Thomas

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__Scratch Journal__ What I have done for my Scratch project is I have made the narrator tell what some of the causes of the Civil War were, as well as talk about a couple of the battles that occured. I still need to complete the part where the narrator talks about the Battle of Gettysburg and the surrender of General Robert E. Lee. That is pretty much what I have to do. Pop Quiz: Rules for Classroom 1) No food, drinks, or gum in classroom 2) No playing on the computers when the teacher is talking 3) No excuses for missing work 4) If kicked off of computers, use the book for work 5) Do not let conversations distract you from your work 6) No playing games on computers 7) No looking up inappropriate content on computers

__City of the Future Plan__

My plan for my city of the future is that I plan to have five or six buildings to represent a downtown part of the city, one of them being an office building, plus a house to represent the part of the city that the people live in. This office building will be about 700-750 feet tall and have dimensions that are 200 feet by 250 feet. The house I am currently working on is about 25 feet tall, and has dimensions that 50 feet by 100 feet. I will have another building that is about 600 feet tall and 60 by 90 feet in dimensions. The next building I will have is a shopping mall, that will be 50 feet tall, and have dimensions that are 70 by 80 feet. The final building will be a main hall that is about 70-80 feet tall and be about 200 by 100 feet in dimensions. These five buildings will represent my city of the future.

Some of the ways that I interact with my computer is that I watch YouTube videos a lot and sometimes I play games on gaming websites where they have a bunch of different types of games. Another way I interact with my computer is that I read information on different wikis like the Elder Scrolls wiki and the Fallout wiki. None of these things on the computer make me create anything like pictures or videos, but in the future, I plan on creating videos for YouTube.

My program will be a game where you have to avoid obstacles that are moving around all across the level in order to get to the finish on the game board. As the player advances, the levels get harder, meaning there are more obstacles and less chances for the player to get past the obstacles. Once the player finishes the final level, they win and there will be a small animation to celebrate the player for completing the game. If they crash into an obstacle, they will have to start all over again and begin at the very first level and continue on from there. This game will actually be very hard and very challenging, and may stress out the player a little bit.

The part of my project that I will be working on today is to try and figure out what I have to do in order to make sure that everything stops when the box in my project touches the balls bouncing around the level. I am going to need help with this because the center of both the box and the balls are only one pixel and if any other part of the objects touch, nothing happens, so I will need help with that today. What I have learned is how to make objects in Scratch bounce back and forth inside an area.

Scratch Project #2 Plan

My scratch project will show the history of the Civil War. The program I will create will have ways for people to interact with the program by answering questions the program asks. The program will first start out with the attack on Fort Sumter which ignited the Civil War and end with the surrender of General Lee. This program will be long and very descriptive about the events that have occurred from the attack on Fort Sumter to the surrender of General Lee.

Scratch Journal Project #2

My project's goal is to teach the audience about the Civil War and talk about some of the events that happened During that time period. What I am working on today is I am going to start with the narrator talking about the first battle of the Civil War and continue on from there. I am going to teach about certain events that happened during the Civil War such as the Battle of Fort Sumter and the Battle of Gettysburg. I do not have any challenge I am currently facing, but I bet that there will be some challenges in the future. Some Interesting things I have learned is that only 10% of the people in the North during the time before the Civil War actually tried to do something to abolish slavery and only 30%of the people in the south actually owned a slave. I am not using any kind of math in my project.