Week 2- Getting started

	Week 2 Getting Started-April 11th- 15th	Teacher Notes
Activities	Review Criterion Introduce Bloom’s Taxonomy (Very briefly) Introduce Areas of Interaction Re-evaluate- Topic
Standard and Criterion Met	Criterion A
Completed Task	Criterion activity completed Bloooms activity completed and posted onto blog.	Well Done
To Do List	Select a topic, write a guiding questions

Criterion, Objectives and Skills

Criterion A- understand and respond to questions and statements ask interpretive and evaluative questions

During the discussions, group work and lessons i will ask questions and participate to help my understanding of the topic.

Criterion B-correctly use a range of vocabulary correctly make informative presentations/projects that frame a key question; contain facts and details that help listeners focus, and incorporate more than one source of information (e.g. speakers, books, newspapers, film).

During the discussions, group work and lessons i will ask questions and participate to help my understanding of the topic.

Criterion C- use a format and structure appropriate to the task to organize the work Select a focus, organization, and point of view based upon purpose, audience, length, and format requirements.

I will write the work using different media, correct structure, style to help the reader understand and learn more about my topic.

Criterion D-correctly use a range of vocabulary appropriate to audience and circumstance.

Through writing I will select vocabulary and use grammar correctly in a way that supports my understanding of the topic in different written formats example advertisements, essays, creative writing and presentation. I will carefully edit all my written work for correct spelling so that my message is clear to the audience.

Criterion E-draw conclusions produce summaries of non-fiction texts, accurately conveying the main ideas and supporting details.

Read non-fiction texts (example online articles, websites, books) to demonstrate my understanding of the topic through written summaries containing the main idea and the supporting details.

BEAM Robots

An article from http://knol.google.com/k/anonymous/beam-robotics/1wd8fyof1bwa9/3

What?
This article is about the introduction of BEAM robot.

Who?
This is for people who want to know and learn about BEAM robots.

Why?
So that people will be able to understand easier about BEAM robots.

Nowadays, BEAM robots is one of the most popular types of robots. BEAM stands for iology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanic. BEAM robots is also one of the simplest robots. I have find an article from knol.google.com. This article is about BEAM robots. It talks more about the different types of BEAM robots. Most of the people that read this article is the one that want to know and learn about BEAM robots. This article was made so that people would understand easier about the different types of BEAM robots. By reading this article we could know what BEAM robots is and we will know many different types of beam robots. In this article they talk about Mechanism and principles, Micro controllers, Types, General, the last is Application and current progress.

Romeo and Juliet Journal

Week 1

In the first week there are 3 English lessons. The first and the second lesson that is on Monday and Wednesday I don’t come to school because I’m sick. So on Friday my friend told me that there are English project. My friend told me our project is to make a drama about Romeo and Juliet. My teams are Marcel, Aziz, Nahyeon, Abigail and Henry. Abigail is our team leader. We decided to use traditional version. Our theme is romance. On Friday Abigail with Nahyeon give work to Henry, Aziz, Henry, and myself. All of us will edit the script. Each people are given one Act. Except Marcel and I. Marcel and I do on act3 together. We have to write the script in the Microsoft word and cut the sentence that is not needed. Marcel decided to do on act 1 scene 1 and I decided to do on act 3 scenes 5. Act 3 scenes 3 I’ll do it together with Marcel.

Week 2

On the second week I write the script in the Microsoft word. On Monday I only spend time to write the script. On Tuesday and Wednesday I spend time to edit my script. Until now it has not finish. I’m the only team member that has not done the script editing. Actually, I don’t understand at all what are they saying in the script. I don’t understand many English words in the script. All of my team members are doing well. They are working very hard especially Nahyeon and Abigail. Now I will continue to edit my script.

1. Knowledge- select one characters from the novel “Cold Mountain” who has the qualities of a heroine/hero. List the qualities and tell why you think they are heroic.

 -Inman

-Brave

-Help their friends

2. Comprehension- CONSTRUCT a time line that. summarises what happens in the story “Cold Mountain”.
-Inman meets Aida

-Inman will go to the war

-He really wanted to be in a war

-Inman got shot

-He went back to the Cold Mountain to met Aida

3. Application- THINK of a situation that occurred to a character in the story “Cold Mountain” and write about how you would have handled the situation differently.
-When he helped his friend and he got shot in the neck. I would run first until the enemy ran away then help my friend.

4. Analysis- IDENTIFY general characteristics (stated and/or implied) of one of the main characters and complete the table below.

-Inman don’t think the consequences to be in a war. He don’t think how Aida feels at first he just wanted to have fun at the war but actually it wasn’t fun at all.

Characters Name
Inman

Physical characteristics
Not so tall

skin  color white

Personality
very confident

-or challenges/problems

-Separate with his girlfriend Aida

-He lost his friend that was killed in the war

5. Synthesis- WRITE three new titles for the story that would give a good idea what it is about.

-War

6. Evaluation- DECIDE which character in the selection you would most like to spend a day with and describe why.-INMAN

Because I want to know more details about war and what to do in a war.

Mother tongue day

Mother tongue day is the day where people celebrate their mother tongue language. I will celebrate my Mother Tongue day in my school, Sinarmas World Academy, My mother tongue language is Bahasa Indonesia. This events is so fun, we can know other country's culture. I learn many things from this events. I saw people from Kalimantan, I was shocked when I saw her. Her ears was so longgg!!!!!..... This is the following continent that will be celebrate:

Tuesday- Asia
Wednesday-Europe
Thursday-Oceania
Friday-America

Robots

Robot is one of my hobby. I have studied about Robotics for 5 years, since I was in Grade 6. I find learning about Robotics interesting. Anyone interested in learning about Robotics? If you are interested you can go to Sari Robotics Learning Centre. Sari is one of the robotics learning centre in Jakarta. Please E-mail me back if you want more details about Sari. I've join some of the competition in Indonesia and Singapore. This is one of the best robots I've ever seen:

Soccer

Heyyy, anyone like to play soccer? My favorite soccer team is Barcelona. They played so well against Real Madrid last season. This is the photo of their team:

first row from left= Lionel Messi, Daniel Alves, Xavi Hernandez, Iniesta, Carlos Puyol
second row from left= Thierry Henry, Abidal, Pique, Marquez, Samuel Eto, Victor Valdes