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Friday, November 30, 2012

Day 56


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

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

 

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

2.       FTL: http://www.impressionism.org/  

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.

1 comment:

  1. Monet is one of my favorite painters, but Renoir is an even better Impressionist. Check him out!

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