The Revolutions Project and The Battle of Bunker Hill

When we first had this assigned to us I thought that it wasn't too much to ask, until the next day when I found out that there were 43 different individual assignments we had to do. Still, at this time I didn't do much work for the project, a week later I started turning in more things like movie notes and stain glass work. It was not until around 3 weeks into the project that I started to get worried, at this point some people were very far in some people had even done there "teach a class". I soon after turned in my lit packet and started working on the Shepard Software and my "Do-Make". Now that we are coming up on the end of the project I have many assignments to still turn in, but I have just enough time to finish the rest of the project.
Now for the interesting part, the battle of Bunker Hill. The battle of Bunker Hill was one of the later battles in the revolutionary war, waged between the British and the Americans. The battle of bunker hill was mainly focused around Breeds hill and some of the nearby hills caught in the crossfire. Charlestown  was hit before the first attack by the british allowing general Robert Pigot to lead a group of infantry soldiers to bombard and flank the americans, but there was a brick wall and when the infantry tried to maneuver the wall they were struck by a barrage of bullets rendering the attempt a failure.
In the second attack the british tried a slightly different route and used their boats to send their men around the hills to possibly reinforce the other attacks on the hill. Sadly they failed and were driven farther back with heavy losses.

In the final attack the Americans on the mainland refused to reinforce the army on the hills which were almost out of ammunition from the other attacks, which allowed the British to attack Breeds Hill with full force. The British attacked with their forces and 400 more men that came late in the battle. The battle of Bunker Hill was great because even though the British won it shows that low ranking people with low military training could fight off the forces of armies of highly trained soldiers.

Computers; Good or Bad?

52 percent of boys and 26 percent of girls reported their average time spent on the computer to be above 42 hours per week. Most teenagers spend 30 hours per week in front of computer screens. Wow, that means about four hours everyday. Many teens are awake sixteen out of twenty-four hours a day. And teenagers go to school for about seven hours everyday, which leaves nine hours for free-time. And if they spend four hours out of nine on the computer, that means that 45% of their free time is on computers. I feel like most people in these ‘studies’ are different from the kids here at Catlin Gabel, or maybe its just me. Because we are a school where work takes priority over social status. Because we are a private school most of us who go here really want to make the most of our education. Not many students here play video games until one in the morning or stay up on Facebook, but some do. And I am guessing that in the Middle School, Here at Catlin, we are very advanced in technology, we have many nice computer carts, smart boards in almost every classroom (if there are on smart boards in the classrooms then there is a projector), but most of all, everything can be done on the computer. Especially homework. I spend about one to three hours on homework every school day. And most of it can be done on the computer. Also, there is also subjects like math, where you have handouts and textbooks that do not involve computers. I feel like once I get on to my computer, it takes at least an hour to get off it.I check emails, look on the web for current events, find the weather, and of course feed my chi-chi pet (a virtual pet that you feed and it grows). Even if my homework is supposed to take one hour, I might get distracted and spend twice as much time as I planned. I don’t even have a social network, which I know are very time consuming. Many people think that more homework on the computer is better, but I believe that less is better. Why? Because it would benefit the kids by taking less time so we wouldn’t get distracted, and the teachers because they  could assign more (I’m sorry fellow classmates). I propose that teachers give less homework on computers, and more on worksheets to prevent loss of time. A teacher may ask, “But it’s your responsibility!” I would reply and tell them about our generation and how some people’s lives are around the computer. I don’t agree that no homework should be on the computers, I just think that it should be more balanced. I was surprised when I saw that ‘52 percent of boys and 26 percent of girls reported their average time spent on the computer to be above 42 hours per week.’ I feel like I spend no more than 12! The crazy thing I heard was that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Paediatric Society recommend only using to two hours per day on screens. My analogy is that the more screen time people get, makes them have less time for athletics. And that makes people more overweight. Then they are grumpy because they spend so much time on computers and don’t sleep. That makes the kids sleepy in class, and they would have a shorter attention span for homework at night. My conclusion is that too much homework on the computer can really back stab. I think that we kids at Catlin Gabel are not doing those actions (in my analogy) but sometimes I feel like that nights homework should only take me one hour, but it ends up being about three hours. I think that the ratio of computer homework to homework not on the computer should be about 2-1. But now for me it’s about 4-1. Me and my friends are not video gaming addicts, or people that don’t sleep because they are on Facebook, but I am disappointed because I always get lost in my own world when I am on the Internet. 
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Work Periods

                                 

                                 Work Periods

Work periods, useful or not?  Revolutions has many individual projects that require lots of time to complete.  Personally, I think that work periods are useful as it comes closer to the due date on March 16th.  I tend to wait till the last minuet to finish my projects.  Near the beginning, when revolutions was assigned, Work periods were not necessary to complete our work. They were not needed because most of us were not sure on what to do for our presentations, or what order to finish our work in.

Now that we are approaching the due date I think that work periods are extremely helpful.  Now we are past the halfway mark and it feels like the revolutions project it sneaking up behind us.  I think that at least one work period a week is great amount of time to have in order be done with one individual project, plus the daily work that we strive to finish every night.  If we have just one work period a week we can complete many necessary parts of the revolutions project. 

Every week brings new challenges, like a new project in modern language or English to finish on top of the revolutions project.  Completing homework and big presentations from five classes can be a real struggle for me.  I learned from my past projects that I am a huge procrastinator.  With revolutions not setting a due date can be very hard for me to make sure I get all my work in on time. In one work period I can set due dates for every assignment, and then I can complete one of them every night until I have compleated them all.  That’s why work periods are completely useful.