Helicopter Multi-Player

Posted on December 15th, 2011 in Grade 8,ict8h,Middle School,Reflections,School by Joane  Tagged , , ,

 The strengths of our scratch project is splendid and well formed because of the magnificent script made by Kyu won, the beautiful background and sprites made by me, and the amazing work of assistant by Rebecca.  On the other hand, the weakness of this scratch project is that we made it play multi-player so one person couldn’t play [...]

“IF I COULD…I WOULD”

Posted on December 14th, 2011 in Elshoff,Glorious Goals,Grade 8,School by Joane  Tagged , , ,

“If  you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” -states John Wooden. By ToniVC “Doesn’t matter where u come come from, the only thing that matters who you are and how you do things” – Dick Bennett. If I could go back do something to prepare for this week,  I would study more the past [...]

Mercy Carter’s Response

Posted on December 14th, 2011 in Appino,Humanities 8 by Joane

Response 1: I think that this book is very interesting as it captivates me on the first page. The tragedy of Mercy and the villagers are crestfallen. Even though the Indians aren’t savages, they are under the savager’s control, which is the French. Now and then, Mercy, Ruth, Eben or anyone of the villagers fling [...]

The Ransom of Mercy Carter ~ Discussion Director

Posted on December 13th, 2011 in Appino,Humanities 8 by Joane  Tagged , , ,

Summary What did you think about your Literature Circle experience for this book? Explain. I think that our literature circle experienced sad events of the novel: “The Ransom of Mercy Carter”. To add in to that, some of the parts we discuss about today are: when Tannhahorens died because of bear’s paw slash, Ruth adopted by French, Mr.William [...]

Literature Circle Reflection~ Creative Artist

Posted on December 7th, 2011 in Appino,Humanities 8 by Joane  Tagged , , ,

Summary What did you think about your Literature Circle experience for this book? Explain. I think that it’s amazing, because not only did we get to share our ideas with the group, we also see each other’s interpretation in different ways. Some have the same opinions, some doesn’t, depending on each person POV, but similar [...]

Black Fridays

Posted on December 2nd, 2011 in Appino,Readings,Writing by Joane  Tagged , , ,

First of all, I am a shopaholic. Well, loads of people are. I can prove that to you by my AOW article, “Americans Spend More in the Search for Happiness—And It’s Not Working” *** Recession? Do any of you know what that is? Recession means inflation; depression, in other words, down fall. The National Retail [...]

How best might a student ‘self-monitor’?”

Posted on December 1st, 2011 in Elshoff,Glorious Goals,Grade 8,Readings,School,Writing by Joane

A very efficient way for us to monitor ourselves would be to schedule our self for doing homework, keeping track of what’s important and urgent or important and not urgent to do first, and then, have some free time to spend them wisely.  Not only do we have to schedule our self, we have to follow our [...]