School Projects

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Robert Coontz (Administrator)

Including home-school projects. By special request of iwanttobeamuffin, who is working on a project about Tornado Alley.

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95 Responses to School Projects

SupremeMuser2000, the All Mighty Queen of Museicalifornia says:

March 29, 2007 at 10:49 am

I’m working on an ODESSEY project. I hate that book.

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SupremeMuser2000, the All Mighty Queen of Museicalifornia says:

March 29, 2007 at 10:50 am

Oops. I didn’t spell that right.

FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(And second)

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Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

March 29, 2007 at 10:52 am

(1),

I love that book. What’s your project?

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Whisk (the alias of someone very cool) says:

March 29, 2007 at 10:53 am

That last post was pointless. And so is this one.

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SupremeMuser2000, the All Mighty Queen of Museicalifornia says:

March 29, 2007 at 10:54 am

3- I have to make a notebook, with chapter summaries, drawings, sea monsters, lists of gods and humans, and a bunch of other stuff.

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Whisk (the alias of someone very cool) says:

March 29, 2007 at 10:55 am

GAH! I meant sm2k’s last post. I’ll go away now.

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iwanttobeamuffin says:

March 29, 2007 at 11:00 am

Thank you. Now, I will ask again – does anyone live in tornado alley, because I would like some info about it from someone who lives there. Thanks!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

March 29, 2007 at 11:17 am

(5),

Like an Odyssey encyclopedia? That would tend to spoil the fun. Still, it’s a great story, with great characters. The sea monsters are the least interesting parts of it, if you ask me. Maybe you could make the project more entertaining for yourself by doing the pictures in the style of ancient Greek vase paintings.

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davidude says:

March 29, 2007 at 12:18 pm

I’m doing a project about the nutrition of my school’s lunches. When there is pizza, cheeseburgers, and fries availible every day, you start to wonder…

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Majora's Wrath says:

March 29, 2007 at 12:30 pm

i have to do a school project on the rock cycle. i’ll probably do a video where i interview a rock called The Rock.

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Der Wachtelschlag says:

March 29, 2007 at 12:40 pm

To Kill A Mockingbird–I hate this book. There is something morally reprehensible about burning books, but I could bury it without any tears.

5-It might be fun to make it look like a teen magazine. Or a special MUSE issue on Greek gods. That’ll confuse ’em.

7-It’s in the middle US. I live in Illinois. Here, every public building has an ‘In Case Of Tornado’ sign with a map, telling you what to do, and we have school drills. That means you go to the strongest walls, sit against the wall with your knees up and neck covered, and stay that way for about twenty minutes. That’s about it.

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grnqween2011 says:

March 29, 2007 at 2:01 pm

I’m doing a powerpoint about the salem village witch craft trials

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kt the gr8 says:

March 29, 2007 at 3:26 pm

i have to write and illustrate a childrens book! it is sooooo fun!

i will scan it and have the gapas put it on muse blog if they can!

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Potato Chip says:

March 29, 2007 at 3:37 pm

I have to make a collage of the four seasons and sports and activities that I supposedly do during them. *rolls eyes*

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Potato Chip says:

March 29, 2007 at 3:37 pm

for French. I forgot to add that. au printemps, en ete, en automne, en hiver.

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Phan says:

March 29, 2007 at 3:39 pm

1 – I love that book. That’s why I named myself Rosy-Fingered Dawn for a bit.

4 – That one wouldn’t be quite as pointless if you were a PoPoPo Officer, and fined SM2K virtual choklit. If you would like to become part of the PoPoPo (Pointless Post Police), just appoint yourself and fine virtual choklit and/or temporary banning from certain threads for pointless posts. However, please try not to post PoPos.

6 – I suppose that wasn’t pointless, so I’ll just ask you to watch your posting again.

I have an extremely froody social studies teacher, and she gives us great projects. We were learning about the Superstition Mountains’ supposed gold mine, so she teamed us up and had us hide “treasure” around the school and give clues or a map to another group for them to find it.

In Spanish we were supposed to create a boring catalog with people wearing clothes and say “El lleva una camiseta blanca, blablablah…” but that was too boring, so I did extra. I made a catalog, but also a dialogue to go with it, about a spoiled girl shopping with her mother, and the salesgirl going through the catalog. There’s an invisible hat, hypnotism glasses, and magic flying shoes, not to mention a bunch of Muse-ry Loves Company merchandise.

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Jadestone says:

March 29, 2007 at 3:51 pm

11- Our scool is stupid and tornado position is where you are on the ground like a turte with hads over your neck, and your back and spine compleatly exposed along with most of your head. The way your school does it is the safe way, but no one pays attention around here. Grr. Plus, sitting on the floor crowed in with a bunchof sweaty people you don’t know is not fun. Meh.

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Der Wachtelschlag says:

March 29, 2007 at 4:11 pm

15-Why don’t you write about the elections in Quebec instead? They’re much more exciting. “Au printemps, Monsieur “Mon Oncle Jean” Charest parle avec Monsieur Harper en Ottawa…” I could have fun with that.

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dark duke of darkness says:

March 29, 2007 at 4:36 pm

i have a research paper on the 20’s (any topic) a scene to preform (drama) a math fair (math) a science thing in which i pretend to be a groundwater cleanup person, and present to a fake town council about why my company should clean their groundwater over everyone else’s . and im doing dancing in spanish class.

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Dodecahedron (c+q) says:

March 29, 2007 at 4:42 pm

I have 2 social studies projects(really, 2 parts of 1 project). One is to do a 8.5×11 poster on this guy from the 1920s, Alfred P. Sloan (who is he? I think he was head of General Motors for a while). The second we got to choose the event it was on in the 1920s. I chose the Scopes Monkey Trial. It has to be in the style of the time period, with at least 20 slang words. There’s a variety of options for how to present it.

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Potato Chip says:

March 29, 2007 at 4:57 pm

18- I wish I could. But the teacher probably wouldn’t allow it. I guess I better stick to “En hiver, je fais du patin au glace et je fais du ski.” Even though I don’t do either. Why do we waste all our time on basic sentences? And if it couldn’t possibly get any more boring, we are also doing the weather. Stuff I’ve known since elementary school. Admittedly, in elementary school I couldn’t speak a single sentence, just nouns, but I did know how to say “Il fait beau.”

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hypermoocow says:

March 29, 2007 at 5:11 pm

21 but quebec is cool!!!! we are doing the most basic boring stuff in spanish and it sucks

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Purple Panda says:

March 29, 2007 at 5:14 pm

1 – I love that book!

2 – Fine: 2 pieces of virtual chocolate

5 – That sounds fun!

9 – Wow, that sounds like an awesome project! I’m really into nutrition, etc., especially fast-food restaurants and food poisoning. Maybe because I have a digestive disease…

11 – Are you kidding? TKAM is one of my favorite books! Pittsburgh doesn’t have tornadoes. I think because we live in a bunch of hills and mountains. We do have floods, though.

12 – That sounds fun, too! (wow, everyone is doing so many fun projects!) I read a book about the Salem Witch Trials last year: Beyond the Burning by Kathryn Lasky

13 – Cool! We did a project like that in 5th grade. But I was really sick and in and out of the hospital in 5th grade, so I never got to finish my book.

17 – If my school were to have a fire, I would die, because I am a Literary Artist (that’s my major), and we’re on the 8th floor of a building with one tiny staircase that everybody in the whole school has to use.

I did a really cool project with 2 other people in 7th grade. We wrote a book about Sweatshops. One person wrote about Wal-mart, another person wrote about Nike, and I wrote about Coca-Cola. Our book was 73 pages long, and we got to do a lot of fun research (such as visiting a Wal-mart and interviewing people there).

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Cat's Meow says:

March 29, 2007 at 5:16 pm

At my school we do so many projects. (It’s a project based school) Right now I’m making a model of the inside of a plant and I’m going to be doing a multimedia project on a system, but we haven’t started that yet.

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Elizabeth says:

March 29, 2007 at 5:32 pm

5- I’ve done something like that before, and I agree about the book, I found it boring
10- haha, good idea

I’m doing a project about the ancient Mayans now for soc st

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Alice says:

March 29, 2007 at 5:39 pm

I have to read The Way To The Western Sea, and tell my dad what the date was when Lewis and Clark came here.
I also have to attempt to read Moby-Dick.
That’s about it.

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nerdz__r00l says:

March 29, 2007 at 6:19 pm

I was working on a prepositional phrase poster about “The effect of cheese on bunnies”.
-:mrgreen:

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Purple Panda says:

March 29, 2007 at 6:23 pm

27 – What did it look like? That sounds like fun!

(I love grammar, etc. even though I don’t always use perfect grammar). Also, on that note, if someone else doesn’t like grammar and spelling, I’d gladly check their school papers/projects for them.

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dark duke of darkness says:

March 29, 2007 at 6:59 pm

20-read a book on those trials. i did, that is. good topic.

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Julieb says:

March 29, 2007 at 7:31 pm

27- that almost sounds like an ig nobel candidate.

We made borax crystals for chemistry.

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Otzi says:

March 29, 2007 at 11:17 pm

Our class is preparing to make a movie. That’s right, a full-scale, hourlong production. It will be pwnage.

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Evie says:

March 30, 2007 at 12:45 am

Dang- so many awesome homework assignments.
You guys are lucky.
Although I’m not saying you have to be happy or should be grateful about your projects. x.x
G’night.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

March 30, 2007 at 8:47 am

(1, 5, 16, 23),

~~Eight~~Ten things I love about the Odyssey:

1. It starts in the middle of the story and later flashes back nine years to the start of Odysseus’s voyages.
2. The first part isn’t about Odysseus at all, but about his son Telemachus’s efforts to find him.
3. Everywhere Odysseus goes, the first thing he does is tell a big (and different) lie about who he is and where he comes from–just like Huckleberry Finn and Lyra Belacqua in later stories.
4. Plenty of fresh air, sun, sea, and sand.
5. Good female characters: Odysseus’s patron goddess, Athena; Princess Nausicaa, who gets a big crush on him when he washes up on her island; the enchantress Circe/Kirke, who turns his crew into pigs; the old nursemaid who sees through Odysseus’s disguise when he recognizes the old hunting scar on his leg, but who keeps his secret; the traitorous housemaid; and, most of all, Odysseus’s wife, proud, steadfast, hardheaded Penelope, who doesn’t rush into his arms after he vanquishes the bad guys but instead makes him wait while she puts him to one final test.
6. Athena, Athena, Athena. Tall, gray-eyed and full of practical wisdom. Odysseus is her favorite mortal. He amuses her, like a pet. When he returns to Ithaca, she disguises herself as a peasant and asks him who he is, and he tells her one of his standard cock-and-bull stories. Then she turns back into herself and says, fondly, “Aren’t you something. You lie just like a god.”
7. Odysseus’s visit to the underworld to meet with the sad, hungry legions of the dead.
8. Odysseus’s decrepit old dog, Argos, who recognizes his master after 20 years and has just enough strength to sit up before dropping dead of joy. Poor beast.
9. The Sirens. They sing so beautifully that sailors wreck their ships trying to hear them better. Odysseus makes his crew plug their ears with beeswax but chains himself to the mast so he can listen to the songs and survive. A true researcher.
10. The Land of the Lotus-Eaters. Once you go there, you get so lazy that you can never leave. I know just how it feels.

No sea monsters on my list. They’re the least important parts of the story, as far as I’m concerned.

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Axa says:

March 30, 2007 at 9:24 am

I actually liked the Odyssy when we read it…I think people just think they have to hate anything they read in school.

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iwanttobeamuffin says:

March 30, 2007 at 11:22 am

Could anyone who lives in tornado alley give me a an account or something of the scariest tornado that they have been through? I am looking for something really good to put in my project. Thanks!

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Duncan_Quagmire says:

March 30, 2007 at 3:14 pm

Hmm… I wrote a paper earlier this year about how Paris Hilton is responsible for the decay of our society… maybe I’ll post it later if anyone wants to see it…

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Evie says:

March 30, 2007 at 4:00 pm

That would be interesting Duncan, cause I can’t imagine that our society is decaying in the first place. @_@
I mean we’re making things around us decay but the society ‘grows’…?
Nevermind.

^^; Thaaaanks Robert… that just about spoiled the story for those of us who haven’t read it yet… wish my class would read it. :\

Oh, I guess I should post something about school projects… x.x
Well… we’re doing a big social commentary research project that’s going to last us the next six or so weeks of school (to be turned in 2 weeks before we get out of school) and I am still trying to figure out what I’m going to do. At first was thinking smoking, then someone else took it so decided on negative language’s effect on teens (f-word, etc), but am thinking now on the definition and mistreatment of the real ‘retard’.
Any suggestions or cares or put downs?

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair (~.~) says:

March 30, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Come to think of it I’ll need images as an example for their mistreatment and how being mental is an insult, rather than a condition now…

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Alice says:

March 30, 2007 at 4:26 pm

37- I’m almost sure this isn’t what you’re talking about, but how about fairy tales paying all that attention to the younger child, while the older and middle children are portrayed as evil, rude, imcompetent, and insignifigant?
That would have been something to put on pet peeves, but really, it’s much more than a pet peeve.

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The Insane Blue Sage says:

March 30, 2007 at 4:47 pm

7-this is the beginning of tornado season and from now until may we hear tornado sirens about once a week. That’s about all I can give you.

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair (^.^); says:

March 30, 2007 at 5:35 pm

39- It’s a nice suggestion. Social Commentary- we have to pick something that can be related to in some way. Like, racism/gender issues, and there are other categories but I can’t think of them right now. ^^; Really am going with the mental disability thing.

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Duncan_Quagmire says:

March 30, 2007 at 5:39 pm

Here’s the paper I said I’d post… I suppose it’s not as extreme as eating babies, but whatever…

A Modest Proposal For Ending Reality As We Know It

A somewhat disturbing fact has recently come to my attention. It is a rather bold statement, but I feel it must be made. With fifteen percent of Americans suffering from depression and with suicide being the third leading cause of death for young people, there is no way to deny it: society is going downhill.

What could possibly be the cause of such a tragic situation? Some may believe that it is the stress of living in todayâ€™s world, with all the busyness and tragedy and pain that comes with it. Others say that many people simply have nothing to hope for. Still others think that it is because there really havenâ€™t been many movies worth seeing since last summer. However, I believe that the explanation is much simpler than this.

The reason society is going downhill is Paris Hilton.

Well, not just Paris Hilton. It is Paris Hilton and everything that she and her simple life stand for.

I am, of course, talking about reality TV.

Reality TV is a relatively new phenomenon in our country, yet it seems to have a profound influence on todayâ€™s culture. Think about it: how many times have you been angry because your favorite person was voted off the island? Is punkâ€™d actually a real word? Since when does Hogan really know best?

When was the last time that you thought that The Real World was actually the real world?

Itâ€™s not, but society seems to believe that it is. Very rarely do people in real life win money from not being evicted from the Big Brother house. If reality TV was actually real, it would be extremely boring. A show about real life — or at least my real life — would involve getting up, going to school, coming home, eating dinner, doing homework, going to bed, and then doing basically the same thing the next day. And the next day. And the next day.

Instead of accurately representing a culture, Reality TV tells its audience what is culturally acceptable. It convinces its audience that if you are not Americaâ€™s Next Top Model, you are a failure. It tells us that though America does, in fact, â€œgot talent,â€ you are most likely not talented.

What is to be done about this catastrophic problem? We canâ€™t exactly kill Paris Hilton — actually, they did that once, but it didnâ€™t work — and we canâ€™t make reality TV real — many have tried and failed. Instead, I propose we make reality fake. If reality became fake, then reality TV would immediately become real.

Donâ€™t get me wrong; falsifying reality would not be an easy task. However, I believe I have some practical steps to take towards this goal. First, no one should be allowed to be a real person, with real emotions or ambitions or hope. We should instead each take on a two-dimensional stereotype. For example, I could be the good-looking but extremely self-centered guy or the geek who has almost no social skills. Someone else could be the dumb blonde or the girl who claims to be a Christian but is extremely catty and stabs everyone in the back. In addition, each group of friends in our Real World real world would need at least one African American, because it would be politically incorrect not to have one.

The next step would be to create as much drama and competition and conflict as possible. The best way to do this would be to come up with a way for someone to become better than everyone else. Perhaps we could test everyone at a completely random, meaningless, and/or revolting skill, such as their ability to eat bugs, and then award the â€œwinnerâ€ a ridiculous amount of money simply for being the best.

Lastly, we should find some extremely rude British guy to constantly insult all the losers. Of course, he would not be required to compete. He should, however, be extremely rich and at least pretend to be somewhat knowledgeable about the competition. Actual demonstration of said knowledge would not be needed; everyone would blindly trust his judgment, except for the person whom he was judging.

My proposal naturally has a number of attractive advantages. Firstly, if you didnâ€™t like someone, you could simply excommunicate her. All it would take is a majority vote, and you would never have to see that person again. This would be extremely useful in everyday life. None of us would have to deal with any problems again because we could simply get rid of them.

Secondly, as long as you knew that Jose was from Puerto Rico, Rachel was Jewish, and Wes was a college student, youâ€™d be golden, because those would be their only defining characteristics. Everyone would be a stereotype, so you would never need to take the time to get to know anyone. And with all that extra time youâ€™d save, you could spend more time gossiping about how much you hate Rachel and plotting her downfall.

Lastly, falsifying reality would take away your responsibility for your own actions. Because you would only be the middle child or the teenager with a criminal record, when you did something that upset others, you could claim that you didnâ€™t know any better and that it was somebody elseâ€™s fault.

Some people may dislike this solution for a variety of reasons. They may say that it is too unrealistic or that it would rob us of our hope and individuality. However, think about our society as it is now. Arenâ€™t we already on our way to having our hopes smothered and our individuality taken away? The way things are going now, itâ€™s going to happen eventually, so why not just give in and accept our fate?

Itâ€™s what Paris would do.

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Purple Panda says:

March 30, 2007 at 5:47 pm

42 – that’s really interesting!

When we read the Odyssey in school, we had to make a modern Odyssey – it was basically a story based on the Odyssey. Here’s mine:

I just returned from a long and arduous battle against my final exams. They were brutal and exhausting and I barely had enough energy to walk down the eight flights of stairs in order to leave my school. But I finally made it. As I stepped outside to greet the great outdoors, a brisk winter wind chilled my nose and whistled in my ears. I put on my hat and gloves, and zipped up my coat all the way. I made my way through the crouds of students exiting the building and began walking to my bus stop. But as I drew nearer and nearer to the stop, I realized getting there would be a little more difficult than I expected. I saw Traffica, a devilish green monster who lived in a traffic light. I once pressed the â€œwalkâ€ button too many times because I was feeling impatient, and she has had a disliking for me ever since. As soon as she saw me coming, she turned the light red.
â€œOh, come on Traffica!â€ I cried angrily, â€œplease let me cross the street!â€ But I soon found out that my efforts were in vain. The ugly creature turned her nose in the air and snooted, like a spoiled girl would if she did not get all the things she asked for on her birthday. After many tiring minutes of shouting and stomping, I finally gave up. I was forced to run across the street, dodging cars and hearing many sounds such as screech! and honk! as I sprinted across the busy intersection. When I finally made it across, I had to stop for a moment to catch my breath. I stood there and panted for a minute, like a dog who just played a very enervating game of fetch. That was really scary! I thought, as I walked the rest of the way to my bus stop. I waited for what seemed like hours â€“ but was actually only minutes â€“ for my bus to come. When it finally came, I stepped on it and flopped down on the first empty seat I saw. I closed my eyes for a moment, hoping to take a nap, but I quickly opened them again. There was something strange going on in the bus. I looked up toward the front and saw a gigantic man threatening the bus driver with something. I could not see what it was, but I assumed it was a dangerous weapon. The bus driver jumped out of one of the bus windows in fear, and the large, scary man took the wheel of the bus.
People started screaming. â€œThe bus has been hijacked! Ahhhh!â€ Then the driver spoke. â€œMy name is Transportarlo! I am the greatest fear of any transportation system! Fear me!â€ People continued to scream. I saw a woman with a small child open one of the emergency exit windows and jump out. Everyone else clung to their seats, terrified. Transportarlo drove our bus all the way across town, then into the Allegheny river. Water started seeping into the bus while Transportarlo cackled maniacally, then vanished. The Wild Allegheny, upset that our bus had disturbed its stillness, started thrashing and sucking the bus deeper and deeper into the water. We thought we were dead for sure!
Just as we were finally giving up hope, something amazing happened! A brown, rugged tree looked over at our bus, then stretched out one of its branches and began pulling us out of the water. â€œHello there,â€ she said. â€œMy name is the Silver Tree. I hope you are all alright!â€ The rugged tree set the bus down by the side of the river. Everyone climbed out of the bus and spent hours thanking the rugged tree for saving their lives, but I had to leave quickly. I wanted to get home so badly. I missed my family and desperately needed to get back home. I said a quick thank-you to the rugged tree and set off again. But shortly after I left, I realized that getting home would be very difficult. I had no way to get there! It was much too far to walk, and I had lost all my money and my bus pass in the river. I sat down on a riverside rock and thought about all the ways I could possibly get home. Thoughts buzzed around in my head like a fly circling a picnic table, trying to get some food.
After sitting there for a long time and finally deciding I would never get home, a woman walked up to me. â€œHello, there,â€ she said. Her short brown hair and bright green eyes sparkling as I stood up. â€œHow are you? My name is Alfetta.â€ Alfetta. I had heard that name before. Was she one of my teachers? No, that could not be right. â€œI am your fairy godmother,â€ she said, â€œI am here to help you.â€ My fairy godmother? That is right! That is where I heard her name before. Alfetta always came to help me whenever I was in trouble. â€œI see you need to get home,â€ Alfetta said, and with that, she picked me up and started flying. We zoomed across the city together, over the PPG building and under many bridges. We flew over many hills and busy interesections, until we were very close to my home. She dropped me off a few blocks from my house. â€œI will leave you here,â€ she said, before flying away again. I was so thankful! She helped me get home!
I began running toward my house, as fast as a lion chasing a zebra. I was almost to my front door when a gigantic gust of blistering wind swept me from my feet! I blew around in circles for several minutes before being plopped down in the middle of a grassy field which I recognized to be Frick Park, a park near my home. I looked around to see what had blown me here. I looked all around me until I saw it up in the sky, blowing wildly.
It was the blistering East Wind. He began blowing again, this time lifting me up and blowing me much farther away. I blew over treetops, under rain clouds, and into many telephone poles. When the blistering East Wind finally stopped, I had absolutely no idea where I was. I looked around me and saw graffitied lamps and pot-holed streets. There was a street with some run-down houses. I walked up to the nearest house and was about to knock on the door, but then stopped. I could not do it. I am such a shy person and going up to a strangerâ€™s house to ask for help would be extremely nerve-racking. I could not do it. I walked back down the stairs and sat on a small patch of grass near the street. After sitting there for awhile and pondering ways to get home, I realized I could not get home without help. I did not even know where I was! I overcame my fear and walked up to the house and knocked on the door. â€œHello?â€ an old woman opened the door and looked at me with a a smile as warm as honey in the spring. â€œMay I help you with anything?â€ I burst into tears and told this complete stranger about my long adventure that I had that day. I told her about Traffica, Transportarlo, the Wild Allegheny, the Rugged Silver Tree, and the Blistering East Wind. When I finished my story she patted me on the shoulder and invited me inside. â€œWhy donâ€™t you have some hot-chocolate and then I can drive you home,â€ she said. I thanked her again and again. She was so kind, I thought. She showed so much hospitality, inviting a complete stranger into her house. I could not be more thankful. After a cup of warm hot-chocolate, she drove me home. She walked me to the door and said, â€œI hope you have a better day tomorrow,â€ then walked back to her car. I thanked her, then went inside. It was so good to be home!
As soon as I stepped inside I was greeted by a smiling dog. â€œKimba!â€ I shouted. My mighty white sled dog licked my face and barked. She followed me as I walked around and thought about my great adventure. I had gained so much knowledge and bravery. I was not as shy as I was before, and I learned my strengths. I would no longer be stopped by Traffica because I learned how to get past her trickery. I sat down on my bed and smiled. I had such a long day, but I gained so much experience. I smiled, glad to be home.

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair says:

March 30, 2007 at 5:53 pm

That was great!

So your class read the essay about the solution to poverty and overpopulation, or whatever it was?
0.- What is your schools initials?

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair says:

March 30, 2007 at 5:54 pm

When my class did that, I wrote an essay on teen suicide. It was no where near as good, and I for one struggled to cut off my lame ideas and not go into stupid and long explanations for ’em. x.x

So your problem of choice was reality T.V…? Or just Paris Hilton? *the dumb blonde is confused*

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Julieb says:

March 30, 2007 at 6:11 pm

42- Thats really good.

43- Very creative.

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Duncan_Quagmire says:

March 30, 2007 at 6:28 pm

43: My main problem was reality TV, with Paris as a representation of said problem.

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~~Red-tailed HAWK the swift~~ ( says:

March 30, 2007 at 6:37 pm

42 and or 43, that is a lot of writing. I would love to read them, but don’t think I have enough time right now. I’m not trying to be mean or something by not responding!

Der Falke

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The Skipper Nancy says:

March 30, 2007 at 6:39 pm

(33 Rebecca) That’s 10 things, not 8. But sounds fun. The Odyssey is one of my must read books.

(42 Duncan Quagmire) Very effective. I like it.

(43 Purple Panda) Creative and funny. I really like yor imagination.

I have a semester project for writing and lit. We have to choose different news sources, monitor them (read them every other day or so and take notes), and then write about the differences in reporting we notice, and analyse the biases we see. I choose The New York Times, Fox News, Al Jazeera and NPR. So far Fox and Al Jazeera have been the most interesting.
Here’s an excerpt from my most recent anlysis on something I though was really interesting:

The last two headlines I examined were all on the same topic, which was the trial of a U.S. soldier accused of ordering his men to kill three Iraqi detainees and then trying to cover it up by making it look as though his men had killed in self-defense. One was from Fox News and the other was from Al Jazeera. The headlines were:
â€œDefense: GI On Trial Never Ordered Soldiers to Shoot Iraq Detainees in Samarraâ€ (Fox News)
â€œGI â€˜ordered to kill prisonersâ€™â€ (Al Jazeera)
The striking thing about these two headlines is that at first glance, they seem to completely contradict each other. One says that the orders to kill did take place; the other says that they did not. Closer examination reveals how each news source gets away with this. The topic being reported is a court trial; therefore, neither side side has yet been proven to be true. Fox News uses one side of the trial as a headline, Al Jazeera uses the other, each according to the ideologies they seek to communicate. It is not false reporting because they each provide a clue to the fact that they are only stating one side of the argument, and not a proven fact. Fox slips the word â€œDefenseâ€ in at the beginning of the headline to clarify that they are only stating the defenseâ€™s argument in the court trial. Al Jazeera puts its headline in quotations to show that it is quoting someone else claim (we can infer the prosecutionâ€™s).
The problem is, most people do not pay attention to such details when they read a headline. Additionally, many people read only the headlines of articles when they are pressed for time and just skimming the news. So by placing the side of the issue that they favor most in the crucial part of the headline, Fox and Al Jazeera both effectively report what they would like people to believe (either that an innocent GI is was accused of a crime he didnâ€™t commit or that a guilty GI ordered his soldiers to kill Iraqis), rather than a balanced view of both sides.
In addition, it is interesting to note the word choice of each headline. Fox chooses the word â€œdetaineesâ€ which has connotations of people being detained because of crime they themselves have committed. Al Jazeera chooses â€œprisonersâ€, which has a more negative connotation of people being held unjustly. This again is an example of how headlines are used to promote the ideology of the article.

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair says:

March 30, 2007 at 7:02 pm

…you people scare me… in a good way, of course.

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) says:

March 30, 2007 at 7:29 pm

(49) Skipper, actually #33 was Robert — but our handwriting is easy to confuse.

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Der Wachtelschlag says:

March 30, 2007 at 8:07 pm

42-Ow. That hurt. It was an excellent essay, with lots of punch, bite, and cynicism. However, you might want to think about the paragraph structure (I don’t really know what your teacher wanted, or maybe I’m just straightlaced, but there you have it) and I hate to say it, but it was a leetle bit one-sided.

43-I really liked your narrative style. You might want to put in more emotions, and this is nitpicky, but the Silver Tree has crappy dialogue. I’m sure you could make it 100x better.

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair says:

March 30, 2007 at 8:22 pm

About 52’s response to 42, um… just wondering isn’t it supposed to be one-sided, Duncan?
And seriously, what is your school’s initials? In all fairness I can’t stalk you or be creepy just by 3 or so letters… it’s just this sounds really similar and it’d be weird if someone where I go not only reads Muse but is on this blog and in the same class (or grade) as me…

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Duncan_Quagmire says:

March 30, 2007 at 9:53 pm

52, 53: Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s SUPPOSED to be one-sided, since the reader isn’t really intended to take the solution seriously anyways…

53: Hmm… I’m not sure how much I should say, but I live and go to school in Michigan…

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Purple Panda says:

March 31, 2007 at 6:18 am

Oh, by the way, that story is horribly written and I wrote it in 30 minutes. But I think the idea was funny and I got an A on it, so…

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Majora's Wrath says:

March 31, 2007 at 7:21 am

you rock, D_Q. that essay is hilarious. as a stereotype, i would probably be the computer geek who is a master at email and blogging and all that, but couldn’t fix a computer 4 his life.

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Alice says:

March 31, 2007 at 12:07 pm

I have a school project. It’s descriptive writing, and I’m supposed to describe three people:
Maisie Watkins is a young woman in the 20s or 30s.
Donald Teague is a sailor around the start of the 19th century.
The Basque Sheperd is really hard since there’s no pictures online of what Basque people wear.

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair says:

March 31, 2007 at 2:58 pm

57- Fun. Or not so fun?
54- Yay. And OK then it’s just weird it’s the same curriculum or whatever… did you enjoy the essay about the devouring of children? (not sure how else to put that)

…I think stereotypes are usually pretty correct… not always, and never completely, but they are… that’s how they got created in the first place, isn’t it… nevermind…

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Alice says:

March 31, 2007 at 4:54 pm

58- It seems like it’d be fun, doesn’t it? But it’s been assigned for weeks, or maybe months, so it can’t be all that fun. I’m not sure.

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Evie of the Blue-Flavored Hair says:

March 31, 2007 at 4:57 pm

59- At least that will get you time to really get into depth…

…this is random but:

WOOT MARCHING BAND ON TV!
Who cares if it’s at the darn basketball game. Not to insult basketball I just prefer the band…

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purplefinch says:

March 31, 2007 at 6:46 pm

I wrote a completely chaotic play-thing for English today. It involves poisoned mints, falling out of windows into dumpsters (and surviving) and running over people in a mad attempt to go to Mexico. Sadly enough, the theme is supposed to be friendship.

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Julieb says:

March 31, 2007 at 9:25 pm

61- Sounds fab.

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Alice says:

March 31, 2007 at 11:54 pm

61- That sounds hilarious! Post it, post it, post it!

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Evie (O.O) Racoon I am NOT says:

April 1, 2007 at 12:22 am

61- But why must there be the surviving of the falling into dumpsters?

…seriously who would WANT to still be alive when they’d have to climb out of the stinking dumpster?
Waste of perfectly good meat for the racoons…

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Pink Panda-Bunny says:

April 1, 2007 at 6:31 pm

Thank golly this is open again.

61 – yeah, that sounds really funny!

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Potato Chip says:

April 1, 2007 at 7:10 pm

I worked on my evil french collage today. I did most of printemps.

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Purple Panda says:

April 1, 2007 at 8:41 pm

OMG THE BUNNY THREADS ARE GONE!! Yippee!!

66 – oh yeah, how’s that going? We used to do a lot of Spanish collages, but I didn’t see how they helped us learn anything..

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Potato Chip says:

April 2, 2007 at 8:44 am

67- Yes, I agree, printing out pictures of tennis rackets and cameras does not help me learn that “jouer au tennis” means “to play tennis” and “faire des photos” means “to take pictures”.

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Musketeer Number 5 says:

April 2, 2007 at 7:56 pm

1. Ugghhh, I have an Odyssy project too, must be that time of year. I have to teach one of the books to my class

3. It’s one thing to love the book , it’s another thing to love “studying” it in class. Its painful to listen to kids who haven’t read the book try to teach it to you.

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Random Dark Cloud says:

April 2, 2007 at 8:06 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
*freaks out after being assigned three projects in one day*
I have to make up a song in French, using at least ten vocab words. Have to make a brochure in biology about a genetic disorder, and I have to make a brochure in gym about fitness. What is the importance of sleep?

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Musketeer Number 5 says:

April 2, 2007 at 8:37 pm

70. Three projects in one day *shaked head sadly* that sucks…
I, however, love annoying French teachers and a song sounds like a brilliant way to do so…

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Axa says:

April 3, 2007 at 7:51 pm

I have to write historical fiction on the Victorian Age.

I don’t mind, I just don’t really want to do anything.

Feh… darn you debtor’s prison…

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Alice says:

April 3, 2007 at 8:32 pm

72- That sounds fun!

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purplefinch says:

April 4, 2007 at 4:40 am

I cannot post my play-thingy now, because my english teacher has my only copy…

We’re reading a PLAY of Anne Frank in class. A PLAY. I foolishly thought that we would actually be reading the REAL book which I have always wanted to read (must get it out of the library). But NO! How immature does my teacher think we are? Maybe it is not her fault. Still. We are in eighth grade! Gggggggggggrrrrrr…

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Der Wachtelschlag says:

April 4, 2007 at 4:52 pm

I am writing an essay on how the Articles of Confederation compares to the UFP. Of Star Trek.

I better get extra credit for this.

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Alice says:

April 4, 2007 at 5:18 pm

I am supposed to memorize the Constitution of the United States of America.
That was many, many, moons ago.

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purplefinch says:

April 4, 2007 at 7:06 pm

76-The whole thing? Or just the preamble?

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Alice says:

April 4, 2007 at 7:48 pm

77- Not sure….

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Dot Keet says:

April 4, 2007 at 9:22 pm

I have an emergency math question, but I’m not posting it on the Math thread because it’s for school. Is that all right? Well, here it is:

Can you graph a relative cumulative frequency graph (aka an ogive) on a graphing calculator?

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Alice says:

April 4, 2007 at 9:41 pm

79- I’d try to answer, except that’s gibberish to me.

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violindino says:

April 6, 2007 at 11:23 am

76-78 In social studies, we sang the preamble. Really. My teacher got out his guitar, and we all sang. I still remember it.

“We the people (of the United States of America)
in order to form a more perfect union
establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility
provide for the common defense
promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty
to ourself and our posterity
do ordain and establish
this constitution
of the
United States of
America”
I broke it down the way we sang it, not the way it’s actually written.

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fellowmuser says:

April 7, 2007 at 3:11 pm

I’m working on an LOTR project. For book festival. I’m doing a tri-fold display board. Any suggestions?

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kt the gr8 says:

April 7, 2007 at 4:51 pm

can’t get my book back til summer…sorry

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fellowmuser says:

April 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm

83- What book?

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Alice says:

April 7, 2007 at 8:38 pm

82- OOH, lucky you! No, I don’t have any suggestions.
83, 84- Probably the LotR book?

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tenrec speaking wierdo,weeeeeeee says:

April 8, 2007 at 12:46 pm

82- : idea : make it SHINY!!!!!!!! lots of drawings that relate to the book. do opinions . rings, lots of rings (if its lotr then you need to have the ring). quote the book. uuuuuummmmmmm… fire works!!!!!! yea… that be interesting to see…

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Purple Panda says:

April 9, 2007 at 7:28 am

81 – I had to memorize that for Social Studies. I memorized it by listening to the Schoolhouse Rock song over and over again!

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The Skipper Nancy says:

April 11, 2007 at 12:10 am

(81) We had to memorize that in 7th grade. Our teacher played the School House Rock song. So we tortured him by breaking out in song to it every class for the rest of the year.

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T.N.Ã–. Lilbro the Quartermaster of the Wraith and Dictator-Queen of HPB Land says:

April 12, 2007 at 12:09 am

argh I hate english assignments. Never can seem to get ’em in on time.
Also with SS assignments.

74- that play is so dang wierd. And I hated the book.

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Der Wachtelschlag says:

April 12, 2007 at 4:01 pm

I have a rather esoteric question. We’re doing Supreme Court simulation (role-playing retrial of famous Supreme Court cases) and I’m Chief Attorney for Lopez in the Goss vs. Lopez trial. Can anyone help me? I’m a little confused…

82-Talk about the symbolism.

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pie parade says:

April 12, 2007 at 5:59 pm

ok i would help but i have no clue what the Goss vs. Lopez trial is but the supreme cout simulation sounds cool

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ha says:

April 13, 2007 at 4:09 pm

We have to write research papers. Mine’s on the KKK. How awful.

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pie parade says:

April 13, 2007 at 7:20 pm

um i know a little about the KKK if u want help

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Lady Moonstar says:

April 27, 2007 at 11:10 am

Me and my friend are writing a play for our myths and legends unit. It is about Arachne and Athena, and how … well, if you don’t know the story, read it here.

Arachne- I live in a horrible village, but I am very good at weaving. In fact, I am better than the goddess Athena.

Girl- Don’t say that!

Arachne- Why not? I AM better than her.

Lady- Don’t say that!

Arachne- Honestly. What can SHE do?

Athena- *On Mount Olympus* Grr! I will have to teach that stupid mortal a thing or two. And she had better watch out! I once crushed one of my enemies with the whole island of Sicily! Plus, I am the goddess of wisdom. And that makes me very… Umm…. Wise! Yes! That’s the word!

Arachne- I am so clever! Athena would never even challenge me, because she would be to scared of being beaten by a mortal! I am SO the best.

Old woman- You had better not say that! If you don’t apologise to Athena, she will punish you.

Arachne- I know what’s wrong with you. You’re crazy! If Athena is so good, then I challenge her to come down and have a weaving contest with me!

Old woman- Aren’t you scared?

Arachne- No! Athena will never dare to come.

Old woman- Oh yes she will! *Throws off robe* I am Athena! Dundundu!

Arachne- Oh well. I’m still the best.

Athena- Let’s have a contest! We will start now, and stop at sunset. Then we will see who the best it! (But I assure you, it will be me)

Arachne- Let’s go!

*Both weave very, very quickly*

Athena- Right, let’s see yours then! *Looks* Hey! That’s bery disrespectful. It shows all of the gods doing naughty things! Look at mine. It shows all of the gods being very good and godlike. That means mine is better! Ha ha! I win, I win, I win – and just to show you how bad you’ve been, I’ll turn you into a spider, then you can weave webs forever! Ha ha!

*POOF!*

Arachne- *On the floor, crawling around* Drat! That was stupid. Oooooops.

It was meant to be quite funny.

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Alice says:

July 3, 2007 at 12:09 am

I actually did an assignment! It’s the one mentioned in comment 57.

Here ’tis, because I like to show off my writing:

Maisie Watkins was nineteen years old. She had a round smiling face and sandy brown hair that was extraordinarily unresponsive to curling irons. Her eyes were green and almond-shaped, with laugh-lines around the corners. she had a snub nose with a few light freckles across the top of it, and she was going to college. She hummed happily as she tossed several dresses of various colors into her suitcase, and suddenly threw herself flat on her stomach to reach under the bed. She wriggled out, dusty all over, clutching a brown cloche with feathers, which she added to the haphazard mess that was her packing efforts. She somehow procured a pair of stockings from under her pillow, and a pair of shoes from the top of her vanity desk, and tossed them into her suitcase while searching for something behind the curtains.
Three hours later, her suitcases were bulging, and her room was shockingly tidy â€“ though perhaps “empty” would have been a better word. Maisie took one last look around it, snatched her coat from its hook, and was gone.
The whirlwind â€“ albeit a fashionable one â€“ had passed.

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