Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you...

Respond to these prompts in the comment box.
1. What is your full name?
2. What would you like your classmates and teachers to call you?
3. What sources do you use to get news?
4. What period of history -- or aspect of history (or what country's/region's history) -- are you most interested in? (Or, if you prefer, what aspect of psychology or sociology are you most interested in?)
5. What is your favorite science experiment? (Or, what is your favorite scientific discovery?)
6. What is your favorite mathematical equation, rule, or property?
7. What book would you most like to re-read when you get older?
8. What is the best piece of non-fiction (literature of fact) that you have ever read or heard? (Think about speeches, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, letters, lab reports, newspaper article, newspaper column, newspaper editorial, magazine feature, book about history or science, etc.)
9. Translate one of your responses into a foreign language you are studying or have studied.
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11 comments:

  1. WinslowJune 9, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    1. Winslow Powers
    2. Winslow
    3. NBC and CNN news
    4. Post WWII(how did countries recover and become what they are today)
    5. Electricity
    6. Rules of equality when solving equations
    7. No particular book but biographies of important historical figures
    8. The biography of Jackie Robinson and his struggle to break the race barrier
    9. Quiero leer mas biografias

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  2. DenaliJune 10, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    1.Madeleine (middle name) MacDougal
    2. Madeleine, Maddy, something along those line (unfortunately, Madeleine doesn’t have many nicknames).
    3. B□ English class. I have no TV and have never gotten the taste for using the internet.
    4. Usually early twentieth cent. or prehistory
    5. Alchemy
    6. Fibonacci as applied to pineapples and periwinkles is a silly thing, so that it is my favorite.
    7. Wuthering Heights
    8. To tell the truth, i can’t remember everything i’ve ever read, nor am i going to spend half an hour rooting through all the loose papers in my house to look for the article i’m thinking of. It was in Discover Magazine and discussed physics. Other than Discover, i don’t tend to read non-fiction. “The best piece of non-fiction” i know is the movie Prehistoric Earth.
    9. ,,Wuthering Heights”
    no, um: Wirklich, ich vorgesse alles dass, ich habe geliest, und werde suchen nicht fur ein halb Uhr fur die Zeitschriftenartikel dass, i meine. Es war in Discover Magazine und diskutiert uber Physik. sonstig dass, ich lese Sachbücher nicht oft. ,,Die beste Sachbücher” dass, ich kenne dass Film Walking with Prehistoric Beasts sein.

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  3. MatthewJune 10, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    1. Matthew Denley Carpenter
    2. Matt
    3. MSNBC and CBS
    4. Ancient Greece and Rome
    5. Black Holes
    6. The Golden Ratio
    7. Ender's Game
    8. The Know-It-All By AJ Jacobs
    9. Il Sapere Tutto Da AJ Jacobs

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  4. AnonymousJune 11, 2011 at 6:34 AM

    1. Elizabeth Louise Stephens
    2. Whatever everyone ends up calling me is fine
    3. NBC and the New York Times
    4. The 60's
    5. Cats have a better chance of surviving a fall from an eighth floor window than one closer to the ground.
    6. Pythagorean theorem
    7. "East"
    8. I've only read on non-fiction book that I can remember, and that was "The Botany of Desire," so I guess that would be my favorite.
    9. Me llamo Elizabeth Louise Stephens

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  5. AnonymousJune 11, 2011 at 8:53 AM

    1. My full name is Jessie Rosa Carini
    2. I would like to be called Jessie or Jess
    3. I receive my news from FOX 25 news, MSN and Facebook
    4. My favorite aspect of Psychology is Mind/Behavior
    5. My favorite scientific discovery is The Big Bang Theory
    6. My favorite mathematical equation is y = mx + b
    7. The book that I would most like to read when I get older is "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
    8. The best piece of non-fiction that I have ever read or heard of is "Six Seconds in Dallas" by Josiah Thompson
    9. Il libro che vorrei leggere quando sono pui' grande e' "La Strada" da Cormac McCarthy

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  6. RachelJune 12, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    1. My full name is Rachel Marie Merchant
    2. You can call me Rachel or Rach, mostly Rachel
    3. I usually receive my news from either Fox 25 News, CNN, Facebook,and CBS
    4.WWII and how Europe reacted to this disaster. The intentions behind Hitlers' thoughts.
    5. A favorite science experiment of mine would have to be electricity and motion.
    6. My favorite mathematical equation would have to be the Pythagorean theorem because I feel as if it works out every time. Has a rewarding factor.
    7. When I am older I would love to reread The Hobbit, and re-spark my imagination, and hopefully enjoy it more.
    8. The best piece of non-fiction I have read so far would have to be "The Diary of a Young Girl" By Anne Frank. I am very interested in the Holocaust, and relating this to history and WWII, books like this would be most interesting to me.
    9. Cuando yo sea mayor me encantaria volver a leer el hobbit, y volver a despertar mi imaginacion, y disfrutar con suerte.

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  7. abbyJune 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM

    1. Abigail Elizabeth Avila
    2. I like Abby
    3. The internet, and morning news
    4. Post WWII
    5. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not but my favorite discovery would be that the moon is shrinking
    6. My favorite equation would be the quadratic formula.
    7. 1st to die by James Patterson
    8.I recently read Obama's speech on lifting the stem cell research ban, which i enjoyed.
    9.Me gusta Abby.

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  8. katieJune 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    1. Katerina Marie Russo
    2. Katie
    3. Gloucester Daily Times,Fox 25 news,CNN, Facebook.
    4. I am interested in America in the 1920s and the lifestyle people had at the time.
    5. The atomic bomb that was used on Japan.
    6. My favorite mathematical property is the distributive property.
    7. When I get older I would like to reread "The Wide Sargasso Sea."
    8. For history class, I recently read JFK's inaugural speech.
    9. Mi chiama Katerina Marie Russo.

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  9. merylJune 16, 2011 at 9:49 AM

    1. Meryl Corinne Glaser
    2. Meryl
    3. Gloucester Daily Times, Facebook, Fox 25 News, or through family and friends.
    4. I am most interested in Ancient times, like ancient Egypt, or Rome.
    5. My favorite experiment was blowing up balloons filled with magnesium gas.
    6. My favorite mathematical property is the quadratic formula
    7. I would like to re-read Heist Society by Ally Carter
    8. I recently read a biography on Marilyn Monroe for a history report. (did you know she was one of 3 children?)
    9.Guten tag, meine name ist Meryl

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  10. PaulineJune 20, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    1.Pauline Alisson Cruz
    2.Pauline
    3.Facebook, the Internet, any news stations, and from family and friends
    4.I’m most interested in the American Civil War and Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt
    5.My favorite experiment is burning magnesium strips
    6.My favorite is the Pythagorean theorem
    7.I’d like to re-read The Odyssey by Homer
    8.Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech
    9.Salute. Sono Pauline Alisson Cruz.

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  11. danielleJuly 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM

    1. Danielle Pomeroy
    2. Danielle
    3. ABC New, Fox News, Gloucester Daily Times, Boston Tribune
    4. I am most interested in the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
    5. My favorite scientific discovery is the fact that cars can run solarly powered.
    6. My favorite math property is the Pythagorean Theorem.
    7. I will most likely read the Perfect Storm when I am older.
    8. The best piece of nonfiction that I have ever heard lies in my 10th grade History textbook. History interests me greatly, and I was never bored throughout that entire class.
    10.Me llamo es Danielle Pomeroy.

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