The End of the Year

The goals at the beginning of the year

For School:

- Always pay attention to the teacher.

- Get a good score on every subject.

- Can improve my English and Mandarin.

- Can improve my typing skills.

- Do the best that I can, if there are a project or a essay.

- Can improve my presentation about something.

- Can improve my listening and writing skills.

For Personal Life:

- Can make a new good friend.

- Can join the basketball team in school.

- Can improve my basketball skills.

- Can presented something to other people nicely.

- Can play sport everyday with friends.

From all the goals, I met 11 already, because some of them I didn't do it really well, so I didn't reach it. The 11 goals that I met, I can reach it because I try hard enough to met the goals, and some of them I got the helped from the other people.

From the goals I met, some of them I try it by myself , but with a little help from other people, and some of them I met it by some of the teachers, and some of them is from my friends. The helped that I got from friends is playing sport with my friends and the other help is I do the best that I can, if there are project or an essay. The helped that I got from teacher is improving my English and Mandarin, I can join the basketball team, and improve my basketball skills. The thing that I do by myself is improving my typing skills and improving my presentation on something.

For the goals that I not meet, the thing that stopped me is myself, because I didn't pay a big attention to the teacher. For example, the goals that I didn't met is my listening and writing skills, because I didn't listen really well to the teacher and for writing, because I didn't practice writing a lot. Then, for get a good score on every subject, I didn't met, because I don't really study hard on the subject that I don't understand and I didn't really ask question if I didn't understand.

The goals for next year

For school:

- Can improve my listening and writing skills.

- Can improve my English

- Always pay attention to the teacher.

- Get a good score on every subject.

- Can improve my presentation about something.

For Personal Life:

- Can make a new good friend.

- Can join the basketball team in school.

- Can improve more my basketball skills.

I leaned many things on students and a person. On the students, I learned about we need to pay attention to the teacher when teacher are explaining something, we need to do homework at home if there are homework, and need to study at school and review at home. For a person, the thing that I learned is no need to be very upset of something bad that will make me sad and don't let something that make us upset let us down on something.

I think my English is improving much, since form the first day of school, because I already study hard in English, I always read some book or words in English, I write many things like blog or story in English, and I talk with friends and teachers in English.

Final Task: Analysis

My topic from this project is basketball and the essential question is How can I learn about some successful basketball players? and How can I learn to shoot better from them? I choose the topic basketball is because on this project I think it will be fun if I choose the topic is related to sport. So, I choose basketball, because basketball is my most favorite sports from all of the other sports. Every weekend I will go to the basketball court and play by myself. I choose the essential question "How can I learn about some successful basketball players?" because I think this question will help to write the to do list. I choose the question "How can I learn to shoot better from them?" because I wanted to learn how to shoot better, I can't really shoot the ball really well.

There are 3 part of bloom's taxonomy that we already done, knowledge, comprehension, and application. On knowledge part, it was researching about the to do list that I write in the Google docs, it was researching about the most successful teams, successful coaches, and most successful players. There were a lot more researches that I do and I also included the images. On comprehension part, it was research, too, but I included the video, too. On this part, I already choose the players that I wanted to learn from. that is Kobe Bryant. At last, I done the video, the video is about I'm talking about the skills that Kobe Bryant use when he played. On application part, it was doing the skills that we wanted to do from the players that I choose, so I looked back at the comprehension part and I read and do the skills that Kobe Bryant do.

Now, I will answer my essential question that I choose. So, the answer from the question "How can I learn about some successful basketball players?" is to researches more and more skills that the basketball players do. Then read and think the skills that can be learned that we don't how to do and practice again and again like the basketball players do, they practice, practice, and practice. The answer to the question "How can I learn to shoot better from them?" is to practice shooting like every basketball players do. To shoot better the hand need to handle the ball really well, the two thumbs need to make a T alphabet, bends the both knees, don't throw too high and not too low, and don't throw too hard and not too soft.

Final project - Freak The Mighty

People opinions will not affect our feeling about ourselves in our life. It will not really affect me, because if many other people have many insults about me, I will just disregard them, but if they give good judgment about me, I will say “Thank You”. It can been seen that, on 6th grade while play basketball with my friends, I beaten by many points, first of all my friends said that he’s better than me then, he said that I will not going to be better than him, therefore I just ignore him because I think that someday I will be better than him. Another example is when I’m 6th grade, I play basketball with another friend and I’ve beaten by many points, but my friends said that just cheer up I will be better next time, and I say “Thank You, I will try harder, next time.”

Another example, it will not affect Kevin, one of the character in the novel freak the mighty, he was just disregard the people who give judgment to him, because Kevin think that his smarter than anybody else, so he just pretend that the people who give a bad judgment is just jealous about the smart that Kevin have. It can been seen that while Kevin and Max meet Tony.D, and Tony.D call Kevin Dwarf, Kevin ignore him because Kevin are smarter than him, therefore Kevin call Tony.D a cretin. However in my opinions, I think maybe if the people that give a good comments about him, Kevin will appreciate it and be very happy.


However, sometimes it will affect somebody, if the people that give insults is too much or said too far. In contrast, sometimes it will not affect the people, because the people just think that the people that give judgment is just jealous about the feelings the other people have that they don’t have. It can be seen that, if one of the people give an insult to another people like you’re so stupid or you’re so fat, the one who care about it will say like “No, I didn’t” or maybe will be sad. For the people who didn’t care, for example if someone gives insult, they just say, “Yes, but that it’s OK” or maybe just disregard them. But, I think that if the people give a good opinion to another people like “Your so kind” or “Your so smart” the people that get the opinion will appreciate it, or say “Thank You,” or maybe sometimes it will said like, “You are the smart” or “Your are the one who are kind.” Thus, base on my opinions, it will be better if don’t care about it or maybe something bad will happen if we care about it.



Summary

Chapter 15:
In Christmas night, Max, Max grandparents, Kevin, and Kevin’s mom have a dinner together. It was a happy Christmas that night, they exchange present with each other, and Max got a pyramid box from Kevin with Kevin’s dictionary book inside the pyramid box. In the middle of the night, when Max is a sleep, he feel like there was a wind and it was like someone breathing, and there are a black shadows that will walk to him. Then, suddenly Max faces is been pressed down by the giant hand, he can’t move and not even breathe.

My Interview With Mrs. Raisdana

The 3 questions that I will answer is question:

Number 2, If you could re-do any part of your project so far, what would you change and why?

Number 5, Was this topic easier or harder than you expected it to be when you chose it? Explain why.

Number 6, What challenges or difficulties did you face during the Knowledge, Comprehension and Application parts of the unit? (This needs three separate answers for each part).

I wanted to choose number 2 is because the question is easier and because there are many things that I wanted to change if I can redo it. I wanted to choose number 5 is because the answer is base on our own feeling about the topic that I chose. I wanted to choose number 6 is because it was almost same as number 5, it was base on our feeling on the challenges and the difficulties in the project.

The thing that I will do to prepare for the interview with Mrs. Raisdana is, I will understand the question first so it will be more easier, then answer slowly one by one so we can improve it if there are something wrong, then check again the words and the answer, and last is to memorize the answer and try to talk clearly.

I think it will be good if I can memorize and talk clearly but it will be not good if I didn't prepare, because it was criterion A it was speaking and understand the question, so it need to understand the question really good, so without memorizing we can simply answer very clearly and if I didn't prepare maybe I will do it not really good.

Here is my interview with Mrs. Raisdana:

I already prepare for the interview before I do it, but I didn't prepare a lot. The thing that I prepare is to answer the question as specific as possible, recheck the answer and change the words, and at last I memorize the answer by memorizing the sentence. I think on this project I did well, the thing that I did well is I can memorize the answer that I write really well. But, the thing that I didn't really do well is when I'm talking when the teacher interviewing me, sometimes when I talk, the voice is low and sometimes will be stuck.

Level 3: Application

My tasks is to myself practicing my new basketball skills, what have I learned from each of the basketball players, the basketball players that I learned about, and teach other people how to do the skill that I do.

My Video:

I think I have completed me practicing a new skills, What I learned from each of them, and teach other people how to do the skill that I do. But, I didn't do the thing that I can do of the basketball player that I choose.

The Next Level: Comprehension

Describe the skill that the best basketball player have.

Kobe Bryant:

Shooting Guard: Need to shoot better, watch the teammate with the ball, find a open space without any people beside you, quickly after get the ball shoot the ball if you can.

Need to know how to play defense and offense, so we can play better and try to not make too many falls to other players. Need to exercise everyday and practice everyday, and practice to shoot hoops everyday, so the skill will increase.

For point guard: Need to handle the ball, don’t let the other team get the ball from you, need to know where are the teammates, and pass the teammates that is open without any people beside him.

He uses agility, strength, he practice and exercise everyday, be fit, and he became the fittest person in NBA. He was tall and have a good skill, so he can become the NBA players.

Compare the first top ten player and the last top ten player player in NBA:

Different:

Kobe Bryant(First To Ten): Kobe Bryant is the first top ten players, he was in Lakers team.

Rajon Rondo(Last Top Ten): Rajon Rondo is the last top ten player, he was in Celtics team.

Rajon Rondo: He win Dwayne Wade in basketball game, and then he win Cleveland in 2nd round. Then, Rondo bring their team to play at finals. Every time if he had good game, they lost, but if they have great game, they won. He has a tenacious defense and his driving ability.

Kobe Bryant: He always was the top ten player all the time, but Lebron will be able to beat Kobe Bryant in one-on-one. If Kobe Bryant have the worst shooting performance, he will grabbed 15 rebounds and played the most best defense. Kobe Bryant desire and abilty makes him the best player in NBA.

Explain why the basketball player is very good at it:

To play basketball they need to be fit, because in basketball they need to play a good defense and offense. They can shoot very well, because shooting is the one will give score and they can rebound the ball if it was not in and they shoot it. For defense they always use the hands, by put the hands up, for offense need they dribble well. Basketball is all about running, shooting, passing, and catching.

Video:

What Happen Next?

I think the thing that will happen is Max will scream as loud as he can and punch his dad, then, Grim and Gram will come, but his dad already gone. Next morning, Max tell the thing that happen last night to Grim and Gram, they think for a long time abut who will the guy that last night come be. At last, Max said, " Maybe is dad he's coming home, maybe he already get out from the jail." Grim and Gram still thinking, they think it was make sense, too. So, they think it was Max father.

What will Max do if there are no treasure in the storm drain?

I think if there are no treasure in the storm drain, maybe Max will think about all of the thing that Kevin tell him is all a lie, and next time when Kevin told him something that is similar to the thing that Kevin tell him now, he will not trust him, and don't want to be friend with him again, because Kevin already lie for 2 times.

If it was happen with me, I will react same as Max, trust him first, then if I found out he have a big lie, I will not trust him, not talk to him, and will not be friend with him again. But, if it was just a small lie, or just a joke, I will still be a friend with him.

Unit of Inquiry, Week 1: Knowledge

I think so far, I do a nice job, and I think this is easy but, I will keep try harder next week, because next week the exercise will be harder and harder. My topic is basketball, and my essential question is How can I learn about some successful basketball players, and how can I learn to shoot better from them?

Some of my tasks, have a list and some of them I describe it, the list is the list of the thing that the basketball player did, and describe is I describe the basketball player.

This is the thing I do on the knowledge part this week:

Basketball Player.

How does a basketball player shoot the ball very well to the hoop?

How can they be a basketball player?

How can they be very successful on playing basketball?

I choose: How can someone become a successful basketball player?

Min Hao

Topic: Basketball

Essential Question: How can I learn about some successful basketball players, and how can I learn to shoot better from them?

AOI: Health and Social Education.

 

Most successful basketball players:

- Michael Jordan (The most successful Players)

- Kobe Bryant

- Dwayne Wade

- Lebron James

- Dwight Howard (The most successful players now)

- Robert Horry (Win 5 champions in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007)

Team:

- Boston Celtics

- New York Knicks

- Los Angeles Lakers

- Chicago Bulls

Coaches:

- Lenny Wilkens

- Don Nelson

- Pat Riley

- Jerry Sloan

- Larry Brown

- Bill Fitch

- Red Auerbach

- Dick Motta

- Phil Jackson

- Jack Ramsay

Top ten most successful players:

10. Rajon Rondo, PG Boston Celtics

9. Amare Stoudemire, PF New York Knicks

8. Chris Paul, PG New Orleans Hornets

7. Carmelo Anthony, SF Denver Nuggets

6. Deron Williams, PG Utah Jazz

5. Kevin Durant, SF Oklahoma CIty Thunder

4. Dwight Howard, C Orlando Magic

3. Dwayne Wade, SG Miami Heat

2. Lebron James, SF Miami Heat

1. Kobe Bryant, SG Los Angeles Lakers

How do they be successful:

Kobe Bryant:

The skill that Kobe Bryant did is agility, strength, and stamina in the court. Kobe Bryant works very hard, and he was the most fittest man from all the NBA players, because he exercise everyday for long time.

Idea for the skills:

Need to know how to play defense and offense, so we can play better and try to not make too many falls to other players. Need to exercise everyday and practice everyday, and practice to shoot hoops everyday, so the skill will increase.

For point guard: Need to handle the ball, don’t let the other team get the ball from you, need to know where are the teammates, and pass the teammates that is open without any people beside him. 

Shooting Guard: Need to shoot better, watch the teammate with the ball, find a open space without any people beside you, quickly after get the ball shoot the ball if you can.

The skill from the basketball player that I will use is:

- The strength, stamina, and work harder on playing basketball.

- Play good at offense and defense, because on basketball we need to know how to defense people and offense to defense the ball.

- Point Guard, because on point guard, I can learn to dribble better, and defense the ball from being attack.

- Shooting Guard, because I can learn to shoot better, and can learn how to defense the ball when I shoot.

Welcome to My Unit of Inquiry

During this unit of inquiry project, I wanted to learn about basketball, my essential question from basketball is "How can I learn from some successful basketball player?" and "How can I learn to shoot better to the hoop?" The reason why I learn this is because I already know some of the skill, but I wanted to improve by watching the basketball players play basketball, and I wanted to learn to shoot better to the hoop. Areas of Interaction from this project is health and social education, because the question is connected to the topic I choose. I think I am a kin-aesthetic learner because I like to move around, so I choose basketball. Some activities that I will learn is to practice shooting, and watch video to learn about the skill. To start a knowledge part, the thing I will do are researching some basketball players, watch and learned their skill, so I can improve my skill. These activity will helping me because it can improve my skill a lot, and I can shoot better to the hoop by watching the famous basketball player play.

My Daily Schedule, One Week

Monday:
6:30 wake up, get dress
7:30-14:45 school
16:00-17:00 use computer, take a bath
17:00-18:00 bible class
18:00-19:00 eat dinner,
19:00-21:30 study, do homework
21:30-22:00 get ready for tomorrow, ready for bed, watch TV
22:00 Go to bed

Tuesday:
6:30 wake up, get dress
7:30-14:45 school
16:00-17:00 take a bath, use computer
17:00-18:00 bible class
18:00-19:00 eat dinner
19:00-21:30 study, do homework
21:30-22:00 get ready for tomorrow, ready for bed, watch TV
22:00 Go to bed

Wednesday:
6:30 wake up, get dress
7:30-14:45 school
15:00-16:00 practice basketball
16:00 go home
17:00-18:00 bible class, take a bath
18:00-19:00 eat dinner
19:00-21:30 study, do homework
 21:30-22:00 get ready for tomorrow, ready for bed, watch TV
22:00 Go to bed

Thursday:

6:30 wake up, get dress
7:30-14:45 school
16:00-17:00 use computer, take a bath
17:00-18:00 bible class
18:00-19:00 eat dinner
19:00-21:30 study, do homework
21:30-22:00 get ready for tomorrow, ready for bed, watch TV
22:00 Go to bed

Friday:

6:30 wake up, get dress
7:30-14:45 school
15:00-16:00 practice basketball
16:00 go home
17:00-18:00 bible class, take a bath
18:00-21:00 eat dinner, play games, watch TV
21:00-22:00 do homework
22:00-24:00 play games, watch TV, ready for bed
24:00 Go to bed

Saturday:
7:30 wake up
9:00-10:00 watch TV, eat breakfast
10:00-12:00 take a bath, play games, use computer
12:00-14:00 go to mall, eat lunch
14:00-15:00 take a rest
15:00-16:30 play basketball
16:30-18:00 at home
18:00-21:00 eat dinner, play games, take a bath, use computer
21:00-22:00 watch TV
22:00-24:00 play games, chat, use computer, get ready to bed
24:00 bed

Sunday:
8:00 wake up
9:00-10:00 eat breakfast
10:00-11:00 play games, use computer
11:00-12:00 study, do homework
12:00-14:00 eat lunch, play games, use computer
14:00-15:00 rest
15:00-16:30 play basketball
16:30-18:00 at home
18:00-20:00 eat dinner, use computer
20:00- 21:00 study and do homework
21:00-22:00 get ready for tomorrow, check school bag, get ready for bed.

1. I think i just get a little free time on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, because those days was weekend, and I can go to bed at 24:00, so I can get some free time.

2. It will affect the time table, because some of the thing I do have to do with the topic that I choose.

3. I think it was not really difficult, but sometimes will be difficult, because sometimes we don't know when can we study, and when can we play, sometimes we can play all time, but sometimes we will study all time, so to manage our self, we need to practice.

Summary of Chapter 1 and 2

I think the story of Freak the mighty from chapter 1 and 2 is good but i don't know what does he story continues, it is good or it is boring but, I think it will be good and fun, because the first and second chapter is already good, and i think the end of the chapter will be good, too. But now, I'm still didn't really understand about the story, because sometimes when I'm reading, because of too many word, it will be hard to read and hard to understand for me.

Freak the Mighty

Community is a group of interacting organism, in human community we need to belief and have a risks. Freak is use to refer to a person about their behavior. Freak can be used as pejorative, a term of admiration, and a self description. Freak can be used for describing the people activity or action and freaky can be used for the people action, too.
Mighty is a great and impressive power or strength. Mighty can be said as the people that have a power and strength, or it was called a mighty power.

Final project - What Ive learned about Grammar

Before Editing:

Welcome to Grammar! Writing Sample



In the learner profile, I’ve been an inquirer. Because, last time, at doing the Internet research, I’m very confuse about how to do an Internet research of something. But, the website is the website that the teacher is chosen. I’m very curious, because I already try hard, but I’m still don’t really know how to research the information. I find and find the information, but I’m still didn’t know ho to research it.



So, the thing that I done to solve this problem is to talk to the teacher about the website and use another website to research the information. Then, the teacher said, “Ok, you can use the website that you want to use”. So, I use another website in the computer to research the information. At last, I already done my researching about the information that I need. Then, I arranged the information to many paragraphs. Now, I finish my arrangement of the information.

After editing:

Welcome to Grammar! Writing Sample

In all of the learner profile, I’m an inquirer, because last time, when I’m doing an Internet research, I’m very confuse about how to do a research on the website that the teacher give us. So, I’m very curious, because I already try hard, but I still can’t find the information. I find and find the information, but I’m still can’t find it.

So, at last I solve it by talk to the teacher about the website and try to use my own website. So, the teacher said “OK”. Then, I used the website that I know to research. At last, I done my researching, then I arranged the information into paragraph. So, now I finish my essay.

The Video:

Parts of speech Final Assessment

Nouns:



Adjective:

Verb:

A day in my life, part 1: present tense verb

A day in my life part 2: Past tense verb:

Adverb:

Teach Us About Sentence Stucture

What I Learned Today

Today, in ESL class i have learned about complex sentence, compound sentence, and run-on sentence. Compound sentence is 2 or more complete sentences in one sentence, and we do some exercise about compound sentence.

Example of Compound sentence:
I like to play basketball, but my friend like to play soccer.

Complex sentence is sentence that a independent clause and dependent clause joined together in one sentence. Independent sentence is sentence that is by themselves or a sentence that make sense. Dependent sentence is sentence that depend on other sentence or sentence that doesn't make sense. Then, we do some exercise about it for the example

Example of Complex sentence:
I love to play basketball, so I joined the basketball team.

Run-on sentence is 2 or more sentence, but didn't have comma or the sentence is too long. Then, we do some exercise about it for the example.

Example of Run-on sentence:
I love to play basketball so I joined the basketball team and I joined the tournament.

What I Learned Today

Today in the ESL class, I have learned that to write a complete sentence, I need to have a subject, predicate, and a complete thought. Then, I have learned about a sentence fragment, sentence fragment is a sentence that sometimes didn't have subject, or a predicate, or a complete thought. Then, i have learned about compound subject and compound predicate, compound subject is more than one subject and compound predicate is more than one predicate.

Example of fragment sentence:
Love to play computer games - Missing Subject

Poetry

At the first I study poetry, I don't really understand what does the poetry about, how good is it, and why we need to make a poetry. But, now I know that poetry is important because we can make poetry by going outside to the field that have many people and many things so,we can write the poetry of what does the people doing and describe the thing that they do. Now, I know deeper about the poetry, too. Poetry is a word that can express our self and there are many kinds of poetry like haiku poem, street music, nature poem, and many other poems. From the work that is done I like it, too.

From the project that have done, the poetry that I like is the so much depends poem and from the 3 poems, I like the last poem because the word that I write is true, almost everyone of us is depends to the technology because technology is very useful for us and can make our work done easily, every technology is very useful for us. The example of the technology is laptop and internet that can help us to find the information that we need and can let us type at the laptop so we don't need to write. The last thing that is true is many people love it, because it can make us easier, many people love to use it.
Poetry

A day in my life - part2 "Past Tense Verb"

A day in my life - part1 "Present Tense Verb"

What are Adjective?

Poetry

peace park peace park in the school
you are made by the workers
you got light from the sunlight
many people walk pass by

peace park peace park in the school
i see a giant bell in it
i hear the worker talking
i feel the warm breezy wind

peace park peace park in the school
i see the sky like a cotton
i hear the machine digging
i taste flower like honey

Youtube Movie

Love That Dog

Blue car, blue car is the poetry that the teacher ask us to record it. This poetry is from the book name "Love That Dog". The sources that i use for recording the poetry is garage band because by using the garage band, we can record it and use the other sound that is interesting. I like my video poetry about the blue car blue car, because i add more the sound from the garage band.

Blue car blue car by minhaokao17

After i do blue car blue car poetry, i make my own poetry to record it using the garage band, too. It was really hard to make the poetry with my own words, because each sentences need to be same number of the sound, same number of words and same sound of the last word but different words.
This is the poetry that i write:
  Black owl Black owl in the sky
in the darkness of the night
who could see you standing by
like a people in the sky

i could see you in the night
black owl black owl in the sky
i could see you standing by
like a people in the sky

Black owl black owl by minhaokao17

What are Noun?

 This is a slideshow about the nouns of the 3 things. I do this slide by going to www.flickr.com/creativecommon/ website, then I find the picture about the 3 things that the teacher gave us. Then we download and put it at the slide. After that, we type image by then link the image website to the “image by”. Than, write the nouns that the 3 things have, at least 2 nouns each. After that, put the name and change the background.

My Poetry

We are starting to study poetry in my English class and the thing I understand I think poetry is to share our feeling with many other people about my feeling about the world. I just know that entire thing so far, but I like the poetry because it will improve the writing and can add the vocabulary that we know. I think about being outside of the class is great because we can look at many things outside of the class. The thing I see is many statue like a Chinese old women, a Chinese big bell that is already old, and the international walls with many country in the walls and each country have their own words or slogan, I see a bridge with water under the bridge and I see a mud with many grass on it. About the photographs, I think Mr. Jabiz tell us the thing about the photograph that Mr. Jabiz has taken. All the thing that Mr. Jabiz tells us is about how to write the poetry so is like what the grass or the flowers is look like. So, i will keep studying about the poetry, so i will know deeper about how to write the poetry or what is poetry about.
 
 Image by

Welcome to Grammar! Writing Sample

In the learner profile, I’ve been an inquirer. Because, last time, at doing the Internet research, I’m very confuse about how to do an Internet research of something. But, the website is the website that the teacher is chosen. I’m very curious, because I already try hard, but I’m still don’t really know how to research the information. I find and find the information, but I’m still didn’t know ho to research it.

So, the thing that I done to solve this problem is to talk to the teacher about the website and use another website to research the information. Then, the teacher said, “Ok, you can use the website that you want to use”. So, I use another website in the computer to research the information. At last, I already done my researching about the information that I need. Then, I arranged the information to many paragraphs. Now, I finish my arrangement of the information.