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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