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Projects
Projects
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
we learned about Frida Kahlo doing annotations and then we did a cool project about her where we made either a drawing or a digital thing of Frida Kahlo and we would next to the digital thing or drawing you would put some of her personalities and quotes that show those personalities.
Annotations
Annotations
So for annotations in ELA we will read short stories and annotate them. We would highlight a area in the short story and we would write next to it I.I W. C. and more. The most memorable short story we did is the mask of the red death the story is way too long for me to write but the story is based on the black plague and is written by Edger Allin Poe.
Quick writes
Quick writes
Every day we do quick rights, so Ms Nancy will give a prompt like from a quote or a question of our life or just a fun story and she will give us three minutes to do it and at the end of the week we will get to choose what prompt we want to continue and we get like 15 minutes to finish it.
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab was something we used to do every week. We would learn about like 10 new words every week and at the end of the week we would have a test about those words. I'll be able to use this in the future because I'll know more words.
Personal Story
Personal Story
We have learned a lot about storytelling. To finish it all off we made our own story. We picked a story from our writing journal, it could have been about ourselves or it could have been about the history of paper, that's what my friend did. Making this story has helped me grow a lot as a writer. From this story I've gotten better at sensory detail and figurative language.
Book Circle Books
Book Circle Books
Our book circle books are something we are doing to learn more about immigrants. We got to choose from three books, and the one I chose was Butterfly. Butterfly is about a young Olympic Gold medalist, Yursra. She had been a swimmer since she was born but when she was like 13 the war started, a few years later the war was still continuing and she and her sister left home. That's where I am in the book. It is really good and has taught me a lot about immigration. It has shown me how blessed we are to live in the United States.
Travel Journals
Travel Journals
We did 3 of these a week, and we made 12 in all, so it lasted about a month. A travel journal is a story we would make based on a picture. All the pictures would be of the Silk Road and we got to make up any story that is more or less historically accurate, like there can't be a dragon or something. We would get 5 minutes to make each one. Then once we finished all of them we picked 3 to make better and add onto.
ELA Openers
ELA Openers
We did these everyday, for months. There would be like comma rules where we would have to figure out where the commas would go and there was also wise words where it would have a quote and we would have to write what it means.
Cornell Notes
Cornell Notes
Cornell notes are like the upgraded version of annotations, we all thought annotations sucked but then we met Cornell notes, we have to do all the normal things for annotations and more, we also have to find important words and when we done we have to summarize the whole article.
Silk Road Essay
Silk Road Essay
We had to write a big essay within a week. We got to choose any topic in our region and I chose to write about the Xiongnu empire. The Xiongnu were very interesting people. They rode on horse back and used bows and arrows, they were very powerful. We had to write an essay in a week with like only 30 minutes a day.
Silk Road Posters
Silk Road Posters
In all we have 3 posters, one Timeline, one map, and one concept map. The timeline had many different timelines, one for each empire. The map had our area and the trade routes in the Silk road, and the concept map has many different ideas like religion, agriculture, trade, wars, and inventions. Then those ideas had sub ideas, like for inventions, there was paper, bows and arrows and more for every idea.
Humanities
Humanities
Language project thing
Language project thing
also one time we everybody got to choose from 4 languages/writing and I chose Chinese so I learned about their language and how their words come together like the word good is a mother and a daughter and how their language came to be and how it has evolved after we did all that and recorded some notes we did a fishbowl discussion where we would all get together and talk about what we learned.
Paper/First form of writing
Paper/First form of writing
With learning about storytelling we also had to learn about paper and the first form of writing. The first form of writing was cuneiform. Cuneiform was not your average writing. It was used to keep track of food, so how it would work is that people would bring food into a really big room to store and the people working there would keep track of it on a small clay tablet by drawing a small picture of it like a fish or grain and more. Below that picture they would put tallies to keep track. The first form of paper is parchment. It was made of sheep hide and it was very expensive so only the very rich people could afford it. But it didn't really matter that much that most people couldn't get it because most people couldn't read or write.
Geography
Geography
Learning about geography was like how it was with vocab. We learned about one continent per week. Such as we would learn the countries and the rivers, mountains ex. Then we would have a test at the end of the week. Now I'll be able to locate places on a map.
Migration
Migration
We learned how people first came to the Americas and to certain areas. Such as how they took boats to Europe or something. I don't remember much about this project.
Interview
Interview
On the topic of migration we learned about our own migration story. We interviewed one of our relitives to see about our own migration story. It was cool to learn about. Next to continue this project we made a choice board project. We got to choose between making a comic, a poster, a video and more, to show our migration story.
Evolution of storytelling
Evolution of storytelling
We learned how storytelling has evolved over time such as how it began with stuff like cave art and grew all the way to TV and movies. Each group was assigned one era of storytelling and my group got TV. TV was very cool to learn about, we learned who created it how it worked and how it was part of storytelling. There were like 5 people that created the TV but the main person was Philo Farnsworth he made the electronic TV. Also we made a really cool and educational video in digital media.
Exhibition habits of heart and mind
Exhibition habits of heart and mind
I think during this project I grew most in respect because of how political everything was. I felt like it was very one sided and people were just blurting out their opinions in my face and it was really hard not to attack when they are attacking, so I feel like I like grew in respect because everyone was really hard to work with because of that stuff I said and that I almost couldn't say anything without offending them.
Societies
Societies
In the beginning of time there were no societies because people were always moving and all did the same thing all just found food. But as more food came and people found a perminite food source, people were allowed to have their own personal jobs and more people came because people survived longer. Then people can farm and build houses. We learned that to have a society you need a big population, agriculture and personalized jobs.
Laws
Laws
Hammurabi was the first king of Babylon. Hammurabi was known for his laws and style of ruling. Hammurabi's laws are called the Code of Hammurabi, which includes everything from family relationships to contracts to inheritance to crimes and punishments. For example, violent crimes often had penalties that equaled the crime, if you cut someone's hand off, for instance, you would have yours cut off, too. There were also more laws for different places like in Rome there are the Twelve Tablets, and in England there is the Magna Carta.
Government
Government
Democracy: Citizens exercise power by voting.
Republic: Power is held by the people who elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.
Dictatorship: A single person whelds absolute power and control by force.
Fascism: A single person rules and perpetuates extreme nationalism.
Monarchy: King or queen serves as head of state with absolute power.
Theocracy: Religious leader(s) rule in the name of god(s), with no separation between church and state.
Oligarchy: A small group of people exercise control and make all decisions.
Constitutional Monarchy: King or queen serves as head of state with power limited by the nation’s constitution.
Xiongnu Empire
Xiongnu Empire
The Xiongnu were nomads which meant that they survived off the land, and did not do anything with agriculture like houses and farming. They used bows and arrows and were a very good shot with them using their bows and arrows to conquer tons of Chinese Dynasties. They also rode on horseback, people said that they built their empire on the back of their horses because they were always on their horses, they used horses in battle because it made them a lot faster and helped them dodge the shot of Chinese warriors. All the information of the Xiongnu's did not come from them, it came from their enemies like the Han dynasty because the Xiongnu never created a writing system.
Silk Road Exhibition
Silk Road Exhibition
This has been the hardest but funnest exhibition I have ever done. First we started looking at the different areas and regions on maps, the places do not exist anymore but were a lot bigger than most of the countries. We looked at these places and found out what they traded. A lot of the things they traded was food, livestock, spices, gems, materials, and silk. After learning about what the silk road was we got into our groups and got to work. The Silk Roads were a series of trade networks that allowed people to get what they did not have in their area. Me and my group got Central Asia as our area, we worked well together I think, we divided and conquered. We learned a lot about the area and the people there through Cornell notes. All of the people that we learned about were very strong and trended to have beef with a lot of people, the people we learned about were the Scythians, The Xiongnu, and The Mongols, they all rode on horseback and were very skilled with bows and arrows. Posters, we had three different posters for this project, we had a concept map, a map, and a timeline. I did not play much of a role in making the map of our area but I did help a lot in the concept map and the timeline. For the concept map I found a lot of information about the inventions they had. For the timeline I found a lot of the dates and did all the drawings for them and that did not end so well. Now for travel journals, based on an image Miss Nancy gave us we would write a story that connected to the Silk Road or to the area, we made 3 a week and had 5 minutes to do each, in all we ended up making 12 travel journals. For the exhibition we picked 3 of our travel journals, refined them and made them longer. Our essay, this was the hardest part of the exhibition but the thing I'm most proud of. We had like a week to write a full on essay on something in our region, some people did like laws or famous people but I did the Xiongnu empire. They were very cool to learn about, they had a very interesting lifestyle and were very powerful and did not follow the rules. The last thing we did was our choice board project where we made a cool little project that related to our region. For me I created a bow and arrow because it was very important within the people of my region. Then it was time for the exhibition. Overall I thought we did pretty well but I do wish that we could have had more time on some stuff like the posters and the travel journals.
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