One of the 12 siblings is growing up in depression, Edith is not quite sure of who she is. Then a kind teacher encourages Edith to be a teacher herself, one day Edith sees prospects for a future on her own.
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Ungifted Book Blog #3 (2nd Quarter)
The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It’s usually more like Don’t try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he’s finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), a special program for gifted and talented students.
It wasn’t exactly what Donovan had intended, but there couldn’t be a more perfect hideout for someone like him. That is, if he can manage to fool people whose IQs are above genius level. And that becomes harder and harder as the students and teachers of ASD grow to realize that Donovan may not be good at math or science (or just about anything). But after an ongoing experiment with a live human (sister), an dramatic middle-school dance, and the most astonishing come-from-behind robot victory ever, Donovan shows that his gifts might be exactly what the ASD students never knew they needed.
The Mighty Miss Malone Book Blog #2 (2nd Quarter)
We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is the motto of Deza Malone’s family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it’s 1936 and the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie’s beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone.
Diary of a worm Book blog #1 (2nd Quarter)
The story is about a worm had a diary about his experience being a worm. But first his mom told three things to remember
- Earth gives us everything we need .
- When we dig tunnels, we help take care earth.
- Never bother daddy while eating newspaper
Then he started writing in his diary….
March 29, Today I tried to teach spider how to dig, March 30, worms cannot walk upside down, April 4, Fishing season started today, we all dug dipper, April 10, It rained all night and the ground was soaked, we spent the entire day on the sidewalk, April 15, I forgot my lunch today, I got so hungry that I ate my homework, April 20, I snuck up on kids in the park today, they didn’t hear me coming, I wiggled up right between them and they all SCREAMED!!!, May 1, Grandpa taught us that good manners are very important, May 8, had the worst nightmare last night, May 15, I got into a fight with a spider, May 16, I made spider laugh so hard he fell out of his tree, May 28, last night I went to the school dance, June 5, Today we made macaroni necklaces in art class, June 15 My older sister thinks she’s so pretty. I told her that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end, July 4, When I grow up, I want to be a secret service agent, spiders says I will have to be careful because the president might step on me by mistake, July 28, Three things I don’t like about being a worm:
- I can’t chew gum.
- I can’t have a dog.
- All that homework
Three good things about being a worm
- I never have to go to the dentist
- I never get in trouble for tracking mud through the house
- I never have to take a bath
August 1, It’s not always easy being a worm, we’re very small, and sometimes people forget that we’re even here.
Solar Energy
In my opinion “Solar Energy” is the best because, it’s renewable, it’s affordable and it’s safe for your environment.
First, if you pick “solar” than “wind” is a best choice because, solar has no moving parts, has a better reliability and has a 25 year warranty, and requires less space in most cases as the panels can be installed on a roof.
Second “Fossil Fuels” is a good but if you pick “solar” its better because solar is a clean power, doesn’t have a smell, and we can get power by the sun.
Third “Geothermal” vs. “solar”, well they are both good but let me explain it to you, solar captures the energy of the sun by exiting electrons and capturing that energy in wires, while “geothermal” takes advantage of the ground, which is 50-55 degrees year round just a few-feet below the surface, so I’ll bet that you pick “solar” than “Geothermal”.
Last “Hydro” power can be used all day and night, as the solar, of course, it can only be used during the day, but solar does produces more power than hydro so it’s more efficient to have solar than hydro power.
Again “Biomass vs. Solar, for me I’ll go with “solar” because solar contains stored energy from the “SUN” and the solar panels have efficiencies as high as 19% meaning that much of sun’s energy is converted into electricity, then the efficiency of biomass is much, much lower perhaps 1% so I rather go with solar than Biomass.
6 Things you didn’t know about Solar? (Source: http://energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-about-solar-energy)
- The first silicon solar cell, the precursor of all solar-powered devices, was built by Bell Laboratories in 1954. On page one of its April 26, 1954 issue, The New York Times proclaimed the milestone, “the beginning of a new era, leading eventually to the realization of one of mankind’s most cherished dreams — the harnessing of the almost limitless energy of the sun for the uses of civilization.”
- The space industry was an early adopter of solar technology. In the 1960s the space industry began to use solar technology to provide power aboard spacecraft’s. The Vanguard 1 — the first artificial earth satellite powered by solar cells — remains the oldest manmade satellite in orbit – logging more than 6 billion miles.
- Fast track to today and demand for solar in the United States is at an all-time high. In the first quarter of 2012, developers installed 85 percent more solar panels compared to the first quarter of last year. Total U.S. installations may reach 3,300 megawatts this year – putting the country on track to be the fourth largest solar market in the world.
- As prices continue to fall, solar energy is increasingly becoming an economical energy choice for American homeowners and businesses. Still, the biggest hurdle to affordable solar energy remains the soft costs – like permitting, zoning, and hooking a solar system up to the power grid. On average local permitting and inspection processes add more than $2,500 to the total cost of a solar energy system. The Energy Department Sun Shot Initiative works to aggressively drive down these soft costs – making it faster and cheaper for families and businesses to go solar.
- Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth – 173,000 terawatts of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That’s more than 10,000 times the world’s total energy use.
- The largest solar energy project in the world is currently under construction. The project relies on a technology known as solar thermal energy. Once the project is complete 350,000 mirrors will reflect light onto boilers. When the water boils, the steam turns a turbine, creating electricity. The project is expected to provide clean, renewable energy for 140,000 homes and is supported by an Energy Department loan guarantee.
How do Solar Panels work? (Source:http://www.solarenergy.org/answers-younger-kids)
Solar electric panels are made up of something called silicon, the same thing that makes up sand. There is more silicon on the planet than almost anything else. Even though you can find silicon almost everywhere, making a solar panel is difficult and expensive.
The silicon has to be heated to super high temperatures in a big factory, and then formed into very thin wafers.
When sunlight hits a solar panel, it makes electrons in the silicon move around. (Electrons are teeny tiny specks–they’re way too small for us to see, even under a microscope.)
The electrons flow through wires that were built into the solar panel. And presto! We have electricity! We can do whatever we want with this electricity, run a calculator, a CD player, or, if we have big enough solar panels, a satellite! [Solar panels are also called photovoltaic panels. “Photo” means light and “voltaic” means electricity.
What is Solar Cooking?(Source: http://www.solarenergy.org/answers-younger-kids)
In the United States, the stoves in our houses run on electricity or gas. In other parts of the world, many people still cook over campfires. One of the many cool things about solar ovens is that they don’t need electricity, gas, or wood to work–they cook food using only sunlight! Basically, you put food in a box and trap the sun’s heat by covering the box with glass or plastic. (Solar cooking is an example of using solar thermal energy.)
And they’re easy to make! You can make one with two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, covered with glass or plastic. You can put crumpled-up newspaper between the two boxes to help trap the sun’s heat, paint the inside black, and put aluminum foil outside to help reflect more sun into the cooker. Even a simple solar cooker like this one can reach temperatures over 250? F.
Solar cookers are great because they save money and energy, and produce no pollution. People don’t have to cut down trees for firewood, and they make no nasty smoke to hurt people’s lungs, things that are big problems in countries that don’t have as much money as we do. Solar cookers can also be used to make water safe to drink, make doctor’s tools safe to use, and heat water for laundry.
Solar Panels can be used to power different things (Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_car , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_boat)
- Solar cars- A solar car is a solar vehicle used for land transport, Solar cars combine technology typically used in the aerospace, bicycle, alternative energy and automotive industries. The design of a solar vehicle is severely limited by the amount of energy input into the car. Most solar cars have been built for the purpose of solar car races. Since 2011 also solar-powered cars for daily use on public roads are designed List of solar cars (with homologation). Solar cars are often fitted with gauges as seen in conventional cars.
- Solar Impulse/plane- is a Swiss long-range solar-powered aircraft project[1] developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power. The project is led by Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard, who co-piloted the first balloon to circle the world non-stop,[2] and Swiss businessman André Borschberg..
- Solar Boat/Scout- While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also remaining popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years. Electric boats were very popular from the 1880s[1] until the 1920s, when the internal combustion engine took dominance. Since the energy crises of the 1970s, interest in this quiet and potentially renewable marine energy source has been increasing steadily again, especially as solar cells became available, for the first time making possible motorboats with an infinite range like sailboats. The first practical solar boat was probably constructed in 1975 in England.[2 .
As shown above, there are a lot of things you can power by the solar energy/sun, you can power cars, houses, boats, airplanes and etc.
Since”solar energy”can power to almost all things, how about trying this to our rollercoaster?
My Father
There was a girl that her father was not born in the United States he was born in Russia. When her father came he had to learn and write English, my father had to study hard to become a citizen, then her father passed the test said the oath and become a United States citizen and now he can vote.
Forces and Motion On Earth
Motion is any change in an object’s position. When you raise your hand at class you moved your positon by raising your hand up, when a flag bows and goes back anf forth the position of the flag moves so think that you barely have motion everyday.
Forces is a push or a pull. Whenever you see motion you moved something.forces make objects start moving, forces also make objects speed up or slows down changes direction and let it stop.
Friction is a force that exist when one object rubs against another object.Friction between you and the air also slows you down. If friction a force, where are the pushes and the pulls? when two objects rub against each other they are actually pushing against each other.
Sleepover Friends
Lauren’s family is moving to a new house and her father found a big, old, run-down place that hopes to transform into a beautiful home.
Then Lauren invite her friends to a sleepover then at night Stephanie, Patti, and Kate had arrive then they went upstairs ate, played, talked and went to bed but after few minutes the girls was awaked to that mysterious sound down stairs then they went to get a snack and a drink but suddenly there’s a white thing just pass them and a thunder just stroke then they follow the mysterious sound and after it was so dark in the living and all of the sudden it was just a prank of Lauren’s little and big brother and the mansion was not really hunted.
After there spooky pranked sleepover her father started to clean the basement and the rest of the family clean the rest of the house then after 2 weeks they finally finish and the house was so beautiful and the garden had lots of flowers blooming they painted there house yellow and white so it was so bright then they put a small pond outside to there garden a swing and a bunch of flowers.
Junie B. Jones And The Mushy Gushy Valentine
There was a girl named “Junie B. Jones” and all she is excited about is Valentines day at her school, and she can’t wait what the boys give her, then there was a big mushy gushy valentine card at her desk when she came back to her desk then she was so blushing and at inside it was from a secret admirer!.
then she went home and her friend Jim was just there waiting for her and ask her if she wanted a played date and then she called her mom went outside and while walking Junie told Jim the card and the secret admirer then Jim was winking at Junie and then Jim told his secret that he likes Junie and Junie told him also that she like Jim too so they liked eachother they were winking blushing but they are not going to tell about them.
Holes book review
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. The curse was began with there no-good-dirty-rotten-pig stealing- great- great- grandfather and has since followed in many generatinons of the Yelnats. Now Stanley has been sent to a boy’s detention center called Camp Green Lake because he was blamed of stealing the shoes of sweet feet they called it sweet feet because his feet smells good and clean.
Camp Green Lake has no lake actually, where the boys build character by digging a holes of exactly five feet dip and five feet wide by measuring with there shovels.
The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something for years, there was a boy named Zero they called them Zero because he has nothing in his head, after that Zero ran away at Camp Green Lake then Stanley, then Stanley found Zero in a boat upside down and after that they saw the God’s thumb, they agreed to climed it and they found food and water which is onions then they Stanley wanted to dig one more hole where he found the lipstick tube of Kate Barlow at night they found a treasure but there were caught by the Warden, Mr. Sir and Mr. Pedenski but they can’t get the treasure because they are yellow spotted lizards where it is very dangerous because when it bite you,you have a painful death.
But when it’s morning they we’re not bitten yet then the laywer of Stanley came with the police sew the Warden, Mr. Pedenski, and Mr. Sir and then a few minutes a thunder came out and started raining for the first time, and when Stanley arrived at his parent’s house with Zero they open the treasure became rich then Zero finally found his mom.