Ansh’s Noice Blog

For the past month, my class and I have been working on Tree Books. The first step for making the books was to write a class poem about trees. After we finished the poem, Miss Peg Gignoux (https://gignouxart.com) made silk screens with parts of the poem on it. Using these silk screens we painted tree cut outs made out of mat board. We also used these paints called akua inks to print out plants onto the tree. We then collaged strips of mat board to look like branches and roots onto our tree. Finally, we put in our envelopes and our Branches poem and Salute to my Roots poem. Overall, I enjoyed the experience but it also was kind of hard for all the writing. I wouldn’t want to do this again, but it was fun while it lasted.

Here is my Branches poem:

My Life Goals:

Branches, Reaching Toward the Sky My Wish Tree

By: Ansh

1. One of my goals in life is to have a good education and get a college degree. One of the reasons is because I will learn a lot on the journey and the other reason is so that I will be able to get a good job.
2. To tie in with my first goal, I also want to get a job that challenges me and one that I enjoy doing. My first reason is that I will hopefully be able to travel to different places as part of my job, and also this would be my source of income to get a home and feed myself.
3. I would like to make more and new friends because it is good to have friends to help me through my life, like if I am going through struggles. Also because I am a talkative person and I like to think that people like my jokes so having more friends means having more of an audience.
4. Another hope is that I stay safe and healthy throughout my life. I know many people who have died or gotten very sick, and I feel sad and do not want to get ill and die. Instead I would want to die from old age rather than sickness.
5. I want to be there for my family for as long as I can be. There are many people who forget their families, and I love my whole entire family and community so much and I don’t know what I would do without them. I want to love them for ever and ever and make sure I show it.
6. I hope to have enough money to satisfy my needs such as having plenty of food and a comfortable living space. If I do not have food or a shelter, then I would die or get arrested, and I also want money so that I can also get some ‘wants’ as well as ‘needs’.
7. I hope that I don’t do drugs or use alcohol, and this is something I can and will control. I hope this because the side effects could be death or getting fired for alcohol use on the job, and then I would have a record and maybe not be able to find another job.
8. I also hope that I can get a dog, because I love dogs and I used to have one, but we had to give her away. The main reason I want a dog is because they are really fun to play with, and the second reason is because dogs usually make a connection and it’s like having a new friend.
9. I keep a strong bond with my parents. Sometimes we disagree and it makes me sad, but I will work to avoid those times and be more understanding of their point of view. Family is very important to me and I plan to make it stronger each day!
10. Getting good grades right now is one of the things I am working for the most, but it is still a struggle for me. I want to get good grades because, one, I can show that to my parents and they would be proud of me, and two, because I like seeing A’s on my report cards and would also boost my self confidence a lot.

 

World Goals

I wish for the world to have more economic rights because at this current moment lots of people and families have lost their jobs and do not have enough money to feed their families. If prices for food items in grocery stores went down then people could eat and not have to beg on the streets and possibly get arrested. The American education system is also unbalanced in my opinion and to go to a private school like DA it is very costly. If the prices for private school were to decrease though, many people would probably start going to private schools and public schools would be unused. So this change might not ever happen, but I can still hope for this change. Pollution is one of the things that could bring humanity’s doom, and I think that we as humans should all put our differences aside and team up to decrease greenhouse gasses. I hope that over time we can find better ways to provide clean energy, because a lot of our power is currently made by coal power plants, and they pollute the atmosphere which also ties in with my hope for climate change.Racism is a big part in our lives especially after the murder of George Floyd and others killed unjustly. That event told me that even though we might think that America is a land of opportunity and all, it kind of isn’t because people of color can be denied jobs based on the color of their skin and sometimes are unfairly treated. I hope our world will learn to be a kinder and more accepting place in the future.

 

And here is my Salute to My Roots piece:

SALUTE TO MY ROOTS! 

By: Ansh

 

My grandparents have impacted my life in many ways. They pick me up from school everyday, drive me places I need to be and love me no matter what. My grandpa is very supportive of whatever I am doing, and he loves listening to me talk about my video games. He is also very kind and gentle. My grandma is sweet and kind and always has a smile on her face. One thing I love about my grandparents is that they love to drive me places, like if I want to go to my friends house or anywhere really, I ask my dad and my grandpa just says “We’ll take him.” I love my grandparents so much and I don’t know where I would be without their support in my life.

My mom and dad have helped me progress in life so much too. My parents are very encouraging and help me be my best self. They teach me important lessons about life and love me. My mom is always making funny jokes and has a smile on her face. She helps me finish my work if I’m not done after dinner, and we just talk about our days and joke around. I love taking hikes with our family and we always explore new areas on trails. My dad is fun to be around and I like seeing new things with him. I don’t know what I would be doing without my parents’ help in school. My mom also is very supportive of my love for video games, and asks me “Are you winning?” My parents sometimes take away my computer on the weekdays, but I know that it is because I need to have more focus on school. She probably doesn’t think this, but my mom’s cooking is awesome too. She loves to make new recipes and I have learned almost everything I know about cooking from her. She is kind, loving, smart, funny, strong, and very friendly. My dad is hard working, kind and supportive. I would really like to be someone who has all of those traits when I grow up.

My friends are all kind and understanding, and they love to play video games just like me which is a main factor of our friendships. An example of how they are understanding is if I can’t play, then they don’t encourage me to play if I am not allowed to, instead they play with me another day and we just talk. My friends are also calm and don’t get very reckless, which is something I appreciate and admire. I look up to them, even though they are the same or a younger age than me.

Ms. Rosen was a very supportive person in the lower school for me. Everyday I would go to the library first thing in the morning, and Ms. Rosen would recommend good books for that day. We would also have research sessions for classwork and Ms. Rosen taught us a funny song for how to write notes well. I remember this one time when I was in the library in the morning, I was reading a book to see what it was about and Ms. Rosen told me about some interesting books. These books she recommended were the first chapter books I had ever read and I hate to say this, but they are probably better than most of the graphic novels that I have read. She was a really nice person and she was also a very creative person and taught me to think outside the box. I would love to be more like her and take on her traits as I grow up.

The project that we are doing in our language arts class is called the Stock Market Game and it is about the Westing Game (the book). The reason we are doing this project is to understand how the stock market works and also to better understand the book. We have $20,000(it’s pretend money) to invest in 3-6 companies. In the book, the main character Turtle Wexler is obsessed with the stock market, and thinks the actual game is about stocks and the stock market. The name of Luke (my partner) and my company is called LAnsh  Corp. because it has both of our names in it and it also sounds really cool.

We invested in Boeing because it is almost spring break and a lot of people will want to go somewhere now that everyone has got vaccinated, and we chose Walt Disney because people might want to go to Disney world or Disney Land in spring break.

We invested in AT&T because in COVID-19 some people have online school and they are using their WIFI and some people use AT&T as their ISP.

We also chose to invest in Southwest Airlines because they are Luke and my favorite airline company and people might want to travel in the spring time or summer time. Logitech isn’t doing too well but we think that people might start investing in them so their price might go up, and we think the same for Microsoft.