Active Learner

I plain to improve my active learning in concentrating more during class. Listening better to what the teacher says. Chatting less in class, because I chat a lot, but not using the computer. And when I don't know what the teacher is talking about, I could ask questions, or go search more about it when I come home. I hope I'll be able to improve my active learning!

Reflecions on the Portfolio

I would like to reflect about the project we did in Language Arts. It is a book report that we had to present orally. The book I chose is the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
For this project, the learning outcomes I used are: active learner, effective communicator, and critical thinker.

When I read the book, I was an active learner because I like Greek mythology very much, and this book talks about it a lot. When I came home I went to search on the monsters or the gods.
Before doing the book report, I was a critical thinker because I prepared how I would break the book down to make the plot. I was thinking of the next step.
When it was time to present, I think I was an effective communicator, I spoke loud enough, and I said what I had to say.

Murray Wins Again

The Scottish, 21 years old, #4 world best tennis player, Andy Murray beats Andy Roddick, 6-4 6-2 in 70 minutes, to keep his title at the Qatar Open. There were doubts of him not playing because of a back injury, but he played and won. He is now the favorite for the Melbourne Open, one of the four biggest tennis tournament.

Will he have as much success in 2009 as he had in 2008?

Wall-E

The animation movie called Wall-E won the Golden Globes, the biggest award after the Oscars, in Los Angeles. Wall-E is a robot that picks up garbage on Earth, while humans left the planet and went in a spaceship because of the pollution on Earth.
To win the competition, it had to beat "Kung Fu Panda" and "Bolt".
And during the same night, a British actress called Kate Winslet won two prices for two different movies.

Slavery Today

We think of slavery as something that happened long ago. But it is still happening today! Among the huge number of slaves, about 9 million are children. Slavery is when someone is owned by other people and doesn't have freedom, and is forced into an exploitative, humiliating and abusing life. Slavery mainly happens in Africa, large parts of Asia, Middle East, South America, and few parts of Europe. Would you like to be owned by someone?

My Holiday Break and My School Goals for 2009

My Break:

The first thing I did during my holiday was finishing all the homework I had, the mindmap (humanities), the book report (L.A.), and the math exercises.
Another thing I did after that is going to Japan for 5 days. I went there to ski. The station was called Rusutzu.
The third thing I did is visiting parts of Taiwan. I went to Hualien for 2 days, then to Yilan for 1 day, and finally to Jiufen for another day. I came back on Saturday to play with my friends, and then, it was time to go back to school.



My 2009 Goals:

My first goal is to go play more outside during recess. Because I usually play computer with the other grade 7.

My second goal is to read more books. I don't read a lot. At home, I usually play with my father or my friends. And i'd like to read more to improve my vocabulary, too.

The Culture in the Video

I learned about Egypt in the video, The Ten Commandments, that we watched during humanities. I learned in what conditions slaves worked. They could hardly drink, they couldn't stop working, or they'd get whipped, and they could only eat when the director of the building site authorized them. The slaves were Hebrews. If you were born Hebrew, then your destiny was to be a slave.
I learn about Ramses before he was king. How he competed Moses to be pharaoh.
And mostly, I learned about Moses. I didn't know that he almost got pharaoh. I didn't know he wasn't raised by his mother, she had to abandon him because the pharaoh had ordered to kill any male Hebrew baby. There was a prophecy that said that a Hebrew would destroy Egypt. So the mother put him in a basket and let the Nile chose where he'd go. The pharaoh's wife found him and raised him like if he had Ramses' brother. He was a prince. And when he discovered he was a Hebrew, he became a slave without anyone telling him to be one. Then he got captured by Ramses who sent him in the desert with just some water.

During the second part of the movie we learned more about slavery in Egypt, how slaves were treated. I learned more about Moses. I saw how a family rescued him when he was in the desert. I learned about how the pharaoh could do whatever he wanted. We saw how Moses heard god and went to help his people, who were slaves. We saw how god destroyed Egypt. How magic stick who transformed into a cobra and fought 2 cobras of the pharaoh and won. How he colored the Nile red with the same stick. How he killed the son of the pharaoh after the Ramses ordered to kill his son.