Summer Vacation

School is almost over and everyone is very exited. We don't have very much stuff left to do, mainly the distric assment tests are left. After that we go to six flags which will be awesome. After that is the last day already. What we do there is just sign each others yearbooks. Then we have the whole summer to do what ever we want.

Why can't seawater quench your thirst?

Imagine that you are stranded on an Island with nothing to drink there is saltwater, but will you drink it or will you not. Well you shouldn’t because it will just make you dehydrated. You are better off just not drinking at all, you will also have a chance of living longer if you do this. But still why does this make you dehydrated, the main reason is because it has salt in it. Salt water also has way to much salt in it for the kidneys to produce urine. If the kidneys tried to do this you would die of dehydration.

Why can’t the kidneys produce urine from salt water? The urine that the kidneys produce is much less salty than salt water to begin with. The more you drink the thirstier you get and the harder it is on your kidneys. If you drink a small amount it’s not going to kill you though. Sodium is needed in our body for us to live, but salt is sodium and other unhealthy things like chloride. Another thing bad about sea water is it could have chemicals in it like oil.

Besides the kidneys another thing in our body needs fresh water to live. In our body cells need fresh water because it is a major part in our bodies. The salt water will pass through the cells and do nothing causing you to dehydrate. All of this is a process called osmosis. Salt water is also heavier than the water inside the cells. Salt water is also very unhealthy for you in large quantities it increases the salt in your body, it could even cause your blood pressure to raise also unhealthy. But the bottom line is a person who drinks salt water is just making themselves thirstier!

Salt water has many unhealthy effects on our body mainly dehydration. Many parts of our body cannot handle it in large quantities as well. If you are stranded on an Island like Vicki and Andy you are better off just not drinking anything. If necessary you should wait for help to come. It may be hard to resist, but salt water kills by not getting water to any parts of your body. Your body will go haywire and attempt to find any water molecules in your body. Salt water just makes everything a whole lot worse.

Career Days

We learned alot during career days, it helps us to figure out the things we can do when we grow up. We also got to be away from school for two days. It wasn't that hard either, all we had to do is walk around. I liked going to UWM and WTCT because they had lots of stuff that you can go to school for. I didn't like going to Westwood or that bank because there were only a few things that you could do there, and I found it quite boring.

Social Studies Revolutionary War Paper

Imagine you are living inside the Revolutionary War, you are alone because your parents are gone. First of all what would you do. In the movie “The Patriot” and the book War Comes to Willy Freeman Gabriel and Benjamin have gone to war leaving there kids alone, and Willy’s Mather is gone, there is also similarities and differences between the book and the Movie.


In the book War comes to Willy Freeman Willy looks for her mom because she is captured by the British. Willy’s dad was killed in action while in a warzone. It is pretty accurate because it had characters like George Washington and General Cornwallis. It also had a lot of things that the British did like burning down cities and killing innocent civilians.

Though this is great book on the Revolutionary War there is also a movie called The Patriot. This movie is about a Father and his son going to war. The family name is Martin. The Patriot shows how brutal the British were by killing children and slaves. This movie is very accurate on the things the British did. Another thing that this movie shows is how the Contenental Army was a lot smarter and had more strategy than the British had.

There are many similarities with the book and the movie. They both talk about the war and how children were left alone during the war. Both of these also involve kids having to step up and do things like joining the army. A lot of the weapons like muskets and bayonets were used in both the book and movie as well. Another thing that is the same is the characters that were used like George Washington and General Cornwallis.

While there are similarities with the book and the movie there are also differences. The story is completely different in the book Willy is searching for her mom and in The Patriot Benjamin and his son are fighting in the Militia. Another thing that is different is the main characters in the book it is about the Arabus family and the Movie is about the Martin family.

Although there are similarities and differences with these two things, these are both good learning materials about the Revolutionary War. They both talk about how strong and organized the British were. If I were teaching about this I would recommend both of these.

Historical Fiction Paper

The battle started on April 12, 1861 when the Confederacy under the command of P.G.T Beauregard shot their cannons at our supply ship carrying our food, ammunition, and our drinking water. Our men were down to eating crackers and some of the drinking water we had left. We were running out of water and crackers quickly and we were going to starve to death without the food. The Confederacy hated us being in South Carolina, it was supposed to be their territory. Robert Anderson was our leader in the fort we had communication with the rest of the Union. Our headquarters said that they would attempt to send another ship without guns or ammunition on the ship . The Union told the Confederacy that there would be no guns or ammunition on the ship, but the Confederacy still shot down the ship.

The Confederacy obviously wanted to start a battle with us, and their obvious intention was to get us out of the fort . We would not go down without a fight. Robert Anderson ordered for us to fire back. We started to fire at the confederacy, we figured we had the advantage. We quickly discovered something horrible though. Our cannons were not strong enough to reach the confederacy . We quickly ran out of ammunition for the cannons as well once the Confederacy saw this they started to get into ships and move toward us cannons were constantly fired at our fort.

The confederacy fired at our fort for 34 straight hours at our fort. The reason why we could not hit them back was because it was too risky to use our best cannons at the top of the fort. If we used these cannons we would all get killed easily. On April 13 we had to evacuate the fort. There were no Union causalities or any men KIA. Though there was one Confederate causality caused by one of the confederate cannon misfires. We escaped using ships Abraham Lincoln sent for help. Our fort was completely destroyed. Most importantly though is that the Civil War had begun.

The Giver

I thought thr Giver was an okay play. I thought they needed alot I more props though I mean with the apple thing and the babies. That is pretty pathetic I thought it would be much better if they had better backrounds. All they had was a table and a few chairs, they can do much better than that.