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                                             Badminton


The activity was to play badminton. I got in paires and practiced. I did doubles several times.

The purpose of the activity is to learn how
 to play badminton and its rule.

I could have learned diffrently if I knew the rule clearly. Because, I sometime got confused on the badminton`s rule.

The activity related to my goal this year. It improved my skills of badminton.

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                                                            Colonial movie

The acitivity was to make a video about a colony which my group chose. We chose New York colony and did a drama of the lifestyle in New York. Since, we have no boys in our group, only girls, we did the lifestyle of colonial women. They didn`t have much rights at the time.

The purpose of the activity is to understand what we learned in class from textbook deeply. To choose one topic and do a project about it, we can understand more deeply than taking usual classes.

I learned differently by watchig other students` videos. They told me many clear informations about each colonies.

The activity related to my goal this year. I learned many new facts that I was not able to learn in the textbook about New York colony. For example, I was thinking colonial women were aloud to vote, but they actually didn`t. Only men did.

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              The true confession of Charlotte Doyle Corage




The activity was to make a corrage on the transition of Charlotte Doyle. Before, middle and after.
The purpose of the activity is to understand the changes of Charlotte's personality. Before the voyage, Charlotte was elegant, charming and polite . So, I put a young lady with  a gorgeous white dress, a lady walking to a shipm a man wearing the cap of the captain. In the transition, the middle part, she was affected a lot by the Captain Jaggery. At the beginningm Charlotte thought that he was a a nice captain, becuase he reads bible and has a picture of his daughter. But, later. she rearizes that he is so cruel and hartless.  I put a lady wearing tanktop and her hair is weaving in the air, a lady who's wearing a eyemask and a diary dried cookies. I pasted the words, "dos, don'ts, wild, what to do, attagirl, toughie, Got stress?, life in death, I need to WRITE, WORK! Can you survive? Expose the truth, Who's really to blame?". After the voyage, when Charlotte finally back to America, her father forbids her to ever mention anyhing about what she had written during her voyage at sea. Charlotte is forced to return in prim and proper ways. She felt caged and runs away from her home. Charlotte choose the Seahawk instead of her home and her family. I put a lady siting on a swing, spinning, and cheering. And a black man sitting- for Zakariah. I put th ewords, "Family feeling, What makes you different is what makes you ferfect, be happier, shocking, unforgettable, Hey, it's okay. SMOOTH MOVE, Immediate relief No matter what the conditions.
By doing this project, I learned a lot of personal feelings, the characters' personalities or characteristics change in their situation,position and the classes. Charlotte is a good example. She was polite and elegant, because of her prim and proper enviroment. After the voyage, her personality changed extremly. She became brame, dark skin, short hair, and not good words.

The activity related to my goal this year. This book told me the transitions of a person which changes by the enviroment.

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 Scientific Notation

Scientific notation is a way to write very small or very big numbers more simple and plainly.

The formula is C×1ⁿ　and C is always 1≦C＜10.
My real life example is about elements. Their mass are often really small that you can`t
scale them. But, I saw a scientific notation on the website which the mass  of a proton was
 written . Proton is a one of the smalles telement . If you write the mass of proton by not using
scientific notation, it represents as so big number.  But, to write the mass in scientific notation, 
it represents1.67 x 10^-27kg. Now, you can see it clearly and you can imagine how big is the mass 
 and also compare with the mass of other elements.

The purpose of writing long numbers in scientific notation is to make the numbers looks simple and plain. By  making the number looks plain, it make s easier to guess how big is the number. It help reader to understand the fact easily.

I studied that scientific  notation is highly useful to quote physical quantities. To write physical quantities in scientific notation, you can write the numbers persuadely by changing the numbers simple and you can write the numbers shorter without wasting space.

I learned  more about scientific notation by writing this. I learned that it is used as well as in electric current such as calculators and many computer problem.

The activity related to my goal this year because I saw some scientific notation when I researched about an element on a science project. I didn`t know about scientific notation yet at that time, but now, I learned how to use and when to use them.

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 Read aloud

      The activity was to read out loud, a fable that we chose. We chose to read to first graders. All of the EAL students had four chuildren for the audience. I chose a fable called Clarence the Crocodile by Griselda Gifford, because  I thought children would love this story. It had many pictures and cute characters.
      The purpose of the activity is to practice reading out loud, speak in right and clear pronunciation and to read it to others and also communicate with little childrens.
      I larned good reading skills from this activity. I had to have good fluency, pace, expression and volume, so that children who listen to my fable can understand easily what I want to say. I asked them questions, "Who is the characters?" and "Who wants to read this part of the character?", because sometime I made them toread to get their attention and make them enjoy.
       I could have learned better if I had chosen a book which had more dialogue. My book had much narration, but little dialogue. I got so nervous and frightened that children were not enjoying my reading. But later, Mrs.Chamberlain gave me a good advice. "Skip the pages which have only narration by telling the children what's going to happen". I think it is a good idea to read. Children don't get bored and I can read the book without feeling nervous, confidently. Next time, if we will do activities of reading out loud, I will use this method, so that I can do better.

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1. What was the activity?

The activity was to read a an assigned book called “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” and did a project about the book. My group made a newspaper about the Charlotte Doyle and I woked on the personal ads and also helped  Su-Hyun with the comic.

2 What was the purpose of the activity?

The purpose of the activity was to understand what is happening in the book. To do the project, I read the book again and again to find hints for the project.

3. What did I learn?

I learned the the hiatorical back grounds from the book. The book published in 1990 and honored by many publishing companies and the the voyage that Charlotte had is in 1832. I know that the book doesn`t say the truth of the voyage that Charlotte had, but it is interesting that people still had slave and ladies were not aloud to work during this period, about 200 years ago. It is pretty recently, becuase from thebegging of the voyage to to day, there were I can imagin that 2 people of my ancestores died. Charlotte`s behavior made me suprise. She didn`t care if the Captain Jaggery tease her, or tried keel her, she didn`t care about her house`s normal social behavior, she just always believed her self and her best friends.

4. How could I learned differently?

I could learn differently if I did the news articles. I was thinking the topic is interesting, too. Because, to write article of the newpaper, I will write it from third person view.. I think the article on the nespaper and the truth that happend on the ship will be different because,  the publishing company sometimes get not truth such as a rumor.

5. Did the activity relate to your goal this year?

The activity related to my goal this year. It gave me many historical background, and the awesome personality of Charlotte and learnd new vocabularies.

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The activity was to write a science journal called SMYLE. I did about a lava boulder on the moon and the system of voice. Especially, I interested about lava boulder on the moon and I will write abut this journal.

 The purpose of the activity was to research the topic that I interested and to write the journal, get knowledge about the topic. In my SMYTLE journal, the topic was "A Rabbit On The Moon". Because, in Japan, people says that the black stuff on the moon (lava boulder) looks like a rabbit. I interested that what  is the black stuff that Japanese call it a rabbit.

 I learned that the black stuff on the moon is the lava boulder that a volcano on the moon erupted and lava poured forth on the low ground. Before I reseatched about the topic, I was thinking that the black stuff is a shadow, I was missunderstanfing even my parents either.

 I think I could learn diffrently if I connected it to science and math. After I got the project buck, I connected it to science and math.  It can be science becuase, it is about the moon and astromy. It can be math because,  to know when the volcano erupted scientists use math.

 The activity related to my goal this year. To write the journal, I researched on the internet and it increased my knowledge.