Projects

In Humanities class, we’re starting the “Family History Project”. It’s when we have to interview a family member about something historic that they were in. We have to gather information on them, but on the historic event they were in. In order to gather information on our family member, we have to interview them, we have to have a list of questions to ask for the interview, in which our teacher has to approve of. For the information on the historic event, we use some info from the interview, and from the internet.
Then, we’ll make a script, and, using Movie Maker, we’ll put together photographs, music from that time and place, and, make a movie.
I will be interviewing my grandpa on World War II.

In our Science class, we are starting a new project called, “The Encyclopedia of Life”. The object of this project is, we’ll be categorizing represenitives from the “five kingdoms”. We’re starting to do some research on all of the kingdoms.
Because life is continuously expanding, scientists must create more groupings to classify all of the billions of living things.
So, we get into groups (of two people), our partners are always changing, so we can experience different personalities and such and learn to get along and know our classmates better, so, anyways, then we research and take notes from a web quest.
And, I have posted a video, “The Encyclopedia of Life” video, on the Navigator Bar somewhere…. So, please take a look at it!

The current book we are reading in humanities is called So Far From The Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins.
It is the semi-autobiography of a young girl, Yoko, a Japanese girl living in Nanam, Korea with her sister, Ko, brother, Hideyo, and her mother and father.
When World War II occurs, she has to escape from the Koreans, who want to regain control of their nation from the Japanese.
I recommend you to read it if you haven't, it's a really good story.