Archive for December, 2011
Recently we have watched so very interesting shows the most resent was “Can We Go To Mars”. Scientists are working on making us able to go to mars there is still a couple of years left before we can go. If we chose to go now it would take 2.5 years to get there over 1 million pounds of food and would cost a lot. Not only are the trying to make it possible they are trying to make it more comfortable by building better g suites and other things like that. Though we still have a long way to go to mars they have robots there discovering things every day. Many people ask was there life on mars and scientists are finding fossilized bacteria and minerals that are in water. So perhaps there was life once maybe we will live there and find out for sure or maybe it is just a barren wast land.
December 23 2011 | HFHS Science | No Comments »
This week we work on a logarithm and antilogarithm. Which was very hard to do. After banging our heads against it for almost three days our Mom finally helped us. The hardest thing about it was that it was very hard to understand the instructions for this section. When we finally understood how to work it we found that it was not really that hard and we just needed to not think about it so hard. Thanks Mom!
December 23 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
This week we continued the “Ken Burns: The War”. This show, in my opinion is more interesting then the “Ken Burns: Civil War”. Maybe because there is movement and it is more like a video rather then a slide show. It could also be that it is more reliant to the current times then the Civil War is. We learned this week about the the many people that died during the daily bombing raids and how the people at home were adapting to the war. There was also the many losses at the Monte Cassino on the Pacific Coats. The “War Towns” were booming with commerce and there was a lot of discrimination going on against blacks and Japanese and major fighting because of it.
It is very sad to see the number of people that died just during this period of time and the fact that this was only a fraction of the casualties
J,S,&M
December 23 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Yesterday, December 15, we learn on the “Nova Science Now” show that they could grow living organs. It was really interesting how they could use a chemical, commonly found in shampoo, to eat away the cells in the organ that was removed from an animal such as a rat. After this process they would just have a sort of frame work of proteins left over. They use the cells of the other rat that they are going to implant the organ into to grow the tissue. This way the body of the rat will not reject it. They can also do this to most any other organ. Even to the human organs.
They had lungs that they got to breathe on their own and heart to beat on their own. It was truly amazing.
S,J,&M
December 16 2011 | HFHS Science | No Comments »
Wednesday December ,14 ,2011, episode 2 of ken burns World War 2 :
Today we continue the tragic story of WW2. The Americas and British are continuously fighting the Germans and Japaneses. So much war all across the world so many deaths, but through their pain and sadness they push through for God and for country. Thousands of people were dying often so many they do not share the number. In the air 60 men a day die, so they were in constant need of men and fighters. And now the industries boost like a nuclear bomb of industrial revolution came and every one took part. Ford putting out a plain an hour and many other mechanical companies were building war machines, boats,and tanks. They worked faster to build these machines than the enemy could shoot them down.
December 14 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Today we read out of our religion book which was written by Scott Hahn
Chapter two: The Old Testament
We heard about many of the books in the old Testament.
The largest part of what we studied was about History. We Heard about Many prophets that were hated for their foretelling of the destruction of places such as Judah and Jerusalem. We also heard about how many of these books were made and who or what they were contributed to. For example the a book of Wisdom, which its full name is Wisdom of Solomon, is book of praise to wisdom with its long section of hoe patient God is with all of the human follies.
It was interesting to me how they all had their own little description and how I had never thought if any of them
J
December 14 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Chemistry
Today we did a lesson on graph. They wanted us to learn how to plot a line graph and isolate the variables. The Plotting of the line graphs was not very hard. We worked on some other graphs on Monday. On the other hand the work that we did on isolating the variable was strangely very difficult. When we got some help it was made clear to us that it really wasn’t that hard.
The sections were actually called:
Basic Algebra
and
Straight Line Graphing
S&J
December 14 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Today we worked on 3 lessons. The first lesson was about the measure of central tenancy, mean, median, mode, and range. We found it very easy but also very time consuming. The next lesson we worked on was the relationship of angles. This was a new lesson so we found it more intriguing than the others, but still very easy. It taught us how to name certain types of angles and how they pertain one another. The last lesson we worked on was about nets. Nets are the unfolded version of a prism, pyramid, cylinders, or cones. All these lessons were very easy and we feel as if we have successfully completed them.
December 14 2011 | HFHS Math | No Comments »
I have been reading “Lord of The Rings” for quite some time now and I have just recently began the seventh chapter “The Mirror of Galadriel”. I have always had a interest in the movies but never picked up the book then when I started home school I said that will will read it. So far I have been through the Shire to Rivendell then from Rivendell to Moria and now to Lorian the great city of elves. The way Tolkien describes his world makes our world seem so and boring what I have summed up from the lesson in this is even in the darkest hour there is still beauty and light somewhere. I have made that into seek God in you loneliness and grief for he will give you comfort
December 09 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
The book I am reading is by Louis de Wohl. The book is about the life Saint Augustine. I learn about him and all the struggles he faced. The thing that surprised me the most about him was all the good examples he had but he did not believe them and he just followed his own way.
December 09 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
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