Break The Fake Part 2

1. The article I chose was about a SpaceX  Falcon 9 rocket that burnt up over the west coast. This article is from Global News.

SpaceX rocket debris lights up B.C. skies

2. I know that Global News is a reliable source but I looked it up on Wikipedia. I saw that it is a Canadian news site and is based in Vancouver. It is also now 27 years old.

3. The article states that the National Weather Service in Seatle claims that it was a Falcon 9 rocket.

4. I looked up the National Weather Service on Wikipedia. I found that it is an agency in the US federal government that provides weather information. It was also founded 160 years ago.

5. I then decided to check snopes.com to see if the article was real or fake.

6. These are some of the other news sources reporting this event.

Conclusion: TRUE

 

French 9 – Redaction 2 Correction

In french 9, part of what we learned was how to write a proper paragraph. For our second redaction, we were given the topic of our favorite place. I chose my grandparent’s vacation home in the Italian Alpes. After we wrote it, we had to correct it together in class. We had to identify the different types of sentences, linking words, and grammar mistakes. I am proud of it because it is well written and it does a good job of describing the small town that the house is in.

Passion

Alphonso Davies is my favourite soccer player. He is 20 years old and plays left-back. He was born on November 2, 2000, in Ghana’s Buduburam refugee camp, which was created for Liberians fleeing civil war like his parents. His family moved to Edmonton when Alphonso was 5. His parents were hard workers, and he was taking care of his younger siblings at the age of 10. Alphonso felt like he belonged on the soccer field. He started playing at Free Footie in Edmonton, a league for elementary schoolers whose families cannot afford recreational sport. He played soccer at St. Nicholas Soccer Academy and for the Edmonton Strikers youth club before enrolling in the residency program of the Vancouver Whitecaps, one of Canada’s top-flight teams, at 14. After convincing his parents to let him leave, he moved to Vancouver. Alphonso Davies made his Major League Soccer debut for the Whitecaps at 15, and in 2017 making him the youngest player to appear for the Canadian men’s team. At 17, he signed with one of the world’s best teams, Bayern Munich. This deal paid the Whitecaps at least $13.5 million in transfer fees, a record-setting deal for an MLS player at the time. Bayern Munich is considered the most powerful soccer team by many people. Bayern Munich is the winner of the 2020 champions league season. Soccer fans have already done the math. Davies will be just 25 years old, in his prime, when the world cup comes here in 2026. Davies is one of the handful of young stars in Canada. He was recently put in the dream team of 2020 by Champions League. He tops out at 36.51km/h making him the fastest player in the Bundesliga.

Social Studies 9 – Syrian civil war

In social studies, I had to choose a country from the Arab Spring to do research on. We had to find research on that countries revolution. We also had the option to do other modern revolutions for example Ukraine in 2014. I chose to do the Syrian revolution/civil war. It is a major conflict that is still active today. I chose it because it is the conflict with the most casualties. I’m proud of it because I put a lot of work into it.

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Hello Lochlan, why is the setter position the hardest position to play in volleyball? I personally think that the right-side hitter is an underused position, what about you?