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Introdution

King Charles was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556. He was the ruler of four of Europe’s leading dynasties. The Trastamara of the Kingdom of Castile and the Crown of Aragon, the Burgundian Valois of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Habsburgs of Austria. His parents were Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile.

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1. What did I feel successful doing during the process of the project? What am I proud of?

I feel like I was successful in finding useful information to do my project, presenting my information and displaying my game to my audience. I think that I conveyed the information on my topic about royalty and nobility in the middle ages effectively because my audience seemed understand and take interest in my work and were able to answer most of the questions in my game. It was hard task to do in a short amount of time but I also enjoyed doing it along the way.

2. What new skills did I value learning?
 

I valued learning more about my topic which was about royalty and noility in the middle ages. I also valued learing how to communicate with my audience in a effective way and developing a better sense of time management during the process of the project.  I will try to apply these skill that I have learnt in my daily life.

3. What was challenging during the process of completing the project? With what did I struggle?
 

During the process of the project, I had trouble coming up with and getting materials for a game that would be fun and interesting for my audience to play, eventually I came up with one thanks to to the help of my fellow classmates. I also lost all of my citations and had to redo it.
 

During the medieval fair, I had problems opening my power point presentations. It took a long time to appear on the screen of my computer  and I had to delay my audience from seeing my project. 

4. How could I have improved my process so that I would have been more effective?

I could have saved my citations on my  thumbdrive where it would have been saved properly. I also could planned the process of my project in a way that I did not have to rush to complete it.

5. Did I effectively create an age-appropriate presentation and game for the elementary students? (please explain how you know it was appropriate or how you could have changed it to be more appropriate)

I think I created an age-appropriate presentation and game for the elementary students because they I made the information on my power point presentations easy to read and understandable. My persuasive letter did not contain any hard words that they would not have understood and my game seemed to entertain the children well.

Refection

1. What did I feel successful doing during the process of the project? What am I proud of?

I feel that my group presented our power point project about different religions in Rome to the class in a well planed manner. I am proud that my class could answer most of our questions and get them right at the same time. I felt that the questions my team mates and I came up with was satisfactory and reasonable.

2. What new skills did I value learning?

I valued learning how to use the power point system because I have never used the soft ware before and now I can use it more often to make my life more easier. I learnt to coorperate with my fellow partners better. I also appreciate learning more of the Roman culture through the articles and presentations hat my fellow friends have made.

3. What was challenging during the process of completing the project? With what did I struggle?

My group experienced numerous difficulties with the power point, especially with the hyperlinks. We made a mistake after a mistake but we managed to create a good project at the end of the day to present to our friends.

4. How could I have improved my process so that I would have been more effective?

I could have help to assigned my team mates a task to do so that we could do our work faster and neater in a reasonable time. I could have been more focused and stay on task and not get off topic.

 The date the article was posted: September 17^th                                                

Mystery of girl found in railway stationWhat is the issue? 

The issue is that a girl was found in Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday morning at about eight in the morning. The girl, of an Asian appearance is believed to be three years old and being led around the station by man of an Asian appearance, who was wearing a dark suit and wheeling a small suitcase. The man then let go of her hand and left the station.

Who is affected and how? 

The girl: She is very scared and worried of what is happening around her.

The police: They found her in the railway station and they are part of the investigation.

Her parents: They maybe worried about her and want her back home

The department of Human services: They are trying to investigate the girl’s case

The man who led her in the railway station: He is going to face charges for leaving the girl alone in the railway station.

What would u do if you were directly involved? 

If I was directly involved, I would help the police investigate the girl’s case. I could put up posters of the girl, to let the public be more aware of what is going on. If I had political power, I would tell the Australian government to help in the investigation.

Website URL & image URL: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mystery-of-girl-found-in-railway-station/2007/09/16/1189881342917.html

Image URL: Australia map=http://www.travelnotes.org/Oceania/images/australia_regions.gif 

Apollo -  God of the sun and and patron of music, archery and medicine

Demeter -  Goddess of crops and giver of grains and fruit

Dionysus -    God of fertility, joyous life, and wine

Artemis- Goddess of the moon, guardian of cities and women, “huntress”

Zeus- Ruler and king of all Gods, God of the weather

Ares-  God of war and combat

Poseidon - God of the oceans and seasGod of the oceans and seas 

Hermes - God of orators, protector of thieves, messenger to the mortals

Athena -  Goddess of wisdom and patron of household crafts

Aphrodite - Goddess of beauty and love 

Hephaestu-God of fire and artisans

UN issue refection

Q1.  Think about the presentations and reflect on the projects your classmates presented and the information you listened to. Explain with details and specific information what you learned, what you found interesting, surprising, or shocking about the presentations you heard in class.

Answer:  I have learn a lot on the topic my and my classmates did. The topic we did was on climate change. We have learn that people who pollute the environment are contributing to climate change, such as buying more cars and throwing their rubbish into rivers,seas or lakes. I was really shocked when I checked a website on climate change on the internet  because the website stated that if we continue do harm our planet further, we are all going to die of solar activity, greenhouse gases and ultra violet rays.

 I thought that Joshua,Kay Lynn, and Gabriela’s presentation was interesting. I learned that HIV and AID’s are different. HIV can be developed into AID’s. I also learn that poeple die from these dieaseases through the sharing of needles passing ,the bacteria of AID’s and breast milk. I found it shocking that nobody knows a cure for it .

Another presentation which I enjoyed was Stephan,Kevin, and Saeri’s presentation. I think they explained their information very well about preventing conflicts around the world. I learned that children from the age of 7 and above were used for conflicts around the world, such as the blood diamond conflict.  Children that were underage were given drugs and were to only obey nobody but their commanders. The commanders wanted to kill people to gain more weapons and dimaonds. I hope that they stop the conflict. I thought that all the presentations were presented well ,was interesting and educational.

 Q2.  What would you change to improve your project/presentation if you were to do the assignment again?

Answer: I think I would have made my pictures more clearer and pixellated properly because it was not very clear during our presentation. For the presentation, I would have added in more information and make scrips instead of just gathering infomation and let the movie do the talking.

 Author: (Not given). “Most Earth-like planet discovered.” CNN, International. 23/04/07.

1. The information on the article was very interesting. The planet is so far away from earth that scientist are not able to measure how far it is.

2. I like the article because it was diferent from what other people have done .

 3. I like the topic because there was no violence involved.

 

http://http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-06-14-gliese-planet_x.htm

1. I think that�this statement�is false for the United Nations. A whole cannot be as strong as sum of it parts.

2. I feel that the UN’s power should� decreased to only�provide humanitarian aid when asked so that the UN�will not be criticised when it gives�unneccsary help.

3. Five permanent members of the Security council should not�continue to retain their veto power because other people in the world have their own opinion of a particular issue and it will not be fair to them if only five members decide everything.

4. I agree with the statement. If another world war comes again there will be even more problems for the UN to solve than what it has now.

5. No they can’t.�The UN is such a small organisation therefore it cannot protect the whole world from another world war.

�6. Yes i think that the right issues are discussed. I support the UN as without their help some of the worlds countries will face a lot of trouble� financially and in development.

7. I think that the UN is a successful organisation as it helped a lot of people around the world.

 Author: Sia Andrew

Title of article: Al-Qaeda leader is dead

[no website add ,took from newspaper]

Date of article: 1 May 2007

1. What is the issue?
The issue is that the leader of the al-Qaeda group in Iraq was killed in a battle between the government.

2. Who is involved?
The al-Qaeda group members, the Iraq government and the citizens of Iraq who live in Baghdad.

3. Who is affected and how?The members of the al-Qaeda group are affected because they lost their leader and they have a lot of problems with the government, the Iraq government is affected because they want to catch the rest of the group and make them surrender and the people living in Baghdad is affected as they won�t need to deal with any more violence caused by the group.

4. What will I do if I were directly involved?
If I were in the government, I would hire a search group to find out where the group is hiding so there will not be any more violence.

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This is one of the leaders

of the al-Qaeda group,

Osama Bin Ladin.

His fellow leader was

killed in a battle between the goverment.