Binomial Nomenclature

Binomial Nomenclature is a scientific name for a animal.  For example, I made up an animal and I named it Mucraecon Ucraecon because it was a craycon that was mutated, so I took the word Crawcon and made it craecon and added 'mu' to the beginning of that from 'mutant' and made Mucraecon Ucraecon, and that is binomial nomenclature.

The cell is the factory that runs the human body. In order for the cell to live, the Mitochondria make the food for the cell and itself as well. The cells nucleus is the brain and the levers, and the Mitochondria are the gears, pistons, and axles.

If you put them together, they are the up lift for the cell. Without the cell the human body is nothing and is just useless. The one thing that the Animal cell has that the plant cell dose not is the centriole. 

Re: Writing Prompt 10.23.2009

A chord is a straight tune like, ddddeeeoor! And a riff is a 1 2 3 tune like, De,Du,Do. Some of the stiles that I hard sounded like a helicopter, a bubbling sound, and a twanging sound. As far as I know, there are three ways to play a guitar. One way is using your fingers, or using a pick. But one way that most people don’t now is that you can us a thing that is called a finger pick. It is like a thimble that you put on your finger, except it has a pick on the end of it.

10/21/2009 Exit blog

The differents bettwean a plant cell and a Animal cell is that a plant cell has a cell wall and chloroplast and a Animal cell doesn't. The Animal cell has a Centriole and a plant cell dose not.

Ethiopian Essay Draft

Ethiopia has an ancient culture that involves every human on Earth. We are all related in one way and the origin being Ethiopia and Fertile Crescent. Ethiopia has grand food, a different currency from the United States, and it has Ardi.

When you go to  Ethiopia you will see that you can't go to a restront without haveing a Injera. A Injera is a flat sponjy Tortilla. It is made of Teff wich is a graen and salad with spisy chicom that has ground peper, mashed beans and spinich. So when you go to Ethiopia and you like tortillas, make shur to get a Injera.

The hope and dispair of Ethiopia focuses on currency and coffea. In Ethiopia, they have an very old currency called Birr. The sad thing is, is that the value of Birr has gone down drustically. It used to be 10.57 Birrs to = $1.00 US duller, but it now tacks 12.45 Birrs to = $1.00 US duller.                                                                                                                                                                                There is still hope, Ethiopia happens to be one of the places that exports coffea to the USA. Did you knew that Ethiopia farmers invented coffea?

World Peace

By

Nicholas Alden Witty

May 20, 2009

If every person in the world were the same it would be easier for a criminal to get away with a crime, murder, fraud, and theft. So it would be an amazingly scary place for the ones that are not the criminals and the ones that wont to live in a peaceful place.

For a world to have peace there would have to be no criticism and arguing and the acceptance of different religions that they all in term worship the same god. When a religion has a belief that is different from another religion it doesn’t mean that they have to go to war. It just means that they just bereave what they bereave

So if the world where to go into peace that is

The Mysterious Leaf

The Mysterious leaf

By

Nicholas Alden Witty

April 13, 2009

One morning I was watching the leaves fall off the tree in the back yard. "Jack help me" a tiny voice came to sound. "Hay who said that" I called and at that very moment I saw a leaf floating above the ground. At first I thought that the leaf was talking to me but then I saw a little spider trying to hall up that leaf to build its house.

"Can you help me get some leaves up in the tree so I can make my house for the winter." 

"I guess so, do you want certain leaves or do you not car?" 

"The big one with no holes and two leaves that are curved for the roof." 

"The Silent Boy"

THE SILENT BOY

A play adapted from the novel by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry wrote the novel, The Silent Boy, which is known as a historical fiction. A historical fiction is a story where the characters and events are made up – fiction – but it is based on the attitudes and experiences of the people during that period in time – history.

The main character is autistic, which is a form of learning disability. There are various levels of autism from mild to the more severe impaired. Do a search to find out more about autism and how it affects learning. Why would people who didn’t understand the disability have a fear of the person? How would you react if we had a student like that at the Academy? Think carefully about your answers and type them below. Use paragraph form and write in complete sentences.

Go to this link describing Autism
Kids with Autism are likely to respond by screming, fusing, and pouting. Kids with a very rar tipe of Autism called Savants lern to cullp withwhat they got by whoching other people.
The story takes place in 1910 in rural Pennsylvania. “Rural” means in the country rather then in a town. There are many words used during that period that are rarely used now. Using the Internet, find out what these words mean and see if you can find images for them. Cut and paste the image beside the word. For those that do not have pictures, type in a definition. 1910 antiques

Buggy: Horse Derron Buggy

Candlestick telephone: Telephone that looks like a candlestick Holder. 

Party line: A very tall tower 

Grindstone or millstone: Wheels that grind or crush 

Grindstone               Millstone

Ice box: A shed that you us as a refrigerator.

Moving pictures: pictures that move at a fast rate. 

Indoor plumbing: Water that is pumped thought a house.

Sears Roebuck catalogue: Very old catalogues

       1902 Roebucks catalogue       1897 Roebucks catalogue

Horseless carriage: Buggy that has a engine 

As we discussed earlier, this novel is a historical fiction. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took place in 1911 in New York City. Find out about this fire. Write about what happened and how. Then add pictures that will support your story.

The amount of people that died in the fir was devastating. 

All around the street. Body's lay about burning and smothering from people jump out of 20 story windows to escape. 
Still to this day none knows how the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Caught fire and it may never be solved. 



Throughout the play, there will be a collection of enlarged old black and white photographs that you will see upstage behind the actors. I wonder how many things you will recognize.
Photographs were first developed in the mid-1800. When did the first Kodak camera become available and how did that affect the history of photography.

The"A","B",and "C" Ordinary darckroom loaded film Kodak cameras where soled from 1891-1895 and the "C" was $6.00, "B" was $10.00, and "A" was $15.00 and the "A" is the one in the pitcher above.  

Before the Kodak camera came out people would take pitchers that are very blurry. The Kodak's had a lens that was adjustable so you could take a pitcher thats not blurry.    

In the play, Dr. Thatcher makes a number of statements that give you clues into what photography was like 100 years ago:
All right, …now don’t move…that’s it…hold it.
Don’t move or you’ll blur the image.
Looks like we’re losing the light. Might be our last chance to get that picture.
What can you tell from these statements?
It was very very heard to take a very good photo of someone. 


“Characterization” is a literary term for the ways in which a reader or audience learns about a character. The character is revealed through their speech, actions, appearance, thoughts, etc.

• The actor who plays Jacob has very few lines and those he does speak are only sounds that the character makes, not words. How, then, does the audience learn about his character?
  

People leaving in the present who learn about how people behaved in the past are often upset or disturbed by attitudes and actions that they now know are wrong. For example, think about your reaction to how the blacks were treated in the south in the 1800’s.

In “The Silent Boy”, the attitudes toward Jacob reflected the fear and misunderstanding of individuals who suffered a variety of developmental, emotional and mental disabilities. It was rare that a family would admit their child had autism and many children who were autistic were placed I institutions like the asylum referred to in the play.

Here are some lines from the play that talk about what an asylum is and how people feel about Jesse:

Katy: What’s that word mean – asylum?
Doctor: Dictionary says it’s a “place of protection”
Katy: But the people inside are locked in, right?
Doctor: They’re not allowed to leave, yes.
Katy: So it’s sort of a place that protects us from them.
Doctor: Well…some could be dangerous to us; but most are just dangerous to themselves.


Peggy: And don’t you be goin’ anywhere near that insane asylum place either, ya hear?! Or I’ll be telling your mother! That place is enough to give ya nightmares, it is! Don’t know why they don’t just tear it down.

Jessie: Something’s not right with that boy! My father says he’s a menace – and a danger to this town-and he should be locked up!

These lines express outdated attitudes. How have attitudes about autism and other illnesses have changed over the years?

At The Zoo

Nicholas Alden Witty

March 13, 2009

Today I will be going to the zoo to look at all the different animals. It cost $2.00 to get in. When I got in I saw no animals in cages, but kids in cages. Then suddenly two guards grabbed me,  and one guard whistled and then I could see the horrifying mutant animals eating the kids that were in the cages with them.

The two guards dragged me to a cage with 5 horses in it. One guard said, (looks like your the lucky one today) then they threw me in the cage. At first I thought that the horses would eat me alive but then the second guard said (they wont hert you) at that I was releved until he said (but the meat grinder will chop you and thoes horses up). At that I hard a low wrrooommmm noise.

Suddenly, the floor started to open up, it was then the two guards started to laght. I saw the first horse fall into the pit, and to my hora the horse was slised as if it was water. then I saw that the cage door was not locked so in a split second I jumped on one of the horses backs and the horse semed to now what I was doing and kicked the door open with it front legs and I galupped away on that horse with the other horses right behinned me. Till this day I never go to a zoo to look at animals. Insted I see animals on a farm. As you probably gest I raes horses on a farm in the country.

Monday, March 16 Reading

Plants on the Arctic Tundra
By Sheri Skelton

Not many plants grow on the arctic tundra. The winter is long and cold. The summer is short so plants don't have very much time to grow. The plants grow quickly, though,
because during the summer the sun shines for almost 24 hours a day. Below the surface, the ground is always frozen. This is called permafrost. Above the permafrost, water can't soak into the frozen ground. The soil above it is always wet. Plants with long roots can't grow on the arctic tundra. There are no trees but mainly little bushes, grasses, mosses,
and lichen. Mosses like the wet ground. The mosses spreading across the tundra are like soft green sponges. Lichen are really two living things that help each other. One of these
is called an alga. It makes food for the other living thing called a fungus. Lichen don't have any roots at all but grow on rocks on the tundra. Some lichen look like lace. Other lichen look like hair. Mosses and lichen are food for many of the tundra animals.

Questions: Highlight the correct answer
1. What helps plants on the arctic tundra grow quickly during the summer?
A. There is lots of rain during the summer.
B. The temperature is very cool.
C. The ground is very good for growing all kinds of plants.
D. The sun shines for almost 24 hours a day during the summer.

2. Why can't plants with long roots grow on the arctic tundra?
A. because the ground below the surface is always frozen
B. because the ground is too wet
C. because the summers are too long
D. because the summers are too dry

3. What kinds of plants grow on the arctic tundra?
A. little bushes
B. grasses
C. mosses
D. all of the above

4. What is true about lichen?
A. Lichen grow only in water.
B. Lichen can only be seen at night.
C. Lichen don't have any roots.
D. Lichen are bright red in color.

Find pictures of 4 different lichens below and label them.











Picky Michael
By Kathleen W. Redman

Michael has breakfast at school. Today he had oatmeal, baked apples, ham, toast, and
milk. He hated his breakfast!
Michael wanted scrambled eggs every day. He did not want oatmeal.
Michael wanted bacon every day. He did not want ham.
Michael wanted biscuits every day. He did not want toast.
Michael wanted orange juice every day. He did not want baked
Michael is a very picky eater.
Michael told his teacher. "Breakfast was yucky," he said. "I did not eat my breakfast."
"I am sorry you did not like it," his teacher said. "Now you will be hungry. It will be hard for you to do your work."
"I do not care," Michael said. "I will not eat that stuff!"
The class learned about fractions. Michael daydreamed about a pizza cut in eight pieces. "Mmmm...That would be good!" he thought.
The class read a book about green eggs and ham. Michael daydreamed about eggs and
good!" he thought.
The class planned a big party. Michael daydreamed about cookies and cake. "Mmmmmmm....That would be so good!" he thought.
Michael was so hungry. Everything sounded good to eat. Even oatmeal might be good. Maybe toast was okay. Baked apples could be tasty.
Michael did not feel so picky now.
His teacher was right. How could he think about school? All he could think about was food!
Tomorrow he would not be so picky. Tomorrow he would eat his breakfast.
He might even eat oatmeal someday!

Questions
1. What kind of fruit did Michael have for breakfast?
A. strawberries
B. baked apples
C. orange slices
D. pineapple bits

2. What kind of bread did Michael have for breakfast?
A. toast
B. muffins
C. biscuits
D. bagels

3. Michael does not like
A. biscuits
B. scrambled eggs
C. bacon
D. ham

4. What did Michael want for breakfast?
A. fried fish
B. French toast
C. Scrambled eggs
D. Pancakes

5. In math class Michael daydreamed about
A. playing football
B. eggs
C. fractions
D. pizza

6. Michael got very
A. silly
B. hungry
C. sad
D. angry

7. All Michael could think about was
A. Dr. Seuss
B. food
C. horses
D. going to sleep

8. What is the best reason to eat breakfast?
A. Breakfast is fun.
B. Eggs are better than hamburgers.
C. Your body will not work very well without breakfast.
D. Pancakes taste good.

Find a recipe for pancakes. Write it below.


What is your favorite breakfast? Describe it in complete sentences.

The Magic Flute part 2

Each character is described in the questions below. To begin this assignment first carefully read all questions. Please choose and then answer 5 questions. Use your memory ONLY of what you recall about the people and events you saw in The Magic Flute. Do NOT use outside materials such as notes, web pages, books, etc. Have your 5 answers completed by Friday morning. Friday afternoon we will review ALL the questions and answers.

1] At the opera’s beginning we see, Tamino, the handsome young prince asking to be protected from what? fire breathing lizard 

2] Papageno, the singing bird-catcher, sings a song telling us about his job catching birds and that he is a happy man. After Tamino awakes from his deep sleep, the bird-catcher tells the prince that it was he, Papageno, who saved his life. Was Papageno telling the truth? no What happens to Papageno next? He was cought and was punished by having his lying mouth looked up.

                                                       

3] Both Tamino and Papageno are given magical instruments. Tamino is given a flute and Papageno is given a bell. How did Tamino and Papageno use their magic?  ? I don't remember 

4] The handsome prince Tamino has fallen in love with princess Pamina who is being held captive by the jealous and greedy Monostatos. Who sent Tamino to rescue the princess and why?

5] Tamino is given four tests by Sarastro, the royal guard at gate of wisdom. If Tamino is successfully and passes each test, he will have earned the love of his princess, Pamina. Name 3 of Tamino’s tasks. wind, water, fire, and silence

6] Re-invent the story of Pamina an Tamino. What characters will you meet? What form of magic will you be given? What tasks might you face?

7] Is there a moral to the story? Explain, as best you can, what this moral might be.

8] Draw one (or more) of your favorite scenes in The Magic Flute” with as much attention to detail (color, costumes, characters, and people) as possible. Explain to at least three people what happened in the scene you are drawing.

9] List the events that you remember most about the performance of The Magic Flute. What did you enjoy most? Why?

The Magic Flute part 1

Students will be returning to the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire on Tuesday, March 10, 2008 to view a performance of "The Magic Flute". 

To better understand the nature of this work Ms. Hanson has provided you with some questions. Mr. Merrill will help you use Blogger to record your answers. Begin this assignment by carefully reading ALL questions listed here first. Mr. Merrill will then suggest some useful tools and a proper strategy to help you with this.

Section 1


Q: What kind of performance is "The Magic Flute"?

A: Opera


Q: Who is its author?

A: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 


T or F: As a youth this author was considered to be almost talentless and had few or no recognizable skills whatsoever.


Q: Is "The Magic Flute" a Myth, Fable, or Fairy tale?

A: Myth/Fairy tale


Q: What differences are there between these 3 forms of story telling? 

A: Fable involves the lesson learned through animals, a fairy tale is a traditional fantasy story

and a myth is based on gods and Heroes which try to explain why people are the way they are.

Please given an example of each


Myth: Hercules

Fable: Narnia

Fairy Tale: Cinderella



Please define the following words:


Allegory: poem

Opera: dramma

Singspiel: German light opera

Libretto: the text of an opera


Section 2


There are many different styles of singing. A persons singing voice is often defined as a "range". Please select the correct range for each style of singing voice:

A high female singing voice:

Soprano • Tenor • Bass

The highest male singing voice:

Countertenor • Contralto • Baritone

The lowest female singing voice:

Mezzo-Soprano • Countertenor • Contralto

The most common type of male singing voice:

Baritone • Baritone Bass • Tenor

The most common type of female singing voice:

Tenor • Mezzo-Soprano • Baritone Bass

The lowest male singing voice:

Baritone Bass • Baritone Base • Bass

Section 3


“The Magic Flute” was originally written in the German language. Here are some German words and phrases. Using an on-line German/English Dictionary, see if you can translate the following words:



Bitte: ask


Danke: thanks


Guten Morgen: Good mornings


Schule: Train


Bleistift: pencil


Stuhl: chair


Fenster:  




Now an Extra Credit Challenge!
See if you can translate the following German phrases:



Koennen Sie mir britte sagen wo die Toiletten sind?
Can they to me please say where the toilets

Wann hast du Geburtstag?
Are when have you birthday

Die Oper uberraschte!

The opera sir pried

Plugging In

Mural Arts

1st draft of our mural design!

Person:

Place:

thing:

Paul Bunyan wears a red & black plaid shirt and under that he wears suspenders. Paul wears very thick green pants & spiked leather  boots. To keep his head warm he wears a red & white plaid hat with a fuzzy ball on top. And to chop down the trees he uses a two-sided ax. To get the pine pitch out of his hair and whiskers, he pulls up a tree and uses the tree as a comb and combs it out.       

Balla Kouyaté & World Vision

Balla Kouyaté is one of the greatest balafon players from the Djeli or “griot” tradition in Mali. In the African tradition the Djeli is a historian, musician, dancer and performer who has the task of reminding the community of its traditional greatness, and of the accomplishments of those who have come before.

I didn't like the music. Because it was music that I don't like and it made me go to sleep and it was boring. But I think that the instrument being used in the picture is very tradition for his country.