Rocket News Story

Newspaper Story

     The 8th grade class of 2017 has prepared all year for this one project, the legendary rocket project. At the beginning of the year the Science the Science class did the jet car project studying motion, after that they did the egg drop project, studying how to make an egg survive a fall, after that project they did the parachute project, studying parachutes for the future rockets.

     At the beginning of the Project Sam and Win started building their rocket, put fins on, made a pointed nose cone. They launched the first rocket in their class and although it failed it motivated them to continue onward. After that they kept launching and also had the first successful launch with parachute deployment. They kept testing and broke two eggs then made a new rocket. Their new rocket was a success and after successfully launching three times in a row with fake eggs they launched twice with a  real egg earning a time of 9.4 seconds and an A grade. They then launched one more time and broke their last egg. “Well, we succeeded,” said Sam and they left the project with an A.

Spanish Blog Post

This post is an assignment from my spanish teacher but along with the work in this post i wanted to demonstrate how i take notes in class using this assignment as an example.

And thats what it looks like when I take notes in class.

Typed version:
     Mis padres fueron a Croatia el Mayo de 2011. El pais de Croatia es muy viejo y no hay muchos nuevos edificios. Mis padres fueron a Croatia porque mi madre quisé ir a un pais que estuvó en un guerra*. Hay muchas personas en Croatia y mis padres conocieron a un cocinereo, pero la idioma en Croatia es muy dificil y mis padres no pudieron hablar a el cocinero. En Croatia mis padres montaron bicicletas y una vez mi madre le perdió*.

The typed version is more grammatically correct.

Rocket Reflection

So far the rocket project has been a success for me and Win because we have constructed 2 rockets, made awesome parachutes and have launched 1 real egg. Even. Though the egg failed to stay together because our parachute deployed we have still done pretty well. Our successes would be making a water refill bottle so that we don't have to refill our bottle in the sink after every launch, with the refill bottle you can launch a lot more times in one class which increases our chances of succeeding. We have very good effort and don't use any time doing stuff that we don't need because in order to do really well in this project you have to be extremely efficient, and we are. We keep all our materials in one place so that we never lose them and always test until we are sure something will work. We have only really failed once and that was when our parachute didn't deploy with a real egg in it but we have worked past those challenges and constructed another better rocket that combines all the good things of our old rocket and some awesome new ideas into one egg launching capsule that I'm confident will destroy the sky with its epic ness.

Debate Reflection

In my opinion our whole debate project was a success because we found good facts, put up a good fight, and we were very efficient with our time and planning. Our team debated on the side that was arguing that the bomb was no the right thing for the us to do, and that Truman should have saved japanese lifes also. Our main points were that invading with troops would have been better and saved more life's, and the bombs radiation kept actively killing people for 2. Years after the bomb was dropped. While researching we put all of our data on one google doc so that each member in our group was able to add and edit research and questions at the same time. Because of this method we had 4 people working at once and basically pumped out all the information and work that would lead up to our debate. On the day of the debate we had all of our sheets of questions, work, and facts printed out so that we could easily see everything we needed to put up a fight in the debate. I think that the accual debate was very close because both teams seemed to have good ideas and facts leading up to their arguments. I asked some questions and did a couple rebuttals during the debate and I think I could have done better but can't you always. The whole process was also pretty fun from reading Hiroshima to researching the atomic bombs because I learned a lot of things that I never knew before like that the Japanese were also doing nuclear research during the war,  but most of all that dropping the bomb was not the right thing to do. I hope I don't forget them because they are both interesting and reflective of some modern conflicts. I improved my researching skills and speaking skills from this project.

Goal Reflection Soccer

I have realized that my goal about moving up to the white team in HFC soccer will not happen because I will not be playing HFC next year. I have made a new goal for my soccer life however and that is to continue our winning streak for another 3 games. I will do this by playing my best in defense and doing everything I can to not let any goals in on our side of the field. I should support the offensive half of the team so that they will have greater potential to support the team and if both of these things happen for at least three games then I will have achieved my goal.