Industrial Revolution Activities 1 and 2

The difference between Thursday's and Friday's activities was that Thursday mimicked cottage industry and Fridays mimicked factory work during the industrial revolution. The definition of cottage industry is a small scale business that produces very few finely crafted goods. This is what we did on Thursday. We took time and a lot of effort to produce one finely crafted paper doll. On the other hand, Friday was more like industrialization because we made far more paper dolls with far less craftsmanship on an assembly line. This meant that we could mass produce them but at the cost of decreased quality. You could see this because of the significant difference in quality. This is how the activities showed cottage industry and industrialization.

Roller Coaster Ride

As I stepped onto the rusted yellow cart at Disney land, I could still smell the faint, acidic odor of vomit. Obviously, some just couldn’t hold it in. However I was to excited to be scared or disgusted. I had been waiting for an hour to get on and I wasn’t getting off because of puke. The man running the ride did the safety check list and then we were on our own. My hair was swept off my face as we picked up speed. At the top of the track we seemed to stop for barely a moment and then “voosh!” My hair whipped back and my stomach lurch. I was so scared I thought I would wet my pants. We started to slow down as we went up another hill but the pause was short live. I felt as I my stomach was about to be wrenched out of me. Everybody was screaming with excitement except for me.Far below me I could see all of the hundreds of people there and maybe even Mickey Mouse. Finally, the ride slowed down for good and we got of. The vomit smell came back and my mom, my dad and I hurried off before we also puked.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Necessity is the mother of invention means that need gives birth to invention.In other words, if someone needs something, someone creates it. One example is the wheel. Dragging or having to carry something over land probably started to be a pain. Naturally, at least somebody had a problem with the current method of transport and invented the wheel out of necessity. Another example is the light bulb. Edison knew that candles and gas lamps could be very dangerous so he invented the more safe way of producing light, the light bulb. Finally, there is the PC. Before that, computers were huge, expensive, and you had to know how to program it. But people needed a cheaper, smaller, and easier way to compute things. So when people needed a personal computer, Bill Gates invented one. This shows that necessity really is the mother of invention.

Quarter 1 Goals

My first goal is to get more than eighteen AR points because I know that I can get more than the required amount.

My second goal is to take my time doing homework because I tend to get points off for making careless mistakes.

How I Learn Best

I think that I am a visual learner. I feel that this is how I learn best this way because I tend to pay more attention while reading or looking at pictures. I have to have something to focus on or else I wander off and miss something important. My worst form of learning is probably audio because then I can’t focus on anything other than somebody’s voice which most of the time I absentmindedly block out unless I really trying hard to listen. Kinesthetic learning also works though I personally prefer visual learning. The best way that you could make my learning experience better is to provide handouts or show something on the board. This is how I would learn best.

My Buddies

The people in my "Gang" are Ben, Joey, Ian, Aaron, and Justin. Ben is part of my inner circle because at my old school, we did everything together. We went to each others houses all the time to play games and goof off. Even though its been 2 years, we still Wii-mail each other all the time. Joey was in because he was the guy who's house we went to to use their sports court and play X box. He was the big footballer kid too. Ian had the same situation as Ben but he was the tiny super soccer nut. Aaron and Justin were the to jokers were the jokers who had to crack a joke and give you a noogy before doing anything. All of them were in my class and were all on my soccer team too. I was left mid, Ben was goalie, Justin and Joey were defense, Aaron was right mid, and Ian was striker. All together, we made a pretty good team.