How do we know what is moral?

First of all, being moral is being concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and goodness or badness of human character. For me, being moral a huge thing I have to achieve. My religion, Catholicism, tells me to follow the right path and reach morality, which leads you to heaven, where God waits for us. If you, instead choose to go the opposite way, to immorality, then you will never be happy, and you will go to hell. To recognize someone as a moral person, they have to follow certain rules. They have to be nice to others, and they can't hurt them. You also have to stay happy and be honest at all times. This is what being moral means to me.

THIS I BELEVE:

In this post im going to be talking about a 'This i believe' essay by Aaron. The point of this is to know how this belief is important in daily life and how it realtes to us by experiences we've had in life.

The essay's name is 'Abnormally Normal' by Aaron

Here is a piece of the writing:

"We’re all normal. It’s true. I’m sure there is some existential link involved in the process of finding normality. That’s part of the journey. I am 36 years old and have Tourette’s Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and ADHD tendencies. Sure, normality is an elusive and subjective concept, but after admitting some of my own distinguishing characteristics, I still believe that we’re all normal."

I believe this essay relates to the belief of being free, since Aaron wants to feel normal and do whatever he wants without anyone telling him its wrong.

Aaron is a normal man, with a normal life. But he doesn't feel the same. He feels like his illnesses make him different. He feels like he has no freedom. He also have many reasons to be happy and free, since he's got a wonderful family who accepts him like he is!

This essay connects a little bit to me.. Maybe even to everyone.. Being free gives you the chance to be whatever you want and not being afraid to show it!

DomiKnow Profile

Ok, so last class we had activity to see which learning profile we were. The whole point of this was to se our challenges when learning, and to figure out how to learn in a fun and better way. By the end of the class we figured out these things:

I learn best when.. i am not being distracted. Whenever i hear or see something, i get really get the anxiety to see what it is.

I need to.. try to work in a quiet place with no interruptions.

The strategies that could help me in my learning are.. working in many projects and activities that allow you to move (being active).

I would like my teachers to know about me.. I am a kinesthetic learning which means i like moving around and doing activities.. :D

Summary of the 1st Story of Odysseus

This week, we have been reading this book called Odysseus and I will sum up one of the stories of this book. The story is called 'The Land of the Lotus Eaters'. The challenge here, is to write the summary by using only 50 words!

Here it is:

Odysseus’ troop stop in an island to rest, after sailing all day. Half of them go explore the island. Odysseus went looking for them after many hours. He found them eating a fruit the islanders had. The 'Lotus Fruit' made people forget everything. Odysseus saved them and left the island.

Greek Myths

On Saturday, during Humanities class, Mr Peter's played two small greek movies for us. One was about the Myth of Daedalus, and the second one, about Theseus. In this blog, I will be reflecting on each one of them.

What Myth did you like the most?

I really enjoyed watching the first myth, the one of Daedalus. I thought Icarus' cousin was so able to create new things, and that was the reason that made me like this story also the part where they escape with bird's feathers. But the fact that Icarus died because the wax melted, was very sad to me. But I still like it a lot; well at least more that the second myth.

Was it the characters or the story that you enjoyed?

I actually like both. The storyteller was a great character of the movie because he made you understand better what was happening. Icarus' cousin was very creative and always wanting to help, but on the other hand, Daedalus' son wasn't so good with his hands and he couldn't concentrate which was one of the reasons he died; because he couldn't listen to his dad when he told him not to go so high up the sky.

In thinking on the themes of these stories, what do they have in common?

They both describe the sadness of lossing someone you love. They all show how people get courage to accomplish something. And it also teaches people the importance of , because at some point Deadalus preferred his nephew instead of his son, and Theseus left the woma she loved in an island.

In conclusion, these 2 movies where very helpful to me, as they helped me understand better how important mythology was for the Greeks.

Bio-Poem

Introduce yourself through a Bio-poem. Follow the form of the sample Bio-poem below.

Remember: your Bio-poem can be whatever length you want it to be. It doesn't have to be

thirteen lines long, and you don't have to include exactly three ideas in any of the lines. The

form is a simple guideline. Make sure that you use words that are descriptive, colorful and

lively! It should be YOUR creative expression about YOU.

Line 1: Your first name

Line 2: Who is..(Descriptive words that describe you)

Line 3: Who is brother or sister of...

Line 4: Who loves...(three ideas or people)

Line 5: Who feels...(three ideas )

Line 6: Who needs...(three ideas)

Line 7: Who gives...(three ideas)

Line 8: Who fears...(three ideas)

Line 9: Who would like to see...

Line 10: Who shares...

Line 11: Who is...

Line 12: Who is a resident of...

Line 13: Your last name

Andrea Lisset

Happy, Crazy, Enthusiastic, Honest, Creative,

Sister Of Paola Mishal Handal Marquez

Who loves her family, friends, and hometown

Who gives happiness and loyalty to her loved ones

Who fears of touching small insects, and get attacked by a shark

Who sees herself as a doctor in the future and as a great person

Who is a very happy person

Who is a resident of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Handal Marquez

Thanks For Reading This!

7th Grade Blog Post

Hello,

today I will be talking about my 6th grade experience. I believe that this year has been the best school year I've ever had. From Ms Parties to plays, and from assignments to projects. This year has helped me gain more confidence and feel better about being a new student in an international school.

What piece of work and learning are you most proud? I feel that this year I've improved so much. I've learnt many things I didn't know back in Mexico. From all the work I've done, I believe my two T.T.T. projects. In these projects, I've learnt about different empires, the Ancient Egyptian and the Ancient Rome Empires. I am really proud of these two projects because I think I've done a great job in the collaborating part. Even though we didn't research a LOT in these projects we used what we got and we made the projects really good. I love doing tic tac toes, because you have many different assignments to choose from. I hope we have T.T.T. projects next year too!

What were your greatest challenges? My greatest challenges through all this year, were a few. Firstly, that I wasn't that good with my English. This affected my performance in the beginning of the year because sometimes I couldn't really understand the teacher. Secondly, I was new so I didn't know my classmates which made it easier to get used to being here.

3. Reflecting on your growth this year, what did you learn about yourself as a learner? I learned that I get distracted easily and this can affect me a lot. I also learned that if you really want to be better you can ask teachers to help you out, and you can really improve. I feel proud of myself because I could finish this school year without any trouble and I learnt so many things that will be helpful in the future.

4. To evaluate your work habits, provide explanations about the following topic:

• Behavior: I think I behave well in class. But sometimes, I get distracted with my classmates which makes me talk and not do my work. In the end, it affects my grades and behavior.
  

• Performance: Satisfactory
  

• Explanation: I believe that in the future, I can improve and concentrate more in what I am supposed to do instead of getting distracted with my classmates.

5. Based upon your reflections, write two personal learning goals for Grade 7 next year.

Goal 1 - In Grade 7, I plan to study more for my quizzes or exams, etc, so that I can have better understanding in the topics and to get better grades.

Goal 2 - In Grade 7, I plan to concentrate more in my classes because then I can understand the teacher better and I can learn better for the important projects or tests that we could have in the future.

6. Is there any more information about yourself that you would like the teachers to know? I take time to feel comfortable in classes and that is because I don't know the teacher very well. But don't worry to much, because once I get to know them, I will start behaving how I normally do.

7. What was your favorite activity lesson in Humanities this year? What did you enjoy about it? My favorite lesson in Humanities was Mesopotamia because we had to do an awesome project about Babylonia We had to choose a song and change the lyrics that had to talk about a ruler from there. I really enjoyed it.

8. What activity do you wish we could have spent more time on? I think we should have took more time with the Tic Tac Toes because our dead line was too short. I think the best thing to do was to give us about 3 weeks to work on it because we had to work on three different assignments!

9. Finally, cast your minds back to the first few months of middle school (when you arrived in Grade 6 ) what "Words of Wisdom" or "Advice" could you pass on to the Class of 2018? Have fun, but remember to focus on school too!

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!!!

HI,

Today I am going to be talking about my favorite book. My favorite book is called 'Clubes Rivales' and the author is Javier Malpica. Even though it is in spanish, I love to read it. It is about a group of girls and a group of boys competing to see which group is better. But the exciting thing about this book, is all the challenges they have, for example, once they had to get into a hunted house and stay there all night. I really like this book because I teaches the readers about team collaboration and friendship.

This book made me think about friendship and collaboration, because in the end, they all became really good friends. Everyone worked together to prove which group was better, but in the end that didn't matter anymore because everyone proved loyalty and honesty to each other.

This book challenged me as a reader because this book is more advanced like the the other 6th grade books I've read. It has many vocabulary that I didn't know, and the author wrote many metaphors that were hard to understand. I believe that in the end, I learned so many things Even though I learned in spanish, it will help me with my english too, because I can just change all I learned into English and it will be the same.

If you want to read this book, of course you can, and you will love it! But I will recommend you not to read this book if you don't like reading about friendship and amazing adventures. And don't read it if you don't know spanish otherwise you won't understand it. :D

I hope you enjoyed my reflection, and I hope I gave you enough reasons for you to read this book!

My Spring Break Adventures!

My spring break was extremely awesome, even though I didn't travel anywhere. I spent all of my vacations with my friends and family, so I was not bored at all. I had many things to do during this break so I finished up really exhausted.

One of the things I had to do was to buy everything in my Malaysia Week Camping List. Some of the things in my M.W.L. were things I already had, like a toothbrush, a comb, and more toiletry we all use in everyday life. I thought it was going to be really easy and fun to make my bag but after reading all the list, I felt very worried. There were so many things and clothes I didn't know about. "How and where am I going to find these things" I said to myself. I printed the list out and told my dad to help me find everything because I know that he is an expert in anything that has to be with sports. Anyways he had to help me because since my mom was gone for one month to go to Mexico, he was the only one that could drive me to buy everything. We went to Pavillion, KLCC, Ampang Point and many more malls in search for everything in the list. We ended up missing a couple of things but my dad told me that once my mom arrived she would help me find the missing things. My mom was coming home later that week so I wasn't worried at all anymore.

Two days after that, it was Sunday morning, the day when my mom was arriving, when my dad told me that he was going to his work to pick some folders with important papers in them and it would take him some time. He added that maybe my mom would arrive while he was gone so he wanted us to be aware of the door just if someone like my mom knocked. I was super excited to see my mother again, even though I saw her two weeks ago when I traveled to Mexico, I really missed her a lot. I could not wait to see her get out of the elevator of my building, so I went out of my house with a chair and sat down outside the elevator waiting for my mom to get out. It was 2:00 pm when the doors of the elevator opened and I saw my mom with her luggage. I screamed "MAMA!!" as I helped her with her bags and called Paola, my sister, to help us up. That was the best day of all my spring break!

The next day, I told her that I needed some things for MW and she told me that she first needed to go to the supermarket because while she was gone, we totally forgot about buying food for the kitchen so we were just eating in Pavillion or KlCC every single day. I told her that it was OK for me and we went together to buy all we didn't have in the fridge. Once we were done, we spent the rest of the day looking for my things, specially my sarong which was very hard to find because since we didn't know what it was we needed to ask every store in search of it. At last we found everything in the list, which made me very happy.

That same day I chatted with Maria telling her that my mom was back and that I completed my MW list. She said that she was still missing things but she was gonna buy them later that week. Then I got a great idea, I told her if she could come over to my house to have a play day. She totally agreed with me and went with her mom to ask if she could come. I felt happy and excited with the answer which was yes.

The next morning was cloudy and gray, I thought that maybe it was going to rain because the way the sky looked and maybe that would ruin my play day with my Best Friend. I took a long and relaxing shower after that hoping that it was not going to rain. I got out of the shower and started changing when my cellphone rang. Maria called me telling me that maybe she was going to take longer to get to my house because of the storm. I said "What rain?" and then looked out the window. The rain was pouring down like a waterfall! I thought that the sky was going to fall! But maria said that the rain wouldn't ruin our day. She called me for the last time at 3:30 pm telling me that she was down at the door of my building. I went down the elevator and opened the door and then as I hugged her she said "Man! I missed you so bad!" We went inside my house happily and ready to have fun.

We played board games and watched TV while we were waiting for the storm to stop. And once it did, we ran to my room to get money. Every time she comes over to my house we always buy candies and chips down in the pool area because there is a really nice and cheap store over there. We got all the candies we wanted and then watched a really confusing and weird movie with my sister called "Inception". I didn't really enjoy it because it was about a guy who has dreams inside dreams and they need to solve a problem by getting into many different "stages of dreams". I totally did not understand the end but anyways I watched it all because Leonardo Di Caprio is the main actor and I like him a lot.

After the movie we made us instant noodles and then watched another movie. I've watched that movie 3 times already and I think its really cool and really entertaining. After a few minutes we fell asleep in the couch were we watched T.V. Then the next morning we woke up with our necks swollen, since we slept without pillows. Then we ate breakfast and after that Maria's mom picked her up. We really liked our play day even though we just watched movies.

The next few days I spent them in the pool or shopping at malls and when it was Sunday night I felt a knot in my stomach because it was the day before classes and i didn't want vacations to end. They flowed really fast. But still even though it wasn't a huge vacation I enjoyed it a lot. And anyways we just have one week of classes and then: MALAYSIA WEEK!! I cant wait to go to Langkawi! Its going to be so fun because I am going with Maria, Megan, Laura, Yu Ern, Melody and Julie! We are all in the same class so we really are going to like our trip.

So these were all my Spring Break Adventures, which I loved and I can't wait to have the next vacations to have more adventures to tell you about.

Bye!!

The Giver Lit Cirlce Reflection #4

By reading chapters 16-18 I have seen that Jonas is facing some times of choices and freedom. Here are few reasons.

He is not allowed to give any memory to someone, but every time Gabriel wakes up at night Jonas chooses to give memories expecting him to relax and go to sleep, but even though he does that, I do not think its the best way to calm the baby because he is breaking a very important rule from his job.

He received the giver's favourite memory which was the Christmass memory. This experience helped Jonas understand love, union, happiness and many more beautiful feelings when you are with your family. Jonas is learning more about the "Elsewhere" which I think is the normal world. So maybe having this memories will want him to escape and feel it by himself by being in the normal world. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

The Giver Reflection

Question: Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?


I would say no. I dont think that somebody would like to live like that because they cant choose what they want to do for their lives. An example is the community where Jonas lives in. There everything is planned for everyone, they would receive a name they would grow up with a family unit and then they would have a job at the same age. That is for every single person in there. But in my perspective, I think that its better if you choose your own job and you live your life the way you want it to be.

Its better if you dont have your life planned because then your life would be boring and simple. If you can just experience different things everyday you can learn more about life and you will have more experience that others. If you just follow the same schedule all the time I think you would get tired of being the same as eveyone.

As a result, I think that its preferable to have your own life with our own rules, where you can choose your own and you dont have so many rules as Jonas' community. Maybe later they might change some of the rules because many people are getting tired.

Hope you enjoy my blog!!

iMovie Reflection!

Last week Maria and me presented our Ramses II i Movie presentation and I think we did a good job. They first week we gathered many information from the book and Wikipedia and put all together in a google doc. Next we just arranged all of the information by order.Then in the weekend we finished, by searching for pictures and recording ourselves saying the information. On Monday we had everything done, except for the sources so we worked on that on Monday. Finally on Tuesday we were the first ones to present, because we finished first. We added something extra that was a short comedy movie and I think it was really good.

In our i Movie we looked at the book and we searched in Wikipedia for information about Ramses, this means that we used real facts. We talked about all he did for Egypt and all the monuments he constructed. We chose the right pictures for the presentation thinking about what we were saying through the whole presentation. We tried to be as clear as we could and we deleted any background noise. In the comedy movie we put background music to make it more exciting and entertaining.

After presenting we heard comments and one of them was from Mr. Fischer. He said that for the sources, we needed to go to a special page to site it (MLA form). So that was what we missed, and i need we need to work on that. Another comment was from Ms. Nadaraj , she said that our voices didn't really matched with the pictures, but that was on Monday, so we tried to fix it the best we could.

I think that at the end it was a really good job and we finished at the due date.

City Connections!

Hi

Last class everyone presented their City Connections. This was a presentation where we needed to talk about a city we've lived in and talk about the history and environmental factors that make that city important. I talked about Aguascalientes in Mexico and i think i did a good job making it and presenting it.

Well I think that my presentation was really good. First of all, I read the information, and then looked for pictures and I wrote the information in my own words. The day I presented I felt really nervous but I tried hard and I could do it. I heard all my comments and opinions and they said that I explained all the information really good and that they learned many things of Aguascalientes. So I think I did well in explaining details.

I think that if I do another presentation like this one, I would know what to do to improve. When I heard the students commenting, I always heard the same thing, and it was that I was talking too fast. When I am nervous, I always try to finish faster that is why I speak faster every second. I think that I need to work with my nerves because that can really affect me in my presentations. I need to relax and concentrate, because then they won’t understand what I am saying.

I heard many presentations of other students and I realized that every place it’s important in its own way. For example, some places had many mountains that make that place really beautiful and other places have many rivers that allow the city to have fertile soil. So I think that every place is important, and not just because you don’t know it, you won’t like it.

I think that I followed all the aspects of the rubric in my presentation, because I talked about environmental factors that helped Aguascalientes. I talked about the history of the city and all about the population and climate. In extra, I added many pictures, a video of beautiful places and pictures of hill and rivers. This means that I added more information and I think it was better like that. It was supposed to be 6 slides and above and I did 13 so I think it was a good job.

I am really happy that I could do a good job and I want to do another one soon because I think that the students can learn many things about different places of the world without going there and that is really helpful.

Bye!

Learning Profiles!

Hi!

In this blog post I am going to talk about my learning profile.
My profile is "OO". This means that I am kinesthetic and I use my hands to express my feelings and learn better.

1. I learn best when there is no sound to distract me. When there is any sound or noise I always turn around to know what is that, and that really distracts me from what I am doing. So I prefer to be in a quiet place where I just have what I need to work. I think that when I am concentrated the noise i really annoying.

2. I need to learn how to how to communicate the details. I learned that sometimes I don't explain really well and it's difficult to others to understand what i am saying. I should try to write more and with more details

3. The strategies that would help me in my learning are to be concentrated and to use my body to learn. For example to make puzzles or games.

4. I would like my teachers to know this about me: I like to use my body to learn so I would like to do dynamics to learn in an easier way.

Thank you

My new year's resolutions!

Hi!

In the last new year I had a great moments with my family. Before 12:00 we celebrated and talked about new goals and resolutions for the next year. As always, I had a lot of resolutions for 2010 and here are a few.

RESOLUTIONS:

• To help people with their problems: I really like to help when there is something wrong going on. I will help anyone that needs a hand because doing that you will make really happy that person.
• To be friendly and nice to everyone i know: I like to be friendly and kind to everyone because if they feel sad I can help them by giving them a smile and they will feel better.

GOALS:

• To get better in school: I wil like to have a succesful future so I need to concentrate in school and have good grades to learn the best I can in every class.
• To be more responsible with my homework: I am already responsible when it's about homeworks, but I will like to improve because doing homework will help me to learn and get better.

In this holiday break, i had so much fun with my family and friends. We went to Thailand for 6 days and to Singapore for 3 days.

In Phucket, Tailand we had so much fun because the first day when we arrived we went to the beach and took thousands of pictures! We stayed there until 7:00 when we decided to go back to the hotel and sleep. We spent the next 3 days in the beach swimming until one day my sister was bitten by a jellyfish so she was afraid to go to the beach again. So the next two days we swimmed in the pool and we still had fun. The next day was amazing because we went to a show called "FantaSea" where dancers performed really cool dances and Thailand stories. After that I rode a really big elephant! At the biginning it was scary but at the end I felt so happy and excited.

In Singapore we had fun too. The first day we arrived we went to a tour to different parts of singapore. We went to temples and we saw a big lion looked-like statue. The second day was the best because we went to Universal Studios! It was so cool because there were rollercoasters and water games, that were really exciting. And finally the last day, we went to Sentosa Beach and rode the "Banana" in the sea. We took a lot of pictures in all our vacations. Here are some:

I have a talent that no one knows. I can put my feet behind my head. Some people find it weird, but I think it's really cool.


As a conclusion this holiday was one of the bests of my life and I will never forget it. I feel so lucky to be here and have this kind of opportunities.

Bye!