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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

BP3 QTR4

1. What topic/unit are you covering?
I am covering citizenship in america.

2. What new information have you learned?
I have learned more about the citizenship processes, and the classes.

3. What are you creating to help answer the EQs?
I am creating an imovie about the citizenship process, and how you can become a citizen.

4. What creative ideas do you have to address the vocabulary?
I am going to use them in comic life's and some comics.


5. How is your project coming along? Are you spending enough time on it?
So far i have been usinng my time wisely, and making sure that i use the laptop's when they are availible.


6. What is going well, and what do you need to improve?
Everything is going fine, but i need to improve on how much time i spend on this at home.

Friday, April 8, 2011

BP2 QTR4

1. What topic/unit are you covering?
I am working on American Citizenship.

2. What new information have you learned?
I am just starting the questions.

3. What are you creating to help answer the EQs?
I am going to create a ToonDoo, and I am going to look up appropriate videos on Youtube.

4. What creative ideas do you have to address the vocabulary?
I am going to make comic life's with definitions, Imovies, and cool Toondoo's.

5. How is your project coming along? Are you spending enough time on it?
Good i finished copy/pasting all the questions onto all of my pages. I think that i am spending enough time on it i just need to work on it at home.

6. What is going well, and what do you need to improve?
So far getting my questions on there and making sure i have everything is going well. I need to improve my spelling, and hanling my time, making sure i have everything i need and taking my time to do it.

Monday, February 7, 2011

BP2 QTR3: Wall-E(conomics)


The Disney movie Wall-E links to economics in many  different      ways. The small planet of Earth is empty only robots named Wall-E remain. The humans left the world over-dveloped, and full of trash. All the humans are on a space ship, they consume more than they did on the Earth. In a fight to get back to our home planet they discover how developed the ship really is. They don't know what developing  countries look  like. When  they get back to Earth it hits them how bad they hurt there home, no oceans, and no trees.
Econmics say that Wall-E was a attempt to scare people about pollution and urban sprawl, showing that these scenes were taking place. I think that this is just what could happen if we let it. I don't agree with them fully Disney was not looking to scar people, but to inform them about

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

BP 1 QTR3: T-Shirt Travels Reaction Paper

I have picked questions 1,2, and4 to answer.

The narrater learned about Zambia's second hand clothing business when she first arrived in the Country. She found out that 95% of The Salvation Army's second hand clothing was being sold to dealers. These dealers were then selling them to Zambian shop owners to sell. She wanted to let everyone know where their clothing was really going so she made the documentary T-shirt Travels. Luka is one of the shop owners that sell these clothes. He always asks to pick out his own bale to make sure it is a good set. A good set will make him a better profit and help buy food for his cousins, brothers, sisters, and mother. He did not have the money to finish school when he was younger and started to get in trouble. Luka doesn't want the same future for his family.

The Salvation Army sells most of the used clothes that are donated, to the dealers that then ship them to Africa. Second hand clothes is America's biggest export to Africa.in these exchanges the dealers make the most money because of how many Africans buy the bales. Africans cannot manufacture their own clothing because of how big the second hand clothing business really is. The business shut down all of the their clothing factories. Africans now depend on America for their clothing.

Some Africans think America is great and love us very much, but others think that all we want is money. They believe this because of the second hand clothing industry.