This month we have been really busy in language arts be cause we are taking on the challenge of nanowrimo (or national novel writing month). Basically we have the whole month of November to wright a rough draft of a story. everyone has a word count goal and they try to achieve it by the end of the month. the story has to have a plot, this consists of the set up, the inciting incident, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. my story is about aliens taking over earth and a team of survivors sent on a mission to kill the alien queen. here is a sample of it:
" You may be wondering why a 12-year-old girl such as myself knows all
these things that normally would have been confined to government
officials, the answer to that question is the fact that most people in
the government; if not all, didn’t approve of having 2 12-year-olds
knowing about secret, … government secrets? I learned this by listening
to a conversation between the president of the shelter, president Camel,
and the vice president, vice president Smith, from behind a library
cart at the training center library their conversation went like this:
“hello Jean!” exclaimed president camel, excited to see that ‘jean’ had made it to the shelter.
“hello president,” vice president Smith (who I’m going to call Smithy)
remarked, in a rather dull manner “I am here to inform you that I and
the council members believe that the girl and her brother are to be
treated with the same respect as soldiers, not government operatives!”
and then she stormed off.
Now let’s talk about the shelter itself, the shelter is one giant
cavern I have a picture to put the size into perspective: "
By Finley
Language Arts by Zara
The fight continues for NaNoWriMo
as time is running out! Students are typing up a storm, but remember to
make it interesting, and don’t get your brain clogged up with ideas!
Also, on the topic of language arts, in Mr. Brown’s class, we are reading a book called The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. It is a historical fiction set in the 1840’s about a 13-year-old girl named Charlotte Doyle who goes aboard a ship called The Seahawk on an adventure to America. Alone, except for the crew of course. We are in the middle of it right now.
Social Studies by Zara
In this unit in social studies, we are learning
about the event called The Terrible Transformation, where black slaves
get treated worse and worse. First, a law was passed to say that
Christians could not be slaves. Then, white people couldn’t be slaves.
They just shipped African slaves here, there, everywhere, as Europeans
moved into America. An African-American man named Antonio (later named
Anthony Johnson) got his own farm and land, then moved to Maryland,
died, and got his farm in Virginia taken by the government. Things
eventually got so bad, slaves were treated like real estate! So, this is
the end of my blog—for now. Keep writing and studying!
Math by Georgia
This week in math we talked about proportional relationships! A proportion relationship is a relationship between two numbers with another form of math. They also are equivalent ratios! We also have been working on ratios and all their glory. We have learned many important facts such as, it doesn’t matter which number is on top or bottom in a ratio, and that a ratio is used when the signer doesn’t have time to convert the fraction or decimal!
Science by Georgia
This week in science we ending a big project called The Scientific Method. This project was about water in is universe. You can do any power point related to water. But don’t hold your breath, because this week we’ve started a new project. It’s called The Molecular Molecule Project. During this project we must do a model (2d or 3d, you can even do it in a game!) of a molecule of an object in the real world. This project is due the day before Christmas break, so get to it!
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