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Cade- ATDPTI Logan- Research Update

My research topic is pretty much "How bad were the Conquistadors to the Native Americans?" The main focuses of my research are Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, and Las Casas de Bartolome. So, Christopher Columbus was the man who(probably)discovered the Americas. He treated the Natives in an odd way. He first screwed the Natives over by trading them pennies for land, essentially. Then Columbus made a "law" that prohibited unfair trading with the Natives. Even though this obviously didn't last, at least he tried. Hernan Cortes was a man who desired fame and fortune. So, he became an explorer and sought the city of gold. Cortes ended up finding the Aztecs, taking their riches, killing their leader, conquering the city of gold, and becoming very powerful. Francisco Pizarro was a man with a very interesting story. So, Pizarro was an explorer and eventually ended up sailing to the Americas with his partner, Almagro. Halfway through the journey...

This book is pretty interesting. Many things have happened leading up to page 101. First off, we learned about the Spirit family. We learned about life on the rez, about Rowdy, and Arnold's poverty-stricken family. That's just the first few chapters. So, Junior/Arnold is an Indian that lives on a reservation. He only has on friend, named Rowdy, who was like a bully. Rowdy was also very emotional. So, after starting high school, Arnold gets mad, throws a book at his teacher, and gets suspended. The teacher comes by later and tells Arnold he has to get out of here, get off the rez, and go be something. So, Arnold goes to a school in the white town nearby. This school, called Rearden, is full of white kids who don't like Indians. Some of the bigger kids try to pick on Arnold and he punches them. But after the biggest guy in school goes, "He just punched me!?!?" Arnold realizes life on the rez is way more different than life in Rearden. So, Arnold also has conflicts...

Tucker- Semester reflection Juliana- Role Model

Free posts are one of the many "topics" that we blog about for our English class. They give us an opportunity to write about anything we want. Most would think that it is easy to think of a topic, and maybe it is, for them. But I usually struggle for a minute or so and just think about what to write about. So that's why my topic for this free post is literally just free posts themselves.

I've found my research to be fairly easily, including today's notecards. I realized the work isn't extremely hard, it just requires you to put time into it and it's easy. So obviously, the only difficult part of this project, in my opinion, is the amount of time required. The only thing I need help with for this project is the notecards. I am able to complete them today, but I still have some questions I still need to ask involving the notecards.

1. Do NOT procrastinate I've learned firsthand that procrastinating in high school could very well mean the difference between an A and a B. Take blog posts for example. After checking Canvas, blog posts take a decent portion of points in English, even though they seem so easy to complete. 2. You can manage sports and school easily Before going into high school I heard that it was nearly impossible to keep up with sports and grades. And I would agree, if I didn't do my work ahead of time when I have conflicts involving school and sports. When i know I'm going to have an extra day of practice, I go ahead and do my homework during tutorial and study hall. 3.The workload isn't that bad Now, one of the main differences between high school and middle school is the workload. even though right off the bat there is more work to do in high school, I've realized that i can manage it way better.

Prompt:  If you were the ruler on a deserted island, what would be the first plans to put into action? Why? If I was left stranded on an island and had to rule, I would have to make some tough decisions; shelter, food, water, and escape. But out of all of these, I would most likely try to find food and water. Being on an island, there is obviously water all around you, so I would see if the water was drinkable. I would also have groups of people searching the island for food and other recourses.  In the best case scenario, there is easily-accessible food and water on the island. After these are found and are reliable, I would have two groups of workers. One group would collect food and water and the other would start building shelter. Once all of=f this is said and done, I would have nearly everyone working on a way to escape.