| Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| MC Website Project |
In this project, a group of 4-6 people create a informative website that teaches others about a topic that is related to moral courage. The group would have to research information on te topic, and recreate the researched info into a learning resource.
I learned more about global warming. I learned what global warming is, the cause, and if it is actually true or what not. In addition, I learned about others' opinions on global warming through the survey. I also increased my skill on creating graphs on Microsoft Excel when I analyzed the data from the survey. I created the graphs faster and I think that the Exercise Project helped me with that. I also improved using dreamweaver and coding, since I've never actually uploaded all the files I coded onto a website.
I think that this was a good project. Next time, I would focus more on the content than other smaller things. When you have a good design, you would expect good content, so I think I could've worked more on that. I learned that it was a bad thing if you tend to get lazy in the middle of the project. In conclusion, the website project was a good learning project that I think will help me later. |
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| Sunday, March 9, 2008 |
| She Said Yes by Misty Bernall |
time: 2 hours.
pages read: 67
Today I started reading the book She Said Yes written by Misty Bernall. This book was about the author's daughter that got shot in a high school shooting. There were two high school students that went rampaging around the school setting off bombs and shooting everybody. The author so far mostly talked about what happened in the shooting, and just the 17 years of her daughter's life. She wrote about letters she found that her daughter and her friend wrote, and her story of the last day of her daughter's life.
It's really sad how her daughter dies. The shooters asked Cassie if she believed in god. "She paused, like she didn't know what to answer, and then she said yes. . . . . .Then they asked her why, though they didn't give her a chance to respond. They just blew her away. "--pg14 It's pretty sad why they shot her, and why they even thought of doing that. It's pretty stupid and it got me to wonder if the shooters got an influence from video games. In some video games, they plant bombs and shoot people, and which is what the high school shooters were doing.
I feel kind of bad for her mother in the part where she found the letters about Cassie wanting to kill her and such. Cassie got influenced by her friends, especially Mona. The author kept talking about how she was horrified and kind of scared. I was also shocked at the part about the letter Cassie wrote. " I would lock myself in the bathroom and hit my head on the counters. I also did this in the walls of my bedroom." It's weird that a high-schooler would write and want to do something like that. I wouldn't want to do that.... |
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| Sunday, March 2, 2008 |
| Heidi by Joanna Spyri |
Pages Read: 1 to 232
Time: 2 hours
This week I started reading a new book instead of Moby Dick. I got bored of the book, and I didn't find it that interesting. The book didn't really leave me excited. So, I decided to start reading the book Heidi.
As Detie told the stories, I noticed that a lot of Heidi's friends and family had died. Some of them had died because of construction work. For example, Peter's father died because he was chopping down a tree. Also, Tobias, Heidi's father, was killed by a falling beam when building a house. I find this pretty sad and I wondered if many people have been killed because of construction work.
I thought that it was a bad idea for Heidi to go to her Uncle Alp. Then, after I saw how Uncle Alp changed as a character toawrds Heidi, I didn't mind Uncle Alp staying. I felt really bad that Heidi had to move and her life in the mountains should've not ended. Meanwhile, as Heidi stayed with Clara, it seemed as interesting as Heidi did when she lived with her Uncle Alp.
During the book I realized what a good person Heidi and her grandfather was. Her grandfather had changed so much as a character, which wanted me to see more people that were very kind like this in the world. I also felt very happy for Clara, because she actually walked. In the book, I was afraid that someone might die because in the book had mentioned many people dying. Overall, 'Heidi' was actually a good book that teaches a good lesson. The only thing I'm wondering is that, what happened to the cats ?! |
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