Where We Are In Place and Time

Let's start out the year with a fresh unit! This unit is Where We Are In Place and Time, this unit talks about the history of civilization around the globe. This unit our Inquiry Into is: Past Civilization, What contribution have impacted later times and The influence of past civilization on the host country. Our Central Idea is: Past civilization have made contribution to our present day society. Key concept: Causation, Change and Connection. God has influence us in many ways and God relates to this unit because He made people that is from the past so we could learn it at the future. He made the past civilization, He mad it so we could know that it's hard to work because they didn't have any good technology like we have now days. For example like Computer, X box, PlayStation and more. He made this so we could know there is a big change between the past, present and future. The most important thing is that HE MADE ALL OF THIS! It's important that we learn about history of civilization because if we don't we could get tricked by someone like for example that long ago people were monkey's not human. That is not true so we need to learn about history. It's sometimes scary when we see picture of ancient things because it just almost look that its real and it will happen today. But we know that it's just a picture and it really happen but it happen a long time ago.

2010 BE

I would like to become a diligent person by doing my homework and showing God's word. I would like to become that kind of person because it help me to work more harder of passing grades and help me to learn God's word to. As it says in Matthew 23:12 For whoever exalts him will be humble, and who ever humble him will be exalts. I chose that verse because that verse always reminds me to raise up things. For example like to raise up my grades so I can pass sixth grade and move on to senior school. Some times if I like forgot the verse people around says that I need to raise things up. I like being a diligent person because it helps me to show my talent through out this year and to let everyone know that i have a gift from God and everyone has a gift from God. To become a diligent person I need to have patience and it takes time, and i need to have faith in God also because I know that God will help me to become this kind of person and I know if we have faith in God we can move mountain because faith can move mountain.

Chapter 6 Do Hard Things

Chapter 6: I think my group can raise the bar by not being foolish with other people and helping one another in our group. We could also show excellence not excuses by showing the teachers that we could become a good group. Not just groups that make excuses and show no excellence through out the unit. We could also do more hard things like choosing values like do what’s hard for you and pursue excellence. My group can also raise the bar by going deeper about the main focus of the organization, which is child soldier. We can interview people, organization and more.

This book is talking about how we can raise a bar that go beyond of what’s expected or required. In this chapter Alex and Brett Harris is exploring phrases like “just do your best” can do more harm then good. I think what they are trying to say is that if we do our best we can also get an even better grade than just good. If I measure my life by excellence and not just excuses I think people is going to start recognizing the changes that I have made.

Chapter 5 Do Hard Things

Chapter 5 is about “Life is full of scary things,” write Alex and Brett. Most of us can relate! The prob- lem comes when we let fear or discomfort limit what we attempt or dream for our lives. Most teens are afraid to speak in public, try something new, go somewhere new, or meet new people. Interestingly, all these experience usually turn out posi- tively—or at least give us the most interesting stories. If we’re willing to act in spite of fear, risk failure when necessary, and trust God, our lives will change radically for the better. And we’ll accomplish more than we ever could have imagined.

chapter 4 Do Hard Things

This chapter starts with the story of Ray, a teen party guy who hasn’t grown up, and isn’t sure he wants to. He’s choosing fun now over the future he says he wants. He’s heading toward what the authors call “a failure to launch.” Why? Because the teen years are like a diving board that, if we land on the right spot, will launch us into our best possible future. If we miss (or don’t even jump), we risk never launching. Most of us know a Ray—a “kidult”—who still hasn’t launched at twenty-five, thirty, or even older. The authors then identify five categories of hard things that promise to deliver high-impact results now and later if we do them.

chapter 3 do hard things

An elephant is an incredibly powerful beast that can be restrained by a piece of twine. (No kidding.) And that powerful animal just might be you, say Alex and Brett.That myth is an assumption that the teen years can’t add up to much and are meant to be spent as some sort of vacation from responsibility. Unfortunately, those low ex- pectations end up trapping and limiting teens for no good reason. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Even the word teenager, the authors point out, is a recent invention. We can choose to live by higher standards. We can leave childish ways behind and grow up. We can decide to do hard things.

Chapter 2 Do hard things

Chapter two is a little bit deeper but not to deep. Its starting to go a bit deeper by they explain how the teens face their challenges and more.

The negative thing that I learned is that this chapter is just talking about campaign and stuff. The positive thing is that its good because it helps us prepare to be teens.

The thing that I like is that about this chapter is that its easy to understand and I don’t dislike anything from this chapter.