Querencia Clipboard

A querencia describes a place or something that you do where you feel safe and powerful. My querencia is when I am sitting on my bed alone in my room. My room is a very peaceful place with all kinds of roses and pictures on the walls. My querencia happens late at night after everyone has already gone to bed. There is soft and mellow music in the background coming from my iPod. A dim and calming light that hangs over my bed is the only thing that I can see with. During this time, I usually read or write but mostly I think about my day and what I plan on achieving and what I am doing the next day. Sometimes I write down my thoughts in a notebook or journal. I even write down things that I am thankful for and things that I know I should appreciate. When I am here in my room on my bed, all of my worries go away. I feel like I am floating on a cloud and that I am wonderful and very powerful. In this place, I feel like nothing could go wrong or hurt me. I always look forward to this part in the day where I can have some time to myself and evaluate what I achieved that day and plan for the next.

Featurecast from the Past

Project Purpose:
To understand the difference between Cause/Effect Relationships and Correlations. To understand how and why major events in history are connected and intertwined (think yarn activity!). To research a major event from U.S. history in order to understand why it is significant and how it relates to other major events. To understand features of a feature article and podcast and to be able to create a feature article or podcast about your major event in history.

Project Requirements:
To present the 5Ws of your major event to the class. To write/peer edit/revise a feature article or podcast. To have at least three drafts in your Writing Portfolio. To present a polished version of your feature article or podcast on Media Night, as well as posting it online to our Team Featurecast from the Past web page (made by James).

Specific Concepts Learned:

• More than 80% of the gold from the Gold Rush still underground
• Started in 1848
• A man named James Marshall Discovered Gold
• He discovered it at Sutters Mill California
• His great discovery led to the California Gold Rush
• The Gold Rush is a rush of people coming to California for the discovery of gold
• People came from all over the world
• It was very risky for people to move to California because it was such an unpopulated place
• Most people traveled in either a ship or a covered wagon
• A lot of people died traveling to California from lack of food or water
• Most of the people that came to the Gold Rush came at about 1849 they were called the 49ers
• Mainly men went mining for gold
• the Gold Rush lasted from 1848 to 1864
• Most of the people that participated in the Gold Rush lived poor and miserable lives
• After living working all day people would come home with little or no gold at all
• Once people moved to California there was no turning back
• which is one reason why now California is such a popular place

Challenges:

Some challenges that I had while doing this project was it was hard to get my writing piece started for my feature article. What i mean by that is it was to get this writing piece started was very difficult because I didn't know exactly how i wanted to write my feature article. I new it was about the gold rush I just didn't know everything that I wanted to include in it.

Real World:

How the Gold Rush relates to the real world is because if we didn't have the Gold Rush we wouldn't have as much prosperity and resources here in California. The gold rush exposed many people from all over the world to California and that is one of the reasons we have so many different cultures here.