7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned November 29,
2012 Day 56
1. Math
a. ½% = 1/200
b. 25% = ¼
c. 1/5 = 1/500
d. 75% of $60 = $45
e. ½ = 50%
f. 3/2 = 150%
g. 4/1 = 400%
2. Science
a. A unicellular organism is a one-celled
living thing. Lark recommends examining them to see if they can demonstrate
life processes and help Birdley prove that cells are alive.
b. Like an animal, the amoeba must break
down food to obtain energy. Instead of being broken down in a digestive system,
the food gets digested within a single cell.
c. The false feet are used for propulsion.
The amoeba in this case demonstrates behavior, because it is moving.
d. The amoeba demonstrates growth because
of the size its membrane increases.
e. Because it is a one-celled organism, the
amoeba’s ability to carry out the above life processes provides evidence that
cells are alive.
f. I learned that an amoeba’s pseudopodium is
the word for its false foot.
g. the amoeba digests its prey in a special
bubble called the vacuole.
3. History—American Government
a. What does it mean to govern someone?
A: To steer somebody in a certain way, like
a captain steers a ship.
b. What is “government?”
A: The act or processing of governing. It
can also mean political institutions like capital buildings, etc.
c. Name and explain two different types of
government:
A: A monarchy is a type of government in
which one person (usually a King or Queen) rules an empire. A democracy is
ruled by the people but has elected officials that speak for them.
d. What type of government does America
have? America has a democratic-republic government.
e. The first constitution was called the
Articles of confederation.
f. The First Continental Congress was a
meeting where 12 of 13 states got together and decided to boycott all British goods.
g. How did out first government work? Each
state sent delegates to the government. Each state had a vote, a government by
the people.
4. Language
a. Acteon venatur = Acteon hunts.
b. Acteon Dianem videt = Acteon sees Diana
c. Diana aquam iactat = Diana throws water
d. Acteon e cavern currit = Acteon runs out
of the cave.
e. Nunc Acteon est cervus. = now Acteon is
a stag
f. Feles bibit = the cat drinks
g. Pavo stat = The peacock stands
5. Reading
a. Today in reading I learned about odes, I
learned that an ode is formal poem of praise for someone or something
b. The excerpt above is only one stanza, the
other stanzas probably include…
Praise for autumn’s plentiful harvest and
weather
d. To what does the poet refer in the
phrase “their clammy cells?”
The honey cells of a beehive.
e. List five things that you would praise
about your favorite season. Warm sun and blue skies
f. Swimming at the beach and my birthday
time,
g. No school and Maine State Music theater
6. Writing
a. Scrabble names. I figured out that in
Scrabble, my name Sophie would be 11 points!
b. I figured out some other words that
would equal 11 points. Yoyos, Jane, forks, and dock
c. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice: Graciano’s
speech in modern English: Let me be silly, if I stay happy and keep laughing, I’ll
get wrinkles when I’m old. I’d rather be drinking and be having a good time
rather than sitting around at a table with a cold heart looking dead and
groaning.
d. I learned about whole to whole
comparison and part to part comparison.
e. In whole to whole comparison. You list
all the information about one of your objects first and then all the
information about the other object.
f. In part to part comparison you list one
fact about one of your objects and then another fact to about the other object
to show how the objects are different.
g. I compared in a Venn diagram Katniss Everdeen
and Pita Mellark.
7. Art
a. Scenes from nature and everyday life,
b. Quick, loose, brushstrokes,
c. Spontaneous poses and unusual points of view,
d. Painted outside
e. They used broken brushstrokes and
prismatic colors to convey nature’s mutability
f. Impressionist paintings almost always
have a human presence
g. Most impressionist paintings where focused
on the middle class spending leisure time in gardens or parks.
Web
Quest: Art Styles Impressionism
1.
Read page
15 in Art Styles book.
A: List four characteristics of
Impressionism:
Scenes from nature and everyday life,
Quick, loose, brushstrokes,
Spontaneous poses and unusual points of view,
Painted outside
A: Click on Link for Graphic Introduction
and watch & learn
B: List 3 more characteristics of
Impressionism:
They used broken brushstrokes and prismatic
colors to convey nature’s mutability
Impressionist paintings almost always have
a human presence
Most impressionist paintings where focused
on the middle class spending leisure time in gardens or parks.
A.
Watch video & write short paragraph about
Claude Monet:
I really like Claude Monet’s style, color balance composition, and real feeling and
emotions in his oils. He likes to paint beautiful garden landscapes and a bunch
of brightly colored flowers. I like his paintings because it is not exact and
there seems always to have a summer breeze going by which look beautiful to me.
I like
this painting because there is a lot of focus on the lady in the chair and the background
is just a lot of brush strokes of color and you can’t really tell what it is.
I
love the vibrant color of the sunset and the reflection of the water. I think
this painting is beautiful!
This
picture is nice to me because of the pretty street lights reflection
everywhere. I can tell that it’s a street in Paris at night.
This
beautiful Monet painting is so cool, the bridge over a pond with the water
filled with lily pads and flowers. You can tell this painting is impressionist
because of the soft focus.
