BuIlDiNg A bRidGe

Its the final quarter in the 2nd semester if the 8th grade. We're about to enter high school but before we do there's 1 final project and thats to "build a bridge" into high school. We are required to build a bridge using our geometry skills to calculate our bridge using a certain budget that our teacher provides us. The budget is to spend exactly 1.5 million dollars to build a bridge. The requirements for our bridge was for it to be as light as possible, but able to withstand as much weight as it possibly can. For our group we spent it on hot glue (which was and endless supply), pop stickle sticks (about 1000 dollars or more worth of supplies), used the last remaining of the budget on 2 ft length of string. The purpose to waist exactly 1.5 million is because part of our grading will be based on how we used our budget. A perfect score on our budget is to have it be spent without 1 cent more than 1.5 million and not 1 cent less than 1.5 million. 

What we figured out as we were calculating our budget for our bridge materials was that we had around 2000 dollars extra. What we ended up doing was spending it on 2 ft string even though we weren't going to use it. The type of bridge we ended up constructing was a double truss bridge because it has double the tension facing inward so when the books are placed inside it wont crumble so easily. We choose to build this bridge because it has more weight resistance since we have the pressure going inward the bridge. The reason we did that was because when a bridge does break because of all the books its outward if our pressure from the double truss is inward then it will withstand the pressure of the books inward. 

When it came to the roles of who was building what, Tobar and me had to construct the actual bridge. Amber was supposed to write the request a grant for us to get enough money to purchase 46 more pop stickle sticks. Gary was gathering our supplies when needed. Tobar also had to sketch out the bridge. Ben had to help do the equations in the group. Our team name is called thin ice.

MidDLE scHOoL eXPeRIenCe

In my last 3 years in middle school I changed out each year in a different way. In 6th grade I was a little nerd who still was dressed up by his mom. I wouldn't care because it was a uniform required school, I was extremely short and looked like I was in the 3/4th grade. When I first got here I had the required uniform shirt. When I had to borrow the pants they were so long they were dragging all over the place. In 1 day a lot of people recognized me because of how short I was and because of how baggy my pants were. In 6th grade I didn't struggle in the least when it came to school tests and homework. I had come in a shy timid little boy who was friendly to just about anyone, I had seen 1 friend from 5th grade, and we were completely dorks. As I kept going in 6th grade I passed wit just about all A's. Also because I was too friendly to some people, I had to put up with a bully until the day came that he was about to choke me. 6th grade was ok except for that moment. 7th grade I didn't grow an inch for any time soon. I got into a very cool sport known as fencing, I was able to take put all my anger and rage on a lot of things I have while having fun. I was in a huge competing for a tournament from the top 4 in the whole school. I ended up being #3 & I finally defeated the #1 fencer (Daniel Paz). I was a little less shy and I met new friends and got to know some new people along the way. I learned that not all people in this world are friendly and had a crush big time. I was heart broken during a field trip to a place called medieval times, and lost the girl I was after for almost 1/2 a semester. I felt like I was a little nerd, a nobody, and just depressed so I went into doing things that would hurt me. I ended 7th grade with a not so good grades and a not so good attitude. A huge chapter in my life was in the 7th grade summer school, I was in summer school because we had many subs in my advanced class (algebra) so we had to have a huge review, and over that summer I went from a nerd, dork, geek, and depressed little boy into a pretty boy. I went pretty boy just 2 weeks after the summer school session had ended. It was July, and my cousin Janelle's birthday. I went like a complete pretty boy. While I was there I saw a water slide, I was skinny but not too skinny, I was just in my boxers sliding, freaking out about my hair. I was acting like an idiot until I saw a Girl walk in that was a friend of my cousins. I liked what I saw, but I thought I was out of my league, so I played it like I didn't care. Next thing I knew there was another friend, a total of 3 girls. My cousin told me the girl that looked emo liked me but I said no because I was done with being depressed. I talked to the girl I liked because to me she had fine written all over her. I didn't tell her I liked her because I had to go home, my parents were getting tired of waiting for me. Also because her dad saw everything I did and got really furious. I continued on with my 8th grade life. I met some new people in breakology, and form there we preformed in west fest to celebrate how much break dancing moves we learned, in a b-boy/b-girl performance. We did very pro for some beginners. Next was in New Years Eve for 09 at my cousin Janelle’s house. I was chilling, I ignored the fact if she would come or not. Finally she showed up and this party was the only one where I was not dressed pretty boy. I saw her my cousin and that emo looking girl go into her house. I followed them but little kids were being nosy too. When I went inside I was really shy but she asked me to talk to her in the kitchen alone. I was really shy and really nervous. She looked at me and told me, "Look we both know what you’re going to say, my answer is yes but just ask already." I asked and she told me " ok but you have to be cool if we break up." I ignored that and pushed her against the wall and hugged her. We were 5 minutes away from getting busted by my aunt. I was really shy but I had no self-control when she was with me. When the clock striked midnight I was outside with her alone, she looked at me, I looked at her and next thing I knew it was time for me to go. Ever since I was her bf for 5 months until now. I got into drinking some energy drinks and run around like an idiot around my block with my neighbor Jaime. I started hanging out with one of my best friends Cesar. I got to know the friends that would break-dance, and learned that they were skaters. Up until now I am on my 1st communion, I'm ready to graduate with honors and hope that no more drama with my family will go on anymore.
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5/22/09
by Josue

CST TESTING

CST testing is when your down to the last 1 month of school & have the last few tests in your class subjects. Its like your exit ticket to leave middle school, & your entrance ticket to high school. Depending on how well you do on the CST will depend on what high school will accept you or not. Y0u take this test because it's supposed to reflect on everything you have learned over the last year in all your subjects. In the 6-7th grade theres only 2 CSTs (it's for math and english). In the 8th grade it's more challenging because you have 4 CST's, & history requires the most studying since it has topics from everything you learned from the last 3 years. Your results come up over summer vacation. As for me I struggle so instead of waisting time sudying for hours when the next day fogeting everything I go outside, relax, & study where its quiet. CST tesing is also a time to show if you've messed around or not. Some people don't mess around & do focus in class, but the problem is some people arn't great test takers. One reason was because people who do take the test may struggle reading the the text (understanding what the question is asking), or it could be the lack of studying, or a proper breakfast. The results can relfect the us, "the students" because some of us do mess around & by the time CSTs do come they wont know what to do, but on the other hand there's students who do know what to do keep their focus in class but arn't good test takers so they fail. The best part about the CSTs is that they dont always look at your score, they also look at your final report card, if your CSTs are low but your grades are good, then you have a good chance as someone who did pass the CST.

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Green Green Green Green Green Green ........

The Green Police were also known as the Dutch Gestapo, a secret police group who apparently wore green and hunted/found citizens. They asked them to turn in any Jews they know. The Dutch Gestapo would threaten to kill the citizens if they didn't turn in any Jews. Also, they would search the street at night to see if they could find anyone who seemed suspicious. Another thing they would do was search buildings and factoires at random. Thats was how Anne Frank and her family were found at some point in her life.

Reactions on life how to deal?

The reaction to the Franks & VanDaans is that they're really irritated because when they're there they can't move from the hours of 8:30 to 5:30 they can't move very much. Also they were probably scared because Mrs. VanDaan was nervous when the Franks didn't come on time as she had expected.

My restrictions are to follow the laws, not do drugs, no grand kids for my parents, and to come home before 10 o clock. Also to keep my grades up and to make it to collage. The worst restriction that I have is to keep my room as clean as possible, and to become more responsible.

If I was told that I had to go into hiding with my family I'd go completely crazy depending on who would be there. If it was my parents, my siblings, uncles, and aunts, I'd be alright. If it was some cousins from my dads side of the family then I would lose my mind for 2 years. If i had to live with those cousins I would honestly just go and find my own hiding place with family members of my choosing or at least family members that don't hate me personally.

Anne Frank: Stage Adaptation

A stage Adaptation is where you change the version of a book into a way for it to be preformed in a play such as "The Dairy of Anne Frank." The play begins in 1945 when Mr. Frank comes back from being a prisoner of the Germans. what happens is that he's trying to hold in all of his emotions and not start to cry. eventually when he sees that everyone in this family is dead, so when he finds a glove in the old building he and his family were hiding in. right then and there he looses control and begins to cry. then he starts to remember what happened when they were still hiding after he also finds Annes diary. thats why it starts at 1945 and scene #1.

What is drama

When people hear the word drama , they assume its about people acting in a movie.
Drama as a genre is scripts, acting, preformences, etc. Scripts are what the lines are in acting for the drama to go up. costumes are used for a more realistic result. Actors & diolauge are tied together because the actors saying the diolauge makes their emotions connect. The lights & sound are useful as well because it makes it look like lts more real, and like your in the movie (an example is 3-D movies). Historical context is also part of drama its about what occured in the past & problems from that, & what is occuring now.