My Stocks Project

This year, we read The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. One of the main characters, Turtle Wexler, loves the stock market, so we decided to do a fake stock market project. For my stocks, I picked Berkshire Hathaway, Gilead Sciences, Intel, IBM, Nike, and Lego Coin. My stocks were very bad, as I lost almost […]

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My TED Like Talk

My TED like Talk was about the History of Chess, and how it started. First I talked about the earliest form of Chess: Chaturanga. It is basically the same thing as chess but with a few variations, such as the queen can only move one square, and the bishop can only move two squares. Back […]

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Fun Projects

This trimester, I played the trumpet in my band rotation. In the beginning, I couldn’t even make a sound, but after I learned how to properly blow into the trumpet, I could start to play notes. We moved from basic things like Lovett Warmup #1 to Pirate’s Cave and Ole. We even learned how to […]

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My Ideal World

Welcome to Bazoo! We are a planet that is 1.5x the size of the Earth in the ADA star . The population is seven billion humans and half a million giraffes. Giraffes are the ruling species because humans were doing a bad job of ruling Bazoo. The humans were polluting the atmosphere and were killing […]

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Mirror or Window

I have been reading “10 Things I Hate About Pinky” by Sandhya Menon. It is about a girl whose parents think that she is all bad, all the time. During summer, they traveled to their summer house. There, they met up with her cousin, Dolly. The next day, the barn burned down. Pinky’s mom blamed […]

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