Iain In the Trenches

On June 16th 2011  I woke up to live a day like the men in World War 1. We first started with grenade training, later on we started bayonet training. After that we had our lunch. We had a chance to buy strips of blanks and we were able to buy World War 1 helmets. After the display of World War 1 weapons we then geared up for the big battle. Germany versus Canada. This was to see how hard it was to live in the trenches, and to see what these soldiers endured.

I feel sick, my stomachs churning due to the nerve racking moments about to happen. The enemy is almost here, I can hear them. I’m really scared, even though I have my best friend Isaac a few metres from me.  I shouldn’t be scared, but I don’t want to die, I believe we can overcome the endless barrage of grenades, but the Lewis gun, that’s going to be hard, but me and Isaac are determined to take that gun.

The lesson I learned in battle is that it was not meant to be fun, it was meant to teach us what the men in the war had to endure. Many people in died the reenacment of this battle, and it makes me sick to think of how many people died in World War 1 and World War 2, as for all of the wars. I think that learning about these incidents that had happened in war
would maybe make people think twice about signing up for the war. If my parents knew about what actually happened at war, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t let me sign up. I think that there would be a lot of good times like I had at this trip, but there would also be some horrible times that you might not ever forget.

 

Where I’m from Iain

I’m From G.I Joe,and
I’m from paintball, the sport people think isn’t, but really it is.
I’m from hockey to soccer to badminton.
I’m from video games, the thing that gets teens addicted.
I’m from the band the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I’m from KiD CuDi the guy who makes the best music.
I’m from the Toronto Maple Leafs,
the team who keeps losing and cant make the playoffs.
I’m From Phil Kessel to Daniel Carcillo,
from Sean Avery to Todd Bertuzzi.
I’m From the Original 6  and from Zdeno- Charas’ – Bruin team  scrumms,
with Giontas’ Montreal Canadians.
You can always look for a good fight when those two teams go at it.

I am from baby bottle pops and nerds,
the  delicious  candy.

I’m from the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show,
and from making kids laugh because I’m too funny.
I’m from the book  Fallen Angels and
I’m from the phrase that says” Son, it’s time for a talk”.
And from “Go Home”.
I’m also from God Bless Your Little Soul.
I’m from the military, where people become friends and
I’m from the smell of freshly cut grass and the sound of birds chirping and bugs buzzing.

Artzooka Spaceships

If you’re looking for a interesting piece of art that will take forever to colour, look no further. This is how you can do it, but first I’ll give you a list of Materials.

Materials
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Pencil crayons
- Card stock
- A large sheet of paper, the size should be about 40 by 30 cm

Steps to follow:
1. Trace a square on a piece of card stock paper.
2. Cut out the square that was  traced.
3. Now start to draw a line.
4. Start on the bottom left side going in the direction of right, about 2.5 cm.
5. Go up from where you left off about 1.3 cm.
6. Now go in a diagonal direction  about 3.5cm.
7. Go the other way 3.7 cm.
8.  Go down about 1.3 cm.
9 Now go and finish tracing in the rightward direction.
10. Now put your cutout in the center of the large sheet of paper.
11. Trace it.
12.  Put the cutout in a upward direction and trace it.
13. Repeat step 12 but keep going upward until you run out of room.
14. Then do the same as step 10 except put it in a downward direction.
15. Center your cutout then slide it to the left.
16. Trace that.
17. Repeat step 10 and put it in a upward direction.
18. Repeat step  14.
19.  Center it again, But slide it over 2 spaces.
20. Repeat step 12 and 14.
22. That should be enough room for the left side of the large sheet of paper.
23. Do the same for the right side.
24.  Now do a strip of blue starting at the beginning of the left side, next use a purple colour, green, red ,and lastly yellow.

Concluding Paragraph
Colouring the tessellation is the biggest problem for this piece, If I were you, I would have quite a bit of patience. This is because it took me about 2 and a half hours to finish a quarter of it. And overall 5 hours to finish the whole thing.

Health Project

My health project is on diabetes and how crucial it is to eat healthy food. Many diabetics become obese due to not eating healthy food.  Eating healthy food helps to keep the weight down, and makes you feel better about yourself. Although it may be boring eating healthy foods all the time. It’s ok if you have candies once in a while, but you shouldn’t have a ton of candies all at one point in  time. Balance it out. Have a salad then have a candy.

Here is my glogster.

The Word Shaker

This post is about a book called The Book Thief. The Book Thief is a book me and my classmates are reading with another class from Snow Lake Manitoba. We were asked to make a story about the images below.

 

#1  I (Max) walk into the Fuhrer shop, trying to keep my head down, I buy a can of Hatred seeds for Liesel.

#2   Meanwhile, Hitler is getting more and more people to join his Nazi Party.

#3   As I hold this little seed of hope and dreams, I’ll pass it on, to my little friend, Liesel.

#4  She plants that seed, the seed of hopes, dreams and the truth. Liesel sits there and watches the hope, dreams and truth come true.

#5   The Nazis are coming to chop down her tree. So she climbed up into the tree, and stayed there. Therefore, the Nazis cannot harm the tree of hope, dreams and the truth, and they cannot harm Liesel.

#6   She falls asleep in the tree of hope dreams and truth, while waiting for Rudy.

#7 Rudy packs his bag to go and see Liesel.

#8 Rudy uses nails and his hammer to get to Liesel. He puts nails into the tree to climb up to the top.one?

#9   As Rudy got to the top, Liesel told him why she planted the tree.

#10   As the the little trees of hate stand below, Rudy and Liesel are watching over them.

#11 As Rudy and Liesel walk home, the trees of hate and fear, reach out to try and take back Liesel and Rudy from believing the truth.

The Book Thief Conflict.

My class and I have been reading a book called the Book Thief with another class from Snow Lake, Manitoba. We were asked to write a about three conflicts in the book that are internal or external. The protagonist  n this book is Max, the antagonist is the Nazi party.
Max is the protagonist because he is a Jewish man and the Nazi party is the antagonist because the Nazi party is against Jewish people. A type of conflict in the book that Max shows is character v.s society. He is a Jewish person and the Nazi party is against Jewish people, (the Nazi party is the society). I think it is a lose lose situation because Hitler will still hate Jews and make them suffer.

Steve Punter

Another type of conflict displayed in The Book  Thief is character v.s nature which is external. Max the protagonist was hiding in a local Germans house. Max had decided to leave because if he had been caught the whole family who was hiding him would have went to either a camp or would have had to face the firing squad. So he ran away and  now is against natur’s cold winter and weather in general. Not to mention he has no food. So that means he needs to steal food  from stores.  If a Jew is stealing food from a store who is against Jewish people the outcome is going to be pretty bad. The cause of this conflict is that Max had left for the safety of the family hiding him, but is now against natures wrath. I think it is a lose-lose situation because If Max gets caught outside or anywhere he will have to go to a camp.

Mathias-erhart

The last kind of conflict is internal character vs. self which is internal. This is when  Max decides to leave from where he is hiding. This is because he did not want the Hubermans hiding Max to get killed because they had a Jew. So he decided to leave and hide from everyone for the better of the family. This cause of conflict is because Max was scared he would have the family protecting him die so he left their house.

Magnusfranklin

I think it will be a lose-lose  situation because Max is Jewish and there were Nazi soldiers everywhere in Germany.  They also searched houses for Jews,so I think he would have been caught one way or another.  In the book : Hans gave a Jewish man a piece of bread.The Jewish man  never picked  the bread up. And he still got in trouble (beaten with a whip). So if  a Jew was hiding in a place where they are not supposed to be they might get killed. I also think this because a lot of Jewish people had been caught hiding and were executed. They also went to death camps like Dachau.

Maitland Valley Watershed

The Maitland Valley Watershed was formed in 1951. It was formed to make a healthier environment for people in the area. The MVW covers areas the watershed, drainage area of the Maitland, Nine Mile River and the Eighteen Mile River Also covering smaller watersheds along Lake Huron.

Do you think it is safe to drink water that is filled with bacteria? If you have a shallow well well that’s pretty much what your drinking. Which is not good at all. This is because when you have a shallow well, farmers in the area use pesticide’s and other bad chemicals. So when you have a shallow well it does not use a proper use of filtration. As with deeper wells rocks, dirt and other things that are in the ground is used as a filter which helps the water stay clean.

What type of well do you have shallow or deep? I am asking this question because  if you have a shallow well your at risk of having water filled with bacteria. I myself have a deep well because I know that i is safer. I recommend a deep well because it does not have as much bacteria.
I also recommend a deep well because when there is droughts it wont dry up and in shallow wells it simply will dry up.

This issue is being addressed by people who work in the MVCA  by going to peoples homes and taking water samples, drilling to make deep wells also cleaning the shallow wells. My suggestion is to use deep wells instead of shallow wells because in the end it might not affect you right this ins tent but it will in the near future, possibly taking your life.