1.  It was vary hard to listen to David Faber's speach.  It was vary intense and descriptive.  I had to leave during the speach because it was so sad.  This is partly because i am jewish and partly because i wasn't ready for it.  Overall i loved the speach and even though i had to leave i heard the whole speach and enjoyed it.  :)

2. I think that the part about the Partisans was mostly uplifting because most of the things in the book were negative.  I also thought that a lot of the things that David was doing was really cool.  It was really sad at the end when they were all burned especially the person that David loved like a father because he lost his real father and someone who was really close to him.  I think Romek was proud because David tipped over Nazi trains and helped stop them wich is pretty cool.  Since Romek is in the army there was a corelation between David stopping the Nazi's and Romek fighting against the Nazi's.  I also think he was proud because David made it back on his own and was being a man.

3. Since the Nazi's are so cruel they probably wanted David to go on knowing about his brother's death.  They also probably hurt him a lot and wanted him to suffer both mentally and phisically.  I would not want to go on with a memory of my brother being killed let alone the way they killed Romek.

1. The pigeon was important to David Faber because in a way it saved his family's life.  Some how Ms. Faber had a bad feeling about what was about to happen because of the birds presence. I would be suprised if this actually happened but to me it seems like the bird is a symbol of peace and when the bird was not there the mom felt something bad coming.

2. I think that the Nazi's were calling it a vacation camp because they knew that this would be like a vacation compared to what was going to happen in the future.  It was kind of like a warning.  If I  was David Faber I would take it that if this is what they call "vacation" than i better pucker up because what they call a death camp might be extremely unpleasent.  I think the conditions arn't good there but if i didnt know what would be coming up i would think they were horrible.  Its hard to compare this camp to somewher like Aushwitz.  I guess David doesnt know about the future camps so he probably thinks it's brutal so far.

Have you ever encountered a Nazi after WWII? if yes what happened???

If you were to go back to Germany would you feel safe????

 

Aztec Mural Reflection

Project title: Aztec Mural    Class: Humanities

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this project was to learn about Aztec culture.  We also learned about where the Aztecs were located.  In order to learn about Aztec murals we had to create one ourselves.  Our mural was a Quetzalcoatl holding a Aztec serpent.  Quetzalcoatl was the Aztec God.

WHAT I LEARNED:

In this project i learned how to improve my painting skills and specifically how to outline colors to make a mural look good.  I learned that you need to paint white stuff on the canvas before you paint which could be a helpful tool in future life. I learned how to use a staple gun which is really hard for me :) This project was the first time i used a tracer to draw something other than Pokemon:) I learned about specific vocabulary that the Aztecs used.  For example a chinampas is a floating garden.  I learned about the diet of the Aztecs which was mostly maize(wheat family) and vegetarian foods.  I learned about the three different social classes; priest (high class), tradesman (middle class),  peasant/slave (lower class).  In addition i learned about some of the God's they had and how they worshipped them.  A way of showing respect was to sacrifice.  They thought that the one who was sacrificed would be a messenger of God.  It was a honor to be sacrifice.  

REFLECTION:

I enjoyed this project because it allowed me to paint which is one of my skills.  I love art and this project was out of the ordinary so that is another reason it was enjoyable for me.  I got to be with one of my best friends and team mates Wade Bruffy also known as Cal nartin jr.  I think that i would have helped my group more if i didn't get the chicken pox.  Next time i will stay healthy and not get sick and let my whole group down.  I think that i was vary on task when i was not sick though. :)

 note: i will put on my Artist statement but i don't have access to it at the moment :)