The Factory Game 2

The setting of the second factory game we played was actually a factory, whereas last time we were just members of a family who were making birthday gifts. When we played yesterday, we were under a lot of pressure, from both the manager and the boss However, on Thursday, Mr. Coyle didn't talk to us as a boss, he talked to us as a teacher. But even though we were under the same pressure that workers in a real factory were, I felt that many of us wouldn't take the job seriously because we knew that our life really didn't depend on it. But if our life was depending on the job, then maybe we wouldn't have laughed much during work. But overall, it was a good simulation for helping us understand the Industrial Revolution.

The Factory Game

In humanities class today, we study about the Industrial Revolution. After that we played a game called the Factory Game. Our task was to use all of the shapes given to us to make a birthday gift for our brother or sister. I felt that the game wasn't that hard, but I do think that if this weren't a game the pressure of creating a present would have been harder. I also think that the task itself was easy; meaning there was no right or wrong way that it was supposed to turn out(except for the fact that we had to use all the shapes). Even though we could only use markers, crayons, scissors, and glue, I thought this activity was a good idea. In the end, I made a snow angel.

A Messy Room

Instead of having to describe a messy room from the top of my head, I could just go in my older brother's room.
As I walked into my older brother, Satwant's, room(to annoy him), I almost slipped on what looked to be an over sized shirt; you know the ones people keep for memory. Argh! He walked closer to me, and I wondered, for a split-second, he was going to ask me if I was alright. But then he passed me just to turn on the fan on level three. All of a sudden papers started flying thorough the air and blowing my hair into my face. "Hey, Kirenjot, could you turn that off for me?" He asked me me while he was picking up some of his essay paper.
Just as I was about to press the off switch, I decided , just for the heck of getting him mad, that I would turn the fan on level five. But too bad for me, I got shoved out of the room. I took one last look at the textbooks covering the bed and click. He locked the door.
One question:
When I'm seventeen, will I be like him?

P.S. I may have eggagerated a bit about his room.

Mother Necessity

What do I think Necessity is the Mother of all Invention means?

I think "Necessity is the Mother of all Invention" means in order to make an invention you need all the necessary items for it. Instead of using horses for communication, we could use the telephone. And instead of having no light, the light bulb was created. It is written Mother instead of Father because mothers give birth so giving birth to an invention is like that.

How I Learn

I feel that I am an auditory learner. I feel this because when I watch videos or actions I get confused. And when I put diagrams together I also get confused. But when I listen to the idea, it's easy for me to put all the ideas together in my mind after hearing it. Also I can relate what I hear to other things I know.

Quarter 1 Goals

Two highlights from the first week of school was I got to meet new people and I got a variety of new classes. My first impression of 8th grade humanities was that it was going to be extremely hard and I was going to be way behind in everything.
One of my goals for this year's humanities to put more detail into my assignments. Last year, in humanities, my detail wasn't very grand, and that caused me to lose some points on my grade. I'll be able to tell if I've improved at the end of the quarter by comparing my work and asking others if they understand my story.
My second goal for humanities is to be more open-minded about things, such as projects. If we were given five choices (like we were for the Outsiders project), I shouldn't always choose the movie review type of option, but I should choose a harder or maybe a little more complicated one. I'll be able to tell if I've improved if if I look at all of my choices that I chose throughout the quarter and see if they all aren't very similar.

My Gang

My gang has various members; some are my family while some are friends.

The first members of my gang are my parents and my brother, Satwant, because they give me love and play board games with me when I'm bored. The last four other people in my gang are my favorite cousins, Tejan, Divia, Savneet, and, Prabhdeep because they take me shopping and play sports with me. Kaveen is another member in my gang because we are extremely close family friends and our parents have known each other before we were born.