Hello! We did a debate. My group was, Should plastic bags get banned or Should plastic bags not get banned? For the first practice debate I did, plastic bags should not be banned. Researching this wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. I found a lot of good information the first time around. When I did the first debate it was very scary. I had no clue what it would be like, but in the end it was a lot of fun. For the second practice debate I did, plastic bags should be banned. Finding information wasn’t very hard this time either. It was less scary presenting it this time than the first time, but it was still scary. For the final debate I did, plastic bags should not be banned. Finding information was a piece of cake, since I had already researched both sides. I made flash cards and those helped me a lot. Once it was time to debate it was very scary, but it all ended up well and I had a lot of fun debating. My thoughts changed by the end of the debate, I thought 100% plastic bags should be banned, but now that I got to research both sides, I am now thinking that we shouldn’t ban plastic bags!
Category: Reading
Wish
For the second time reading this book, it just got better then it already is. The book is about a girl named Charlie, who makes the same wish every day. She then gets sent to live with her aunt and uncle which she barely knows. But then she finds a dog named Wishbone, and everything turns around. I highly recommend reading this book to the class of 2020 – 2021. I recommend it because so much stuff happens. This book really draws you in, and you never want to put the book down. This book is such a good book, and the class of 2020 – 2021 will love it.
Ignite Reflection
Hi, I’m Sofia,
When Mr.Casal first introduced us to an ignite I was really confused. But then when he started to explain what it was, I started to understand it a little better. After that, we had to think of a topic for our ignite. I was thinking of a bunch of topics, but I just didn’t like them. Thinking of a topic took a bit of time, but I eventually got one, I did my ignite about my camp.
After I got my topic, I started writing. The writing wasn’t that hard, because I knew about my camp. But what was hard, was getting the ignite on the right timing. Once we finished writing we started to time our slides. The timing was really hard because if you forget one word, the whole thing would be off timing. This was really stressful for me. I had a lot of writing and I had to fit it all into, 1 minute 30 seconds. Also, we only had 1 more week, to work on this project.
Then we had to present our project, in front of the whole class. I was so nervous. Mr.Casal said, “raise your hand if you want to go first.” Nobody raised their hand. So then Mr.Casal decided to call on someone. He called 0n me! I was so nervous, but I still went. It wasn’t so bad, he just gave me a few corrections when I was done. He told us we could start to find pictures for our Ignite. This was probably my favorite part of this whole Ignite.
Once that was all done, Mrs.Rickard said we had to do a group ignite, about natural disasters. I was kind of nervous but not as nervous as the first Ignite. Once Mrs.Rickard told us about the group Ignite, we got the natural disaster we had to research on. My group was Tsunamis. Then we had to pick between the Causes, Effects, Saftey and Prevention, and Important events of Tsunamis. I decided to pick important events. After we did all of that, we started researching.
Once we finished researching, we started to gather all our information and write it into a script. This was hard because I had so much information and I had to cut it all into 30 seconds. We also had to time it to make sure both slides were 15 seconds each, and 30 seconds altogether. Once we got the timing, we had to practice. But when I say practice I mean, Practice! We practiced a lot but, I think It all paid off.
It was finally the day. We had to present our slide show in front of all the parents. But the thing is, Mr.Casal put them all together so it was a huge slideshow, and there was no stopping. I was really nervous. There were so many parents, and if we don’t finish on timing, then it could ruin the whole entire presentation. Eventually, it was our turn to present. We had 15 seconds to get in front of the screen, and then we had to start talking. Once we finished I was feeling proud. I think everybody did a good job, including me.
Extreme Wheather Volcanoes and Tsunamis
This is a Venn Diagram, about Tsunamis and Volcanoes. This Venn Diagram is all about the important events of Tsunamis and Volcanoes. Their are the differences of Tsunamis and Volcanoes i the big circles, and where it says similarities are the similarities of Volcanoes and Tsunamis. Their are questions we have about Tsunamis and Volcanoes, and pictures. I hope you like this Venn Diagram.
The Cultural Universals of Peru
In my Cultural Universal Project I studied the Cultural Universals of Peru. I learned about Politics, Social Aspects, Cultural Arts, Economics and Beliefs. I had a lot of fun. My favorite part of the project was making the Adobe Spark video, recording, studying and learning about Peru. Something that was challenging was making the script because sometimes I didn’t find the information I needed. Another thing I found challenging was finding pictures of my country. For example, I could never find a picture of the president or the flag of my country I couldn’t find any pictures of Peruvian food. I would love to learn more, overall I enjoyed this project.
Summer Book Recommendations – Ghosts
Title: “Ghosts”
Series:
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Recommended By: Sofia Trelles
Catrina and her family are moving to a new town, it’s scary for Catrina because the people of the town believe in ghosts. Catrinas little sister wants go to the festival of Dia de los Muertos, but she can’t because she has cystic fibrosis and she can’t go outside because she can get hurt so Catrina goes for her. Maya wants to meet their grandmothers ghost, read the book to find out if they ever meet.
I would give this book a five out of five stars because the ending is so so good and when I needed to stop reading, I didn’t want to put the book down because I wanted to get to the end of the book. I would recommend this book because the ending is so good and you wouldn’t ever want to put the book down.
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