1. What is the floor of the tunnel made out of?
Concrete.
2.What to construction workers do at surface level in order to prepare the city at surface level for the Metro Red Lin's midtown route?
A reinforce foundation.
3. What is the name of the temporary road called that is created for street traffic to use during the cut and cover station construction? What are these roads made out of and why?
Red Lin's midtown route.
4. On Pages 30-31 there are is a model of the train station, do you like it? What would you change about this station model?
I would not change anything it looks good.
5. What is the "Pink Lady"?
She brings all the materials.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
1. What are the concerns of project manager Bryan Lee?
To mack sure all date are set and everything is in place.
2. Why do they engineers and construction workers use a boring machine to make tunnels instead of cut and cover construction?
Because it a far less urface distubance.
3. What do the worker’s do to protect themselves in the newly formed tunnels from harmful levels of gases found in the soil at the various new subway sites?
They wear work boots and hard hatts.
To mack sure all date are set and everything is in place.
2. Why do they engineers and construction workers use a boring machine to make tunnels instead of cut and cover construction?
Because it a far less urface distubance.
3. What do the worker’s do to protect themselves in the newly formed tunnels from harmful levels of gases found in the soil at the various new subway sites?
They wear work boots and hard hatts.
1. Excavate- Dig, remove, create a hole
I was macking a fire pit so I hade to excavate.
2. Artifact- Anything made or used by man kind
When I was digginy I found an artifact.
3. Uprooted- Pull up, destroy, remove
I hade to uproot the artifact.
4. Contaminate- Impure, unclean
I was so contaminate after I was done.
5. Camaraderie- Friendship, bond
My best camrade helped me.
6. Gleaming- Flash, dim light
I was wearing a gleaming belt buckle.
7. Gruelling- Exhausting, tiring
I was so gruelling after.
8. Commission- Given authority, put in charge, given direction
I was in commission when we were digging.
9. Roam- Travel without fixed purpose,
After we went and roamed cliftin hill.
10. Subterranean- Exists below the surface of the earth.
we found a subterranean on clifftin.
I was macking a fire pit so I hade to excavate.
2. Artifact- Anything made or used by man kind
When I was digginy I found an artifact.
3. Uprooted- Pull up, destroy, remove
I hade to uproot the artifact.
4. Contaminate- Impure, unclean
I was so contaminate after I was done.
5. Camaraderie- Friendship, bond
My best camrade helped me.
6. Gleaming- Flash, dim light
I was wearing a gleaming belt buckle.
7. Gruelling- Exhausting, tiring
I was so gruelling after.
8. Commission- Given authority, put in charge, given direction
I was in commission when we were digging.
9. Roam- Travel without fixed purpose,
After we went and roamed cliftin hill.
10. Subterranean- Exists below the surface of the earth.
we found a subterranean on clifftin.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Journal # 1 for Miss S.
The hardest thing I have ever done is stuck to what I was doing. I was skateboarding oneday and I was doing a six sett. I know I could butt I had broke my toe earlyer that day so I didn't want to do it butt I stuke with it and did it. It was the best feeling ever and my freind got it on video.
Reading compertions #1
1. Which city are they building this new subway system in?
Loss Angeles.
2. Why is there a need for a subway system here? What issue will it resolve?
to ease traffic problems and they dont pollute.
3. The chief construction Engineer, John Adams plays what role in the process of creating a new subways system?
John Adams is there Vise-president.
4. What is the role of Roberta Greenwood?
She will oversee presevation of valuable artifacts.
5. What can be learned from the process of analyzing the excavation site?
see what happend years before.
6. What is your opinion on page 11, where they have decided to destruct MacArthur Park to make it into the hub of the Metro Line?
I don't care because they are going to putt it back after there done.
Loss Angeles.
2. Why is there a need for a subway system here? What issue will it resolve?
to ease traffic problems and they dont pollute.
3. The chief construction Engineer, John Adams plays what role in the process of creating a new subways system?
John Adams is there Vise-president.
4. What is the role of Roberta Greenwood?
She will oversee presevation of valuable artifacts.
5. What can be learned from the process of analyzing the excavation site?
see what happend years before.
6. What is your opinion on page 11, where they have decided to destruct MacArthur Park to make it into the hub of the Metro Line?
I don't care because they are going to putt it back after there done.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Parentheses-either or both of a pair of signs ( ) used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
Exclamatory statement-often said when someone is extremely overjoyed.
Italics- Often used for quotations, titles, and special emphasis.
Synonym- A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.
Antonyms- A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word: The word wet is an antonym of the word dry.
Homonym-One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).
Theme-A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks.
Prefix-To settle or arrange in advance.
Suffix-A letter or letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
Exclamatory statement-often said when someone is extremely overjoyed.
Italics- Often used for quotations, titles, and special emphasis.
Synonym- A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.
Antonyms- A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word: The word wet is an antonym of the word dry.
Homonym-One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).
Theme-A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks.
Prefix-To settle or arrange in advance.
Suffix-A letter or letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
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