Week of Mar 13-17 LL #31

Pre-Algebra:

This week I did a few lessons and my Chapter 9 test. I am so excited!

Creative Writing:

This week I was sick and did not go to my class. However, I am writing a story on my tablet about a princess who escapes from an arranged marriage and joins a group of bandits. It's interesting, and I have about 5-6 chapters done.

Social Studies:

This week I read two chapters of Story Of The World. I am not liking the history in this one at all- it's all death and control slipping out of the king's grasp, cities sliding from person to person in unsuccessful attempts to corral the people. Hopefully, we have evolved.

Tech (Exploring Technology):

This week I learned about the five senses and how they transmit messages to the brain. So for my Minecraft build, I was to build one of the five senses. I chose hearing.

Here is the full build. I built it over the ocean so the ear can hear the ocean waves crashing. If there were waves in Minecraft, of course.

First, sound waves enter the ear canal through the ear.

They hit the ear drum, and it vibrates. The ossicle bones (the hammer, anvil, and stirrup) detect this vibration and send the sound wave into the cochlea.

The cochlea is full of fluid, which sloshes around. The nerve fibers sense this sloshing and send the message to the brain via the auditory nerves. The sound enters the auditory cortex part of the brain, and the brain recognizes the sound as a creeper's hiss (which explains the creeper right by the ear) or whatever the sound was. This all moves very fast, though not fast enough (usually) for the player to run away from the 1.5 second countdown the creeper has before it explodes, if the creeper takes them by surprise. :)

Elective (Writing for Publication):

This week I was sick and did not go to my class. I did my homework (adding certain paragraphs to my In Defense Of Social Awkwardness essay, and refining the ones I did last week) and worked on stories I have already started, outside of class.