In math, I’m taking an AP statistic class which we are learning about statistics and probability. Even though I’m not taking the AP exam but I’m still learning from it because it does help if I’m doing research in the future. This also helps me to work harder and help me with my reading skill because it’s a difficult concept. In these few months, we were studying about sampling distributions, normal distribution, and confidence intervals. 
Book Review Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Literacy is everywhere. We can learn from everywhere. Even though you’re an adult or children, books can teach you literacy, as well as entertain you as a reader.
The British author named Roald Dahl published at least 35 books. One of his books, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was the continuation of the unforgettable Charlie and Chocolate Factory.
The book starts with the conclusion of what’s happening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the previous book simultaneously, introduced characters. The whole family came into the Great Glass Elevator for Charlie’s celebration to become the new ownership of the Chocolate Factory. Grandpa Joe is one of the grandparents, he is willing taking part of Charlie and Willy Wonka. adventure. The glass elevator has the special function that nothing can go through it. Moreover, the Great Glass Elevator can bring everyone back into the Chocolate Factory. The adventure to get back into the Chocolate Factory, they have to go up very high until arriving the space. Unfortunately, Charlie’s grandma distracted him, and he did not pull the elevator back in time. This made the Great Glass Elevator get stuck in space, while they are in the space they noticed the Space Hotel “U.S.A” which later got attacked by the evil aliens, the Vermicious Knids. Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe collaborated to help those people, and finally, they saved the spaceship full of hotel employees commuting there. Again they also find strategies to get back into the Chocolate Factory. At the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka offered pills called Wonka-Vite which made the grandparents younger. Regrettably, the grandparents took too many pills and what happens?
Roald Dahl created strange and unusual words in this book. Some words do not exist in this world because he created them by himself. For example, Minusland, Gettysburg, cantankerous, snozzwangers, whangdoodles, dumpery, etc. These new words helped Roald Dahl to clearly express each character’s behavior especially with the phrases the characters spoke. Those funny words help people to have fun with reading and it is silly to pronounce those words.
The readers not only learning literacy but also learning life’s lessons. The person that have well-being behavior is rewarded, and unacceptable behavior is punished. Charlie is very kind, brave and friendly. Additionally, Charlie would always endure all the trials because of that Charlie inherited the Chocolate Factory upon Wonka’s retirement. Moreover, Grandpa Joe is a pleasing person and worked flexibly hard with his mission especially, when he helped Mr. Wonka to fight against aliens. This is why nothing dangerous occurs to these characters.
On the other hand, the other three grandparents of Charlie are disrespectful, annoying, bad-tempered, and nasty. They are unwilling to work or use energy. They always stay on their bed (never want to get out). Most of the time they always have negative thoughts and act too headstrong. This is why throughout the book they always face hazardous situations. For instance, all of them selfishly took pills called Wonka-Vite from Willy Wonka to reduce age. Unfortunately, because of their egocentric nature, two of the grandparents became a 1-year-old baby. Another grandparent was minus age which made her disappear from this world and send to the Minusland.
Roald Dahl not only intentionally teaches the readers life lessons, but teaches us through settings as well. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator include the Space Hotel “U.S.A” and the Great Glass Elevator. The author tried to explain to the readers that current technology is rapidly developing. Inside Space Hotel there was a swimming pool, fancy bedrooms, dining rooms, gymnasium, etc. Also, the Great Glass Elevator can be able to travel to the space, which currently there are inventions that make people can travel into the space safely.
The Great Glass Elevator serves two target audiences: there are adults and children. Roald Dahl used strange worlds throughout the book, including aliens as the characters, and adding politicians in the book. Additionally, he used different types of people: lazy people, coward people, genius people, and hard working people. In order to make this book convincing and entertaining he used funny phrases as well. For example, Willy Wonka expressed, “We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”. Personally, I recommend everyone to read Roald Dahl books because you can entertain yourself and learn life lessons at the same time!
Smog’s Research Poster in Chemistry round 3
Liger Leadership Academy Poem term 3
Do not sit there to hide.
Because one day you’ll die.
Being indifference just like you’re faint for the rest of your life.
People will just take the knife to cut you.
You might say OU. It hurts.
But the blood still keeps bleeding.
Because you’re still sitting.
Indifference causes suffering to continue.
You never want it to stick with you.
Just glue it to the wall.
Make sure it won’t fall back to you.
Because pain will sue you.
I’m serious. I’m not kidding.
You need to refill your pen with ink.
And start painting.
With colors, baubles, pictures.
Structure your own life.
So you know why you should survive.
To strive all tragedies.
This is the key to set you free.
Confront the fear.
It won’t get nearer.
End the life of being indifference.
To break the silence.
To stop the violence.
To end war.
Because we are all warrior.
The warrior that have choice, voice, and joyce.
Liger Literacy Leadership
Literacy is everywhere. We can learn from everywhere. Even though you’re an adult or children, books can teach you literacy, as well as entertain you as a reader.
The British author named Roald Dahl published at least 35 books. One of his books, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was the continuation of the unforgettable Charlie and Chocolate Factory.
The book starts with the conclusion of what’s happening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the previous book simultaneously, introduced characters. The whole family came into the Great Glass Elevator for Charlie’s celebration to become the new ownership of the Chocolate Factory. Grandpa Joe is one of the grandparents, he is willing taking part of Charlie and Willy Wonka. adventure. The glass elevator has the special function that nothing can go through it. Moreover, the Great Glass Elevator can bring everyone back into the Chocolate Factory. The adventure to get back into the Chocolate Factory, they have to go up very high until arriving the space. Unfortunately, Charlie’s grandma distracted him, and he did not pull the elevator back in time. This made the Great Glass Elevator get stuck in space, while they are in the space they noticed the Space Hotel “U.S.A” which later got attacked by the evil aliens, the Vermicious Knids. Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe collaborated to help those people, and finally, they saved the spaceship full of hotel employees commuting there. Again they also find strategies to get back into the Chocolate Factory. At the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka offered pills called Wonka-Vite which made the grandparents younger. Regrettably, the grandparents took too many pills and what happens?
Roald Dahl created strange and unusual words in this book. Some words do not exist in this world because he created them by himself. For example, Minusland, Gettysburg, cantankerous, snozzwangers, whangdoodles, dumpery, etc. These new words helped Roald Dahl to clearly express each character’s behavior especially with the phrases the characters spoke. Those funny words help people to have fun with reading and it is silly to pronounce those words.
The readers not only learning literacy but also learning life’s lessons. The person that have well-being behavior is rewarded, and unacceptable behavior is punished. Charlie is very kind, brave and friendly. Additionally, Charlie would always endure all the trials because of that Charlie inherited the Chocolate Factory upon Wonka’s retirement. Moreover, Grandpa Joe is a pleasing person and worked flexibly hard with his mission especially, when he helped Mr. Wonka to fight against aliens. This is why nothing dangerous occurs to these characters.
On the other hand, the other three grandparents of Charlie are disrespectful, annoying, bad-tempered, and nasty. They are unwilling to work or use energy. They always stay on their bed (never want to get out). Most of the time they always have negative thoughts and act too headstrong. This is why throughout the book they always face hazardous situations. For instance, all of them selfishly took pills called Wonka-Vite from Willy Wonka to reduce age. Unfortunately, because of their egocentric nature, two of the grandparents became a 1-year-old baby. Another grandparent was minus age which made her disappear from this world and send to the Minusland.
Roald Dahl not only intentionally teaches the readers life lessons, but teaches us through settings as well. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator include the Space Hotel “U.S.A” and the Great Glass Elevator. The author tried to explain to the readers that current technology is rapidly developing. Inside Space Hotel there was a swimming pool, fancy bedrooms, dining rooms, gymnasium, etc. Also, the Great Glass Elevator can be able to travel to the space, which currently there are inventions that make people can travel into the space safely.
The Great Glass Elevator serves two target audiences: there are adults and children. Roald Dahl used strange worlds throughout the book, including aliens as the characters, and adding politicians in the book. Additionally, he used different types of people: lazy people, coward people, genius people, and hard working people. In order to make this book convincing and entertaining he used funny phrases as well. For example, Willy Wonka expressed, “We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”. Personally, I recommend everyone to read Roald Dahl books because you can entertain yourself and learn life lessons at the same time!
Statistic
The statistic is a very new and complex topic that we start to study this school year. Our unit 3 topic mainly about scatterplot, response and explanatory variables, linearity, correlation, associations, and their summaries, R and R-Squared, residuals, least square regression lines, outliers and influential points on a scatterplot, transformations (minor topic), reading computer outputs and how to use functions in the calculator. When we studied scatterplot I have a hard time of how to interpret the slope because if we missed said of any important words everything is going to mess up. My math teacher, Jeff, say my name in class to identify the slope then interpret the slope. I was so shocked and nervous because I have no idea what to explain, and every word I have in my head kind of mess up. The words that I always keep in mind: explanatory, response, predicted, changing Y over changing X. When I started to interpret the slope, it wasn’t correct. But does it stopped me? I know for sure I need to work two times harder than my fellow classmate of how to be confident of how to interpret the slope. Outside of class time after lunch, I came to ask my teacher to explain deeper and another way that I can understand it better. It took him only 15 minutes to explain. I took all the note and try to remember clearly of how to interpret the slope. From that time on whenever there is a question to interpret the slope, Jeff would call out my name and complete the question. Before our Christmas break, we took the test and finally I interpret slope correctly.
Primary Literature Figures – Chemistry
In chemistry class, we’re not only learned formulas and labs. We also did some research that university students are learning. We looked at the figure about normal, colorectal tumor, and colorectal cancer cells analyzed for intensity of annexin protein staining. Also, we looked at the picture figure about panels A, C, E, G, and I (left) are normal tissue, Panels B, D, F, H, and J (right) are colorectal cancer tissues. A and B show annexin A1, C and D show annexin A2, E and F show annexin A4, G and H = annexin A7, and I and J = annexin A11.
After all of the in-depth look at the two figures in group, we try to interpret it. One example we try to figure out the title of the figures. Our hypothesis for the title is Cancer Tissues Appear to Have More Annexin (A1, A2, A4, A11) Compares to Normal Tissues. We discussed the question for this research is “between normal cells and cancer cells, which one has more annexin?”
What we learned from our background and research information is that MMP (Matrix metalloproteinase) is a group of enzymes that create a microenvironment for cancer cells to grow and break down ECM (Extracellular Matrix). In order for those tumor cells to grow, they need nutrient, so MMPs also help to increase blood vessels for the nutrient to flow through the blood vessel. These enzymes are able to control annexin, which are proteins that can be found in eukaryotic organisms; from that conclusion, there’s an evidence that it is possible for the annexin to grow in tumor cells. Our we conclude this is that tumor cells have more annexin than normal cells. The amount of annexin A4 and A11 in the tumor cells are almost twice as much as the normal cells. Annexin A4 has the most protein present in both types of cells. However, there is no Annexin A7 in both types of cells. We understand more about science literature especially interpret the figure by ourselves, and predict what are the scientists’ prediction or what are their results for the experiment.
Tumor Figure 1
Tumor Figure 2
First Flame Lab Test
When my facilitator asked, “Do you like chemistry?” I replied honestly “No. I don’t like it.” But my thought changed in a week after I learned chemistry. It’s not boring at all. One of the activities I love the most in chemistry was doing labs. One of the labs is called the “”Flame Test Lab”.
This is the introduction of the lab.
Flame tests provide a way to qualitatively test for the presence of specific elements by seeing colored flames. The color we see is a combination of the visible wavelengths of light emitted by the atoms. Each element has a different “pattern” of electrons so it will show a different combination of colors.
In this lab performed flame tests on seven different elements. You tried to observed to identify an unknown solution.
I have so much fun seeing the flame color that changes because of different chloride solutions. My group, we took a turn to test the flame, and while we did our experiment we write down results and observation. Based on our experiment we found out the unknown chloride is Lithium.
The Rent Collector Reflection and Poetry
The first term of the year I got a great opportunity to join the Liger Literacy Leadership team as my essential. This team is very special because we are the leader, we lead our own learning. Our teacher, Cara, just help to facilitate and sometimes she helps to demonstrate. For instance, we lead our own book discussion and we create our own literacy spoken words. The main theme in this round is “Literature is Everywhere”. We read the book called The Rent Collector, which talked about a survival family that lived in the dump in Cambodia. It is 50% fictionalized and 50% based on true story. One of The authors of the Rent Collector goals wants the reader to get inspire in Literature. This is one reason why we read this book. This is my reflection of the first five chapter when I read the book.
Sadness, happiness, darkness, kindness, and illness are all happening at the same time while I’m reading, The Rent Collector. This book touches my heart and my feelings are indescribable because this is the first book EVER that made me connect with every character. I’m able to imagine the trials each character faces. Moreover, all of the quotes from this book that I read so far are meaningful and empowering. For instance, when Sang Ly is speaking about her clock, she says, “Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.” Literally, it means the clock broke nevertheless we can fix it no matter what. The figurative meaning refers to more than the clock, she is referring to more than the clock. In my opinion, the author wants to communicate the theme of second chances to the reader. Even though you lose hope in life or your plan doesn’t work the way you want it to be, you always have another opportunity. Don’t limit yourself to only one path.
The grandfather’s role in the novel is related to this quote. He motivates her to find steps for success even though she is enduring pain. Sang Ly walked through a difficult path with pain. As the quote in chapter two said “Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.” It made me think that it’s normal to face a challenge and difficult situations. Sang Ly lives in the trash dump so there are many fears she has to confront every day. Her son, Nisay, has an illness she can’t find any solution to cure him yet. The gangsters at the dumb always try to attack her husband. She has to pay the Rent Collector every month to live at the dump. Her whole family is uneducated, she needs to find a way to learn Khmer literacy. In order for her son to have a better future. Most importantly, Sang Ly and her husband find money one day can only effort for a day. Anyway, even though they live in the dump they have the blissfulness, and the warmest family ever!
A part of that we wrote our own poems, those poems were inspired by the Rent Collector book. We learn to write different types of poems. Here are my poems.
I wrote this poem from the perspective of Sang Ly (the main character in the Rent Collector). This poem was inspired by Sang Ly. The style of this poem is called found poetry. Here are the four strategies we can use for found poetry. Strategy number one choose words and phrases completely at random from the text and then piece them together in poetic form. Strategy number two choose a character perspective and “find” their words from the book. Strategy number three choose a chapter that you enjoyed and want to focus on. Strategy number four get inspired by a certain format, structure, phrase like the examples from Alexander. For my poem, I used strategy number one.
The Power of Literature
I live in the dump. I look like the dump. I smell like the dump. I feel like the dump.
But literature fades the thoughts of the dump inside of me.
I believe everything is literature.
I believe literature is everything.
I am one of them. I am literature.
My lives, my hopes, my desires, my despairs, my passions, my strengths, my weaknesses. I am literature.
Literature is art with words.
I believe words are powerful.
Words have started and stopped wars.
Words have builded and lost fortunes.
Words have saved and taken lives.
Words have won and lost great kingdoms.
Every word I utter should be chosen with care.
I use words to save my son’s life.
I use words to read.
I use words to communicate great advice.
Literature is art with stories.
Stories teach me to not give up hope.
Stories tell me that we need to endure all the trials.
Stories make me see a better tomorrow.
Stories make me realize life has second chances.
I have my own life story. The life in the dump teaches me to have hope and to not limit myself to only one path.
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside.
Knowing everything about literature isn’t enough, I have to accept how to enjoy it.
I read with my head, interpret it with my heart.
Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
Everyone heart has different sizes.
Everyone has different emotions.
Everyone has different feelings.
Everyone has different memories.
Everyone has different experiences.
Everyone interprets literature differently.
This is why literature is unique.
Everyone is unique.
Everyone’s stories are unique.
I am unique.
The life and story in the dump is unique.
What about you? What are your unique stories?
The style of this peom is photography inspired poetry. This where we pick a photogragh and write the poem about it.
Don’t say I’m lazy.
Everyday I wake up early.
To find my own destiny.
My life’s very busy.
But my kiddo’s life is foggy, smoky, hazy, and risky.
Digging, picking to find gold for a bowl of rice.
My life right now is in a vulnerable position.
I was raised with no education.
I can’t make any decisions.
My life depends on this smoky mountain.
You can’t laugh at me and call me dirty.
Because I’m not lazy.
I want to be who I am.
And fight for my life.
I don’t need your advice.
I will fight and make your sight to me bright again.
I believe I will make my life flow.
By finding my own arrows, and make
An accurate and precise shot for my future.
Math – Unit Circle
In order to get a good score in math for the SAT we have to learn, practice, practice, and practice. The first day in math Jeff (our math teacher) asked us to note down all the section the students want to improve so he can fill in all the gaps for us in the next two months. Based on the majority most of us wants to work on the unit circles.
The equation itself it looked so scary. I think in my head “do I have to memorize all the equations? How can find all the angles in our head? Do we need to use a calculator?” All the questions were clear after I took a few lessons in one hour. It’s easy than it looked. I can’t say the unit circle is easy, but in order to feel confident, and to solve it quickly, I need to practice and most importantly I need to find my own strategies.
After I learned new strategies in class and practiced in Khan Academy, I’m able to draw my own unit circle of all the trigs values of special angles (90°, 45°, 30°, and 60°).
Check it out! My first unit circle.
