what happened in the book Parzival and I showed to qualities of a medieval king. The reason that I mentioned this is because I feel that in the first quarter I would have had a lot of trouble putting more than one idea in a piece. Another reason I chose this is that I is probably the first real essay that I have ever written. If you would like to read the essay I will put is below
My Parzival Essay:
Parzival became king by his own free will because he is smart, he can make good decisions and he is kind.
Would you be the person that you are without free will? No you wouldn’t, without free will you wouldn’t ever make any choices yourself. That includes what clothes you wear. In the book, Parzival, by Katherine Paterson a boy begins his journey through life without knowing anything about himself including his own name. But as his journey continues he learns about his past, present and future (and his name which is parzival). At the end Parzival became king by his own free will because he was smart, he can make good decisions and he is kind.
Parzival became king by free will because he is smart. On page 28 he kills the Red Knight. The way that he does it is by waiting until he can get a clean shot. Then he throws one of his javelins into the Red Knight’s eye hole in his helmet. “At first Parzival could not move under the blows, but as soon as he could, he raised his javelin and hurled it through the gap in sir Ithers helmet.” This shows that he uses his smarts to help him, especially when he is being attacked. He uses his intelligence to win battles which is a kingly trait also it removes most of his enemies to make it easier to become king. Although this is an important trait of a king it is not the only trait, you also have to be able to make good decisions.
Parzival chose to ask the question about why his uncle was in pain which made him king. Parzival became king because he can make good decisions, especially when under pressure. One example of this is on pages 67-68. “There is a lady in Arthur’s court who has suffered humiliation on my account,” Parzival said “Go there and say that the Red Knight has sent you to offer her your service.” He is under Pressure because he is trying to save a duchess from whom he stole a brooch from as a child. Good judgement is a trait of a good king and Parzival uses his good judgement right through the end of the book. Even in the last chapter he decides to devote his life to searching for the grail to try and save king Anfortas from immortal pain. Then at the end he finds it and frees King Anfortas. But there is also a last trait to make a king a king… HE MUST BE FEARLESS!
The last trait that makes Parzival a good king is that he is BRAVE. One moment in the book where this is shown very clearly is on pages 39-40. “This was Parzival’s first sword fight, but Gurnemanz had taught him well. He returned Kingrum blow for blow until at last he hurled the older man upon the ground…” We know that he is brave because he fought a very well known king’s best fighter as his first sword fight ever. This matters because if Parzival was not brave then he would not have had the bravery to keep going on his search for the grail and never would have become king.
The choices Parzival made through his journey by his own free will changed him in many different. At the beginning some of his choices were not the best for him, but as his quest continued he began to make better and better decisions not only for him but for the other people around him. For example if Jackie Robinson had never tried to join the MLB then there would have taken a lot longer to get people of color in the baseball league.
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.
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
One of my favorite parts of Ashokan was the blacksmithing because I felt free, I learned a lot, and I got really dirty (I love getting dirty). I felt free because I was not just having rules being told to me every minute. One thing that I learned was how to gauge heat, for example now I know that If your piece of metal is white and sparkling it is about to melt. I like getting dirty because… well I don’t know why I just do.
One thing that I didn’t like about ashkan was that before every meal we had to sit in the rec hall and wait for 10 minutes before every meal, while we were tired hungry and bored. We were bored because we had to sit and not talk. We were tired because we had just woken up, come from an activity or about to go to sleep and we were hungry because we were about to sit down to eat.
