Reaction for “Game”

Before reading this story, the first time I see the title of the story I thought differently than the story actually is talking about. The title “Game”, let me think of something fun to play in a group, but after reading this story, I found out my guess was totoally wrong. The story takes place in an underground place, which two men are being strangely and fear throughout this story. They stayed underground for more than one hundred days; they are waiting for the console to flow and use their keys to fire the missle together. Although there’s food for them to survive, it would be scary if I was in this story. It is hard to trust each other in this case; other might kill you if you act strangely. When I read the story, I put myself in the third person watching them underground. This story became real when I was reading this story. Over all, this story is interesting; it even appears different type of guns in this story. The title of the story actually points towards the theme of the story that there is only a step to end the whole game in life which is destroy.

Reaction for “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Talk”

Everyone came from different cultures; we would try to get in to the new culture as fast as we can if we are in different country. The narrator in this story is a Chinese girl who is trying to get into the American culture too, but she sees herself weak in another Chinese girl who is called the silent girl in the story. The narrator really hates “herself” being weak, so she wants the girl to speak and get into the American culture like her. My opinion, the narrator is kind of mean to the silent girl. I know she has her difficulties seeing “herself” weak in the silent girl, but I would not say those mean words to that silent girl. If I was the narrator, I would talk nicely to her or be her friends first, and then find out why she wouldn’t talk. About half of the story is about a narrator pleasing the silent girl to talk, in this part, the narrator describes her so neatly. She describes the way she cried; even describe each detail about her. I think the narrator not just does not want to see herself in that silent girl, but she cares about her too. She just doesn’t know how to solve the problem.

Summary of my science fair project

     My science fair project is about learning and memorizing. As we attend our education we need to memorize a lot of vocabulary words in order to use it in our daily life and communication with people. In this experiment, I decided to find out which kind of study habits is better in memorize, reading the words silently, read out loud the words, or writing down example sentence for each word. I gave six high school students 60 words total with definition applied to 3 different conditions. I gave them 10 minutes for memorizing each condition, and 5 minutes for them to take a multiple choice test. Those vocabulary words are non-English words, so the experiment is fair.

     After the experiment, I found out that students got high score on reading the words out loud, because they were able to hear their own voice while memorizing. My hypothesis writing down example sentences will have the best score was wrong, because they didn’t have time to finish making sentences and memorize them in 10 minutes. If I give them more time, they would get a higher score on their test. Throughout the result, there is one student got all 100 on his three test, who is good at memorizing words in all three kinds of study habits. Over all, everyone has their own study habits, but read the words out loud are the best throughout this learning experiment.

The Power of Dreams

After finish watching this video “The Power of Dream”, I found out that this video is very interesting. My opinion, dream is a very special process that appears images, sounds, and emotion while we are sleeping. Some of them we do not really remember after waking up from the dream, but some dreams appear strongly that you will not forget for the rest of your life. Some dreams I had, that I really want to let it continue after waking up from it. I tried to go back to sleep with the same dream I had a minute ago. It actually happened to me once, but I forgot what the dream was about after few days. Psychologists look dream in a very special way. It can actually help people to have inspiration in their work. Like musician and artists, their work often came from their dreams. Many people said “what we thought and what we worried will appear in our dream”. It is actually true that I often dream of the things that I though during the day. I really hope psychologists can further research and find out more interesting things about “the power of dreams”.

The pit and the Pendulum

I found out that this story is hard. First of all, after reading this story once, I didn’t really know what happened. I only know that the main character fell asleep. I thought he had a dream, but actually he was imagining things. Second of all, there’s a lot of vocabulary that I didn’t know. After Mr. Catlin told us the main ideas of this story, finally I know the summary of it. The character was in a dark room; he drank some water and felt dizzy. He started to imagine stuff. When he awake, he found out he was on the ground and cannot move. He saw a pendulum swing and almost kill him. This part was the most interesting and exciting part. 

The Early Bird Really Does Get the Worm

        After I finish reading this article about morning and evening people, I really believed that early birds really get the worm. The morning people wake up earlier than other people; they have more time to do their work. Furthermore, this article showed many good things about both morning and evening people. I think I am a morning person; on weekends, I usually get up at the same time as weekdays. No matter how late I go to sleep, I will still wake up early in the next morning. My opinion, wake up early can have more time to prepare for a new day. I usually study in the morning after I wake up, and it really helps. Being a morning person is good, but sometimes I really want to sleep late, but my psychological cycle wakes me up very early. Whenever I wake up, I won’t be able to go back to sleep again. In addition, I really hope I can be an evening person sometimes.

My research topic

Since this year our science fair theme is "saving", I choose "solar energy" for my topic. I'm going to find out how solar energy save electricity, money, and many things in our daily life.

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I learn a lot after reading this story. The part I like is when Dr. Heidegger’s four guesses drank the fountain of youth and became younger than before. They were too happy, but became foolish at the same time. They wanted to drink more and became younger. But after the water of youth was all on the ground, they became old again. Dr. Heidegger learned that we cannot go back to the past; we cannot be young again, do things we did not do or we regret to do. We cannot go back and change our mistakes we made before. Those four guesses, on the other hand, did not learn the lesson; they even wanted to travel to Florida to find the Fountain of Youth.