Achieve Articles for This week

Three Legendary Women - Activity Only

Marley Dias Is An Open Book - Activity Only

The Dream Lives On - Activity and Thought Question

April Assembly

Safe Social Distancing:

 Spread Out!

 Christine has definitely grown taller this semester!

 Hsinchu City Government Award: Well done, Janelle!

Welcome to Saudi Arabia

Achieve Articles for this week

Achieve Articles For Week 29 [April 20 - 24]

Please be sure to read these articles and answer the Thought Questions by 8PM on Thursday.

For the rest of the school year, you will need to read the article, then complete the Activity and Thought Question. However, you will need to copy the answer to the Thought Question that you type for Achieve 3000 and paste it into the right assignment on Google Classroom.

Here are your articles for this week:

Forms of Government - This article includes a description of the government of Saudi Arabia.

Hidden No More - We are about to learn about the space race and the moon landing. This article is about people who were involved but might not be remembered for their work. This article might make you
think about the word innovation. 

Here are the articles from last week for those who did not complete them. 

Carrying on the Message

This Wall Is History

US History In Germany

Can Iran Save A Lake From Turning To Salt?

Well Done, Taiwan! That's two days in the same week with 0 new cases.

With this positive news, let's remain vigilant while monitoring the situation in the hope that Scientists (yes, with a capital S) the world over can work together to find a vaccine sooner than Spring 2021.

Topic 15-3

Please escuse his spelling of the word 'sentence'. Maths teachers, what can you do?

Maths Topic 15-2

Topic 15-1

Social Studies Chapter 12 Lesson 3

Social Studies Chapter 12, Lesson 3: Music in the 1950s and Resistance to Segregation and Discrimination.

Some examples of songs from the 1950s.



One of my favourite scenese from one of my favourite movies. There is a small problem with FACTS. The scene in the movie is set in 1955 but Chuck Berry only released the song in 1957. I recently watched a Chuck Berry documentary in which his grandson speaks about this scene and says, "I'm still looking for Marvin Berry." The character who makes the phone call claims to be Marvin Berry, who is supposed to be Chuck Berry's cousin, but he is just a character in the movie.



One of the most important acts of resistance in the history of racism. Rosa Parks knew what she was doing and her decision to sit where she did on that day was planned and organized. She had to be very brave to do what she did, and in doing so, changed the way young black people could enjoy more freedom in the USA. There are still problems and racism still exists. Check out Ms. Parks' words in our Quote of the Week this week. You will also read about her in the Achieve article about American history in Germany. To save her house, it was moved all the way to Germany.

Maths Topic 14 Test

Maths Topic 14 Test

I will place a conference call at about 8:25 TODAY when I go through the test with the rest of the class.

How To Submit Achieve Thought Questions Through Google Classroom

13 April, 2020 - Loom Recording

Hsinchu 5-Day Weather Forecast

Meanwhile, near Chernobyl...

Chernobyl Wildfires Reignite, Stirring Up Radiation

Wildfires are common in the so-called Zone of Alienation around the abandoned Chernobyl plant. A larger-than-typical fire is stirring up radiation, though levels remain normal in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. VINNYTSIA, Ukraine - Firefighters have struggled to control wildfires burning through radioactive forest in the abandoned territory around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radiation levels are considerably lower than they were immediately after the 1986 accident but still pose risks.

Maths Topic 14 Practice Test Answers

TOPIC 14

1. C
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. D
11. A
12. A
13. B
14. D
15. C

Topic 14-9 Answers

Achieve Articles For Week 29 [April 13 - 17]

Please be sure to read these articles and answer the Thought Questions by 8PM on Thursday.

For the rest of the school year, you will need to read the article, then complete the Activity and Thought Question. However, you will need to copy the answer to the Thought Question that you type for Achieve 3000 and paste it into the right assignment on Google Classroom.

Here are your articles for this week:

Carrying on the Message

This Wall Is History

US History In Germany

Can Iran Save A Lake From Turning To Salt?

Blog Archive - What does this section of the screenshot below say about 2020 in Robustania?

If you look at the Blog Archive in the screenshot above, you will notice that 20 to 30 blog posts in a month are average for our class. That's on average one post for every day of the month. 

If you start thinking like a researcher (we will soon learn about research methods in Maths), you will notice that December and February have a similar number of posts. Yes, three weeks off in December and two weeks of quarantine in February will do that. 

Look at March and April. March has almost DOUBLE the posts compared to the average in a normal month. If you look at this blog again in the fUtUre, this would be a good reminder of what we are currently living through and how the world is affected.

Here is your assignment in BOLD:

In twenty years, you will be 30 or 31 years old. 

When that time comes, you might meet someone who is twenty years old and if you do, it is quite possible that they would have been born in the spring of 2020, which is right in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak! 

Because they will only be tiny little babies right NOW, in the fUtUre, it might be hard for them to imagine what quarantine is like. Maybe they will all be distance learning by then, but probably...hopefully, not for the same reasons as we have been. Would they know what you mean if you say, "social distancing"?

Over the next week, I want you to think of twenty things from daily life that have changed. For example, mention ways that social distancing is affecting your life. If you would like to, or if you struggle to think of twenty things that have affected your life, think of TEN things that have changed about your life because of COVID-19, and TEN things that have affected people in China, Europe, and the USA, where the effects have been far more severe than they are in Taiwan. 

Two things that I have noticed and written about in my own journal recently include: 

1. Friends of mine in England are not allowed to visit friends or even family members, need to stay 2 meters from other people if they have to go out, and are only allowed to leave their houses to exercise or buy food.
2. When I drive home from H.I.S. each day, I pass two pharmacies. Just a few weeks ago, I would see nothing unusual as I drove by. Now, every day, there is a long line of people standing outside of each pharmacy, all waiting to get their supply of masks for the week. 

As you can see, my first observation is based on what my friends in England have told me when I have called or emailed them. My second observation is of my own situation. I can't help but compare my life to the lives of people I know in the USA and Europe. We will be doing Compare/Contrast essays later this month so this is a good way to start thinking about how to go about this sort of assignment. 

Your overall mission:

Can you think of TWENTY things that changed in 2020 and write about them in your journal today? You will have to type them into a document and submit it as an assignment on Google Classroom this Friday. We can work on it in the Reading Lab on Wednesday, so don't worry about time issues. I will create a document for each of you and show you how to upload the document as an assignment on Google Classroom on Wednesday. 

Get started as soon as you can on this!

Maths Topic 14-9