Promises

What do I think it would be like to be Jewish living in Israel? I don’t think they are facing any issues. They disagree about Israel with the Palestinians because they think that the Palestinians were kicked out of Israel. They also hate the Palestinians. What do I think it would be like to be Palestinian living in Israel? I would feel like a second class citizen because all the Palestinians in Israel are living in refugee camps. The Palestinians think the Jewish took over there land but no one really knows because each side of the story sound different. What do you think these kids think about the most? I would say they would think how much they hate each other because they learned it all from what they hear their parents say about each other. What their childhood is like compared to yours? Their way of life is way different compared to mine just by how they live compared to how I live. How we live we rely more on modern technology than they do. Before this movie I never knew how diverse the Middle East is. I bet if you would put one Palestinian kid and one Jewish kid in a room together not knowing the others background they could be friends. I learned a lot from this movie.

riddles

A rooster lays an egg at the very top of a slanted roof.  Which side is the egg going to roll off on?
 Neither, roosters don't lay eggs.




In a small cabin in the woods, two men lay dead.   The cabin itself is not burned, but the forest all around is burned to cinders.  How did the men die?
It's the cabin of a plane and the plane crashed.




Tom's mother has three children.  One is named April, one is named May.  What is the third one named?
Tom




You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain.  You must cross a river with only one of them at a time.  If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it.  How can you get all across safely?
Take the chicken over first. Go back and bring the grain next, but instead of leaving the chicken with the grain, come back with the chicken. Leave the chicken on the first side and take the fox with you. Leave it on the other side with the grain. Finally, go back over and get the chicken and bring it over.




Beulah died in the Appalachian mountains while Craig died at sea.  Everyone was much happier with Craig's death.  Why?
Beulah and Craig were hurricanes.

what i have finished and what i need to finish

Started my book. I have finished my proposal. I need a little more time like a few minutes to finish my calendar but that wont take long. I am going to start my data collection today. I don't have any questions.

To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street

            On Thursday night I lay in my comfortable bed to fall asleep after a long hard week of school. Right as I hit the pillow I fall right asleep but something is different but I can’t put my nose on it but something was defiantly different.

When I wake up I am somewhere in Afghanistan just a mile out of the city of Kabul. When I turn over I had a .50 caliber rifle next to me. So I look through the scope and I see a suicide bomber running towards the National Museum. I took three deep breaths and took my kill shot and the shot was a success. I just left the rifle where I found it and went to take a tour of the museum. The museum had lots of famous paintings and some painting have never seen but that was likely because I’m not into art. 

When I was finished at the museum I was very tired so I went right back where I woke up, the gun was still there, I fell right asleep when my head hit the sand. When I woke up I was in Beijing, China in the Forbidden City. There was a group of people standing around me talking I Japanese so I didn’t know what they were saying so I was very confused?????????????????????

I just walked away still confused. I started walking around learning about their culture. After I learned a lot about their culture that I never knew I went to find a comfortable place to lie down on a couch. I fell right asleep when my head hit couch. I woke up on The Great Wall of China with plenty of supplies.

So I started walking not knowing when I will stop and take a rest. When I took a rest I took a quick nap and yet again I woke up I was in Italy. So I go to the best Italian restaurant and I had the best Italian food have ever had. Then I went and found a comfortable place to take a nap after a great meal yet again I fell asleep right when my head hit and I woke up on a beach in Australia.

So I got up and talked to some locals to ask them about their culture and what they like to do for fun. Some of the locals in asked if I wanted to have a real Australian lunch with them there was no way I could turn that down. We had to build a fire on the beach for the food. While one person was tending the fire the rest of us were playing rugby and it was fun. After we finished rugby we ate and it was so good better than the Italian food. Then we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways. When they left I lied down on the beach and watched the sunset then I yet again fell asleep and woke up in a coco farm in Africa and I was very disappointed at how they make children their slaves to work for them. So I didn’t even bother getting up because I fell right back to sleep the get out of this horrible place.

When I woke up I was right back I my bed very confused. So I went down stair and ate some breakfast and my mom had the news on and the news said suicide bomber shot and kill before blowing up the National Museum in Afghanistan. I thought to myself did that really happen.

Student Led conferences

On my student led conferences I have my quot done, my strengths and weaknesses, and what job I want to do. Some concerns that I have are that I wouldn't wanted to do this because my mom checks my grade like every day and she already knows my strengths and weaknesses and she knows what I want to do with my life. What I have to accomplish is the projects I have done and some good and bad work and some more things if I can find what else I have to do

Eric ANG

Eric ANG easy name to remember. My name is Eric ANG and I was born and I grew up in the Philippines in the small city of Palayan with a population of 33,506 people. Palayan is the smallest city in the Philippines.

My parents owned a gun range and I had no siblings to take care of so I spent most of my life shooting. I could shoot before I could even walk. I didn't have many friends growing up so I spent most of my childhood shooting. My father was always very proud of my shooting skills and he always gave me tips that were always very helpful. 


At the age of 10 I started shooting competitively I was the best in my league. The actually made me shoot against the 15 year old age group that was a little tougher but the first competition I came in first and I was very proud of myself and so was my father.

As I became older the better I got at shooting, the better I got at shooting the more money I won, the more money I won the more guns and more ammo I have 


Every day I went out to the shooting at the range to perfect my skills at shooting. Even if it was pouring out I still went to the range. That's how I perfect my by shooting in different weather conditions so the I can be accurate in any shooting situation I'm in.

I spend my whole life doing what I love and I will die happy doing it.

The Olympics

     What do the Olympics represent? The Olympics represent a series of sporting events to show which country is better at that sport. 


      What do the Olympics mean to you? To me the Olympics mean many different things to show which country is better different sport such as  volleyball, tennis, track, and many many more. To show how they play the sport and how competitive they are.

     If you could participate in any Olympic event, which event would you do? If I could participate in the Olympics I would want to participate in the TRAP shooting  AND 50M RIFLE PRONE shooting. I LOVE TO SHOOT TRAP AND I LOVE TO ALL AROUND SHOOT THOSE WOULD BE THE EVENTS I WOULD CHOOSE MOST THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO. IT STILL WOULD BE AWESOME JUST TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS IN PERSON THAN WATCH IT ON THE TV.  

     So i think the olympics we are having will be fun as long as no one does boring events.

Chinese Movie

If you were Xiaochun, how would you have handled the situation?

I would have done the same thing to buy that jacket for the nice woman. His old teacher told him if you don't like playing you  don't have to play. Do things that you enjoy not what others want you to do.

Did he make the right decision?

I think he made the right decision by selling his violin. He kept playing because his dad wanted to succeed in life but he doesn't want to play any more but he borrows one of his teachers violins just to make his dad feel good. 

If you were him, what choice would you make? 

If I was him I wouldn't have kept playing violin I would have told my dad I don't want to play violin any more. If I screw up in life I would fix my problems on my own.

What are the pros and cons of this decision.

  Pros

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• How others live
• culture
• music

Cons

• Not in English
• hard to follow
• a lot of reading

Other than that it was on OK movie. It was funny how his first teacher had all of those cats.

BLOG OF THE WEEK

This week in English we finished act one in Romeo & Juliet. The Romeo character is such a downer, he never wants to have fun, his cousin make fun of him and I think he deserves it. Romeo in a downer because the girl he loves is becoming a Nun and he mopes around all day. If I was him I would Be angry for a little bit but I would get over it which it seems he can't do that so he needs to grow up and get over it. 


In Science we learned about Newton Laws about gravity. His fist law is the easiest it is objects in motion stay in motion unless an equal or greater force is applied. The are easy because we learned about the laws last year in science. Some test we did in science last year to test the laws were, we launched homemade model rockets to test the fist law.


In Social Studies we started to learn about the Middle East. We started to learn about culture from around the world. We go assigned to make a poster about a Middle Eastern country and got Jordan. For the poster it made me think a lot about culture in other country's and how different I would feel if I was there. Learning about different cultures was a lot of fun and I hope we get to do more of that kind of stuff. 


On Friday we got to try different food from other cultures and it was tasty. My Favorite food that I had was called Baklava and it was like eating happiness. The Baklava was a hundred times better than the cupcake. I hope Mr. Reichle will make more food from other cultures. Trying the different foods from different cultures was a new and fun experience for me. I would have to say this was the best week of the semester.  

BLOG

The Academy is way better than any other class. Here are many reasons why we should have the Academy next year for Sophomores is. The Academy is great and it is way more fun than being talked to by a teacher all class and having to get a lot of homework that you don't have time to do in class. In this class we almost never bring home homework because we get alot of time to finish it in class. This class incorporates three subjects into one project, paper, and many more different things.

I like  the way we learn in the class other than other classes where teachers don't help much like the Academy teachers do. I like that they don't do the same things as regular classes do which they make it more fun to learn. It is great that we get to pick how we get to present our projects on what we like to do. We just finished our exam projects that had to incorporate stuff we learned in Science. Social Studies, and English. All of the projects that I saw were great someone did there's on guitars, someone did there's on a video game called Fallout 3, and many more that were great.

Just last week we sent letter to different company to see if they will donate needed items for our class. Here are some examples for me I sent a letter to Best Buy to see if they will donate speakers for our classroom because the ones we have really suck and I got a star for that idea. Someone sent a letter to a curtain company to see if they will donate curtains because I always feel weird when other people look into our class.

  I hope these blogs about the Academy will convince people to have it for next year for Sophomores.