What are the advantages and disadvantags of supersonic ans hipersoic travel.

The most important advantage of hypersonic travel is speed. You can get from New York to Tokyo in just a few hours instead of 15 hours!!!Bad things is that these.jets are really noisy and some people  might not appreciate that. It also might not be safe, and it might be very risky to go on a flight that fast. But their are good things too, for example a business man needs to get somewhere really fast or he will be fired from his job, in a supersonic jet he might not get there on time but on a hypersonic jet I think its possible.As I said before this might not be safe, traveling very fast can be good in some ways and bad in others.

Were there any moments when you disagreed with the choices the protagonist made?What would you have done differently?

Yes there were many. First of all I would have taken war seriously and be worried about what happened, unlike Philip. Second, I would have been way nicer to Timothy, earlier in the book Philip was harsh with Timothy and Timothy was probably the reason Philip didn't die. 3rd I think Philip should stop acting childish in the begging of the book, but nicely he got to be very very very mature and grown up at the end!

Ho does the protaganist see himself or herself that is different then how other people see him?

Philip sees himself as ''helpless", ''obsessed with war person" and "scared", but he's wrong, Timothy has been with him on a raft and island for a long time and he knows and he is certain that Philp is brave, now understands the concepts of war and is very mature and has grown up and experienced things that not many people go threw.

The protagonists internal feelings

Philips internal feelings are that he's stuck in  raft with this old man that he finds stubborn.He is parted a way from his mom and he really misses his family.He feel a deep loss when no ships are coming towards them and he feels alone. Lucky he has Timothy but soon Timothy dies and he feels a deep deep loss.He finds his way along and finna a ship comes.

What is the main difference of the protagonist at the beginning of the novel vs at the end

Philip thinks that war is a joke. He used to play with Hendrik that they were soldiers in war. This soon changes when Philips ship going to Miami is torpedoed by a german U boat. He is alone on a raft with an old man and they get on an island . The old man, Timothy, teaches Philip how to catch fish,build a hut, travel alone even though he is bling, and climb a really tall coconut tree. Timothy later dies and Philip is blind and alone, after a while a ship passes and Philip is rescued. Philip never played with Hendrik about war and felt he was a man and was very mature

What is the biggest external conflict that the protagonist is battling at the moment?

The external conflicts that the protagonist is facing is that he's ship was torpedoed and he is now a castaway. He is stuck with an old man on a raft. He is separated from his mom. He feels scared that he is with this big african person and he has to build up courage. He is terrified because he is blind! He depends on Timothy now.

Mayan Simulation Reflection

This year we did a Maya Simulation. The simulation was for we to learn about the Mayas and to experienced the way they lived and traded.I thought that this simulation was really fun and exciting. It was very interesting to learn about the Ancient Maya and their ways. The simulation was a very creative idea and I enjoyed it. On the first day  it was a bit though because we had to fill out the royal census,royal inventory,math tasks and many other things. It was a bit confusing but by day 3 I had already understood it and it was simple. I thought that the sacrifice was really fun and I liked how the God Chac was in charge of things. All in All I thought that this simulation was a very fun and exciting thing to do.