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English Literacy, Round 2

The theme of this round is about social and environmental injustice which mainly talking about how can pollution related to inequality and how can it affect us as citizen. Our final assessment of this round is an argumentative essay of a topic. In this concept, we did some process such as brainstorming, pre-writing, write a rough draft, peer-review, revise idea, edit and the last is publish. In order to have a strong argumentative essay, we need to learn how to write a strong thesis statement, choosing evidences. All the references identify as primary source or secondary source. Primary source is the first-hand source which takes action in the real event, for example, photographs,  autobiography, maps, diary, documented. Secondary source is the second-hand source which from the primary source such as textbooks, articles, etc.

This is my wonderful argumentative essay. Please enjoy reading!

SaraVotey Mom                                                    English Literacy                                               

Hannah Trivitt                                                        14 December 2018    

                                                 From Bait to Plate  

Millions and millions of fish have been caught, annually. There is a problem before those fish hit your plate because right now we simply cannot tell if the fish we eat were illegally caught or not. Which means, illegally caught fish are getting into the seafood market at different points of their journey from bait to plate. The IUU stands for Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing. This is a global issue around the world. Illegal fishing is the action of fishing that not allowed by law. Some parts of the world, people used huge nets or electric shock. These actions occur in parts of the ocean where fishing is not permitted or fishing greater numbers than a fisher’s permit allows to catch. Even though illegal fishing makes people a lot of money, we should abolish those actions. Illegal fishing negatively affects marine environment/ecosystem, economics, and species extinction.

Illegal fishing is extremely harmful to the marine environment and ecosystem. These methods would strongly affect marine species in the ocean. If there are many fish have been catching, it is an adverse effect on marine biodiversity. Every single aquatic plant and animal has a role to play for balancing themselves with their environment and surroundings. So in order to thrive, marine creatures require some kind of environment and nutrients, which in this process they may depend on other organisms. For instance, some of the people tried to improve the method of catching Tuna. Tuna is a part which is very essential to the ecosystem because it is a huge part of millions of marine species diets. Having less amount of Tuna, a very special species, can cause really serious threats to sharks, seabirds and sea turtle (World Wildlife Fund). In addition, it destroys the marine habitats including coral reefs or sea turtle nesting beaches. It makes the marine animals have no habitat to live anymore, which take more time for them to build a new one. According to Marine Science Today, seabirds such as puffins were depended on the sand eel for their food around the Shetland Islands. Especially, with the loss of sand eels, seabirds around Shetland Island might be declined (Krysten). As mentioned, in the ecosystem organisms depend on each other to thrive, which means that if the food chain breaks at any level, it will affect all other living organisms in the ecosystem as well. To sum up, Depletion of fish populations and destroy the entire marine food chain also the main part of Illegal fishing.

Economics is also related to Illegal fishing. It leads to some of the detrimental effects to the economics which especially to the local fishermen and local communities. Advantages and benefits are being provided from marine species, including ecosystem services such as the distribution of food, medicines, and livelihood. They also support tourism by entertainment activities around the world (IUCN). Fishermen who use the legal fishing gear could lose their fishing opportunity and lose the value of the catches. They may lose income for their family expenditures which working in the fishing industry. Nearly all of the legal fishermen are living near the ocean which they live partly depends on the fishing field to spend everyday expenditures for buying food and stuff. For instance, Orbital Admin, a writer in stop illegal fishing.com, was saying, “The Marine Resource Assessment Group estimate that Africa loses $1billion a year to illegal fishing, and since fishing is the basis for 45 million livelihoods in sub_saharan Africa” (Admin). This means it affects a large number of family who makes a living depend on the ocean. Illegal fishing may cause having less fish in the ocean, which also makes other fishermen couldn’t find much fish for their income. The Illegal fish harvest may be brought to market at a lower price because there is a lot amount of fish. This is unfair because fisherman that are fishing legally are losing income while the illegal fisherman is making more profit since they are bringing in more fish. It’s kind of unfair of prices to the same product that is from legal fishing. However, the low prices of fish won’t take the short amount of time to increase.

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អក្សរសាស្រ្តខ្មែរ (ជុំទី២)

ព្រះ​រាជ​ពិធី​បុណ្យ​អុំ​ទូក ​បណ្តែតប្រទីប​សំពះ​ព្រះ​ខែ​ និង​អកអំបុក​​​

ពីមួយឆ្នាំ ទៅមួយឆ្នាំ ប្រទេសកម្ពុជា តែងតែប្រារព្ធពីធីបុណ្យ និងមានការឈប់សម្រាក យ៉ាងច្រើន ដែលពីធីបុណ្យទាំងនេះ គឺជាពិធីបុណ្យសាសនា និងប្រពៃណីជាតិ ។​ ពិធីបុណ្យភាគច្រើន ត្រូវបានគេប្រារព្ធ ដោយប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្ត ដ៏យូរលង់ណាស់មកហើយ ម៉្យាងទៀត ក៏មានហេតុផល មួយចំនួន ដែលប្រជាជនប្រារព្ធ ផងដែរ ។​ ពិធីបុណ្យភាគច្រើន ត្រូវបានគេប្រារព្ឌ មួយឆ្នាំមួយដង ហើយពិធីធំៗ ទាំងនោះមានដូចជា​ ពិធីបុណ្យចូលឆ្នាំខ្មែរ បុណ្យភ្ជុំបិណ្ឌ ពីធីបុណ្យអុំទូក និងជាច្រើនទៀត ។ ខែវិច្ចការ ក៏បានមកសល់ ប្រទេសកម្ពុជា មានពីធីបុណ្យមួយ ត្រូវប្រារព្ធគឺ ពីធីបុណ្យអុំទូក ។​ លោកគ្រូរបស់ខ្ងុំ បានឪ្យពួកយើង ធ្វើការងារស្រាវជ្រាវមួយ ទាក់ទងនឹងពីធីបុណ្យនេះ ។ បន្ទាប់ពីធ្វើ គំរោងការងារស្រាវជ្រាវនេះ​ ខ្ងុំទទួលបានចំណេះដឹង និងព័ត៏មាន​យ៉ាងច្រើន ។ ​ក្នុងគំរោងនេះ គឺយើងធ្វើការស្រាវជ្រាវ ទាក់ទង នឹងប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្ដនៃពិធីបុណ្យ ពេលវេលាប្រារព្ធ ពាក្យពិបាក និងច្រើនទៀត ។ ពិធីបុណ្យអុំទូក ត្រូវបានប្រារព្ធមួយឆ្នាំមួយដង​ បន្ទាប់ពីរដូវវស្សាបានបញ្ចប់ មានរយះពេលបីថ្ងៃ ចាប់ពីថ្ងៃ ១៤ កើត ដល់ថ្ងៃ ១ រោចខែកត្តិក ដែលមានព្រះចន្ទ័ ពេញបរមី ។ ព្រះរាជពិធីនេះ ត្រូវបានប្រារព្ធ នៅទន្លេចតុមុខ ព្រះរាជដំណាក់ កំពង់ផែខាងមុខ ព្រះបរមរាជវាំង ។

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STEM, Round 2

In the round two, we’ve started a new lesson from periodic table to chemical bonding. There are three types of bond which are ionic bonds, covalent bonds, metallic bonds. I will explain you to all of these concepts.

Chemical bonding

Chemical bonding is the attraction of elements combine together to from another chemical compound, which occurs when atoms share or transfer violent electrons. Violent electrons are the electron that locate in the outer energy level of an atom. For example: water is a chemical compound (H20). Water molecules always make up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atoms of oxygen.

Ionic bonds

Ionic bonds form when atoms of a metallic element give up electrons to atoms of a nonmetallic element. It is the force of attraction that holds positive and negative ions together. For example:Between sodium and chlorine. Sodium has 11 valence electrons and chlorine has 17 valence electrons. Sodium has 1 valence electron left so it gives to chlorine, the one who need 1 more valence electron to be stable.

Covalent bonds

A covalent bond is the force that holds two atoms together that they share each electrons. They form only between atoms of nonmetals which may be the same of different elements.

Metallic bonds

A metallic bond is the force between positive metal and the valence electrons that shares with other ions of the metal.

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Multimedia, Round 2

In Multimedia class, this round we mostly focused on Pixar story structure called digital storytelling. We created a story based on the structure, which is to keep this story includes in Multimedia tools such as podcast, video and more. We also did a activities which we watch short video story and we identified the story structure. There are six steps in Pixar story structure includes Once upon a time there was, Every day, One day, Because of that, Because of that and until finally. Once upon a time is the way to introduce the daily life of the character in the story, Everyday describes the action and activities that the character do, One day describe the day that the problem happens in the story, Because of that means because of the problem what happens next?, Until finally means the end of the story.

Here is a link to my story!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wi9tCAeYeMSmeJuz3xddBO4HWL96gaa_BMvr0nX6mcA/edit

One of the other theme is about photography basics, which we learned how to take good pictures. We also learned about the settings camera such as exposure, shutter speed, ISO and aperture. We were also looking through some camera shot types such as long shot, full shot and more.

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Outdoor Leadership Exploration

Outdoor Leadership Exploration becomes one of my favorite exploration. A very enjoyable experiences I’ve got from both during class and outside of class which is during trip. I’ve gained so much knowledge of leader the participants and myself that involve during outdoor. I’ve realized how such a beautiful of nature and wilderness that we have during outdoors. However, This exploration changes my conscious to be appreciate to my admirable environment around me, as well as to supports and keep all the natural resources. It’s help me a lot of my future as well. We went to two trips which are in Kirirom National park and Mondulkiri province. One of the memorable moments is in Mondulkiri Trip.

Reflection: Trip to Mondulkiri province

I would say that, this was  a really wonderful trip ever which we traveled to Mondulkiri province for four days during outdoor leadership exploration. our goals was to learn how to survive in outdoor  while meeting challenges. It was such an amazing experience for my future, as will as take a step of preparation for later. It was a wonderful time of spending with my friends and facilitators, which is a great chance for all of us to get deeply know each other. An opportunity, with not many Cambodian children get the chance to do was extremely huge appreciate from me. In addition, I’m extremely thankful to nature around the place in Mondulkiri that let us to explore you, to know you and to appreciate you which made this trip to a word called “indescribable” to me and my opinion.

As a Cambodian girl, I will raise awareness to others human about how to get survive in outdoors, as well as to let them appreciate that the nature, or this special nature’s resources that we have right now in Cambodia. On the other hand, after travelling to this province, Mondulkiri becomes one of my favorite province. when I was there, every single minute I could see a great view with full of mountain, trees, and the sound of the animal s, birds singing along the way. As we are outdoor leaders, we have our core value promises while on the trip, which are help, respect each other, always encourages everyone, determination and more. While having fun, we’ve learned so many things which let us to experience and explore new adventures around us. For example, If I lost in the forest, I could know how to survive and believe in myself, whenever on an adventure.

In this trip, we were cooking by yourself, finding food, water, hiking together, packing stuff together, which becomes a wonderful adapting with friends, animals and nature. Especially, we were marking fire without using lighter, even though it didn’t work but we tried our best. I‘ve learned to resume people around me and myself. IN addition, the activities that we did during this trip were talking about self reflection, hiking the mountain, drawing and writing the view with the nature. As this is my second time in Mondulkiri, I felt more believe in myself, felt more confidence while hiking and go outside of campus. Every time I am in nature, I felt fresh and happy and I didn’t think of anything else beside keeping myself warm, calm, with a beautiful green species all around me. I’ve released all off my stress, release all of my conflict or homework at school.

On the second day of our trip, we went to Leng Truk waterfall. It was my second time there but I still want to go there again. Before we can get to that Waterfall, we need to hike up and down the mountains with small, big route along the trees. We hiked for 45 minutes to get there with our guide. He was really friendly and he is Pnong, which is one of the ethnic group in Cambodia. Along the way, he told us about the farm, the crops that the indigenous group grow on the mountain, as well as the way of living that they depends on agriculture sector.

After we get there, we started to cook some fish and ethnic soup. I like the way he used the natural resource to clean and to cook the food, which he used the bamboo to put in the fish mouse as a stick while grilling the fish. one the other hand, we used the bamboo to cook the soup inside and use the grass to clean the bamboo. After that we had a great lunch together. On the night time, I saw three shooting stars and star in the morning. I was very happy to see that and wish what I want too. On the third day, we tracked to two waterfalls about 12 kilometers. they are very big and beautiful with many people visiting there and having fun. During the hiking, I was a little tired but I had fun with my friends. During the walk, we were rested in a big grassland, and we played some games and take a lot of picture. What a Lucky day! we saw a big sun set up the mountain.

Finally, I have a lot of fun and realize how such a beautiful place in my country, especially the happiness of people face during hiking. I wish that all the people aware of the environment just like I do and stop throwing trash everywhere. The way we do this, it could start tourist come to explore our country. The best thing that I hope is to have the same amount of nature in the next few years.

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Math, Round 2

In the second round of the year, we finished our 5 A textbook and workbook. One of the lesson in math class is about geometry which mainly talking about perimeter, Area and surface area. Along this lesson, we did activities such cutting out paper into shapes and exercise in the textbook and workbook. In the geometry lesson, we focused on some shapes such as square, rectangle, triangle and parallelogram. I think find perimeter or area of the shapes is not really difficult, unless you know the rule of solving the problems of each shape. One of the interesting lessons is surface area. There are several shapes such as rectangular prism, triangular prism, rectangular pyramid and triangular pyramid. By knowing the area of each face, we can know the the surface area of the shapes.

For example: A cube with the length of 5.

Surface area: 6 x (5 x 5) = 150

(Photo by Code.org)

In addition, in math class we learned algebra course through computer science which in a website called code.org. In the course, there are fun activities and problems that we can do. I am enjoying using this website to learn algebra through computer science.

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Khmer MUN

This is my first time to attend in Khmer MUN. I think this is the first Khmer MUN ever in Cambodia. I’ve been doing a lot of research to find the solution to the topic. I was the delicate of myanmar and the topic was about “ woman could be a leader”.

Being the delicate of representing Myanmar was awesome because Myanmar is a country that strongly believe that woman could be a leader. We all tried hard to find solution to the topic and help to solve real problem by discussion. In order to find great solutions to the topic, I needed to work with other delicates and working on each other resolution. On the other hand, this event could helped me to improve my speaking skill, as well as researching skill and working with other delegates. I also could know some informations about other countries, too.

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Publishing Geography Book

I and my friends were working on publish a book about geography in Cambodia. It is challeng to create an book and it is a enormous task to do. As a good author, there are many important duties to do. We need to work hard, doing research, trip or interview. We need to ensure that the sources are reliable and write in a good process in order to make the readers easy to understand. We divided into four regions. I am in a group in region four which working on northeast of Cambodia. In our trip, we went to four provinces to collect information.

  • At Ka Chanh waterfall, Ratanakiri province

We went to Ratanakiri, kratie, stung treng, mondulkiri province. These province are very far away and I was my first time.  In each province, we went to many places such as temples, waterfalls, mountains, forest, or departments of culture and fine art. The purpose was to create a book called Cambodian Geography book to share to the students in government schools or people who interesting in geography. It took us one year to publish this book. In this book, we included the information about the five theme of geography, provincial name and historical statues in each province and more.

I’ve learned many many concepts from this such as teamwork, writing and interview skills, and a lot more. Through this big mission, I am very proud of myself because I’ve created a big changes in my country by publishing a book which could provide advantages to the government students and people all over the world to know more about Cambodia which a part of creating impacts, especially in education system.

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English Literacy

Every day, at the beginning of the class, we always have daily affirmation. It is the positive statement declaring specific goals. All the students repeated the affirmation from the teacher. I think doing affirmation guidances me to clean my mind from the negative thoughts and replace them with the positive and encouraging ones.

Every week, we have a homework packet assignment which contains a list of ten words. Those words are the root words from either Latin and greek. this assignment consists of exercises and worm up that certainly related to the words. After we hang our homework back to our teacher, she will gives a test from those ten words.  

This round the theme in literacy class is the history of english language and etymology which is also related to the history of english. The questions that we are focusing on are how has English evolved over time, how does language connect or disconnect us as a human race and related to socioeconomic status and more. After I know some of the information of English history, I feel that I know how it has evolved over time until now and I feel more comfortable in myself which I could share them to the people around the world.

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STEM

This year, in STEM class we focus on Physical science, it seems interesting, isn’t it? Absolutely, that is true about Physical science. It is related to matter and energy which included chemistry and physic.

We’ve learned about matter, mass, physical and chemical property. Matter is defined as anything that has mass and volume. Mass is amount of matter in a substance or object which is commonly measure with the balance. Physical property is something that we can see, absorb, measure without change. Chemical property is the property of the matter that can be measure or absorb only when changing from and become something else.

( Photo by Wikimedia Commons )

We also learned about atom. In a small group, we did a research about neutron, electron and proton. The goal was to understand the content in order to make a teaching lesson to all the classmates.  In my group, we had many activities about the lesson. I could know more about neutron, electron and proton. Proton is something that carry positive charge in an atom, electron is something that carry negative charge in an atom and neutron is something that carry no charge.