Looking for Pythagoras Investigation 4 Reflection

1. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8

2. 1/3, 1/6, 1/9

3. √5, √2, √213,

4. If the decimal terminates or repeats at any point, it can be written as a fraction, THEORETICALLY. This fraction could be extremely dificult to write, if the decimal begins repeating after thousands of digits.

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Dairy Farm Reflection

What was my field trip to the Dairy Farm like? Well, we didn't see much dairy, and we didn't see much farm. Sadly, most of the original rainforest has been cut down to make way for dairy farming, but the jungle has taken most of its original land back. The soil here is dry, because there isn't much rain nowadays. We learned about a snake that could burrow underground by using its tail as a pick, but with the ground growing harder, this is growing increasingly difficult. Also, the forest is no longer shielded from wind, because of the BKE cutting down the guardian trees that block the wind, so the forest is being destroyed quickly. The soil is so dry, we might even see the extinction on certain burrowers in Singapore, which could topple the ecosystem. The soil in the SAS forest is also inhospitable for burrowers, so Bukit Timah, MacRitchie, and Botanic Gardens might also be facing the same problem.

Did you know, rubber seeds explode? When they have grown to a certain size, they disperse by firing a chemical explosion which launches the seeds into the air. In a light-poor area, this helps disperse the seed over large distance. The explosions that punctuated the cicadas in the forest scared lots of people in our group, but I think the most frightening of what Raj taught is about was the flying snake. By flattening its body, it can glide over fifty meters from the top of a tree (where in blazes are the aerodynamics of that?) and crash land into its preys face. Imagine being attacked by one of those...

Luckily, SAS doesn't have any of those.

Hopefully.

The Burrowing and Probably Harmless Snake

The Heroes Journey - Star Trek: First Contact

1. Hero in an Ordinary World
Picard is in charge of the Enterprise-E, operating on a patrol mission of the Romulan Neutral Zone- which has seen nothing suspicious in the last five years.

2. Call to Adventure
The Borg send a Cube to attack Sector 001, and a fleet of forty starships are sent to protect Earth. The Enterprise-E is a Sovereign-class so it is more than capable of engaging the Cube, and could turn the tables if it joined the battle.

3. Refusal of the Call
Starfleet orders Picard to remain patrolling the Neutral Zone. Picard chooses to follow orders, even though he knows the real reason he can't join the fight is that he was once assimilated into the Borg, and his tactics let the borg destroy an entire fleet of ships at Wolf 359.

4. Meeting the Mentor
Perhaps Lily, from the 21st century, is Picards mentor, for she teaches Picard why he shouldn't waste more Tactical Soldiers on saving the Enterprise, because he is simply sending them to their death, and destroy the Enterprise instead, thereby killing the Borg and saving the timeline.

5. Crossing the Threshold
Picard and the Enterprise-E follow the Borg Sphere back in time to save Earth.

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies
Riker, Picards first officer, discovers Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp travel, and tries to recruit him into helping them save earth. Back on the Enterprise-E, the Borg have boarded in Main Engineering, and are assimilating the starship from the inside.

7. Belly of the Whale
Picard enters the transwarp matrix with the Borg Sphere and return to the 22nd century to stop the Sphere before it overtakes the currently primitive Earth.

8. The Road of Trials
First, the Borg assimilate the plasma coolant tanks which were the Enterprises only defense against Borg assimilation. Picard fails miserably, First Officer Data is captured and two Tactical Squads are assimilated. Then, Picard is stranded deep inside the Enterprise and surrounded by Borg. He does better here, and tricks two Borg Drones into the holodeck, and shoots them with a tommy gun from a recreation of the 20th century. Then, the Borg attempt to make a beacon on the Enterprises Navigational Deflector, so Picard, Security Officer Worf, and Helmsman Hawk take an EV suit and detach the Beacon from the Deflector, but Hawk is assimilated and Worf must kill him.

9. The Ultimate Gift
In this case, the gift would be a normal timeline- Zefram Cochrane completes his warp flight just as history should have been.

10. The Road Back
The Enterprise recreates the time travel patterns of the late Borg Sphere, and travel forward in time to the present.

11. Rebirth/Resurrection
Mankinds history has been fixed. The next Borg invasion is not for another six years.

Weapons of Mass Distraction

In all honesty, a total around 95% of all people in my class look at something they shouldn't be on in the middle of class. Being at the back of the class, I can see almost everyones computers, and still haven't seen more than two people on what they should be on. And it is really, really, really hard to concentrate on what the teacher said while concentration on something else. I have tried it. But it is hard not to go on another site- as I am writing this, there is someone right next to me looking at Facebook. But when the class begins to drag on, and we go onto a topic that I have already basically understood, or doesn't seem to be necessary to my learning (you have said that "this is the most important lesson in seventh grade" hundreds of times, Mr. Buxton), I will go onto something- even worse, I will directly try to find something more interesting even without an ad, or an eMail. I will try to distract myself just so that I can escape the lesson and look at something more interesting or funny. That's also why people immediately read an email when they receive it- they are bored with what they are doing and so they directly try to distract themselves by reading the email. And even better, receiving an eMail isn't their fault, so they technically aren't distracting themselves, they are the ones being distracted, and of course, the email could be important, so there is no guilt from distracting yourself on an eMail. All in all, the actual distraction is boredom- if I don't think the lesson is worth listening to, I won't listen.

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Complicated sentences and Complex sentences

What is a complex sentence?
A complex sentence is a sentence which has one independent clause with one or more dependent clauses, which, unlike both clauses in a compound sentence, CANNOT stand alone.

What are the different parts that make up a complex sentence?
Two subjects and verbs (one for each clause), a subordinator (kind of like FANBOYS, joins the two clauses together, FX. Because, Since, After...), and if the subordinator is a the beginning of the sentence, a comma in between the two clauses.

What are the differences between complex sentences and compound sentences?
Compound sentences have two independent clauses that can both stand alone in a sentence. Complex sentences have one independent clause and one dependent clause, which cannot stand alone. Also, Compound sentences are linked with FANBOYS, complex sentences can have many other subordinators.

I went to Social Studies after lunch, but my friend headed off to RLA. While I was working on my Social Studies project, I realized I had forgotten my computer. I ran down to the RLA room, but my friend wasn't in his class. I did not see my friend because he had left to find me. Although I had forgotten my computer at the cafeteria, my friend had already found it and was trying to return it!

Fitness Plan

My Fitness Plan

1. Do you think you are getting enough exercise? Why or why not?

Hardly. Just getting 60 minutes on each day was incredibly hard, especially with extracurriculars and such. On a normal basis, I would probably get a lot less than 60 minutes.

2. Check out the benefits of fitness document we have shared with you.

What Benefits of fitness do you hope to improve through your weekly fitness plan? Please list 3-5 benefits of fitness

Exercising improves my self-esteem and enthusiasm, and it decreases stress. Also, it decreases the chance of heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and several other particularly dangerous diseases. It also helps several other seemingly trivial things, such as better digestion, better sleep, and makes calcium distribution more efficient.