The End Is Near!!!

I think that in grade 6, I have many pieces of work that I am rather proud of and I learnt a lot by doing them. Some of my pieces of wark that I am proud of is definitely some of the assignments we have done in the Ancient Egypt unit. In that unit I am proud of my 3 diary entries. I learnt a lot about the daily life of a priestess, like some of them go into a peasants home to bless the peasants. I am also proud of the recent tic tac toe we have completed. In my group we chose the religion rap, the comic and the trail web page. I really enjoyed the religion rap the most. We did it on the main religion of ancient Rome, and that was Christianity. We ( Melina, Sunny and myself ) kind of tried to make some of the words rhyme. But that part didn't go too well. But what we did manage to do was all the lyrics we wrote fitted with the lyrics of the original song. Well most of them anyway.

My greatest challenge was probably lot. circles and time management. I found lit circles challenging because you have to get high level questions and then they have to actually make sense because you the need the examples and evidence to prove some of your statements. Like for the white mountains book, I had a question which was "Are tripods able to mate?" so I told mrs. Narsiman my question she told me it wasnt bad but how could I get examples and evidence to support my statements. I also found time management hard because I am not very organised though I am more organised than I was at the beginning of the year.

I learnt that if I push myself hard enough I can do it. When I push myself I am able to concentrate and focus on what I am doing, putting a lot of effort into it, I an do a good job and sometimes receive a very very good grade. I also learnt that I really need to work on my time management. I sometimes need to work on how I organize my assignments.

a) Behavior

Could be improved
Satisfactory
Perfect - the model student

Explanation: I think that my behavior isn't bad. It isn't super perfect. I thin that my behavior could probably improve more i if organized myself better.

b) Participation

None
Satisfactory
Actively participate in class

Explanation: I think I do usually participate in class. I listen to my teacher so I will know what I am doing.

c) Organization

Needs serious help
Satisfactory
I'm super organized

I think that I could improve on my organization. I need to organize mt work in parts and not stress about it all in one day wether its a last minute thing or not.

d) Effort

Needs serious help
Satisfactory
I always go above and beyond what is required.

I think that I do put effort in to my work, but not all the time. I have to be able to focus on my work. I usually put a lot of my effort in to assignments I really enjoy.

Goal 1, In grade 7 one of goals is to work on my time management. I think that i really need to work on that, because it effects almost everything like behavior, effort...

Goal 2, In grade 7 my second goal is to put in more effort in to my work. I know that if I put more effort in to my work it will definitely improve my grades and I will learn better.

Some information that I like my grade 7 teachers to know is that I work rather well in Collaborative Assignments. My profile is L which means I am right brained, hand, leg, ear and eye. I also work better with people that I am familiar with. I don't mind working with new people though. The teachers tell the Gestalts and the Logics to work together sometimes, but I think that I work well with both.

Some of the advice I would give them is to not leave things to the last minute.

Letter

Dear mother and father, you must worried sick about Henry and I. I truly apologize for leaving just like that.I would like you to know that we are doing fine and I hope that you two are feeling fine. These are some reasons to why I left. First of all, I really did not enjoy having Henry as a roommate. I did not like him very much. I also did not want to be capped. I left when I had eventually packed my clothes and all the other stuff that was needed for my journey. Then I caught Henry following me, behind my back. Henry also did not enjoy the thought about being capped. I did not like him, still, I accepted him because he is after all family. The White mountains is a place where Ozymandias told me to go if I wanted to be free. Ozymandias is a free man. I met Ozymandias at first and immediately assumed he was a mad man. But as it turned out he was a man recruiting people to be free of the tripods. During my journey I learned more about the old world and society. The old world was more advanced than we are at the moment.my journey was very frightening at times. Many people supported me on my journey. But the reason that I made it to the White Mountains is my courage and bravery. I believe that I have become a lot more confident and I know how to fight for something. And that something is freedom. Freedom is very much needed in our lives. Freedom is a very powerful thing without freedom you would probably end up like Eloise. Eloise was a girl that I has met along my journey in the castle of the red tower. I actually secretly fancy her. I felt pity for her. She had been capped and now probably serving the tripods. Then I saw the tripods up close. It was a terrifying event. They were fast and they were strong. Then Henry, Beanpole ( a guy we met on our journey and is withus at the moment ) and I threw the metal eggs at the Tripods. The tripods then picked me up and I was so scared. Fortunayely the tripods had become weaker due to the metal eggs that we trew. I was freed until I noticed the beams of light. I did not want to get caught by the tripods yet again so I ran and ran and decided to hide behind a rock. After ever so many days had passed the Tripods gave up and was not able to be seen.wHy the time they left I was still exhausted and hungry. I still made it all the way to the Ehite mountain and I felt rather proud and victorious when I reached my destination. Now I have learnt that in order to defeat the tripods we are going to have to all work together and discover what the ancients had once done an we shall be able to do them ourselves and we shall finally defeat and overpower the tripods. We are the more supreme beings and we will win the battle when the time comes. But for now I miss you guys ever so much and I truly hope to see you soon. Bye for now and I love you. Love Will.

How is freedom related to the quote in pg111???

"The bitter thing was all the spirit, all the gallantry, was wasted. For even more than inferiors, they accepted and looked forward to being Capped. It was a part of becoming a knight, or of turning from a girl to lady. Thinking of this, I saw how good things could be meaningless in isolation. What value did courage have, without a free and challenging mind to direct it?" (p. 111)

My first answer for this is, is that there are many words in this quote that relate to freedom. A word like free, means that you want to be free, like if you are a slave, you want to be free, away from your master. You want to live your life. And in this case Will would like to be free of being capped. Another word is value. We have been learning about values in Health class. Good values will lead you in to a brighter future. Bad values, well, they will lead you in to a not too good future. Having a value is like for example you are writing your passages in your lit. circle. Some of us will say "Look at my lit. circle it is so long." And maybe "Look at my lit. circle it is so short." This relates to one of my values "Trying your best" (although I don't always do). Having a lit. circle that is really long but has no quality and is basically talking nonsense is truly terrible. But if yo have a shorter lit. circle but has good quality then you would probably get a decent grade. Like some people say it is the quality not the quantity. Another word, and this is a strong one, is courage. Having courage is definitely related to freedom. Courage will help you speak up for yourselves. Like if you are with a bad group of friends, you will need courage to stack up for yourself and not let them pick on you, and you will be free. Those are some of the words that I think relates to freedom.

Another answer to why the quote relates to freedom is that it shoes how much freedom means to Will. I think that Will is still pretty confused about the capping and the tripods'. He still asks himself if being capped is a good thing or a bad thing. I personally think that it is a bad thing. It shows that they sort of have no mind of their own and basically the tripods' are their masters and all they care about is worshipping them or serving them. If I was Will, I would too think about how good things could be meaningless in isolation. I think that if everyone was like Will, Henry and Beanpole, Will wouldn't be alone.

These are some of the reasons to why the quote relates to freedom.

The castle of the red tower.

How were the tripods able to control people?

The tripods need to control people because they wouldn't want the people going against them and asking for freedom. The only way people would find out about the previous society and how great the ancients were is if they were like Will, Henry and Beanpole. If the people went traveling when they weren't capped and they were going to the white mountains, they would probably find more than just grenades. If the people find more things they could probably take over the tripods. Like Will, Henry and Beanpole could probably use the grenade an blow up a tripod if they were in danger (Which they did).

2. Find evidence (quotations from the novel) to show that even though Will is comfortable living at the castle, he is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise have been capped.

Will is certainly comfortable living at the castle, mostly because Eloise is there. I think that he likes Eloise. He is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise have been capped. Pg 122
"And the better I knew them, the harder it was to make a sweeping condemnation. They were Capped, they accepted the Tripods and all the stood for, but that did not prevent them from being, as I had seen in the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise and now in others, warmhearted, generous and brave. And happy."

Will is probably frustrated because although they have been capped they are still really nice and that must confuse him very much. It confuses me too.

3. Find evidence (quotes) to show how Will feels about being capped.

In the beginning of the book Will asked Jack about being capped. He says "Why what?" "Why should the Tripods take people away, and Cap them? What right have they?" (pg18). Personally I agree with Will. Since that quote was in the beginning of the book I didn't know very much then. Now I realize why the tripods do it. They do it because they want to control society. I learnt that it is easier to control a society that doesn't have much knowledge than a society that is smart and wants freedom.

How will Beanpole help Will and Henry on their journey to the White Mountains?

One of the reasons how Beanpole will help them on their journey is that Beanpole is older and he knows the place better than they do, because he lives there and Will and Henry don't. Beanpole would probably now which way is faster and safer to travel by. As it said in the book on page 69 "Someone whom we already knew to be resourceful, who knew the country and the language. It was almost too good to be true"

Another reason to why I think Beanpole will help them on their journey is because,

I think that Beanpole is going to be quite useful to Will and Henry. Because he can probably speak the men who did speak their language's language. And with Beanpole going with them they can carry more food and their shelter could also be stronger because more people are helping out.

My last reason to why I think Beanpole will help them is because he could help support Will, because of Will's ankle when Will fell down, for Henry called a false alarm on something or someone following them, but it turned out to be some sheep.

And those are my reasons to how Beanpole will help Will and Henry on their journey to the White Mountains.

Why is Will like me???

In Humanities class, I am reading this book called White Mountains. This book is about theses tripods that are about 6 feet tall and have 3 legs. There is this boy called Will and he is about twelve, he is the same age as me. His freedom was going to end soon, just as his cousins Jack had, but if he runs away to the White Mountains then there is a chance for him that he will have some freedom and become a free man. That is what the story basically about.


How is Will just like you?
Well, Will is like me in certain ways. He and I are the same age as I told you before in the paragraph above. He also like me because he is really curious about stuff. I am too, I really enjoy learning about something especially if it really appeals to me. Sometimes I am always asking questions, and my dad gets irritated (sometimes) and just tells me to figure it out by myself. Another reason to why I am curious like him is because he was a little curious about that man Ozymandias. If I met a guy like him in that period of time, I would have been freaked out at first, but then get really curious and want to go back to the Vagrant house and ask Ozymandias many questions.

Another reason to why Will is like me is because we both have cousins that we did not trust and now trust. One of my cousins Darrell, was really naughty. We were always fighting. We did sometimes play together but then we would always wind up bullying each other. One day while we were at a party. It was a caroling party, and it was on the 20th of December. My cousin Darrell and I were playing ( a little roughly ). And then he pushed me and he accidentally fell on my finger while it was straight. I did not cry at first. But when we went to the next house to Christmas carol my finger started hurting a lot. I cried and my auntie gave me some ice to put my finger in. My parents were not there. But when the caroling was over, my auntie took me home and I cried in my parents arms. The next day my parents took me to see a doctor. The doctor examined my finger and told the nurse to X-ray it. When the nurse X-rayed my finger they found out that it was fractured. I had to see a doctor for 6 to 9 months regarding my little finger on my right hand. And since I was right handed it meant that I my writing was really messy. Now me and my cousin Darrell are quite close and we don't bully each other any more because we called a truce after the finger incident. So I am like Will in a sense that we both had a cousin that we did not trust and now trust.

And this are the reasons to why I think Will is like me.

This is my project on Senusret the 1st. I worked with Mike on this project. Art, Craftsmanship, Trade and architecture flourished during his reign. I think that this video is pretty good. It could still use improvement though, but I am still quite satisfied by what we have done.

I think we did well on the information on this project. We got a lot of information on the pharaoh and what monuments he built. The project was really fun.

Through out this whole assignment i learned about a pharaoh. I was a little disappointed by my pharaoh at first but then I learnt more and more about him and it started getting interesting like he was a prolific builder and built many monuments, barricades and cities for the people of Egypt. Art and culture flourished during his reign and he seemed to be a great ruler to me.

The thing that challenged me the most was making the imovie. I had trouble looking at the script and looking at the camera at the same time. My partner also tried to make to make it a little funny but that was a little hard because we also had to look at the script.

I think i had to communicate effectively and collaborate constructively to work and talk to my partner so we could work together well. It really helped us communicate with each other. I think I got to him a little better during this project too. Those are the school wide learning results that were evident in this project.