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In this year's summer, I would like to spend time with my family. On the other hand, my sister is busy since she has to train to work in the hospital. And because of that, we won't be able to travel on vacation and visit new places to receive new experiences. Additionally, I would also like to spend days with my best friends, no matter what we do because I will miss them every day. Also, I would like to improve my fitness ability. I will do that by doing basic yoga for 20 minutes in the morning and ride my bike in the evening.

I did enjoy the research part because I experienced new ways of researching by using Ebsco. About child labor in general, I found out that so many children are being used to work in risky works such as carpet-weaving and brick kiln industries. Moreover, I realized that there are so many corruption and  transgressions in Nepal. 

3/4/18 Today, I have presented a new technological advancement I chose. I chose to present about the new version of the pacemaker called "Leadless Pacemaker". The leadless pacemaker is more efficient than the old version because they are wireless/leadless, the battery life is longer, and it doesn't leave any ugly scars on the chest for the patients. Here is a picture of the leadless pacemaker:

In this quarter, we have been learning about Propaganda.  Propaganda  is the intentional spread of information that can be both true or false to the public with the goal of influencing/persuading public opinion and behavior, but most of them are biased.  This technique simplifies complex issues, mostly in government, uses symbols, and is emotional. They often have a slogan or a speech that is easy to remember. Propaganda can be used for good and bad. But these days, they are mostly used to promote government policies and used by companies to promote their products. For example, Testimonial is an advertising technique where a famous well-known person supports a product. Then, we learned how to use these types of propaganda in our summative poster and an ad to convince people to join our colony. And we ended it with a small quiz.

Space X, an aerospace company just launched its new huge Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6th, 2018 into the earth's higher atmosphere before returning back, at the Kennedy Space Center. The rocket officially became the most powerful operational rocket in the world, stealing NASA"s Saturn V the world's most powerful rocket title. Hundreds of reporters, producers, photographers, travelers, and overall is approximately 100,000 came to watch the launch in Cocoa Beach, Florida surrounding the whole area. The rocket is consists of Space X's Falcon 9 rocket and its 27 engines. Additionally, the Space X and Elon Musk, the CEO of Space X made sure to add a Tesla Roadster to its dummy driver onto the ship to see its ability to transport cargo. So that it could float near planets that are close to the earth for the next millions of years. This new big step has shown that humans technology on space travel and rocket ships had improved so much than before. Space travel would be...

This is my result from doing the Career Cluster Interest Survey  ( https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/careers/clusterSurvey?do=0 ) They asked what subject we like, what we like to do, our personalities and etc to calculate what job is possible for us to have. As you can see, from my results, Health Science got the highest score, followed by Architecture and Construction and Government and Public Administration. The reason why Health Science is the highest might be because I told them I like to help others and is patient, but I am still not sure I would like to be a physician, dentists, or a nurse. But I will work hard and find out what I would like to be in the future!

I still haven't reached my personal goal yet since my reading score dropped this first MAP test. But I would still work hard to reach this goal. For Math and Science, I have reached this goal because whenever we have tests, my grade came out as M and E which is good enough. This means I haven't been off task studying for tests. As for LA and SS, there are no important vocabularies to remember, so I haven't met this goal yet. Lastly, Culinary Arts class, I believed that I have reached this goal since my engagement grade is now E. Here is my prove: Overall, I have two goals to try to reach: My personal goal and LA & SS.

This year's ETK is at Pranburi, near the beach. We stayed at a resort called Sweet Honey Resort. Actually, we have 12 roommates, but the room only has one bathroom, which is not enough. So, we get to stay in a house with four bathrooms. We stayed on the second floor while Mr.Witt and Ms.Vivian stayed downstairs. But I don't really like the house because whenever we walked, the vibration is really hard. I think it's because of how they build the house. Also, the toilet is always wet, it never gets dry and I don't like wet bathrooms. Additionally, the food there is not that good, but not that bad either. I enjoyed the porridge. And because the food is not that good, about 80% of the kids went back to their rooms to eat noodles, but I didn't, I actually enjoyed the food. The last night, we had a barbeque party. My friends were having a hard time grilling meat because they are not getting cooked, but the meat is almost burned. On the other hand, I was having a good time...

The past 2-3 weeks, we've been learning about themes, tone and mood, figurative language such as imagery. Also, we have been reading "The Giver" as a whole class. Themes are secretly said in the novels teaching life lessons for readers. While tone and mood affect the atmosphere and feelings when reading. Additionally, there are many types of figurative language, but we focused on imagery mostly. Imagery appeals to our five senses which are touch, taste, see, hear, and smell. Furthermore, we've been reading "The Giver" and start analyzing the story. Recently, we have finished reading chapter 12 when the main character, Jonas met the Giver .

We made fried rice this time. We start off by boiling rice in the pot. Our group's rice is a bit wet and sticky. While waiting for the rice to be cooked, we prepared and chopped onions, garlic, lime and broccoli for next class. We then put them all in the fridge. Additionally, we also have to make the fish sauce. We added fish sauce, lime, and chili to the sauce. The next class, we took the ingredients out and got tomatoes, cucumber, eggs, and one more lime for the day. Our first step is adding oil to the pan and waited till it's hot. After it's we then added the vegetables. Then, the rice and put in soy sauce, fish sauce, and oyster sauce to give it some flavors. After the veggies and rice are ready, move them to the side of the pan. Then crack the eggs and make sure they are cooked before mixing them with the rice. Place the fried rice on a plate and decorate them. Because our rice is wet and soggy, the fried rice turned out to be sticky and not that yummy.

These are my goals for the year.  Personal --> I wasn't able to start this goal yet since we didn't do the MAP TEST yet.  Math & Science --> I am starting not to be off task in class. I barely get off task right now.  LA & SS --> I am not able to complete this goal yet since we don't have a test for the vocabulary yet.  Electives --> I have completed this goal. I went back to check my engagement grade and it turned to M instead of P.

 We cooked our first main dish, pasta. The pasta sauce is made from tomatoes, onion, and garlic.  First, we have to add about 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil, then fry onion and garlic together. After the onion is turning a bit transparent then add the tomatoes. Also, add some salt, sugar, basil sweet, and parsley leaf so that the sauce won't taste bland. As a result in my group, the sauce came out really well. It's well seasoned and full of flavors from salt, sugar, basil sweet, and parsley leaf. Our group technique is to add a lot of basil sweet and parsley leaf. We found out that it gives the sauce very unique flavors so we add them a lot. Our friends turn out to like our pasta very much too.

The enlightenment was a time period after the Renaissance that focuses on humanism, reasons, and individualism during the 17th-19th century. The era was created by humanism in the Renaissance when people starts to fly away from supernatural beliefs. Another root of the period is the Protestant Reformation when people begin to question the teachings of the church, making both church and the government. Lastly, the scientific revolution that proved the church's teachings wrong with new discoveries.

1. What did YOU do well? I was able to cook the bread till it's fully cooked well enough. 2. What could YOU do better? While dumping the bread in the egg mixture, I broke the bread in half. I could hold the bread more softly so it wouldn't break. 3. What did your group do well? We divided up the work for each individual member of the group very well. 4. What could your group better? We could clean our station better during the process of cooking because we always clean our station after we finished everything. 5. If you were given a chance to re-make your french toast what would you want to do differently? I would like to make the egg that was mixed with other ingredients sweeter by adding more sugar because our toast came out a bit tasteless. If we make it sweeter, I believe our toast will taste better.  6. What was the texture like of your french toast? Is there anything you would want to change about the texture? Our french toast was soggy from absorbing th...

In culinary art class, we started off by learning how to make an omelette and scrambled eggs with vegetables. In culinary art class, we were divided into groups. My group includes Pat and Tanyong. The first time, our egg was yummy, but it's not fully cooked and we added too many vegetables that took away the egg taste. The second time, we can only choose three vegetables to cook with the egg. Our group chose mushrooms, onions, and tomatoes with cheese. First, we chopped vegetables and then cook them in orders, due to how long it would take to be cooked. We fry onions first, then mushrooms, and tomatoes. We seasoned our egg by adding a little bit of salt, pepper, and soy sauce. And because there are vegetables left, my group decided to make a special serving by frying them together with soy sauce. Overall, we did great but our omelette was not fully cooked which means it's a little bit watery. But the taste and its visual is great. We were complimented by the chefs a.k...

I did a presentation about William Harvey. For my project, I decided to make a poster. I was taught not put that many words on a presentation, so I drew his name really big with three big pictures. Some of my classmates, they used permanent markers to draw and write, while I print, cut and stick it on the board. I wanted to print/draw then stick is because I think we can reuse the board. I can pull off the pictures and letters then use the board again for another project. Also, I want to help decreasing global warming too. I believe this is one way I could help by reusing the boards. Additionally, I guess my poster is beautiful. I was very proud because my poster turned out to be pretty and also because I am helping to decrease global warming. 

From the mind map, I learned that there were many causes of the Protestant Reformation. The causes were because of King Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife but the pope said he can't. He doesn't agree with the pope so he decided to split up with the church and took control over England's church. Another cause is the 95 thesis from Martin Luther. Next, people learned how to read and the bible in latin was translated. Then make several copies for everyone. On the other hand, there are also other effects that followed. Europe was divided in half and wars.

T his week, we learned about different types of author's point of view in Language Arts. There are three types. The first one is the "first person", the first person is when a story is narrated by only one character at a time, using I/we. Third Person Limited is another type. It is when the author only knows how a character is thinking and feeling. Lastly, the third person omniscient. It is when the author or the narrator knows most of the characters' feelings and thoughts in the story.    F or Social Studies, we are still learning and doing activities about the reformation and we have to make a mind map. We practiced making a mind map by choosing a topic to make a mind map. I chose a topic about decreasing global warming. 

Personal: I would like to improve my map reading score.  Last year, my score was 228 and it was still the same as the beginning of the year which means I haven't really improved. This year, I want to make my score at least 230 or above. I will accomplish that by reading 20 minutes everyday like what the teachers had said. Math & Science: I would like to put more efforts in these two subjects. I found that they are also important as LA and SS. I will try to put more efforts in studying these two subjects when we have upcoming tests. I will try not to be off task while studying for tests because I get distracted easily. LA & SS: For both subjects,  I would like to make the vocabularies stuck in my mind. I will do that by practicing the vocabulary every week at night so that I will be able to remember it. Electives: Culinary Art From what I've seen in PowerSchool, my engagement grade is P. I want to improve my change my grade to at least an M. I don't feel pr...

L ast week in Language Arts class, we learned about the character's assertions. I learned that assertions are characters traits and evidence is an actual quote from the text to proof what we are saying. We also talked about how to find the direct and indirect characterizations that were mentioned in the text. The difference between direct and indirect are as follows: 1. Indirect characterizations are texts that were mentioned in the texts by the author to show things that reveal about the character.  ex: She went to clean the sink without being asked       This shows that the character is kind. 2. Direct characterizations are words that were mentioned directly in the text by the author, who wants to tell the reader about the character.  ex: The happy girl is looking at the food with sparkly eyes       This shows that the girl is happy.  Here is one my example using Kungfu Panda 3's Po, the panda.    ...