Daniel+M

=Quarter 1=

Who are you?
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Photo portrait
I took this photo because I wanted to show you my personality which is I really love to play all kinds of sports. Those four in the picture are some of my favorite sports. I took it this way because I think it's creative. The background doesn't really mean anything. I didn't really pick a background. I just went to a place I feel good.



Task 2
Our class finally finished. Everyone just rushed out of the classroom and started to walk fast and complain, “Class finally ended. I am starving. Let’s go” and a poor depressed student holding hands tight seems ready to fight, “I can’t believe we have a test that’s impossible.” As people talked on their way, we finally enter the food warehouse to treat our noses, mouths and stomach. The AC is shooting ices everywhere, we exercised and we suddenly entered this AC place just feels like being put in a fridge. The food is warm that’s the fire in the snow. Then this place got loud like some crescendo in our band. More and more people came into the cafeteria. Everyone is getting different food. The line is getting long. But guess what, I don’t care!!! I have ordered my lunch already. But my friends are faster. They are already eating. Everyone suddenly have smile on his or her face when it comes to food. Most boys are eating with incredibly fast speed. The first moment the food is there. The next moment it’s gone. This is what he says, “I didn’t eat breakfast. I got up late so I need to catch the bus.” The most exciting time for a day without any ASA is the lunch time. Not how awesome the food is. It’s the feeling to get with your friends and play chess after finishing lunch.

Task3
EAGLEs our sports team name

Powerschool system to check grades and sculdule

China Alive Middle activity to engage in China for their culture and people

The Lounge/Orange Couch Room (OCR)

Library Lecture Hall (LLH) The hall in front of the library

Spirit Week week of activities

Pep rally gathering in gym

STUCO student council

Block schedule Your schedule of on day

Animal Rescue A club that helps the animal

ASA After school activity

APAC Asia pacific athletic competition

Roots and Shoots A club that plants stuff

Habitat for Humanity A club studying humanity

IB International Baccalaureate

AP Advanced placement

Equitrac Printing system

PTSA

Freshman 9th grade

Sophomore 10th grade

Junior 11th grade

Senior Graduating group

Task 5
The teacher I interviewed is Ms. Chung, who teaches Asian study and IB economics. She came here mainly because her parents lived here. With three years of observation and teaching in SAS, she thinks SAS is a big school with trusted and positive student body. She is been teaching for a long time, and has ten years of teaching experience. As a teacher, her opinion for a good way to be a good student is just to be yourself. In other words, hold your dreams.

Task 3
After doing the test, I found out that I'm a VK learner. Which means Vision and Kinetic learner. So, when learning I am good at looking and trying. So, maybe when reading or listening, I might not listen to the instruction so well and I skip or just ignore some of the important stuff when the things are required listening or reading.
 * I should always go for an experiment when don't know how to solve something.
 * Solve things by listing everything out and take a look at them.
 * Always pay attention when teacher is giving instruction require listening or reading.
 * Try to communicate more with other people and have discussion
 * my main preference is kinetic, so take advantage or that. If able to choose a way to learn, go for kinetic.

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After one month of learning and experiencing life in SAS. I found SAS not only is very different from many places I've been but also has it's own unique aspects. SAS is a big school with a campus thats takes forever just to walk around. There are also students from many different background and different countries. SAS provides some very valuable resource such as college visit, Star test, NWEA test, Map test, and pre-SAT to help you to know better about yourself and helps you to make some important decision in the future. There are tons of clubs and sports team to join. And there are programs such as the writing center and peer tutoring in order to help students to improve in many different kinds of area.

I learned a lot just for two months of time. I learned how to do well in SAS, which many teacher believe is to organize time better. The learning style helps you to know what hind of person you are and try to improve the weakness according to the AIR learner rubric. I should always go for an experiment when don't know how to solve something.Solve things by listing everything out and take a look at them. Always pay attention when teacher is giving instruction require listening or reading. Try to communicate more with other people and have discussion. my main preference is kinetic, so take advantage or that. If able to choose a way to learn, go for kinetic. Those are my learning strategies. One of the most important key thing to be successful in high school is to plan ahead because leave the homework to last minute is not the best thing to do and it can totally destroy your grades if it's a last minute assignment since the time is limited and once the time is limited and you kind of just rush through it then it will have bad quality. I would try to listen to the teachers carefully when the teacher is talking about homework. It would be stupid if you didn't do your homework because you didn't hear it. It would also be cool for people like me to double-check with friends to make sure nothing is wrong and miss no homework!!!

Music monday:

=Quarter 2=

My Bilingual Storytelling Project


=Q4=

Listening
In P.E class, people always ask questions to Mr. Hill. The word “right” has two meanings. When “right” answers where, it means the direction. When “right” answers whether, it means correct. In science class, we have to build an electric airplane. I understand that we have to use the knowledge we know from class to construct a circuit at first, and then we need to connect it to a motor and make it spin. And finally, we need to put the motor into the airplane. And the best performance would be the fly high, steady, and far. A: technical report because it says “this research” and “the practice” and it also contains some scientific words. B: poem. It is short and has a lot of sound device. C: Shanghai newspaper, because it says “shanghai Renji hospital” meaning it’s probably reported in shanghai because he assumes that everyone knows the hospital and the professor is in shanghai too. D: international newspaper. It says “China” meaning it’s not written by a Chinese and it’s also talking about negative things about China. It is telling everyone how is China like meaning for everyone, so it’s international. E: blog entry because it’s not in formal language such as “sort of” and “generally” and it sounds like it’s written in someone’s perspective that is not very professional in this area. //Overall, stage 13 is way easier than stage 18. Because the highest point in stage 13 is about 170 meters, however, the highest point in stage 18 is about 1800 meters. Which is 10 times higher than stage 13. The graph on stage 13 looks very flap. It has very little bumps and the bumps and only the small bumps that are easy. However, stage 18, there are three very big bumps that stands out, it’s not possible to ignore it. One of the hardest and tallest and most challenging mountain in this stage have to climbed twice which makes it harder again.//
 * L1: I can distinguish between multiple meanings of oral words or phrases in social and academic contexts **
 * L2: I can analyze content-related tasks or assignments based on oral discourse **
 * L3: I can categorize examples of genres read aloud **
 * L4: I can compare traits based on visuals and oral descriptions using specific and some technical language **

//speaking//
In our English class persuasive speech(I got 91% on it), my quote was “death is milder fate than tyranny.” I disagree with this quote. My evidence is that people do not have courage to commit suicide and the fact that the human instinct always tells them to try the hardest to survive over die. In English class we have to read books. I was able to compare between first person point of view “//Z for Zacharian”// and third person point of view “//Fahrenheit 451”//. Where first person point of view helps the reader understand the main character, Ann, well and make us have sympathy towards the main character. On the other hand, third person point of view helps the reader to understand all characters evenly and helps to create irony because it's easier for surprising things to happen since we don't know. In Asian history, we had to watch videos about the Cultural Revolution in China, I was able to explain to both my groups and tablemates what happened in the video, what’s important and what we should take notes on. In EAL, we need to judge on whether the main character’s decision in a book is right or wrong. I judged Santiago in “old man and the sea”. I think he made the wrong choice where he tried to get the fish because he not only hurt himself badly, but also only got the skeleton. media type="file" key="voki.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * S1: I can take a stance and use evidence to defend it **
 * S2: I can compare and contrast points of view **
 * S3: I can explain content-related issues and concepts **
 * S4: I can analyze and share pros and cons of choices **
 * S5: I can use and respond to gossip, slang, and idiomatic expressions **
 * S6: I can use speaking strategies (e.g., circumlocution) **
 * One day James said a word that I do not understand. He made a gesture to try to make me understand. In order to make sure, at the end a found a synonym and finally I understand the word **

// reading //
// In my book talked I compared between “number the stars” and “Night” because both of those main characters shared the same experience which are both talking about the child during WWII. // In English, we did some poetry. I had to infer meaning of the text, “then even the monsters we defy shall be constrained to honor us through dead!” I didn’t know what constrain is. replaced it into “then even the monsters we defy shall be forced to honor us through dead!” In Romeo and Juliet Cause: “Romeo and Juliet are in two different families who hates each other, and they love each other.” Effect: “ Therefore, it’s hard for those two people to get married since it’s too hard and eventually they can’t make so they killed themselves.” In Asian history class, I analyzed the graph showing the death for both Japan and American. In the graph, the death of Japan in different battles are 10 times more than the death of US. Therefore I concluded that it’s worth for Japan to surrender, so it can prevent more people to die.
 * R1: I can compare/contrast authors’ points of view, characters, information, or events **
 * R2: I can interpret visually- or graphically-supported information **
 * In Asian history, I was able to trust the website because after I read it, I found many of those facts similar(almost the same) to the other websites. Which means I can trust the information and use it and at the end make an annotated bibliography.**
 * R3: I can infer meaning from text **
 * R4: I can match cause to effect **
 * R5: I can evaluate usefulness of data or information supported visually or graphically **

//writing//
//In Asian history, I was able to revise my process paper based on Mr. Stelzer’s reflection. I fixed my grammar, I explained my points more clearly and I added my evidence to support my idea.//
 * W1: I can summarize content-related notes from lectures or text **
 * In physics class, I took notes about the concepts about electricity. I was able to write down what the teacher says in class and at the end summarize it. **
 * W2: I can revise work based on narrative or oral feedback **
 * W3: I can compose narrative and expository text for a variety of purposes **
 * I wrote a bilingual book in EAL to share my bilingual experience with other people. **
 * W4: I can justify or defend ideas and opinions **
 * In the Asian history, my topic is “Is Qinghai’s environment getting better?” My evidences are: the size of the lake doubled. Speed Desertification has slowed down and High quality grassland has been reformed. **
 * W5: I can produce content-related reports **
 * In physics, we have to produce a lab on how to design a motor. I was able to make it clear to the reader on how to design a motor clearly, as a result, I got a 92% on it. **