Designing and Building Rocket #1

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Designing and building our first rocket had its pros and cons. First was the designing.

We made an inspiration board to help us see what we needed to do. We had to make a nose cone, a body, and fins. We had to decide what shape the fins were going to be, what size body, and what shape nose cone. One of the cons of doing this is that we all have to agree on the stuff to put on the rocket. This is a project all about working together and communicating. The steps to building the rocket are first, we have to take a PVC pipe and wrap a piece of paper around it to make the body then use electrical tape to wrap the body in the colors we want and to make sure it stays secure.

Then, we had to decide on the shape of the fins. Hana and I wanted one shape and Mark and Asher had another idea so we had to come up with a fin that combined all of our ideas into one fin shape.

Then came the nose cone. We all cut out a circle and cut one line to the middle and folded it. It turns into a shape that looks like a party hat. Then, we had to attach the nose cone to the top of the rocket and the fins around the bottom. We did four fins. Our group name is the shooting stars and the colors of our rocket is red and yellow.

20 Facts on the Stamp Act

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  1. The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765.
  2. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
  3. Ship’s papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
  4. The tax applied to all legal documents, such as contracts, licenses, deeds, diplomas, and ship clearance papers. It also applied to pamphlets, newspapers, playing cards, advertisements, and dice.
  5. In order to purchase these items, a person had to also purchase a tax stamp that was embossed on (or attached to) the item.
  6. Any legal documents that did not have a stamp were considered invalid. If anyone distributed documents without the proper stamp, they could be fined.
  7. They passed this law because they had to raise money after the French and Indian War
  8. On May 29, 1765, the Virginia legislature adopted resolutions stating that only the Virginia legislature itself could tax Virginians.
  9. These Virginia Resolutions were written and introduced to the legislature by Patrick Henry.
  10. After they were adopted, the resolutions were published in many colonial newspapers.
  11. They inspired widespread colonial resistance to the tax.
  12. When they heard about it, the colonists were vehemently opposed to the new tax.
  13. According to the act, the money raised from the tax was supposed to be used for the protection and defense of the American colonies.
  14. However, the colonists suspected that Parliament planned to spend the money on defense for England, not the colonies.
  15. The colonists were also angry because they did not believe Parliament should be allowed to impose a tax on the colonies without their consent.
  16. Although resented, the Sugar Act tax was hidden in the cost of import duties, and most colonists accepted it.
  17. The Stamp Act, however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation.

  18. And for and upon every pack of playing cards, and all dice, which shall be sold or used within the said colonies and plantations, the several stamp duties following (that is to say):

  19. For every pack of such cards, one shilling.

  20. And for every pair of such dice, ten shillings.

Practice Ignite

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In this blog post, I will tell you all about our Ignite project that we are doing. My Ignite is about gymnastics and for an Ignite project, you would make a slideshow but you would not put in the words. All you would put in is pictures. You do that because you are talking the whole time and the pictures are helping the audience figure out what you are saying and it also helps you to remember what you are supposed to say because you don’t have your script when you are preforming and you have to memorize it before hand. Back to my ignite about gymnastics, I have been doing it since I was 2 and am still doing it at the age of 9 almost 10 (4th grade).