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World Poetry Day

3/10/2017

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  1. Why did you choose the poem that you chose? Does it have a message that you wish others to learn? Is it playing with language in a fun or original way? Why this poem and not a different one?
  2. What is it that you like about poetry? If you don't know, look through the poems that are being tweeted today to find inspiration!
  1. I picked it because I thought it was cool messing around with the words into names. I also picked it instead of others because I thought that it was funnier than others because it was manipulating  the words. It doesn't have a message and its just funny.
  2. I like the way you can play with the words and it rhymes. It is also cool because it can be funny sometimes.
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Our Sun Is A Star

3/9/2017

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How can I make a flashlight the brightest it can be?
  • Take off lid
  • use alkaline and or lithium batteries
  • make it dark
  • amplify the light
  • high wat bulb
  • hold close not far
What makes a star as bright as it can be?
  • Plasma
  • heat
  • size
  • distance
  • age
  • light pollution
  • darkness of day
  • Orbiting star
Sun yellow dwarf
  • only object that creates energy
  • 93 million miles
  • create energy by intense heat and pressure  which is nuculeor fusion
  • sun =100 billion nuces per second
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Student-Led Conference - March, 2017

3/8/2017

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My Favorite Book So Far This Year

3/6/2017

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PARCC Test Prep

3/6/2017

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Schoolwide Fiction Lesson 6

3/1/2017

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Characters
  • Peppe
  • Peppe's father
  • Giulia
  • Adelina
  • Nicolina
  • Angnelia
  • Assunta
  • Mariuccia
  • Filomena
  • Alina
  • Gennaro
  • Doon Salvatore
  • Commare Antonetta
  • Fat Mary
  • Domenico
Setting
  • Mulberry Street
  • Little Italy
  • America

Plot
  • Peppe looks fo a job
  • Cant find one
  • Finds a job
  • Tells his family
  • Father doesn't like it
  • Stops doing it
  • One of his sisters doesn't come home
  • Father tells him to do it
  • Finds her
  • Father says it is a good job
Conflict
  • Father doesn't like the job so peppe stops doing it and one of his sisters doesn't come home
Reolution
  • Peppe lights the lights and his father says it is a good job
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Observing Shadow Patterns

2/17/2017

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  1. How are shadows made outside in the daytime? Provide some evidence to support your answer.
  2. Can shadows be made inside the classroom? If so, how?
  3. Do outside shadows change during the day? If so, how? Refer to the pole or stick the class observed outside if needed.
  4. Think about the time between observations of the pole’s shadow. What happened?
  5. What does this (the answer to #4) tell you about the sun’s position in the sky?
  6. Insert one or two photos (from mine above) into your blog post to help you explain how the sun's position appears to follow an arc throughout the day (if weather allows).
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  1. Shadows are made by the sun bouncing off an object and the suns light cannot make it to a spot. The spot is darker because there is no sun light getting to that area.
  2. Shadows can be made by taking a bright light and by pointing it at something. Then the area behind is not getting light causing a shadow.
  3. Shadows outside do move because we are moving and the sun seems to move so shadows move. The shadows move because the sun moves on an arc through the sky.
  4. From answer #4 it tells you that the sun always moves. It also tells you that the sun didn't 
  5. It is always changing it's arc a little everyday
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State Of Nature Story

2/17/2017

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1.Living in a state of nature would be fun because you could do anything without punishment and you could go where you want. You couldn't get arrested for anything.
2.I'm glad we don't live in a state of nature it would be dangerous and hard to live a happy healthy life. Nobody would get in trouble or arrested.
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Tracking Shadows During a Day

2/7/2017

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  1. What patterns did you notice about the shadow length throughout the day?
  2. What caused these patterns?
  3. When you analyzed your shadow graphs, when did the longest shadows occur? Why?
  4. When you analyzed your shadow graphs, when did the shortest shadows occur? Why?
  5. What was the most challenging part of this lesson?
  6. What do you feel you learned from completing this lesson?
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  1. The shadow length got longer and shorter between the time's. It changed because the sun is in a different spot in the sky.
  2. The sun being on a certain pattern. It made the shadows do the same thing each day.
  3. The longest shadows occurred at 2:15 because the sun is at an angle. The angle determines how long the shadow is.
  4. The shortest time was at Noon because the sun is as high as it will be that day. It is is shorter because the angle of the sun makes the shadow shorter or longer.
  5. The hardest part was drawing the shadow. You had to not block it with your own shadow.
  6. I learned how the shadows change on where the sun is in the day. It changes because the angle of the sun.
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Environmental Challenge!

1/27/2017

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For the past three days my class and I have been doing the Environmental Challenge where we try to solve Environmental problems. That is were we think up ideas of ideas that can solve problems. We made things and had some supplies but first we had to make a drawing. Next we got to build the idea or gadget.
I decided to stop air pollution/Depleting atmosphere, it was a wind powered car that doesn't give of a ton of CO2 in the air. It will help global warming to. It will also conserve gas because it runs on air.
My solution is to make a car that helps lots of problems. It can stop the atmosphere depleting because there is no CO2 in the air, that also means it stops global warming which is when the atmosphere is depleted it lets more sun in which creates more heat. It also conserves resources by not depleting gas or using electricity.
Reflection/Synthesis Questions:
  1. What was difficult about this challenge?
  2. What did you learn while completing this challenge?
  3. What advice can you give others about becoming better at time management?
  1. ​The difficult part was making the idea. You had to think creatively.
  2. I learned how to think outside the box.  I also learned about some of the main problems on Earth.
  3. The advice I would give is to set mini deadlines within the time frame. It allows you enough time to get stuff done but not so much that your wasting time.
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