Month: May 2023

My Stock Market Project

by 29andrewh

In my language arts class, my teacher had my class invest 20,000 imaginary dollars in any stock that we wanted. I spent $12715.9 for my stock project and lost $1722.9 in total. The other money of the $20,000 we had went to a company outside of America that I later had to get rid of because they didn’t use USD.

One of the companies I invested in was Cal-Maine Foods that I bought 50 shares of that costed $56.08 but later went down to $47.48 per share which lost me $430 in total. Another stock that I invested in was called Valero Energy Corporation. I bought 50 shares of it and each share costed $133.72. The share price later went down to $111.66 per share which lost me a total of $1103. The last stock that I bought was CONOCOPHILLIPS. I bought 30 share of it and each share was $107.53. The final price of each share costed $101.2 which lost me a total of $189.9.

In the end, I learned a lot about investing stocks. I think that I lost money because the companies I invested in all produced products that America had a shortage of, such as eggs. I think that this was a bad idea since they all lost money.

My Ideal Planet

by 29andrewh

I read a book called The Last Cuentista a few months ago about a girl who’s planet got hit by a meteor, but she left the planet with her family and a group of others to a planet called Sagan. When they got there, everyone got brain washed except for Petra, the main character, and she was the last one who knew stories from Earth even though stories were banned. This book was a page turner with lots of suspense and the plot was well thought out. I think it is important to pass down stories because usually they are special to a group of people and has lots of importance.

After reading it, my language arts class did an activity of creating our own planet ideas and how to make a planet is ideal to us. We then drew a few drawings of the planet and made a book about it. My planet is called Reptar and it is similar to Earth but I made a few small changes that I think would made the world better such as making the world a bit hotter, having less countries and continents, the planets have rings for aesthetic reasons, having everyone speak the same language, having robots as cops to protect crime better, and also to have Earth not able to get polluted.

After we wrote about our planet, was made a book about it. There was also an artist named Peg Gignoux who helped us design a book step by step. We had to use paint rollers and plants to design the scenery of the planet. This was a pretty long but fun process. Then in the book, we also wrote out a story that was special to our family. I interviewed my mom about what I was like as a toddler, and asked her about the fun and the hardships of raising me. We then printed out all the text of both stories and put it in our book.

My TED Like Talk

by 29andrewh

On May 22, 2023, I prepared and presented a Google Slideshow that I worked on for almost two weeks about the Civil War of 1865 in front of my sixth grade language arts class. I wanted to talk about the Civil War because I learned a lot about it from fourth grade, and I thought that it was a really interesting topic. Before speaking in front of my class, I practiced my speech in front of my friends.

It was very fun to present and also exercised my public speech skills. I tried to keep eye contact with the audience while looking at my script throughout the talk which was difficult. For my slide, I used many copy right free images to keep the audience’s attention and also used bullet points for what I was talking about. I thought that it was fun to hear other people’s Ted like talks and also the process of making a slide was neat as possible.