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After the last part of the book leaving off with Spencer being confused about why he went to war and dieter still being the proud nationalist that he is. Today we are talking about the end of the book and how it relates to the start and middle of the book also. Our main topic today is setting and mood with a little bit of historical understanding. The setting and mood of this part of the book might be the most brutal part being of the gory scenes that are described. Now both of these boys finally realize that going to war was the main objective is to kill was worse then they thought. Spencer still Refusing to accept the norms of war, that you simply let the enemy die when Spence hears the cries of a young wounded German soldier he knows he has to act. “What would he want someone to do, he asked himself, if his own little brother were the one down there?” In the end, his act of heroism is remembered, but he’s not there to witness it. Spence’s heroic act is not what he thought it would be, he gets shot by another German soldier while trying to do this. This relates to the setting and mood because one minute you might be trying to save someone’s life and the next moment someone is trying to take yours. Dieter, on the other hand, is worried about dying and is scared to fight now. In conclusion, this book really reflects on how someone might change their decisions and though one something after the time of doing that thing. The ending of this book was expected for me because of the fact that these boys were different the entire time but would change there mindset to become more similar.

After leaving off in the book Soldier Boy by Dan Hughes, Dieter believes that it Is his life’s duty to fight for his country. He uses this quote more than one time, “standing up for the Fatherland, making it a great nation again.” While spencer starts to realize that the only reason he is doing this is to impress a girl he may not see for another 10 years because of war. This week feeling is going to be the focus, because of what these boys and feeling about being in this harsh war and maybe some of there regretting feelings. In this part of the book with really see some of the most gruesome, mentally and physically hardpoints in the book and in the war. We start to see how these young boys and handling being in this war. First starting with Spencer who is fighting with the idea of why did he sign up for this so profusely without thinking it over. In every chapter when it talks about him, he fights with the metal idea of dying for nothing because he states that he is confused about what he is fighting for, (for himself). While Dieter is the less developed person compared to Spencer, Dieter is still in the war, fighting with pride and sharing no inside feeling yet with us about how he is dealing with what he has gotten himself into. There have been some small hints during Dieter’s time in the book about him starting to regret his possible rest of life decision. In conclusion, the feeling of these characters so far might not be the same but are starting to become very familiar. We might start to see some changes in physical activity from Spencer and the mental change in dieter as this book starts to end.

After leaving off with Dieter being 15 workings with the Hitler youth and what it looks like becoming eager and more eager to enlist to fight. We start reading about there next stages of life possibly heading into combat soon. Now entering these boys the first taste of war spencers battalion gets dropped of nearer to the front lines, Spencer starts to realize that what his sister said earlier in the book that he was just trying to ” Show up Luann” his crush. After spencers the first couple of days in London, he and his battalion are sent to the Ardennes Forest. Hitler undertook a surprise attack across the Belgian and Luxembourg borders, going fare into the Ardennes Forest.  Dieter is still fifteen and part of the Hitler Youth, digging trenches that he wishes he could be fighting in. In this part of the book, it is just these two boys preparing for the hardest times of there life. Listing some more similarities and differences of these boys, one is that Dieter believes that it Is his life’s duty to fight for his county uses this quote more than on time,l “standing up for the Fatherland, making it a great nation again.” While spencer start to realize the only reasons he is doing this is to impress a girl he may not see for another 10 years because of war. A Similarity about these boys is that how there aren’t view them going to war, with either father, a veteran of the Great War, who never talks about “the brave German boys”, because of the number of boys he has seen die and come home wounded of war. Also with Spencer’s parents making sure that this is what he really wanted to do with his life, being worried about him. In conclusion, we will see how these boys handle the devastation of war times mentally and physically,

Writing a Dvorak similar piece was enjoyable. I liked using garage band. In garage band I tried different instruments and used the one that sounded the best. My piece was jaws like with the sound getting louder and the beat of the music gets in a way big. I did two pieces and three tracks on both pieces. Garage band is a good app to play music digitally. The second piece sounded like something you would here these days with some cool keyboard. My pieces were more like a conversation rather than the EKG way. I enjoyed using garage band because the instruments sound just like the real instruments in reality. I like to make fun and crazy pieces at home also with garage band.  I made one called country rock which was rock and roll and bass, guitar. And I mess around with the different instruments a lot.  Overall I think working on a piece that was like Dvorak was fun.

this is my second piece click on it and you will be able to here my piece

 

Last Friday December 9th. We had another expert lecture It was Rush’s dad Mr.Schwartz. He was an attorney and a clerk in the supreme court. He was talking about the levels of court and how they were and presidency and how the declaration of independence works. He talked about what kind of cases he worked on mostly about people suing other people for large amounts of money. He is also is a lawyer.

The main idea of the book is selflessness. I picked this because the story made me think that the kids in the store were framed.They were accused of egging Mr.K’s store but they did not get at all angry. This is because the kids knew they had to show Mr.K that they could not have done the crime.

What happened in the story was that two boys and one girl were trying to earn money at Mr.k’s store because their grandmother works so hard. They wanted to give back to her by buying her a really nice hat. They wanted to buy the one she eyes down every time they walk to church on Sunday. She looks in the store thinking I want that but I can’t buy it because i don’t have enough money because i need to take care of the people that live with me. When I heard this part I was thinking that she is very selfless.The kids are also very selfless and they appreciate what their grandma does for them and they want to give back to her on Easter which is coming soon. They are going to try to earn the money by doing weird jobs at Mr.K’s store and they did that by helping him do stuff.  Also, Mr.K is a sad man and has lived a hard life so he really had no friends. When the kids got to know him a bit better then they became friends and they earned enough money. Then Mr.K gave them the hat and when the holiday came around the grandma was as happy as ever.

Our first launch was not incredibly successful i think we are going to make many changes to our rocket. Like changing the length of our rocket and how many wings there are on the rocket.  Most of all we will be looking for new material for our wings.Our team in class has already compared our rocket to other teams, we really looked at the one that went the highest. We had a 3d printed nose cone and so did they so we found that, that was not the

‘This pic shows why we needed a new material for the wings. problem. One our first launch we were just building the rocket and not checking it over a second time and we just used it for the launch straight away.  I think we should check if our rocket is 100 percent ready more that once before the next launch.

Rocketry Reflection November 9,2016 5 boyer. One of the biggest things that we were doing at this point was measuring and designing. I had to think to myself how many wings should I have? This is my group we are called The Rocketeers. In this picture we are creating our inspiration board. An inspiration board is basically the start to designing the rocket.Should we have any rocket extensions to our original rocket? What materials should we use? What should the nose cone look like?

This is a picture of our rocket after our launch. The launch was set up like this, there was the launch pad, you hook the rocket to the launch pad and there’s a bicycle pump for the air pressure and then there’s a rope with a handle when you pull it the rocket launches into the air.

Two people in my group hooked up the rocket to the launch pad then I went to the air pump and started pumping when I finished I said to my teacher “permission to launch”,  when she said yes I ran over to where the rest of my class was and started chanting 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BLASTOFF and the rocket soared through the air. When the rocket reached the ground there were some backfires. One of our wings snapped off so my group knew we had to do some major reiterations, maybe even reiterate the entire rocket.