Summer School Reflections

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1. (My grandfather died when I was 2 years old, and it is very hard for me to remember his image. I could only see him through pictures my grandmother would show me. I would see his life throughout my imagination with the stories my grandmother would tell me. Every time my mom left me with my granny to be babysat, she would sit down and tell me history about my grandfather. She would tell me that he is very well known in Tijuana, even now after his death. He dedicated himself to helping others. She said that he owned a very large piece of land in Tijuana that is now known as La Colonia Castillo. He gave the land to people that were trying to get back on their feet instead of selling it to become a wealthy man. He had a very important vision, he wanted to be remembered for many years to come, he didn't want to die and his memory to die off along with him, he wanted to be remembered for the good deeds he did through his life and leave his mark in history. I’ve always felt the same way, I also want to leave my mark in history, and so ever since I’ve know about my grandfather, I have wanted to live the legacy he set down for me)
This is Cesar's very first paragraph. What is good about this paragraph is that it explains some details about his grandpa. It is also good because in the beginning it has something very shocking that you would not expect.

(In Boondock Saints, Joe Yakavetta, a big mob boss is on trial for the death of countless numbers of people, possession and distribution of many drugs, and other criminal activities. There is not enough evidence for him to be convicted under the court of law, so he is going to walk. The Boondock Saints come in, mid trial, and publicly execute him. One life may not be worth another, but how about one life being worth 6 or 7 people? I think that person is deserving of death. I strongly support the Boondock Saints and any other vigilante doing some good out there, and I myself might possibly become one)

This the end of Eric's paper and this is a good piece of writing because in the end he uses the loop to head back to the beginning and which that makes it a good piece. The end of this paragraph made me really think. Why because well it says that he may be one in the future.

2. Explain what aspect of yours is the most outstanding. why does this aspect stand out to you?

What is more oustanding to me is that in my paper I tryed to talk more about my dad and how he could not be able to play with Los Caneros de Zacatepec. This aspect stands out to me because in the past I have never written something like this in the past.

3. If you had one more draft or one more day to work, what would you do? Why?

If I had one more draft than I would put some more details and how I can achieve this goal. This will help me because it will allow people to read how becoming a soccer player can be really hard.



4. State the importance of the Icons project in one sentence!

You will produce a highly polished piece of reflective writing in which you describe your place in a continuum of World Icons.

BOOK REVIEW

1. Read at least two other students' Icons projects. Then, cite and explain one specific example of extremely high quality work. Link to this, copy and paste the text, show the image... whatever is necessary to show this great work. Then, explain what makes it so great.


(Throughout the history of America we have had many war heroes dating back to the pilgrims time. But what if American “war heroes” weren’t really heroes at all? What if everything we have been told is a lie? Pat Tillman is an example of a leaked “war hero” that had an elaborate twisted story around an accidental death. Where Men Win Glory is the story of this one man Pat Tillman and the controversy surrounding the war he was killed in. It touches on why he chose the army over professional football, how he was killed, and pre 9-11 build up. It also touches on a lot of controversy surrounding how the government reports deaths from friendly fire)
This sounds like a good piece of work because it talks about back then. It talk about war heroes from back then not being war heroes and how this can all be just be a lie. What makes it so good is that in the paragraph has some questions. The questions are really good and that makes the paragraph a well essay.


2. Explain what aspect of yours is the most outstanding. why does this aspect stand out to you?

In my book review I put the paragraph separately and that made the book review more better. I also put the paragraph in their sections. I explained how the bok was really good and how.

3. If you had one more draft or one more day to work, what would you do? Why?

If I had another draft than I would let some teacher check my book review draft and then the techer would tell what else I can do and what is wrong with it.
4. State the importance of the book review in one sentence!
 
The importance of this book review is that we had to read a book and than write a book review about the book in a website called goodreads. 
 
In General...


1. What did you discover about your writing during summer school?
What I discovered throughout my writing is that I had tried to give a lot of details threw it, but then again I also tried to get focused on it.
2. What goals do you have for your writing in the future?
My new goals for the future is that I will now put more hard work on my piece of writing and I will put all the parts that are needed.

Wrting Tips

1. Make Meaning Early: Make sentences start with a subject than a verb.
Ex: Marcos shot cesar in the leg.

2. Activate Your Verbs: Reveals the action of the verb.
Ex: Cesar jumped the fence to pass theball to Jared.

3. Take It Easy On Those -ing's:
Good Def: Prefers the simple present or past tense.
Bad Def: Changes the sound, May sound repetitive, Makes the words longer.
Ex: During Anna's Vacation in San Diego, last weekend, she ran swam, and went to rollerskate.

4. Watch Those Adverbs: Use to change the meaning of a verb.
Ex: Cesar crashed drunkenly into his couch.

5. The Loop!: Creates an expirience for someone else.
Example of good loop.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/books/review/Verghese-t.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=books

6. Concerts, Not Pancakes!:
Concerts Def: May Startout  good, but may end up better.
Pancakes Def: May strat good, but will end up really boring.

Ex: We are what we search for.
The word for is added to the end of the sentence.

Ex: We are what we search.
The word for is not in the sentence and it makes the sentence much better.

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Jared Morales

8/12/10

A Father's Dream

It was July 27, 2004. A sunny day in Crosby Park and my dad Alejandro yelled "shoot son shoot!" from the goalie area, where he was watching intently. He once told me that he wants me to fulfill his dreams of becoming a professional soccer player. He wants me to play because he didn't have the chance to become a professional soccer player. He planned to play for a team in Mexico that was called Los Caneros De Zacatepec, but he didn't have the money to travel to Zacatepec were he was going play. Zacatepec was a futbol power house back in 1978-1981. In 1983 the manager, Ignacio Trelles, offered my father the chance to pick his own jersey number, and my dad decided on the number 19. The manager told him that he needed money to travel to Zacatepec. I still could not believe how well my dad played when he was 19. My dad asked me if I could fulfill his dreams. I jumped and said "of course I will anything for you!",and from that day on it is my dream to become a professional soccer player for my dad.

"Soccer!" I began playing soccer in 2003 with my friend Ignacio, but I was not good enough. So instead, my father started to train me to play the same position that he played, defense, because he said that it one of the most important positions on the field. I listened to my dad and started playing as a defender even though I wanted to play as a forward so that I could score some goals just like my cousin Rey Rebolledo. I thought that being a defender was easy, the only thing they had to do is to kick the ball out of the goalie area, but it wasn‘t that simple to just kick the ball out of there. Being a defender is hard because the defender had to stick with the player and try to take the ball away from him. After a few days of training, I still wondered why my dad was teaching me to be a defender.

It was a cloudy but bright Wednesday and I woke up with a question in my mind. I went to my parent’s room where my dad was watching television. I sat down and I asked him “why do I have to play as a defender instead of a forward?” My dad explained to me why he wants to me play as the last man on the team. Over that half-hour, he told me that he wants me to play the same position as him because he wants me to fulfill his dreams of becoming a great professional soccer player. My dad felt sad because he wanted to have played so we could have a good life. I told him that we did have a good life and that without him, we wouldn’t be happy that I wouldn’t be happy and without your training and all his hard effort. He said that I must fulfill his dreams because he didn't have the chance to be one and that is why he wants me to play in that position.

I asked him why he didn't have the chance to play in the Mexican league. He told me that he could not play because he did not have the money to travel to Zacatepec to play with the team called Los Caneros de Zacatepec. My dad said that in the past it was harder to get money then today. He had to work two jobs to get 200 pesos only. The manager offered him any place on the team, and have his own choice of jersey, but he needed about 12,000 pesos to travel to Zacatepec and to get his uniform, he had to get the money by the next week Monday. My dad told me that without money or education then you cannot achieve in your goal. I started thinking about what my dad told me about education and money to travel. For me, my dad is a hero because he taught me everything that he knows and he wants me to be better than him. When I get older I will pass my skills to the next generation and make them a better defender than my dad and me. Maybe they will play in Chelsea F.C., Barcelona F.C., maybe AC Milan and possibly take Mexico to the Word Cup Finals.

It was a nice Saturday. It was about to be 9:37am I woke up to go and play soccer with my team called Union Guerrero. By 10:05am, I was ready to go and my dad took me to the 45th park. The game had just begun. As I went in a teammate passed me the ball and, just then, I heard “shoot son, shoot!”

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It was 2004, July 27. A sunny day in the park called Crosby and my dad told me to "shoot son shoot". He was behind the goalie area. He once told that he wants me to be fulfill his dreams in becoming a professional soccer player. He wants me to play becuase he didn't have the chance of playing of becoming a professional soccer player. He was gonna play in a team in Mexico that was called Los Caneros De Zacatepec, but he didn't have the money to travel to Zacatepec were he was gonna play there. That team was really good back then. The manager offered him to pick his own jersey number, and he decided on the number 19. I still could not believe how good my dad was back then. It is my dream to become a professional soccer.


"Soccer!" I began playing that sport, but I sucked. So instead my dad Alejandro started training me to play the same position as him. The position that he played was defense. My dad told me to play in the same position as him because he said that it one of the most important positions that you can be in. I listened to my dad and so started playing as a defender even though I wanted to play as a forward so I can score some goals just like my cousin Rey Rebolledo. I thought that being a defender was easy to just play and kick the ball out of the goalie area, but no it wasn't simple to just kick the ball out of the area and give it to your teammate. It was hard because the defender had to stay with the player and try to take the ball away from them. After a few days that have pasted I wanted to figure out why my dad wanted me to play as the most important thing in the list the defender.


It was a cloudy but bright Wednesday and I had just woken up. I went to my parents room and my dad was watching television. My dad didn't go to work because he had the day of. I sat down and I told him that why do I have to play as a defender instead as a forward. My dad explained to me why he wants to me play as the last man in the team. We spent about 30 minutes about this discussion of me playing as a defender. He told me that he wants me to play the same position as him because he wants me to fulfill his dreams in becoming a great professional soccer player. I wondered what my dads dream was. I told him what was your dream. He told that I must fulfill his dreams in becoming a professional soccer player because he didn't have the chance to be one and that is why he wants me to play in that position.


I told him why he didn't have the chance to play in the Mexican league. He told me that he could not play because he did not have the money to travel to Zacatepec to play with the team called Los Caneros de Zacatepec. My dad said that in the past it was harder to get money then today. He told me that he had to work two jobs in one week just to get about 200 pesos. He said that the manager offered him any number that he wanted so he chose the number 19, but he told him that he needed about 12,000 pesos to travel to zacatepec and to get his uniform. He told me that he had to get the money by the next week Monday. My got another job just to get 12,000 pesos and begin his journey, but getting another job was not enough to get 12,000 pesos to begin his journey. My dad told me that without money or education then you cannot achieve in your goal/my goal. I started thinking about what my dad had told about education and money to travel. I was thinking this for three days on how to try focused on my grades. 


It was a nice Saturday. It was about to be 9:37 I woke up to go and play soccer with my team called Union Guerrero. I got ready for the game at 10:05. My dad took me to the park that they call 45th park. It was already 10:05 and the game had just began. I went in and a member gave the ball to me and I just heard "shoot son shoot!"

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1. I have revised my artist statement really good becuase I didn't have any settings in it. I have put a setting in my artist statementand I have put my setting more clear to the reader. I need to put a setting becuase many people might think that I could be around the world or maybe they might not even know where I am. I used concerts not pancakes on some of my sentences.

2. A sunny day in a a park called Crosby and my dad told me "Shoot son shoot." This saying that my story will be about soccer."He once told me that he wants me to fulfill my dreams in becoming a professional soccer player." That is a sentence about me fulfilling my dads dream and that is part of my story. "He didn't have the money to travel to Zacatepec to play." Another sentence that is gonna talk about how money is needed to travel to begin achieving your goal in becoming a soccer player.

3. The way that I revised my pictures is that i have gotten the ones that make point with my story. My next steps is to put all my pictures together and make those pictures make sense with my story.

4. I have revised my resources and I found out that I dont have resources. I need to put my resources in it becuase it might be important and can be useful to me becuase the teachers might want to see were I got the information from. My next step is to put resources that I used.

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What is now more helpful is that I have now more information about this icon. The information that I will need will go in my paper.

It was 2004, July 27. A sunny day in the park called Crosby and my dad told me to "shoot son shoot". He was behind the goalie area. He once told that he wants me to be fulfill his dreams in becoming a professional soccer player. He wants me to play becuase he didn't have the chance of playing of becoming a professional soccer player. He was gonna play in a team in Mexico that was called Los Caneros De Zacatepec, but he didn't have the money to travel to Zacatepec were he was gonna play there. That team was really good back then(that is what dad told me). They said that he can get his own number in the team and he chosed 19. I still couldn't think how good my dad was back then. I hope that I have the chance to become a professional soccer.

MY ICON#2

Name: Captain America

Importance: Captain America is important to me becuase he is a one of my favorite characters in Marvel comics. He is important to me becuase his first apearance was in 1941 during the World War II(In the comics). I like him becuase in the comics he helped the americans defeat the germans. He affected me alot becuase not like other americans thta they use pistols or sub-maching guns, but Captain America use a shield to defeat the americans. That is why he is important to me.

Sources:
Comic books
Wikipedia

MY ICON

Name of Icon: Alejandro Morales(My father)

The importance of this icon: I chose my dad becuase when he was a teenager he didn't had the chance to become a professional soccer player and he also had a bad life. I chose him becuase he wants me to have a better life than what he had back then and he wants me fulfill his dreams of becoming a professional soccer player. He said that he will train me so I can be play for Mexico one day and so I can be better than him. I chose him becuase he has tuaght me how to keep play on his position and so I can be called the next Capi.

Sources:
My mother Maria
My grandma Maria
My uncle Javier

Summer school blog #1

LIST OF GOALS FOR SUMMER SCHOOl:
1. Do all my work/homework
2. Participate in the class
3. Pay attention while teacher is talking


What I like to learn about the holocuast in ww2 is how the Nazis treated the Jews, and what did the Nazis made them do.

This I Believe

Project Description: This project is a writing essay about what you believe. We had to write an essay about your beliefs. This is about 400-500 words long and you cannnot pass over 500 word.After we write this essay we are gonna have to put this essay in a website that is called "This I Believe." If we put our essay in that website then we have to record our voice saying this essay.

Process: First I had to write my first essay. Then we got to revise three other peoples essay. After we have revised the other peoples paper then we can do our third essay.

Reflection: What I learned about this project is that we can learn from our beliefs. It can be very wierd because I have never ever written something with my beliefs.
The challenges that I encountered is that I really didn't have so many belifs in my mind and that really challenge me alot because I don't have a lot of things that I believe.
What i would do different is that if I can put more words in my Essay because it really seems short to me.
This will help me later because I can show this in my TPOL at the end of the year.

Evalyn Glennie Shows how to Listen

What struck you about?
What struck me is show is that when she was playing the Marimba she had the sticks crossed each other  and she even pulled the sticks apart really far from each other. Another thing that strucked me was that she was depth and she was hitting the right notes. That was very cool for me and interesting.

What did you notice?
What I notice is that she showed us the different tempos of the beats. The second thing that I noticed was that she was hitting the right notes to play while she was spreading apart the sticks. the last thing that I noticed was that when she took apart the sticks she kept them straight.

What did you enjoy about her performace? Be specific?
What I enjoyed about her performance was that her very last song was very unique and different to many other type of songs.

Farmers Market Visit

Me, Adriana, Karina, and Jocelyn went to the Chula Vista farmers market. The farmers market was very interesting.

What struck me about the location you visited? Was it what you expected, or very different?

What struckme about this location was that it was in a alley and there was many different people there. For me it was what I expected because I imagined it like little people with their tables full of food.

Which items were cheaper than you expected? Which were more expensive?

The cheapest items that i found was the small Strawberries, they were only 3.00 dollars. The most expensive item was the bigger Strawberries those Strawberries were 5.00 dollars. I thought that strawberries were gonna be more less cheaper, but they had a high price but that was the cheapest item that i found.

Do you think you will start going to a farmers market moree often?

Well maybe because the food is kind of expensive and there is not alot of food inthe farmers market.

The Hidden Garden (Senior Garden)

Will this garden help the community more?

This garden will help the community because the community will eat more healthier.

What is the purpose of this garden?
To make the community more healthy.

Why did the garden have to be in this place?
Because it was donated by the city.

Does this inspire you ? If so in what way?

Actually this garden inspires me because it shows how we can all come together and make garden to make the community more healthier.

What does this garden mean to me?

This gardens means to me that this is a special part of our life system because of all the food that has being grown by the seniors.

Was the garden what you expected?

 I expected the garden to have more planted plants.

What struck you as interesting?

What strucked me about this garden was that this garden had many different plants and it had a Banana tree.

Food INC.

  - What has struck you?
What struck about this video is that when the little boy died and then the mother tried to make a law then like 2 weeks later they made the pass of the law of what happened before.

- Do you agree or disagree with the concepts? Why?
Yeah I agree with the concept. I agree because us the people from the town can start their own little garden and we can get food from the plant that have been planted.The food that we grow can even be more healthy than the food that is being sold on nmarkets.

- What do your parents or family members think?
My mom thought that we should start finding more food and that we need to eat very healthy

DIalectic Journal

Quote:
"Test scores are lousy. The schools don't prepare people for jobs. The schools don't
prepare people to have a good life. I suppose some people would say that the schools should give us some survival value. We should be able to be successful when we graduate."

Response:
I think that this quote is saying that the schools should prepare us more better for what we are going to be when we grow up for our job. The schools should make feel better when we graduate from school and that it should take us to a better way of being successful. The schools should be more productive of how we get to be when we grow up. The school doesn't prepare us to have us students to get a good life it is the students because if the students don't get good grades they will not have a good job and they will suffer to find a job that will be good for them.

An American Hero

Jared Morales

1/24/10

An American Hero

In the year 1941 the Americas were needed in Europe because Adolf Hitler had risen to power. The U.S. responded by sending 4 million troops to Europe. One of those troops served longer than anyone else. That soldier was named Henry. Henry served in the U.S. army for fifteen-years. He was a four-star general and had his own troops to command. He took his troops to Africa, where Hitler’s best general, Johann was in command. He served in Algeria with 8 thousand men. Soon they had been ambushed, but they won the battle. The ambush caused a lot of damage to Henry’s troops. They were cut down to thousand troops. They made a new camp, only to be ambush once again. Johann was in command of the ambushing and this battle was completely lost. Henry was killed by Johann himself. The U.S. Army sent a letter to his wife, Marian, to inform her of his death and his murder.

In 1942 the United States was sending more troops to Europe including Mrs. Marian,(Henry‘s widow). She wanted revenge for losing her husband. Marian was in the big red one, one of the finest troops in the United States. She got in the big red one by acting as a man. She was already in a boat, which she was being sent to her first war scene. The worst wars were at the beachheads, and that’s exactly where she was headed. She sat next to a man named Russell, and they stood ready to die. It is 6:27 a.m.

“30 seconds!” said the driver.

“Holy crap man, I ain’t ready to die here.” said Russell.

“Okay guys, make simple, Stay alive, alright!,” said the lieutenant.

“Yes sure,” said Marian.

“10 seconds!”

“Get ready troops!” said the lieutenant “This can get a little rough.”

“Open the gates.” said the driver.

The sound of gunfire was all that Marian could hear. Bullets were flashing out of nowhere, killing the troops. Marian was running as fast as she could to get out of the boat to safety. Her friend ran too, but as soon as he stepped on that sand, he exploded into thin air. Marian wasn’t ready for what she had just seen.

“God damn” said Marian.

Marian looked up in the sky and saw German bombers.

“God damn German bombers. Run lieutenant!” said Marian.

BOOOOOOM, Almost all of the German bombers soon fled because the US Air force came to cover the ground troops as they made it over the beach.

“Mario, get your demolition weapon and blow this damn gate” said the lieutenant.

“Alright sure,” screams Marian.

The colonel called Marian “Mario” because nobody knew that she was a girl yet. Marian took down the barbwire but needed help. She was scared because she was getting shot on her backpack. Marian soon finished putting the demolition inside of the sand and she raised her hand so the rest of the demolition team could get to her. The Germans saw her hand and started shooting at her hand, but Marian got lucky. They missed. The demolition team got there before the Germans raised their guns at them. They finished with the demolition and all the troops watched them move to the side.

Marian lit up the match and lit up the wire, then she moved to the side. BOOM. The Americans got up as fast as they could and rushed to get to the other side of the barbwire. She went with them and she saw a boy who was barely 18. The boy went in front of her and she fell into a trench. She got up and looked up and saw that the boy was crossing the other side of the trench. While he was crossing he got shot in the chest. The bullet went through the boy’s chest and into sergeant William’s head. Sergeant William fell on top of Marian and the blood spilled all over her face and clothes. There was no time for her to scream. Her face turned pale. Marian pushed the crows food aside and got up only to face a German soldier. The German soldier told her “Dont schießen Sie bitte,” but Marian didn’t understand his language, so she shot him. Suffering and in pain, the German couldn’t take it anymore, so Marian shot him in the head. A loud “booooom” was heard from the Americans. They looked up and saw that a bunker was destroyed. All of the Americans shouted out loud, happy that they crossed to the other side of the beach. Marian got a cup and opened the lid and got sand from the French beach. She closed the lid and put it with the rest of the other cans that didn’t have anything. She was called by the lieutenant.

“Okay Mario, you are going with the 501 team alright,” said the lieutenant.

“Alright, sure I’ll do it,” said Marian courageously.

“Good. You will go into France and meet up with Echo team got it?” said the colonel.

“Got it,” said Marian.

“Go then. Don’t keep me waiting,” said the lieutenant.

“Let’s go team!” said Marian “We got to get there before the Germans do,”

The team had six guys ready for combat. After four days they went to a city called Caen. The team moved into the city. The entrance had been road blocked so they had to cross it. The team leader, Oscar, went first. He checked for enemy troops, but their was nothing. Suddenly, they heard an explosion. They looked up and saw that the general wasn’t in the same spot. They looked everywhere and then one man found him. The general was dead. He was in two pieces.

“What the hell happened? A minute he is there and the next he is here” said Manuel

The team heard that the German panzer was crossing the roadblock.

“Take it down team!” said Christian.

“Right away, sir!” screamed Dexter “Take it down Drake!” “Hurry, Drake!”

“I’m going, god damn it!” exaggerated Drake.

“Here it goes guys!” said Drake “Say Bu-bye panzer.”

“Yeah, nice work man,” said Manuel.

The tank was in flames and burning. The team annihilated the tank. They went into the city and it didn’t seem like a bad idea just to walk into the city. This was a bad idea. In fact that was the stupidest ideas they had done. The Echo team was captured while the 501 was walking through the city. After walking the whole way they made it to the extraction point were they had to meet Echo team. They were satisfied that they didn’t see the team where they were suppose to. The team looked up and saw German bombers. This time there wasn’t anyone to save them. The planes each trough two bombs on them. Marian took shelter in a fallen wall of a ruined building. The rest of the team took shelter in a house. BOOOOM. That is what Marian heard.

“That was it team. Let’s keep moving,” said Marian.

After a minute or two they started moving again. Then they left the city of Caen and went to the forest of death. They searched for a POW camp of the Germans. The search for the POW camp took about 3 hours. It was night time. They soon found the camp and they got ready for the next day. The next morning Manuel woke up Marian and saw that the Germans preparing their Tiger tank and panzer tanks. They only had three panzer tanks and one tiger tank. The panzer had a 20 mm gun. The tiger tank had a 88 mm gun. The team waited for an hour so that the Germans could put ammo in the tanks so they could go to war. The three panzers were ready to go, but the tiger tank wasn’t. Manuel got his gun and ran to the tiger tank while the Nazis weren’t watching. Manuel got in the tank and started it. The tank was good to go, but had no ammo so they rammed the tank into the gate of the POW camp. The Germans started shooting at the tank. Manuel was in the tank so he got out and got shot in the chest. Drake thought he was dead so he got his gun and started to rush them. Then, out of nowhere, he got shot by a sniper from the top of their tower. There he laid Manuel on the floor, bleeding from his right hand. Marian looked from her binoculars to see who the sniper was. The sniper was Johann. Marian, Dexter, and Christian ran to the tower to kill Johann, but the German defense was there. Luckily their was only two Germans. So the team killed them quickly. Then Marian went up in to the tower with Dexter to kill Johann. They went up to the top floor where Johan was. They opened the door and there he was sitting on a chair facing them. Marian had to do something and the only thing left was to kill him. Marian stopped because Johann looked really young. Marian thought that he was only in his 20’s. Marian got her gun and changed the ammo and so she reloaded the gun. She pointed the gun at him and said “Why did you do it.” She got her finger and pulled the trigger back and shot Johann in his forehead. Marian soon killed Johann.

Eventually reinforcements came and Dexter was at the bottom of the building ,but Marian wasn’t. The Germans came with seven panzers and around fifty troops. Marian went down stairs and then she heard gun shots coming from outside of the camp. Those gun shots came from Christian. Dexter went to tell Marian about Christian. Dexter met up with Marian and he told Marian that Christian was dead. Marian told Dexter to live this place immediately. Dexter called the base and to pick him up in the city of Caen. Marian went outside and saw an army. She threw down her gun and said I love you Henry.” Those were her last words before she died.

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Article#2

This article that I have read was about that the Euoropean Space Agency are going to have the second chance to launch a satellite to make the most sensitive measurements for sea ice and glaciers. The first launch was a fail in 2005 which crashed in the Artic Ocean. They soon spent over 207 million dollars to make another try, which is called the CryoSat 2. They say that this satellite should be launched in September. ESA Mission Science Division. The CryoSat 2 will get the data on polar ice every 30 days from the altitude of 445 miles which will be recording the centimeter size changes in the ice thickness by measuring the ice's height with the microwaves. The microwaves can penetrate clouds better than the infrared that is used in NASA. This satellite will provide the tracking of cloud covvered regions like Greenland. The thickness of the ice will help the climate scientists make better computer models to predict polar tempertures.

Article #1

In this article I read that in this year they have made new inventions on electronics. They have invented that for now on we can watch TV on netbooks, cellphones and even on other mobile devices.After analog TV had ended. Analog TV has put up parts of the broadcast spectrums to use on mobile devices. TV broadcasters from 30 stations in 17 cities have waisted up to 150,00 dollars for every tower to install better transmitters that send, broadcasts directly to specially equipped mobile devices. This only costs a penny a minute to provide this service. For other services they have costed 4 dollars per minute. This service is called Mobile Digital TV. This allows wireless devices to equip a tuner chip so it can recieve signals derected from the transmitter towers.

DP Reflection

DP Reflection Steps

Directions for the DP Reflection: Complete these steps every time you put a new project of completed assignment on your DP.
Project Description:
- What was the assignment? Describe it here.
The assignment for me was to make either a trebuchet, water system, or a boat. What I decided to make with my group was a trebuchet. It just wasn’t going to be like the rest of my classmate’s trebuchets that were going to be just out of pipes. Ours was going to be made out of real wood. The best of all my classmate’s trebuchets.
Process:
- What steps did you take to get to the final product?
The first step that me and my group though of how to make this trebuchet. Me and my teammates then started to make blueprints for the trebuchet. Then my group told Ms. Mele what the tools that we were going to need for this great trebuchet. Ms. Mele soon brought our tools and then we got started on my work
Reflection:
- What did you learn?
- What challenges did you encounter?
- What would you do the same or different?
- How will this help you later?
What I learn about this project was that I can't do anything just by myself but with my group.
The challenges that had encountered was that I can do anything all by myself.
What i would do different was that I should have stayed more longer fixing my trebuchet.
This will help more later because maybe soon we might have more projects like the time travelers project.

My Goals

1: My first goal for thhis semester is to pay attention in class so I caunderstand things things in Humanities.

2: My second goal is to finish all my work that has being given to me.

3: The last goal for me is to do all my homework and to finish it on time.

My Super great Goals

Goal #1: Pay attention to Mele so I can understand what to do in my homework.
First step: Sit next to someone that I don't talk to.

Goal #2: Ask for help if i dont get something.
First step: I will ask my partner that is sitting next to me for help.

Goal #3: Finish all my homework on time.
First step: When i get home i will start on my homework right away. I will also put away all my electronics (video games, computer, and other electronic stoff) away.