Moomoocow2014

Salsa Roja

En jueves en la clase de español nosotros hacimos salsa roja,y salsa verde. Yo ere en el salsa verde groupo.  En salsa verde tu usos tomatillos no tomatoes. Tomatillos mire como los verde tomatoes. Tomatillos esta mas dulce de tomatoes. Nosotros ponemos jalapeños en la salsa hacer lo picante. Max comío un jalapeño y dice el es muy picante. 

Primero nosotros hervido los tomatillos. Segundo nosotros cortamos los jalapeños, el ajo, cilantro, y aguacate y exprime el lima. Tomamos los tomatillos a cabo. Ayer nosotros cortamos todos los ingredients nosotros ponemos en el liquadora. Liquida la salsa y serve. La salsa era muy delicioso. 

Sugar Cooking Reflection

In science class we have been studying sugar to go a long with our cooking unit. We started by discussing different types of sugar and the stages it goes through when it is being cookied. We split up into groups and each picked a different type of candy that we wanted to make. My group, Trevor, Charlie and I chose fudge. The recipe we picked was for cookies and cream fudge. At first it looked really good but then it turned into sludge. It might have been the way we made it or it could have been a back recipe.

Fudge is a form of sugar called soft ball. This is when the sugar is heated to 234 to 240 degrees Fahrenheit. If is goes past that temperature it will hit the next level of cooked sugar and will no longer work for that type of candy. I don’t think that we cooked our fudge long enough so that was why it didn’t set and turned into watery sludge. I also think that the recipe called for to much condensed milk and if it had less it might have worked better.

I would like to try and make fudge again though I don’t think that I will be using that same recipe. It turned out way too watery and all the marshmallow fluff floated to the top. Next time I make fudge I think I will go with something more simple with less ingredients. 

Mock Trial Reflection

Last week the seventh and eighth grade worked on and held a mock trial. We were each emailed a packet with the case, the depositions of all four witnesses and a jury verdict form. We split up into two sides the Prosecution and Defense. Each side had a leader, Defense had Kasra and Prosecution had John. We discussed the packets in our groups and decided what would be the best strategy to win the trial. The partners for each trial divided up writing the opening statement, closing argument, and the questioning of the witnesses. Since I wasn’t there for the first two days I wasn’t able to be an attorney I opted to be a witness. I did however prepare a little bit with the defense side so I still got to learn a lot about the criminal justice system.

There two prep sessions the week of the mock trial for prepare the statements and questions. Since I wasn’t there for the first session and everybody had already split into teams and divided up the work. I could have caught up with the work but I didn’t have a team and most of the work was already done. I wish I could have taken part in the trial because I enjoyed the format this year more then last year.

Last year the trial was much more scripted which I didn’t really like. This year it was much more free wheeling. I liked how we were able to write our own statements and questions. Even though I didn’t get to do the work that other people did, I still enjoyed learning how to writing them and hearing them read in the trial. I also really liked having a jury to make the call on who won the trial. Though I wish we had more jury members so that the second trial was more fair. Other then that I really liked the way the trials were set up and I’m sad I won’t be able to participate next year.

Reflection para el Subjuntivo Proyecto

En la clase de español nosotros aprendimos sobre el subjuntivo. Nosotros hacimos documentarios sobre Hippies usando el subjunctivo. En mi groupo era Tati, Sydney, Sofia, Max y yo. Nosotros pelicular sobre muy estraña feminista hippies y su y el esperanzas y sueños. Este group esta muy loco. Haciendo el pelicular se un muy largo tiempo. Personas en el group se muy distractivo. En la fin de la proyecto nosotros terminemos el pelicular y era bien.

Debate Reflection

In humanities class my started to experiment with having debates on current event topics. So far we have debated over, capital punishment and, U.S intervention in Libya. At first I liked the idea of the debates, then I chose a side and as soon as I started researching I wanted to change my side. I think that in the future we should be given time to do research before picking a side. 

We are given around a week before then debates to prep our selfs on the topic. I usually feel anxious and pressured before the debates not matter how much I have researched. I am usually pretty good at getting my point across but when it is on a self personal subject I have a harder time articulating my thoughts. The debates start in groups of two where debate with your partner for around ten minutes. Some people like to declare that they have won but I don’t understand that because what is there to win? I thought that this was about expressing arguments from each side. Then we sit around a table as a whole group and continue to discuss the topic. At the end once we finished debating we chose a new topic.

In the beginning I like the idea of the debates. Though now I don’t really like them because I am always out spoken and sometimes I don’t come prepared. Our next  debate is not really a debate it is more like a conversation about What is an Adult? When do you become and an adult? and what are the privileges and responsibilities of an adult?

Great Artist Reflection

This year was the last great artist of my career at TCS. I have always enjoyed this time of year and as I move on I will miss it a lot. This year since our class couldn’t decide on one artist or a group of artists, like we have in the past, we each picked a different artist to study for the next six weeks. I wasn’t familiar with most of the artist’s style and back round and the selection we choice had a large variety. We waited until the very last day to set up our room. I felt like some people felt a little bit of tension from this but the room ended up looking really good like it usually does and we had some time to spare.

I have had mixed feelings about picking individual artists. I didn’t hate the idea because everyone would get to learn about something that appealed to them, though I wish that it could have been a shared artist because then there would have been more of a group element. The artists we picked were random and had close to no similarities in their artwork, there were people as different as Joyce Watkins and Joseph Boyes. I liked a lot of the artists that were chosen and I liked seeing my class mates interpretations of their work. There were also some artists that I didn’t like as much, and I wouldn’t have been something I would have choose to study. 

For my Artist I chose Ben Dehart he is a local artist who works for Trader Joe’s and designs their chalkboards. Even though he is not a professional artist yet and his work hasn’t been shown in galleries, I still consider him a great artist. He works for the Trader Joe’s in Hill Crest and lives in North Park. He creates the masterpieces that hang in the market. He uses chalk as well as chalk paint when which are easier to create details with. I didn’t have chalk pens and the chalk was to difficult to work with i used acrylic paint accented with chalk for my artwork. The chalkboards are based off of products that the store wants to advertise and I didn’t have any products to advertise I based my artwork off of people and inside jokes from our class. 

The week of Great Artist we were given a day that was completely dedicated to great artist. I thought this was very productive for me as well as for many of my class mates. Even though I didn’t have a lot of time for the first part of the day because I was being painted for another Great Artist project I still got a lot of work done that day. I took the job of formatting, printing and, mounting of the writing pieces we did to go with our art work. I thought it would be easier for everyone to send there writing to me instead of everybody printing them out and having to reprint them because they didn’t match. This wasn’t stressful to me at all, I think it saved us time in the setting up process. Instead of covering our room in white sheets we chose to cover two walls in black butcher paper and the other two in white sheets. I think this was a good idea because we didn’t have a lot of sheets and the ones we did have were either stained or too small.

I really enjoyed my last Great Artist. I learned about only one artists work but, I touched on eleven different artists. I loved the variety of the artwork and the presentation of the room in the finale. Even though some times it felt like we were short on time everything came together and it looked really good.

Ben Dehart Great Artist Paragraph (not my reflection)

For my artist I chose Ben Dehart. Ben Dehart is a local artist who work sfor Trader Joe’s designing the creating their black boards. He work for the Trader Joe’s in Hill Crest. I was always very impressed by the work he has displayed in the store and I always wondered who did it. This years great artist project gave me a great chance to learn about him and his work. One of the reasons I chose him was because his work was different from the artist people had chosen. He’s work has a cartoony flare to it but it’s also intricate and smooth. 

Most of Ben Dehart’s work for Trader Joe’s was based on the products that the store was advertising. Since I didn’t have any product I was trying to sell to base my art on, I decided to base then one people in my class and memories from my time in NMY. I was happy that we were able to chose our own artists and design our own projects this year instead on all basing our art on the same artist.

I tried to incorporate Ben Dehart’s style into my art work. I added words including onomonopia to describe my paintings like he had used in some of his black boards. I made four blacks boards by covering foam poster board in black board paint.  I started by covering cardboard in chalkboard paint but it was too flimsy. I started by drawing in chalk but it was difficult to incorporate details. Then I crushed up the chalk to make paint but it was to clumpy and it peeled off. I finally decided to paint the pictures in acrylic paint and then add accents of chalk.  More to come….

Project Reflection

For the third project (learning journey) of the year I decided to study famous figures in history and find the flaws in their work. I studied the work of Christopher Columbus, Ronald Reagan and I touched on Abraham Lincoln, I didn’t have time for all of the deep research. Even though this was supposed to be a short project I felt like I didn’t have enough time or I over shot my project. I had already cut out a lot of my project, like I started with five people to study and ended up with three and I barely did that.

This was the first project I have done that was only writing and didn’t have a visual aid. I like having visual aid when I am presenting but I didn’t feel it was necessary for this project. Presenting without visual is a lot different from presenting with visual aid because people are focusing more on you and aren’t being distracted by other elements. My teacher pointed out that the word project gives the impression that there needs to be visual aid so a better name would be learning journey.

When I picked my topic I choose it because it sounded like an interesting point of view to learn about. When I sat down and tried thinking of a project and all I could come up with was writing essays. At first I was worried my presentation was going to be boring, but in the end it only matters what I got out of the project not what other people thought of it.

I’m not sure if I would do I project similar to this one and I don’t know if I want to do another history project this year. We will do one more project this year which is our capstone project, Im going to have a never large visual aid. I like having variety in my project. I am really excited for my capstone. Especially that we get to choose a teacher staff member who share our interests to help us. I think that it will be a good end to my last year here and a creative way to wrap up my time at this school.

La casa en Caminito Faro

Cindy

Cindy vive cerca de mi casa. Cindy esta muy malo y loco. Ella camina en la calle y cuando ella veo una cosa ella no le gusta ella esta muy enohada. Ella es en el comité de el barrio con mi madre. Mi madre no le gusta Cindy. Mi madre piensa Cindy es una bruja. Una año Cindy quieró estar el Presidente de el comité de el barrio. 

Mi madre dice Tú lades estar el presidente. Cindy no le gusta mi madre y mi el vecino de alado, Mimi. Mimi y mi Madre esta amigas. Ella esta en el Comité de el barrio Tabien. Ellas no les gusta Cindy. 

Mimi y Kye

Mimi y Kye vive alado de mi casa. Ellos tienen dos hijas Maggie y Amy. Y ellos tienen tres peros y una pero muerta. Cuando yo esta chicita ellos tienen dos peros Puginini y Franko. En poco tiempo Maggie con segue un pero se llama Sabrina. Sabrina esta muy gordo y apestoso. Puginini muerio en primero año. Mimi era muy triste cuando puginini muerio. Puginini como una hija a Mimi. Amy’s pero se llama es Matilda.

Mimi’s dos hijas esta muy intelligente. Los dos hijas tocan el piano muy bueno. El joven hija era mi piano maestra cuando yo era muy chicita. Los hija fue a Harvard por universidad. Ellas va a la casa en el fin de semana. Y ellas trie los perros.

Walt/scott

Walt es un muy estraño hombre. Walt tiene un hijo yo no se el nombre. Cuando yo conoco Walt se llama esta Walt. Despues tres años Walt cambia se llama a Scott. No se por que el cambia el nombre. Pienso que el cambia el nombre a un similar nombre. Yo y me madre llamamos Scott Walt. Walt’s hijo es muy mulestra a la vencinos. El patine en la calle con no casco. 

Un dia mi vecino Kye veo muchos policia carros enfrente de Walt’s casa. Kye tabien veo un amblusenia en enfrente de la casa. Kye veo Walt’s hijo sigue cargando afuera de el casa. Nosotros piensamos que i policia caros esta enfrente de el casa de Walt. Yo pienso el arresado de el policia. Despues el estraño anciddento yo nunca veo el hijo otra vez. 

Mi casa

Mi casa es no pequeño y es no grande. Mi casa es normal. Tiene tres dormitorios y tres baños. Tiene muchos puertas y ventanas. Mi casa siempre tengo comida. Mi cuento tengo muchas rosa cosas y patos. Mi casa tiene un pisina pequeño. La cocina es muy grande y bonita. Yo no tengo un liquadora. Yo vive en mi casa por todo mi vida. Yo vivo con mi madre, mi gato, y mi abuela’s pero. 

Un tiempo Sydney y Tati va a mi casa a hacimos un pelicular. El pelicular es por el clase de life skills. El pelicular era sobre comida addiction y muy grande personas. Sydney y Yo rellenimos las camisas con almohoadas entonces nosotros mirar gordo. Y hacen un video muy comico.

En segundo grado en Halloween noche Sydney va a mi casa. Cuando ella era siugando en mi caro ella se caca en ella zapato y el caro olía muy malo. En el media noche ella se inferma, ella vomitando.

mi abuela

Mi abuela vive muy cerca de mi casa. Yo puedo camiar a la casa. Mi abuela esta muy vieja. Ella era inferma aunque ahora está mejor. Ella sigue muy cansado y le gusta a dormir. Mi abuela tiene tres nietas, Yo y mi gemlos primas. Mi abuela esta feliz. 

El estraño jardinero 

La pasado año mi madre remodela el patio de atras. Un muy estraño hombre era trabjo en el patio de atras. Sullo nombre era Doug. Despus Doug era un jardiero el era un Futbol jugador. Doug es muy muy muy feo y gordo. El tiene un blanco mullet. Doug era muy malo a sullo trabajo.

Doug le gusta mi madre mucho. Yo no me gusta Doug el esta asco. Un dia Doug preguntó mi madre si ella queire va a un fecha. Mi madre no quiere va a un fecha con Doug. Porque Doug esta muy feo y gordo y estraño. Despus este tiempo, Doug preguntó mi madre otro vez. Mi madre dijo no. 

Jim y Donna

Mi vecinos en el otro lado de mi casa. Ellos nombres es Jim y Donna. Yo tengo conocer ellos des de un bebe. Mi madre esta bien amigas con ellos hija. Jim y Donna esta muy viejo. Donna esta en el hospital. En un año pasado Donna era muy inferma y ella se mejor. Jim y Donna le gusta Halloween mucho. Ellos antes decorar el casa por halloween, ahora ellos esta mas viejo decorar. 

Me gusta Jim y Donna mucho. Ellos como mi segundo abuelos. En la pasado Navidad ellos hija se ellos Carolers por Navidad. Jim y Donna no le gusta el carolers por lo que los envió a mi casa.

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Bibliography for my learning Journey

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“Leif Erikson.” Great Norwegians. Metropolitan News Company, 2002. Web. 9 Mar 2011. <www.mnc.net/norway/LeifErikson.htm>.

Wertheimer, Linda. “On Reagan’s Birthday, A President Remembered.” All things considered. NPR, February 6,2011. Web. 14 Mar 2011. <http://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133547754/On-Reagans-Birthday-A-President-Remembered>.

Ronald Reagan

Reagan was a well know president because of his thoughts taxing and social classes. Reagan was elected in 1981 and served a two term presidency. This year would be his 100th birthday. Reagan beileved that if you cut taxes and reduced government spending it would prevent inflation. Recent articles show that inflation increaed during Reagan’s presidency. 

Some people considered Ronald Reagan one of the most influenial right wing conservative people. Reagan actually started out as a democrat. Then after working at General Electric he switched over and became a right wing conservative. Before he got into politics he was an actor and on the Hollywood actor union. In 1981 Regan was elected as president with George W. Bush as his Vice President. George W. Bush also became Reagan’s succeeder. 

In honner of Reagan’s 100th birthday there was a documentary made called Reagan. It includes his youngest son speaking about his career as well as his family life. He tells about his father’s success though he also includes some critizims on his father’s career. I think that being able to critic your own father’s career on camera, is a very brave and diffcult task. He talks about how his father said he wasn’t going to raise taxes and he ended up raising taxes six of the eight years he was president. This movie is not only for people who experienced the Reagan era but to teach people about it.

Before Ronald Reagan became president inflation was pretty low one barrel of gasoline was around 20 dollars. When Reagan was in office it was around 51 dollars. Reagan had said that he wasn’t going to raise taxes. Though he did he raised taxes and most of the time he was in office. 

Christopher Columbus

In class rooms Christopher Columbus is taught as one of America’s greatest heros. Historians have begun to notice that Columbus didn’t discover as much as he said he did. There were many discoverers before Columbus who were near north America, but the difference between then and Columbus was that they didn’t declare America theirs. Most people don’t realize that the discoverers of America could have been from another country then Europe, because thats where most of the famous discoverers of that time were from. The man or woman that discovered America could have been, African American, Asian, or middle eastern. 

Text books usually start out with some basic facts about Christopher Columbus like. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. As Columbus grew up he decided he wanted to explore what hasn’t been found and become a discoverer. Before Columbus started to explore the world most people thought that the world was square and Columbus challenged that thought and said that the world was round. I think that all of this information is a bit unoriginal  and most of the textbooks aren’t telling the full story.

Four Hundred and Fifty years before Columbus was even born Leif Erikson discovered the new world. Erikson was the one who lead the viking to the new world though the vikings did not continuously return to North America. Since no one was returning to the new world the land was left unclaimed and so someone else could claim it. That someone else was Christopher Columbus. The difference between Columbus and Erikson was that Columbus hurried back to his country where he could brag about his journey and be showered with money.

It wasn’t Columbus’s fault that he was given to much credit for his work. Columbus didn’t know that his discoveries had already been found. He discovered new land and claimed it as his own and then went back to country and announced his discovery. None of the people in Italy or Spain cared that the discovery had already been done they just cared that new land had been discovered.

Ben Dehart

My artist that I choose for Great Artist is Ben Dehart. He designs and creates the black boards at the Trader Joe’s in Hillcrest. I was very impressed with the illustrations on the black boards and I was wondering who had created them and this year gave me the perfect chance to find out. He started working for Trader Joe’s when he was 27 and soon hopes to be creating fine art around the world. I am inspired by his work because I think its amazing how he can take a project and turn it into art work.

El Reflection de Casa en Mango Street

Casa en Mango Street es un libro tiene muchos cuentos. Una chica vive en Mango street y tiene mucho estraño vecinos. La chica se llama es Esperanza. Mango Street es un pobre parte de Chicago. A primero tiempo el la calle ella no tiene amigos. Esperanza quiere amigos. Esperanza conosce dos chicas Rachel y Lucy. Ella tambien tiene mucho mas cuentos de Mango Street. Esperanza conosce muchos amigos en Mango street. El libro esta poco burrido y es no facil. El libro tiene mucho nuevo palabras y es no divertido. 

Chromatography Crime Story

Wednesday, March 1 at 9:50 the Buttery Money Bank was Robbed. No money was stolen. The bankers working in the bank during the robbery were no use to the detectives because they were in utter shock but the robber did give the banker a note that read “ Pardon the inconvenience, please deposit the cash in the bag”. Besides the people who worked at the bank their were six other people in the building and each one was found with a note on their person.

I.C YooToo  Age: 27 occupation: Rock Star

Vinnie Trally Age:13 occupation: Student

Mavis Saliger Age:49 occupation: computer repair

Reggie Chatworth Age: 41 occupation: spy

Joyce Ann Perrin Age: 29 occupation: home maker

Rocky Charger Age: 38 occupation: delivery boy

The suspects were quarantined in the police office until they could bring in the Chromatography experts to investigate the notes that the suspects had at the time of the crime. The suspects were contained at the police station for 4 hours so they were not released until 2:00pm that afternoon. Around 10:30 am the Tcsnmy Chromatography experts arrived at the police station to investigate the crime. They cut up pieces of the letters and dipped them into rubbing alcohol until the ink ran and you could see the different colors it took to make the black ink. 

After a half hour or this process the chromatography experts established that the crime was committed by two of the suspects. The suspects were growing anxious as the chromatographers did their jobs. After another hour the experts knew who one of the criminals was. It was Joyce Ann Perrin the house mother. She was quickly moved to a separate containment area  while the other waited to find out who the other criminal was. The experts were working as quickly as they could without being careless. Around 2 o’clock that afternoon the experts found out that Reggie was the other criminal in the crime. He was arrested and the other witnesses of the crime were let go.