For math I used ExamBank and I know that doesn't prove all-year-work, but I think I have some examples throughout my blog, and if that's not enough, I give you (John) permission to record our upcoming zoom call and I'll show you their math workbooks.
So here we go:
William:
MATH:
He took an ExamBank test, and I believe it was a Grade 3 level, so obviously he's proficient in grade 1.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Here's a video showing him passing off the reading checklist:
As for the writing checklist, we've been creating stories together. He dictates it to me, and then he copies my writing. What do you expect from a severely to profound dyslexic. (By the way, I want him tested by Conrad....just a reminder.)
SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE
For both social studies and science, there should be ample on this blog and from the art class (with colour knowledge and drawing about seasons.) Also, all the classes he's done with you guys.
Whoo hoo, that was easy. Moving on.
Daniel:
MATH:
Daniel took an ExamBank.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading:
Experience quality literature-Daniel and Hyrum have read
Secret Garden
Little Britches: Father and I were Ranchers
Rules For a Knight
Fablehaven Grip of the Shadow Plague
Fablehaven Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Fablehaven Keys to the Demon Prison
Dragonwatch
Dragonwatch Wrath of the Dragon King
Dragonwatch Master of the Phantom Isle
The Cay
Anne of Green Gables
The Bronze Bow
The Hardy Boys While the Clock Ticks
And quite a few Usborne Young Reader history books, which I've mentioned on this blog.
He has read "novels" silently and aloud, they have been Magic Tree House books, Minecraft Choose Your Own Adventure books, and books by Cigdem Knebel which are specifically designed for dyslexic readers.
As for identify main problem and Imagery, theme and figurative language, he did Brainpops that were sent to you.
Writing:
In addition to all the writing he did with Barton, He also dictates to me and writes stories, but in addition to this, here are some other things that should be enough examples to check off the writing needed.
A Brainstorm and Finished draft of a book report on The Bronze Bow.
Daniel, the main character, had his parents die because of Roman soldiers, and is now full of hatred and revenge towards them. He meets Jesus who teaches him that love and understanding are more powerful than hate. It will take the whole book for Daniel to understand how love and understanding overcome fear and violence.
At the beginning of the book, Daniel was living with this person named Rosh and Rosh’s gang. They were getting an army to defeat the Romans. They were stealing to get all their food and supplies. They didn’t care about the people they stole from.
Later, Daniel had to live in the village to take care of his sister, Leah, who is afraid of everything. Daniel met all the people that Rosh was stealing from. He realized that Rosh wasn’t helping the country, but just making it weaker. Jesus had said everyone was a child of God, and the people that Rosh was stealing from, mattered just as much as anyone else.
While Daniel was in a city, a Roman asked for water for his horse. Daniel got water for the horse because not only was it the law, Daniel felt bad for the horse. The Roman asked for water for himself, and Daniel gives him the same water as the horse, which makes the Roman kick him, so Daniel threw the water at the Roman’s face. Daniel quickly runs away but the Roman gets him with his spear.
Daniel runs to Thacia’s house even though he had been kicked out of their house earlier. Thacia heals Daniel.
Daniel’s friend Joel helps Rosh steal from rich important people that were helping the Romans. But then Joel got caught, and Rosh wouldn’t help Joel. The Romans were taking Joel away to the city to execute him.
Daniel got his small group of warriors to save Joel, but the Romans were too strong. Then Sampson and Nathan gave their lives to save Joel.
Daniel met a young Roman who kept on needing repairs with his tools, and Daniel was a blacksmith. Daniel didn’t like him because he was a Roman. Daniel finds out that the Roman, whose name is Marcus, has been talking to his sister. That made Daniel want to kill Marcus.
Leah, Daniel’s sister, knew Marcus and asked Daniel to not kill him, but then she got a fever. Jesus healed Leah, and showed Daniel how love was stronger than hate. Then Daniel let Marcus into his house.
Daniel saw that stealing’s wrong because everyone’s a child of God. Thacia was kind enough to heal Daniel even after being kicked out. Sampson and Nathan gave their lives for Joel and Daniel. Leah and Jesus showed Daniel how to love his enemies. All of these things showed love and understanding, and that can overcame fear and violence.
Now here's a research paper about raining fish (seriously.....raining fish) the brainstorm, bibliography, and final draft.
Raining Fish Bibliography
Brain Time. “Fish Rain. The Most Unbelievable Types of Rain on the Planet.” YouTube, 23 May 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM9mAdKmH6w
Cleaton, Steve. “Fish rain down Sri Lanka Village.” BBC News, 6 May 2014, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27298939
Dwyer, Colin.”It Rained Fish In Mexico, Officials Say. No, It's Not The End Times (We Think)” N.P.R. 28 September 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/28/554242564/it-rained-fish-in-mexico-authorities-say-no-its-not-the-end-times-we-think
John Downer Productions Ltd. “BBC Supernatural (raining fish!!!!)” BBC, Narration by Andrew Sachs, season 1, episode 1, 1 Jan 1999, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWfNSFXzqw
Imagine while you’re walking down the street, fish start falling from the sky. Raining Fish are real. Fish, newts, eels, frogs, and prawns have all fallen from the sky. Some fish that haven rained down are three to five inches long. Sometimes they’re frozen, and sometimes the fish are alive when they land.
Stories since ancient civilizations tell us about raining fish. There have been over 600 accounts of raining fish in this century. It usually happens near ponds and oceans. All over the world, there have been raining fish, including in the countries of Australia, Japan, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Serbia, and the United States.
Lots of scientists think that strong whirlwinds turn into waterspouts when they go over shallow water. Low pressure sucks up the water, and along with the water, comes the fish. They are carried long distances by buffeting clouds. Sometimes fish get frozen from being so high up in the air.
There’s usually only one species of animal that rains down, maybe because of its weight, and waterspouts sucking up the fish have never been witnessed. This proves that raining fish is still a mystery. We still have a lot to learn about it.
I really hope I’ll be able to witness raining fish sometime, because it sounds really cool.
Daniel's poetry, first and final draft:
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Mapping of Canada-so he did a couple Brainpops, but also there's this video
Canada Histories and Stories: He made an incredible Canadian history video last year, but because Alberta doesn't understand how homeschool in large families works, what he did last year doesn't count. So here's a video proving he still remembers what he did in that video THIS year.
SCIENCE
Well since my science classes don't cover every single science subject every single year, you can look at the brain pops Daniel did.
Hyrum
MATH:
He did the ExamBank, and if I'm right, I think he did grade 7 math, even though he's in grade 6.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
Experience quality literature-Daniel and Hyrum have read
Secret Garden
Little Britches: Father and I were Ranchers
Rules For a Knight
Fablehaven Grip of the Shadow Plague
Fablehaven Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Fablehaven Keys to the Demon Prison
Dragonwatch
Dragonwatch Wrath of the Dragon King
Dragonwatch Master of the Phantom Isle
The Cay
Anne of Green Gables
The Bronze Bow
The Hardy Boys While the Clock Ticks
And quite a few Usborne Young Reader history books, which I've mentioned on this blog.
He's also read
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior From Seeds to Swords
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Crafting Alliances
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Path of the Diamond
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Quest Mode
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Forging Destiny
Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten: Lost in the Nether
The Book of Mormon (I'm serious. He read the entire thing all my himself!!!)
All the rest of reading checks should be on BrainPOP.
Writing.
I'm going to do IEW soon. In addition to all the writing he did with Barton, he also dictates to me to writes stories, he's done some oral presentations with you (person of eminence and paper bag swap,) ALSO don't for get all the Class craft stuff he sent you, but also here are some other things that should be enough examples to check off the writing needed.
Here's a research paper he did on warts. Yes warts. Don't ask me why.
Have you ever had a huge lump of skin on your hand and wondered how it got there and what it was? Well, that’s a wart, my friend. Warts are firm rough skin on you that is called human papillomavirus, or for short, HPV. There are over 100 different types of warts. Different warts like different parts of your body.
If a wart gets too big, it will make more of its type. That big wart is what we call a “mother wart.” You can spread warts by touching other skin. The wart lives in the top layer of the skin (the epidermis,) and gets there through cracks in your skin. It can also spread by you touching something that a wart has touch, like a dirty sock. When a wart infects you, it takes two to six months before you can see it pop out.
We don’t know the exact reason, but meat handlers get more warts than other people. Adults don’t get as many warts as children do, because they have a better immune system. Also, if your parents had a lot of warts, you have a greater chance of having warts too.
As the wart is growing, they redirect blood vessels to them, to get food and oxygen to them. You can see the blood vessels as tiny black specs. The virus, when it gets in the cell, tells the cell to make more of the virus. This creates keratin-protien on top of the skin.
Now, it’s important to talk about how to get rid of these ugly lumps that remind you of ogres. Most of the time, warts will go away naturally in two or more years. If that doesn’t happen, you can try salicylic acid, cryotherapy which is “freezing,” laser treatment, or if all else fails, “snip” or cut them off. Warts are a virus, so your immune system should get rid of them, and if it doesn’t then Candida antigen shot or chemotherapy medicine can boost your immune system to help fight the virus. Although, in the past they say if you rub a dusty dry toad, your warts will go away.
Now you can be wart free. You’re welcome ogres.
Warts Bibliography
AmerraMedical. “Skin Warts-3D Medical Animation.” YouTube, Viroxis. 24 Jun 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guJ1J7rRs1w
Brazier, Yvette. “How to Treat a Wart.” Medical News Today, Reviewed By SarahTaylor, MD FAAD. 28 Nov 2017, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155039
JJ Medicine. “Overview of Skin Warts (Verrucae) | What Causes Them? Who Gets Them? | Subtypes and Treatment.” YouTube, 7 Jun 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBbujl8k33Q
Parker, Hilary. “What Causes Common Skin Warts?” WebMD, Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario MD. 14 May 2009, https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/features/viruses-cause-skin-warts#1
SciShow. “What’s the Deal with Warts?” YouTube. Hosted by Michael Aranda. 22 Aug 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSWVBP2YXM
Here's a News article he wrote:
Minecraft Gets Defeated By It’s Own Server
Minecraft: a beautiful world where you can build anything, beat monsters, tame animals, and last but not least, join with your friends on servers. Minecraft was originally created by Mojang as a computer generated sandbox game. Minecraft is the bestselling game of all time. Once people buy it, people don’t seem to stop playing it. Recently, Minecraft was bought by Microsoft for 2.5 billion dollars.
The creators of Minecraft are not the only ones to make money off of the game. People who don’t work for Minecraft, sell maps to use in the Minecraft worlds. These can contain quests, modded games, and more. Inside Minecraft’s “Market Place,” companies have virtual stores where you can buy things like maps that change the Minecraft world.
Hypixel is one of the main servers not owned by Minecraft. It has different maps, mods, and mini games. They even have their own successful Youtube channel. However, they are shutting down on 30 of June, 2020.
In 2016, soon after Microsoft bought Minecraft, Microsoft made it so independent companies were allowed to do less things, like not allowing branded partnerships. They also kick out sellers in the Market Place and took more control of how money was made off of maps.
Hypixel now had less power. Microsoft was taking over their business. This would change Hypixel forever.
Hypixel decided to make their own video game called Hytale. It is also a sandbox computer generated game just like Minecraft. It’s even has blocky art like Minecraft. But Hytale has RPG combat, more detailed animation, different skins, different mods, yet still has community servers and mini games.
In Sept 2019, Hytale was nominated in the 37th Golden Joystick Awards for “Most Wanted Game.” In 2021, Hytale will be released. Who knows, maybe Hytale will be more famous Minecraft, and Minecraft ’s dominance of the sandbox world will be taken down my one of its own.
Sorces:
Wikipedia. “Hypixel,” Wikipedia, 5 May 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypixel
Wikipedia. “Hytale,” Wikipedia, 1 May 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hytale
Wikipedia. “Minecraft,” Wikipedia, 4 May 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
SOCIAL STUDIES
BrainPOP also, there's some proof of Ancient Greece on the blog, and Iroquois was on last year's blog.
SCIENCE
BrainPOP
Maxwell
MATH
He did examBank and you can see all the work he's done on Khan academy, right?
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
variety of literature:Oh heavens I can't even keep track
About a million "Warrior" books by Erin Hunt
Hunger Games Series (again)
Secret Garden
Micheal Vey series
Five Kingdoms series
7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens
Redwall
The Bronze Bow
So for the rest, you should find it in BrainPOP and included/mixed up in the writing
Writing
Okay, so I'm just going to show you his final draft "Compare and contrast book to movie" and business letter that he typed up himself. Typing them should check off a couple things. (Then I'll take photos of all the other writing that I have in front of me at this exact moment. We've been pretty diligent with IEW but I couldn't find a lot of it.)
Bullies were pushing Percy Jackson’s head closer to the toilet, when suddenly toilet water sprayed out, drenching the bullies, but leaving Percy perfectly dry. This is just one event in "Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief,” which was a best selling book that movie producers made into a movie. In my opinion, ”Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief” the book is way better than the movie. There are big differences between the two. In the movie, Percy's quest is not to find the lightning blot, the camp leader is different, and the way they get the pearls has changed.
The quest that Percy goes on in the movie is to find his mom, while in the book, it's to find the lighting bolt. In the movie, Percy thinks that if he can prove himself innocent, that Hades will give him his mom back. While in the book, finding the lighting bolt will save the world. The book made him a greater hero, because in saving the world, he also saved his mom, which made me like the book better.
At Camp Half Blood, the camp leader from the book, Dionysus, is not in the movie. Instead it’s Chiron, a centaur. Dionysus makes the book way more entertaining. Dionysus makes the story funnier because of things he's always doing. Like how he threatened Percy to turn him into a dolphin. In my opinion, Dionysus just makes every thing better. I was disappointed not to meet him in the movie.
In the movie, Percy had to find the pearls that would save him from the under world. In the book, the pearls were given to him by Poseidon. Also, in the book they stumbled into Medusa in a bus crash instead of going to her lair to get a pearl. In my opinion, Percy getting the pearls from Poseidon makes sense because Poseidon is Percy's father. The God of the ocean helping his teenage son makes me like the book way better than the movie.
In the book, Percy saves the world not just his mom, the reader meets Dionysus, who is a unforgettable character, and there is a greater connection between Percy and his father, Poseidon. All this makes me not like the movie as much as the book. I suggest reading the book and watching the movie, so you can decide for yourself.
PO Box 1873
Cardston AB T0K0K0
CANADA
Microsoft Minecraft Dept.
4200 150th Ave NE,
Redmond, WA 98052,
United States
To whom this may concern,
I am writing to you because I think that Minecraft should add more dog types because it can be boring to just see white wolves and dogs. I think that having different dog types, even if it is just different skin colours would be great. But if Minecraft could make it so some dogs have more health or can run faster, then it would make the game better. Minecraft could even make it so dogs could find specific blocks for the player. If the player showed a special rare dog a specific block, the dog could smell the block and then go to the nearest block of that kind. Maybe that’s too O.P., so maybe the dogs could come in different sizes or different breeds. I think it would be such a good idea. Just look at the different breeds of horses and cats you have. They have had success. Would it be too hard to make different breeds of dogs? It would be also cool if you could breed dogs and foxes together to get a dog that could find the player spawn eggs.
sincerely yours
Maxwell McKay
Presentation Skills should be from person of eminence and paper bag swap.
SOCIAL STUDIES and SCIENCE
BrainPOP
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