Today in class, I searched for websites that were on the form, I used the Hakia website the most. When I found the website related to my focus question, I read through it and decided whether or not it had good information. I knew some of the websites I found were unacceptable because either they had more ads than information, the author was a student, and was unorganized. I know the websites I selected are good because they had good information when I read through them quickly, it had the authors name and when it was published, and the ads and information was organized with not so many ads. Tomorrow, I expect that Ms. Priester will tell me to look through my website that I picked and get information out of them and put it together in a short summary.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Third Quarter Awards Review!
The assembly Friday was for third quarter. It was during fifth and sixth period in the auditorium. Everyone goes even the teachers, and it’s held after every quarter. The assemblies are to recognize students that were caught doing well or whose grades were really good. The assembly first started with the pledge and then an intro. Then they introduced the guests that came to our assembly and teachers. They then gave out the awards, certificates, and money. During the assembly, I noticed that a lot of students have tried harder and have gotten their grades up. When the assembly was over, the students who got recognized got soda and pizza. For the next assembly, I am hoping that I would be one of the people to get recognized because I am trying harder and doing all my work this quarter.:)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
UnGoogleable Research – What I Already Know
My focus question is “Why do people choose to join gangs, how does it feel to be gang affiliated and why is it that it may be dangerous?” I already know why some people choose to join gangs. My perspective is that people choose to join gangs for respect and family. People back up their hood by expecting respect when some one from a different hood comes by. When I say hood I mean the place they grew up in and live in. Also, people are in gangs because of their family members or close friends also known as hommies, they know that their family member or hommie is in the gang, so they also want to be in it, to be their for their family member or hommie to protect them. I also know how it feels to be gang affiliated. Being gang affiliated is like having another family to go to. It’s a feeling of being protected and knowing that someone always has your back. Being gang affiliated is a feeling of trust and respect. Additionally, being gang affiliated may be dangerous in some ways, but the main reason it would be dangerous is if somebody disrespects you or your hood. There could be serious damage to that person, his hood, and the people in his hood. By doing this research, I hope to learn other reasons why people may think that gangs are dangerous and more about gangs.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
UnGoogleable Research Paper – Website Evaluation Tips
I am doing Gangs. I chose this because of the interesting facts that people don’t know about and because of the way they say gangs are all about danger when it is not. I asked an upperclassman, how can you tell if a website is a good resource for writing a research paper she said, “If that site tells you everything you need to know about the subject or if it helps you. For example if you have a question and the site will answer it for you”. I interviewed an adult, and asked her the same question and she answered with “If the website has all the information you need for what ever you need it for then it should be a good research website and if it explains it in a good and easy way for you too.” I then asked another adult and they said, “If the website has a good explanations and good advice with examples and will help you then it if a good website to use for a research. The advice that they gave me would help me by being able to find the rite website with the good amount of explanations and information for my research.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Fourth Quarter Kickoff Reflection!!!
My experience during the Fourth Quarter Kickoff was fun. It started with a hunt, we walked around the campus and collected clues, and then my team ended up collecting the chocolate chips at the end. After, we went to Sarah’s class and made “monkey munch”, then went to Ms.Priester’s class and made monkeys and hung them up on the class window. After the morning activity we went to lunch. After lunch we went to our teams. I was in team six. We started with a game of ball flag in the gym and we won that game. Next game was baseball, with a ball with holes in it and a plastic bat, we won that game also. The last game was the best. At first we had to hold an egg on a spoon and run back and forth. Then after that we had to sit on the grass and pass cups of water and sponges filled with water in order to fill up a two litter. We won that game too; after we won they got the water and dumped it on Mr. Orozco. Team six won every game that we played and had a good and fun time.
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