Hour of Code

Project: Greeting Card

Merry Christmas!!!!! :D

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The Book Thief: Discussion 2

In the chapter "Pages From the Basement", I thought it was very meaningful when Max wrote The Standover Man on pages from My Struggle. I thought this because My Struggle is about Hitler's life, and about how Germans should not mix with other races because they are "superior". But The Standover Man is about how a Jewish man becomes friends with a German girl, not letting what Hitler says stand in the way. It was almost like Max stamped out the horrible words of My Struggle and replaced it with something a lot happier and better.

Educreations

Here is my educreations link:

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/the-real-19-divided-by-5-8/14567454/?s=Ew4L3O&ref=app

  

Making an educreations video will help you learn deeply because you are the teacher, and you are explaining the concept.

The Book Thief: Discussion 1

"It was 1936. The Olympics. Hitler's games."

This interested me because the Olympics are completely a world-wide event. It shocked me that somebody would have the audacity to say that it was just one person's.

LWW Ch 2: What Lucy Found There- By 1

 Once Lucy arrives in Narnia, she meets Mr. Tumnus and he invites her to tea at his house. When they arrive, Mr. Tumnus tricks Lucy into staying for hours, when she only meant to stay for a few minutes. Suddenly Mr. T. starts sobbing and tells Lucy how he is a spy for the White Witch, and that she is in great danger. He feels horrible and they leave at once. They get back to the Wardrobe and Lucy gets back to her world safely.

Dvorak: Humoresque No. 7
This piece truly brings to mind a picture of Mr. Tumnus's cozy little cave, where he and Lucy are sharing a nice hot cup of tea.

                                   The picture of Mr. T's home from the book.

Moving To Fresno

 Even though I have lived in Fresno, California my whole life, my family has not. Pop Laval, my great-great-grandfather on my Grandpa's side moved to Fresno from New York because of a job offer in the early 1900's. The job was to be a photographer for the Fresno Republican Newspaper. Ounce he had moved here, his mother and sisters came as well. My great-grandfather on my grandma's side moved from Alabama in the late 1920's. He came to work for what is today PG&E. On a more closely related note, my dad had many steps in moving to Fresno. First, he moved from Beirut, Lebanon to Tulare, California. Then he moved to Fresno to go to Fresno State.  That is how my family came to Fresno.

Early Man Commercial

Sorry if its a little pixalated.
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Gregor the Overlander

Gregor the Overlander          Suzanne Collins

Gregor and his 2-year old sister Boots discover a hole in their New York apartment laundry room that has them falling into The Underland, a world discovered hundreds of years ago by the Earl of Sandwich. In the Underland, their are very few trees, no modern technology, and of course, gigantic Cockroaches, Bats, Rats, and many more huge creatures. As Gregor soon finds out, the Rats are at war with the humans of the Underland, and they might be behind his dad's disappearance. Also to Gregor's surprise, everyone down there believes that he is apart of a mysterious prophecy, and tell him he must become someone who he is not. Read Gregor the Overlander to find out if Gregor survives the Underland.

In my opinion, Suzanne Collins does an amazing job of describing the setting. You can picture the Underland perfectly. It's like she is transporting you into the book, and you forget who you really are, because you are inside the book.

This song really captures the royal, secretive mood of the Underland.

Silence

You're in a wood. Scattered around, are several clear pools. You feel the water, and it is cool, but not to cold to swim in.The only sounds you can hear are birds lightly chirping and the sound of running water, like a small creek. You look around, and it's nature as far as the eye can see. You also see the birds that were chirping. They are all beautiful colors of blue, green, brown, and they even make gray look gorgeous. You smell no pollution, just clean, crisp, air, pine, and the scent you smell after it has just rained. Up in the sky, light, fluffy clouds are rolling across the clear blue, clean atmosphere. It is sunny outside, but it is not hot and the sun is not glaring down. Instead, it is lightly falling towards the Earths surface. There is a gently breeze blowing past, and you smell the crispness in the air again. It's as if the entire World is in perfect balance and brimming with peace.

Order of Operations

It's the year 2027. You've already graduated college, and you're sitting in the main Google building taking and in-building job application. You've gotten through all the questions, and your feeling pretty confident. You're almost do-.......... oh no. You studied all last night, but you didn't put this into the equation (no pun intended). How could they put order operations in this?!? It's not like there was a quick easy way to remember this!!! Maybe If you had paid attention that one day back in 6th grade.......

 Do you want this to be you? I didn't think so. The only way to successfully remember your order of operations is P.E.M.D.A.S. (Otherwise known as G.E.M.S.). And you don't want to be that person who can't remember their order of operations, do you? Because it could change everything...........

What would we do without it?

Final Draft Question 1 Compare/Contrast (just in case)

"I've brought you the apple you wanted, sir," Digory said as he completed Aslan's quest. In Narnia, Chapter 13, Digory shows many honorable traits, but the two that stand out the most are trustworthiness and inner-strength. He show a lot of trustworthiness by only picking an apple for Aslan, opposed to taking one more either for himself or his mother. Instead, he follows Aslan's instructions, even though he was tempted to do the wrong thing. Of course, this also takes a lot of inner strength. For him to say no to immortality, or using the cure for his dying mother, shows that Digory knew believeing in Aslan was the choice. Even so, it took a lot of will power to ignore the Witch, who was trying to convince him to make the wrong decision, and not stray from the correct path. Even after his surprise meeting with Jadis, Digory made the right decision to only take one apple from the Garden. This definatly shows trustworthiness and inner-strength.

Lost in the Woods

 Your lost in a forest and the only person who can accompany you is a charector from a fictional book written by C. S. Louis. That dosn't leave you with to many options, but out of the few, I would definatly have to choose Polly Plummer. Polly is sensible, calm, yet very curious and open minded. An example of these fabulous traits would be when (on page 54-55) Polly knows that ringing a mysterious bell in a different world would be a bad idea. Did I mention she also has common sense? An example of her curiosity would be on page 106-107, when Polly and the rest hear a strange yet lovely voice. She remains calm and keeps a cool head, even though she is very excited and curious. All of these traits and qualities would help a lot in a bad situation, especially being lost in the woods. Polly would definatly be the best choice.

Olden Days Punishment

When my dad was a kid, and he got in trouble, there was a wide variety of punishments the teacher could choose from. Weather it was getting hit with a ruler, standing in the corner, or even the teacher throwing wooden chalkboard erasers across the room, the punishments were bad. But the one he remembers the most is having to write 200 lines for talking. But this wasn't the normal writing lines. No, he would have to write lines with one of those pens with the different colors, and you could change colors by pressing a little switch. But it gets worse. Every word had to be a different color. So not only was it very tedious, but by the time he was half way through the page, his hands would start to cramp, but he had to keep writing.

Polly's Diary Entry: The Voice

Dear Diary,

 Today, the most phenomenal thing happened! When we were all in the Wood Between the Worlds,

we got ourselves transported to a new world. First, it was pitch black and deadly silent. But then an extraordinary event happened! A strange but lovely Voice started singing! And soon, millions of stars just popped into the sky! Some may call me daft, but I am positively sure that The Voice created the stars! And this wasn't an ordinary Voice, either. While it was singing, I felt that nothing bad could possible happen to me. Soon The Voice started getting much louder, and the sky getting brighter. When The Voice was so loud as I could feel inside of me, the sun rose from behind the hills! Then I found where The Voice was coming from. A large, majestic lion was slowly making its way towards us, and singing plants to life while doing so. Obviously, Mr. Kirke and Jadis were horrified of it, but the cabby, Diggory, and I felt surprisingly calm, and didn't move. 

Food Picture