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6th Grade, Projects, Ted talk

My TED Like Talk

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In Language Arts class we recently got the challenge of creating our own TED talk. We had to choose and research a topic of our choice, make a slideshow, and present to the class. We worked on our TED talks for a couple weeks then came some of the first presentations. Here, I will tell the story about how my TED talk came to life.

Choosing a topic was the most difficult part, I ended up choosing “How to take a penalty kick in soccer.” I started off strong, researching and finding images for my talk and making what I thought was good progress. I finished my slides but had no idea what to say yet. I thought it was going great until I saw people already signing up to present. After this I worked extra hard and finished writing down what I had to say, know all I had to do was practice saying it.

Saying what I had to say was going to be the hardest part. I practiced over and over again until I had it down. Then, when I felt ready signed up to present. I kept practicing with some of my peers and they gave me feedback. Then it was time for me to present.

I had butterflies in my stomach, my body was shaking when I was pulling up my slideshow. I began my first line and just kept going through my slides like I had practiced. Then after what felt like two seconds, I was finished. What I thought would be super scary was ended up being fine. This project was super fun because I was able to be creative about a topic I was passionate about. Thanks for reading.

 

6th Grade, Book making, Ideal World, Planet, Projects

What’s Happening in Language Arts Class

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In Language Arts class we recently read a book called “The Last Cuentista” by Donna Barba Higuera. This book told about a girl named Petra  who was forced to leave her home on earth and travel to a planet named Sagan. A group called the collective ran this mission and to eliminate all recognition of Earth they erased their memories during the time on the spaceship. But Petra’s brain wiping didn’t  work, so she must pretend to be part of the collective to survive. Petra is also trying to bring people back their memories of Earth and to bring her stories to this new world. This was a really fun book to read and had plenty of excitement.

After reading about how Petra had to leave to go to a new planet, we decided to make our own dream planet. Our ideal world project consisted of writing about our planet in a creative way, and  drawing our planet. I made my ideal world based around my favorite sport, Soccer, for example my planet looked like a giant soccer ball. There was a lot of detail we had to put into making our planet like what animals live there, how the government works, and what types of plants are on your planet. I liked being able to create my own planet because it allowed me to be super creative.

After we had finished making our ideal planet we made them into little pop-up books. We did akua ink printing on pieces of paper then made them into collages. We made a scene from our planet and made a fold up window to it and glued our ideal world writing to the inside of the book. We put on hard covers and wrote the name of our planet out by cutting paper into letters. We finished our books and put them on display.

We have had a lot of fun projects in Language Arts class and I hope you enjoyed reading about them. 

 

6th Grade, Projects

Wisdom Tale Rap

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William and I partnered up for our Wisdom Tale project. The wisdom tale we chose was “A Monk with Heavy Thoughts” and we presented it in a rap.
Rap lyrics:

beat x2  Two zen monks walked on a muddy road [beat] but when the elder monk saw a woman! Scooped her up and walked over, puddle! [beat]  hours and hours and hours and hours lateeer![beat]  the younger monk said (PAUSE)  We dont touch dem woman [beat] the elder monk says    why then hours and hours and hours and hours later! [beat] why are u still carryin her. (Say ohhhhhhhh)

bold is Terrick’s lines.

non bold is William’s lines.