Meaning of My Name

My name, Jung Hun(김정훈 written in Korean), has some useful meaning. Jung came from generation. For example, My grandfather’s name is Kim Jin Du and my grandfather’s brother’s name is Kim Jin Chool. Notice that there are all Jin’s in their names. My father’s name is Kim Gun Ho. My uncle’s name is Kim Sung Ho. For that generation, they used the name Ho. In my generation, we use Jung. I don’t have a brother so, my cousin’s name is Jung Bin. Then, Hun was created by my grandparents. Hun means useful to the country. My grandparents put a Hun in my name because they wanted to make me a diplomat. (I don’t really like the choice)

I had a nickname called Edwin. I copied that name from one of my favorite Manchester United goalkeepers (now retired) called Edwin Van Der Sar. It was in 4th grade when I had the name. I told all my friends to call me Edwin because I felt that was a great name. At 5th grade, almost everyone started to call me Edwin. But I found out that it was very weird to use that name because it’s kind of funny to copy an unusual name. So, now, when people call me Edwin I won’t really like it that much.

I like my name because I want to be something useful to the country. I want to be famous in the future and tell people about South Korea. I don’t really have a dream yet, but my only dream is to tell people how amazing and cool South Korea is.

End of the Road

The piece of work that I'm most proud of was my 1st survival tic tac toe. This is because we paired up with 3 people including me. Then, we started to pick 3 projects to do. After that, we divided our parts of what we're going to do. But if we need any help, we helped the project that the guy who needs help. My best learning in class is to work in partners. It's because we could finish work faster, and help each other when we need help.

My greatest challenge was the Malaysia Week during the year. This was a challenge because you're leaving in wild. These days, I got addicted to computer games. During Malaysia Week, you'll have no computer games, TVs (Some sites has TVs), no movies, etc. But I found that other than all those computer games, TV, movies there are still more fun things to do in the world. These days, I started to reduce my gaming time.

As a learner, I learned that books aren't that boring. Long time ago, I rarely read books. But as I came to ISKL, they made us read a lot. Everytime I read books, I start to yawn, get sleepy. But as I got older, books are actually quite fun. Then, at the beginning at the 6th grade, I didn't even want to see long books. But in the end, I tend to read longer books than usual.

My organization in class is satisfactory. I always bring my planner, binder (if needed), pencil case, etc. to class. Sometimes, I forget to bring it because I leave my homework at my house and in the end, I will forget to bring my folder and homework.

Goal number 1 for grade 7: My first goal is to try to get all A's for class. It would be harder than 6th grade but I will have to put more effort in my projects and homework.

Goal number 2 for grade 7: My second goal for grade 7 is to listen to the teachers without getting distracted. To do this, I have to improve on my concentrating.

I would like the teachers to know I look sleepy but I'm not that sleepy. (Sometimes I am) People say hey I think you should get a sleep to me. But I wasn't that sleepy. They reason I think I look sleepy is because my eyes are small. For some reason, my eyes are very small and somtimes people teases me!

My favorite activity in humanities was survival tic tac toe. We spent a lot of time recording, writing, typing. It took us approximately 1 month to finish our projects. But it was worth it because I got a satisfied grade for our final grade for our tic tac toe project.

Advice that I would pass on the the Class of 2018 (The following 6th grade) is to tell them to do their homework and projects well. In 5th grade, we didn't have to do projects and homeworks well because it won't be graded. But in middle school, projects, and homework. If you did your homework, GOOD!! because that will be graded too. So, you have to put effort in every single projects and homeworks.

Lit. Circle Blog 1

We have been reading a book called "The White Mountain." After we've finished reading, to see that we have actually read the book, we did this activity called Literature Circle. This was to improve our reading and to see if we read the book. I think this really helped us. Then, our teacher gave us a topic so that we could write a blogpost. The topic was How is Will just like you? And I will answer these.

Firstly, Will is a guy who likes to travel around. But then, while traveling in the White Mountain, he was caught by the Tripods. This is like me because I like to travel. During the traveling, he makes things complicated. At spring break, I made big mistakes at Phuket. When we were on the beach, I went too far and almost got swished by the ocean. That made our traveling harder.

Books, Books

I am telling you about this book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth.

This book made me think about how the main character does and how the author formats the outline of the book.

This book challenged me as a reader by underestanding the cheese touch. The cheese touch is when the guy who touches the cheese or gets touched with the cheese gets the cheese touch. They can prevent the guy who gets the cheese touch by crossing their fingeres.

Don't read this book if you hate reading diaries because this is the diary of the main character called Greg.

Literature Circles 4 Blog

The quote describes theme and freedom. In which way? It describes that only if you get Capped, you will be treated as adults. This describes as freedom because if you are 35 years old and haven't been Capped yet, the people will treat them as kids. So, being Capped means freedom in the future. But I think this should be over because in Korea, every men has to go to the army. If not they still have to go in the future. But the thing is, I really don't want to go to the army.

The other reason is that this relates to freedom by getting free from the Tripods. I think, when you get Capped, the Tripods will recognize you. But if the Tripods say they didn't get Capped, they have to be capped. So, being Capped at the first will give you more freedom. Even though if you never got Capped for the rest of the life. But you will be treated as a little kid so you have to hide yourself when you're going somewhere outside. If not, you could get Capped or perhaps die from the Tripods for not going to get Capped for the life.

Literature Circle No.3 (Chapter 6 The Castle of the Red Tower)

1. How were the Tripods able to control the people?

Answer: The Tripods were able to control all the people by capping one by one and the Tripods were very strong because they have many Tripods so the humans can't do anything about it. So, then the Tripods were like the king or rulers or Earth.

2. Find evidence (quotations from the novel) to show that even though Will is comfortable living

at the castle, he is frustrated that the Comte, Comtesse, and Eloise have been capped.

Answer: "more and more I had come to see the capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world. And I had despised them for it-despised even, for all their kindness to me and their goodness, the Comte and Comtesse." This shows that they are capped by the Tripods.

3. Find evidence (quotes) to show how Will feels about being capped.

Answer: "Will is against being capped and feels that capped persons are slaves to the tripods." Will feels that he is going to be a slave of Tripods. As showed in the book, all the people who have been capped by the Tripods shall be their servants.

Literature Circle No.3 (Chapter 6 The Castle of the Red Tower)