Jez's Blog

1/OCT/2007

The homework foe today was to reread page 104 to page 109, so in class, we talked about basically the same thing last time. Mr. Burghauser wanted us to write 5 most important things in the Chapter, and again, we were devided into groups of 2, and the members in every group stayed the same. Connie and Eunie were in group 1, their 5 most important things were Confucius Great Wall, Other Ethical system, Qin Dynasty and Legalism. Grace and I were in group 2, our 5 most important things were The warring state period, Confucius-The 5 basic relationship-(1)ruler & subject (2)father & son (3)husband & wife (4)older brother younger brother (5)friend & friendFilial Piety is the respect for parents and ancestors, Daoism, Laozi, only natural order was important. And the Qin Dynasty replaced the Zhou Dynasty, Qin Sgi Haungdi. The two boys, Jordan and Kevin were in group 3, and their 5 most important things werer Confucius, Daoism, I Ching and Yin and Yang, Shi Haungdi and Legalist. After sharing all these 5 most important things in each group, Mr. Burghauser found out the common ones and told us to do a Powerpoient presentation about the selected topic of your group. The topics were Legalist v.s. Confucius, Daoism, and Qin Dynasity. At firt, everyone wanted to do Qin Dynasty, why? I don't know, but I know I want to do it because there is more informations about it, therefore It might be easer to do the researching. Then, I was thinking that someone has to grow up here, so I changed my mind and chose another topic, Legalist v.s. Confusius. And I hope it helped Mr. Burghauser a bit, because then he only had to throw the coin once. lol

27/SEB/2007

Today in class, we were talking about 'Reading Strategy'. First, we talked about it's meaning, then we divided into groups of 2, sharing our own reading strategies to owr partner, my partner was Grace, her reading stratgy was read, take notes of topics and write it on paper or type it down. After group discussing, we got to share our reading strategies to the whole class. Jordan's was to read it twice; Kevin's was to take notes of each paragraph; connie's was to pay attention to understand words, and also underline your own words that you think are connected to important ideas; Eunice's was to read tittle/heading, and understand how the ideas in that section connect to tittle/heading, and Mr. Burghauser said mine was a great one, which was to take notes on stickies and stick them in books.
And by the way, in a part of class discuss, Mr.Burghauser told as that he likes peanut butter cup, which I've never heard it before. He said it's an amazing ice cream and hope as could get him one on his birthday, on 20th of June, but I don't think there's any in Taiwan, so... sorry Mr. Burghauser! ;p

21/SEB/2007

Today in class, we were discussing about China's civilization.
Mr.Burghauser asked us why China is the oldest CIVILIZATION, but not CULTURE? I couldn't think of the answer of that question.
Then, we listed the 5 most important thing about China. I listed culture, dynasties, geographies, believes and civilizations. But we didn't talk about all, we'd only finished talking about culture, dynasties and geographies. While we were talking about geographies, Mr. Burghauser discribed China's king as him teaching us in an American football field sized classroom. That was a good discription because I really can feel how incredibilly big China is... and that also explained why people has to beware of buying things that are made in China. And people who has their factories in China really have to rule their workers.

18/SEB/2007

Today, we've been presenting the subject we had researched about
Taiwan. Connie and Eunice was the first group to present. They
presented their selected subject which was Superstitions in Taiwan,
with powerpoint and I helped a bit. Their presentation was awesome!
even though most of them I've known already. And Mr. Burghause
thought that it was so awesome that it had woke him from the
sleepiness in the early morning. Then, the second group was us, Grace
and I. We didn't use powerpoint, but I think our informations were
abundant. I think this project was easy because I've been in Taiwan's
local elementary school, so I know quite a lot about the our subject,
which was the Educational System in Taiwan. After us, it was Jordan
and Kevin's turn. They were talking about the Religion in Taiwan.
Well...I don't really know about the religions, so it was quiet
interesting for me.