Back to School After Ezams

Back to School After Exams

We’re now back to school after a four-day week of exams. We’ve been studying hard, and had a three-day weekend, but now it’s back to learning new things.

The first day back to school on Monday, February 2nd, we were all anxious to see our marks on how well we did on the exams. But after seeing our marks, we got back to starting new units. In Math we started our Integers unit; in English we started our Poetry unit; in Science we started our Fluids unit; and in Social we started our Egypt unit. In other classes we got back to learning from where we left off before exams.

It’s now a new term, which means we can start fresh, and do better than the last term. Either study harder, finish all our homework, and boost our marks up to impress the teacher, if that’s possible…

BLOG POST

            For my blog post I will be talking about exams. We wrote four exams for four days straight. The exams we wrote were mathematics, ELA, social studies, and science. We wrote our examinations from January 26^th to January 30^th. Each exam consisted of multiple choices, fill in the blanks, true and false, short answers, and long answers. Our first exam that we wrote was science. The second exam that we wrote was ELA. The third exam that we wrote was mathematics. The fourth and last exam was social studies.

           After each exam the exam would finish at 11:00 am and you were to go home or stay at study hall. Thank you for listening to my blog post.

Persuasive Writing Topic Ideas

     

 Persuasive writing topic Ideas

By:Georgette Caranay 8A

         Good Morning, Recently in English class we were assigned to come up with a persuasive speech and it was informed to be completed by this upcoming Tuesday. A persuasive speech is a specific type of speech in which the speaker has a goal of convincing the audience to accept his or her point of view. I decided to come up with a few topic ideas for those who want more school related and could possibly be beneficial to those who still need a topic. Here are my following topics: Should college athletes be paid for playing? Should student’s textbooks be replaced by notebook computers? Should students’ grades in gym affect their grade point averages? Should girls be allowed to play on boys sports teams? Should schools offer fast food options like Mcdonalds, KFC, Taco bell, etc?

Should students be allowed to eat during class? Should students learn world religion in public schools?  Should exams be replaced by other forms of testing performances? Should there be more casual days to express more of students’ personalities? Is a good education a right or a privilege? Should the school cafeteria provide more vegetarian lunch options to suit all eating habits of students? Do you think single-sex schools are a good idea? Schools should not be allowed to watch over what a student does on the internet during school time for it invades the privacy of that student. Finally, should school start later in the morning? With the following topics listed above, I hope it benefited to a few of you and gave you ideas on topics to write for your persuasive speeches. Thank you!   

Egypt

         In social studies class we have started a new unit on Egypt, and more specifically, the building of the pyramids. The Egyptians built the pyramids as the final resting place for the pharaohs. The Egyptian people believed that the pyramid could restore life to a deceased pharaoh. The largest pyramid was built for pharaoh Cheops, though all the pyramids have been stripped of there outer limestone cover, the largest one still has limestone at the top. This limestone shows how much work went into the pyramids being as it was smooth on the outside, unlike a step pyramid. Though the pyramids were made for the pharaohs, the builders could have pyramids also. Though the builders could have a pyramid they would be much smaller then the size of the pharaoh's pyramid. A common misconception about the building of the pyramids was that, the pyramids were built by starved slaves. The truth is that the pyramid was felt by Egyptians who were fed and treated very well. I hope this has taught you something about Egypt.