7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned September 26,
27 2012 Days 16 & 17
1. Math
Lesson Plan—Math &
Literature—Measurement & Proportions
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If you were
only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The
teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.
A crumb of
cake would be a feast
And last
you seven days at least,
A flea
would be a frightening beast
If you were
one inch tall.
If you were
only one inch tall, you'd walk beneath the door,
And it
would take about a month to get down to the store.
A bit of
fluff would be your bed,
You'd swing
upon a spider's thread,
And wear a
thimble on your head
If you were
one inch tall.
You'd surf
across the kitchen sink upon a stick of gum.
You
couldn't hug your mama, you'd just have to hug her thumb.
You'd run
from people's feet in fright,
To move a
pen would take all night,
(This poem
took fourteen years to write--
'Cause I'm
just one inch tall).
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Step One: Read
the poem aloud
Step Two: Measure
Sophie’s height with string, cut string, and label: one end= 0, the other end=
1
Step Three:
Explain Proportional *Sophie knew what this meant and we talked about 3 good
examples:
1.
Cake Boss—Buddy’s huge cakes, specifically the
Seasame Street one, use proportions in order to represent large-scale,
realistic scenes
2.
Maps & Globes
3.
Blueprints and building designs
Step Four: Reread the poem and consider being only one inch tall,
therefore the classroom and objects must be measured in proportion to your new
height. Using the string as our measurement guide = 1 inch, she measured 4
classroom objects: the red desk, the keyboard, a workbook, and the computer
monitor screen.
*In order to estimate her
measurements accurately, she divided the string in half and quarters and marked
those measurements with masking tape.
Step Five: Record measurements on table (this included practice in
adding fractions)
Step Six: Re-measure the same objects using the string and its “real”
length, which equals Sophie’s actual height of 54 inches. Record on table.
*Sophie started to re-measure the
objects and quickly learned that she didn’t actually have to re-measure, she
just needed to convert her fractional measurements of an inch into the actual
measurements—**see below!
Step Seven: Using a tape measure, re-measure the objects again for
accuracy and record.
a. I learned that if I was one inch tall the
red desk in the computer room would be a half an inch tall. I figured this out
because my height is 54 inches and we took a string and measured it using
fractions and proportions. b. If I was one inch tall the keyboard would be 5/16
of an inch. I figured this out by adding ¼ and 1/16 together to get the answer
c. I learned that my workbooks length is ¼ of
an inch, if I was one inch tall.
d. The computer screens length would be ¼ of
an inch if I was one inch tall, its width would be ½ of an inch, if I was one
inch tall.
e. In my height the red desk is 32 inches
in height and 42 inches in width, this was my estimate the real, is 40 for
width and 29 for height
f. I estimated that in my height the
keyboard would be 18 inches in length, it was 17 inches in real life. The
workbook I guessed was a foot in my height which was correct
g. The computer screen’s length I estimated
was 12 inches length and 22 inches width which was right.
2. Science
a. I asked about the Bermuda Triangle and
why people have disappeared there. The Answer that it gave me, summarized is
that, It is an “imaginary” area that has many unexplained losses of ships,
small boats, and planes. The loss of five planes and a rescue aircraft on
December 5, 1945 is legendary but it seems to be just a coincidence.
b. The magnetic force in the Bermuda
triangle is much different when you use a compass it points eleven hundred
miles away from true North, which is one of the mysteries.
c. I asked, how is radiation treating
cancer? The answer: Radiation for treating cancer comes in two different ways,
one treatment uses waves that come from machines like X-rays and the second
method is waves or particles that come from radioactive sources.
d. I learned that radiation therapy has
side effects, some examples are hair loss, swelling, and nausea, this is why
Cancer is so awful.
e. I asked, what is in shampoo that cleans
your hair, the answer: Each strand of
hair is contained in a hair follicle that extends below the scalp, the
follicles have a gland that makes an oil to moisten the hair follicle
f. Shampoos are basically soaps that
eliminate excess oils and dirt that collect on the scalp.
g. I learned that a fire has to be around
fourteen and sixteen hundred degrees to melt glass
3. History—Industrial
Revolution Can You Find? Book Project
Intro:
Can you find? This book teaches you all about the Industrial
Revolution! On each page read the story and then find the objects you learn
about in the fun puzzle of pictures. For those of you wondering, the Industrial
Revolution is a time period in the world were many inventions and factories
were built all at once. This is how we got many modern inventions today like
the telephone, the car, and schools!
Table of contents: page 1 Transportation,
Page 3 Communication,
Page 5 health and Education,
Page 7 Rights
Sophie Calderwood
Grade 7
September 2012
Transportation—Story
Have you ever ridden in a car? Have you ever been on a
plane? How about a Train? All of these things were made during the Industrial
Revolution. Transportation was a big invention of this time. People who had to
ride in carriages pulled by horses didn’t have to any more. You could now get
your mail much faster, because you could put it on a train or boat. Steamboats
carried people across the ocean much faster than sailing ships. But they looked
much different back then, then they do now. Overtime the inventions evolved to
become safer and easier to use but we owe all of our modern transportation to
the Industrial Revolution.
Communication-Story
Have you got a telephone at your house? Have you ever sent
an email? Communication was a very big invention made during the Industrial
Revolution. It started with Samuel Morse and the invention of the telegraph.
The telegraph was a way to send emails using dots and dashes, a series of long
and short beats for every number. This brought Alexander Graham Bell to make a
better version of this and when he was working on it, he apparently spilled
something on his clothes and called for his assistant in the other room through
the machine and he could hear him! Did you know that there are telegraph wires
under the ocean that lets America send a telegraph to Europe?
Health and
Education-Story
Have you ever gone to the doctor? I bet you go to school?
Believe it or not these are the result of new Idea and improvements made during
the Industrial Revolution too! The Industrial Revolution is funny because one
invention triggers another and then that one triggers another. So when Doctor
Edward Jenner decided to invent the Smallpox vaccination (which is a shot that
prevents you from getting sick) that triggered another Doctor to find cures for
other viruses. The establishment of one room school houses were put together
during this era too. In 1852 a law was passed that said all children between
the ages of 8 and 14 had to attend the public school. If it wasn’t for this law
and later laws you might not be able to go to school!
Human Rights-Story
Have you ever worked? Back when the cotton mills were
running you would probably have to. Child labor in textile mills was really
important to factory owners because they would do a lot of work and get paid
very little money. But child labor laws are why you do not work today. The
workers in the mill were mostly young women. This was a big change because women
could now leave the farm and live in the city and they had money to spend on
clothes and food. This helped create the middle class. Young women would share a room with almost 5
other woman and they would have to sleep in a tiny little bed together every
night. A newsletter article was created where women wrote articles. This was
the first time this could happen, it started by women speaking up for
themselves and it started the suffrage movement which was when all of the women
stood up and wanted to be treated equal by being allowed to vote. Unions and
protection of workers’ rights were created during the Industrial revolution in
order to convince factory owners to give them better pay, shorter hours and
safe work place.
4. Language—Latin
Vocabulary
a. Pecunia, definition money, feminine and a
noun, Sofia puncia infanta sedere. Sophie gets money when she babysits.
b. Timor, definition
fear, masculine noun, Lilia timoris belua. Lily feared the wild beast.
c. Eximius, definition extraordinary,
adjective, Corria eximius scientia. Corrie has extraordinary knowledge.
d. Velox, definition fast, masculine
adjective, Lilia incurro veloxocis. Lily runs very fast.
e. Graviter, definition seriously, adverb
feminine, Sofia Graviter non servio. Sophie seriously doesn’t like to be a
slave.
f. Castigo, definition to punish, verb,
masculine, Corria castigo Lilia plumbeas. Corrie punishes Lily when she is bad.
g. Voco, definition
to call, feminine verb, Carlia Raea Jepsen dico pueri voco est in carmen “Voco
fortasse” Carly Rae Jepsen tells a boy to call her in her song “Call Me Maybe”
5. Reading
a. In my reading workbook I learned about
two different girls who became friends, Kelly and Sheila are very different,
they come from different families and they dress different and look different however
they are best friends, Sheila gets whatever she wants and Kelly has hand me
down clothes. Sheila is jealous of Kelly because Kelly has nice loving kind
parents and Sheila’s parents are never around.
b. A happened, then B happened, If A had
not happened then B would not have happened either therefore A caused B. I was
supposed to think of a counter example to prove the reasoning is wrong
c. My example: Let’s say its Fourth of July;
you and your family decide to light some fireworks. Your dad goes down to the
clear part of your yard. He lights the firework with the expectation and
intention that is going to go up and explode. This is A. But something goes amiss
and the firework does not work. This is B. Therefore A does not always cause B.
d. In Roll
of Thunder Mr. Granger the plantation owner goes over to the Logans’
property. He has three threats that he says. The first one states that he has
gone to the bank and told them that the Logans have to pay their entire mortgage
straight up or else they would lose the land.
e. Then his second threat claims that he would
raise the debt of his sharecroppers on his land so that they didn’t have money
to pay the Logans for the shopping in Vicksburg.
f. His last threat was the scariest; He
claims that there are lots of ways of stopping them from going to Vicksburg
right after Uncle Hammer brings up Burnings.
g. I learned that one possible source of
information in from DNA
6. Writing
a. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dog. Is a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet in one sentence. My
assignment was to create another sentence using all of the letters in the
alphabet
b. This is the sentence: The X-Ray of the
quiet zebra carefully warned jumping zebras of knives.
c. In my writing notebook today I used the most
exciting event to write a personal narrative. Today I did pre-writing and
listing details.
d. In Spelling and Grammar daily spark I learned
that you can turn hate in to love in just three steps, Hate into Have into Hove
into Love
e. I did this with dog into cat, Dog into
Dot into Cot into Cat
f. I also did jump into pool, Jump into
Pump into Pomp into Poop into Pool!!!
g. I did cool into warm, this one I had
trouble with but I finally learned how to do it, cool into wool into wood into
word into worm in warm
7. Theater
Acting Exercise: Sense of Smell—find 7 objects
in your house and sit in comfortable, quiet space and take a minute to smell
each objects and reflect and write about your feelings, thoughts, and senses.
a. Object 1: perfume bottle= clean, sugary, sweet, good smell, calm,
relaxed, rich
b. Object 2: nail polish remover =
disgusting, horrible, dirty, gagging, ugly
c. Object 3: box of raisins= sweet, calm,
relaxed, hungry, it felt like I was on a farm picking grapes
d. Object 4: Yellow smelly marker= pretty
relaxed, sleepy, felt like I was in a spa, minty, beautiful
e. Object 5: toothpaste = clean, refreshed,
bubblegummy, felt like I was in a circus, it reminded me of a pediatric dentist
office, flavorful
f. Object 6: pajama pants = stinky, warm,
sleepy, bad, ugly, mad
g. Object 7: Apple = clean, sweet, pretty,
shiny, hungry, new, sugary, healthy
*Write 3 good sentences about how you felt and what you
learned as an actor in this exercise:
I felt
mostly calm and relaxed when I smelled all of the items that I picked out
because I really like smelling really sweet sugary smelling things. I learned for
acting that if I was doing this acting exercise being a different character I
might feel differently when I smelled these items. If I was acting and
pretending to be Cosette, all that I know about her she must of felt really
good when she smelled most of these things because she had nothing and she
would’ve felt and thought of her mother probably.
