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Goodbye School year 2018-2019!!!!

It’s been a long year. I’ve come a long way from those silly posts I made in October. It’s the last full day of school, and I am sad to leave school, but happy to go to camp. I will miss everyone in my class. *sniff*, I’m getting emotional.

I won’t be as active with my posts but I will try to post whenever I can.

HAGS! (have a great summer) to all students!!!!

Colonial America – pt 7 – Refletion

We are waving the colonial america unit goodbye after two long months of hard work. My teacher wanted us to wright a reflection of the unit, so here it is:

So, it’s pretty awesome being another person. Like, I thought this unit was going to be trash, but it wasn’t. A few weeks into the process, we were assigned colonies. I got put into a new England colony (this was fake), called Rockwood.

Then we became our colonists. I was wanting to be someone strong, calm and a little bit lazy; carefree. So I created Ebony, the governor of Rockwood. Ebony had a hard life back in England, but got to america and everything changed. She became loved and strong. I really loved impersonating someone because I always want to get out of my life and like, become someone else. Leaving my life and going back in time to put my spirit into someone and BE them. Ebony is the person I would want to be in that time young, spirited, and strong.

Ebony (Lusha) Stark has been through a lot. Like, A LOT. The boat ride, to her colony, was treacherous. Then she faced a hard winter while building the colony. Then her best friend got thrown in jail without a trial. So much more happened to her, but she managed through it. Each blow she took I took too, it was like her and my body were connected. I felt her pain and glory. Everything, she and I went through it all. I never really thought that she is a different person then me.

So, now let’s get to the process. We had to make ALL these relics, Ebony’s diary, her letters, her newspaper her stamps her EVERYTHING. Then we made a book out of it. I also wrote her life story, then turned it into an ignite. ignite is a 145 seconds presentation, with the slide advancing every 15 seconds. This was SO STRESSFUL and to be honest I HATED IT. but like yeah I had to do it. So, after we got that sorted out we did toy theaters. You could be placed in the french and Indian war, the stamp act, the Boston massacre, the Boston tea party, the midnight ride, and the declaration of independence. I was placed in the Boston Tea party. We created a script, puppets, a perciniam, and senses. It was all REALLY stressful, and I wish I didn’t have to do it. But I must admit, it was a good experience. So, I am really happy with this project, I love Ebony, and I give this unit a thumbs up!!!!

Intro to heredity

Hi guys!!! So, we have been doing some end of year stuffs and we did a like a On-demand essay on anything. here it is:

Intro to Heredity with Claire Breslow

So, let’s say you have blue eyes, but…. your mom and dad have brown eyes. So, where did you get your blue eyes? This is where heredity comes in. Heredity is the genes that get passed down from family member to family member, but you are going to need a bit of a scientific background on this. Let’s get started.

Cells are the smallest living organism you can find. There are unicellular living things, which have only one cell, but there are multicellular living things too, with multiple cells. You, for example, are multicellular. In a cell, there’s a nucleus, which is like that cells headquarters. In a nucleus, there is DNA. DNA is basically the code for our genetics. DNA is tightly packed, VERY tightly packed, into things called chromosomes. Chromosomes are made of DNA, and they usually look like an X, but you can never be sure. Each half of a chromosome is called a chromatid. Each part of a chromosome makes up some of your genes, and that is where we will begin.

Let’s use something simple for you to understand. Earlobes. There are two types of earlobes, attached, and free. The free earlobe, is dominant, meaning only one piece of DNA has to be preset for the trait to show. But attached earlobes are recessive, so two of them have to be present for the trait to show. We can represent free earlobes with a capital E, and attached, with a lowercase e. So, if you have attached earlobes, you would be represented with ee. But, if you have free earlobes, you can be EE, or Ee, because as I said, the dominant trait can be shown, even if only on is present.

Okay, now that you know the basics of heredity, we can get a little more advanced. Here’s the question, how can you tell what gene a baby will have. (We are still using earlobes) So, let’s say, one parent has free earlobes, EE. But the other parent, has Ee. So what will their baby be? Let’s find out. Draw a square on a piece of paper. Then you divide the square into four parts. You put the Ee parent on the top, and the EE parent on the left side. Put the Ee parents E on top of the top left square. Then put that parents e on top of the top right square. Then put EE parent’s first E on the left side of the top left square, and do the same to the other E on the bottom left square. Whoof, that was confusing. Now see if you can follow me here. Line each of the e’s up in each the squares. So, the top left square should have EE,and the bottom left square also has EE, but the top right square has Ee, and the bottom right square also says Ee. Now you know that there is a 50% chance that the baby is EE, and a 50% chance it will be Ee. So, no matter what, the baby will have free earlobes. This method is called a punnet square, and it is very helpful.

Now, you know some stuff about heredity, but this is just the Need To Know facts. Heredity is a SUPER LARGE field and you should keep on studying. Just saying the Ameba Sisters biology videos got me hooked on heredity and made me know everything that I am telling you now. So, KEEP CALM AND TRACK YOUR TRAITS!!!

Passion project

Hi guys!! In school, we are doing one of the final projects of the year. It’s called a passion project. You get to choose anything, from Piccaso to mars, and do a big presentation about it! You can do a gallery, slideshow, ted talk, poster, posters, or really anything you want!!!!

I’m doing the basics of Atoms in a ted talk. Why you may ask? Okay, I thought it would be cool to do something more science like and something I knew nothing about. Do you want to see the script for my ted talk? Here it is:

Everything in the world, your clothes, the food you ate yesterday, you, as in you watching this ted talk, my wonderful teacher, my wonderful teacher’s cat, all of us, abiotic and biotic, we all are made of the same thing. It’s an atom. A-T-O-M.  Tiny little circles that make up everything.

99.99999999999% of an atom is empty space, and they are 100 picometers long, otherwise known as a ten billionth of a meter. In the center of the atom there is the nucleus. It’s made up of two nucleons, particles. First off there are Neutrons. Neutrons have no charge, none at all. They are also pretty big. They are ALWAYS in the nucleus, and there are usually many of them. So, to determine the number of neutrons in atom, you only have to subtract the number of protons from the mass number. (the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units). Each atom has a similar number of neutrons. Neutrons were discovered in 1932, by James Chadwick. These are very important and a atom wouldn’t be an atom without a Neutron.

Then there are protons, Protons are also nucleons, and they were discovered in 1920, by Ernest Rutherford. Protons are bonded (held together) to Neutrons by a force called the nuclear force. This force is SUPERSTRONG, and is SUPERHARD to break. Also, protons have a positive charge, a positive charge of ONE. (from the charge of the quarks that make up nucleons). They are pretty huge, about the same size as a neutrons, and also like neutrons, are critical to the atom, and no atom, not copper, not oxygen, not carbon, no atom in the periodic table is complete without a proton. I should actually say nucleon, because it’s also true that no element has 0 neutrons ether.

Then there are electrons, and they have a negative charge. Electrons were discovered in the year 1897, by someone named J.J Thomson. They are tiny, WAY tinier than a proton or neutron, and they are not nucleons. Yep, I said it, they are definitely not nucleons. They go around the atom on orbitals, 1s, 2s, 2p, and 3s. These “orbitals” are made from the density of the one or more electrons that spin around the nucleus.  The electromagnetic force causes this spinning to happen. Lemme tell you about it. Since protons have a positive charge, and electrons have a negative charge, they attract and repel each other, creating the spinning. The spinning, is ULTRAFAST, 1/137 of the speed of light! Which for your information, is WAY faster than the speed of sound. So the atoms in you are orbiting faster than my words are reaching your ear. Isn’t that  super neat?

Atoms are VERYIMPORTANT and VERYCRITICAL to our existence. Every type of atom, whether it’s helium or carbon is important, very important. As I speak, Scientists are discovering more atoms and more materials. But they aren’t going as fast as they can. They need, WE NEED more people to help find more types of atoms and unlock more parts of the physics world. Elements are waiting for you to discover. I hope you learned something, because this is important, and it’s not going fast enough, and someone needs to step up and do something, if anyone, it’s YOU!

I really hope you didn’t find that boring. Anyways, thats it.

 

Colonial America – pt 6 1/2 – Records 2

This is Records continued:

Week 93:

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 9$ Barrels
Market 25$ Meat
Newspaper 40$ Newspaper
Tavern 17$ Main course
Bait shop 2$ Bait
Bucher 8$ Lamb chop
School 12$ School
Religious school 10$ Kids 8-9
Money made (all): 123$ Difference from last week: 21$ Where was most: Newspaper

YAY! (it’s because of common sense)

Week 94:

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 3$ Barrels
Market 25$ Vegetables
Newspaper 8$ Newspaper
Tavern 16$ Dessert
Bait shop 2$ Bait
Bucher 8$ Beef
School 12$ School
Religious school 11$ Kids 12-16
Money made (all): 85$ Difference from last week: 38$ Where was most: Market

Eek (people wasted their money on common sense)

Week 95:

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 10$ Barrels
Market 27$ Meat
Newspaper 4$ Newspaper
Tavern 26$ Appetizers
Bait shop 4$ Bait
Bucher 6$ Chicken/turkey/goose
School 15$ School
Religious school 11$ Kids 16-17
Money made (all): 99$ Difference from last week: 14$ Where was most: Market

Phew! It’s back up again.

Colonial America – pt 6 – Records

We are back to 1773-7 and Ebony is taking the economy into account:

I’ve been keeping track of the things people buy in the market, it helps me prepare for economic drops:

Week 89:

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 9$ Barrels
Market 28$ Dairy
Newspaper 5$ Newspaper
Tavern 19$ Drinks
Bait shop 3$ Bait
Bucher 8$ Mutton
School 16$ School
Religious school 10$ Kids 12-13
Money made (all): 98$ Difference from last week: 14$ Where was most: Market


Week 90:

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 8$ Barrels
Market 27$ Grain
Newspaper 9$ Newspaper
Tavern 21$ appetizers
Bait shop 4$ Bait
Bucher 4$ pork
School 16$ School
Religious school 9$ Kids 4-5
Money made (all): 94$ Difference from last week: 4$ Where was most: Market

Week 91::

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 5$ Barrels
Market 21$ Grain
Newspaper 7$ Newspaper
Tavern 38$ Main courses
Bait shop 8$ Bait
Bucher 9$ beef
School 16$ School
Religious school 9$ Kids 9-11
Money made (all): 107$ Difference from last week: $13 Where was most: Tavern

Week 92:

Shop Money made (total) Where it was most
Cobbler 7$ Barrels
Market 29$ Dairy
Newspaper 8$ Newspaper
Tavern 20$ Dessert
Bait shop 7$ Bait
Butcher 4$ Lamb chop
School 18$ School
Religious school 9$ Kids 6-18
Money made (all): 102$ Difference from last week: 5$ Where was most: Market

 

Colonial America – pt 5 – The story

We are going to go to the future in Ebony’s story. Now she’s very old, and is telling her great niece about the story of her life:

I’ve had a long life. I do not keep track of my age anymore. I have no successor, but I know I will live longer. When I was youngI went to boarding school, dressed up as a boy so I could continue my passions. I tried many jobs, including being on the council of elders of my town and working in a law firm. All of them I got kicked out of because I was a girl. I wanted to create a community where girls could do the same things as boys could. So I spent all of my savings and came on The Crown to the new world. I was young, carefree, when I became the governor of Rockwood. The king probably chose me the way he always does, with the sealed box you can’t open until you reach the new land. I was the only one on the boat with experience. We docked in the morning. I knew the land where we had docked was the perfect place to live, it was in a big field. There was forest, an overflowing pond, and mountains. When we got to work, I felt I had to work too. Leaders like his highness, never lifted a finger to help build their empire, but I wanted to be different. So I l went to work, and I made friends, more than I ever had in England. I met a doctor, named Eshal. I met a school teacher and priest, Silvia. But the work was hard. I saw barely any woman chopping down trees or sawing the hardwood. It made me sad. After awhile the work turned from hard too easy. We were going faster. I remember when Eshal showed me to my house, a giant room atop the meeting house. But work was stopped when there was a horrid blizzard. It tore a hole in our colony, not just the buildings and people, but in our souls too. I lost some of my element of being carefree, but in my diary, in my heart, I still was me. A few months passed, and our colony was on the ball again. We made our charter, a beautiful thing. We hung it up in the meetinghouse. I look at it till this day, smiling whenever I go by it. We had a big party. That night I looked over our colony. My second stage of life was done.

But there was more to do. Now that we had completed the colony, we needed to find a better way to get the stuff we needed. We didn’t have enough grain, or starch. I reached out to the colony of New Foursten. We started to trade. I met their governor, Bella, and her successor, Emma. I am good friends with them, up until this day. Then it happened. The quartering act. English troops stormed into the houses of colonists took their food and water. They said they were here to protect us from the natives. They would stay in their houses, sleep in their beds, and make them wash his coat. Then the Stamp act happened, that whole thing. That led to the Boston massacre, tarring and feathering and that. I remember one night I was visiting Boston, to drop off some fish. Suddenly, I heard shouting. I stopped. I looked over at the harbor. There were hundreds of rowboats heading in the direction of a few British tea ships. There was a woman standing at the harbor. I asked her what was going on. She said the people in the rowboats were going to dump the tea of of the ships. She also said she was a daughter of liberty, and she let me into her boat to go see it happen. They did it so quickly, they even swept the decks after. They called it the Boston tea party. But Parlament got mad, and created the intolerable acts. Everyone got really ticked off and started to riot. This was bad. But I couldn’t do anything. This made me angry. My people, getting babysitted, taxed and having to give up their homes, and I couldn’t do anything! Also, Silvia was accused of stealing bread, then went to jail with no trial. Did you hear that? No trial. The British didn’t tell me. Instead, they told Eshal, my second in command. I couldn’t  believe it. Then the war broke out, the declaration of independence was made. I watched over the war for many years. There has only been a few fights in Rockwood. I can’t say much, the thought of bloodshed makes me shiver. Soon the war came to an end. America had won. Now I am an old lady, but still me. Now YOU, little one have to choose where you want to go, and who you want to be.

 

Colonial America – pt 4 – Day in the life

So, who wants to take a peek into the daily life of Ebony Stark? (This is the part where you say me) Okay here it is:

I wake up in the morning. Great, I slept in. The sun is already up. I run down the stairs and I burst out of the meeting house doors. I jog down the dusty road and I check the time on my pocket watch. It was almost 9:00 am. I had to see if the trades were ready. We are trading with New Foursten. I run to Alexander’s house. He’s our trader. I slow to a walk and find him fishing in the pond. “Hey,” I call, “please tell me it’s ready”

“It’s by the front door,” he yells.

“Thanks”

I grab a heavy box from the front door and walk away. The box is very heavy, and I struggle with it. I see my friend, Silvia, and she says, “Hey do you want me to help you?”

“Yeah, that would be nice.” She takes one side of the box and we carry it down the path, We chat on my way back to the meeting house, and then we depart. I load it up the stairs and drop it on the floor. I open it carefully. Inside the box, there is fur and packs of blubber. I cringe at the packets as I count them. 16, 17, 18. I take a sheet of paper and write “18 – blubber” on it. I move on to the fur. “10 – badger fur, 28 – deer skin, 19 – fox fur”. I fold up the piece of paper, put it in my pocket and open the cabinet. I take out some cornbread and eat it at my desk. I take the piece of paper out of my pocket and do my best sewing it into the box. After that I repack the box and put it on the table. I realize I have some time to spare so I write in my diary. But my work is interrupted by a empty jar of ink. So I run down the stairs and bolt to Eshal’s house. She lets me in and I borrow some of her ink. Trust me, she has a lot of ink. I jog back into the meeting house and run up the stairs. Once i’m in my room I finish my entry and flop down on the bed. I close my eyes. Today I’m hosting Scott, Arrow leader, and Bella, New fourstens leader. I set the table and I make tea, cornbread, salad and some other things. I wait for them to arrive. I hear a horn. Great, they are here. They come in, we talk, we eat. Bella introduces me to Scott. We talk more. Bella looks inside the box and is delighted. I wonder why she didn’t bring Emma, her apprentice. She is a charming little girl. She would like it up here. Bella took the box with her when she went back.

I took a nap after they left. It was around 30 minutes. I woke up and washed the dishes. I really have nothing to do. I go outside and use the outhouse. After I was done, I took a rag from the counter and I scrub the seats of the meetinghouse. It was the only thing I could do. You might think being the governor of a colony is very exciting, but all you do is sit there and wait. Sometimes you will hold a meeting or go somewhere. But that is once in a blue moon. Today was the most exciting day I had in a long time. I don’t know what to do. I walk up and down the rows of seats in the meetinghouse. I jump over them as if they were hurdles. Hop hop hop BUMP! I hit my leg on the side of the chair. OW. It stings. But still, I keep going, I NEED exercise. Hop hop hop bump hop hop hop hop hop hop bump hop hop.

I walk out of the meeting house and in to the tavern. I watch as a few colonists gamble over sweets. I sit down and watch. I order myself coffee and peer over one of their shoulders. One says, “I can’t tell is that a one or a seven.” The other one says, “You are right Sam, the stupid stamp is covering it!” they get more and more angry. The Sam guy asks if they knew what tax collector gave him the stamp. The other guy replied, I couldn’t hear what he said, but they charge out of the tavern yelling curses and beating their fists against their palms. Of course I hated the king, but I felt it was wrong to beat up an innocent person that came across the ocean to hand out stamps just to feed their wives and kids. I finish my coffee and I take a few coins out of my pocket. I slap them down on the table and walk out of the bar. I go back to my house and I open the cabinet.

I take out my bowie knife and I feel the metal in my palm. Then I hear “BANG BANG BANG”. I rush to the window to see what it is. There’s a British general at the door. He’s old, and doesn’t look like he just came here for money. “Open up ‘n there or I’ll shoot!” He yells. Ugh, everyday these soldiers try to find homes, the younger ones find the nicest families, but people like this general go look for the richest people, and the meetinghouse is VERY big. I take some fox fur and drape it on me so he wouldn’t recognize me. I went downstairs and opened the door. I still had my knife with me. “Um, hello sir.” I say with a British accent. “You live here, don’t you?” he snarls. “No” I say, “I was only scrubbing the chairs, it’s the meeting house.” He slaps me on the cheek hard. It stings so bad. “Puny woman, what’s up there?’ He points to the stairwell. “That’s, that’s where we keep important files.” I lie. He walks away. I run up the stairs and throw the fur to the floor. I sit on the bed and look at my knife. I hold my cheek as I take dinner out of the cupboard. It was nothing but leftover salad. I walk around my tiny room. I come to the half empty bookshelf. The dusty books remind me of my house back in England. I take one book out and open it. It turns out to be the diary of one of my many brothers. I read it cover to cover. It has lots of interesting things, like deep dark secrets and dreams. Too bad he passed away. I put the book away and I curl up on the bed. Then, I was asleep, with only the company of the stars.

 

Colonial America – pt 3 – Finish Entry

So in school we have been creating our colonies with cardboard and clay, and we finished it. Whoo-hoo! We are all very happy and relived that we finished on time.In our imaginary world, my character(Ebony), has been writing a crazy amount in her diary. She has one entry about finishing putting up Rockwood(our colony). It goes something like this:

Rockwood outskirts, Whale house

Ebony Stark

From here atop the whale house I can see my finished colony. Yep, I said it, were done. It’s been hard work but everything is up and running. We’re finished, the little ones have a school to go to. everyone has a house, a church, three meals and a job. The only problem are the roads. They are made of dry grass and dust, and they keep blowing away. I suppose the people of rockwood will get to it, because they really have nothing to do tomorrow, except looking over the top of the whale house to admire Rockwood. I should be going to sort out the day, because it’s almost 7:00, in the morning. I tie my hair up and get to work.

Yeah, she’s pretty spunky.

Vacation – to Vail, Colorado

It’s spring break. Almost the end of them year. I’m going up to Vail to ski, but I don’t want to. Spring break is when the trees get their leaves back and I don’t want to miss it. But one tiny little part of me tells my brain that I should be happy.

Okay, I’m back. It’s the last day in Vail and I was wrong. IT WAS SO FUN. I really loved the ski trails and the mountain itself. Below the mountain is the tiny town of Vail. It’s very cute but the food is not the best, except for a particular sushi restaurant in the center of the town, which was amazing. Also, the town has some awesome stores and stuff like that. I think I have gotten better at skiing. Correction; I HAVE gotten better at skiing. I recommend this place to you whoever you are, and do not underestimate your vacation!

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