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 :)

final reading group post

Title: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
By: Ann Brashares
Time: 2 1/2 hours
Pages: 210-326

There are a lot of things that this book and  movie so different.  By watching the movie i indicated a lot of differences.  I depicted that Tibby seemed more innocent in the book than in the movie.  Part of it was because you could actually see that Tibby is pretty much goth and has piercings and is allways seeming down.  In the book they made it seem like Tibby is not the odd one of the group even though she kind of is.  In the movie when the four girls meet to have the ritual and declare the rules of the pance they go to a fashion department but in the book they go into a school.  One of the major differences from the book than the movie is that kustos' and Lina's grandparents hate eachother but in the book they are friends. This changes Lina's whole lifeline. One of the other things i spotted is that Eric seems to be into Bridget a lot more in the book than in the movie. I guess that is because you could see him watch her.  Im glad they didnt do the freak dancing seen.

question:  If you had to be one of the charecters and live the exact same timeline that they did who would it be???

(i did this as a seperate post but it didn't show)SORRY!!!

READING GROUP #2

Title: Traveling Pants
By: Ann Brashares
Time:3 1/2
Pages: 110-210

I think Tibby is being really mean to Bailey.  Sometimes I think Tibby forgets that Bailey has Cancer and says something rude.  I know Bailey is a brat but that is probably because of what she has and is going through.  Bailey is upsessing about Tibby because it is probably the only friend she has had and she doesnt know how to handle it.

I am really getting bad vibes from bridget.  I don't think that it is even possible for her to go out with the soccer coach.  I don't know if it is just me but i think that it is really gross that bridget tried to freak dance with Eric.  He is so much older than she is she really needs to back off becasue she does not have a chance.  

Do you think that Bridget has a chance with Eric????

I don't think that she does because sooner or later Eric will find out that she is younger than she said she was.  She is also trying to hard and guy's dont like girls who are really agressive.

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Do you think Eric knows that Bridget is trying to get with him?

I think that he thinks that she is just teasing him but i think that later in the story he will realize that she is actually serious about him and talk to her about it.

Title: Traveling Panse
By: Ann Brashares

Time:2 1/2
Pages: 0-110

Total Pages This Week: 110 pg.

   What a girly book!  Sometimes this book is hard to follow because in the story there a four girls; Lina, Tibby, Bridget and Carmen and they are all on trips during the summer and it switches off story to story.  Lina is in greece.  Bridget is at a soccer camp. Carmen is at her Dads house becasue her parents are devorced and tibby is working at a store called wallman's. They are typical girls just finding there way in life.

I predict that Carmen's story will be like the movie parent trap.  Since Carmens parents are divorced Carmen switches off from her mother to father and when she goes to her fathers house this time he has a fiance and two kids.  She does not like them. And that is how the movie starts a girl doesnt like her divorced parents fionce. She eventually kicks her out.  Carmen has two choices to be happy for him or to get mad and try to get his future wife out of the house.

 My question is:

How do you think Carmen will take the sittuation with her parents???

I think she will try to talk to her Dad about getting married.  If Carmen really doesnt like her she might try to prank or do something so that she will not marry Carmens Dad.  Carmen told her mom right away over the phone that her dad was getting married so it seemed kind of important to Carmen.

Dragon rider post #4

NAME          Max Gruenberg         DATE      3/16/08
TITLE              Dragon rider        TIME     2 hours
AUTHOR        Cornella Funke   PAGES      210-270
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK : 60 

This week's reading was very interesting.  There is a creature called a "Djinn" who has 1,000 eyes and each eye is looking at some other place in the world at a different time.  The Djinn takes on a genie form.  He is blue and is kept in a limo in the middle of a jungle.  To awaken him you need to honk the horn of the limo. The eyes are located all over his body.

 The Djinn knows everything because he has seen everything.  To ask the Djinn a question you need to ask it in seven words and it has to be a human that asks.  This would have been a problem for Ben, Sorrel, Twigleg and Firedrake but luckily they picked up Ben on the way and he is human.  They asked where the rim of heaven lies and the Djinn told the boy by letting him look in one of his eyes.  

  Twiglegleg is on a mission for Nettlebrand.  He is to spy on firedrake (dragon) and find out where his pack lives so that he can hunt them down.  Twigleg is becoming friends with the group that he is spying on.  He decided that he would tell his “master,” Nettlebrand that the dragons live out in a dessert far away. The purpose of that Nettlebrand would go try to find them. He would then get lost in a dessert where there are no living organisms for him to feed on.  When Twigleg decided this he got vary angry because Nettlebrand ate all of his brothers.  Twigleg’s master treats him very badly and the Firedrake and Ben treat him nicely so he doesn’t want to betray the people that are nice to him.