This week I did a few lessons about percentages. Then I had my Semester I exam! It had 54 questions. It seemed daunting, and I spread it out for 3 days, but I went ahead of my schedule and completed it in two days. I got 86% correct.
Creative Writing:
This week in my Semester II class, we talked about different song structures- I understand how they work now! We did an activity where we picked a slip of paper from a cup. The paper had a song structure on it. I got AAA. "A" means "verse." So my structure is 3 verses. B means chorus, and C means bridge. Other people got things like ABABA, and others. I got an easy one. ;)
Next, we picked a slip of paper from a different cup that had our topics. We could put it back if we absolutely hated it or we were lost on how to do that. The first slip I got was "Love story." I picked again and got "Fight song." Oh well. We were to write our song, using different rhyming types from a rhyming wheel, following our topic and structure. I didn't want to write a song about fighting with punches and blood, so I settled with an internal fight. I wrote where a demon (maybe it'll turn out to be fear of something, or a bully's words, not literally a demon) is controlling a person. I didn't get to all three verses but here are the first two:
Another perfect sunrise
not matching how I feel
Knees turn to water as I realize
The demon's taking over me
He controls me from inside
the demon in me
Has to get his way, won't be defied
Stronger, smarter, angrier
See, "sunrise" and "realize" in the first verse are a "feminine rhyme," which is a double rhyme, a rhyme between a two syllable word and another two syllable word. "Inside" and "defied" are also feminine rhymes.
It was so much fun to write this! I think we'll work on it more next week.
Social Studies:
This week I learned about different Ancient Roman emperors. For my activity this week I was to get yellow paper, cut several points (or triangles) and tape it together to wear it. However, I like doing more than just a simple kid craft, so I did something different. First, I researched photos of ancient Roman crowns. I mostly saw laurel reefs and olive leaves. So, I printed off two images of those two, and traced them to create a custom crown. Next, I made a jeweled center, and drew in some flowers.
Here's the finished piece.
It was fun!
Tech (Exploring Technology):
This week I learned about Earth's hemispheres. The Earth is divided in half by an imaginary line going from the North and South poles, and divided in half again by the Equator. So my Minecraft activity this week was to build half of something. I chose to build half an apple.
First, I selected all of the blocks I might use in my apple and made a color palette. The image shown here is my narrowed down palette, showing only the colors I used. You can also see an apple on an item frame. I tried to copy it to make my apple in the sky, pixel by pixel.
First I made a whole, flat apple. Next, I made it 3D by making layers and making the layers smaller and smaller. I cut the apple in half and removed the half I wasn't using, fixed the apple stem to make it look better, and decorated the inside.
I used brown tinted glass for the seeds, the inside of a Minecraft mushroom for the inside of the apple, and a birch door so you can go inside.
Inside I made a small house/shack, basically just a place where you can craft things and furnace up some food or ores, and my first "sittable" chair, using a minecart, a rail, trapdoors, and a stair. So fun!
Elective (Writing for Publication):
This week we (finally) tested the recipes I found!!!
We first made some Hibiscus punch. The ancient Nubians didn't use measuring cups, and everything was eyeballed, so we did that too. We poured in the ingredients and let the punch steep to infuse the hibiscus into the water. Then we sweetened it with date sugar. It was pretty good! I will share the full recipe in the magazine.
Next, we made some crepes from fermented yogurt. When the teacher tried it, the crepes were gooey and didn't cook, even though the recipe said cook for a minute and the teacher tried for about 5 minutes. I tried it, and I found that spreading it REALLY thin on the griddle and especially pressing down on the crepes once you flip them helps a lot. The crepes tried to expand and rise, but if they cooked like that they'd always be gooey. So, you had to press down on them to cook out the batter on the inside. It was fun and they were good, only we didn't have syrup or anything and they were like sourdough. Some people like that, but I prefer sweeter stuff ;) Again, I'll share the full recipe in the magazine.
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