Emily873

=Introduction= I am good at multiplying fractions because I know how to multiply fractions in two different ways and I also know how to simplify the quotient after. I am also good at writing reading responses in language arts. I was always able to make a good and thorough connection to the novels I read.

I need to improve on notetaking because I tend to highlight more than what is needed and when I do that I don't always know what information is good to use. I also need to improve on the BEDMAS integer questions because I sometimes make mistakes when I have negative integers.

My goals for the next 6 weeks are to keep up with all of my school work and try to improve my marks in all of my subjects. =Adult Response= In looking at your work I would like to compliment you on the following 2 things: 1) Work is nice and neat 2) Explination shows Emily's good comprehension of the work. In the last 6 weeks of school I will help you reach your goals by: I will make sure Emily completes her assignments and make sure she asks for help is needed.

=My Subjects= =Math=

Term 1 Reflection
This term I learned about ratios, rates, and proportional reasoning. Ratios are a way to compare one part of a group to another part of the group. This is called a part to part ratio. Another type of ratio is part to whole which compares one part of the group to the whole group. Rates are a way to compare two quantities measured in different units. A unit rate is is when you compared it to one. (ex. 5km/1hr.) Proportional reasoning is a relationship that says that two ratios or two rates are equal.Proportional reasoning can be written in fraction form. (ex. ⅔=6/9)

We also learned abut Pythagoras. The Pythagorean theory is the theory that if a squared and b squared was added together they would equal c squared. (ex. a= 5 b=6) a2+b2=c2 5(2)+6(2)=c2 25+36=61

Ratios, Rates, Proportion
Here is a [|LINK]to my scribe post. Here is a [|LINK] to my Sesame Street video.

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Parent Quiz

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Here is my [|LINK] to my scribe post.

Parent Quiz

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I did best on the volume unit during term two. I got 100% on all of my volume tests. I found the formulas easy to use. The easiest shape to figure out for me was the right rectangular prism. Volume was also easy because it didn’t take a lot of work to figure out. I did really good in math this term but my worst unit would be surface area because I messed up on the unit test. But I did good on the rest of the quizzes. I will do better next term by making sure I review my work before my tests. I always did my homework but to improve I would take more time to make sure I get the right answer. I learned that percent could be represented as a decimal and a fraction. You could also represent a percent by using a hundred grid.I l also learned about the percent of a number, and combining percents using basic math strategies. For surface area we learned how to calculate the surface area of a cylinder using the formula 2.p.r.rx2.r.h. We used lxw for a rectanglular prism and bxh/2 and lxw for a triangular prism. During the volume unit I learned how to find the volume of a right rectangular prism using the formula lxw.h. I also learned how to find the volume of a right triangular prism using the formula bxh/2.h and I learned how to find the volume of a cylinder using the formula pi.r.r.h. Lastly I learned how to find the volume of a shape with a peice taken out of it. media type="custom" key="8576940" Parent Quiz

Percent
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Integers
-3-(-7)=4

Here is a [|LINK] to my __//**Big Book of Integers**//__ scribe post.

I have learned how to add and subtract positive and negative integers using pictures to help me. I also learned that when multiplying integers that if you have zero or an even amount of negative signs the product is always going to be positive and if you have an odd number of negative signs the answer will always be negative. Another thing I learned is that when dividing integers if there is zero or an even amount of negative signs the quotient is always going to be positive and if there is an odd number of negative the quotient will always going to be negative.

Parent Quiz

=Fractions= Parent Quiz

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__//**The Man Who Planted Trees**//__

//**How does The Man Who Planted Trees relate to us, to me, to the school and to the local community?**// The man who planted trees relates to us, to me, and the economy because we are currently trying to make the earth a better place to live and we are also trying to plant more trees because trees produce oxygen. But along the way we cut down so many trees we have to replant one in its place.

//**What motivates people and organizations in their approach to the environment? Consider the following factors: money, publicity, votes, community benefits, prizes and awards? What limits their ability to be “green?”**//

The positive outcomes motivate the people to help the environment such as how it will improve their lifestyle and how it will benefit their community. Organizations are motivated to help the community by the publicity and money that could come from their actions. People running for a government position might be motivated by getting more voets. Money, limits people’s ability to be “green.”

//**What are the document character’s attitudes towards the forest?**//
 * //**Jean**//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jean thought the forest was excellent and he also thought it was good for both nature and humans.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**The Charcoal Burners**//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The charcoal burners thought the forest would ruin their business and demand.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Elzéard Bouffier**//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Elzéard Bouffier loved to plant trees and wanted to create the forest to change the world.
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Government Official// **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Government Official thought the forest (and trees) were very nice.
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Member of Parliament// **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Member of Parliament wanted to cut down the trees in the forest to make money. He also declared the forest for “the people of France.”
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Timber Merchants// **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The timber merchants thought they would make money by cutting down the trees and selling the wood. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The villagers liked the forest because it made the village look better and made it a better place to live. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**How do trees affect climate at a local and a global level?**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The trees create a better local climate and change the temperature. Trees help the planet o a global level because they produce oxygen. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Villagers// **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Dear Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones,
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I am so very sorry for trying to steal your pocketbook. All I wanted was a pair of new blue suede shoes, but I now realize my actions were wrong. I never should have tried to take your pocketbook. I am very sorry.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Thank you for feeding me lima beans, cocoa, ham, ten cent cake and for telling me to wash my face. Thank you for the ten dollars for my blue suede shoes that I never needed. Your words, “shoes come by devilish ways will burn your feet,” are still with me today. Most importantly, thank you for being so forgiving and not turning me into the police. Thank you Ma’am.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I am so sorry I tried to steal your pocketbook. If I could go back I never would have done what I did. You have changed me forever.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;">Sincerely yours,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;">Roger

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;">P.S. Thank you Ma’am

TASK: What was I asked to do for this assignment? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was required to compose a friendly letter using information from a short story. INTENT: Why am I completing this assignment? There are several reasons why I am doing this assignment. FIrst I learned the elements of a short story and learned to identify them in a friendly letter format. Then, we applied specific story details and wrote in the first person as if we were a character from the short story. CRIETERIA: How do I know what I needed to do to be successful in completing this assignment? - use proper Friendly Letter format referring to letter frame. - compose the rough copy letter using __specific__ details from the short story and write the letter from the perspective of one of the main charactersin the story. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ - remember to use appropriate tone and audience for the letter. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ - complete all steps in the writing process as set out in the assignment directions. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ NEXT STEPS: Upon completion of this assignment I can now.......... <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ - I can now identify elements of a short story   <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ - I can write a friendly letter

Simile Definition Card
== Task: For this assignment I was asked to create a definition card that explained what a simile was and it was supposed to have an example of a simile with a diagram.

Intent: I am completing this assignment to have a deeper knowlege of what a simile is and how to use it in life.

Criteria: I knew the definition card had to include a diagram and a thorough definition and example to inform whoever read it what we were learning about.

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Task: For this assignment I was supposed to create a drawing for the short story Thank You Ma'am. The story did no thave any pictures so the drawing had to be what we thought of the story.

Intent The purpose for doing this assignment was to see if we were able to interpret a short story into an image.

Criteria To be successful you had to create a drawing of a scene in Thank You Ma'am and draw it how you think it should look and color it.

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Task: For this assignment we talked about peace. I was required to create an image of what peace meant to me.

Intent: The purpose of this assignment was to create a drawing of what peace meant to you using your sentences.

Criteria: To be successful you had to create an image split down the middle of what peace meant to you using yous senses and color it. You also had to write a sentence for each side.

Explore Reading Response
**__ Explore Reading Response Novel Study- Chapter Two __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I have finished reading chapter two of __Iqbal__ by Francesco D’Adamo. The genre of this book falls into the realistic fiction category. In the book the author has chosen not to include any illustrations. This book is written as a novel. This book is told in the eyes of Fatima, a ten year old girl who works at a carpet factory in Pakistan. Fatima is working as a child slave to help pay off her families debt. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The author’s purpose for writing this text is to inform the reader about the issue of child labour. I am reading this text to gain a deeper understanding about the ongoing issue of employing children in factories and workshops. These child slaves are forced to work while they should be out playing with their friends and enjoying their childhood, which only comes once in their lives. Child labour is a human rights issue that everyone should be aware of. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The key lines worth remembering are, “One was the sword of a good hero, the other of an evil villain,” “He wasn’t chained because he was a numskull. Oh no. It was for some other reason,” and, “He wasn’t afraid.” I think these key lines are worth remembering because they all involve the protagonist, Iqbal and the antagonist, Hussain Khan. Iqbal and Hussain Khan are two of the main characters. This could foreshadow the main idea and topic of the novel. The key words worth remembering are, hero, evil villain, movie, and child slave. I think hero and evil villain are worth remembering because the hero symbolizes Iqbal and the evil villain symbolizes Hussain Khan. Iqbal and Hussain Khan both have an important role in this novel. I also think movie is worth remembering because the children dream of going to see movies with their families and child slaves is worth remembering because the children at the carpet factory are child slaves. The key names worth remembering are Fatima, Karim, Hussain Khan, and Iqbal. I think Fatima is worth remembering because she is the narrator of the novel. I also think Karim is worth remembering because he is the overseer of the children. I also think Hussain Khan is worth remembering because he is the master of the children. Lastly, I chose the name Iqbal is worth remembering because he is the new child slave. The key place worth remembering is the doorway of the carpet factory because that is the place where the children first saw Iqbal. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Iqbal has been organized in chapters and paragraphs. The author chose to number the chapters instead of titling them because it adds suspense and the reader has to use their “imagination.” The chapters organize the main topics while the paragraphs organize the smaller topics. This makes the novel easy to comprehend, easy to follow, and easy to read. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I can relate to what I just read because I am a child myself, but most importantly I am human. Every human in the world has rights, no matter what culture, age, gender, or size they are. Some pick on others because they are small of because of their background(s) and I know for a fact that is not right. Just because these children don’t have as much power or as much voice, doesn’t mean they could be treated as anything less than human. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">My aa-ha moment for this chapter is when Iqbal arrives and Hussain Khan locks a shackle around Iqbal’s right ankle and it isn’t because Iqbal is a numskull. My questions for this chapter are, “Why is Iqbal chained to his loom if he is not a numskull?” and, “Has Iqbal tried to escape from his previous masters?” My connection is child war camps. Child war camps relate to Iqbal because I remember reading if you tried to escape there were consequences. One consequence was being shot to death. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">T ask: I was required to write a reading response on chapter 5 of Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo.

Intent: The purpose of this project is to learn how to follow the explore response guidline.

Criteria: To be successful you had to follow the explore response guidline and create a paragraph for each of the sections.

=Social Studies=

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Task: I was required to create a definition card for a definition that involve the early peoples. It had to include a diagram and a definition of the term you chose.

Intent: The purpose of creating this definition card was to learn about how the early peoples lived their lives and what environment they had to endure.

Critera: I knew the definition card had to have a descripitive defintion and have an appealing diagram to attract the person's attention to want o learn about the term.

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Task: For this defintion card I was required to create a diagram for a term from the mesopotamia unit. The definition card was also required to have a defintion that thoroughly described your term.

Intent: The reason for making this definition card was to learn about mesopotamia and how its civilization worked while learning about specific terms.

Criteria: To be sucessful your defintion card needed to be well colored, and have a thorough definition.

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Task: For this assignment I was required to create a poster with no words (besides titles) that describes Cro-Magnon life.

Intent: The purpose of this poster is to gain a deeper knowledge of how and what the cro-magnon people did to survive.

Criteria: To be successful you had to create a poster that was divided into four with an image for, food, tools, homes, and social structures in each of the sections only using a title and no descriptions.

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Task: For this assignment I was required to read about a Mesopotamian god/goddess and create a trading card with a picture and a description on the back.

Intent:The purpose of this assignment was to learn about the gods/goddesses that the people of Mesopotamia worshipped.

Criteria: o be successful you hade to create two sided trading card with a diagram of your chosen god/goddess on one side and their description and history on the other side.

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Task: For this assignment I was required to create a clay tablet with Mesopotamian cuneiform.

Intent:The purpose of this project was to learn how scribes in Mesopotamia worked an what tools and materials they used.

Criteria: The tablet was required to have two offerings and the amounts and a signature all in Mesopotamian cuneiform.

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=Physical Education= In Phys. Ed. we just finished high jump. I made it up to 1.10 meters. High jump it not easy because you have to make sure you lift your whole body to make sure you don't hit the bar.

=Practical Arts= In cooking class we made pizza and it was a very easy recipe to make. It turned out to be very delicious. http://www.flickr.com/photos/skatzenell/393281121/sizes/m/ =Music= In music we are learning about artists and bands from the 1970's. We are also learning how to play the guitar.