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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Who is Shakespeare

Knowing: Find a video.
Understanding: Take notes from video.
Applying: Do a mind map.
Analyzing: Doing a ven-diagram, and compare it with Edgar Allan Poe.
Evaluating: Watch two different acts (opposites) and evaluate which is better.
Creating: xtranormal Edgar Allan Poe vs. Shakespeare.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Parts of Proposal: Contact the Expert

This is my letter to a expert:

Dear Professional,

I am from Bogotá, Colombia and I am in 8th grade and I am doing a project about Hover Cars.
In Internet I started searching for lots of time and found out that you were building a Hover Car prototype and wanted to contact you.

Here are a few questions for you:
-What size are you building your prototype?
-How will your car levitate?
-And why are you doing this?

Thank you so much,
Pablo Ancizar

Monday, March 26, 2012

transicional words and how to use them

although, even though, while, whereas, despite, in spite of, however, on the other hand, what's more.

These words are used to connect one idea to the next.

Chosen Theme with partner

friendship can become love

Peeta and Katniss were friends and now peeta feels love for katniss.
Katniss and gale were friends and now katniss is in love.

We think that its tis this because in the hunger games it happens on 2 locations.

Theme of Hunger Games

Theme: We should appreciate what we have.

In the hunger games lots of people are very poor.

In the hunger games every year 2people of each district are taken to the hunger games that mught be you.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Parts of Proposal: Facts

In our invention we researched about fans and big fans. We found out that fans can have 3 or 4 blades depending on the type of fan. Ceasing fans have 5-7 blades because it's a different type of fan. A jet turbine mat have even 60 blades because its also another kind of fan. Our Hover Car will have a fan that has 4 blades.

Parts of Proposal: Invention Description

Our invention will be a flying car, in other words a Hover Car. In our invention the Hover Car will fly ith a fan and the fan will be versatile so it moves forward. The fan will be big and will be at the bottom of the car. The fan will have a gasoline motor to make it turn. A maximum of 4 people will fit in the car and will have a normal car appearance.

Because the car will look like a normal car we will need a light chassis.  We can buy this from any good car brand. The car has to me light so the fan doesn't have to use so much power to make the car float. The inside of the car will also be similar to a normal car but instead of a steering wheel there will be a joystick like in a helicopter. Using the joystick makes the car go forward, back, right, and/or left.

List of things to improve my writing

I think that I have to improve my punctuation, like commas and periods.

Also sometimes I think that I miss capitalization in some names, like addresses, dates, etc.

Sometimes I miss semi-colons because i am not really sure when I have to use them and how they work.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Themes in hunger games

1. We should appreciate what we have.

In the hunger games lots of people are very poor.

In the hunger games every year 2people of each district are taken to the hunger games that mught be you.

2.friendship can become love

Peeta and Katniss were friends and now peeta feels love for katniss.
Katniss and gale were friends and now katniss is in love.

3. War is bad because everything is destroyed

There was a war and then the capitol was very mean and created the hunger games
After the war lots of people gad died and families split.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

How to research a paper

Step 1: you need a topic, and a purpose.
Step 2: make a list of keywords.
Step 3: go to the library
Step 4: use cng destiny. Note sources carefully in APA format
Step 5: online research, interview experts.
Step 6: figures, find useful statistics
Step 7: see if there is a video, TV shows, etc about the topic
Step 8: organize your research.

Real Learning is...

Real Learning for me is to have fun. I like when the whole class is learning at the same time, like when everyone has small boards and shows their answer. I don't like copying things because I think that that is boring and I don't feel like I am learning. If the learning would be outdoors it would be great. I think I would have more concentration while also being more relaxed.

I think that I learn more visually that listening because I can understand more pictures than words. Ms.Shawn, the part of your class I like the most is that you show us videos of the stuff we are learning, like songs and stuff. I feel that in those videos I learn a lot. I think that we should go outdoors sometimes when the sun is shining to relax a little more.