Answering My Main Inquiry Essay

Around the week before last week we made our Capstone essay. The Capstone essay was basically an essay with all of our information stuffed in it. When we made our script, we had to choose what information to keep and what information to not use. Since I chose to make a video, the video had…

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Capstone Blog Post #2

Most people by now have finished the interview part of our capstone, Let me tell you a little about it. The interview part of our capstone project is supposed to help our research. Mrs. Cooper said that depending on the topic and/or the person we are interviewing, we might get a lot of info or…

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Capstone Main Inquiry and Sub-Questions

At the end of the year in 5th grade we do a project called capstone. Capstone is where we find a topic we’re interested in and don’t know much about. Then, we research it. My topic is the A-10 warthog. I feel excited for capstone because it will be fun researching something new. I also…

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Immigration Interview

These days we have been doing a immigration project.  The immigration project is a project where we interview someone and make it into a video. So far I have only interviewed and I am about to start doing the script  for the video.  I think this project is kind of inconvenient because we just finished…

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Rube Goldberg Blog Post 2

For the past five weeks we have been working on a Rube Goldberg Project. A Rube Goldberg is a complex machine that does a simple task. For my Rube Goldberg my simple task was to push a car. In this blog post I will cover the final process. For this Rube Goldberg I built whatever…

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Rube Goldberg Blog Post #1

We started our Rube Goldberg projects recently and so far. A Rube Goldberg is a complex machine that does a simple task. For this project we have to make a Rube Goldberg that has at least 8 steps and 3 simple machines. I have done my first sketch and started building a little. Before I…

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Feature Article Reflection

When we were still thinking about feather articles. What I had first thought about was endangered animals. But when we were getting a message about our articles I suddenly thought of the Holocaust. I knew I could write about this (Even if it wasn’t as much as everyone else) because I had just finished reading…

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Reading Timeline Reflection

This year we made a reading timeline, it is a timeline of my reading life(just the important books). To make it we got images of our selected books, then glue them onto little booklets then write a paragraph on our book, then we printed that out, then we glued that inside the booklets, then we…

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Choosing a Topic for my Feature Article

Our class is starting a new writing unit where we will be making feature articles. Usually when we do non-fiction writing we do How to… But this year we will make a feature article about something, A feature article is basically an article.  I only got to 2 topics which were sea otters and endangered…

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Personal Narrative Reflection

Sand mountain is probably the favorite narrative I have written, at first I wanted to write about when I went bungee trampolining but it wasn’t that interesting. So I chose the time I climbed the sand dunes in Colorado.  I think the strength of my story is that I used a lot of emotion, like…

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