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Monday, September 27, 2010

Map Final Assessment


In the normal world, vampires drink human to survive, but at Jessica’s Kingdom, there is no human to drink blood from. Instead, they drink blood from animals, and their favorite is dragon’s blood. That’s where the problem started.
The country of the vampires called NAHN NAV; it was divided into five parts, north, south, east, west and central.  The vampires don’t live in cities; they live in forests and some mountains, but not as high as the dragons. They have a system of confusing tunnels, if you don’t be careful; you might get lost and will never find your way out. They use those tunnels to send messages faster and safer. But only the vampires know the way out in those tunnels. The dragons are not normal, they’re as smart as the vampires, and they can read minds. The vampires thought that dragons are stupid like animals, but it’s not true, they’re just as smart.
Vampire is a powerful specie.  They’re super fast and strong, their eyes can see in the dark because sometimes they go hunting at night. Vampires are shining under the sun, so their prey can see them easier and run away that’s why they don’t usually go hunting at day. Dragons are also powerful; they live on the highest mountains, that way, the vampires can’t climb up and hunt them at night while they’re sleeping. They can fly hundreds of miles in an hour without getting tired with their gigantic wings. But that was hundreds of years ago; now things began to change, started at year 2510.
At Jessica’s Kingdom, it rain for the whole year, not like rain for half year only. But in 2510, there was no rain at all for the whole year, well little rain, not enough the kingdom’s animal to survive. Lots of animals died in that year, it lead to vampires died a lot because vampires need animal’s blood to survive but there wasn’t any animal so they died. The dragons are exceptions, they can survive months without any food but they need water. Some of the dragons died, not as much as the other species. Year 2512, the dragons took that advantage by invaded the east part of NAHN NAV. There were some vampires live in the far east of the kingdom, alone by themselves in those ranges of mountains. Until the dragons invaded and killed all the vampires, the survived ones ran down toward the west, across the river.
By 2515, the vampires recovered their lost people and they started to build the army to take back their land. In 2516, the war started. The vampires were too strong for the dragons. The dragons got pushed out of the country little by little every day for four years. And the last dragons were kicked out of the country in 2520. A few years later, the vampires created an operation called “kill dragons”, and for 25 years, the vampires killed all the dragons they saw. By 2550, there were only two dragons left, one female and one male. Together, they flied away from Jessica’s Kingdom, and because they were away, so I don’t know what happened to them. The vampires celebrated their victory for one month. And they continued to live in peace.
For many decades, Jessica’s Kingdom was at peace once. But, one faithful day, those dragons came back with their army of dragons. And they started the war with the vampires. Now the vampires no longer want to fight because they felt regret for what they’ve done in the past. They wanted to live in peace with the dragons but the dragons didn’t want it. So another war started. They kept fighting with each other until 3000AD. They both very tired, so they stopped fighting and started to live in peace until now.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

A MESSAGE FROM MOTHER NATURE Article

The main idea of this article is about global warming and its effects. It also talks about the causes and damages of global warming around the world. The article shows theories and proves of scientists around the world.

Vocabulary:
  • Torrential - swift, violent stream of something, especially of water
  • Reluctant - unwilling
  • Vulnerable - that can be wounded or injured
  • Skeptic - one who habitually questions matters generally accepted

Weather is what happen in one day, one month, or one year. Climate is weather that has a pattern in a long period of time like decades, centuries.

The flood in Pakistan, record-breaking heat wave and record-breaking drought in Russia and the U.S. In the U.S, wet areas will get wetter while dry areas get drier. Wildfires in Russia.

I have never had any experiences with "extreme weather"

Perception - the quality of being aware of things through the physical senses, especially sight

I think that those disasters can be view as climate change, because throughout our history, mother nature had never been this harsh with us. Many records had been broke, like record-breaking heat wave and drought. Many disasters have occur more frequently.  

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Study Guide

  • Human/ Environment Interaction
  • Place
  • Location
  • Movement
  • Region
  • Geography
  • Spacial
  • Culture

Family Tree Presentations

After listen to all of my classmates’ presentations, I think that although all of us are the same, studying at AIS, we all have different backgrounds, histories, families and cultures, that’s make us really different from each others. At first when I was thinking about how I would present my family tree, I couldn’t think of many different ways to present it. But when I listen and watch my classmates present, I think their ways are very cool, creative and they had lots of information about their family trees. I learned lots of things that I didn’t know about my friends through their presentations.
I also noticed that in some of Vietnamese holidays, we all do the same things, like have a meal with our family members and visits each other. But we also have little differences, each family do it different ways. 
When I was talking to my dad about our history, I realized that there are some parts of our family history my dad doesn’t know. I needed to talk to my grandma, but I couldn’t because her house is really far away. Before that I thought talking to my grandma about our history would be a waste of time, but I was wrong, I should have spent more time talking to her, I could understand more. Through my family history, I also know more about Vietnam history, which I didn’t have a chance to learn more because I’m studying at AIS. I think it’s a great chance for us to know more about each others in a different way.