1. The title of this book is 'The Lion'.

2. This book is written by Nelson DeMille

3. This book made me think about terroists, Osama Bin Laden, and the twin towers incident.

4. This book is probably a college level book. There aren't any hard words, but there are swear words. That's the bad part.

5. The bad part is that it is quite disgusting. It's violent. When the "LION" beheads a pilot, it's very descriptive. If you are very sensitive to violent things, you shouldn't read this book.

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A little summary: This book is about a CIA cop who survived the twin towers incident. He was inside the twin towers. He also met this terroist, and the terroist ran away. Now, the terrroist is looking for the cop, trying to kill him.

Book: The Lion, by Nelson DeMille.

My iMovie Reflection

In humanities class, we made iMovies about a pharaoh in ancient egypt. My partner was Micah. We chose King Tut. King Tut is the youngest pharaoh in egypt. We chose him because he was young, his tomb wasn't robbed by tomb robbers and his death was a mystery. We also chose him because his parents were not known. He was found in the streets. He was a slave, but Nefertiti chose him be the next pharaoh at the age of 9. In this blog post, I will tell you if I followed the rubric.

I'm pretty sure that the information is correct, unless the recourses we used had wrong information. We included the time period our pharaoh ruled in. In my opinion, I think our information was clear about the contributions made by king tut. King Tut made no contributions to Egypt. Also, King Tut built no buildings, so we had to explain why. I have to admit, it was tough... So far, I think we followed the rubric well for the content.

I think we could have added more pictures, but the pictures for king tut were similar so it was very hard to find different pictures. I think we should get a good grade for thins because we tried hard and spent two classes looking for pictures, but couldn't find a lot. There were a lot of pictures of his tomb, but they were similar so there's no point putting in two pictures of the same thing. Our voices were clear, but we had a few weird background noises for some reason. Also, while we were recording, we stumbled on some words. So I think we should get a normal grade for that part. We used some effects. We made the pictures zoom in and things. We put some transitions for the pictures. So overall, I think we should get a 4 on this part.

Overall, I think I should get a good grade because we tried our best, and we included everything in the rubric, we all the information we can possibly get. At least we tried our very best. We did some research at home, and put it in google docs. My partner and I worked well together.

City Connection Reflection

In humanities class, we each had to make a PowerPoint of where we lived. I chose Seoul, Korea because I was born there and so did most of my ancestors. Also, Seoul is one of the top 10 cities in the world. GO SEOUL! I tried my best in this PowerPoint.

I think my PowerPoint was excellent. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I think it looked awesome. I had lots of details in my information, I had good and rare picture of Seoul, I had a table of contents, etc... Among all those things, I think the information and table of contents were the best. I put as many information I can possibly put in the PowerPoint as I can, and chose a lot of cool facts that lots of people didn't know about Seoul. Most of all, I tried my best, and I think it's the best power point I ever did in my life.

On the other hand, I think I have to work on my presentation skills. I need to stop saying "like", and "and". I tried to change this habit for a long time but I get nervous and start saying the same words over and over again. Also, I think that the pictures and sentences flying in got messy. I could have less things flying in, or have none at all. I think I improved a lot in my presentation and PowerPoint making skills. I also tried to follow the things on the rubric to strike my best. I think I put all the things the rubric wanted us to put in. The rubric was a great help to me.

I learned a lot while listening to other people present. I think the most important thing I learned was that confidence was everything. The kids who were good at the presentation were all confident about their PowerPoint. The kids who did not so good as the confident kids were not so confident. The next important lesson I learned was to speak louder. I also learned that having little information is good too. Some people chose to explain the facts instead of reading the information straight from the PowerPoint. I thought it was a neat idea. I thought Dylan's idea was cool. I never thought about hiding pictures and giving prizes to the people who found them. This idea made the people concentrate on the powerpoint more.

I personally think I did good. The comments were better than last year's. I think really deserve a good grade. Even though I was sick for two days, I checked and practiced my presentation again and again. I also edited a lot of things that could be better along the way.

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOULTION

This year has gone too fast. Since its 2011 now, it's time for new resolutions. Every year, I set a new goal but I don't accomplish most of them. So this year, I going to try really hard to accomplish them. If I don't, shame on me. I have several resolutions this year.

First of all, I am going try to be less annoying to my brother. I have to get used to this because he would graduating and would be in America. So, it's very sad because I don't have anyone to annoy. Maybe I could annoy my dog. I'll think about it. Also, if I am less annoying, my brother might actually give me proper presents for christmas. Until now, I got nicely wrapped presents with nothing in it (I give my brother proper presents. Like Ipods,etc) As You can see, I am way nicer.

 Second, I am going to try learn more korean and mix with other Korean kids. Right now, it is very difficult because I don't understand their sentences well. It is quite shameful because I can't communicate well with people from my country. Who doesn't know their country's culture, or the language well? Who dosen't really like their country's national food, or clothing? I must be the only person in the world. You have no idea how it feels like. It's like if people ignore you in your own country. It's like getting surrounded by people speaking a language you don't understand at all.

These are my New Year's Resolution'


Something people might not know about me is that I am very very musical. I taught myself how to play instruments. I play songs on instruments by listening to music. My ear is my best friend. My mom says that it's in our family blood. But right now, I am the only one in my family who compose music without an instrument by my side. In other words, I could hear music in my head and just scribble it on some piece of paper. Sometimes I write it on my hand. I also hate reading music. It gives me headaches.
To tell you the truth, this isn't nice at all. When your listening to the teacher speak, my head and ear would gather sounds from around me and create a rhythm or beat. This only happens when the lesson gets boring. This doesn't happen in humanities. Don't worry. This was a secret. I had to let people know what I'm thinking when classes are boring.

Well this is it. I hope you enjoyed it.
It's your choice to believe my secret or not. I don't really care.  Thanks for reading.

Lit Circles with a partner.

I liked this "Lit Circles with a partner" thing because it helped me understand what I had to improve and I also got to help my partner. We got to work on our partner work skills and also improve our questions, passages, and connections buy reading my partner's questions and try to write something as good as my partner's work. This was the best part. We got learn how other people wrote things. I only one problem, I accidently erased my partner's connection, so he had to do it again. If i didn't work with a partner, I wouldn't have asked someone to do extra work.

Literature Discussions

In humanities this trimester, we had to read chapters of books and write a passage, question, connection and find a vocab word for each time we finish read. The discussions help us understand the book better and predict what will happen next.

The discussions help us understand the book better. For example, when I didn't get what happened to the characters in the story, the discussions help us because other people reading the same book explain what happened in the book during the discussions. Also, when we don't understand a part of a story, then I wouldn't enjoy the book much, and I think the Lit circles helped me a lot.

Literature circles help us predict what will happen next. When people are together, and share our thoughts about the book and share what we think was important, we could add all those facts together and come up with a prediction of what we think will happen next.

Because of these reasons, I think Literature Discussions are good and they help me with my learning, thinking and helps me improve my discussing skills.

Lines of Symmetry

Picture of me holding a case. It has a line of symmetry. It runs to the opening where i am pointing to to the opposite end of the case.