Hello from Virginia! I have reached my destination safely, and my family and I are working on adjusting to our new home. I am very happy here, and can’t wait to face time with the class. We have four chickens, and are thinking about buying two chicks. They would be so cute! Dani and I named our chickens Asia, Kat, Zoë, and Ivy. The house that we are currently living in is a lot bigger than the house that we lived in in Cali.

Even though there are quite a few advantages with living in Virginny, I still miss my sixth grade family, and can’t wait to FACE TIME!!!!

See ya later San Diego!

This was an egg from my chicken named Asia

This is me holding my chicken

Hello everybody! I am in Long Beach right now with my Auntie Dawn and my Cousin Dave the Dude. We are all getting ready for going to Disneyland, and I am super excited. I am already ready of course, but I just wanted to share that on here. Bye!

–Isabel 😉

I can’t wait!!!!!! See all my students in class 😉

The Industrial Revolution was a massive time of change for Europe, and it helped make the world what it is today. If this berserk time didn’t happen, we would probably doing everything by and, and children would be working in farming fields for a large portion of their days.

Geography

England borders the country of Scotland. In Europe, serfdom ended in the 1400’s. Serfs turned into villagers, which were not slavelike, but we’re simple farmers. Many of the villagers continued to take after their ancestors because of fertile land.

Agriculture

Villagers and farmer’s lives literally depended on the season that it was. For example, in the spring you would be planting crops, in the fall you would be harvesting them, and in the winter, you would have to slaughter some of your animals. If the sun and rains were just perfect, the farmers would plant wheats and grains. Some other things that they grew were: peas, beans, cabbage, carrots, onions, and herbs.The farmers would gather eggs from the fouls.

Clothing

Clothing was a big part of social class in the Industrial Revolution, especially for the women. For example, it would tell if you were rich or poor. Richer women would wear finer fabrics, while less rich (poor) women wore their best. Once the sewing machine was invented, fashion and fads changed dramatically because of how fast the sewing machine could make clothes. There were tight corsets, Gigot sleeves, humongous hoop skirts, and large petticoats.

Architecture

Once the proper inventions were made for higher quality architecture, just as fashion, architecture shot out of the water! Iron and steel were used to make graceful arches and swirls, and buildings were excessively tall (for the citizens back then of course). A good example of Industrialized architecture is the Eiffel Tower, which was built in 1889. Isn’t that amazing?

Politics

During the Industrial Revolution, aristocrats changed into capitalists. A capitalist is a wealthy person who invests money to help trade goods. Mostly capitalism was used in England, while socialism was used in Europe. Another thing that happened during the Industrial Revolution was the right to vote expanded. With capitalism, countries started taking over other countries, which led directly to World War One.

Laws & Civics

There were some new laws made during the Industrial Revolution. Some of these included: expanded working hours, and no strikes. Ironic as it is, expanded working hours led to large strikes, which sometimes turned into small bloody battles.

Military

Speaking of bloody battles and such, I will now talk about the military. You’ve probably heard of the famous quote,”The Redcoats are coming!” Well, all the way forward in time, the British soldiers still had the same colored uniforms. The soldiers were thought to be “disciplined, regimented and harsh”. Bayonets were very widely used in the military. Some of the soldiers were used to help calm down the strikes, and if they didn’t calm down, fight the small battle.

Economics

During the Industrial Revolution, many machines were invented. So that means that people and handiwork were replaced by machines. Instead of farms, there were factories, which meant that many workers and staff had to be fired to afford the factories. The wages were terrible, and there was quite a lot of poverty. There was no sanitation, which led a lot of the citizens being sick. Thanks to machines and more items being made, there was more trade between countries.

Culture

The culture of the UK is based on the fact that they come together as one big family. The original religion was catechism. When the Revolution came around, it had a big influence on the “one big family” part of the culture, mostly because many were so busy trying to make lots of money. Britain’s literature, art, music, theatre, cinema, etc. was spread around the globe.

Philosophy & Theology

Adam Smith and Karl Marx were very popular philosophers during this time. Both of them were very intrigued in capitalism and socialism, laissez-faire, division of labor, and  supply and demand. Both of these men were very smart, and played a big part in the way that we are in the business field today.

Discoveries & Inventions

This paragraph is the main part of the Industrial Revolution! Some very important inventions that changed our lives today are:

the sewing machine: All clothes used to be made by hand. This object can sew three outfits in one day!

the steam engine: This is an invention that inspired the world of transportation today.

the vaccine: If this wasn’t invented, a lot of us would be really sick, and our population would probably be really low.

Family & Education

During the Industrial Revolution, there was a lot of child labor. Owners of businesses thought that child labor was perfect because of how they could fit in small spaces, and how they could be whipped and could not complain. With that, there was not much family time or education for children. For the richer families, it was easier for them to find good education for their children.

As you can see, there were a lot of changes made during the Industrial Revolution, going from farm life to the big city life. Even though it was a bit of a dangerous time, those changes made to economics and philosophy helped our world be what it is today. So in ways, we should thank the Industrial Revolution.

Bibliography: History.com Staff. “Industrial Revolution.” A+E Networks 2009. March 1, 2015. <www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution>

ushistory.com Staff. “Economic Growth and the Industrial Revolution.”

Copyright ©2008-2014 ushistory.org, owned by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia, founded 1942. <http://www.ushistory.org/us/22a.asp>

This is a picture from the Industrial Revolution of some children who worked in a coal mine.

Have you ever been sick? Remember getting your shots or nasal sprays? Well, If you want to know more about that and why we have to get shots, keep reading.

The first genius to think up an idea that would really help the body was a man named Louis Pasteur. He was born on December 27, 1822 in France. When he was 9, he saw when rabies had taken over a small town, and realized how many were getting hurt. This horrible siting encouraged Pasteur to go to college and start studying medicine. In 1840, Pasteur completed his Bachelor of Arts degree. Soon after in 1842, he completed his Bachelor of Science degree. He had done very well in school, but he still continued his schooling. 5 years later, he earned his doctorate. A few years later, once he got married and had a child, Pasteur decided to start coming up with something that he called a “vaccine”. Over the years, Louis Pasteur came up with more and more vaccines, and more and more people began to improve upon them.

You may ask, what is the exact definition of a vaccine? Well, that question can be answered. A vaccine is a virus, a good one, that can be injected into your body in multiple ways. The virus that goes into your body can sometimes be a live virus, which means that it attacks the disease that is in you very fast, or a dead virus, which is when the virus slowly kills your disease. There are some vaccines that are life savers, such as the polio vaccine. Polio is a disease that disables your muscles, which leads to you being disabled your entire life. Polio mostly affects children, which is very sad. One of our presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had polio as a child, which led to him dying much earlier. Even though he lived quite a long life, he still could have lived longer if he didn’t have polio.

As you can see, vaccines can be very important if you have serious health issues. In fact, in 2011, Americans spent 5.7 billion dollars on vaccines alone! That is a lot! If you think that vaccines are not important, than I encourage you to second guess yourself.

Bibliography: The College of Philadelphia. “The History of Vaccines.” © 2015 The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. February 23, <2015.http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/pasteur>

Other information gathered from Scott Stout, licensed paramedic. (My Daddy) 🙂

This is a drawn picture of Louis Pasteur 🙂

Adam Smith was one of the most sheer geniuses of the Industrial Revolution. Just like Isaac Newton, he accomplished many great things and was known in many places.

Adam Smith’s exact date of birth was unknown, but we do know that his baptism date was on June 5, 1723, in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. His widowed mother raised him very well, because when he was 14, he started at the University of Glasgow. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree, Smith went to Balliol College at Oxford. While Adam Smith was studying there, he had an interest of English subjects such as the English schools and literature. So once he graduated, Smith had an immense knowledge of English history, literature, and schools. After graduating, he went back to Glasgow.

In 1751, Adam Smith was made head professor of logic. The following year, he was made a professor of moral philosophy (to put that in smaller terms, he thought about how people should act and what they should do). After several years spent studying at Glasgow, Smith retired to go and tutor a young duke on Buccleuch. Throughout a span of a little bit more than 2 years, Adam Smith and his young pupil spent time traveling through various parts of the United Kingdom such as France and Switzerland. During these travels was when Smith met some very important philosophers such as himself. These philosophers include: Voltaire, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Franscois Quesnay, and Anne-Robert Jaques Turgot. After a few years teaching the duke, Smith retired back to Kirkcaldy, his hometown, to write The Wealth of Nations. The book was published in 1776, almost at the same time that the Declaration of Independence was signed. In 1778, since one of Adam Smith’s good friends died, he was appointed commissioner of customs (someone who monitors goods going in and out of countries). He soon wrote another book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which is still today considered one of the most influential books of all time. Adam Smith never married, and he died on July 19, 1790.

All in all, Adam Smith defiantly had a both influential and interesting life. He tutored a duke, met many great philosophers, wrote two very influential books, went to great schools, etc. With Smith’s new ideas and observations, he has changed the way that people think now, especially if you were comparing us to citizens in the 18th century. Thanks to Adam Smith, we now have a more efficient world, especially in the field of economy.

Bibliography: Library of Economics and Liberty. “The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Adam Smith.” Copyright ©2008 Liberty Fund, Inc. February 16th, 2015. <http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Smith.html>

Biography.com. “Adam Smith.” Copyright ©2015 A&E Television Networks. February 16th, 2015. <http://www.biography.com/people/adam-smith-9486480>

Adam Smith

Definitions

laissez-faire: when the government decides to not interfere with the workings of the free market

division of labor: the act of someone handing out different jobs to different people in an organized manner to make the task that is assigned become easier because of it being done quicker

supply and demand: (supply: how much of something that you have) and (demand: how many people want to buy the product)

Imagine having friends that you sit down with at lunch, and they don’t let you talk. Or when  you step in to talk, there is suddenly an awkward silence. Nobody likes to feel like the odd one out. This is called a clique.

Cliques are an unnatural threat to school societies, and victims of cliques may get depressed. With depression sometimes follows suicide. Some students have committed suicide because they decided that there was no way out of being bullied by cliques, and there families that were left behind were extremely sad. Cliques are NOT good. It hurts when you get rejected, and nobody likes to be discluded.

Coming up with solutions may sen hard for cliques since they happens often. But, there are a few powerful solutions. For example, think about talking to your principal for small etiquette classes to be included in the curriculum, or some character education classes. The reason for etiquette classes is because it isn’t always the cliques that is a problem, it’s the way that the cliques treat you. Etiquette classes can teach students how to better their manners, sometimes leading to nicer people in schools. (You can easily be the smartest, most popular person in the world, but nobody be likes you because of bad manners being rude, bullying, etc.). Most people don’t like someone with bad manners. In fact, NOBODY likes someone who has bad manners.

Another powerful solution, that is probably easiest to enforce, is having random seating on one or more days at school. For example, your teacher could pick random groups that you would sit with, and all throughout lunch, you would sit with them. When you sit with different people, you can start to stretch out of your comfort zone, and make some new friends! Getting out of your comfort zone can especially help you later on in life, when you have a job, a family, and school (maybe) to attend to. If you use this solution, little by little, you will get out of your comfort zone completely!

As you can see, cliques are sometimes pretty hard to reckon with, but they can be solved. With the simple solutions above, you can make cliques from a hard problem to solve, to a problem solved with ease! One great pro about these solutions is that there is no physical force involved, and you will be preventing cliques, which are an unnatural threat to school societies, and victims of them may feel depressed. In the final analysis, there is a positive side to cliques, and they CAN be solved.

Bibliography: Cristen. “Why do cliques exist.” no copyright, youtube video. February 17, 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgXvpqyqEew>

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“I am not an educated man. I never had the opportunity to anything except for how to fight,” stated Pancho Villa plain and obvious. Villa was a man who had a lot of potential, and at the same time, as said in the quote above, he had no learning experience. While having to struggle to keep his father’s place on the hacienda, he still was able to take great care of his family.

Pancho Villa was born as Doroteo Arango Fransisco on a hacienda in San Juan del Rio on June 5th, 1878. A hacienda is, in the Spanish speaking parts, a large estate with a plantation on it. Villa’s father was a sharecropper, which meant that he gave away some of his crop as rent. His family had four siblings in it (not including himself), and of course, his mother and father. Sadly, when Villa was 16, his father died. Because his father was a sharecropper, Villa took after him so that his family could put food on the table. During this time, Pancho had to be the “man of the house”. One day, Villa came home hearing that the owner of the hacienda intended to abuse his 12 year old sister, so he took a shotgun, shot the owner of the hacienda, then fled to the mountains.
2 years later, Fransisco was living in the mountains, and nobody could find him. But in 1896, he met a few other people who felt the same way about the law, and they became a gang. This was about the time that Doroteo Arango Fransisco changed his name to Pancho Villa. The gang committed multiple crimes against the rich such as: stealing, taking cattle, intercepting deliveries that were shipping money, etc. The only good part about this was that instead of stealing for greed, Villa’s gang would give whatever they stole to the poor. This action caused some of the citizens in Mexico to think of Pancho Villa as a modern day Robin Hood.
When the Mexican Revolution started in 1910, Villa joined it. He opposed the current president, Porfinio Diaz. With his great ability to ride horses during the revolution, Pancho earned the nickname “the Centaur of the North”. Along with friend Pascual Orozco, Pancho controlled the North of Mexico, winning small battles against federal garrisons, and capturing many towns. Before you knew it, many were triumphant hearing the news of Pancho and Pascual’s victory against Diaz. Madero, the politician who had Villa on his side, soon came to rule Mexico City. Villa won many other various wars and battles, such as the Battle of Zacatecas. Sadly, Pancho had lost a battle when he was in Sonora, and he had blamed the Americans for losing it because they had supported the enemy for this particular battle. Even though he had seen selfish there, Pancho Villa had various accomplishments. He formed an excellent army that was called the Division del Norte, had superb war planning, and won many battles. All of these gallant acts led to his becoming formally known as General Fransisco “Pancho”.
After all of his marvelous and daring defeats (and losses), General Fransisco “Pancho” retired to become a rancher. Sadly, Pancho Villa was shot down in his car by 7 gunmen who were told to do so by the president (this was not Madero, he was dead), who didn’t want him to regain any more strength. This devious act was on July 20th, 1923. As you can see, General Fransisco was a great warlord who led Mexico to victory multiple times.

This is a picture of Pancho Villa

What would I do on my very first perfect day? Well folks, there really is no such thing as a PERFECT day, but, here it goes…….

I would start of my day off with the most delicious breakfast ever, courtesy of my Mommy and Daddy on a Saturday, of course. Then as a family (including my puppies), we would all clean up the kitchen. After that, we would all take a shower, then we would go to pack our bags to travel to some places. My family would take our own private jet to Japan, and then climb Mount Fuji. After that, we would go get some sushi, and the filling wouldn’t slide out. While enjoying our scrumptious sushi, we would have some soothing green tea, and then go to our hotel. The hotel room would be the most formal in the whole entire hotel and it wouldn’t cost one penny! We would have awesome room service that gave us little chocolates, just like they do at Disneyland! After that, we would get ready for our next adventure.

After going to Japan, we would go to Germany. We would go explore the ancient castles, and go window shopping in the cobble stone streets. Then we would go more into the country and look at the babbling brooks, flowers just starting to poke out of their hiding places in the dirt, and hop on rocks to get over the rushing river. After that, the food comes of course. We would go and try their signature white sausage, and my Daddy would probably try the beer. My Mommy would probably try the sandwiches with a salad, Dani would have anything that I chose, and I would definitely feast on the sausages. After leaving with full tummies, we would go and stay at a little cozy cottage.

Lastly, we would go back home and all go surfing in So Cal. I would stand up on every wave, and maybe even learn a few tricks. That would be a perfect day to me. I wouldn’t be with anyone else, except for my family. They are the coolest people in the world, and I love them very much. After our long and tedious few days together, we would go back to our house, wash up, and drift off to sleep.

These are some great photography of things and places that I would want to go on a perfect day.

The Château de Versailles is an extravagant palace that was built by French King Louis XIII for royalty to be in. It started out as an average sized place, until it got expanded. It now has large perfectly sized swirls of grass, greatly groomed trees and bushes, a large fountain, and that is only the front of this mind-blowing palace!

Versailles started out as a hunting lodge when Louis Xlll came by for a hunting trip. He had it built there, and it wasn’t what it is known to be today. But when his son, Louis XIV expanded it so that more kings could live there. Before you know it, the real Versailles that we know was built. Actually, not all of it was built. Over the years, all of the ‘Louis’ kept on adding on to Versailles. For example, in the 1670’s, Louis XIV had the Grand Apartments of the King and Queen and the Hall of Mirrors built. Louis XV had the Opera House and Chapel built in the next century.

When all of these kings added on different pieces and parts to the chateau, all of the puzzle pieces are special in their own way to make up the complete puzzle.

Le Petite Trianon
Anges-Jacques Gabriel was the architect of this petite little palace. It was built in honor of Marie Antoinette. The Trianon was in the shape of a cube, and all of it’s sides were different, which was the craze of architecture in the late 18th century. The most stunning side was facing the French Garden.

Tennis Courts
The Tennis Courts were located in town by the chateau, so they weren’t exactly a part of Versailles. Why they were significant was because of the Tennis Court Oaths. That was when the third estate got locked out of their usual meeting place, so they went to the tennis courts to meet. Once it the Tennis Courts, the third estate formed the National Assembly, and vowed that “we are here by the will of the people, and shall not stir from our seats unless told to do so by bayonets.” When the National Assembly said that they wouldn’t stir from their seats and would stick together, they meant that they wouldn’t bail out of their oaths to stay until a new constitution was made.

Hall of Mirrors
This is a hall filled with 357 mirrors! Louis XIV built it so that when he walked down the hall, he could see all angles of himself. He was a very posh and sometimes almost vain. Some say that the Hall of Mirrors “illustrate the glorious history of Louis XIV in the first eighteen years of his government, from 1661 until the Peace of Nijmegen.” The deluxe hall is filled with chandeliers, gold, paintings, and marble. It is so beautiful that French officials still host parties there.
Conclusion
As you can see, the Château of Versailles was a extremely large palace with ostentatious designs that made it both look and feel extravagant and stunning. Versailles was preserved through the French Revolution. More ‘Louis’ kept on adding to this mind-blowing place until it was made a museum “for the glory of France.”
Bibliography: Chateau de Versailles. “The hall of Mirrors.” January 22, 2015 <http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover-estate/the-palace/the-palace/the-hall-of-mirrors>

Chateau de Versailles. “Petit Trianon.” January 22, 2015 <http://en.chateauversailles.fr/explore-the-estate/marie-antoinettes-estate/le-petit-trianon/petit-trianon>

A View On Cities. “Versailles Palace.” January 22, 2015 <http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/versailles.htm>

This is the front of the château

Hang ten dudes! Have you ever wondered how surfing started, who are the best surfers in the world, or where are some of the best places to surf in California? Well, this research report can tell you all of that!

Surfing has been around since humans started to swim in the ocean. So it’s one of the oldest sports on the planet! Historians don’t have any exact dates of when surfing really started, but it is known that the 15th century was when humans started to get interested into wave riding. In the Sandwich Isles, citizens and royalty surfed. It was a very big sport there. The people called surfing “he’enalu” also known as wave sliding in early Hawaiian language. The earliest actual records of humans surfing was in the 1700’s, when Europeans and Polynesians in Tahiti were seen surfing.

Captain James Cook saw one of the surfers and said, “On walking one day about Matavai Point, where our tents were erected, I saw a man paddling in a small canoe so quickly and looking about him with such eagerness of each side. He then sat motionless and was carried along at the same swift rate as the wave, till it landed him upon the beach. Then he started out, emptied his canoe, and went in search of another swell. I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fast and so smoothly by the sea.” After the sport was invented, people started to get serious with surfing.

There are two remarkable surfers who are the best in the world. They both have the top amount of points from surf heats (surfing competitions) for their genders. The first best is Kelly Slater. He is an eleven time world cup champion, which makes him the most decorated surfer in the world. He weighs about 160 pounds, and is 5′ 9″. He grew up in a little Florida town called Cocoa Beach where he learned how to surf with his two brothers, Sean Slater (older brother), and Stephen Slater (younger brother). He claims that his hometown is Cocoa Beach, which is true, but he has houses all over the world.
The best female surfer is Layne Beachley. She first thought of surfing as a fun sport, but when she turned 16, she started to compete. She became a pro surfer, and started to take surfing more seriously. Layne won seven world championships, and her only competition is Kelly Slater!

Southern California has great places to surf like Malibu Beach, where the waves are warm and welcoming. Then there are places like Zuma and Venice Beach where the waves take more skill to ride. Lastly, you should park your surfboards at La Jolla, where you can ride the waves knowing that you are at one of the oldest surfing spots in Southern California.

As you can see, surfing is a sport that you don’t always have to take very seriously. You can have a fun, relaxed time, or, you can enter a few competitions. I know that I have fun out in the waves, with the exception of getting salt water in my mouth. Surfing is such a great sport, that everybody should go to the beach and try this out.

Bibliography: World Champions of Surfing. “Layne Beachley- Biography.” January 18, 2015 <http://www.worldchampionsofsurfing.com/layne-beachley-biography/>
Surfer Today.com. “The best southern California surfing spots.” January 18, 2015 <http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/6930-the-best-southern-california-surf-spots>
360Guide. “Kelly Slater- The Greatest Surfer of All Times.” January 18, 2015 <http://360guide.info/surfers/kelly-slater/kelly-slater-the-greatest-surfer-of-all-times.html#axzz3PDIoEacK>
Britton History. “The Origins of Surfing.” January 18, 2015 <http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Britton/history.htm>

This is Kelly Slater

This is Layne Beachley

This is a picture of Hawaii, were surfing is well known

Lastly, this is a picture of La Jolla, our oldest surfing spot in Southern California