Skulduggery Pleasant The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant, is a fire throwing, wise cracking, snappy dresser detective that will do anything necessary to stop the faceless ones, a bunch of immortal gods that can only be destroyed with the Scepter (a weapon that can destroy anything in its path). Oh ya Skulduggery Pleasant is also dead. With the help of his partner, Valkyrie Cain, a Elemental like her trainer Skulduggery Pleasant, they will uncover the mystery of the deaths of all the teleporters in the world. Only one 17 year old teleporter with no training is left and is in danger.

Soon after Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain find the teleporter and brought him to safety an old friend comes back from the grave (or from being a statue) and togetter they will save the world but lose a dead friend.

I like this book because it has a lot of mystery that turns into unexpected answers, fantasies with a fire throwing skeleton, and adventure with hand to hand combat in it.

Vocab 5

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Questions 1-5 pg 229.

1) List the main reasons for water scarcity. The main reasons are hot deserts and low rainfall. Low rainfall, variations in climate, land degradations, population growth and water pollution.

2) What is a drought? What type of hardships do you think that a drought could cause if you were living in a village in a poor country such as Ethiopia. A drought is a period below average precipitation. A drought is when there is little or no rainfall and water scarcity in a large area. Hardships would be problems with washing and quenching thirst.

3) How does land degradation affect the supply of fresh water? It stops infiltration and creates run-off, thus transforming more fresh water from rain into salt water in the ocean.

4. a) What is El Nio? The strong winds that occur when the wind reverses over the Pacific.
b) Why does El Nino often cause drought in Australia? Wind blows away storm clouds and water vaper in the air from Australia.

5) Observe the map showing the global effects of El Nino in 1982-83.
a) What effects does El Nino have on the availability of fresh water? El Nino takes away a lot of water from south east asia and Tasmania.
b) Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino. Indonesia; more air pollution and forest fires, Philippines; drought, Papua; drought and famine, Australia; drought.

Stain boy

Stain boy by Nathan (more like read by Nathan) ^_^

water treatment plant

On November 5th, all the Q module went to the water treatment plant for a field trip. There we had a quick tour around the treatment plant, and learned they cleaned the water. Then, we watched a movie about the steps.

1. The first step was taking out all the floating garbage in the water. Often garbages like plastic bags and diapers flow in with the water, and they need to be removed. There are big iron gate-like fences, which lets the water flow in, but not the garbage. It hooks the garbage, removing it from the water.

2. The second step was adding minerals and oxygenating, once the garbage was removed. This was done for aeration, letting some oxygen mix with the water. Adding good and healthy minerals for us was also done in the second step.

3. The third step was adding chemicals, which also included allum. Allum was put in, and all the big pieces of dirt floated upwards, making a hay-and-water sort of gooey mixture called floc. It was the first step of removing dirt from the water, and to clean it.

4. The fourth step was taking out the floc. A lot of people just think floc as a waste and throw them away, but the water treatment send the floc to a waste tower, where they make a paste using the floc. The paste is used to build houses and stuff. So, the water treatment plant was being nature-friendly!

5. The fifth step was filtration and disinfection. The remaining water passed through a layer of very fine sand for last removal of any dirt left, and then more chemicals were added for disinfection for one more time. This was part was one of the most important step, because they had to make sure the water was clean.

I had a pretty fun time at the water treatment plant. It was really cool how they transformed the murky, dirty brown water to a perfectly drinkable water. I never knew this much steps were done for my shower water and stuff. I think I'm really lucky to get all this clean water quickly, whenever I want it.

Water Activites

1.What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?2.5 % of the world's water supply is fresh water.

2.Where is the world's supply of fresh water found? The world's supply of fresh water is in ice, underground, soil, rivers and lakes.

3.Even though the supply of fresh water is abundant it is sitll a problem. Why? The reasons water is abundant and is still a problem is because the people and the water on earth is not evenly spaced out.

4.Observe the map of world average annual precipitation. A: Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the southern to the northern tip of africa?If you start at the southern tip of Africa the annual precipitation is different, but if you were looking at Africa from the West to the East at the Northern tip the West gets less rainfall than the East. As you move up the rain becomes more, then at half way it goes the opposite.

B: Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the western tip of Australia along the Tropic of Capricorn. At the East the annual precipitation is at 1000-1500 (mm), and as you move to the West the annual precipitation goes down.

5.Observe the map above of water availability per person. A: Which parts of the world appear to have a large amount of water available per person? The Northern part of South America, the Northern part of North America, the Northern and Western part of Australia, the Northern part of Asia, the Western part of Africa, and the Northern part of Europe are are the places that appear to have a large amounts of water per person.

B: Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person? The northeastern part of North America, the Southern part of Asia, the Southern part of Australia, the Northern part of Africa, and the Southern part of Europe are the places that appear to have a small amount of water per person.

6.Observe the diagram of water use. A: What are the main uses of water?The main uses for water are Agricultural and Industrial.

B: Which uses have increased the most over the last century? The uses of water that have increased in the last century are Reservoir losses from evaporation and seepage and Community.

water cycle

Evaporation:The graphic to the left shows H2O flying into the air. The H2O (or water as we shall call it) actually turns into a gas first. Water in gas form is called vapor. Vapor soars into the air, higher and higher until it is cooled.

Condensation:To the left you can see a lovely graphic of a cloud.
When water vapor is cooled it condenses and becomes a liquid again but in microscopic droplets that are light enough to float. Water then floats on air and becomes fog or clouds.

Precipitation:
A graphic of rain to the left is linked to precipitation.
When a cloud is submitted to very cold air it will rain. All of the little water droplets that were riding on the air fall to the ground as rain. If submitted to extremely cold air, water can freeze and fall to Earth as snow or hail. Also it is incorrect that rain is teardrop shape but more like spheres for small rain drops, the larger rain drops are flatten at the bottom and looks like a hamburger and the large one are parachute shape


Infiltration:
To the left is a graphic of mud. When water hits the soil as rain it can create mud. Once water hits the ground it seeps into the earth. This is called infiltration. Soon it will find its way to the sea, which is where most water is evaporated. Then the cycle starts again.

The day I sprained my ankle

Nathan

The day I sprained my ankle

Do you know how it feels to sprain an ankle? My opinion is it is not nice. You are probably wondering, “How’d he sprain his ankle?” right? It started as a normal day and I was coming down from the bleachers in music class and sort of tripped and fell on Lucas. Lucas was fine and I thought I was too until I stood up and fell down.
The strange thing about my sprained ankle is when I stood up. My ankle felt like jello, weak and unstable. With out the support of my ankle I collapsed under my own weight. Then all I could hear was the sound of my own laughter. With in seconds my laughter quickly shifted to cries of pain.
People started to surround me, closing in on me like sharks drawn to blood and I was the blood. I was getting claustrophobic, being closed in by fellow class mats. Then people tried to help me up but I just fell down again. So they helped me to the Nurse’s office. She treated me with an artificial pouch with a cool substance and the pouch was covered with a snow white quadrangle substance that contained some of the cool. I didn’t need crunches but I couldn’t wear my shoe. As I went back to my class I just remembered something. I HAD MISSED LUNCH!!!

Sunday

SUNDAY is great day. One I go to school and am not board and second my birthday in 8 days. Today me and my Dad went to the American to exercises and it was OK. Later after about 1 hoers and 30 mints me and my Dad went home to take a shower and to pick up my sister to go see some puppies but we couldn't so we went to gourmet garage and did some shoping. Now I am watching aEureka and I will go to bed.

Saturday

Today was a normal Saturday for me. First thing is that I have drums from 11:00 too 12:00 in the morning but imagine if I had drum lessons in the night. Oh check out this site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJgMueh-zLM and this onehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA&NR=1 ps they are not my dogs. Anyways after that me ,my Dad and my sister whent to eat out for lunch at sushi Tei. After lunch we went to get me a game too bad we will get in a weak and the name of the game is called Halo 3 O.D.S.T. Then we went home and I have a secret that I will show you on Monday.

Friday

Today was was so AWESOME day. Imagine or friend takes you go to a movie that you really want to see comes out and you don't know it is until he tells you, well that's what happen to me. The movie was called 9 and it was awesome. There aren't any words to describe the movie. After that me and E.B.( my friend) had pepper lunch for lunch. Afterwards when I got home I watched a little T.V., played a little xbox and computer.

Thursday

Thursday was a great day for me. I got to go to my friend's house and I watched a movie. My friend name is Jason and we manly played on his Xbox360 but we did go watch a movie with Sammy, MJ and Sammy's brother Max. But I watch cloudy with a chance of meatballs again and it wasn't so funny the second time but everybody else thought it was funny. Later after the movie me and Jason played on the xbox360. Then the routine continues, I have dinner then I go to bed.

Tusday

Today was great. First thing is that I didn't die of boredom like yesterday and second I had a great time at Matthew's house. In the morning when I got to their house they weren't home so I just hung out.Later when Matthew and his brother came home we watch the real thunder birds(their puppets). Later we had lunch(Fried rice). After that Matthew showed me a computer game called WALL E. After that me, Matthew, & Stuart made paper airplanes off the balcony to see who made the best one. Later we played with the Lego. Afterward I went home and the day was pyrite much over beside me having dinner.

Monday

What a boring day it was. I had nothing to do all day. I played on the X box 360 and watched TV but that got boring too. My sister went to the dentist but I wasn't there. Soon after my sister came home my Dad called to tell me to let the puppies go for a swim. My dogs love to swim in the pool. The puppies are great swimmers. Later I got soaking wet because my puppies got stuck in the pool and I had to get them out. It's hard to control my dogs some times. Later I went back to watching T.V and playing on the X box 360 until my dad got home. For tomorrow I am going to my good friend's house Matthew and I will make a chicken salad. I know that I won't be bored tomorrow unlike today or yesterday or the day before that. Oh I almost frogot to tell you tha my mom lefet to Bali yesterday.

I hop all of you are having a better time then me. Pace out.

Interview With a Dead Detective

Nathan's interview with Skulduggery Pleasent

Me and I

1.My Dad and I went to a movie.
2.My Mum and I went to get a sword.
3.My sister and I ate Burger king
4.The teacher asked me and Matthew to get more paper.
5.I went home and my dad saw me and Sam.
6. The coach told me and Matt to be goally this weekend.

The 39 clues No.5 the black circle by Patrick Carnan*****

The 39 clues is a book about a boy Dan and his older sister Amy. They are on a global hunt for their family's power which was hidden in the form of 39 clues. It's like a treasure hunt. Only with all the clues put together will they bring back their family's long lost power over the WORLD! The clues are normal materials like amber ,iron solute,tungsten,zinc,clovers and much more. Like all treasure hunt there are rivals like the Holts, Jonah wizard, the Kaberas and other people. There is only one rule Trust nobody

In this book Amy and Dan get a strange telegram from NRR(Nataliya Ruslanovna Radova, they don't know that until the end of the book)and now are deep in Russia. Away from the only trustworthy adult and cat they know. They also had to team up with the Holts. They also had to infiltrate a Lucian stronghold just to know to have 1 gram of melted Amber.

The 39 Clues

I am going to tell you about Amy and Dan Cahill in a book called the 39 clues One false note. It has many authors but this ones author is Gordon Korman. The thing about them is that their both different. Dan is the troublemaker and crazy collector while Amy is a bookworm and a student.

Dan is 1 year younger then Amy and Amy is twelve.

The main problem in the story is that Amy and Dan are in a race to find their family's power-a secret that can be found by assembling 39 Clues. Those are hidden all around the globe. So this was a treasure hunt. But what a treasure hunt- spanning oceans and continents, withe nothing less than world domaination as the prize. Yet high risks. Their rivals would stop at nothing to defeat them.

Their compitistion are alot of people.

Earthquake in Indonisa

A 7.3R earthquake happened in Indonesia on Sep\2\09. A weird thing happened that day at lunch. A snake that was about 1 meter long came out of the ground. Animals have a keen sense of when natural disasters are about to hit so they retreat before it hits. Then when the day ended some kids felt the earthquake and one kid (named Zoe) nearly fell down. According to Koran Tempo on 5\6\09, the earthquake had killed 67 people, injured 444 people with 37 people still missing. 27,770 people had to evacuate their own homes because of the Earthquake. 31,779 houses were heavily damaged, 15 were moderately damaged and 55,918 were mildly damaged. 836 schools were damaged along with 1,623 places of worship and 193 offices. This happened because Indonesia is on the ring of fire or the place most Earthquakes happen. The 67 deaths are mostly our fault because we made unstable buildings on the ring of fire. The source of the info from the paper was originally from Center of Control & Operation, National Agency for Disaster Relief. Info collected on 5\6,09.

There is one incident when a land slide happened because of the earth quake. It destroyed some homes and buried some poor farmers in a village up in the mountains. Land slides happen when an earth quake loosens the bond between the top layer of a mountain and the bottom layer causing the top layer to slide down the mountain.

Derek Landy

Derek Landy is amazing guy. He doesn't keep his imagination locked up but let's it help him. He is also a black belt in Kenpo Karate, he has taught countless children how to defend themselves, in the hopes of building his own private munchkin army. He firmly believes that they await his call to strike against his enemies (he doesn't actually have any enemies, but he's assuming they'll show up sooner or later).

Dragon Orb ***** by Mark Robson

This book is about 4 unlikely kids with absolutely nothing in common except for two things, they are all dragon riders and they all have a dragon. There are 4 types of dragons ,the day dragon, the night dragon, the dusk dragon, and the dawn dragon(i put the dragon in order from common to rare). The Oracle is a dragon spirit that controls the dragon destiny. But the Oracle is dieing and the only way to save it is for Eline,Kira,Pell, and Notica to retrieve all 4 orb before time runs out.

Skulduggery Pleasant by:Derek Landy*****

This book is about how an average girl named Stephanie gets tangled up in a dangerous and magical world. If it wasn't for her Uncle's old friend Skulduggery Pleasant a walking talking fire throwing skeleton she would have been killed, vampire chow or killed. (For those who don't have any imagination there is a picture of Skulduggery Pleasant on your right.) Now Stephanie,Skulduggery Pleasant and some of his friends must find a ancient, unstoppable weapon before Nefarian Serpine an evil sorcerer gets it. Nefarian Serpine also killed Skulduggery Pleasant in a war before he became a walking talking fire throwing skeleton.

taiwan typhoon

Typhoon Morokat was a deadly storm that stranded people homeless or killed. It was a force to be reckoned with. It was the worse typhoon in fifty years .





This storm effected people and the environment in many ways. It demolished hoses, destroyed crops, it even tipped a hotel over. A mud slide also happened. trees, farms were destroyed and many lives were lost. There was a incident when a bridge collapse.