IWP Writing Project

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Drug Safety PSA for Health

Alcohol Presentation

Understanding Sacrifice Notes

ABMC - American Battle Monuments Commission

In charge of all burials of WW1 and WW2

Max Cleland, in charge of ABMC.

Find things that don't make sense or add up.

Contact someone who knows, is related, or has information about the person. 

Pay attention to details

The Pitch!

Convince the people that your story will work and will sell well

Also convince the publishers that your story will help increase awareness or help XYZ learn about something.

Vemork Heavy Water Factory Short Book

This short book is about the Vermork heavy water factory raid in Norway. Ten Norwegian saboteurs went to the factory and placed bombs inside the factory and blew up the heavy water that the Nazis needed to create an atomic bomb. 

Out of the Dust Reader Response

In this reader response, I learnt a bit more about really digging deep into poems, and finding again and again parts, and using them to create a thesis and crafting a reader response from that. The end product turned out well, and the images really supported the recording and my reading response, with good timing of the images. 

Ebooks or Regular Books?

In this speech, Aiden S. explores the many benefits of ebooks and why it should start to be used even more as an option to replace books. You can find the transcript of this speech here.

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PE GMO Video

CWW Podcast

Smart Fitness Goal

I want to improve my mile time to 6:30 (15 seconds from last time) by the second quarter mile run, by practicing running and building up agility, so I can do better in the mile. My reward will be that I would be happier that I got a better time than last.

Strengthening muscles video

Climbing Unit Video

Formative Reflection

1. I would find the rate of change of the story, and then find where the “y” starts (for example “Jack had 500 buckets of water at first”). Then, I would use the slope and y intercept to make the equation.
2. I would first use two “x and y” values to get the slope (y2-y1/x2-x1), then use (y2-y1/x2-x1) to solve for the x intercept, by making 0 one of the x values. Then, using the the y value found in the equation, I would use that to form the equation.
3. I would take two “x , y” values from the graph (e.g. 0,5 and 6,11), and plug it into the (y2-y1/x2-x1) equation to get the slope. Then, I would look on the graph to see where the line touches the y axis. If it is not clear, then I would use (y2-y1/x2-x1) to solve for the x intercept, by making 0 one of the x values. Then, like before, I would plug it into the equation.
4. I would place 0 into the x value in the equation, then solve for y. That would be my first point. Then, I would place another number in the x value, and solve for y. Then, I would have two points, and I would graph them.
5. If I am given a table of values, I would just take two points, plot them, and draw a line.
6. To derive y=mx+b using similar triangles, I would draw a triangle with the hypotenuse on the line on the graph. As all triangles that are similar to the triangle I just drew, I would find the two outer lengths of the triangle, which would be the slope. Then, I would see where it crossed the x axis. However, if I knew the slope, then I would know that all the triangles on the line would have the ratio 2:3 for the rise and run.  Then, I would know that the right triangle that (0,b) and (x,y) forms would have the ratio m:1. I would know that the horizontal side of the triangle is “x”, and “y” length of the triangle would be y minus b (y intercept). I would then know that (y-b/x)=m/1, which simplifies to y=mx+b.

Ellis Island Reflection

1. I think people felt relived upon their arrival at Ellis Island, as they had gone on the ship for a very long time, and also spend all their money getting there, so once they got there it would have been quite relieving to find that you were near/on shore.

2. I think the screening process in the immigration would be very complicated, as many people would be arguing with some inspectors to seal their place in America. Also, it is quite easy to get sick on the boat, and because of that they would be deported back to America.

3. I knew we were taking a "ship" to go to another classroom, and I didn't really know what was going to happen, but when we got to the other classroom to do the "immigration" simulation I wanted just to get through. 

"Always Say Yes!"

Kwame Alexander’s Visit

Every year, an award is given to the best book in the world. This award is called the Newbery Award, and just last week, Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery award winner has come to SAS! Want to know what happened when he arrived? Read on.

When Kwame arrived, I was really looking forward to first meet him. When I saw him up close, he always had a really excited vibe about him. This was because he was always really happy and upbeat, and all in all, really hooked me to poetry. The first time we met him, he started out with a talk about trying out different sports in his school, just to be cool, and he linked poetry to everything he did in middle school. An amazing quote from Kwame Alexander when talking about trying out different sports is this: “Never let the no’s define you, always say ‘Yes!’”

The next day, when he came personally to the library to give us a lesson on poetry, he started by asking us to list out the ingredients of a pound cake. After listing the ingredients, he then went on to say “Poetry is a pound cake.” Analogies were made: the ingredients of the pound cake were poetry rules, the idea of “made with love” is a metaphor to the emotion in the poetry. I really learnt how poetry is made up, and a quick “definition” our class came up with together is this: “An arrangement of the right words in a concise manner that uses originality, rhythm, repetition, figurative language, emotion, meaning, and showing rather than telling. Then, we started writing clerihews.

For me, this was my favourite part of the classes with Kwame. A clerihew is a poem that makes fun about a famous person. I really enjoyed this because we got to make fun of people in a nice way. The poem that I wrote was about a cricketer - Steven Smith.

The clerihew was:

Steven Smith

Shuffles like a sith

When he plays a shot

He ties himself in a knot.

In addition, there was going to be one last lesson with Kwame Alexander. In that lesson, we were supposed to write a list poem about what we learned that week, and Kwame randomly chose different people to come up and present their poem. I got chosen, and finally steeled my presenting nerves, and presented. I really learnt a lot about how a poem was presented that day, and at the end, we all got to get Kwame Alexander’s signature!

Wellness Prezi

Letter to Bartoleme de las Casas

Dear Bartoleme,
I was just taken away by the people that are your friends. I was very angry when I was taken away, as you promised me that I was your friend. However, I wanted to talk to you about this "encomienda system".  Your leaders have sent me to a gold mine, and even though you told me that we were created equal, everyone now treats me like I am subhuman. They take us away from our family, destroy our lives, then expect us to work for them? This is outrageous! We look just like the people to all the people you told me about in Europe - we don't have tails, or aren't small with chubby arms and stubs for legs! We should be created the same. Please, do something about it

From your servent - Juanico.

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