Mrs. Kanzler is my History and English teacher. We have English and History for two periods. Here at Computech we call History and English, CORE. CORE is very fun, because at the end of a chapter in History, we have simulation on the topic. We have a packet of English gramar that is called SVG packet. SVG packet is a packet that has review of English gramar that we need to know. At the end of the packet, we have a test on the gramar that we've reviewed.
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Muhammad and Islam The chapter in history that we were learning was about Islam. Muslims lived in Islam. In our history book, Muhammad , who was the prophet of God, belived that there was only one God. Mecca was the place where people who belived in many gods, would go pray. At first, Mecca rulers didn't like that idea, because it would put them out of buisness. More and more people started to belive in one God, and that made the rulers angry. They sent Muhammad out of their land. Muhammad and his followers went out of their property, and moved to a new land and they called it Islam.
I never knew anything about Islam and Muhammad, but once I started to take notes and read the history book, it all came easy for me to understand. Now I know all there is needed to know in the history book about Muhammad. It turms out that at the end, Muhammad has created a new religioun called Islam, and a new town. I also learned that people became more and more interested that now there is more people who has converted to Muslim. This lesson was supossed to teach me about how Islam got developed and about Muhammad. I learned all about this and it waas really fun to learn. The connection that I made to this was that in fifth grade when my teacher taught history, he only talked a little bit about this, and now that I'm in seventh grade, I know all about this religioun, and how it got started. That is why it is good to listen what you are hearing, because you can connect the pices, and get more facts of what you are learning. |
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Shabanu: Daughter of the wind is a novel by Suzanne Fisher Staples. This novel is what we are currently reading in CORE. This book is about a girl named Shabanu who is having some trouble with daily living. Her sister Phulan, who is older than her, is going to get married to a boy named Hamir.
The location of this book is in Pakistan. This book also has a sequel to it. It is a really good book, I don't want to give out too much information, because you will probably read it. At the beginning of the book there is less drama than at the end. This book has alot of sensory detail in it. It feels like the book drags you into Shabanu's world. It is like you can feel what she is thinking and feeling. The connection that I made was that we studied Islam and their religioun is Muslim. Shabanu and her family are Muslim. |
The Big Wave Haiku Project Have you ever heard of the book " The Big Wave"? It is a story about a boy that suffers thought grief,because he had lost his family. What you are looking at is a Google Drawing with five haiku and one paragraph that summerieze the story. A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. It has three lines. Each line has a different number of syllables.
The software that I used is Google Drawing. It is a great program. You can do almost anything with it. Designing this project was very easy, but making up the haikus were hard. I also used pictures to give this project a nicer and more visually feel. If you have a Google Drive account, then you can make a drawing too! It is fairly simple and straight forward. The connection I made with this project was with MakesBelifsComix.com It is just like Google Drawing, but you get to make comics instead. It lets you create comics any way you want too. Click here to go to Makes Belifs Comix.com |