The latest project that i did in humanities was on the renaissance. The renaissance was a time in Europe that brought about great changes to society, how things worked and how war was waged. The main goal of this project was to learn about the renaissance, its important people, works of art and inventions. Once we had learned about these things we had to write a paragraph on the change that came out of the renaissance that we thought was the most important and we had to make a tryptic comparing how things and inventions work now compared to how they worked back in the time of the renaissance.
The thing that i chose to write m paragraph on was the musket, you can see that below this paragraph. The main points that i talked about in my paragraph were how the musket was important in the renaissance, how it brought about change and how it is important nowadays. I think that the musket is the most important thing to come out of the renaissance because it changed and affected the lives of so many, i think that make it the most historically significant things to come out of the renaissance. For a more detailed account of this check out the actual paragraph, which is below here.
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There are many important people inventions and concepts to come out of the renaissance and after doing some reading about different things in the renaissance i think that the most important thing that came out of the renaissance is the musket, a ancient muzzle loaded precursor of the modern gun.
So the musket was not the first firearm to come out of the renaissance it is the second after the harquebus. The musket came out of Spain, but would be used all over Europe. The musket was used all over Europe but why was it used so much? Well it was used because it did not require as much training to use as the bow or the crossbow, as they train from a very young age, whereas the musketeer would train for a month or two. An other reason why it was used was because it could be shot much harder than any arrow and it could pierce much stronger armour than any bow as during the renaissance stronger armour was starting to be forged.
The musket has gone through many changes and advancements, some during the renaissance and some after the renaissance, which prove that the musket is historically significant. Anyways what changes has the musket gone through: so i started as the heavy arquebus, then eventually became light and became the musket. About fifty years later the flintlock musket was a thing, but there was not true flintlock muskets till the seventeen hundreds.
Why the musket was so important in its time period. It was important because masses of people could be trained to use it, so it was very common to be used, it was important because it could combat the evolving armour of the era, as it was getting much tougher, so the average crossbow or bow could not pierce it, making one of the most viable weapons to be used and it could be used in mass making it very appealing
but why was the musket historically significant? Well first we need to know what the definition of historical significance: significant events including those that resulted in great change over a great period of time for large numbers of people. So the musket did this by changing how warfare worked and works currencies by changing how people could kill each other, it changed how projectiles could go through the armour at the time. It also after creat numbers of people by having them killed by someone using the gun/ musket. And finally an other argument on why it is historical significant, it has won wars, as in a war whoever is more Technologically farther will probably win the war.
Why the musket is relevant to today? The musket is relevant today because it is the ancient predecessor to the gun and in some part the rocket which are very important and relevant weapons of war today because they are used by almost all country when it come to war. War is still a modern concept as the conflict in Ukraine proves, so the fact that the musket evolved in to the modern gun make it important. The final reason is that it has been produced in mass making it relevant.
Sources: Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britainca.
The other things that we had to do in this class was make a tryptic. But what is a tryptic? A tryptic is a image with three panels, and we used the different panes to represent different times. So in my tryptic which you can view here i used photos to demonstrate the differences between now and the renaissance and how it changed how we do things now, one example if this is i put a picture of Copernicus and Neil deGrass Tyson to represent how things have changed between now and the renaissance. If you want a better idea of how i did this, look at the tryptic here.
But what was the point of all of this? Well the point was to learn how to demonstrate historical significance, what is historically significant and why it was important. The other reason was to learn how make a tryptic, how to use the app SuperimposeX to make and edit the images. That was the point of this project.
So what is the working with word project that we did and how does it relate to the ebook post that talks about poems that i published earlier? Well this post will explain that and what this project was about.
So this project was about poetry. What is the definition of poetry though? Well the definition of poetry is: literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. So what that mean is poetry is not a thing it is just word that people give meaning to. And please don;t just go down in to the comments below and tell me that that all books are the exact same way because this is different ok? Anyways so now that i have voiced my opions i can get on to talking about this project. So during this project ingoring the fact that poetry is not a thing i was told by my teachers to read poems and digest them.
One of the more important parts of the blog post in my opinion was our terms document. So what we did was we were given terms and examples by our teachers to write down and we would then study them because we had a poetry test. Where we were tested on our knolidge of poetry terms and how well we could anylise poetry.
The final thing that we did was we wrote all of the poems that we were told to write and then put them in an ebook that we published online. Then we had to add some media to the ebook. So we could add a drawing photo of video that we thought complemented the poem Nicely once we had done that we were to add a little sound clip next to the poem explaining what we had in mind when we wrote it.
After it finally came time for the for the coffee house presentation. In class before the night of the presentation we were put in to groups where we were assigned a type of poem. Once we had a made a poem we had too wait till it was time in the night for us to present. When it was time we live streamed in a zoom call and then we presented and the project was done except for this blog post that you are reading.
So you might be wondering why i am doing this blog post because it is not on theme with the other blog post in this geek out blog challenge and that is because our teachers decided that we had to combine our last geek out post with this destination imagination post. So now that i have gotten that out of the way with i can start the blog post. So this is the last post in the geek out blog challenge and this one is on destination imagination, but from now on i will just call it D.I.
But what is D.I.? Well D.I. Is and activity that is meant to encrourage teamwork. In D.I. You also have instant challenges which are meant to test how well your team can cooperate together and use eachother’s skills to succeed in the challenge that you are given to compleet. There are more that one diffrerent type of instant challenge and i will name a few. So there is building instant challenges and acting challenges of the top off my head.
So there is also diffrerent elements to a teams solution in D.I. So the team has a problem that they need to solve (oh and i have the scientific challenge so it might be different for an other challenge) so the different elements to the scientific challenge are: team choice elements, and a visual elements.
Hello reader. This blog post is about the last scimatics project that i just did. The project is called laser laws. The driving question of this project is: how can we test the Pythagorean theorem and he law of reflection. What we did is we used mirrors and laser to make a triangle.
Curricular competency number one: Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest. I think that i did show a sustained interest in this scientific because i made sure that i that i used the laser simulator to make sure that my laser display would work and i did other things.
Curricular competency number two: Communicating and Representing: Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms. I think that i did a good job here because i made sure that my group mates could have their opinions heard. In the group we made sure that we that we represented our ideas and math concepts by writing them down.
Curricular competency number three: Applying and innovating: Co-operatively design projects. Me and Keaton,one of my group parters did a majority of the work. We did the triangle measurements and the other aspects of work that were due, while my other group mates were on tik tok and giggleing about how cute random people on the internet are so i think that i did a good job here considering my group mates and stuff. Thanks for reading
This is a mid-term presentation of learning about the 3 main subjects that i have been taking in my term one. The subjects are: scimatics(math and science in one) humanities and maker(stuff we need to know how to do and whatnot).
So hear i am going to talk about the story of my learning so far during this first semester of my high-school year.
I am going to talk about the 3 different subjects that i am taking with the plp. The first subject that i am going to talk about is humanities.
In humanities the projects that we have worked on are: medium is the message, the outsiders and working with words.
So the first project that we worked on in humanities is medium is the message. Medium is the message was about advertising. The point of this project was to get an ad to a local business. We were put in to groups to do this. The client that my group got was Patricia Houlihan. But we couldn’t just make an ad right away right? So in order to get the knowledge to make an ad the class spent a bit learning about advertising. Once we hade learned about advertising it was time to make an ad. So the first ads that we made were by ourselves. So we made multiple darts of our ads and once we thought that we had perfected them we showed our final ads to our group. We then proceeded to vote on which ad that we thought was the best. We picked the best ad improved it and then sent it to Patricia Houlihan.
This was my first ad draft for humanitiesThis is the second ad that i did for humanities and the one that i think is the bestThis is my third ad draft, but i think that it is kind of uglyThis is my final ad draft.
here are my group ad drafts.
This the first draft of my group mate ruby, we voted it our group ad, then made some improvements.Once we had made our improvements this was our final draft.
Now for the outsiders, the second project that we worked on. One of the main points of this project was to increase our world view and to do that we read the book The Outsiders by: S.E.Hinton. The book the outsiders is about the struggle between two social casts the greasers(poor people) and the socs(rich people). So in this project we read the books the outsiders and did activity’s on the different parts of the book. We did some character analysis, a reflection on the movie and a character deck to name a few. We were also put in groups for this project. One of the things that we had to do as a group in this project was to make a “movie poster” for how the outsiders should look like now. Th main thing about this project was reading the book and i really enjoyed this project compared to our previous one Medium is the Message. Make sure to add some media and links. Here are some images or work and picture from the exhibition:
Here is me posing for a poster.Here is me in the poster. I know eye caching and horrible.Here is my group poster.Here is me in the group poster made by a group mate.
The third project that we did/are doing at the time of me writing this is working with words. This project is about poetry. The main focus of this project was to learn about poetry and write some poems to out in an e book of our poems. In class we made a list of poetry terms. Another thing that we did was analyise some poem that we written by other people. Then once we had all of our poems written and our all of our terms memorized we took a poetry test. Then it was time to present our poems in ourcoffee house presentation and the project was done.
Here are some photos from the poetry book that we put all of the poetry in.
Now to talk about my second class maker. Maker is my class for learning about iPads and other things that are just handy to know. In maker the projects that we have done/ are still doing are: destination imagination, geek out blog challenger,constructing creative communication and becalming a plp learner.
The first project that we did in maker was becoming a PLP learner. In becoming a plp learner we did a series of activities that were designed to increase our knowledge of apps that we have on our iPads so that we cold do other projects and know how to use this incredible piece of technology that we use in this program. Once we had learned these skills, we put most of them to work in the maker exhibition. Here are some picture from that project
Here is a picture from my maker exhibition keynote presentationHere is my Memoji speech bubble
The second project that we did in maker was constructing creative communication. The point of constructing creative communication was to learn to use our iPads in a different way. There ways two parts to this project Herzog and Carr. Booth parts of this project were named after a famous person relating to the part of the project. Herzog was focused on drawing and Carr was focused on drawing. When we started one of the projects we would learn about the person that the project was named after and we would learn about what we would be doing in the project. Then we would have a five. Session thing where we would learn 1 skill per session. Here are some drawings from the Carr group:
And here are some pictures from Herzog
The next thing that we started was destination imagination. In destination imagination you have a team and you are supposed to come up with a solution to a problem and come up with some teem choice elements which are up to your team to decide. Then you present. I also forgot to mention you also do instant challenges which are challenges that your team has to solve on a dime.
Last project that we have done so far is the is the geek out blog challenge. In the geek out blog challenge we had to pick a subject and then write 4 blog articles about it. For my subject i picked the difference between Minecraft java and bedrock. In the different blogs we had to do one on a photo and two choice blogs. For the different differences on my subject i pick Pvp and Redstone and off hands. That is what we had to do for this challenge. I think this challenge was cool. Oh and i forgot for the last post we have to combine it with destination imagination. Here are some screen shots that i took to make a point
This is the photo of redstone that i did s sketch onHere is a photo of the attack indicator look at where the arrow is pointing.
And finally time for scimatics. In scimatics the projects that we have done are: laser laws, tectonic chances and fractions for your time. The first project that we did in scimatics was fractions of your time. In this project what we did was we tracked what we did for a while. It was mainly focused on screen time, but you cold also track how much book reading you did and how much exercise you did to name a few. Then once we had done all of our tracking for a week, we put all of the data in to charts and we did our averages and found out roughly how our time was used.
Here is a photo of the chart that we used to track screen time
the project that we did next was called tectonic chances. What we did in tectonic chances was we made a board game based on tectonic plate and volcanic reactions and the sort. The game that my group made was called escape the plates. The point of the board game was to get rocket ship pieces to esacpe a foreign planet. We started the project as normal by learning about what we were doing and then just did the project was normal end of story.
Here is a picture of the back of the cards that we used
And the final project that we have done in scimatics is….. laser laws! Laser laws is a project about laser, the law of reflection and the Pythagorean theorem. The main goal of this project was to make a laser display using math and a laster simulator to understand the main concepts of this project. But we started this project just like any other. We learned about what we would be doing. I think this project was one of the cooler ones that we have done but on of the hardest. I think that hardest part about this project was getting the laser exactly where we wanted it in real life.
So here we are supposed to take a picture and then draw the photo. What i chose to draw was a frame out of a recording that i did of Minecraft showing a bit of Redstone. In the frame of the recording i made a machine that showcased a Redstone circuit that launched some bottles’o’enchanting triggered by a tripwire or a lever attacked by some Redstone wiring.
What i did when i drew the photo was I separated the main Colours so the browns, the blues, yellows, the greens and the grays from the the screen shot and i then shaped it so that i looked how i wanted to. I made sure that i had the screen shot in a layer underneath the photo that i am using then took it off after so that i had a good image to use. The app that i use to do this was sketches pro.
Here is the photo of the frame of my recording:
This is the photo
I also have the footage of what i did with the Redstone.
So my subject is Minecraft java and how it is different and better than Minecraft bedrock (please note that Minecraft bedrock does have some things that are better than Minecraft java. There is too versions of Minecraft bedrock and java. If you play on console, switch phone or iPad, then you have Minecraft bedrock (please not that there is a Minecraft bedrock version for computer, but if you have Minecraft for computer you probably have Minecraft java. So there are some major differences between the two different versions and that is what i am going to talk about in this series of blog post.
The first major difference that i am going to talk about it the difference between p.v.p. an p.v.e.
So what is different about the p.v.p. you must be thinking? Because it is the same game of course. But there is actually a big difference between the p.v.p. Please keep in mind that when i am talking about the java p.v.p. I am talking about the modern p.v.p. And not 1.8 and earlier, But in java the combat it heavily based on critical hits and timing your blows, but in bedrock it is more about spamming and sprinting at you opponents so you can get the most hits. An other main difference between the two versions is the best melee weapon to use. In bedrock the main weapon that you would use is the sword end or story, but in java you have the choice of using the axe or the sword. Now most people would say that the axe is better and while it is more versatile i will not say that it is better. So the axe is good for doing a lot of damage in one hit, but the sword is better for doing more hits. Now in the early game for most players the preferred weapon is the axe, later gameplay when most player have optimized items with enchantments the sword can have more enchantments and is therefor considered the better item to have. Please note that the axe can disable shields and that will be mentioned furtherer. An other difference between java and bedrock is the fact that there is armour toughness in the java version of Minecraft. What armour toughness does is it reduces additional damage that the armour would normally not (please not that only diamond armour and netherite armour are the only armour that have armour toughness) and finally the finally main difference in the combat systems are shields. So shields in bedrock have not recharge and can not be disable for a period in time and can only be broken. In java on the other hand a shield can be disabled on an axe crit for 6 second leading to much more balanced p.v.p.
Here are some photos of attacks in te different versions of minecraft
here is a photo of the attack indicator in java
Here is a photo of the attack indicator look at where the arrow is pointing
now here is a photo of the attack indicator on pocket edition of bedrock minecraft (phone, ipad and tablet) :
This is a photo of how an attack swing looks on pocket edition.
