7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned
September 24 & 25, 2012 Days 14 & 15
1.
Math
a. Math vocabulary: Reciprocals, or as
Danika calls them reFLIProcals! A reciprocal is a fraction that is basically
flipped upside down.
b. I learned that to make a mixed number
into a reciprocal you will have to change the mixed number to an improper
fraction by using the MAD face method and then flip the improper fraction over.
c. I learned how to multiply fractions
which is really easy because you just have to multiply across the top
numerators and then across the bottom denominators then you get your answer
d. 3/8 x 4/6 = 24/18
e. I learned that the numerator is the top
number of a fraction and that a denominator is the lower part of a fraction
f. I learned how to divide fractions, you
have to turn the second fraction upside down and then multiply, again easy!
g. Reciprocals: 5/6 6/5, 7/2 2/7, 789/4
4/789,
2. Science
a. Imagine you are an organism, within you
are overlapping system, systems contain organs each organ is made up of tissues
and the basic units of tissues are cells.
b. Let’s say that the overlapping system
you chose to look at was the nervous system, the organ you chose to study was
the brain, the tissues in the brain are the neural network, made up of neuron
cells.
c. If you look at the nerve cell you will
see that inside one, you will find organelles, cells with specific jobs, at a
smaller level you would find molecules which are made up of atoms bonded
together.
d. I learned the 8 levels of organization,
the 5 alive are the organism, the system, the organ, the tissue, and the cell,
the smallest unit alive.
e. The 3 levels not alive are organelles
molecules and Atoms.
f. I learned that you, a human being, are
an organism
g. I learned that DNA is a molecule
3. History from Bully
For You, Teddy Roosevelt
a. I learned that Teddy Roosevelt was not
elected president, but when President McKinley was assassinated Teddy Roosevelt
stepped in, the good thing was that a lot of people liked Teddy and wanted him
to be president.
b. I learned that Teddy Roosevelt had suffered
from asthma during his childhood
c. Theodore Roosevelt was one of three
sitting presidents who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
d. The Rough riders were a group of
volunteer cavalry that Theodore had formed to fight the war in Cuba. This war
was the Spanish-American war.
e. Teddy had six kids, Alice, Theodore,
Kermit, Ethel, Archie, and Quentin.
f. I learned that teddy’s parents sent him
off to Maine when he was 12 to live a few years with his cousins.
g. Roosevelt was president and the force
behind the completion of the Panama Canal.
Portrait of Theodore
Soldier Teddy
Theodore and family
Theodore
Teddy when president
Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt!
4. Language
a. Latin roots, Vocabulary word: navigabam, I was sailing. Navigation was
extremely dangerous in the ancient world.
b. Latin roots, vocabulary word: maritae. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a
long poem by Coleridge.
c. Latin roots, vocabulary word: navis,
definition ship. My friend has a successful career as a naval captain.
d. I learned about past tense and what
makes a Latin word past tense. To make a Latin word past tense you add sub
fix’s for they I we they’re, whoever you’re talking about to BA, navigabam, I
was sailing, navigas you were sailing exc.
e. I learned about different endings for
verbs, I learned more about infinitives.
f. I learned that the impersonal verb in
this story was, necesse erit tibi which means you will have to
g. I learned about Delphi and Pythia the
famous priestess and how Apollo supposedly came down to protect all the people
who went to Delphi to ask for help for Pythia was ambiguous.
5. Reading
a. It’s Christmas in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Cassie and the Logans were very
excited about their new clothes and toys, but they’re favorite present was the
books that they got, The Three Musketeers
and Monte Cristo
b. Cassie was very excited, Papa just got
home in time for Christmas and Mr. Morrison was telling Cassie and her family
the story about when his family’s house got burnt by the night men and how his
parents died.
c. Vampires? Are they real? Not according
to Dr. Juan Gomez Alonso. He believes that “vampires” are really victims of a
severe rabies virus that was passed around in the 1600s.
d. Early symptoms of the rabies epidemic
include irritability and sleeplessness, myths of vampires, sleep during day
e. Rabies victims may have spasm attacks
when revealed to mirrors and garlic and other odors
f. Vampires have pale skin, Rabies victims
lose all pigment in their bodies
g. Rabies victims seem lifelike when dead
still; I thought these comparisons were really cool
6. Writing
a. I learned more about the active voice and
how to use the active voice in a personal narrative.
b. I read two different paragraphs about
the same story, a thunderstorm and figured out which was written in the passive
voice and which was written in the active voice.
c. Then I looked about 4 different
sentences about the same exact thing and discovered which two were written in
active voice and the others were in passive voice.
d. Then I wrote down a passive voice
sentence about a thunderstorm and an active voice sentence about a
thunderstorm.
e. I learned that I naturally write in the
active voice
f. I learned about active verbs and passive
verbs, they are the verbs in passive and active voice sentences that make them
passive and active voice sentences.
g. I changed this passive voice sentence to
an active voice. Passive: The sky was lit up by lightning, Active: Lightning
lit up the sky. The active voice paragraph about the thunder storm was much
shorter than the passive voice paragraph because active voice summarizes
quickly and erases extra words.
7. Music—Midcoast School of Music, Stephanie Fischer (voice
& piano)
a. I had my second voice lesson today; we
worked on mostly sight singing, and I also learned how to sing Memory from Cats and I Could Have Danced All Night from My
Fair Lady.
b. I learned a singing vocabulary word:
Crescendo. Crescendo usually means a four beat measure that goes from softer to
louder
c. I learned about sight singing and
rhythm; I learned that a quarter note is the most common note and it equals one
beat
d. The half note is two beats, it looks
exactly like a quarter note but it is not filled in
e. A whole note takes up one whole measure
if the time signature is 44, the whole note is equal to four beats and it is a
big filled in dot.
f. The Eighth note is equal to a half beat
and is the standard two quarter notes together.
g. Sol Fej is the note line of
do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do, I also learned that the sol in the sol fej line is
sol and not so like I thought it was
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