Having Lit circles parteners

What is the benefit of having a partner? The benefit of having a partner is that they might not do their work. They might write the same passage or questions if you don't keep a watch of what they are doing. If they don't do their work then you'll get a bad grade. They might do their work at the last minute and so they might make a lot of mistakes that they didn't notice before because you and your partner didn't get the chance to look back and they definitely have rushed on it so of course there are going to be mistakes. You need to make sure that they are doing what they are doing ever day and make sure that they don't do their work on the last minute and really take it seriously if they aren't done on the day that it is due. Take the lit circles with your partner very seriously.


Things that we were trying to accomplish was the time that we finished our lit circles. Personally I tried to accomplish the size of the writing. How long my passage a response to question and how could I make it bigger and add things to it without making things too boring. I tried to add as much as I can and I had achieved my goal and my passage and response to question and even my connection was long. Me and my partner still need to work on the time that we finish our lit circles because we were done not even the night before it was due. We were finished with the whole thing at the last minute.


I gained some new understandings that I gained about the novel Hatchet. Shannon could give and help me have new understanding about the book. Brian was smart and he was good at fixing things. He was a smart boy and he had his fears too. He had his fears and he was brave though about the bear and the pain in his legs because of the porcupine. Shannon helped me understand parts of the story that I didn't understand.

Lit Circles

How did your discussion help your understanding of the novel? The reason why the discussion helped my understanding because having a question about the book  that you didn't answer someone else might answer for you and you know more about the book.You can make connections with them and they can help you fix your mistakes and give you some ideas. Having a group disscusion can help you understand the book a lot better.

What connections did you make during the discussions? Some connections that we all had was the choice of the passages. This was really interesting to me because I didn't think that we would have the same passage. Also, since we had the same passages, it would be interesting to see how their's was different to mine. even though they were about the same thing. I thought it was interesting to hear their connections. They had really good connections and you don't only understand and learn more about the book you can also learn about them.


What are some predictions that you had? Well some predictions that I had was that Brian will use his hatchet to find food and shelter and save himself on the island.  I also think that his father will look for him and find him in the end. He will drink from the lake and find food somewhere in the island. His dad and mom would search for him, but they will not find Brian as soon as he expects them to.  
 

New Guinean People

 Even though Papau New Guinea is located in the same region as Australia and New Zealand, why is it that Australia and New Zealand became technologically advanced and wealthy? One reason is because Papua New Guinean people are only hunters or gatherers just like Paleolithic people. This is because they lived in the jungle.They were busy everyday making sure they had enough food to be healthy. So, they never had time to discover new technology. Another reason is because Australia and New Zealand had settlers, this means that they were very rich people coming coming in from Europe, and at that time Europe was technologically advanced aswell. So they brought everything with them which includes all of their natural resources. 

 The English were already occupying other countries. When the Dutch came to New Zealand other European countries started to follow the Dutch and they brought with them the newest type of technology. Also the settlers found very rich resources from Australia and New Zealand so, a lot of them came to buy from them. Now moving on to trade and geography.

Papua New Guinea only had hunters and gatherers because they live in the jungle and they were busy everyday making sure they had food so they never had time to discover new technology. In Papua New Guinea their is only jungle, so there are no cows or goats that can survive in the jungle. When the Australians started farming then they lived healthier since they could domesticate animals and get more than one food source. 


Sources: Movie Guns, Germs, and steel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea.

Mud skipper

I was in the mud on a cold, cold day. I wondered if I should even go out. I wandered around and then I bumped into my friend Henry. "Watch it Patrick," Henry said. "Sorry," I yelled. "Hey, you should be more quiet," He whispered. "Why?" I said. He didn't seem to respond back. I was so curious that I wanted to go find out "Don't go over there," Said Henry. "Why? Is there something over there?" I asked. "Just don't go and just trust me okay," He said. "But I would like to know why I can't?" "Look, if you can't trust me then don't bother to speak to me anymore," He yelled. "But...but.........but," I mumbled. "Look I told you not to talk to me anymore. You know what, if you can't trust me then go find out yourself," He whispered with anger. "SURE," I yelled. "That is such a good idea," I said. "NO, I was just kidding," Henry yelled as he turned around. But by then I was already gone and walking to find out what was there.



He wasn't my best friend in the world so he didn't mind if I died. He was kind of like an enemy. When I got there he heard a loud noise. Then I heard another noise. Then, another one. Later, after 30 seconds I heard non-stop loud noises. I ran across the mud trying to find out what is was. I thought it could have been a bird or an alligator or crab. I was wrong. Totally wrong. I ran and saw humans. I heard someone saying that this was grade 6. Grade 6A to be exact. I was scared of them so I ran in front of them. Kids started to run on the mud that I was in and that was right were I was. I turned my head around and looked at the kid to make sure that he was okay and to see if he saw me. When I turned back around some kids came jumping right in front of my face. "That was a close one," I yelled. "Aha, they must be mangrove planting," I whispered. I tried to run around to make sure that they wouldn't step on me. "Look," said a girl  that was called Cienna. "I think that, that was a mud skipper." "You are right, Cienna. That is a mud skipper," said Mrs. Narsiman. Cienna ran to me to pick me up. I ran in circles and confused her. She slipped in the mud and got so muddy. She picked me up and dropped me and picked me up again. I was so dizzy that I couldn't focus on what she was trying to do to me. She took me to her teacher and everyone was starring at me. I was so scared. I started to call for help but it was no use, no one could hear me this far away. I started to cry in my mind. One kid dropped me and I tried to run away but I couldn't because they stepped on me. I was so scared I cried in my mind.



"Ahhh," I yelled. I ran around and Cienna fell in the mud again. "Oh no," She yelled. Henry was there with everyone, all of the mud skippers that he knew and he helped me scare the 6 graders away. "That's what you get you guys. HA,"I yelled. "Thanks a lot Henry. I didn't know that you would help me," I said. "No problem," Henry said. We walked back to our home in the mud. He kept telling me that he was really worried about me. Then, he started to tell me that he was sorry that he didn't tell me what was there and that he was sorry he  didn't chase me when I left. "They tried to kill me, but then, you saved me! How could I ever repay you," I said. " Well you could be my best friend. I don't have a lot of friends so....?" "SURE. Why not?" I yelled. We were best friends because of today.

Don't be a bully!

What is bullying? Well, bullying is when you either physically hurt someone or when you mentally hurt someone. Mentally hurting someone is when you call someone names or you tease them or you call them a bad words. Physically bullying someone is when you push, pinch, poke, pull, punch, kick or hit, etc. Why shouldn't you bully other people? You shouldn't bully people because it makes the person feel bad and it makes you look bad and mean in front of everyone. When you bully someone physically, for example if you push someone of their bike or punch someone in the nose it will probably show that you did it and you get the blame for doing it.



There once was a new kid at my school and she didn't know anyone and she was really short. On her first day of school these tall girls took one look at her and they started to laugh for such a long time really loud making the new girl feel embarrassed. The next day they walked up to her and they started to call her shortie. They kept on calling her shortie the whole day in her ear and she was sick on tired of that word so she said "stop." They looked at her and said it acouple more times so she asked them to stop again but they didn't and they walked by her and yelled shortie and knocked her books on the floor. She went to go tell a teacher. The teacher told them to stop but they only pretended like they did so that same day at lunch they said shortie in her ear again really loud. She couldn't stand it so I said...................."hey pick on someone your ow size. Leave her alone she is new and I think that you should say sorry or else I will tell the principal." They quickly said sorry to the new girl and then they ran away. We were best friends after that.



I learned a lesson and that lesson was that if you bully people you won't get a lot of friends. What do you do if you are being bullied? The first thing that you should do when you are being bullied is to walk away. If they do it again say "STOP."  The 3rd thing that you should do is tell someone. One thing you should never do is bully back because then you are just as bad as the bully. These are all the things that you should do if you are bullied. Remember don't bully people it isn't cool.

The Time When I Showed Courage

Everyone has a time is their life when they have shown courage. To me, courage is bravery or when you know what you are afraid of and you have to face that fear. When I was in America, I found out that my friends had been going somewhere after school on Friday. I had been wanting to find out for days until they finally told me what they were doing. They were cheer leading.

They asked me to join the team, so I thought a while, and then the next Friday I went to a cheer leading practice. Everyone was nice. But then it started to get serious and I got the cheer leading outfit and we had to practice routines a lot. We were cheerleaders for the Bob Cats and we did cheer leading everywhere. Soon after it started, my friends quit the team. I don't know why, but they did. Me and my sister were now in cheer leading without our friends. Then, the real thing happened.....we had to compete with other teams and I was so nervous.

As soon as I got there I could barely breathe. Everyone was there. The whole stadium was full, so full that people had to get 20 more seats until people couldn't fit in the stadium anymore. This was the real thing. As soon as we got on the stage we all looked at each other because we didn't know where to go. When we got in our positions we performed the routine that we had practiced. I was so proud of myself. After the dance, I threw up in the bathroom because I was so nervous. I feel sorry for my friends because they shouldn't have quit because guess what........... WE WON FIRST PLACE! I was really proud of myself. I had learned a big lesson and my friends helped me. That lesson was never quit. Quiting is for losers. That is so true.

This was a time when I showed courage. I decided to stick with the team until the season was over and not to stop going to practice because my friends had quit the team. I learned to cheer lead and found out I was not only good at it - but my team came in first place in the regional competition. While it took a lot of courage to keep going to practices without my friends support, I learned that I can do things on my own and that I don't have to the same things they do all the time. This is was a valuable lesson.

What Do The Artifacts Tell Us About The Lives Of Early Humans?

Artifacts could tell us many things about early humans like where they lived, how they lived and when they lived. Cave art tools are rocks that are used for either scraping things off the walls and or drawing things on walls. Or hunting for food gathering for food making other tools. Caveman have also found that if you rub minerals together you can make powder to make paints. Caveman used alot of objects to paint on walls. They would use objects like rocks to scrape things off walls and to draw on walls. Then they would use minerals to rub together to make powder as the paint.


Caveman painted pictures of many cave paintings but I will only explain 1 picture called the hall of bulls. I think that the caveman who made this was from France because the picture was found in France. In the painting the hall of bulls there are horses and bulls. I think that scientist called it the hall of bulls because the paintings must have been on the walls of a hall and there were alot of bulls and it looks like the horses are running away from the bulls.


Caveman made spear throwers. One spear thrower has a leaping horse on it and is about 15cm. It was found in France and scientists believed that it was good luck to the hunters. Caveman also made a sculpture of 2 bulls and scientist believed that it was for children's ceremonies. Caveman use some art tools for food like rocks to cut the food.