Carl816

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**__Introduction:__**
This school year for me has been fantastic, and I have been improving every term. Our main subjects are Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math. I never really liked Social Studies and Science before but now I've actually favorite it. In Language Arts we've been reading a book called "Iqbal" It is about this young boy living in Pakistan that changes every children's lives. In Social Studies we were studying about Mesopotamian and their social orders but we are now finished with that and we are now learning about Egypt and their social orders. In Science we are learning about Buoyancy and Density. In Math we are currently learning about adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing fractions together. Two subjects I'm really good at would probably be Math and Science because I really find them easy ever since last year. Two subjects that I really need to improve on are Social Studies and Language Arts because for some reason I always struggle in those subjects. My goals for the next 6 weeks are to get good marks that will make me and my parents proud.

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__Term 1 Reflection__
In Term 1 for math it seemed really hard at first but once I learned more and more about the subject it turned easy for me. This term I have learned the Pythagorean formula and how to use it whether we had to find b2 or c2. I learned more things about finding the area of a triangle and finding the perimeter of the triangle. I’ve learned how to create a video and post it on the blogger. Probably my favorite part of Term 1 was re-making a Sesame Street video and instead of it being the real video we changed the script to math terms. In Term 1, I have done all my assignments in class but some were incomplete because I had some trouble in some questions because there was some math questions that got me confused and by that means, I didn’t know what to do. What I would like to do better for Term 2 is to finish all my assignments in class, finish all my homework in due date, participate more in the blogger, and study a bit more for our unit tests as I seemed like I struggled a lot in my unit tests because I want to do good better in Term 2 Math then Term 1 Math.

This would be an example of one of my blog posts this year : [|__http://spmath81610.blogspot.com/2010/11/carls-homeworkbook-scibe-post.html__]

If you couldn’t go to the link; This is what it looked like. I have chosen to do the questions 4,7, and 8 in the homework book on page 33.

4. 6m2 - 1m2 = h <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">36m-1m=35m <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">✓ 35m = 5.9m <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">The ladder reaches 5.9m up the wall.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">7. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">width = 17cm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">length = 26cm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">diagonal line = 31cm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">17cm2 + 26cm2 = 31cm2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">289cm + 676cm = 961cm. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">The quadrilateral is not a rectangle because 289cm + 676cm does not equal 961cm, it equals 965.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">8. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">20 km/h for 10h west equals 200km <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">20 km/h for 7 1/2h south equals 150km <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">200km2 + 150km2= ? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">40,000km + 22,500km= 62500km <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">✓ 62,500km =250 km2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">The ship is 250km away from the port.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Proportion, Ratio and Rate__
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Here are the links & video to my Sesame Street Math Video.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Sesame Street Math Video] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="L7XEcoOcHCA?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Term 2 Reflection__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did you do well on? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where did you struggle? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will you do better next term? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did you learn about percent, surface area and volume?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On Term two I think I did pretty well on our math quizzes and unit tests and that’s because I started to really do my homework on the textbook that really made it easier on me when we had a test.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I really struggled on our online math homework, and my report card said I did too. I struggled on posting scribe post homework on time, commenting as much on the blog, and I was also lacking in scribe posts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I will do better by doing more work online on the blog because that part really killed my mark for math. I posted some scribes late and never really commented and I decided to do all that more often.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I learned plenty of things about percent, surface area and volume. I learned that percent means out of 100 and is another name for hundredth. For surface area I learned about the area of a 2D and 3D shape. I learned a lot from volume, I learned how to use the formula properly.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Integers__
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Here is the link to my "Great Big Book of Integers" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Language Art =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__The Man who planted trees__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3: The man who planted trees relates to me because we have days to clean up our environment and also their are people who warn us about pollution in plays, and also many other ways in our community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5: People who approach the problem about our environment, are by thinking about all of the problems in the world today. How we take care of our environment. In my own opinion it motivates people because the earth is becoming severely injured and people need to start becoming aware or there will be nothing that can survive on our planet.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6: The different characters attitudes during the play are: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jean: Jean agrees what Elzeard is doing and supports it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Charcoal Burners: They don’t care about the land nor about the trees. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Elzeard: He wants to have a better life for people around him, for them to be able to live and be happy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Government: They don’t care about the land or about the trees, just like the charcoal burners. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Member of Parliament: They don’t care, they could care less about the trees and the environment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Timber Merchants: They don’t care about the environment, all they care about is their money, and how they are getting paid. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Villagers: They don’t know how it got there, but they are grateful because they can live a happy life with that forest that Elzeard planted.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10: Trees affects the environment by a lot. It takes in carbon dioxide and it gives us fresh air. It can give warmth for family and also if there are bushes or food like an apple tree it gives the family around the area food. If there are food and berries animals can get to it and be healthy.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Child Labour Wordle__**
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**Thank You Ma'am Illustration**__
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**GRADE EIGHT STUDENT ASSIGNMENT- PORTFOLIO REFLECTION**__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Subject:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">English Language ArtsShort Story - "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**TASK:** //What was I asked to do for this assignment?// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I was required to compose a friendly letter using information from a short story.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**INTENT:** //Why am I completing this assignment?// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are several reasons I am doing this writing assignment. First, I learned the elements of a short story and learned to identify them in our story. Next, we learned the components to write in a friendly letter format. Then, we applied specific story details and wrote in the first person as if we were a character from the short story

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**CRITERIA:** //How do I know what I needed to do to be successful in completing this assignment?// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- use proper Friendly Letter format referring to letter frame- compose the rough copy letter using specific details from the short story and write the letter from the perspective of on of the main characters in the story- remember to use appropriate tone and audience for the letter- complete all steps in the writing process as set out in the assignment directions.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** NEXT STEPS: **// I can now.. // <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//-// Identify the elements of a short story and find than in a text. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- support my thoughts using specific examples from a text. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- write with the appropiate tone while thinking about who my audience is. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- write a piece of writing using the friendly letter format. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- write from a point of view of a character <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- complete a piece of writing by going through all the steps of the writing process.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**Simile Definition Card**__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__GRADE EIGHT STUDENT ASSIGNMENT- PORTFOLIO REFLECTION__**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Subject:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">English Language ArtsSimile - Definition Card

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**TASK:** //What was I asked to do for this assignment?// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I was required to create a definition card that represents a definition, an example, and a diagram/image of a simile.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**INTENT:** //Why am I completing this assignment?// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are several reasons I am doing this assignment (Definition Card). First, this assignment helped me comprehend how a simile is used. Also this assignment helped me visually represent a simile. Finally, this assignment helped me come up with more ideas that will help me in poetry and any other future needs.

<span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**CRITERIA:** //How do I know what I needed to do to be successful in completing this assignment?// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- create your own example of simile- represent visual simile- needs to be neatly finished (written, drawn, and coloured)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** NEXT STEPS: **// I can now.. // <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- identify similies in many different texts. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- create more effective and creative similies. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- explain similies with examples of images. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- use it to help me for poetry and for the future.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Explore Independent Response__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Thank You Ma'am Letter__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**Iqbal Chapter 1 Response**__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Social Studies =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Early Peoples Definition Card__**
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Cro-Magnon Life Poster__**
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__GRADE EIGHT STUDENT ASSIGNMENT- PORTFOLIO REFLECTION__**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Subject:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Social Studies <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cro-Magnon Poster.

<span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**TASK:** //What was I asked to do for this assignment?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I was required to create a poster outlining the social organization, home, food, and the tools used by the cro-magnon people.

<span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**INTENT:** //Why am I completing this assignment?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are several reasons why I completed this assignment. First, this assignment helped me comprehend visually how the cro-magnons lived. Also this assignment helped me to create a visual organizer which is one way of representing your idea. Finally this assignment helped me prepare for the unit test by serving as a study guide of cro-magnon daily life.

<span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**CRITERIA:** //How do I know what I needed to do to be successful in completing this assignment?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- create visual organizer to show specific details/aspects of cro-magnon daily life. (home, social organization, food, tools) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- each section of poster needed heading <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- followed given rubric to complete tasks. (title, neatly done images, colouring)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** NEXT STEPS: **// I can now.. // <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- create a visual organizer showing important details for topic details. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- help another study tool I can use to help me prepare for tests <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- help create rubric/criteria for how to complete an assignment and follow them to complete an assignment successfully.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Questions to ask about a culture__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**Cornell Notetaking**__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Mesopotamian Cuneiforms__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

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