Psycho Mutant Killer Bananas

Inanimite Alice is a story where a girl named Alice goes to look for her dad this is a digital story that includes text, sound, image, and interaction.For the inanimate Alice  project me and my partner took two parts of the story and changed them into something else. The two parts that we changed were the part were Alice here’s brads voice and the part were they find Alice’s dad. We wound up with Alice and her mom only finding a note from the dad.

I think we did well with creating the music because we were able to  know exactly what effect we wanted. And we found instruments that go together well. We found the scratch challenging because it was hard to find out what the controls were for what we wanted to do because this scratch  needed text, image, sound, and interaction so we had to do a lot of tinkering. I think we could improve with the interaction because there was very little interaction in the entire thing all we had for interaction was a space bar being clicked.

I learned that sometimes text, image, sound, and interaction don’t always go together and that sometimes they fit really well. We used sound to create the mood for example we used fast music when Alice and her mom are driving and slower music when they find the note from the dad. We used interaction to make the story seem more interactive. We used text to let the reader know whats going on instead of just looking on the screen and having no idea what is happening. And finally we used image, we used image to add visuals to our story so that the reader can see whats happening.

If you look at ancient human skulls and compare them to modern day human skulls you will see that they are very similar. Some people believe in god and that he created us humans, but those people don’t look at the evidence that humans were made from apes they don’t want to believe that what they have believed for thousands of years is false. They don’t want to open there eyes and come out of the darkness that they have cloaked themselves in. However if you look at old ape skulls and compare them to human skulls you will notice that they hold a very similar resemblance for example the teeth are very similar to human teeth. Also if you look at the spinal cord and how they walk you will notice it is very similar, For example ancient humans walked on two legs. We know this because of fossil evidence that we have found. If you look at the evidence you will see that the only thing humans could have evolved from are apes.

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The international boiling point project was very fun. Unfortunetly there were some challenges for example our distillation apparatus.fell apart. Also when we were building it our group could not decide on certain things like how to put on the tape or make the tinfoil work. Some of the advantages of our group was that most of them were hard working and we completed a lot of work on time. Also we had a very detailed description of how to build it because the person who took it home with them clearly labeled the drawing. One problem we faced after we finished is that we didn’t upload the video properly, thanks to Emily who stayed after school she uploaded it properly and we were ale to get the grade we deserved.

It was a dark and stormy night Asher and Andy were trying to write an adventure story for a wealthy man’s child. They were stuck trying to figure out how the story was going to be told. However, they did not give up because they were being paid 1,000 gold coins each, if the wealthy man’s daughter liked it. If she did not they will get executed. Asher and Andy were trying to find out a great story to propose to the wealthy man.

 The next day Asher and Andy went down to the river to collect water for drinking throughout the day. Andy saw an old man dressed in the garb of a wizard. The garb was blue as the night sky and there was stars all over the garb. Andy was curious so he asked the man if he was a wizard and the man said he was, but Andy didn’t believe him so Andy insulted the wizard.The wizard was calm and he murmured a spell word and made himself a giant and grabbed Andy and ran off. Asher had good reaction and so he was just quick enough to grab the giant’s heel. The giant realized that Asher was on his heel so he grabbed Asher and threw him up in the air. Because of the blood rushing into their heads Asher and Andy blacked out.

 When Asher woke up it was dark, he could barely see his hand in front of his face. Asher felt aorund him , trying to get a picture of where he was.  He shouted Andy’s name out loud, hoping that he would find where Andy was. To his surprise he touched something rough. It seemed like human skin he thought, he moved his hand over a little bit and it fell into something that felt a lot like human intestines. Asher screamed.

 Andy woke up with a headache he couldn’t remember what had happened to him, he looked around and realized that he was strapped down to a table with all sorts of wires and pointy metal objects around him. This seemed extremely familiar to him. Andy then realised that he was in the tortured chamber was from an earlier story that they had he and Asher had wrote. The torture chamber had a huge steel pad. The pad had two ropes to hold the person who is going to be tortured. Behind the pad held by four giant steel bars. In front of the steel pad was the pointy wires. Each metals was well placed. All of a sudden he heard a sound he looked over and saw that the wizard had entered the room the wizard said a spell and the torture devices spun into life. The last thing he heard was the wizard screaming about how he wanted Andy to write him an adventure story.

With a greater look at the dungeon cell, Asher realized that this dungeon cell is not made for humans. It is made for some kind of monster. Asher heard a sound, he froze in terror, something was crawling around at the back of the cell “ wh whos there” he asked, the crawling stopped.

“Hello puny humansss” something hissed “ Is you a foodssss?”
“N..no” Asher said.
“Well then whatssss issss you?” hissed the thing.
Asher was so scared that he didn’t respond and when he didn’t answer the scuttling started again and the most hideous most repellent creature came out of the corner it was covered in mold and old scabs and part of it’s ear was missing, It had two yellow teeth. It took Asher a few seconds to realized, that the creature was a rat!!
“Hello humanssssss” it said.

The wizard told his minions to make Andy sit at a well made wooden table, with a comfortable chair. The wizard whispered a spell that made a lamp light up on fire. The wizard cast another spell and said “If you try to escape my friend you will be dead before you could make a peep.” Andy swallowed his fear as he took the first paper from the wizard. The paper material was good better than the one he and Asher used. The ink pen was small but wouldn’t break it was most likely a one of it’s kind.  Andy started the story with a great mighty dragon with scales the color of midnight who was destroying the world and nobody had ever survived a fire blast from the dragon. It was too powerful to defeat… Andy stopped there thinking of what should be next. He took the inkpen and dipped the pen in the ink and continued writing…

“Will you help me get out of this cell?” Asher finally found the courage to speak to the rat.  The rat stared at him for a long time and thought now being a rat he wanted the cell to himself so he thought it over if he helped the human he would have the cage to himself but if he ate the human he would have the cage to himself and a full stomach. Finally the rat asked Asher

“What do I getsss if I help you get out of this cell?”

“100 gold pieces” said Asher.

“I am a ratsss I do not need gold pieces” snorted the rat
“What about food, you need food” said Asher
“ There is plenty here, I could sneakssss in the kitchensss and take everything I neededssss, if I wanted to” spat the rat.
Desperately Asher thought what he could give a rat, he questioned himself.
Finally Asher said “ what about a part in the book I’m writing”
“Considerable” the rat said. “A very interesting trade. What if you do not keep that deal?”
“I suppose that is a risk you will have to take” Asher challenged.
“ Well thensss, I will denied that offersss” the rat counter.
“ No wait, you can’t” Asher said “here I’ll make you the main character and dedicate the book to you”
“Ahh, very well, very well indeedsss” the rat said accepting the offer then he ran to the bar and chewed it. To Asher’s surprise the rat didn’t even need to try the bar was already broken.
“You tricked me” screamed Asher.
“ Not at allsss, I have predicted that you will make that offersss anyway so I nibbled the barsss.” the rat roll on his back and laughed.

Every few moments when Andy tries to move around he got shocked, it was so annoying. So far Andy had written that a great hero had come to fight the dragon and he was just writing about the part when the hero died, when the ground started to tremble and shake the wizard came into the room and demanded to know what was going on that’s when the wizard looked at the paper that Andy was writing on and yelled at the top of his lungs a dirty word (this word is not going to be written) and started trying to erase the words that Andy had written on the paper unfortunately he couldn’t because the ink had already dried. The wizard took another paper for Andy, to change the story. Andy saw sparkles started to come of the paper that he had already written on all of a sudden a huge dragon crashed into the writing room biting and hissing the wizard was frozen with terror Andy couldn’t run because he kept on getting shocked. He realised that the dragons scales were black as the midnight. Uh oh he thought isn’t that what I just wrote in the story, Andy had to find out he was still holding the sheet that he wrote that part on so he reread Once upon a time there was a dragon with scales as black as midnight, Andy read. Andy looked around and saw that the wizard is battling the dragon. The dragon stomped on the wizard and the wizard, but the wizard murmured a spell that turned him into a giant and the giant blocked the stomp from the dragon with great strength. The black dragon was surprised that the wizard had block his deadly blow, with thrill the dragon stomped on him again this time there was a ear splitting crack and Andy knew that the wizards back bone had snapped. Andy turned away he couldn’t watch the wizard lay in agony screaming. The dragon roar at it’s victory and turned to Andy. The dazed dragon makes Andy frightened, Andy tries to run but he got shocked again by the spell of the wizard. The black figure touched Andy’s mind and said, Master.

Asher looked down at the rat with disgust. He despised that foul creature he looked away and stepped through the bar it was time to leave. He saw a staircase at the end of the hallway going up that was the way out. A few moments later Asher heard a shriek what other dirty creatures were down here he kept walking on towards the staircase suddenly a black shadow crossed in front of him he started walking faster and faster he was about to reach the staircase when it collapsed. He heard something slither behind him he heard something hissing slowly he turned around. The creature was white. It had to front claws  It’s legs werewolf legs, Asher could imagine the agility of that beast. It’s head was a snake but were scales should have been there was nothing only the skull, however there was still the venom in the teeth.  The beast was a killing machine and a great hunter. It reached down grabbed Asher by his head and said any prisoners that try to leave die with that he snapped Asher’s head in two.

A few years later, Andy was a famous writer. One of his most famous book was  Darkness then Fire. Andy had given Asher most of the credit, because he had found him dead when he went to search for him. Andy have earned about 1,000,000,000,000 gold for the book. He looked up at the sky and felt guilty why should he escape the wizards tower and Asher didn’t, oh well at least he dedicated the book to Asher. There was a knock at the door who could that be thought Andy he opened the door and there in front of him on the doorstep was a rat “hello humanssss” it hissed.

Fantastic Contraption is a game where you build a contraption to get a pink block into a pink area to win. Fantastic Contraption is a game that tests your creativity and your brain to the limits. The game starts out easy and gets harder and harder as you go along. This game was challenging because you can only build cars to get the block to the area it would have been easier if all I had to do was build an elevator or a ramp or a catapult. I enjoyed the huge amount of trial and error in this game for example I might build a car that does not get to the area, then I go back and ask myself what did I do wrong after that I try something new and see if that works if it doesn’t I try again until I make something that passes the level. From this game I learned that you have to try your best to succeed at something for example I might build a really bad car and then go back and try better and build a better car that gets me to the end.

Over the break I learned how to build an underground city in Minecraft. In the beginning the idea of building an underground city did not seem that interesting, but after awhile I started to get hooked on the idea. First I went to youtube the first video I watched was not encouraging because the person who was explaining how to build it said “ this area that is 50 by 20 took me two days to clear out.” Next I watched another video that was very helpful it really got me thinking about how to go about making this city. After watching a couple of videos I decided to get started on my underground city. At first I found a hill that seemed big enough to build in then I set to work on the entrance after that I used a ton of tnt to make a big hole in the hill. After that I started to tinker with different ways to get started. What I didn’t know was that the hill that I had chosen was not big enough and that I could not build the city in it. This was a major setback I searched for another hill that would be big enough but could not find one. Instead it became a mine and I eventually added more stuff to this world. Even though I did not complete what I set out to do I look forward to finishing this in the future.

I chose my negative number story because It was my best work of all my math project options. This story shows my learning of working with negative numbers.

Once a long time ago in Ancient Egypt a pharaoh was having a pyramid built for his son. The son loved gold and everything he had was made out of gold his chariot was gold, the rim to his mirror gold, his silverware and plates were gold, even his bed was made out of the finest gold. So you can imagine that everything that he was going to be buried with was gold unfortunately his tomb would be a big target for tomb raiders. The man in charge of building the pyramid was the king’s adviser he was almost finished putting every last piece of gold in the sons Pyramid when late one night tomb raiders broke into the pyramid and stole all the gold which was about 600 pounds (The son really loved gold). When the adviser woke up the next day and realized that the gold was gone he quickly ran to the treasury and looked to see how much gold they had left fortunately they still had some gold left unfortunately it was only 100 pounds. So he had – 500 pounds of gold to get in the pyramid. Knowing that if the king knew about him losing all the gold he would be executed so without telling the king he went to all the major villages and asked for gold in the first village they gave him 75 pounds of gold. How much more does he need to earn before he reaches 0 again.  

I think that I learned a lot this semester and I think that I will continue to learn new things next Semester. I learned how to use scratch and work with audacity and upload sound effects and music to my computer. The thing that I enjoyed most were when we used scratch to make a video or game because it used a lot of timing and work to figure out how to make things fit in with the video. However I did not like working with audacity that much because I did not want to use sound effects that fit with my story for example I wanted to use a maniac laugh with a story that had nothing to do with that sound. I can transfer my skills with audacity to other people who need help with recording and downloading sounds. If somebody asked me “What do you want different about IT6 ?” I would answer nothing because it already is a fun subject and it already shows me what I need to know about different forms of technology. One thing that I want to learn about is the other programming devices in scratch because we only learned about certain blocks in scratch.

here are my scratch and story projects.

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