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My Ted Like Talk

At the end of the year in language arts, we did a project where we presented a five minute talk about a topic that we enjoyed, sort of like a Ted talk, but not quite. So the topic I chose was Unity, which is a game engine that I have dabbled in and I find fun to use. I put off this talk for a long time and only worked on it in short bursts. When other classmates started presenting, I realized that I would need to make my talk interesting so I could stand out. So I decided to not use speaker notes or a script in my talk, and just seem like I am extremely confident. When I spoke like I actually had an interest in the topic, it made others think that this topic could be interesting. I also had another idea to make this Ted like talk stand out, I would draw all my images so they would seem almost personal which made the talk more interesting. Finally, the day before I was going to present, I was sick. Which was unfortunate and I thought I would have to delay my ted talk but I was able to come to school the next day and deliver the best ted like talk ever created, at least in my opinion. So that is the story of how I made my Ted like talk, thank you for reading my post and don’t forget to comment.

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The Stock Market

So this year our class read this book called The Westing Game. So there was this one character named Turtle and she really liked investing in the stock market, so naturally we did a project about the stock market. We were using 20,000 dollars of fake money and we were allowed to invest in up to six companies, we also used the real stock prices. So to keep track of our gains and losses we created these spreadsheets that could do that, so we set up some formulas to do the calculations of our gains and losses and all we had to was enter the current stock price. So at the end of this project we checked our stocks.I did terribly because of my poor choice of investment in The Boeing Company because their stock decided to plummet after I invested. I additionally invested in The Walt Disney Company, Apple Inc, and Starbucks Corporation which all were okay. At the end of this project, I was down $850.46 mostly due to the Boeing company doing terribly. So in the end, I learned that winning the stock market is hard because of how sporadic it is and that your investments sometimes do terribly and sometimes do pretty good.

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6th Grade LA: The Journey

Image Above: Homemade books

Welcome to one of my final blog posts, in this I will be talking about some of the major events during my 6th grade Language Arts class. Well I’ll start out with this book we started reading earlier in the year, a book called The Last Cuentista. This book takes place in a dystopian future where the earth is about to explode and a few people are chosen to go to a new planet, this will take a while so the passengers are placed in stasis and are watched by monitors. About 350 years later, our main character, a would be story teller, wakes up and finds that the monitors became conformists and killed all the passengers except for some kids who get numbers for names. Our main character does not like this so she tries to leave. The main theme of this story is about what a world would be like without story. This also gives an idea of what a world be like if culture didn’t exist and nobody has any identity. This is a very dystopian idea and it shows how everybody is sad if they don’t have and personality or any way to express themselves.

So next up in the year was a fun challenge that was sort of derived from The Last Cuentista where we got to design our own ideal world. I have the feeling many of my classmates probably didn’t want to make a world ideal for themselves, they just made a fun world concept. I did that as well, I created a very fantastical world of a bunch of floating sky islands based off of different landscapes, I was also simultaneously sort of designing a game, you would sort of see this if you were to read the text I wrote about it on another blog post. This was very fun and led to the next major event.

Our final major event mentioned in this post is the making of our own books in a very collage sort of way. We were making the books based off of our ideal world projects where we made a collage that represented our ideal world. I made a collage of a city called castle town mentioned in my full ideal world blog post. Later we also added the ideal world text into the books.

So that was some of the events that occurred during my 6th grade Language Arts class, they were all very fun experiences that taught me many new things about storytelling and creativity. See you next time on Cabel’s Time On Earth.