Trinity School Breaking News: Students in 5th and 6th get Mac Book Airs Next Year!

Trinity School is now upgrading to Mac Book Airs, the latest and greatest in the Apple market. While Mac Book Airs can be found in a few public places around the school (such as the library/media center, and the tech lab), next year, students in 5th grade and 6th grade will be getting their own personal Mac Book Airs. This is such big news that already students in 5th grade (the rising 6th graders of 2012-2013) are learning about the Mac’s “so we can be prepared for next year” says Trinity School rising 6th grader Anna Kate. Right now 5th graders are working hard in their beloved Tech Lab. The reason for this is because having their own computers means that they learn about the computers by exploring. “I personally am very excited. At my house, we don’t have anything Apple, so this will be my chance to bring in something Apple, and being able to explore an Apple product. Having my own computer means bigger responsibility, but we will also have the ability to get answers just by the click of a button. Also, we will also be able to do things faster. For example, if an assignment requires us to type something out, instead of printing it out, we can simply send it through email,” says Anna Kate. “Also, I think that this will help us learn faster in some ways. Instead of having to wait for a teacher to come help us, this way we can look it up immediately.”

Well, if you want to know more about this new Apple upgrading, please visit this website for more information about Trinity School, and if you would like to visit the school, please visit the website:

http://www.trinityatl.org/

Why Everyone Eleven Years and up Should Have a Laptop:

In my opinion, everyone that is at least eleven years or older should have a laptop. One reason is because now a lot of homework is on the computer; if you have a computer you can go ahead and get it done. If you do not have a computer you have to wait until you get home, and a lot of people have after school activities and get home late at night. Another reason is that if you don’t know how to do something, you can look it up on the internet, like Google. While you can just ask, if the teacher who taught the subject you have a question about isn’t there or is busy, internet access will help you look your question up immediately. The reasons listed above are only a few reasons why everyone eleven years and older should have a laptop.

However, many people disagree and think kids are too young to have a laptop. One reason is that the kids would be able to, and probably would, play games. If there was an assignment to be completed, then playing games then would be inappropriate at that time. However, if there was time set aside to play games, then that would reduce the chances of game-playing when a student should be doing work. Another reason is that the kids could mess up saved stuff. However, if the computer was their own, they couldn’t mess up anything that wasn’t theirs. While the people who disagree with me make very valid points, I still vote in favor of everyone eleven years and older having a laptop.

The Liberation of Gabriel King

In school we are reading a book called The Liberation of Gabriel King. Today, we did a worksheet on this book. So, I am going to blog about one of the questions on this worksheet. Out of the five questions, I am going to write about question 4: “Who is your favorite character so far, and why do you feel connected to him or her?” This is the answer I wrote on the worksheet (modified a little bit) : My favorite characters (I have two) are both Gabe (Gabriel) and Frita. I chose Gabe because I like his personality. I chose Frita as well because she has “spunk” and always seems to know what to do. I hope that you choose to read this book because I think that it is a good book so far.

Current Events 2

Title: Egypt News Flash-Revolution and Aftermath

Source:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html

Who: The Egyptians

What: The Egyptians are revolting against the military, who took over since after 18 days of angry protests, and losing the support of the military and the U.S., President Hosni Mubarak resined.

When: Currently.

Where: Egypt

Why do we care: We care because if Hosni Mubarak decides to revolt against the U.S. the we will have to fight Egypt, which will be bad.

My Current Events

Title: Police clash with protesters outside Greek parliament

Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20111019-new-48-hour-general-strike-begins-greece-unions-parliament-austerity-debt-crisis-sarvaricas

Who: Greek Police and Greek protesters

What: The Greek people are prosteting and are on strike because the Greek parlament voted on austerity, which rasies taxes and cuts govenment benifits (people pay more for health care, reseve less pensions -  retirement payment from the govenment, what the U.S. calles the Social Security, and cuts budgets)

When: Currently-the Greeks are protesting right now (10/19/11)

Where: Greece

Why do we care: We care because the Greek govenment owes the European and the U.S. banks a big sum of money. If the Greek banks can’t pay off the debt, it could cause harm to the U.S. economy, and it could cause the banks to fail.

By Anna Kate

Mesopotamia-The Ziggurats

I have been learning about Mesopotamia in school. We then picked a topic to study that related to Mesopotamia, and I chose to study The Ziggurats. We then had to create a question about our topic. My question is:  Why did the Sumerian people decide to build the Ziggurats? In the second paragraph, I will slowly reveal the answer.

A Ziggurat is what Sumerians called a temple. A Ziggurat was a large, pyramid-shaped tower. Some of the largest ones have been known to be over seven stories tall! The biggest and tallest Ziggurat that didn’t crumble is 335 feet (102 meters) on each side and people who studied this Ziggurat estimated it to have been over 150 feet (45 meters) tall when it was first built. Most of the taller ones were found in bigger, wealthier cities. Each floor of the Ziggurats is smaller than the one below it, why it was a lot like a pyramid. The land around a Ziggurat would often include large areas of farmland that was controlled by the temple of that area. A Ziggurat is a building, so you could have walked in it. The Sumerians would furnish the inside of some Ziggurats with beautiful statues and paintings. The priests lived and ruled out of the Ziggurats. The Sumerians believed that only the priests could communicate with their gods. Some of their gods and goddesses were: Ki the goddess of earth, Utu, god of the sun and of justice, Ninhursag, who the Sumerians thought was Mother Earth, or the source of all life, and Enki who was the lord of both water and wisdom.

I have now finished my project, and am now going to reflect on it. First off, I will say that the easiest thing was probably this blog post. I say this because I had already typed a lot of this and just had to format it to be three paragraphs and add a sentence or two. My power point (which was my physical project, we had to do create a question, research our topic, write a blog entry, create a physical project, and read and respond to at least four other blogs.) was the second hardest. I say this was the second hardest because reading a responding to other blogs I thought was the hardest. I thought that this was the hardest because I had to do my project and blog post (both are due today or 10/14/11 -we have to finish them this morning.) first and the reading and responding isn’t due today (or 10/14/11). I will try to post my power point on my blog so everyone can look at it. Hope to post something else really soon!

My Bibliography:

“The Civilization of Sumer/Sumerian Religion.” Pearson My World History. 110-14. Print.

“Sumerian Gods and Goddesses.” World History International: World History Essays From Prehistory To The Present. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. <http://history-world.org/sumerian_gods_and_goddesses.htm>.

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