Because of Romek post #2

1) His pigeon is important because when the day the pigeon left it brought friends. Every day the pigeons came every morning around 8 am and one day the pigeons didn't come. That's when David's mom new some thing was wrong and so his family hid from the Nazis that were coming.When they came out everyone in the neighborhood was dead.

2) The conditions were awful, having to wake up to a guy ringing a bell in your ear and have o work to sunset with barely any food. I think that the Nazis used the word vacation as a sick joke or they didn't want the rest of germany to look into this.

3)
-I would ask him how does he sleep every night and possibly hvaeing tto remember all the horrible things that he had to live through?
-I would also ask how he felt when he knew that his brother was tortured to death?

Because of Romek post #1

1) I learned the jewish point of veiw because most of things I've seen of the holocaust are more of an overall veiw of most of the jewish people. I think that it must of been really scary to hide in some one's basement and hear the german artillery. Whats intersting is that david is trying his best to help every body to feel a little bit better.

2) I think davids family is really nice, and very brave to runaway from their friends and home. His dad is also very responsible to buy a horse and a wagon for his family to escape. Inn the house of the people who let them sleep in their basement was when evry body was really nice because they were all helping each other out to survive.

3) I think hes very brave when he has to since he was wanted to walk most of the way out of the border. He is also very nice and generous to every one to like he offered to bring his mom the tea.

Mural Reflection:

Name: Timothy Zaragoza

Project Reflection

Project Title: Aztec Mural Project

Letter: _____ Dates: 4/13/08 -5/02/08

PURPOSE

In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do.

Sentence Starters

• The purpose of this project was to learn about…

• In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc…

The purpose of this project was to learn about Aztec civilization, religion, and culture. In order to do this we Mrs. I had make groups of 4-5 people. Then we had to pick out the leadership roles that everyone in the group had to have. The roles were emperor, graphic organizer, color coordinator, and lead artist. I was one of the graphic organizer. We also had to fill out a hand out that had a lot of topics on Aztec's life style.

WHAT I LEARNED

In this section, tell what academic information or skills you learned or improved.

Sentence Starters

• I learned about…

• I explored the concept of …

• In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)

I learned about Aztec life style, culture, and religion. We learned about Aztec warriors. At the age of 12 Aztec boys have to be warriors for 5 years with out pay after 5 years the 17 year old boys could get paid to fight for the Atzec army. There were social classes of the empire first was emperor, government officials, priest,warriors, merchants, peasants, and slaves. Pregnant Aztec women were honored because they either gave birth to a good warrior or a skilled weaver. Girls that were excellent weavers were the most respected because weaving was the skill of youth, and love.

REFLECTION

In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?

Sentence Starters

• I enjoyed this project because…

• I feel like I could have done better on this project because…

• Next time, I would…

I enjoyed this project because we got to sketch and make a mural based on Aztec life

style. The mural my group did was probably one of the most complicated one because

we had to do a Aztec Sun Stone. I feel i could have done better on this project because

when we finish sketching it we had a long way to go on painting it and we had a little bit

of time. Next time I would try to convince my group to do an easier mural.

WORK HABITS

Complete the following section about your work habits. How did you manage your time in and outside of class? What parts of the project were you responsible for? What strategies did you use when you had difficulty understanding or completing the project?

Sentence Starters

• I was responsible for…

• I had difficulty…

• Next time, I should have…

I was responsible for so me of the artist statement and painting some of the mural. I had difficulty on working on the mural outside since so many people were talking and some times i got caught in a conversation. Next, time i should have stay focus more of the time because currently my groups mural isn't done yet.

ARTIFACTS

You should have at least one artifact from each project on your DP. What document, picture, or link will you have for this project?

I will have my artist statement on my blog.