This week I learned about Prime Factors. I learned how to find prime factors and I also learned how to reduce fractions with prime factors. I also learned how to find the GCF, greatest common factor, and I learned about divisibility rules.
Creative Writing:
This week I WAS going to go over outlining again, because the class has so many new students, but Shiloh kept us up half the night and I woke when the class was half over. So, I worked on writing my story and I am reading books while I eat, as usual.
Social Studies:
This week I learned about the barbarians taking over Ancient Greece, and then I learned about the barbarians learning Greece culture and becoming civilized. I learned that the men performed in Greek sports, while the women stayed inside (so their skin stayed fair and lovely, away from the sun) and supervised the slaves. I thought, if all the women supervised slaves, and all the men are doing sports and working, then who are the slaves? I wonder how that works, where some boys grow up to work, some girls grow up to be fair ladies, and other children grow up to be slaves. Hmm...
We WERE going to play this game called Conquer Mesopotamia, but we didn't get around to it. :( Maybe next week?
Tech (Exploring Technology):
This week I worked on a Scratch project. I tried to make a Platformer game, the coding didn't work. I tried to make a pen platformer game, the coding didn't work. I tried to make a game without a tutorial, it didn't work. I tried to make a tutorial, I ran out of inspiration. So, rushing to get something out for the week, I decided I'd collect game engines and compile them for the convenience of other Scratchers.
What are game engines, you say? Well, they are short games with all the coding done, that you can take and change the details to make it your own game. People who make lots of platformers, pen platformers, scrolling platformers... but I'm getting ahead of myself. In case you don't know what platformers are, they are a game where the player moves with the arrow keys, trying to get to a specific object or the edge of the screen to move on, sometimes collecting coins or defeating monsters, depending on what the creator codes. They can have quests or just trying to "finish the game". There are many different versions of platformers: Scrolling platformers are where the background moves and the player stays in the middle, and pen platformers are levels made with the Scratch pen extension, where the "sprite" moves and draws a level, all so fast the player doesn't see it happening.
So, I collected 6 different game engines and compiled the links into one project. That way, when other Scratchers and I want to make a game, but the coding doesn't work out or we simply don't want to code it all, we can use the engines, and make our own games, which makes the process a whole lot faster.
That said, find my project here.
Elective (Writing for Publication):
This week my teacher and I researched and found that Neal Spencer, the guy I'm doing my Interview on, (from my source) went to the University of Cambridge. I had put together an outline and came up with a bunch of questions to email Neal Spencer and ask him, so now I was just trying to figure out when and where he was born, and where he went to school. My teacher found the school thing after I had tried for at least half and hour and found nothing. It was hard because people purposely bury these things to hide them from internet predators. We still haven't found his birth date- oh well. Next week I should be able to try to email him and have him answer the rest of my questions. Then, I can put together my first draft!
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