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Friday, September 28, 2012

Days 16 & 17


7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned September 26, 27 2012    Days 16 & 17

1.       Math
Lesson Plan—Math & Literature—Measurement & Proportions

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).

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.

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