Hum 8 Today:

Today, we did seperate things in class. I had to do alot of work in a little amount of time because of my absence on friday. I had to do different work then the rest of the class. I spent most of the time on something that was called something like "Story Pass." I had to read several bookes and determin which one I liked the best. I also had to reveiw on all of the books which took up most of the time. The reveiw included determining your redibility level of the book. In this you had to specify if the book was "Too Easy"(Didn't have to stop at all, knew what all words and sentences ment), "Fair/Okay"(Had to stop one or two times and didn't know a couple of words and sentencs), "Somewhat Challenging"(Had to stop several times and there were many places that you didn't understand), or "Very challenging"(did not understand at all, too hard, not my level, had to stop almost every other sentence). Although I read only abit of the book (one or two pages) I could tell the readibility level. Most of the books were Fair/Okay but some were way too easy. After the redibility steo you had to rate each book. My preference was the book thats title was "The sword in the stone of King a Athur" I think. The last step was to write down if your interested or not in the book. Here you have to go back to your rating of this book and tell why you gave this rating for this book. For one of the book I gave it a four and a half stars out of five. The book was very interesting but the only problem was that some of the words were in old english. I didn't finish all of the book's reveiw but I did half. I am hoping to go to flex on Wednesday if I don't finish them tomorow. Over all today was a busy day.

Homework

- Post "What we did in Hum 8 today."

Ali  =)     

                                      WHAT WE DID IN CLASS 10/26/2012

                                                What we did in class. for most of class miss Lees was in a meeting. She gave us 8 books. We read a couple of pages 3-4  rated it on readability. We could pick from either TO EASY, FAIR-OK, SOMEWHAT CHALLENGING, VERY CHALLENGING. if we didn't stop at all then it would be to easy if we stopped once or twice then it was fair-okay. If we stopped 3-4 times it would be somewhat challenging and if we stopped 4+ then it was very challenging. Then after we rated it's readability than we had explain our choice. After that we had to rate the story. When we rated it we had to explain whether or not we were interested in reading it or if we weren't interested. and we were interested we had to explain why we were interested and if we weren't interested we had to explain why we weren't interested.

And if we didn't finish we have to come in at flex time to finish. and this is what we did in class.

What We Did Today

What We Did Today

        Today in Humanities was a double block. For the majority of first part of the double block, we worked on editing our letters to the editor about their problems in their city, called Woodleighville. We worked on the letters by using the new MacBooks that Fraser Heights provided for us. We worked on our letters for most of the first bock, and then later moved on to our Genius Hour Projects. We worked on Genius Hour projects for the whole second block, with us of the laptops from school and other things that students brought from home .

Why?

        We did our Genius Hour projects today so we can get further progress in our Genius Hour projects, which we need to complete within our time constraints. We also worked on our letters so we can improve our persuasive writing, connecting skills, oral communicating skills, and our letter formatting skills.

Homework

        There is nothing due tomorrow, but work on your Genius Hour projects if have spare time.

What we did in humanities class today

 What we did in humanities today

      Today in humanities, we discussed how we were going to be responding to grade 8s from a class in Australia! Using our blogs, we would be replying to them about their problems in Woodleighville.

      Ms.Morris, the teachers class from Australia, has a website called Woodleighville Morris Ward where we are able to socialize with her class. Our humanities class will be  writing letters to the editor on these issues in the town. We read up on articles yesterday to get a head start for ideas on how to properly format our letter. We read up on the issues: recovering from Cyclone Mike, Rioting recovery, should we install CCTV cameras, and do we want a WOLDI Superstore.

      Our class was in the library today working on our letters to Woodleighville about their issues.  We each had to choose one problem and write a letter to the editor about our feedback. These  included offering suggestions, agreeing or disagreeing to the problem, giving our opinions to some of their arguments.

      I am very excited to be responding and giving feedback from this grade 8 class in Australia and especially look forward to discussing the reality of economic, political, and social conflicts currently  happening in their town.

Homework

-  Finish letter about one of the issues in Woodleighville 

Today in class we did:

What we did

 - Ms. Lees talked about the different clubs  at our school.  We also had a discussion about which clubs people were in.  Ms. Lees encouraged us to join some clubs and told us when some meeting times were.  She said if you want to join a club but feel too intimidated by the other kids you can come and see her during flex and she will help you get into a club.

-  Two older students came by and told us about the five days of fire.  They said there is going to be various events that you can participate in like volleyball and basketball tournaments to earn points for your colour team.  There are 4 colour teams red, blue, orange, and gold.  On Wednesday people can dress up in their Halloween costumes for points. Also grade eight's will be competing on Thursday and at the end of the week.  All the points are added together at the end of the week and the team with the most points win.  Our class colour is blue.

Why we did this/reflections:

I think we did this becaus Ms. Lees want us to join clubs to become more social and make new friends. Also so we can figure out what we like to do.

I really can't wait till the five days of fire and all the events that we are going to do. It will be just like gamesday in elementary.

Homework:

 - Research editor’s letters for the letter we are going to send tomorrow look at Ms.Lees blog for more info

 - Tomorrow we will be writing letters to the to the creators of the fictional town of woodleighville Morris ward

- One person from each blog group will post one what we did today

Safety reminder

Remove last names please from posts and blogger profiles

SPACE
     JUMP
        RESPONSE

So one day a guy decides hey you know what I want to free-fall from space. Okay WHY! I know it’s a great view and all but seriously. When miss Lees first told us about this video I was like ha-ha yeah right. But Felix actually free-fell 38 miles up in space (128,000 feet.) when miss Lees showed us the video my first thought was this dudes crazy. I'm sure he had fun falling at 1,342 km per hour. Well that’s way faster than my car. And all to break a world record and he broke the sound barrier. It’s amazing what some people come up with to do when they are bored. Well I will say one nice thing about this dude he sure is brave. But he did hesitate when he was about to jump. But who wouldn't I sure would if I was crazy enough to do such a dangerously stupid thing. I mean your falling from space and your like you know what I could explode any second right now. But who cares this is fun. That what I’d be thinking. What if out of nowhere a stupid bird came out of nowhere and he just crashed into it. Would his space suit have ripped and would he have burst. What would have happened to that poor innocent bird.  So many things could have gone wrong but I am going to go ahead and say this RED-BULL GIVES YOU WINGS! Yes thank you red-bull for sponsoring such a dangerous action proving that red-bull does in fact give you wings. Okay so if I had a space capsule a crew that was very persistent I jump from space would I do it… SURE! I am just kidding no I wouldn't but Felix did and he should be proud That he did it and broke a world record. So good on him. Well what else do I have to say good job Felix you sure are brave and little crazy. But brave and I don’t know where he came up with the idea of jumping off of places. But oh well he sure likes so good job Felix you should give yourself a pat on the back for this. Good job Felix I am sure looking forward to seeing your other crazy stunts.

Felix Baumgartner Free Fall in Space

            Wow! I was so speechless during the whole video! Imagine free falling faster than the speed of sound from space and having a slight chance of blowing up! I was holding on to my breathe when he was about to jump and the suspense was killing me. While I  was watching the video, I couldn't imagine how it would have felt to be the one jumping off and free falling into earth, whilst having your life being put on the verge of death. While I was watching the video, my heart was pounding like crazy, and my eyes were glued to the screen.

            I admire Felix  Baumgartner's courage to be willing to risk his life. There are a lot of things that could have happen during the process of going up into space and free falling. For example, there were many things to consider such as malfunctioning of technology, his parachute not opening, or his suit that may have not been able to handle the external pressurization.

            It wasn't until I researched more about Felix Baumgartner's past free falling experiences when I found out that he is a holder of six world records! He was the first human to have raced an airplane across the sky, he has based jumped into the second largest cave in the world, jumped off the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and the tallest building in 2002 located in Taipei. The base jumps off the Taipei building and the Petronas Towers were illegal but nothing stupid Felix! He risked being in jail but he believed, and followed his dreams! Felix Baumgartner will always be a huge inspiration in the world.

My Response:

 

When Mrs. Lees first talked about the video I was like “What!”  A guy actually jumped off the edge of the atmosphere in space and survived just for a red bull commercial……that guy is nuts.  I mean really he was falling faster than the speed of sound and if his suit was to rip he would explode because of the heat and pressure change.  It would really hurt. But what I don’t understand is why he did it and there was no real explanation as to why he did it either.  Was it for the thrill, research or was he just crazy about skydiving?  I know he is a professional and all but he must have been scared out of his mind.  I know I would be because I hate heights.  I would totally have a heart attack on the spot.

Space Jump

What We Did Today :

Today, we watched a video of a man that jumped from space, which was pretty insane if you ask me. Apparently, it was sponsored by the company called Red Bull, which is an energy drink company, so I'm guessing they did this as some sort of stunt.

My Response :

The first thought in  my head was, "Is that guy crazy?!" I didn't believe my eyes when I first saw the video, there was a man free-falling from space ! Think about it, that person jumped thirty-nine thousand miles above Earth, and came down as fast as seven hundred miles an hour! But then another thought came to me, why did he do it? Was this stunt just for the fun of it or was it supposed to prove something? The best reason that I can think of was that it was for scientific research and to prove something. I'm guessing this thing was an experiment and at the same time, a thing just for fun. One thing I wondered was didn't he get dizzy? After a few seconds of falling, he started to spin really fast, and that lasted for a while. Lastly, wasn't the person scared? He basically had a one in three chances of surviving the drop, and yet he still did it, and surprisingly survived. That's my response for the video

                                                                                                                                         - John