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At the beginning of the year, I start of getting Ps and Ms. Later, I start getting more Es. Describe areas you have grown in and what you need to continue to target to be a stronger writer? Use the rubrics to help you form your responses. There are many areas that I have grown in. One of them from Language Arts is writing. In the past, I often get P and M. But now, we currently did an on-demand writing and I got What was your favorite independent reading book? Summarize what it’s about in 2-3 sentences. Why did you read that book? What type of reader would enjoy that book? Take a look at your NoRedInk profile. What grammar skills that you practiced were challenging? What skill do you feel more confident in applying to your writing now? What oral presentation or speech do you feel most proud of this year? (Crusade leader debate, competitive sports debate, young entrepreneur of the year debates, Shark Tank, Speak Out, Columbus Mock Trial, book talk) What helped you f...

PART A: Find pictures and videos to add to your blog. This should take no more than 10 minutes. Examples of pictures you might use include candid shots from the marketplace, speak out, or your work time during Phase I or II. 2. Examples of videos might be from the same locations, or you could include a link to your documentary or commercial. <-- here is our commercial PART B: Answer the following questions on your blog. When you are done answering the questions, publish your blog post. Think about the work and effort your team members have put into this project: What are some examples of what your classmates did that helped you learn? Please include at least three and elaborate (explain more) about how they helped. My teammates taught me many things. One of them is sewing. Our manager taught me how to sew by hand and I end up enjoying sewing a lot. Next, I learned how to use a sewing machine from Ms.B, our math teacher. It was challenging at ...

Today, you will take your sources and create a standardized work cited page using Easybib. After you submit this works cited page to google classroom, in a blog post, you will summarize the following (each bullet should be at least a paragraph): Using the graph below, plot a point in the quadrant that shows how motivated you were to work on your Shark Tank 7 project up until this point. Do the same for how motivated you were comparatively to work on the historical fiction narrative during quarter 3. Explain why you put each point where you did in the quadrants and why you were more or less interested or more or less motivated yourself to work on this project. The reason why I put the point for "highly interested in topic"  in the middle is because I wasn't really liking the idea of this topic, but later on when our product came out really good, it made me feel more happy. And for "highly motivated on my own to complete the project," yes, I have hi...

                                   There were 5 main languages that spread during the Age of Exploration. There were French, English, Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. French was originated in France and moved around to Africa and a little bit near the coast of North America. In Africa, French spread in countries like Madagascar, Namibia, Liberia, Sierre Leone, Nigeria, Benin, Gambia, and Kampala. Second, English was originated in England and it spreads through North America, some parts of Africa, and Australia. Next, Spanish was originated in Spain. It starts to spread to Mexico and the west of South America. Following is Portuguese. It spreads around the south part of Africa and central of South America. The reasons why their languages spread is because of establishing colonies and trade. They have to establish colonies because they did not have enough resources of materials they needed. So...

1. Did you tell a story or just report information? Our group did tell a story. Not just reporting information. Our story is about the Siege of Antioch (battle of Antioch) that happened during the first crusade. And we talked/act about how the crusaders got control of Antioch and got attacked in the end by the Muslim Turks. 2. What went well? Be specific. What went well is during writing the script. It was easy because we've learned about the battle from our research. So, it was pretty easy to write the script knowing all the events and characters in the battle. 3. What was challenging? How would you handle that challenge different now? Explain. The filming was the challenging part. On the first day, one of our members didn't come to school. So, we only filmed one scene. And I went crazy worrying that the project is due the next day (Thursday). But the I realized that we still have time. Because we don't have social studies the next day. And on Thursday, our missing ...

Here is my historical fiction narrative (diary) that I wrote. 1. What was enjoyable about writing your narrative? Be specific. Writing a historical fiction narrative is a new experience for me. So this is my first time writing it. I mostly enjoyed creating my own characters for my narrative. Creating a character was really fun. You can create their names, life story, and even their own appearances! I love that part the most. 2. What was challenging about writing your narrative? Be specific. Try to make my narrative sounds like the old days is challenging. We don't really know the language they used at that time and because the don't use the words like LOL, HAHA, or DIY, right? I was hard when I was trying to make it funny for the readers. So, I decided to use the normal words to make it sound a bit like the olden days. 3. Evaluate (describe) your experience as a historical fiction writer. If you had more time, what would you have liked to research further/c...

1. Describe the process for this artwork. (What did you do?) First of all, we had to choose one living thing and one object. I had chose a seashell and a beetle. And then I made a draft of how my object with change (metamorphosis) into another object I chose slowly. As you can see, I have five transformations of my object. I first drew the seashell and it starts changing in a beetle through the five transformations. After I finished drawing my final work, we can choose whether to color or shade. I chose to shade and it came out perfectly like the picture beside. 2. Explain what you did well? I think what I did well is on the step of shading, especially the second one. The second one is Ms.Pavla, my art teacher's favorite. And I guess, it must be because I put so much effort on that one and try to make the shading blend together perfectly. But I got lazy on the last three ones. 3. Explain what you can improve? I can improve on making sure that my transformations are in their...

1. Describe characteristics of different chemical reactions. (PS2.8A) You can see now, what happens to the chemical when it was mixed with other liquid like water, vinegar and etc. Matches: The chemical in matches is  potassium chlorate. Potassium chlorate is at the head of the match. When the match touches phosphorus and chlorate in a small amount, it will form something that can cause an explosion (fire) which is caused by friction. Acid-base reaction: This is what happens when the baking soda mixed with vinegar: it creates Co2 chemical (which is gas) . This is called "acid-base reaction". According to PH scale, the vinegar is acid and the baking soda is the base and when they are mixed together, it creates the chemical reaction or Co2. The chemical reaction is called "acid-base reaction." Color change: When Iodine mix with baking powder, the color changes to purple. It was white before. When the color changes, it is also called a che...

What is lineage: lineage  is a collection of books we've read AND THIS IS MY LINEAGE: (FAVOURITE BOOKS)

1. Get taller:        For this year goal, I want to get taller to 155 cm up.  To reach this goal, I will try to exercise more by playing some sports like volleyball or basketball.  I also heard that drinking milk also help you grow. So, I will drink a cup of milk (0.4 ml) every morning after breakfast and 1 hour before sleeping. And in the evening, when I come back from school, I  will skip rope for 15 minutes by using a timer to time my s elf.  There, my personal goal is to get taller than 155cm. And guess what....mission accomplished! YAYY! Now I am 157cm tall and almost 160cm too! I am so proud of myself.  I did not complete this goal by playing any sports but I drink lots  of milk. I drink milk every morning for about 0.4ml and sometimes also in the evening after dinner. I also did a lot of skipping ropes during the break with my neighbor every day. But I think the thing that helped me to get taller is most likely to be...

      The place where we went to stay and sleep is called Supalai Resort & Spa Saraburi . There were many activities such as kayaking, cave exploring, hiking and rock climbing. My favorite one is kayaking and rock climbing. I've never tried kayaking before and I thought it's going to be easy, but it's harder than I thought. I went in the kayak with my best friend, Namphueng. At first, we were struggling but later on, we actually learn how to kayak. The best of it was getting to control our boat, working with our friends to control the boat, and feeling the nature (clean, cold water and 1000+ years rocks) I've never tried rock climbing before either. When I watched others climb, I thought it was going to be easy, but when I tried it was so  hard. Eventually, I made it to the top of the mountain. I feel like I want to challenge myself one more time, so I went for a second try. And I did it! I went even faster than the first time. The challenges for rock climbin...

1. What did you learn about the water cycle? I learned about the six basics stages of the water cycle. There are  evaporation, condensation, precipitation, surface runoff, groundwater, and transpiration . Evaporation is when water turns into gas, and after it turns to gas, it will go into the sky and form the clouds. The clouds stay together tightly and that is the stage of condensation. When the molecules in the clouds get way to heavy and can't hold anymore, it falls down and becomes rain/snow, which is the stage of precipitation. Surface runoff  is when precipitation hit the ground and flow down into the river, lake or any water. Next is groundwater, it is when some parts of precipitation that landed on the surface and sink down into the underground. Then keep repeating that and will have a storage of water in the ground like the mineral water we got from (Aura). Finally is transpiration . Transpiration is when moisture carried through plants and released...

Read this free book made on StoryJumper 1. What is your favourite? Why? My favourite poem is "Where I'm From" because I feel like this poem has lots of figurative languages like personification, simile and etc. And I really liked how I describe the settings. One of the setting I described is an aquarium I went to: I am from mermaids and shark fins, Looking around the gigantic aquarium, staring at the enormous octopus,  I am from mysterious animals looking for food with many unknown people tripping over the fences. 2. What was the most challenging? Why? The most challenging would be finding word choices. I tried to find the perfect word choice for my poem but it's hard because some of the new word choices are the words I don't know. So I have to use the normal word choices. 3. If I had more time, how would you change? If i had more time, I would like to change all of the word choices I have used. Because I feel like it's not what (words) 7th grader...

What conflicts does your team have? In our group, we had problems letting people do the experiment. Because sometimes, one of the members forgot that we had other 2 members in the group too. So he/she does the work alone. And the member that was forgotten wants to do the experiment too. How did you overcome those conflicts? Later on, he/she figured out that we have more than 4 people in our group. So he/she let the forgotten member do the work. She figured it out because I told her to let the forgotten member do the work. How did you improvise? We implement our plan by combining all of our plans. We included every single person's plan. But by taking all of it, we took the best part of the plan and joined them all together. And we formed the best plan to prevent the erosion and landslides.  How can science help you with erosion and landslides? In the future, we might have to build buildings, resort or our own house. For having a background information about ero...