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5/13/2021

 The class started with Mr.Paterson saying only Saitama people can go into the class. I didn't know what was happening at that time. Next, was people who showed an ID card. I had my ID card in my locker so I couldn't get into the class. Finally, all of us could get into the room but we couldn't sit down or we couldn't use chairs and desks. Only Saitama people were able to sit and use desks. Mr.Paterson told us this is what is happening in Israel and Palestine now. Experiencing how Palestinian people are treated by Israeli people I think I could understand that it is not usual in Israel now, but I couldn't understand what Israeli people want to do by treating Palestinian people this way. Also before this class, I learned a lot about how media is controlling information to tell information good for themselves but I thought if we try to do we can see what is happening in reality in perspective with no bias.  After listening to these talks half of the class listened how...

5/12/2021

 We learned about how a county use media to control the people and how the media implant bias in the people. BBC news used terms that support Israel and for Palestine, they used words in bad images. I was surprised after watching this news from a critical perspective. In usual situation we do not try to watch news in this way because almost all of us think that TV news is telling the "truth" and actually they are telling the "truth" but, I could recognize that the way they are informing is not perfect all the time. This time, the news was about "Israel's attack on Palestine." and since the UK support Israel, BBC informed this showing how Palestine attacked Israel before with the word "retaliatory attack" of Israel. BBC informed truth news but actually, before the Palestine attack there were illegal and unfair trouble by Israel in Palestine and the attack by Palestine was a "retaliatory attack" on Israel. It means that BBC or the UK ...

2021/4/21

 We learned kinds of pictures to make the introduction look better.  There were some points which are necessary. First was the focus. The picture's focus has to be on me so that everyone can know who is the writer. Also, we should take pictures in a suitable place. I this case, a suitable place means place which relates a lot to the writer. I think I should use pictures in which I am playing baseball. The picture should be straight too. I want to use pictures which I am playing baseball but I think this picture has some problems, like the focus so I think I should use another one, or use both of them.

My presentation reflection

 I had my presentation about my book review. Overall I had positive evaluation to my book, so I tried to explain this book from positive perspective. Today I will reflect my presentation watching video.  Firstly I could protect the time limit but, I think my time allocation was not so good. Because this book's settings are complicated and because this story's storyline is complicated too I think I took too much time with the story's summary. This presentation's purpose was to state my own critique but because I took too much time with the summary I couldn't state my critique which is positive ones fully.  Secondly, I repeated the same word or the same information a lot. Repeating is a good way to tell important and core ideas but I repeated information which is not so important information so it just made my presentation's substances thin.   Thirdly I only moved (physically) to the slide's other side once. I think moving too much is not a good thing but also...

7/28

We started to use Flipgrid. I heard this site's name for the first time so, it mean that I used this site for the first time. Reaction from me is that this site is similar to some applications like Instagram or Snap chat. First work was to upload our video. It was easier to upload video than my image before I use.  I could know basic information about Flipgrid but still, There are some points which I don't know how it works. I could not use emoji or filter inside the video, so I want to know how to do it and also I want to know how to alter our voice. I think we can alter voice but I could not find it.  Also a lot student didn't wanted to post their video first. I think it's because other students will watch the video. I think we should make the video only viewable for Mr.Paterson, so that all students can post their video pleasantly.

The great blue yonder chapter2

In the second chapter, Harry and her sister’s relationship became clear. Before the accident(Harry was death because of the accident, he was hit by the lorry) Harry had a quarrel with her sister Eggy. Harry said that he don’t like his sister at all and Eggy said same thing to Harry. Then Harry said if he die you will notice how you love me and he leaf house. Lastly, Eggy said ok then you don’t have to come back, I will be very happy. Then after Harry left house he was hit by the lorry and dead. Harry was regretting this quarrel because his last word before he die became a abuse to his sister. Also it was about dead. He didn’t mean to die but he died so he can’do anything with this now. He thought that his sister is regretting too, so he wanted to meet her again, reconciles, but now he came to the “other side” the land of the death people and if someone die they can’t be alive again.  Arthur says that when people die first they come to the “other side” and then go to the “the ...

The great blue yonder chapter1

Harry, the main character of this story died when he was children. It's because a lorry hit his bicycle. This story's stage is the "other side". It's a word which we go after we die. This word is very difficult to explain. One thing that Harry could tell us is that the "other side" is absolutely odd. When someone dies that person gets into a line. At the end of the line, there is a man who checks why the person is dead and who is the person. When the check finish, finally the person enters the "other side". On this island (Harry says that the "other side" is an island) although there is a sun, like our world it doesn't move at all. times don't go too. It's very interesting because, because of the time people don't grow anymore (it means that people in the "other sides" are the same figure as the moment they die) but their memory becomes fuzzy. It's very odd. Also because the figures don't grow or cha...