Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Making connections PP.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Band homework
The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each students to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become highly successful, spirited, socially responsible (silence) global citizen.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Vacation '10
What did I do on my vacation?
This winter vacation, I was lucky enough to get to see both my family in Lebanon, and also my uncle and his new wife in Dubai! We started in Dubai, and met up with my uncle and his wife. His wife had to work most of the time, but we still got to hang out with them. We got to stay at the Kempinski hotel, which was attached to The Mall of Dubai, as well as Ski Dubai, which was the biggest indoor ski in the world. The days we stayed in Dubai we toured a lot, but also looked back at where we used to live, and our old school A.S.D. (American School of Dubai). We soon left for Lebanon, where my mother's family surprised all of us at the airport, than took us to our hotel where we got settled in and had an authentic Lebanese dinner. I hadn't seen snow since I was very small, but got to see a bunch when we looked outside. Our hotel, "Faraya" was actually a ski lodge, so we got to play in the snow for the time we stayed there. Sadly, it was the first time in years that it took so long to snow, so we had to settle with the week old snow the entire time we were there, but it was still a lot of fun. After Faraya we went to the capital, Beruit. In Beruit we stayed at the Ramada hotel, and toured the city and shopping places. We only stayed for a few days because we left back for Dubai again. In Dubai, we had more time to spend with my uncle and his wife, and old friends. We also went back to see Burj Dubai, which is now the largest building in the world (it's not the Patronas Towers anymore!), it was so big and thin. I didn't go inside, but i did go inside Atlantis, which is also a big tourist attraction. There were so many new things built that were'nt there when I lived there, like palm island and many more shopping malls. Burj al Arab was something that was still there when I lived there, and is still such an important place. It is the only 7 star hotel in the world, only the most important and rich of people stay there.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Dear Daniel,
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Julie of the Wolves Blog post #3
I noticed a big change in Julie/Miyax's characteristics. In the beginning she was very useless. Since she was lost she was very weak and just depended on the wolves to get her food, but by the end she was hunting for herself! She began hunting and the patience she put into it was all worth it; soon after, hunting became very easy and she made it a priorety. She didn't fully mature just from hunting, but when the wolves dissapeared to migrate, she had to be on her own and with that she grew mentaly and physically. She learned more ways to survive which helped he mentaly, and she did a lot of active activities which helped her physically. After what I read pages 1-147, I really saw her mature more! Julie/Miyax saw Jello, Amaroq, and Kapu die before her eyes, most thirteen year olds can't stand watching animals die and would be scarred for life!
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Julie of the Wolves Literature Circles #2
In the current Literature Circle discussion, I think I did excellent on staying on task because anything that I would say would always have to do with Julie of the Wolves. When someone was talking I made sure I never interrupted or stopped listening to them at all.
This time I made sure my passages were clear and had the exact explanation. In the questions I had three clear and they seem like questions a lot of people are always wondering. The vocabulary was a bit hard to find because the book didn't have much hard words so I'm not so happy about them. I'm not confident about the vocabulary; although, I'm not so stressed about them so it's also good.
In all, if I had to rate my disscussion AND the Literature Circle sheet out of ten I would rate it a nine point five due to the vocabulary. So I actually think I did VERY well for the second Literature Circles but I'm hoping I would rate myself a 10/10 instead of a 9.5 just a half a point away!
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Julie of the Wolves Literature Circles #1
had a dictionary or a thesaurus next to them to give them the answers. I think my passages were long, complete, but not clearly explained. The information I wrote were unclear because I wrote which page that interested me, why it interested me but I don't think I was specific with the exact parts I liked. For example, I liked this page because... What I should of I couldn't participate in the group due to late homework; however, I am confident about the work I had done and how it was set up. My questions were long and so were my responses. My vocabulary words were not just easy words I knew the answer to, and if someone were to look at the words in sixth grade, surely they wouldn't understand them unless they written was, In this page on the third paragraph I noticed the varieties of ...
I practiced my discussion and home and although I didn't get to participate in the group discussion because I was unorganized I had though studied a lot for it. Persionally, I think I did well!
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