Recent reading
Recently I have read the Hero's guide series. Book's 1,2 and 3. Here is some stuff about book 1: This series is made around making fun of Prince charming and some fairy tails. It changes them and combines them into an crazy and funny series. This book introduces the characters and tells us the real names of the prince's charming. Liam,Gustav,Duncan and Frederic. Liam is the Prince charming from Sleeping beauty, Gustav from Rapunzel, Duncan from snow white and Frederic from Cinderella.
I also have been reading the Rangers apprentice series. Its a series placed in medieval fantasy land of Araluen, Scandia Teutland, Gallica , Temujai , Celtia and more. These countries and people's probably are based on real modern day countries. Araluen probably being England ( I don't see any name reason here but i think it is england beacuse of the Longbows and some other things ) , Scandia most likely being Scandinavia( you can see the oblivious name reason here), Teutlandt probably Germany ( the name reason is probably from the Teutonic knights and Deutschland ,see how it ends with land? ), Gallica might be France ( Here it is most likely because of the Gauls )and Temujai ( I can not really see the name reason here besides it is Asian. But I think it is the mongols because the guy who started the Temujai is called something close to Temuchin the name of Genghis khan and the leaders are called Shan close to Khan ) the Mongols or the Huns or combined. But most likely the Mongols. The Main Character is will a young orphan at the starting and then finds out his Dad died bravely and strongly on the battle field. He lived in Castle Redmont as a ward. Wards lived In castle Redmont until they were 15 or so and then they could be chosen to be an apprentice to one of the craftmasters. Will had ward comrades: Horace, Jenny, Alyss and George. Horace got to be a Warrior apprentice , Jenny a cook apprentice, Alyss a Diplomat apprentice and George a scribe apprentice. But will , none of the official craftmasters wanted him. If no one would accept you as an apprentice you would have to go work as a farmer. But Will got excepted by Halt the fief's ( a place under control of a Baron and with his knights protected the Farmer. There were other Fief's and they all listened to the King of Arualen. This was where Will lived. The king's name was Duncan. ) Ranger. Rangers were a mystery to ordinary low ranking People. These people thought the did black magic. But what the Kings Rangers were and actually did was not his. The Rangers were an Elite scout team that were expert archers and knife throwers. They could spy on the enemy and see what they were doing. They were experts at moving without being seen and at tracking. Rangers were Rangers. They wore the Oak leaf to show that they were actual rangers. Bronze meant Apprentice and silver meant senior. Halt was a highly esteemed ranger he had lead the army when they beat Morgarath and evil villain. But he still existed. Anyway Will spent hour after hour day after day training with is Bow and knives. He also practiced Camouflage ( Rangers wore Ranger clocks , green and gray things ) keeping unseen, tracking and reading maps. Once Will , Halt, Horace and some Knights went Boar hunting. There were 2 boars but the y thought there was only one. After the first one had been killed the second dashed at Will. Will dived , Rolled , jumped and shot arrows at it. But this boar could not be killed unless an arrow hit his heart. Will missed every time and was just about to be killed when Halt shot it right in the heart killing it. After this Will went on to Kill a Kalkalra a (fearsome enemy that was only scared of fire . These Kalkara were enlisted by Morgarath the evil lord who goes on to almost beat the Araluen army with his army of Wargals. Also fearsome enemies ( their weakness being Calvary ) , but not as strong as the kalkara. These Kalkara were assassins . The hypnotized anyone close to them and then could kill them. ) by shooting a flaming arrow at it burning it. Will also burned a bridge that was vital to the Araluen win at the Plains of Uthal.
Below you can read some of the actual History.
Recent science
I have been learning a lot about chemistry. You can see half of some of the stuff I learned here here and here. I will be coming up with the second half soon with stuff about Biochemistry, pH ,acids, bases Nuclear chemistry and much more. I also have been learning some cool facts at Joppa flatts , like how to tell a green crab from an Asian shore crab,Sea stars have a brain at each foot, Sea urchins and sea stars are both Echinoderms (phylum) and are related and Moon snails eat other smaller snails called periwinkles by wrapping themselves around them, dropping acid , drilling a hole through them and sucking them up! Another cool fact is that sea stars eat with their stomachs. You can read more about Joppa flats in the Other things/joppa flats section of this post.
Fast fact!
Saturn had the most moons, At least 25. While Venus has no moons.
Recent History and Recent Geography
History
I have not been doing much on History recently besides the world cup. I am going to publish the blog: Some History ( I changed World History since 1300 to this ), that includes The Huns,Vikings,Goths and Mongols; Early medieval Japan,Korea and China;Summary of the Story of the World 1,2,3 and 4 and more! Here are some sneak peaks.
Huns,Vikings,Goths and Mongols
here is a link to the downfall of Rome, I wrote last year, it has some information on the Huns and Goths.
Huns:
In the late 300's the Huns attacked Europe from western Asia, east of Europe. Eastern Europeans/Romans were terrified of them. The Huns raided and destroyed settlements. To make themselves even scarier than they were they slashed their faces( ouch ), And wore weird ragged clothes. The Huns were nomads ( people who moved from place to place always setting and taking down tents. They had no home. ) and expert horsemen.
#2 Rich leaders of the Huns wore jewelry to show they were rich. One jewelry item was the fibula , The Fibula was like a pin , it was usually made out of gold and had gems in them.
Vikings:
The Vikings started in 793 and ended in 1066 ( this period is called the viking age ). The vikings came from Scandinavia, a region in Northern Europe that includes Norway,Denmark,Sweden and Finland ( not to many vikings in Finland though ). The Vikings were fearsome war crazy raiders. They were also explores( expert navigators) and amazing shipbuilders. The vikings traded,Explored,Raided and Colonized many places
Raiding and wars
The first viking raid ( outside Scandinavia ) was against England. England was raided by Vikings from Denmark. They raided a monastery called St. Cuthbert's monastery off the eastern coast of England. The day it happened was the start of the viking age 7/19/793 AD.
Peaceful life and Exploration
Back at home in Scandinavia they led mostly non warlike lives ( but they did fight and raid each other ever so often ). They lived in houses with large central rooms made out of wood. They had a hole in the roof for the smoke from a fire, that burned inside the house ( to give light for these houses rarely had windows. It was probably also used for cooking) to go out.
Goths:
Mongols:
Early medieval Japan,Korea and China
Around the 500's Japan was divided into many different clans. One of these Clans , the Yamato Clan, was stronger than the others. The Yamato clan wanted to conquer the other clans and rule Japan.
Geography
I have been doing postcrossing. In this you send and receive postcards to and from other countries. I have recieved 7 ( Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia, Finland and other places) post cards and have sent 5(Russia,China, Germany, USA, Belarus/Russia ). I also have been doing stack the states and stack the countries. I think we have beat them. I made a flag map some months ago, you can see it here.
Recent Math
I have been doing Khan academy for math here is an update for all the math I have been doing.
I put a progresses report here and it keeps going away
I am 3 skills away from mastering 5th grade. The recently added a lot of things for early math. This is preschool,kindergarten,1st grade and 2nd grade. You see though it shows that I have not mastered some of it. I don't think I should bother with things I already know and should keep learning( and believe me I know early math ).
Other Things
Joppa Flats
I recently joined the Joppa flatts staff as a volunteer. Here I clean caterpillar cages, Help people with crafts, Talk to them and help them hold creatures in the touch tank and other things. I like it there, I usually stay from around 9:00 to around 3:00. Then I come home. Joppa flats teaches you all about Sea creatures and many other things in science.
How to train your dragon 2
This was a great movie minus a few things
Soccer
Recent art and Music
Sources: Barbarians, The story of the world voulume 4 and 3, Wikipedia, Myself, Khan academy and Rangers Apprentice and Brainpop
