Typing Tracker

For this entire year the eight grade class typed for several minutes each day in a program called Typing Master. This really improved all of our abilities specially mine. Since I started to type in class I made about 7 words a minute. That is slow for a an eight grader. But later i kept improving each time I had a test and now I can type 26 words a minute. This improvement didn't only help me in this class but also in other assignment I do like paragraphs for English. I do think that having this for ninth grade would be a great idea but not the whole year. You see, if we have this for half of the year we will still improve but if we do it the whole year the excitement of the students will decrease and they would not put effort in them. This typing tests really improved also improved my reading and I think this will help me in the future.

Graphs

Okay so as told before the grade eights had their Map testings for Math, Languaje, and Readings. So first in Math I used a normal and straight line to show the ups and downs in a more direct and easy way. Its easier because it doesnt have difficult and unecesary designs. The second one that is of languaje is in 3D. I used this to make it a little more enjoyable. And since the line is not vertical but a little bit curved, this fits exactly for the effect of 3D. Since I improved so much in my reading tests I used a line with some sort of checkpoints which help the person who is whatching it see how I improved. I also made different graphs because it would be boring to have the same things and mr Mark assigned like that.

Oil spill

As many of you have noticed we as humans are affecting the environment around us. This can be harmful but not lethal as the topic discussed today. As many of you know a few months ago( Exactly April 20) an oil spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico near Lousiana. This occured in an oil rig called Transocean Deepwater Horizon. This caught on fire but affortunately the 116 of 127 crew members that were there escaped. The total number of gallons of oil that were released to the sea were 200,000. This spill became a huge threat to humanity. First, the water became polluted. This also affests the animals that live near or in it. Some examples that appear in the website are seaguls, fish and other birds.


This oil spill is a big deal and it will have serious concsecuences. Experts know are trying to recolect some of this oil so it doesn´t spread to other coasts but this takes time and the spreading is fast. ( There are some pictures of the methods use in the link in the first pargraph.) I think this recolection is a good idea but its not very effective. This oil can´t be totally moved so there is nothing to do but stopping the oil extraction in oceans. We all have to think of the future of humans. There is a possibilty that future civilizations will not enjoy the ocean as we do, maybe the ocean will be so contaminated that it can´t be touched. Imagine that two-thirds of the Earth can´t be lived on. the occurence of this leak has to eancourage people to make a change.

MAP testing

This week of May we had Map tests again. These annoy me because they take so long and they don't really make much sense. First, they ask us things that have nothing to do with what we have studied or they ask us things we learned centuries ago. This time I wasn't in the mood to do this tests but I did kind of good. I got 239, 231, and 229 in math, language , and literature. I think I didn't reach my goal for the scores but i am sure that in the next test I will do better. If I could do this test I would taken my time to do it and get a better mark on it. The best thing of this tests is that there are over. The web page for map testing is NWEA an the URL for the picture is http://images.ukcs.net/14709/map_test_billboard~0.jpg.