Western affects on China

     In my opinion I think that China had the worst relationship with the west. In 1700's China was doing great, they were a strong country. Once the British started to sell opium to the Chinese for silver, everything started to go down hill. A large percentage of people in China got really addicted to this drug. There was a huge amount of silver going right out of China for opium. The government tried really hard to stop the trade for opium, but no one listened. In 1839, China destroyed a huge shipment of opium from Britain which declared a war between them. The Britain's easily won because of their new and improved guns. Since this happened China had to give Britain 20 million dollars, new ports, Hong Kong and let the trading of opium to continue. From there on China has had a bad relationship with the west starting with just a highly addictive drug. 

News story

A.On April the 23, William Ferria and James Wilde achieved getting an A on there rocket project. "Oh my god James, we got and A!!!!!!!!!!" Said William when they achieved getting the rocket to stay in the air for over 9 seconds. They were bound to get an A because they have been working their tails off the make there rocket, parachute etc.

B. Bottle- the bottle is what carries the fuel 

Fins- the fins are what stabilize the bottle so it points up

Nose cone- the nose cone makes the rocket more aerodynamic/ reducing  drag. It also an egg carrier 

Parachute- the parachute is what hold the egg so it can float down nice and slow without breaking the egg

String- the sting connects the parachute to the egg carrier 

Egg carrier- the egg carrier holds the egg so when it gets shot up it won't fly out and it helps protect it when landing 

Physical Geography Paragraph

    Japan, China, and India all have geographic resources and obstacles that have shaped their cultures. Japan has many mountains and natural disasters. The mountains limit Japan to where the live and how they have to farm. With just little space make a living makes it hard on families and company's. Also Japan has a lot of natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and typhoons. With those disasters it makes it hard to regain everything when something bad strikes. China's rivers and mountains really help China out. The rivers that China has are Huang He, Chang, and Xi which help grow crops because they provide irrigation and fertile land for the crops. China's Mountains have helped them many years with dividing them with other countries which makes it harder to get invaded by other people. India has great rivers, mountains/ocean. India's rivers really help out India because they provide them with very rich farmland. Also India's mountains/ocean are surrounding most of India which help them so they can focus on the places without the mountains because they know that they aren't going to try to invade by crossing over the mountains. Those are someways that Japan, China, and India have been have been shaped either by resources or obstacles that they have had to over come.

Debate Reflection

Debate Reflection 

     My debate assignment was to refute the statement, "I do not agree with all the second guessing to end WWII. Japan began the war with a brutal attack on Pearl Harbor and Harry Truman chose to end the war as quickly as possible. While the deaths of Japanese civilians were unfortunate, Truman had a moral obligation to save American lives first." The dropping of the atomic bomb should not have happened. I was assigned to support the Japanese's side. My group's main points were that the Japanese would have surrendered soon without the U.S. subjecting to such drastic, unnecessary methods. This war was going to end in about 6 months but instead the U.S dropped the bomb which kept on killing people for over 2 years. What would you have done ended the war in a split second, that kept killing people over 2 years, or end the madness in 6 months.
     I contributed to prepare for the debate by researching on the specific facts of topics and how it affected people later on. I contributed to the debate by giving ideas to people because I am not that strong talking in front of people. When they were puzzled on a question the other team asked i would help them on what the other team meant. Our debate started off not the strongest. We didn't look over our opening statement enough and the other team had a really strong opening statement. Over the time in the debate we started to talk more of what we though and said true facts. I think our team presented our topic very strong.
     In this project i learned that there where other ways for the war to be ended instead of the U.S bombing Japan. The U.S could not have dropped the bomb and just have waited half a year to end the war. They were even killing people 2 years after the bomb was dropped. There is still radiation floating around, going through generations of people. I improved my improve skills a lot by thinking of good facts of the top of head that are related to the topic. Also this helped me with preparation  because if you want your side to win you have to have real, good, facts. If you try to go out with nothing you are bound to lose.

Rocket Reflection

 During my rocket project I have made astonishing leaps in this project.  I have made an excellent egg carrier that has allowed the egg to live. My partner and I have constructed an amazing rocket and parachute that works. We are both committed to work really hard and meet the goals we have. We have launched a successful egg in our rocket. I believe that my partner and I will have a A+ by the end of this project.

Research Topic

I want to do The Tanks of World War One. I think that it would be good for me to research on because usually on something I don't like but in this case I chose my own topic. I really like to this topic because tanks are awesome and they revolutionized World War One!!

When Winter Calls, read out loud

Two question poem reflection

What are 3+ specifics you liked about the poem?
     Three specifics I liked about Sick by Shell Silverstein were the imagery, word choice, and line breaks. I really like those three because I use to struggled with it when I was in 6th and 7th grade. This year I really tried to step out of the box with my poems and revise them and make the poem them as good as hers.
What did you learn about writing poetry form reading the poems?
     I learned that when you have a bad poem in the start you can always put in different words and line breaks and make it an awesome poem by just changing these little things. Her poem really helped  me look deeper into my poems and make the poem the best they could be.

When Winter Calls poem

When Winter Calls

I wake up to the slight whisper of snow
hugging the ground.
The thought of skiing snaps into my head.
I can’t wait to click my skis on
and glide down that steep deep powder.
Wind brushes my hair in frozen bristles.
Snow pops off the ground and slaps my face.
Winter is what I live for.

Mission Statement

MISSION STATEMENT

When people hear about me I always want to be known as a fun, awesome, outgoing, cool, leader. Three people that have all of those characteristics that I look up to are are my fourth grade teacher Miss. Nichols, Ian Compton, and Magic Johnson. They are always helping people out and not giving up on their friends when they are down. If it’s either helping someone on homework, teaching a friend a trick, or even leading a team to the championship they always are looking out for eachother. By the time I graduate college the two accomplishments that I want to have are having a well played job, and still doing what I love. The way I am going to achieve these two are going out to find a job while in college and not give up even if the economy is bad, and being in touch with my friends and still go out and play sports with them. I want to be funny, cool, and interesting throughout my life. I want to be able to work somehow with sports. Either if it is working at a ski shop or being a team manager for a pro team. I would like to be able to still play the sport I play today and still have the amazing friends that I have to this day. I want to be the best I can when i’m older while still being awesome.

Home Poem

HOME


I really want to go home.
So I can feel like a gnome.
No one will talk to me as I go roam,
In my small dome,
While reading a tome.
Then as I lay on some foam,
I Pretend to be in a mellow brome.

Best Friend Poem

Best Friend

When I saw you from a far
Staring right into my eyes,
I knew that we were meant to be.
As my two thumbs press down on you,
You fix the words I misspell.
Whenever I reach for you,
You don’t run away.
If I need anything,
you will always provide me with it.
You give me everything I need,
in just the palms of my hands.

Poem Reflection

1. Why did you write poems you wrote?  The reason I wrote my poems is because I like to write about what i am passionate about and what my hobbies are. When writing my poems, it was easy because I really like to find what I love and express it into my poems.

2. Where did you get your ideas for your poems? The ideas for my poems are from the things around me that I noticed. I put those ideas into my poems. When I helped Jay revise his poems I took some of the advice that I gave him and used them in poem. When I took the time to read other poet's poetry in the books it gave me inspiration to write a poems as good as theirs.

3. How'd you make your poems good? After editing my poems I would find better words and that would make the poem flow better. I would also take my poems up to Miss. Pyeatt and we would go over the poem. Putting down on paper what ever would come to my mind and take the similar ones and try to make a out line for a poem.

4. How did you learn about poetry? Learning poetry is a process that I started in 6th grade. I really learned about different types of poetry and the different literary words for poetry. Each year we always had a time that we focused on poetry through out my middle school years. Im still a novice but I'm getting better.

Game Time Poem

Gathering my clothes
As we get off the bus.
Our team walks slowly
Toward the locker room,
Trying to keep our cool.


Walking toward the benches
A whisper of the wind
Rolled across the field,
Drawing both teams
To their positions.
After the slight sound,
Of the ball moving
everyone knew,

It was game time.

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia is a guitar player, singer, and song writer. he was best known because he was a founding member of the Grateful Dead, the rock band for which he served as de facto leader for 30 years, 1965-1995. Concurrently for much of that time, he also led his own Jerry Garcia Band (JGB), and he performed and recorded in a variety of configurations and a variety of styles, particularly styles of folk and country music, sometimes switching to banjo or pedal steel guitar for the purpose. But the Grateful Dead remained his primary musical outlet, and he performed thousands of concerts with them and appeared on dozens of their albums (many of them live recordings), 28 of which reached the Billboard chart during his lifetime, including the million-sellers Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Europe '72, Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been: The Best of the Grateful Dead, and In the Dark, and another eight that went gold. Jerry Garcia was viewed as an icon and spokesman for the hippie movement of the 1960s, the counterculture fueled by psychedelic drugs and rock & roll that the Grateful Dead embodied for their fervent fans, the Deadheads, as well as to the public at large.

Airplane Project

Shakespeare Script

Script


Scene 1
Death of King Louis XVI

*King Louis tries to escape*
King Louis: I am innocent! I was throned in a time of bankruptcy and despair. It’s not my fault!
Announcer: Today, the 21st of January. In the Place de la Révolution, In Paris King Louis XVI will be executed because of treason against the country of France. Driving us to poverty and raising the prices of our food and marrying a foreigner. Any last words?
King: 'I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.'
Announcer: You will be executed by the guillotine which was created by Joseph Guillotine in 1789. Trying to escape again is useless.
*execution*


Scene 2
Announcer: Today, the 16th of October. In the Place de la Revolution, in Paris. Marie Antoinette will be executed because of treason, being married to King Louis XVI and starving the people.
*marie stepped on executors foot*
Marie: Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose.
announcer: you will now get your hair cut off so it will not jam the guillotine
*marie gets her hair cut off*
*is executed*

Scene 3
Death of Robespierre
*is drug into the room*
Robespierre: My jaw!! My jaw is broken! Let me go!
Executioner: You have come here for a trial for your actions.
announcer: today, the 28th of july. In the place de la Revolution, in Paris. Robespierre will be executed because the reign of terror became so pervasive and arbitrary that not one can trust or feel safe around him. they would feel more relieved if they could avoid execution. The leaders have decided to send you to the guillotine.
*removes bandage from broken jaw*
Robespierre: *yells in pain*
Announcer: Any last words?
Robespierre: Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood!
*executed*
Announcer: His death marks the end of the Reign of Terror! This leader was the most bloodthirsty and now he is gone.