Reflection

          While working on the Sir Gawain and the Green Knights project, I learned a lot and I had fun. I learned a lot about the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knights. I also learned about the symbols, each character of the story, the setting of the story, and the themes of this story. I really enjoy story because it is quite cool. Also, I had a lot of fun making the Prezi presentation. If I can improve my presentation, I will improve it. I wish I typed less text in the part with the plot because it have way too much words and in presentations, people won't do that. I also wish that I can be able to see other people's presentation. However, I think that both me and Dylan did a pretty good job on the Prezi powerpoint as well as the presentation and if I am allowed to change things, I won' t change a lot of it.

Heroes Nowadays_Stephen Hawking

          Stephen Hawking is a hero alive nowadays. He is a hero in my opinion because he is one of the top most influential scientists alive nowadays and not only that, he who suffered from motor neurone disease still tries and help other people nowadays learn even though he can't talk. He is almost completely paralyzed but he still takes account of changing the world with science. He also wrote books for children for them to understand about space such as George's Secret Key to the Universe. He is a hero to me.


To learn more about Stephen Hawking, please click the following link of his biography: http://www.biography.com/people/stephen-hawking-9331710

Online Courses

After looking over the website of MIT Open Course Ware, we saw that there are a lot of catagories and sub catagories. Under each catagory is another sub catagory where you can choose one specific course. For example, under Engineering, which is a catagory, you can find a whole other classes based on engineering such as Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering,Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering Systems Division, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. After choosing which certain class you want to learn about, you click into it.When you click into it, you can find videos and audio courses which you can download to listen or watch if you do not wish to read. There are also tranlslated coursed for people who do not understand English or who are not fluent in it.  These languages include Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Spanish, Portugese, and Persian.We think that the website provides many courses for people who wish to learn during their free time.  However, it would probably be best if you get a high school degree and graduate from college.  This website is still great for learning for additional help in certain courses or a sort of way to gain more inforamtion during somebody's free time.

Traits of a Hero

          In my opinion, I think that a hero can be anyone depending on who's point of view you are looking at. To a little brother, his older brother, a criminal, might be a hero to him since his older brother once helped the little brother but from the outside world, the older brother is not a hero but a criminal. It all depends on which point of view you look at it. However, why does the little brother consider his older brother to be a hero? Because of something the older brother did before, so in order to be a hero, there is some qualities that you need to have or once owned. Some traits are honesty, kindness, bravery and courage, and a kind heart. These traits are very similar to what make a legendary a legendary. A hero can be a major character like Rosa Parks or people like you and me depending on which way you look at it because to different people, you might be heroes.  

Peer Review

          I have done peer editing in school with my classmates several times and most of the time, I ended up grading a lot of stuff on the other person's paper. Here is a list of some things that I base some critics and what some classmates can do better to improve their writing on:

• Check for name, date, class on either upper left or right corner depending on the teacher
• Check for a tittle of the paper 
• Check for grammar mistakes such as run-on sentences or incorrect use of verb tense
• Check for any spelling mistakes
• Check for paragraphs and indents at the start of each paragraph
• Check for main idea/thesis
• Check whether the content of the paragraph match the main idea/thesis
• Check whether they have concluding sentences at the end of each paragraph.
• Check for a beginning, middle, and end paragraph

Qualities of Legendaries

          What makes these legends Robin Hood, King Arthur, Robin Cruise who they are? They must have special qualities and traits that make them different from other people. Most legendary people are people who did something that made a big difference during that time or someone who did some kind of good deed during their lives. Some traits that might turn someone into a legend is kindness, honesty, a good heart, bravery and courage. For example, Robin Hood is a very kind person even though he robs from the nobility. However, he don't rob those people for himself. He robs those people for the poor. Nowadays, it will be hard to have legends since everything will be well recorded through technology. With technology, nearly everything will be recorded and so, I don't think there will be any legends in the future. 

Remember, don't...

          The people around me are always reminding me to remember to do something or remember, don't do something and sometimes, it gets very annoying. It gets even more annoying when the notice to do something or don't do something is basically things I've never considered to do. There are also some people that always remind me to do something when I've already done it and that can also be very annoying. For example, when it is my turn of the week to feed the turtle, my brother will use the telephone and phone my room to remind me to feed the turtle when I'm trying to fall asleep and most of the times, I've fed the turtle already. So, that telephone is basically a wake up phone call. Other times, my mother use to remind me to to "Don't do dangerous actions". For example, a couple years ago, I jumped off the swing while swinging way up high and to be honest, it is kind of dangerous, but most of the time when I do such things, I am not used to consider such consequences. If my mother didn't remind me, I probably will never stop jumping off the swing and one day, I probably would get hurt. Of course, all these reminders are said in Chinese and not in English.