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In English class, we just read a book about a runt that become a hero. The book is called ‘Pigs Might Fly’ by Dick King-Smith. The story is about a pig runt who has a forefeet like a dog and he can swim! He’s a hero because he saved the whole farm from the terrible flood.

We learn that a hero can be a small person like the runt. Being a hero has to be brave, risk takers, helpful, caring to each other, face any challenged that come, an independent person, understand people well and being tough. We have discuss as a class that those are the things that make someone a hero.

In my life, I consider my mom as my hero. I think she’s a hero because she is a very caring and helpful person, she help poor people/ people who are needed help, she help her friends and family to solve any problems that they have. She is a good friend because she understand people easily and that is why many people including me share their story with her. I am really happy and thankful that I’ve given a mom like her. And that is why my mom is a hero for me.

We had done a project making Pecha Kucha. It is a Japanese presentation where we need to have a picture in a slideshow without any writings and we need to TELL the information but for this project, we can have at least 3 words in our slide and also have at lest 2 slides that using green screen. In this presentation, we need to work with a partner, my partner is Felicia. We also need to research about at least one of these option below:

- Otters

- Farms

- Pigs

- Farm animals

- English (England)

- Gloustershine (a city in Eangland)

- Dick King Smith (a famous author)

- Runt

- Pedigre

Felicia and I choose to research and make a Pecha Kucha about pigs, otters and farm animals, for the farm animals, we are focusing on cows only. We found a lot of interesting information about these animals.

Before we begin this activity, I felt really curious about Pecha Kucha because we only can use 3 word in our slide and need to record the information and working with the green screen so I was curious about the process. When we do this project, I work really well with my partner, we work together cooperatively. What I like the most from doing this presentation is finding those interesting information about the animals because it makes me have a better understanding about them and also I think that using green screen is pretty fun. The hard part from this process is finding the pictures because we need to find good photos while using creative common pictures so it’s a bit hard because the pictures that are really good sometimes we can’t use. If I could ask a farmer, this is what I would ask: Which of your animals help you earn most money?

These are the websites where we get the pictures that we use:

http://bit.ly/vMuyig
http://bit.ly/vCsweM
http://bit.ly/uobq6q
http://bit.ly/uwZ9Xo
http://bit.ly/u2F0Qf
http://bit.ly/tz4IEs
http://bit.ly/uaOxR0
http://bit.ly/vWWHm1

And this is the Pecha Kucha that we made:

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