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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...