Global collaboration Reflections

Michael Hoover

global collaboration Reflections

Before beginning our collaboration with India and Sweden my global awareness was very low. I did not know that much except from what I learned from the Aow’s (article of the Week). The way that the collaboration with these other people from Sweden and India has raised my level of global awareness in multiple ways. One of the ways is that I learned that some of the games that they play have a different name. The premiss of that game is the same as here  for example Kho Kho is tag in India but here it is called tag. 

My perspective on other cultures have changed in a couple of ways. The way that my perspective changed was I learned that They really aren't that different from us they play basket ball and foot ball like us. Another way that my perspective changed was when the other kids in Sweden talked really good english because I thought that they spoke yiddish. The most interesting thing that I have learned so far was that I Sweden they they were socks at school without shoes. This was the most interesting thing that I thought because in america we don't were just plain socks on our feet because we might step on a nail or a rock so that shows that their school is probably really clean.

Poetry Response

Michael Hoover

Poetry response 

poem: 

Turtle

Kay Ryan

Who would be a turtle who could help it?

A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,

She can ill afford the chances she must take

In rowing toward the grasses that she eats.

Her track is graceless, like dragging

A packing-case places, and almost any slope

Defeats her modest hopes. Even being practical,

She’s often stuck up to the axle on her way

To something edible. With everything optimal,

She skirts the ditch which would convert

Her shell into a serving dish. She lives

Below luck-level, never imagining some lottery

Will change her load of pottery to wings.

Her only levity is patience,

The sport of truly chastened things.

This poem is about a turtle that is being described as small and slow and how it walks around. I think that the reason that the author wrote this was because it informed how the turtle or turtles moved and how they lived and eat. Another reason that the author wrote this poem was because it reminded you of a nice summer day when there was a little turtle grazing around the ground.

The reason that I chose this poem was because it reminded me of when I was little because my dad found a turtle in the alley and even though one of its eyes were gone we still keep him. We also named him baby because he was really small and he liked to eat grass and he chewed really slowly.

Blog for the week of monday, February 11, 2014

Book: Ice Fall
Author: Matthew J. Kirby
Blog By: Michael Hoover    

Prompt: If you cold give any advice to the main character what advice would you give her/him and why.

    If I could give any piece of advice to the main character which is solvieg, what I would tell them would be that they should pay more attention to the people that are known for disobedience they might find their traitor in the midst. The main reason that I would tell them this would be because there is one old man named ole that looks really suspicious and also acts suspicious, he used to serve a different king before he got captured as a slave and now works for a new king.


 Another reason that I would tell them this word of advice is because I noticed that a lot of people acted scared when the Berskers came, the Berskers are men that are skilled warriors and also good allies so they showed up to protect the children for the winter because the father was a war and that means that the traitor was also scared that there were skilled men and hunters in the group of Berskers. The reason that they would be scared is because if one of the Berskers found them out who the traitor was they the traitor would be executed for treason if I was caught for treason I would be scared to death of being killed/executed.

 Prompt 2:  Describe your least favorite character and explain why. Describe your most
favorite character and explain why.

  My least favorite character is Asa. Asa is my least favorite character in the book because she is so set apart from everybody else and she does not socialize she usually just stays in her bedroom. The reason that she does this is because she thinks that it is all of her fault that her father is at war with the enemy but I cant tell why they are at war because you have to read it your self. My favorite character in the book is Harald. Harald is my favorite character in the book because he is fun energetic and perky and thinks that he is a warrior even though he is really young because he is only ten. He likes to act like he is stronger than every one else because he can pick up a war hammer but he cant lift he can only hold it in one place.

Book Talk Blog, Michael Hoover

Book Talk By: Michael Hoover
Book: Ice Fall

Author: Matthew J. Kirby

      The book for this book talk is "Ice Fall" by Matthew Kirby. The genre of this book is mystery and suspense fantasy. The setting of this book is in a huge ravine with only one way out which was through the frozen fjord which was the ocean pass that was frozen for the winter. This story took place a very long time ago when there were dragons, kings, queens, and castles and you had to live off the land such as harvesting crops because there was no Walmart. The main character in this book is solveig. She is the second daughter of the king she might not be beautiful like her sister but she is really smart and resourceful she has light gray hair like a leaf in autumn and a pale face. The struggle that she had to go through was that she had to find what she was which is in total what her part in life would be. She wanted to be a skald, a skald is a worker for the king that tells magnificent stories to him and his men. The challenge about this was that she was of royal blood so she did not know if her father would approve of her being a skald. The reason that she wanted this job because she was good at it and she made every body happy when she told her stories. What I think the mood through out the book was suspicion. I think this because there was a mole that had infiltrated them but they do not know or have any idea who it was all they know was that he, her, or they wanted them dead. I think that the theme of the story was that you can be whatever that you want to be. I think that this was the theme because through out the book the second daughter which was the main character wanted to be a skald so bad but she was royal blood but even though that was in her way she still decided that she wanted to be a skald. 

Aow Gallery walk for 1/30

Prompt: what impressions are you left with after out gallery walk? Please reflect with at least two well written paragraphs using evidence from your graphic organizer. For this week we got to choose the article that we learned about, but it had to be school appropriate and had something to do with the world. Out of all of the articles that I read I thought that Emily's was the most intriguing because it was about drones invading peoples privacy. For example there was one man that was in his bedroom and he hears a buzzing so he looks outside his window and there is a drone hovering just outside his window. That's not even the creepy part it turns out that the drone could take videos and pictures and they could be live streamed which mens that somebody can watch through the video camera while it is taking videos from their phone.

  

Another Article/Aow that I thought was interesting was Sam T's. His Aow talked about how people were trying to convert sunlight into fuel for cars using solar panels on the tops of their cars and he said that they were currently doing tests to figure out what they needed to fix to make it work better. I thought that this was good because with regular cars when people use the fossil fuels they make this toxic gas that flies out into the air and hurts the earths atmosphere. When the car uses solar panels on the top of it there is nothing to burn because it is pretty much electric and this would not release any toxic chemicals into the air.