*Historian is “an expert in or student of history, esp. that of a particular period, region, or social phenomenon.”— From dictionary.com Historians do not only look for something old but they also record and interpret their research and information to tell and teach people. They had to explain and lay out all of the facts so that there is clear resoning behind the results.

“Does copyright hinder or cultivate creativity?”

I think the answer depends. In some ways, copyright damages the use of creativity. However, it may cultivate creativity. In our class we’ve watched some remix videos such as  “Sweet Brown” and “The Scary Mary Poppins”. These videos showed the creators’s creativity and also imagination. This can change a lot of things in the remix such as settings, mood and can change 180 degree off the original.

For example, The video “Everything is remix” shows that copyright is not needed. Everything we make or create in our daily lives has to comes from another idea. I believe that there is no point of having a copyright law and nobody starts our original. This video really shows that copyright just stops expanding our creativity.

Also I think however, if there was no fair use, we would have been more creative than ourselves today. Though on the other hand, if there was no copyright, many people would use the original without permission which is against the law. First of all, I think it can support people’s creativity. People tend to copy other people’s original work which can result stopping people’s from expanding creativity  because copying don’t influence their imagination. This can also be a good influence to expand creativity.

I think that copyright hinders our creativity. It can limit the creativity for creators. Copyright prevents creativity. For example, in the world out today, we are able to see a lot of videos that the copyrighted without the originator’s permission. So I do believe that there should be a copyright law which doesn’t allow you to copy something from the original. It all matters on how and where you got the footage and songs. There are two types: illegally or legally. I think that copyright hinders creativity, because it limits  imagination of people by not letting people express their ideas by remixes.

1. Appearances and deception are a common theme in literature, how does Hinton demonstrate this?

Hinton shows this by classifying  the Socs. In the story, we can clearly see that the Socs are the smart ones, cool and handsome. Then us as audiences will get tricked into the fact that Socs are rich. This shows that many people are tricked into the idea that the rich are pleasant while the poor are treated badly.

2. Do narrators always tell the truth? Is Ponyboy a reliable narrator?

Sometimes we can’t really rely on the narrator especially if its in first person like The Outsiders. It could be different from other characters point of view. Because Ponyboy’s opinion is subjective.

3. Is The Outsiders relevant to you? Can you relate to it? Why or why not?

The Outsiders can be relevant to me some ways when it comes to our grade.  Unlike the outsiders, there is no violence or discrimination but it just defines what kind of people we get along with.

4. Should The Outsiders be taught in school? If so, at what grade level?

 I think this book can be appropriate for middle schoolers moving on to high school because it  shows diverse cultures and shows things to people from a different perspective.

5. Who is your favourite character and why? Who is your least favourite? Explain your choice.

My favorite character is Sodapop because he always supports and helps other characters such as Ponyboy. My least favorite character is Johnny because he is weak and never stands up for himself. Also he doesn’t care about how his family thinks about him.

6. Which character impacts you the most? What emotions do you feel for that character? Does he/she remind you of someone else you know? Of yourself?

Even though Johnny is my least favorite character, Johnny is the character which impacted me the most. He killed Bob by his guilty feelings.  By the end of the story, he risks his life saving kids from the church, and died after that. His caring feelings and action impacted me the most.

In the technology class, we learned about presenting naked. Presenting naked basically means to present straight forward and to explain everything about the presentation. We followed the steps of the design cycle and this is a reflection of my progress that i’ve made throughout this unit.

First of all, we investigated by discussing how communication skills can affect the quality of a presentation. Then we were asked to discuss how to make a good presentation by analyzing 5 different presentation. We analyzed each key skills and featured which reminded me of how to make a good presentation. Then we were off the the next cycle “Design” . We were to chose our topic which I choose to present with a topic of late night sleep. We experimented with different applications and chose a good application that would be useful to make a good presentation. We created 5 examples slides by experimenting with layouts, color and fonts and see which one might be effective to use. For the cycle “plan” we made our storyboard and outlined it with good illustrations. We were also to make a timeline of what things can be done on each day. On “create” we did our presentations which I will talk about it on the next paragraph. These are the progress we went through this unit.

On my actual slides, I concentrated on writing less text and to include lots of visuals. I think I have achieved my objective. I included some words and explained each topic with my speech. I was able to use good images that represented my topic but didn’t use different styles of placing pictures. My slides were organized and I was able to point out the pictures and explain why I have included them. I used different color and fonts for my presentation such as on the last slide, I’ve included red to represent the things that are important to know.

On presenting, I wasn’t able to have enough eye contact to the audience because I was busy reading the script. This is because I wasn’t able to memorize which I think I’ll get a low score on create. My voice projection was good which I think was the strength of my presentation. I included some interesting information which drew people’s attention throughout the presentation.

I organized my slide by explaining what causes late night sleep then the consequences of late night sleep and followed by the solution to not have less sleep. I only had 5 slides in the presentation, though, I was able to explain each of them with good description.

Overall, I think I was able to achieve to develop my style of presenting and presented successfully.

Day 1: October 15th

On the first day, I had to wake up at 5:00 clock to take a taxi to the Y-CAT. I met some of the crews, students and rode on the Y-CAT to the Haneda airport. It was 7:30 and our departure time was 8:30 where we had 1:30 minutes ride to Hokkaido. On 10:30 at Hokkaido, we had another 2 hour ride to Niseko Adventure Center. (NAC) We had big enormous hamburger or sandwich which tasted good. From NAC, we went hiking for another 40 minutes or so to arrive at the camp site we were going to stay over night. It was where the ski jump was and it was a good view. Then, we were divided into 2 groups, 1 group to set up tents and 1group to cook curry. It wasn’t easy to set up the tents. We had some troubles but felt good after we stetted up all the tents. We had curry for our dinner. After we ate out dinner, we were divided in groups 1 group that was going to the onsen, and 1 group that wanted to stay at the tents. I was bothered to go to the onsen so I stayed with my friends. Than its was soon 10:00 where we had to go to sleep. In our tents, we had Leo, Kento, Giulio, Kenneth, Ken and me. When we were going to sleep, Me and Leo didn’t have a sleeping bag because some of our friends took our sleeping bag. We had to wake up every 20 minutes because of coldness and had to stay up until midnight. I wasn’t able to sleep anymore so got a blanket from one of the sleeping teachers for both of us at 2:00 in the morning.

Community and Service

-Set the tents to camp over 1 night.

-Started the fire to cook dinner.

-Cooperated with people by sharing roles equally.

-Communicated with others.

-Contributed with others that needs help.

I think by helping and interacting with others, can help build a better community bringing up people together.

Day 2: October 16th

Day 2 was just too tiring after 3 hours of sleep on the first day. For breakfast, we ate a sandwich prepared by NAC and headed off with a good start. We went hiking again. This time, on the ski hill which took us about 40 min. The road was rough though the course was easy. We were able to sea a really good view of Niseko from that mountain. When we came back to our campsite, we were ready to head to our new destination, to hotel. We brought the tents down and packed up our bags. Than we visited HIS (Hokaido International School) for lunch. Than we had sandwiches again… The schedule said we were going to have a barbecue but got changed a bit. After we had lunch, we went to a local Japanese high school to make a flower arrangement. We made our lovely looking flower arrangement. After this, we had to go to the local farm to help the farmer clean up the farm before winter. We also carved pumpkins for halloween! Then finally, we arrived at the hotel and started organizing my stuff. It was a big tatami room where 10 people were able to fit. We went to the onset afterwards and had a good sleep.

Community and Service

-Helped the farmers to break down green houses before winter.

-Communicated with others.

-Cooperated with people sharing roles equally.

-Interacted with HIS.

-Contributed with others that needs help.

Day 3: October 17th

I woke up at 6:30 and went to onsen with Leo. Then I went to eat breakfast and packed up for today’s activities. I was in group 1 where we went kayaking and hiking on the island famous for deers. We had to put dry suits on.We had another 2 hour bus ride to the lake. When we arrived, we were asked to choose a partner. I picked Leo and we paddled about an hour to the island. We had some problems where our kayak didn’t have any controller that moved the kayak left to right. We had to turn manually which was a really hard work. In this situation, it was also raining which was a really hard work for us. We were behind everyone but caught up with them with teamwork. When we arrived at the island, we had lunch which was 2 sandwiches and a hot drink. We had to eat in he rain standing up. Since it was raining, we weren’t able to go hike on the island and see any deers. Then we had another 2 hour trip back to the bus. We were behind everyone but did our best to go back to the bus. We went bak to NAC to eat dinner. As soon as I went back to the hotel, I went into the onsen.  It washed off all the pain I had from that activity. For the night, we had movies. We watched Eragon where I lay down and slept.

Community and Service

-Today was one of the day that was really challenging. We went kayaking in the river which was cold and deep. We were to use a lot of energy to move. For this activity, we needed to work as a team. We had to communicate to keep the boat to stay stable. Though, we didn’t have enough good to provide energy which we struggled a bit. In this situation, I was able to help my friends by giving rights to rest whenever tired and shared roles and wwas able to be part of one community.

Day 4: October 18th

Today Leo woke me up at 5:30 to take a shower. After a good fresh start, I was headed to breakfast. Today’s activity sounded interesting. We were going to River raft and mountain bike! We went river rafting first, where we had to dress up with dry suits again. It was cold and wet. Then we had another 20 minutes of bus ride to to the river. River rafting is one of the activities that I enjoy the most. We had an hour of rafting which was fun. The good thing was that the weather was good and clear today. After we’ve finished, we ate soba at a local shop. Mountain Bike was also one of the activities that I want to enjoy. I ride bike everyday to school and I think I was confident with it until the road of big rocks came in front me. I fell hard and injured my arm. Though it was fun and challenging. Some people retired and were at the NAC waiting for us. We had our last dinner at NAC and thanked the NAC staffs. When we came back to hotel, some people were packing up and I enjoyed my last onsen with my friends. Later on the night activity, people performed but our group didn’t perform because we weren’t able to prepare in 20 minutes. It was fun to watch people perform. I went to sleep early to have a fresh day tomorrow.

Community and Service

-River rafting in Shinbetsu river

For the river raft to accelerate smoothly we had to work as one community.

Day 5: October 19th

I think the field studies was successful. We were all packed up and we were asked to organize our room. We cleaned up our room looking spotless. On the way to the airport we played games and drew pictures. I wasn’t able to analyze any situation while on the plane. I felt weird coming back home after all the fun activities I have done. I knew that the next few days was going to be boring. I personally think that it was fun and that I want to come here again for next year.

8B Drama: Character Formative from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

What is the skill that I used?

I used different vocals to express to the people my mood as a character. Since I was mad at the scene, I had a low loud voice to express my feelings. I think I really showed and expressed my feelings as a character strongly.

How did I approach creating the character? Was it successful? if so how? What needed improvement? Make a suggestion?

I think I was successful because I think that I used skills such as vocals and expression well to express my mood as a character. I think I need to improve on not mumbling and now start to show more of myself by projecting loud voice.

How can I use these skills in performance?

If I have to show my self as a character in terms of personality and mood, also when I have to over exaggerate to show myself as a character, I think it would be a good time to use the skill.

1. Describe your top three intelligences. Are they accurate? Give examples of things you do, like or are good at to justify your answer.

My intelligences are Musical, Self and Body Movement. I think most of them are accurate. I like playing music, compose and listening to different genres of music. I play several instruments and like to analyze song as a band. I’m active so I like to move and enjoy different types of sports. I like being outdoors and hangout with my friends outside. I think I’m also interpersonal in terms of liking to stay by myself think things over and over sometime feel shamed of my actions.

2. Do you use your other five intelligences less than the top three (from question 1)? Are the results of the survey all correct, partially correct or completely wrong? Justify your answer.

Apart from the three topics, I also like to be linguistic. I like to learn new words and languages. I think the survey is accurate according to my answers to the questions. I was honest with my answers which led me to have such results that I’ve expected.

3. Should some intelligences be more important than other intelligences, or are they all of equal importance? Explain and justify your answer.

I think I should be intelligent in all subjects but as I’ll become 9th grade entering high school, I will need to choose and find a specific subject that Im good at to study and take lessons. So in terms of that, I want to focus on just several subjects to find my intelligences.

Your top three intelligences: Intelligence Score (5.0 is highest) Description 4.43 Musical: You like the rhythm and sound of language. You like poems, songs, and jingles. You enjoy humming or singing along with music. You probably remember things well when they are associated with music or rhythm. Try to incorporate sounds into your lessons, such as using a familiar tune, song, or rap beat to teach spelling rules, or to remember words in a series for a test. Here are some other ways to use your musical intelligence: Create a poem with an emphasis on certain sounds for pronunciation. Clap out or walk out the sounds of syllables. Read together (choral reading) to work on fluency and intonation. Read a story with great emotion — sad, then happy, then angry. Talk about what changes — is it only tone? Work with words that sound like what they mean (onomatopoeia). For example: sizzle, cuckoo, smash. Read lyrics to music. Use music as background while reviewing and for helping to remember new material. Use rhymes to remember spelling rules, i.e., “I before E except after C.” 4 Self: You have a very good sense of self. You like to spend time by yourself and think things over. You will often take in information from another person, mull it over by yourself, and come back to that person later to discuss it. You like working on projects on your own. You often prefer to learn by trial and error. Effective techniques to enhance your learning include keeping a journal and giving yourself time to reflect on new ideas and information. More ideas: Go on “guided imagery” tours. Set aside time to reflect on new ideas and information. Encourage journal writing. Work on the computer. Practice breathing for relaxation. Use brainstorming methods before reading. Listen to and read “how to” tapes and books. Read cookbooks. 3.86 Body Movement: You like to move, dance, wiggle, walk, and swim. You are likely good at sports, and you have good fine motor skills. You may enjoy taking things apart and putting them back together. Incorporating body movement into your learning will help you process and retain information better. Here are some ideas. Trace letters and words on each other’s back. Use magnetic letters, letter blocks, or letters on index cards to spell words. Take a walk while discussing a story or gathering ideas for a story. Make pipe cleaner letters. Form letters out of bread dough. After you shape your letters, bake them and eat them! Use your whole arm (extend without bending your elbow) to write letters and words in the air. Change the place where you write and use different kinds of tools to write, ie., typewriter, computer, blackboard, or large pieces of paper. Write on a mirror with lipstick or soap. Take a walk and read all the words you find during the walk. Handle a Koosh ball or a worry stone during a study session. Take a break and do a cross-lateral walk. The scores for your other five intelligences: 3.71 3.43 3.14 3.14 2.14 Just because these five are not in your top three doesn’t mean you’re not strong in them. If your average score for any intelligence is above three, you’re probably using that intelligence quite often to help you learn. Take a look at the Practice section to see how to engage all your intelligences.

8B Drama: Status from YIS Arts on Vimeo.