on The reason the writer alternated chapters of Refugee with different characters is probably to show that history repeats itself and all are interesting. The impact it has on people reading is that readers understand history repeats itself and its a cool writing strategy.
on In Refugee, the characters all leave their countries for various reasons.
Josef leaves because he is a Jew and the Nazi’s tell him that if he doesn’t leave they will put his father back in a concentration camp.
Isabel leaves because Fidel Castro is being unfair to the Cubans and keeping everything for himself and her Dad would be arrested if she didn’t.
Mahmoud leaves his country because the war is putting his family in danger and the government is hurting random people and he wants safety.
on Today we shared our videos. I was kind of nervous to share mine, but I think Michael and I did pretty well. I think Ms. Boyer liked ours. I was kind of embarrassed to share my work because I kept thinking “What if they don’t like it” or “What if I did bad”. After I shared it though, I don’t think anyone thought it was bad. We made some edits to the video and changed it up from the video I put in my last post. This is the new and improved one:
The video was fairly hard to make and took a lot of time and effort. I think it came out well. This is my last blog post about Rube Goldberg. Thanks for reading!
on George’s Secret Key To The Universe:
This book is about a kid named George who lives simply, without any electronics, and even has a pig. One day, his pig gets lost in the neighboring yard, and while looking for the pig, George meets this guy Eric who owns a supercomputer which can make windows and doors into outer space. One day, George comes back from school, and Eric’s daughter, Annie, says she’s been to outer space, and when George doesn’t believe her, she takes him on a trip through the supercomputers door to space, and they start riding a comet, and see a lot of planets.
This book is realistic fiction, and I recommend it. This is the cover:
on Our Rube Goldberg worked! We successfully knocked down a bowling pin with it! We also finished our video. I know I said it would be in the sixth blog post, but the excitement is too much to bear. This is it:
If you didn’t think that was AWESOME, then I think something is wrong with your awesome meter. After that success, we were so excited. The big thing going through our brains was “It finally worked! It finally worked!” We added some fails to hit high on the rubric. We made this with WeVideo because that was really convenient, and we already had accounts and knew how to use it. We might make some last minute edits, and if we do, I’ll put it on my 6th (maybe even 7th) blog post. Michael and my schedules rarely both have free time, so he usually can’t come to my house and I have to work alone. Its much harder working alone because you have to do 2 times as much work as if you were doing it with a partner, but what’s good about working alone is that you have no one to argue about ideas with, and you know you’ll do what is in your mind right. My mom usually subbed for him though. But it was helpful to run ideas by him, even if we had to do it through text. That concludes my 5th blog post. Thanks for reading!