7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned November 16, 2012 Day
50
1. Math
2. Science
a. Cells obtain energy from lights or
nutrients.
b. Cells behave by communicating through
chemical or electrical signals.
c. The nucleus is the cells control center;
it is a part of organization.
d. Cells grow just before they reproduce.
e. Plant cells are able to use sunlight as
a direct source of energy.
f. Cells regulate automatically and make
sure they’re not absorbing toxins.
g. Living things develop over time and follow
a life cycle.
3. History
a. In 1562, England becomes its slave trade
thanks to the terrible Tudor superior sailors. They but people in Africa and
sell them to South America.
b. 1619, the first slaves arrive in America
and the West Indies from Africa. Sugar is popular and a huge number of slaves
are sent to America to grow sugar cane
c. 1756-63 The Seven year’s war against
France and Spain. The Brits win and become the main rulers of India’s
incredible riches through the “East India Trading Company.”
d. 1770 Captain Cook comes across
Australia. A whacking great chunk of land to add to the empire. Loads of empty
space to dump convicts! Shame the Brits taught them to play cricket.
e. 1780 Freed slave Olaudah Equiano
publishes his life story. This helps the growing “Abolitionist” struggle in
Britain and the US to banish all slavery.
f. 1795 the Brits take over the Cape colony
in South Africa from the Dutch-known as Boers, which is a bit of a boering
name!
g. 1839 The first Opium War- the Brits fight
for the right to sell opium to the Chinese. Opium is making Brit drug dealers
very rich…. And the Chinese very dead!
4. Language
a. I learned today that Roman numeral L
means fifty
b. Fifty in Latin is quinquagnita.
c. XXX in Roman numerals is thirty, thirty
in Latin is triginta.
d. V is 5 in Roman numerals, five in Latin
is quinque.
e. Roman numeral XVIII is eighteen,
eighteen in Latin is octodecemduovaginti
f. I is one in roman numerals, unus in one
in Latin.
g. XX is twenty, Vaginti in twenty.
5. Reading
a. I learned that “The house was a cloud of
secrets” is a metaphor.
b. I learned that “My heart would flutter
like a bird” is a simile
c. I learned that “She baked cookies that
were snowdrifts of powdered sugar” is a metaphor
d. I learned that “My birthday was a ship
sailing closer and closer to the shore” is a metaphor
e. I learned that “She made a cake that
looked like a big pink drum.” Is a simile
f. I learned that a simile is used to try to
describe an object or even an idea why a metaphor is a subject by asserting
that is the same as an unrelated object.
g. I learned that to transform a metaphor
into a simile you just have to add like (pretty much.)
6. Writing
Sophie and the
Beanstalk (and the piece of toast)
Sophie Calderwood, who is 54 inches tall and 14 inches wide,
went to the market to sell a cow. One merchant in the market place offered to
buy Sophie’s cow for three magical beans. Sophie was so excited about the magic
beans that she sold the cow to the merchant and went home to show her mother.
Her mother was very upset with her and she threw the beans out the window into
the garden.
The next day Sophie woke up to find a giant magic beanstalk outside
her window, and of course she wanted to climb it. When she got up into the
magical kingdom I, the giant, caught her. I implied that I eat three fried kids
on my toast for breakfast every day. But of course Sophie knew that since she
was 54 inches tall and 14 inches wide that she would fit perfectly on a 54: 54 piece
of toast. So she said, “I wonder if I could fit on a piece of toast as big as
that. I said “I think you may.” So I who am 640 inches tall which is about 54
ft. (an average adults height times 10) got the 54: 54 piece of toast.
Sophie
knew that an average piece of toast in her world was 5: 5 so everything was
approximately 10 times larger in the giant’s world. So she laid on the piece of
toast and said “You know what we do in my world, we crack eggs on our toast
before we fry them, and you should give it a try.” So of course I did. I went
all the way to the refrigerator to get an egg and Sophie showed me how to crack
it correctly on one of the three kids lying down. Then I went back into the
kitchen to grab another egg and again Sophie showed me how to crack it just
right. And then while Sophie was lying back down on the toast I was too anxious
and tired to go back into the kitchen so I cracked the nearest egg to me before
I realized it was my special golden goose egg, Sophie had planned it all along
and she took off with the golden goose that came out of the egg and ran down
the beanstalk.
I wanted my golden goose back however, I was too tired to run
after her and so I never bothered her again and she never bothered me. But I
had heard a story that when she got home that night she was very interested in
proportions and so she was doing her homework and accidently drank a magic
potion to make her smaller, she was about the size of a mouse and she wondered
if she could fit on a regular piece of toast now since she was 10 times smaller
than her normal height. She was right she laid on a normal 5: 5 piece of toast
and fit perfectly since her height was 5.4 inches : 1.4 inches.
7. Art
a. My favorite exhibit in the Bowdoin museum
o Art today was art told through the alphabet.
b. There were a lot of romanticism and
impressionism paintings
c. I like the lithograph and printing
pictures in the museum, they were pretty cool
d. I learned about museum curators and what
they do for the museum. The curator and this museum showed the different styles
of art through the alphabet.
e. I liked Andrew Wyeth’s “Night time
Hauling” picture.
f. There was an exhibit full of Japanese
art about the supernatural; I thought that it was kind of creepy.
g. There was one exhibit with a bunch of
portraits of the same guy. His name was F. Harold day that had his portrait
done by different photographers, it was pretty neat.
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