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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Museum of Natural Science & History
On January 27th, we went to the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. On the way there, we sung 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. It was about a 35 minute drive. When we got there, we went to visit all of the dinosaurs. Then we went upstairs to the RACE exhibit. We […]
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 […]
When Spines Can Speak
The Alchemyst The Third Mushroom Full of Beans
Dispute in Sign Language
So I did a project on a story called “A Dispute in Sign Language”. It was about a monk who wanted to join a new temple and study. The master asked to go outside and talk with another monk. He wanted to flex, so he did it in sign language, and it did not go […]
Duke vs UNC
The college basketball season just started on November 7th. The top 10 seeded teams all played bottom D1 teams. UNC played against one of its sister schools, UNC Wilmington. The final score between them was 69-56 UNC. Duke played Jacksonville State. The final score was 71-44 Duke. Although UNC Wilmington is a better school that […]
Camp Hanes
On Thursday, September 29, we went to Camp Hanes for one night. We got to DA at around 7:45 in the morning. It was cold. Soon, we got into advisories and then got onto the buses. I was on bus one. It was a 2.5 hour drive. We watched Madagascar on the way there & […]