S.M.A.R.T goal

LA14/12/17

I am currently reading paper town.
My goal is to finish the book over the break

Coconut chiffon

Ingredients:

• 70g Cake flour 
• 1tsp baking powder
• 1tbsp milk powder
• 3 egg ylok
• 40g sugar
• 60g coconut water
• 40g oil
• 1tsp vanilla

• 3 egg white
• 1/4 cream of tartar
• 60g sugar

• whipping cream
• icing

Procedures:

1. mix everything on the first list together
2. in another bowl, mix egg white and cream of tartar with a beater
3. when it is a little thick, add sugar and continue to beat until it is stiff peaks
4. add it to the mix. Stir well
5. add butter to the pan
6. pour the mix into the pan
7. add coconut meat
8. bake 
9. add ice to a bowl, put another bowl inside it
10. Add whip cream and icing and mix until stiff peaks
11. take out the cake and put the whip on top
12. ready to eat!

Improve :
eat since hot will be better because the cake is fluffy and warm.
add more coconut meat and add flavors to the whip.

Women rights around the world

This week, we learned about women's right. There are lots of country in the world that doesn't have equal right between women and men. We learn about them in Asia, North America, Europe, and Africa. I and my group got assigned to Europe. We study and found out that Europe doesn't have a lot of problems with women rights. But have some in less developed country. One country that really pops out is Andora, Andora doesn't have equal rights in government or jobs. Some sexual violence but not as harsh as in Africa. In Africa, women can't go to school, they don't have their rights, the cant stand up for themselves so over thousands and thousands of women get child marriage and rape, worse of all, they have traditions of genital mutilation which is used to control women from having something with men because men can't control themselves. Or in Asia, men think that women are nothing but a housewife and take care of children. And lastly, in North America, that women are being domestically abused. All these problems happen because of men. They feel like they are in power and women are under them. Or like the genital mutilation, if men learn to control themselves, so to improve this, we should have laws and educated men and women.

ice cream reflection

ingredients
1/2 cup whipping cream
1⁄2 cup of whole milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ziplock bag
1 rectangular storage prism
1/2 cup salt
Ice cubes

Directions:
Step 1:
Combine the whipping cream, milk, sugar and vanilla extract in the ziplock bag. Seal the
bag tightly, so that none of the liquid will leak out. Place that ziplock bag into an
additional ziplock bag.

Step 2:
Fill the prism halfway with ice cubes. Sprinkle salt over the ice cubes.

Step 3:
Place the whole ziplock bag filled with ingredients into the prism of ice and salt. Seal the
prism. Wrap a towel around the prism to reduce the mess.

Step 4:
Shake the prism for 5-10 minutes until the ice cream mixture begins to harden.

to improve: shake better and don't spill, use a lot of salt.

lets make an alfredo spaghetti

ingredients

1. spaghetti - 1 bag
2.  milk - 1
3. butter - 1/2 cup
4. cheese - 1 pack
5. garlic - 3 clove
6. salt - 1 teaspoon
7. oil - 1 teaspoon

steps

1. boil water with salt and oil 
2. boil the spaghetti in that water
3. melt butter in pan, add crushed garlic 
4. add cheese and milk
5. add salt 
6. dry the spaghetti when its done
7. add it to the sauce
8. mix well and ready to eat

to improve

• use less cheese
• make more spaghetti 
• make less thick

make la-sag-ne? La-sag-ne!

Ingredients:
-Lasagna pasta
-tomato paste
-mushroom
-onion
-water
-cheddar
-mozzarella
-salt
-olive oil

steps

1. boil lasagna in boiling water and add a pinch of salt
2. shop mushrooms, tomatoes, and onion into little cubes
3. add a teaspoon of olive oil then add the mushroom, tomatoes, and onions until cook
4. after cooked, add the tomato paste until it is mixed
5. add water so that it is not too sticky 
6. add some salt and pepper for flavor
7. start putting the lasagna together start with the pasta, some sauce and cheese then more pasta, sauce, cheese, and pasta then top the last layer with a lot of CHEESE!
8. bake for 210 degrees celcius for 50 minutes and your lasagna is ready

To improve, we should make it sweeter, not by adding sugar but add more onion to get the natural sweetness. Also, add more meat because we cant feel anything but sauce.

YumYum!!

My way of annotating

When annotating, I use highlighter, sticky notes, small bookmarkers and pen or pencil. When I annotate, I divide my highlighter into different colors that mean different things. Some to highlight the main idea, the conflict, the character name, the shocking things or the development in the story. Then I/ use my sticky note to write my opinion about the text or use to a summary a little bit if it gets complicated. Then I use the small bookmarkers to mark the important pages such as the conflict page or other interesting pages so I can see easily. Also, I use the same color of highlighter and bookmarkers for the same topic of use so it is even more clear and easy to see and find.

                                   

Making Quesadilla!

Quesadilla

Ingredients for the shell--

1 and 1/2 cups of flour
1/2 cup of water
1 and 1/2 tbsp of oil
1 and 1/2 tsp of sugar
1 tsp of salt

Ingredients for the filling--

chopped mushroom
chopped cheese
chopped tomato
lime

Procedure

1. Mix the shell ingredient into a dough
2. Roll the dough until thin
3. cut it into a circle
4. heat the pan and put some butter in it
5. cook one side of the shell and flip it
6. add the filling while the other side of the shell is cooking
7. fold it and cook both sides again
8. your quesadilla is ready

To improve: 

• Adding lime and cheese is not a very yummy and good texture combination as the cheese all get too weird pieces with water in it
• sour and salty doesn't go together that well
• our dough is also too thick and it turns into a very thick bread

Future profession

I want to be a businesswoman. Because you improve business and help the country to have more money and improve. Lastly, you get lots of money :))))

Salsa invension

Today, we are making Salsa!!!!!!

Let's start with the ingredients, we need the salsa sauce and the tortilla chips

For the salsa, we need

• Some mushrooms (not cooked)
• Tomatoes
• Limes
• Cilantro
• Garlic salt
• Sugar

Procedure:

1. Cut the mushrooms and tomatoes into small little pieces
2. Add lime, garlic salt and sugar and some Cilantro 
3. Mix them together and the sauce is ready.

Mix all the ingredients together.

Note that the ingredients for the salsa sauce don't have to be fixed so you can adjust how much you want.

For the tortilla chips, we need

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 1/2 tsp of sugar
• 1 1/2 tbsp of olive oil
• Pure drinking water

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together
3. Add drinking water until the mix forms a hard dough.
4. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough until it gets very thin
5. Cut the dough into triangle shape
6. Bake the chips until it is cook
7. Eat your chips with the salsa

Some things that could be done better is adding maybe some grains or other things to the chips so it looks better and tastes better, the salsa is also a little too Thai-ish which makes it taste like tom yum adding less sugar and lime will help. Also, our chips were not thin enough which makes it very hard to eat.

The Enlightenment

The enlightenment is the period where there is a smart movement that people learn about reasons instead of god. Humanism instead of superstition things. Study about individualism, skepticism, and science. The period of changing in politics, from monarchy, kings, and queens into Democracy where people all have equal rights. Mainly a smart change that help the world

Hi guys! Lets make yummy banana pancakes!

These pancakes are just so easy to make! let's start!

Ingredients: for 1 serving

1/4 cup of Flour

1 egg

1 tsp of baking powder

1 tbsp of sugar

1 tbsp of butter

1/4 cup of milk 

bananas

mix egg and milk

mix the flour, sugar and baking powder to the mix

mix well

heat up the pan

Melt butter in the pan

pour the mix into the pan

wait until you see bubbles and switch the side of the pancake

your pancake is ready to eat with chopped bananas.


What can be imrpoved -- with this recipe, we can add more fruits other than banana because not only banana is yummy to add flavors and taste to the pancakes. We could also improve on the sauce to make it better with the taste and the color.

Our pancakes are really yummy already :))) but a lot can be done to made it even a lot more better

French toast

SugarX Franch Toast.

Enjoy the crunchy caramelized sugar on soft golden french toast.

Let see what we need to create this yummy breakfast!
- 3 Bread - preferred to be thick and soft.
- 2 tablespoon of milk
- 1 egg
- A lot of sugar - brown sugar will caramelize and taste the best
- Some Cinnamon
- Some Butter

Steps:

1.  Mix 2 tablespoon of milk and 1 egg together
2.  Add sugar and cinnamon to the mix and mix truly
3.  Put sugar on a plate to dip the bread in
4.  Soak the bread into the mix 
5.  Heat up the pan and put a little amount of butter in it
6.  Get the bread out of the mix and dip it in the sugar
7.  After the butter sizzle, put the bread in the pan 
8.  Wait until the bread turn brown and flip the side
9.  When both sides are brown, flip it again so the sugar will caramelize - do it to both sides
10.  Take the bread out when both sides are dark brown
11.  Done! Your french toast is ready to be eaten and poured with maple syrup!

Safety:

•  Make sure your sugar doesn't burn but turn to solid
•  Make sure the egg is cooked not raw inside the bread
•  Don't leave the wooden turner in the pan
•  JUST BE CAREFUL IT'S HOT

To be improved: We should add fruits into the french toast and put in some butter sauce. We shouldn't have put too much sugar into the mix because we are putting so much on the bread itself to caramelized.


 -- We are not able to take the picture of our french toast.

Tone, Mood, and Flashback.

Tone.Mood.Flashback.

The tone is what the author tries to express to us in a book, movie, music or art. They use color, description, and pitch to make us understand it. But what we feel from their tone is the mood. The mood is what the reader or the viewer receive through the tone that the author gives.
EXP:
Because of the dark and black color that the picture has and the red fire eye, the mood that the viewer receive is scary and frightening.

Flashback is part of the story that goes back to the past event that already happened that help the reader to understand what is happening.

Mallow Dough

Hi guys, today we are making a Mallow Dough! Cookies with marshmallow fillings! MMMM, smelling yummy!

It's a perfect snack for a happy day.

pictures and information from chocolatecoveredkatie's blog

Ingredients for 17 people:

• 2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 Tsp salt
• 1 cup unrefined sugar or xylitol
• 2/3 cup chocolate chips
• 4 tbsp milk of choice
• 4 tbsp oil (24g)
• 1/2 Tsp pure vanilla extract
• 34 mini marshmallows

Mix all the dry ingredients except the marshmallow, add the milk, stir until it becomes a dough. Make the dough into little pieces of circles, put the marshmallow into the dough, make the circle dough into a circle putting the marshmallow in the middle. Preheat oven to 325 F then bakes for 11 minutes on the center rack. Let them cool 10 minutes. Then our cookie is ready to be eaten.

pictures and information from chocolatecoveredkatie's blog

The elements of plot

A plot uses to plot a story have the following elements:

1. the protagonist: the main character of the story.
2.  The Antagonist: the character or things that go against the Protagonist.
3. The Setting: the place and time that the story took place in.
4. The Internal conflict: a conflict between the character itself. A disagreement between the character's mind or thinking between itself.
5. The External conflict: the conflict between a person and another person, person and nature or person and society
6. Rising actions: actions that led to the climax(7)
7. Climax: the tensest conflict in the story.
8. Falling Action: the action that is the result, the outcome of the climax, can be good or bad.
9. Resolution: the final result of the story. Maybe good or bad.
10. Theme: the author main idea of the story
11. Symbolism: a thing or other noun that the author use to "symbolize" the theme
12. Foreshadowing: the actions that give some hints about the climax.
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The protestant reformation

The Protestant Reformation happened after the medieval time. It's the time of Christianity reformation. The reformation of Christian to Protestant, Calvinism, Lutheran and other types of Christianity happened during the period. The reformation happened when people know more about the wrong things that the church was doing, the lies and everything. Like selling indulgence and getting a lot of money. Because of the Gutenberg press, people get to read the bible and realized that the things the priest were telling them and doing to them were all lies. Marthin Luther, a main figure in the period who know about the wrong doing of the church and tried to stop it. With the help of the bible, people know that the church was lying and believe more in him. He also sticks the 95 theses to the door of the church and when people read it, they know more about the church and they start following him, and Lutheran was created. Other people also thought that the church was bad, some have good reasons like John Calvin, some have weird reasons like King Henry. the impact of all these new religions also led to war and split of Christianity and country, but bring back the real Christianity and stop the church corruption. All of this led to the Protestant Christianity which is why the name of the period is the Protestant Reformation.

this is a picture of a mind map about the protestant reformation

What I learned this week in LA 1-9-17

This week, we learn about the different point of views, the first person, 3rd person omniscient, and 3rd person limited. First person point of view stories is those with the narrator as the character, using pronouns such as I, me and we.  Third person omniscient is written by a narrator who is not the character itself. Third person omniscient is like the view by god, the narrator knows every thinking and feeling of almost every person in the story. On the other hand, the third person limited is written also by a narrator who is not the character, but the thinking and feeling are limited. The narrator doesn't know everything unlike third person omniscient.

We also learn and use outlines in making an essay. The outline includes the thesis statement, which is what the author claim about a topic. The 3 reasons to support the thesis and the examples given to support the reason.

What i learned in social study 24-25/8/17

The Dome of Florence and The Roman Pantheon. The two architecture was evolutionary at the time, they are very beautiful and they don't have any pillar supporting them! The Roman Pantheon was built so long ago in year 26. the building has a hole the let sunlight come in. And the sun would shine at the different statues inside the building.


The Dome of Florence was built later in the year 1296 and finished in the 15th century. By the time that it was finished, the architect was already dead. The dome was built with no


The arts that were very beautiful was by Michelangelo that was painted in the Sistine Chapel. The paintings are all very religious, like the creation of Adam, the last judgment, or the prophet. Not only religious, Michelangelo painted them very realistically. The body and the background were really realistic.




the painting during the renaissance was really realistic. The mona Lisa and the last supper. They were very realistic. And they have perspective in the painting. With the background in the back, it looks even more realisitc .

What I learned in SS this week

18/8/17

Social Study
This week, we learned about the Renaissance and the period of reformation. What I learn is basically everything because I never know anything about the two periods of history. We learn about how the periods affect us, the key people, and some important events that happen.

In the Renaissance, it's the period of rebirth, arts, music, and science was reborn during this period. Main figures during the time are Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo.

During the period of reformation, the church and the clergy were taking too much money from people by selling indulgence. So Martin Luther, a priest and John Calvin, a theologist wanted to change it.  During the period, there was also King Henry the VIII who turn into a Heretic because the pope wouldn't let him a divorce and marry any more women.  It's the period of changing from catholic to protestant.

I want to learn more about the music during the Renaissance.
 -- Martin Luther

---- John Calvin

DUn DUn DUNNNNNN

What I learned this week in L.A.

This week, I learned about Direct and Indirect Characterization

Direct: He is tall
Indirect: he bangs his head on every door in the world if he doesn't bend his leg.

I also learned about assertions and showing evidence

What type of character is Patrick Maloney?

Trait	Evidence from Text	Assertion
1. mean	He shouted at her, he is leaving her, she don't care about what he did for her, and he only care about himself Quotes: "Sit down," he said. "Just for a minute, sit down." -- “Of course, I'll give you money and see that you're taken care of.” -- "Don't make supper for me. I'm going out." -- “But there really shouldn't be any problem. I hope not, in any case. It wouldn't be very good for my job."	Patrick shouted at his pregnant wife, he leaves her and his baby, he don't care about her or anything she did for him, and the only thing he did is think only about himself. This shows that he is mean

language art end of the year reflection

Language Arts Reflection

1. Sort out your social studies and language arts assignments from your hanging folder.
2. Check your final grades on powerschool. Read your comments for language arts.
3. Find a writing assignment from the beginning, middle, and end of the year (electronic or in your folder). Post pictures of those assignments.

4. Compare and contrast the quality of writing in the two pieces and evaluate the quality of your writing in a few sentences.    start: P, middle: PMM, end: MME. I started with P, then my grade, during the year have gone better and better.
5. Writing: Describe areas you have grown in and what you need to continue to target to be a stronger writer? Use the rubrics to help you form your responses. I usually get the grammar wrong.
6. Reading: What was your favorite independent reading book? Summarize what it’s about in 2-3 sentences. Why did you read that book? What type of reader would enjoy that book? I like the harry potter the most, I discover that I like series from reading Harry Potter. Harry Potter is about harry potter and his life. I like the mysterious and magical part of harry potter.

7. Language Foundations: Take a look at your NoRedInk profile. What grammar skills that you practiced were challenging? What skill do you feel more confident in applying to your writing now? I get bad at punctuation.
8. Listening and Speaking: What oral presentation or speech do you feel most proud of this year? (Crusade leader debate, competitive sports debate, young entrepreneur of the year debates, Shark Tank, Speak Out, Columbus Mock Trial, book talk) What helped you feel confident in that situation? The debate, every one of them.
9. Research: What topic did you enjoy researching? What interested you about this topic? What did you learn about evaluating resources? (Shark Tank, young entrepreneur, post-classical state, trade routes, crusades historical fiction background, crusade battle, competitive sports debate, etc). I like the crusades battle.
10. What should stay the same and what should change about language arts class?  I don't know, maybe we didn’t do enough reading lately.
11. Share a positive memory from class.  I like everything.

Shark Tank Reflection

PART A: Find pictures and videos to add to your blog. This should take no more than 10 minutes.

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PART B: Answer the following questions on your blog. When you are done answering the questions, publish your blog post.

1. Think about the work and effort your team members have put into this project:
1. What are some examples of what your classmates did that helped you learn? Please include at least three and elaborate (explain more) about how they helped.

My classmates help me to learn about how to make candles. And how hard it is to do something for all of us to all collaborate. Also, how hard it is to separate money and set the right price.

2. How would you describe your work and cooperation? Did you contribute regularly as your group worked together?
1. What are some examples you did in the classroom that you believe has helped other people learn? Patents, copyrights, and trademark.
2. What were you particularly good at during group work? I work well with other and don’t complain if other don’t do their work but try to do my best.
3. How did your contribution change over the time your group worked together? Please tell us a full story about how your roles changed or developed and your work ethic either grew stronger or weaker. First, we all work, but over time, other people start to play games and stuff and left us to work alone.
4. How can you take what you have learned about the process of working together on a creative project and apply it in the future? If I open a business, I will choose smart people who will work well. And will set good prices and work well with other.

3. What were your favorite parts of the Shark Tank project for:
1. Phase 1: in phase one, I like that I was able to make my own product
2. Phase 2: in phase two, I like that we work together and sold out our candle in just a little time.

shark tank reflection

1. Summarize the process of selecting a topic for your Shark Tank 7 project.

I make a stress ball. First, I and Sunny have a very different idea, a tracking device, and a ball. But I know that a tracking device is too hard to make, so I decided that we would stick with sunny's idea. We have tried to change it to a spinner, but a lot of people is making a spinner so we stick with the idea of a stress ball. But our stress ball is not normal, it is magnetic. We first didn't think that it would be magnetic until Sunny brought his magnet to class and we thought that we should make it magnetic but we don't even know my we thought that.

2. Describe the process of researching and your overall success or struggle with researching your topic for Shark Tank 7.

From our research, the product should be somehow eco-friendly or reusable, biodegradable and other things that are good for or help the earth. But stress ball is usually not really helps the earth or good for the earth. So we need to find something about the stress ball that is good or that is better than another stress ball. So we spend time researching until when we found out that we can say that normal stress ball is made of polyurethane foam rubber which is bad for the environment which our is not. But still, the balloon, the magnet, the glue are all not good for the earth. So our problem is to find ways to make our product "look" good for the environment. And lastly, we overcome it by not talking about it in our presentation but stick to the good things which are that it is not made from polyurethane foam rubber.

3. Describe the steps taken and overall challenges in completing or creating your Shark Tank prototype.

The challenge about our prototype is the quality of balloon and our knowledge about to do you put liquid inside balloon but still doesn't pop. We spend a week making 1 prototype. Because out stress ball keeps popping on and on. Until we realized that we shouldn't put the liquid in too full in the balloon, but we need to leave some air inside. And also, we need to use balloons that are quite thick to helps it also so prevent popping.

4. Reflect on your overall presentation experience or struggles with completing the pitch for your shark Tank 7.

Our struggle would be the time. Because we are supposed to each have 1 minute but I spoke for around 1 and a half minute that Sunny doesn't have time to speak. But luckily, he forgot his script and so he used only 30 seconds.

But forgetting his script is also bad because he didn't really talk about the environmentally friendly part and so our score dropped.

5. How would you present differently for Speak Out/the formal Shark Tank presentation?

I would remember my script better and talk faster and have more control and don't struggle.

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