DRAGONWINGS

She went on breaking pea pods into the pot. She said but now I took that Jack. “You know him. He’s the biggest boy in our school, and yet I happen to know personally from Maisie, his sister, that he’d rather die than let anyone know he was afraid of being bit in the face, ‘cause he’s scared of he become ugly.”
She studied me for a moment. She and I both knew the dragonish thing to do. Then she went back to shelling the peas. Outside in front of the house I could hear the voice of Jack, he was alone. I began to shell peas for a while. Robin and I both knew I did not walk on Polk Street much because of the demon boys, especially Jack. Suddenly I put the last peas into the pot and got up.
Robin raised her eyebrows. “Going for a walk?”
“A little one,” I said.
Jack immediately stopped playing mumblety-peg when he saw me. He took his penknife and drove it point first into the dirt of the alley. He got up with a big grin, and he gathered by the alley.
“Ching Chong—“he began.
“I no like that song,” I said.
“Too bad,” Jack said.
“I think it stupid.”
“You saying I’m stupid?”
“Everyone know that.”
Jack charged me with a shout and began to yell with shrill, excited voices. I am a bit frightened. There was as much luck with me that day as anything else. I was smaller maybe quicker, but with his long arms and his strength, Jack could have strung me from a lamppost. But Grandfather and the other Old Ones must have been there to help me at that moment. Jack expected me to run, probably; he never expected me to stand up and fight, and he did not think of dodging. I swung out and my fist went right into his face. Jack sat down with a plop in the dirt, his cloth was totally dirty.
“You bit me,” he said in surprise and angry.
“What you expect?” I asked. I doubted if I would ever get such a lucky punch in again. Still, I had come out here for the satisfaction of giving one punch to Jack for all the times he had tormented me—even if it meant getting beaten up in the end. I put up my fists awkwardly, ready to fight him some more. But Jack did not get up. The other people who saw this shouted at me and then went to Jack’s home.
“My legs are bleeding, too,” Jack said, holding up a hand to his face. “And my mom just cleaned this shirt and she love me very much. She’ll kill you. Haha!”

response letter

After I read the news article,'Secondary school class sizes cut', I think there is a huge difference of the definition and purposes of small classes teaching between the government's thought and mine. First, I expect the number of students in a small class should between 20-25; but the government seems think that 36-38 students in a class is small classes already, and it can fix the problem of fall of students entering. Also, reduce the maximum size of classes just for keeping the schools that may have not enough students, but it is not improving the students' learning. Although the action of the government is not as good as I think, may be this can lead the schools and government to accept and try small classes teaching.

History Homework

I think Hong Kong doesn't foster or promote those qualites to people to be good inventor. Nowadays people in Hong Kong don't want to be a good inventor, because inventors cannot get to much money in a short period. And so, most of the school don't consider to teach students to be good inventors. They teach students some qualities such as creative that about being good inventors, but it doesn't mean that they want students to be good inventor, they have another target.
I think most Hong Kong people have those qualities of being good inventor, but actually they use those qualities not for being good inventor. And those qualities don't only good for being inventor, they are neccessary qualities of other jobs also, like a screenwriter.

Computer Literacy

In this lesson, I practised the touch typing. Without watching the keybroad, I typed wrong with 'L' and ';' always. I discovered that the intex fingers move in the most of time.

History Homework

I think Hong Kong doesn't need any revolution. First, Hong Kong isn't a colony now and our relationsip with China is very good, because we are under the "one country, two system" policy, so we have completely freedom on our policy( inculde economic). So, we do not need to have American Revolution. Second, Hong Kong is equitable in all area, even there are Equal Opportunities Commission. We do not have financial crisis also, so Hong Kong doesn't need to have French Revolution. Finally, Hong Kong support people to be scholarly. The goods that we need always import from others countries so there are no more factories nowadays. And so we do not need to have Industrial Revolution or Cultural Revolution.

The five basic qualities that a good inventor might have include scholarly, patient, creative, free and not poor. Scholarly and creative are necessary because inventor need to use knowledge to do invention and creating new product. They should be patient because they would always fail and need to try again. They may not be wealthy but they should be not poor also because they need money to buy materials to do experiments and invention. They should be free because they need so much time to try many times untill they succeed.

history homework

How did the colonists unite America?
The colonists brought out the American War of Independence with Britain and then proclaimed The Declaration of Independence to unite America.

How did the legislature take part in the structure of the federal government?
The legislature is the Congress included the Senate and the House of Representatives makes laws and can impeach the President.

How did the American Revolution happen?
The 13 colonists discontent with British rule, economic policy and tax. The Enlightenment thinking influenced them to rise up against Britain and helped to bring out the American Revolution. After two Congresses, the 13 colonists brought out the American War of Independence.

Why did the people in the Enlightenment object to absolute power?
The Enlightenment thinkers object to absolute power because they wanted to end all the unfair things and asserted people's rights.

Explain one of the British acts that created economic discontent amongst the American colonists.
One of the British acts is the Sugar Act. This made sugar, and white and red wine imports must pay a tax. This created economic discontent amongst the American colonists.

The difference and similarities between the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony

In the economical way, Hong Kong colony did trading but the 13 colonies still did farming. So Hong Kong conloy developed earlier than the 13 conlonies. They had many differences. Hong Kong was more advanced in transpotation too, such as railway and aeroplanes. Those did not appear at the 13 colonies. This made the trading more successful. In the Hong Kong colony, there was bank too. The 13 colonies did farming at first and later they had factoies to make raw materials to goods. So the poor farmers became rich merchants.

In the political way, Hong Kong colony was similar to the 13 colonies. They both had revolution or strike. In the 1920s and 1930s, a backlash against the dockworkers strikes in Hong Kong colony. At last, it ended by increased 32 cents to their wages. Also, the 13 colonies organized a revolution that influenced them combined into America. In the other way, Hong Kong colony
established the legislative council and colonial police force to handle the law and criminal case, but the 13 colonies did not.

Ocean Park

I had a lesson in Ocean Park last Friday. I travelled the cable car with group members too. We said hello to everybody in the cable cars that near ours. That was funny. The most enjoyable thing was only four people played the whole ride because there were too early and not many people. Just like we bought the whole Ocean Park and it ran for us only. I learna lot of knowledge of animals' features, such as there characteristics of bones and eating habit. I think there are many proper nouns. I can improve this kind of kownledge in books but not in the usual lesson.

Questions

For shop keeper,
-Do you think the customers can discern fake and true?
-How can you prove your goods are true?
For customers,
-Can you discern fake and true?
-When you want to buy dried seafood, what kind of store will you choose?

interview

My group went to some seafood store this morning and we interviewed some employees about the influence of fakes.
At first, I expected the employees would say that the fakes made their business worse and less customers. But in the interview, they said the customers would still choosing their goods although the fakes are cheaper because they have better reputation. Some of them have worked for 40 years already.
Once, we saw a store that was no customers inside and so we wanted to interviewing the employees. But they refused us and said they were busy. I guess they were selling fakes and so there were no customers and didn't want to answer our question. I learnt that we should choose stores with more customers and kinder employees. And 'busy' may be an euphemism.
I think our questions are useless and so we got only a little imformation. Also, we were too early to do interview. Many shops haven't open yet. Next time, we should chose a better time and set more useful question.

describing the flash doc.

My flash file is about a person was sleeping at first. Then, he suddenly woke up and went to school.

English homework

I took this photograph at night time of 9th February,2008 at home. I was reading chapter 6 of Dragonwings.

history homework

My name is George Bush. I was born at 1500 in England. I died at 1600 in Italy that I was 100 years old. My whole life was in the period of Renaissance and so I became a writer and an artist.

I had been many countries in my life. I sold my picture and ideas in those countries I had been. I had many friends that famous in the world such as William Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci. I made discussion on the freedom and religion always with my friends. When we had a new idea or opinions, we would tell the others by art, including architecture and sculptures. Obviously, my day job was writing poems and drawing pictures.

I thought all artists including me had been doing a good job on popularizing the importance of freedom. And the others could be disenchanted by us. I thought we should not listen to the religionist or the rich or powerful people. We wanted the people have their own ideas and became more scientific.

history homework

Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo are used as examples of Renaissance men because they did excellent in art, their style were special and different than the anterior and they influenced posterity.
Artist had more freedom than living in the Middle Ages. They could only concentrate on art and no need to fight or farm. They could show their feeling on art. They had religion also. They usually used God to be the theme of the artwork. They sold their concepts to others on art. Artist led the whole society at that time.

Homework 20/1

ENGLISH:
I think the case of Mood Shadow was really bad and scary to him. He need to face all new and stanger things even his father! If I have another choices, I will never go away from the place where I grew up.
I have a similar experience before. I changed my school when I was in primary3. At first, I had many problems such as getting along with classmates. I thought everythings worse than the old school. But at last, I solved the problem and I love studying in the new school more than the old one. I think this was a challenge and it is good for me. But it is different from the case of Moon Shadow because he was going to a place that far away from everythings he knew before and nothing he knew in the new place.

HISTORY:
I think the hierarchy of Hong Kong is very different from Medieval society and there are also something new that not apear in Medieval society.
I think the hierarchy of Hong Kong can be divided into 4 layers only. First, the women in Hong Kong are almost have the same power with the men even though they have marrige also. The first layer is the whole Government not only Mr.Tsang because if the other personages not agree his policies, they have power to change. The second layer is the rich people and the company owner that means the "boss" because I think money can make people listen and obey such as people always listen to their boss only for their salaries. The third layer is the most of people, workers. They need to obey their boss and the law. They only have a bit power when they are being customers and at home. The last layer is the people have no money and the children. The people have no profit to give other and so no one will listen to them. Also the children have no power because they are very young and no money too. They need to listen to others.
I think money almost equal to power. Who have no money will never be a powerful person because no one will work and always listen to others for no profit. I think the workers like the knights in the Medieval society. Although they are not fight with weapons, but they are listen to their boss and work all the time for the society. And society cannot keep when there are no workers.