My goal for the 4th quarter would be the same one I had in the previous semester – raising my Algebra grade, while keeping my other class grades consistently high. Even though my goals in 8th grade have nearly always stayed the same, I didn’t exactly follow my goal last quarter, and I really let [...]

Apple, the famous electronics company, might be one of the best and most dependable brands that exists now. Their products are known worldwide, and everybody wants their latest models. But what we aren’t seeing are the factories, and the secrets behind Apple’s success. Who works for the company, and what don’t people know about how [...]

English Demonstrates strong reading comprehension skills. Needs to practice oral presentation skills. Mathematics Work and understanding remain consistent. Extra practice will improve skills. World Languages Communicates well orally in the classroom. Needs to practice the accuracy of tonal marks. Fine Arts  Expresses and organizes ideas and information in art forms with considerable creativity and originality. Needs [...]

Our Face project consisted of taking photos of our own face, and gathering pictures to represent ourselves. The photos we collected were all of Creative Commons, and we chose them for reasons to show people things like what we liked to do, and what we were good at. Half of our faces were then replaced [...]

The CC license I chose to use for my blog is Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. I had a reason for deciding to place my blog under this license, and it’s because I wanted it to be available to the world in case people want to reuse it or change it up. However, they aren’t allowed to use [...]

Storify is a site that  helps us research about certain topics by finding and grabbing people’s pictures or opinions from websites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Things can also be included from Google, such as articles and real information on the topic, not just opinions. Underneath is a story made on Storify about the new [...]

My rating: 5 of 5 stars Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz was a book I’d read over the summer. I really focused on this particular book because once I read the first few pages, I realized the beginning was already captivating and claimed my attention. The story evolved around vampires, as a ton of [...]

One of the experiences that made me learn the most in Math was the video of the multi-step equations. I had difficulty remembering the formulas needed to perform the equations, and the video made me feel under pressure. It taught me a lot, though, since it made me relax a little after a few times [...]

The robotics activity taught me a lot about building and programming, something I’d never done before. Even though my group struggled to build an existing model, when we were given a challenge, it was so much more interesting and involved more thinking because we had no boundaries.  It was one of my best learning experiences [...]

The symbol that represents me is an made up of an owl’s wing and an optical illusion. They each take up half of the symbol, and the wing overlaps part of the black and white spiral. The owl’s wing represents the animal that is the most similar to me, since I’m considered secretive, insightful, and [...]