10/29/07

Today it i thougth it was reaally fun we got to preform our skit.(1)What did your skit teach you about teamwork? The skit taught me that teamwork is not always so easy, because many people have different sujestions, but teamwork may also help us finish our project faster if we just had a group leader. (2)What did your skit teach you about the material? I thought that by acting out the skit we could actually premform how the peole in the Tang Dyansty felt about being over thrown by a new emperor. And that also taught me that if you get information from the book and act it out as a script you could actually learn more because you are having fun. (3)List four ways the skit could have been improved. I thought it could have been improved if we had more actions in the skit because some of us just read what was on the script and they did not show actions, they were a bit emotionless. I also thought it could have been improved if we only memorized the script, because i thought it was akward that people say they were ready but they kept flipping their scripts when they were talking. The other way to imrove the script is to have some things for the script like if you were acting out someone you should have some materials, so it would be more realstic. So the act could be more exciting. The other to make the skit improve is to have more back ground, because i thought that if we had more background it is like we had more places we are at. Basically we worked on the script for like half the class. I thoguth we did a great job, i really hope that we can do this sometime again but i still don't want it to act out in the all school gathering. Becasue then it would be very imbarrising if we made a mistake. Jez was really good with the background, she was the one who found the rebeling background, in the play she rebeled to like in the picture i thought it was very halarious.

10/15/07

Today in class we talked at first then we satrted on our homework which Mr.Brughauser let us do. Our homework was to type down a day what the person in the Song or Tang would do. Jez and i were working together, we chooesed to work on a noble young girl when Jez and i worked about half of it Mr.Brughauser came and told Jez and i that we did a wonderful job. It was nice of Mr.Brughauser to tell us that. At the end of the class Jez and i were almost finshed we just needed to add a few sentances to end what a noble girl's life is like. I thought it was fun today because i get to work on my homework in class.

10/11/07

At the begining we had a few minutes to put final toches on pur powerpoint.Then we were presenting our powerpoints, Jordan and Kevin were up first, but somehow only Kevin was presenting, they did it on the technology of the Han Dynasty, i thought they did a good job.Up next was Connie and Eunice they did their topic was on the Chinese society. Then after they have finish presenting Mr. Brughauser said it was wonderful wnderful wonderful, i thoght it was too. Then the last group was Jez and i i was kind of nervous of presenting, the topic that Jez and i choose was the Han Dynasty. When we were finished Kevin asked a few quesions and we answered, and then Mr. Brughauser also asked us some questions too, and some how we started to talk about caviar and freedom because i think it is about the society. We also talked about old money and new money and then we talked about how it is not fair that people us money to get in school instead of using their heads. I thought today was fun because we get to watch powerpoints and present them. At the end of the class Mr. Brughauser said since there is 25 minutes left i will let you read from your History book from page 322-329 i got to finish it in class. The good news is that Mr. Brughauser said that we do not need to do a powerpoint on this chapter.

10/4/07

Today in class Mr. Burghauser told us we work with ourself, he won't even step up to tell us what to do. We will decide things by our self and he will sit there and read a book and if he wants to take a drink of water he can just walk right out and take a drink of water. I thought it was a cool idea to let us to that. At first we got ready and we made finish toches on our powerpoint, after we had put finish toches to our powerpoint we presented it. First it was Eunice and Connie their subject was on Daioism. Afetr they presented we clapped and then we get to ask questions, but we didn't ask any questions so then Eunice and Connie gets to ask us. They asked us alot of questions we only got a few right. Next up was Jez and i we presented on Confucionism and Legalism after we were finished the audience gets to ask us questions. They asked us a lot of questions and Jez anwser all of them i had no clue what the anwsers was. Then it was Jordan and Kevins turn they did their topic on the Qin dynasty which i wanted to do. When they were done we ask them a few question and than it was their turn to ask us questions. I thought they asked us a lot of questions but we got most of the questions right we just missed one and Jordan said Connie was cheating because she took notes on the powerpoint. There was this funny one Jordan and Kevin asked how long the Great wall was i answered 4000miles but they say we had to answer it with km. When the three groups were done Mr. Brughauser said good job, it was wonderful, it was great. I really think the class was fun, then Mr. Brughauser said next time he would let us do this again maybe in 1month he won't even need to come to the class hw would know that his students are in class. But then he assigned us homework it was to read from pages 200-207, i thought it was kind of long.

10/1/07

Today in class i thought it was not fun because we had to do a powerpoint for homework, but at the beggining it was fun. The teacher wanted us to list five most important things i our book. He said it would be much easier since we did it last time and we reread it. We had to be in groups of two so i worked with Jez, Connie worked with Eunice, Jordan worked with Keven. We all maked a list of things than the teacher wanted us to write it on the board Jez and i took turns to write it in the board. After that we discussed what things we feel like is imortant so we said that Confucius and Legalist, was important so was Daioism, I Ching and Ying and Yang, Shi Huangdi. Than the teacher told us we had to do a powerpoint on the topic that we picked at first we picked the Qin Dynasty but then the other groups wanted to do those so we picked Confucius VS Legalist. The other to groups flipped a coin than Kevin and Jordan won so they get to choose the Qin Dynasty so Connie and Eunice did Daoism. Besides the fact that we had to do a powerpiont everything else was ok.

9/27/07

Today we talked about our reading strategies, and i thought it was really funny. Th teacher told is that he liked peanut butter cup icecream, he thought it was the most unbeliveable thing. He said that his birthday was June 20th so maybe if we could find the ice cream he wants that would be great. He said that the most important idea has effect on other things. After that we started to look at the pages that we read, and the teacher told us that the history book was a good book because it provides us with clues. So after awhile we had to get in groups of two, to talk about our own reading strategies, and i was paired up with Jez. When we got into the groups we had to tell the partner our reading strtegies, if we are finished we tell the teacher and then he types it on the coputer and show it on the projector. Jordan's reading stratedy is to read the book twice. Kevin's reading strategy was to take notes. My reading strategy was to take notes on the main topic. Jez's reading strategy was to read the book and take notes on stickies and stick it inside the book, and the teacher thought it was a wonderful idea. Eunice's reading strategy was to read the title and understand how the idea in the section connect to the title. Connie's reading strategy was to pay attention to the underline words , and also underlining her own words that she think is connected to important ideas.
Then we started to talk about goofy things like jellybeans, after that we had to list five impotant things that we had read. I was sad at the end because we had homework but it was a easy homework, so was today's class.

9/21/07

Today in class the teacher wanted us to type down five important things that we think are important inside the book so i did. Then we discussed it for a while, after that we looked at the maps we pointed out were the huang he is located at. Then the funniest thing happened we talked about the advantages and the disadvantages about having a class a size of a foot ball feild. We talked about that for a while then we talked about feudalism, and feudalism was bad and what things you can not do under feudalism like, you can not vote what kind of leader you want, and feudalism lets the king control everything. Also if you get a land and you do anything on there like grow crops that crop will not be yours it will be some one elese crop. We also talked about the american president. I thought it was really fun today, we did alot of fun things, especially when we talked about the foot ball field thing.

9/14/07

Today in class we presented our homework that we did on Tuesday. It was really cool that Connie and Eunice did a power point presentation on theirs. It was a little bit of fun until we got to the text books, i did not like text books because we had to carry it around. When i arrive to the class, the teacher asked us if we wanted a few minutes to practice what we were going to present. I immediately said yes because i wrote it on paper, and Jez and i wanted to type it out on the computer so it would look neater, so i huried and i try to type fast. And good thing i did or it would not look so neat.

9/12/07

Today it was kind of fun, because Mr. Burghauser said things that made me laugh. At first it started out boring at least from the looks of other people,or maybe they are just sleepy. But it got really fun, Mr. Burghauser wanted us to teach him about Taiwan things. He wanted us to tell him somethinghe did not know about Taiwan. In the beggining most of the people were silent, but when few people started to speak up so did the rest of the class. We talked about how the education system in Taiwan is different from the U.S, and we talked about the language, we also talked about the food we have here. And how there is a difference in government and money, we talked about the political party, which the teacher put in a story. And we also talked about how there is different holidays, climate there is also day light savings in the U.S. but there is no day light savings in Taiwan. There is also a different religion, and different kinds of geography. When we were finish talking about Taiwan the teacheer wanted us to write something about the topic that he had assigned us, i was working with Jez. I thought it was kind of boring but it was alo challenging.

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