In this final week of my Twenty Percent, I finished my website! The sixth week was a struggle because of the amount of work I still had left to finish. I still had more then half of my quizzes left to finish and my week was also fairly busy because of my extracurriculars. Because of […]
Website – 20% Project Week 5
In the fifth week of my Twenty Percent Project, I edited and customized my website a little bit, but only for a few minutes in the begining of the class period. After this, I started researching about different websites that I could use to help me make my quizzes for my website. I started reading, […]
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
The picture below sends a strong message. It shows that the value of what you have isn’t based on how big or new it is, but on how much you appreciate it. Each peron will be more or less appriciative of what they have, but we should always try to be like the child on […]
Website – 20% Project Week 3
This week, for my Twenty Percent Project I started asking people about more specific subjects that I didn’t have enough of. For example, lots of the people who filled out the form had written about books in the romance and mystery genres, so I didn’t have enough reviews for science fiction, sports or fantasy books. […]
Rad Reading – April
This month, one of the books I finished was Float by Kate Marchant. The book is about a girl named Waverly who lives in Alaska with her two parents. Both of her parents are teachers with high expectations for their daughter. One day, Waverly’s dad tells her that she will stay with her aunt for the […]
My Favorite Place
If I were to pick my favorite place in my house, I would probably choose my living room. Our living room is right next to our dining room and kitchen and they have no walls separating them, so it’s just like one big room. One of the walls facing away from our front door has […]
Website – 20% Project Week 4
In the fourth week of my Twenty Percent Project, I started the actual website on which I will publish with the quizzes that I will create. I had already determined how I would make the website, so I started by creating a logo and picking the colors and fonts that I would use throughout the […]
Website – 20% Project Week 2
I just finished the second week of my 20% Project. I asked more people about books that they recently read and enjoyed. I ended up getting a few interviews done in the class period. A couple days later, I decided that even after narrowing down which questions I would ask for each interview, each one […]
My Dinner Party
If I could have a dinner party with three people I wanted to invite, dead, alive, past, present or future, I would pick both of my parents when they were my age and my future self. First of all, I would invite my parents to see how they were actually like when they were my […]
Website – 20% Project Week 1
In my class, each person in class is separately working on their Twenty Percent Project. A Twenty Percent Project is when one can pick one thing that they have always wanted to do, and learn how to do it. For my project, I am creating a website for middle schoolers. People who go onto the […]