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Take your kid to work day: Lots of food

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At the start of November all of the people in grade 9 had a “Take your kids to work day”. To start off here is the driving question.

“How does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices”

Now you may be asking where did I go? I went to a very nice restaurant called Milestones. My mom is the manager there so I got a lot of perks like… food. Now I didn’t just sit back in an office all day because that would be boring. Instead I was running food, sometimes cooking, and seating tables. To start off we got in around a hour before it opened and started setting up all the tables and the bar. Then I had some breakfast and got to work. I started off as a host for a few hours greeting people, seating tables, and also cleaning said tables. It was really busy at first but then started getting slower so I moved onto the next thing. 

Next I went back in the kitchen and watched and starting cooking some food. First I watched the chef make a good looking burger and fries. It was to send a picture into the higher ups to see if they are making it right. But besides that next actually made and ate some food. It was chicken in a cream sauce with a type of noodles and veggies. It was very good and is one of my favourite things to order there. 

Next I had to interview my mom for this project and have certain questions. We also had to make a video about the day and post it to YouTube. I think my editing was good for my skill level and my shots of the restaurant. I also had to send an email to her after the fact. Here is the video.

In conclusion, I think I would like to work in a restaurant late maybe not forever but just a little bit. This experience was really fun and I had a great time. Thank you for reading this post.

Cool facts about Atoms and a very cool video game

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Where it all starts

Well as my first post of the second semester of this year I feel very tired and wanting to go home. But back to the actual project it was one of the more funnier ones since it’s not all on an iPad. This project consisted of finding out properties of the atom and other science things. Right now I’m going to talk about the different types of labs we did and what we used to do them so lets start.

The first lab we did was not with different types of chemicals and dry substances we weighed some heavy objects with a quadruple beam balance. This scale is a really accurate scale of weighing not too heavy things the max it can measure is 321 grams which is enough to weigh some things like a tiny metal cube. We measured a small metal cube, a rectangle, and metal circle with a hole in it so all pretty light. You would think that is really easy but its kinda difficult, you have to move the blocks weighing from 100 g to 1 g to the different points in the beam to make the heavier. The final thing we measured was a 250 ml beaker with 100 ml first we had to measure how heavy the beaker was which the beaker was 109.7 g and sadly my partner and I didn’t have the time to get an accurate reading on the water and sadly we had to put it away.

The cool part

Now somewhat through the project we got to do something real fun. A lab with direct chemicals that we can mix together to make different things. The materials consisted of baking soda, corn starch, sugar, salt, and a mystery substance that we learned at the end was flour. Now we didn’t just mix these things together that would be boring so we got a couple of different liquids and one pretty cool thing that consisted of water, vinegar, iodine, and fire. Now the water with all of them didn’t do much but the vinegar and iodine did something that was cool. With the m=baking soda it fizzed out of the beaker and we had to clean it up. Also with the iodine if you add in sugar it turns orange which is kinda cool but if you add a bit too much of baking soda or cornstarch and the stuff like that it clumps up and you can mold it. With the fire it really just melted everything but with some things it made the flame way bigger.

A little bit before that we did a different kind of measurement. You took a graduated cylinder filled it half of the way with water and put random metal objects in and measured it to see how much the water rises. My partner and I put a nail and a small long metal block in, the nail didn’t really raise it that much but the cylinder raised almost to the top and that’s really all the volume lab was just put different things in the graduated cylinder.

The big finale 

Now for the first project of science the final thing we had to do had to be fun since the driving question was “How can we communicate our knowledge of atoms in a fun and creative way” we had to make a video game. Now we didn’t have to make a 3d hyper realistic open world game no we used scratch that sometimes doesn’t work how it should. Now when we started the video game I wasn’t there because a was sick but that’s not the point. I was a week late on the project but nothing to despair I finished the gamed with ample days to spare. Now after I told you this you might be asking what game did I make well I made a soccer game. We had to use are knowledge of atoms to make a game what I did was I put cool facts about the atom in the game and atoms are all around us when we move, when we kick a ball and so on. So without further ado here is the game and I hope you like it.

The horrifying world of poems

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By the title you can probably guess that this project was all about poems and their styles. This was definitely the shortest project we’ve done so far with it lasting under one month. With this being the last project of the semester we had to do something big to get the attention of the class ( that is not what happened ). First we learned about a poet laureate. A poet laureate is a person chosen by the Librarian of Congress who ever that is. After that we started learning how to make a good poem and what’s involved to make a good one. We were given a list of poems and had to list the similes and metaphors and things like that. After that long process we got in to the bad part WRITING THE POEMS!

The first set of poems we had to make was the simile poem ( a poem full of similes ) and the metaphor poem ( a poem full of metaphors ) and we had to have these poems ready for the next day. now there are 9 different poems with each being 10 lines or longer would make the post way to long so I will just put my BOOK link at the end. There’s a book but sawyer you didn’t tell us there was a book well when you’ve made all your poems you had to put them all into a book to be presented at a later date. Also I won’t be mentioning much of the poems since they are in the book.

The next thing we did was we got into groups of three and were given en a random sound poem ( a poem made up of random sounds ). My group was given the poem with the name of “ silent poem” my first solution was when we went up to present we don’t say anything given the name put we had to speak. The poem is made up of six parts so we all got to do two of them. So without further ado here is silent poem

Silent Poem

backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk

underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow

woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile

sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep

backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk

candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread

hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup

whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush

gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheelwatercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed

gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock

weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow

by Robert Francis

Next we had to learn a lot of poetry terms which took up half the class just to learn them. I will show them now.

  1. Simile: a comparison of two unlike things using like or as. 

2. Cliche: overly used expression. 

3. rhythm scheme: pattern of rhymes in a poem.

4. Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things

5. Free verse: a poem without rhythm or rhyme

6. Onomatopoeia: words that sound the way they mean.

7. Denotation: literal definition of a word.

8. Connotation: the associated feelings that come with a word

9. Juxtaposition: two things being seen or placed together with contrasting effect.

10. Haiku: a short three line with 5 syllables in the first line 7 in the second line 5 in the third line.

11. Found poem: poems are created by talking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spaces and lines, or by adding and deleting, and giving it a new meaning.

12. Theme: def = life lesson meaning moral or message about life or human nature that is communicated in literary work text theme is what the story teaches readers. Does not = a word in a sentence. Theme is implied

Now obviously I am leaving a lot of things out of this post but their the same things I’ve talked about or just really boring. So finally I hope you enjoyed my post and come back for more oh and here’s the book.

A new book

Having fun with Sketches pro

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 First what I did

This project was so long it felt like it only lasted a week ( which it did only last a week). So yeah this was the shortest project I’ve done so far which is a very good thing. It was a short project so that means we didn’t get any homework unless you were away one of the days but more of what I did. From the title you may guess that the project was about drawing which it was so here is the first drawing I did ( I was so posed to do a picture about shapes but I accidentally deleted it so here’s a traced drawing).

Lester the Robot

The next thing we did was we had to drawing a robot. There was a lot of good ones but mine was the best one out of all of the drawing because of its colour and how detailed it is. You should definitely try to draw a robot but I don’t think it would be better than mine.

Lester was the final thing from the shapes portion. What I mean by shapes is we used different pens to draw different shapes like 3d and 2d. I did the shapes part in like half a class getting to use all different pens and shading styles. The main pen I used for shading was the pencil because it can be a lighter colour but if you press down harder it becomes darker like a real pencil very good for shading. Sadly the shapes were the thing I accidentally deleted so i got nothing to show so this is just a break in the text.

The greatest mushroom

The next thing and the second to last thing I drew was my emoji. You could remake a old one or make a new one. I chose to make a old one with a little adjustment and ending up spending 30 minutes on it. I drew a mushroom with a face it’s really simple to make a mushroom just getting all the measurements for the head and stem. So after ranting for a while here is the long awaited mushroom.

The best company ever

After whole blog post this is what you’ve been waiting for the final thing I drew. But first let me explain the other part we had to do creating the company. Yeah we had to draw a logo for a made up company so we had to get a name a description and who this company’s targeted audience is. My company’s name is burning coals and the logo’s even better than the name. Burning coals is a coal mining company with the catch phrase of Firey hot. The targeted audience is people who bbq or go camping a lot which is not many people. But without further talking here his the awaited logo.