Have you guys gone to the theater to see the Dark Tower movie when it was released 2 years ago? In my own opinion, that film was pretty awesome with a lot of intense action and suspense as well as a lot of killings made throughout the film. However, I’m not here to discuss further […]
Category: Grade 8
iPads replacing MacBooks? (Purposeful Personal Portfolio 6)
After spending so much time talking about school-related topics, let’s switch some gears and talk about a more personal topic. Switching gears now… “Opening the switch cover” by NASARobonaut via Flickr. CC BY 2.0 Many people is saying that iPads (especially iPad “PROs”) can replace regular notebooks. Its performance is way better than notebooks and […]
Youtube and Blogs… Seamless! (Purposeful Personal Portfolio 5)
What I learned from this video is that it might take a lot of time trying to edit a video that contains both videos, audios, and images since we would need to align the video with the title and audio. Plus, I also learned how to make 2 pictures to show together through the […]
Purposeful Personal Portfolio 4: Full of Images
Renewable energy STOPS global warming Credit: “Solar panels and windmill power plant” by loveguli via iStock. CC BY 4.0 Renewable energy is the key solution to prevent the Earth from overheating. Even though we still haven’t found an alternative to coal and natural gas as well as diesel oil, many people and […]
Purposeful Personal Portfolio 3: Academic Dishonesty
You may be wondering why academic dishonesty is considered a serious issue in every school. Academic dishonesty involves cheating on the test, plagiarism, or even copy and paste from a site to your own work is considered as a violation of the academic honesty policy. Many students thought that the consequences of violating the academic […]
Purposeful Personal Portfolio 1: 3 High School Handbooks
Of the 3 handbooks that I analyzed recently, which are from KAS, Harvard-Westlake School at Studio City, CA, and St Paul’s School at Concord, NH, I think that the weakest handbook is the KAS handbook because it had inferior graphics with literary NO graphics inside the handbook itself, and shorter descriptions of […]
Relationship & Identity of Sunny Lewin
In this blog post, I will be discussing the relationship and identity of Sunny Lewin, the main character in the book Sunny Side Up by Jennifer & Matthew Holm. As this story went along, she developed several important relationships between her family and her trip to Florida that have shaped her identity and defined who […]
Poetry Unit Reflection
So here, after posting the summative post for the poetry unit, I want to reflect what I did and what I learned throughout this unit. I also answered the unit question here.
Marshmallow Tower Challenge Reflection
Today, we did a cool, fun, and interesting activity during science class. That is… THE MARSHMALLOW TOWER CHALLENGE! You can learn more about it here… So basically we used 20 sticks of raw spaghetti, 1yd (91.44 cm) of tape & string, and a marshmallow within 20min. Here’s some picture of it… We tried to make […]
Poetry – 15 Min of Fame: Summative Report
The poetry unit, overall, was the funnest unit of all times. We created a bunch of interesting poems, and analyzed figurative language in music recently. For the summative, I created 2 poems, 1 about my hope and 1 on inspirational poem. Recordings are also included. I hope that these poems will let you enjoy the […]