My lit. circle refletion

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In my opinion, I think that my group discussion has helped me understand the book in may ways. One way was when Jesper told the group about how Sam's and Jacob's relationship was with each other when we were discussing our lit. circle discussion questions. Our discussion also helped me understand more about Jacob's relationship with his real father, because I kind of found the story of Jacob's Father kind of hard to understand when I was reading the book, but luckily, we were able to talk about it during our discussion time. I also found this discussion quite useful because now since everyone in my discussion group has told me some info about "thunder cave", I now have a few Ideas of how I'm going to make my next Lit. Circle. 

For my connections, I put 2 things, 1 connection that I did was about the time when my grandma passed away, due to cancer. The reason why I chose this connection was because of how much it relates to the experience that Jacob has. For example, when I was attending my Grandma's funeral, it was an extremely sad moment for me, but when I read this book, it sort of reminds me about my grandma's death. So that's pretty much why I put that in as 1 of my connections. As for my second connection, I picked that because of how much it relates to the experience that Jacob's mom had. Luckily, my mom wasn't injured  that badly, which makes me feel quite relieved when I think about it, but luckily, my mum just had her foot injured. 

My Prediction:

I assume that Jacob will probably have a problem that may occur when he tries to arrange for a flight to Kenya. I say this because of how inconvenient his flight will be to Kenya, my reasons to support this, will be that, how can Jacob arrange a flight to Kenya in such a short time period? Surely, Jacob probably wants his flight to be arranged in just a few days, which is pretty hard because people are meant to book a flight ticket A MONTH before they actually fly on the plane. Plus, where will he get the money to even by a ticket? A flight ticket arranged to take him ALL the way to Kenya would probably cost thousands of dollars (And probably a few hundred more dollars more because his flight it had to be arranged in such a short period of time)! 

Besides that, let me talk more about what I THINK Jacob might discover in Kenya. I think that Jacob will  discover the "Thunder Cave". In my own opinion, I think that the thunder cave might be some sort of ancient cave, that; is what caused the drought in Kenya in the first place, somehow, something must've triggered the events in Kenya to happen. As mentioned at the back of the book: "Will Jacob end the drought in Kenya?". This sort of gives me a clue of what this story is REALLY about, plus it also mentioned "And save the elephants from extinctions?" I this also gives me a clue about what might probably happen in the story. Overall, I would say that the thunder cave is actually the cave that (I don't how) causes the rain in Kenya to happen, which is why Jacob must go their when he visits Kenya. 

An awesome comic (made by me) that is better then alex's!

From a mud skipper's point of view....

I'm lying under my big mound of mud, waiting for those giants outside to hurry up with their business. I drill out a small hole in my mound of mud and pear through, only to see 5-6 giants walking around this certain area, mumbling gibberish to each other "blah blahby blah" is what I hear from them. "I wonder if this is how they communicate with others" I thought. I carefully slither out of my mud mound dragging along my long tale with me, and hop towards the nearest plant I can put my eyes on. "Just 1 hop at a time.....Just 1 hop at a time..Just 1 h.." I repeatedly whisper to myself, hopefully those giants won't get a visual of me. I steadily crawl pass the giant elongated cuboids that towered above me, as I do that, I take a second to see what exactly these towers are. I study 1 tower and then another, and another, "ooohhh, these are Mangroves in progress of growing" I say. 


I make a quick check on whether the giants are following me, or whether they have spotted me. "Phew, i'm still invincible to their line of sight" I thought. I see 1 giant just a few kilometers away, he seems to be angrily stabbing at the mud, "grrrrrr, he's destroying our homes! Wait a minute....is that.....a Mangrove sapling?!" I said, I carefully move towards him, slowly and steadily, hopefully he won't see me. I study every action he makes; the giant delicately places the sapling into the big hole that he must've been stabbing at, "ooooooh, the giants are planting Mangrove trees" I thought. I turn around and hop back to the muddy area of where I once were, until I stop dead in my tracks, I turn to my right and I see 3 giants just a few hundred meter away from me. I notice that they're foots are stuck in the mud. "Oh no" "If those giants spot me, i'm a goner!" I said quietly, I try best to act camoflauge, so that the Giants won't spot me. I see 1 of them look at me "I'm Dead!" I say loudly. 


1 of the giants say something "May muys, ckook! yits ay dudstipper" Is what I THINK they are saying. One of them tries to grab me; and in the process, trips over a mound of mud. A flock of fiddler crabs scurry out of the mounds shouting "Repent! the end is near" says 1, Another says "Every crab for themselves". What have these giants done? I start hopping away from the disastrous area, "Better safe then sorry" I thought, I try to avoid every possible way of the giants ever getting me. Next thing I know, giant clumps of mud are falling through the air, "arrrrrrgh!" I say as a huge clump lands right beside me, flattening a group of fiddler crabs. "Oh the horror!" I say, as I continue to hop my way through this horrifying battlefield. I'm just a few meters from shelter, 'I'm about to make it!" I thought, but then, a huge clump of mud lands on top of me. 


P.S I bet you can't guess what "May muys, ckook! yits ay dudstipper" means!

Bullying

When I lived in Singapore, I remember seeing a bunch of kids picking on my friend in the elementary school courtyard. I didn't want to get involved with the incident so I just watched. It was hard to bear with, but it was the last day of school, and I didn't want to spend my summer grounded by my mother and father, because they usually get mad when I get into fights. So I had no choice, but to leave them alone.

How I would handle the situation? Well, during the time, I was not as brave as I am right now, so I wasn't really that much of a speaker, I was more of an observer actually. But, if I encounter a situation like this in the future, then, I would totally stand up for my friend. Because, anybody who picks on other people makes me sick, its just so unfair. See, when you're being bullied, you don't seem to answer back, because you're afraid that they're going to say something back to you. Especially if theres like 3 people ganging up on you. But, since I have had experience in these types of situation, so my advice to some people is to tell them to back of if theirs 1 person, or just tell them that you're being very annoyed and just leave.

2 goals:
My first goal that I will try hard to get, is to respect people, because, that way, it'll be more easier for people to get along with each other and make friends.

Another goal I want to make is to be more nice to the people I meet. That way, people will think that I am a nice person and they might want to make friends with me.

Courage, something we have experienced in life.....

I remember once when I was 5 years old, I was REALLY scared of this video that my big sister showed me. The video was actually mean't to be a lyrics video for a song made by the "backstreet boys" ( yes, at the time I used to like the "back street boys" but now I realised how much I DON'T like them ). But as a matter of fact, the video wasn't as I thought it would be. 

When the video starts, its just what I expected, a bunch of lyrics scrolling down the screen and music playing - but 15 mins into the video, the lyrics start to shrink and shrin k and shrink, which makes it harder to read. But that was actually mean't to happen, the trick was to make me look closer at the computer, and that was exactly what me and my brother did, next thing you know......BOOM! A big hideous disgusting and EXTREMELY scary face pops up in the screen and starts making screaming noises, which doubles my shock, and makes me jump out of my chair and I practically crack my head on the ceiling, but me actually cracking my head was at the least of my worries, I need to get out of the room......FAST. 

Don't watch it!

I'm aware that my brother had the same shocked expression as me when he saw the hideous screaming face which made him scream, but I couldn't hear it over my own scream which rattled my eardrums and I think nearly burst 1 of them, but I didn't care, I tried to run but I accidentally tripped and fell on the floor, by then, my arms felt like water which prevented me from standing up, plus, I was to scared to get up and thought that if I spent to much time doing so, the face on the computer would eat me!!!  So just soon as my brother ran right beside me I hooked onto 1 of his legs with my arms, unlike me, he managed to keep his balance and not trip and fall on the floor, and he even kept running! So in just a few seconds, I'm speeding out of the study room hanging on for dear life on my brother's leg, when my mom and dad stop me. 

I explained the entire situation to my mom and also told her about the scary man on the computer that screamed at me. Then she sends my dad to the study room to X out of the screen so that the video is gone, as for my sister, well she got a big lecture on showing scary video's to me and my brother and how its bad to watch them. Well, I didn't exactly hear the conversation because me and my brother was in my room trembling with fear hoping that we'll never watch a video like that for as long as we live. Well later during dinner, me and my brother were discussing about the video and what the picture was. My sister then explained that the picture was from "Scary Movie 2", and that it was edited in photoshop, but my brother said that it looked like Michael Jackson. We all had a good laugh after that. 


2 years later, my brother and I were still scared of the experience that we had, until my brother came  up with the idea that we should face our fears and watch the video again. I refused at first but after a bit of thinking, I agreed to watch the video with my brother. When the video started, it was just the same old thing, 5 mins past, the words start to shrink, my nerves are being extremely strained by now. The words start to shrink even smaller, man, my nerves are killing me! Here it comes.....Boom! Just as I expected, the face comes up, my eyes bulge, I wanted to scream but I couldn't, but as soon as I'm about to run away, the video ends. Wow, now since I think of it, that video didn't seem as scary as I though it would be, thank god it was over, i'm just glad that i've conquered my fears and for me, thats all that matters. 


P.S Just don't tell me to watch it AGAIN, that video gave me nightmares for days and i'm trying to get rid of the memory, if YOU want to watch it, take this ☝ as a warning not to!  


Resources: 


http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.concretebadger.net/images/blog/editorials/you-make-kitty-scared.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/02/10/epic-fail-the-worst-anime-ever/&usg=__PUSybg9UZIkZUVLsz7K5M4TNISw=&h=444&w=405&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=TzKvHn1pcbLt9M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscared%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1723%26bih%3D996%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=743&vpy=230&dur=829&hovh=235&hovw=214&tx=144&ty=124&ei=iXGHTLWmIIm8cdbdvZsG&oei=iXGHTLWmIIm8cdbdvZsG&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0 


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Artifact homework

What do the artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans?


I think that ancient artifacts tell us about the stories and adventures that early hominids have experienced millions of years ago. Many anthropologists have assumed that the cave paintings and sculptures found in caves could have symbolized an event or a celebration that must've occurred during the time, or it could be a story that early hominids used to tell to their own kind. Whether or not they were intelligent enough to even create such sculptures or paintings is a whole new story, as for now, I will explain 3 reasons of how artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans. 


First of, many people may think that hominids are just a bunch of dumb apes that spend most of their times swinging from ropes and eating banana's from trees. I however, disagree, in fact, say that to a anthropologist and you'll get a heck of a lecture, it'll probably do you some good, but enough with apes, we're talking about hominids; hominids are actually prehistoric humans that hasn't evolved into the humans that we are today, but instead of focusing on what a hominid is, we're going to focus on some examples of how ancient artifacts give us info on how life was like on earth millions of year ago. 


Reason  1. 
Many paleonanthropologists say that cave paintings or sculptures were actually stories that related to the adventures and journeys or even events that have occurred way before the painting was ever made. Luckily scientists have been able to get useful information from the paintings in caves by inferring on what had happened 3 million years ago. But what does it tell us? Well this proves that the early humans were intelligent enough to make cave paintings, and it also tells us that they could make sculptures.


Reason  2. 
Other artifacts however, weren't actually cave sculptures or cave paintings, they were actually tools that were used to help them catch and eat food. This tells us that the hominids were smart enough to make their own tools. 


Reason 3. 
Also another thing is that by studying a hominids bones you'll be able to see whether their brain was as big as a modern day human's, unfortunately no. This explains why hominids aren't as smart as us which why they are more ape like and not like us.  


Resources: 
http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/images/sheridenpeccaryallartifactssmall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2001octobersheridencavepage1.htm&usg=__hb7j9-DsSre7VONKt1A7Eho-OGM=&h=297&w=370&sz=14&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3cIgOuuc-Zbu8M:&tbnh=186&tbnw=243&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcave%2Bartifacts%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1152%26bih%3D1011%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=409&ei=Em1-TMbHN8qjca6OydAJ&oei=Em1-TMbHN8qjca6OydAJ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0&tx=88&ty=61