Death. Murder. Secret.

Special thanks to my humanities teacher, you know who you are, thank you so much for this amazing year. You have made me read more than I expected, write better than I expected, I can see some very huge growth this year. You are amazing and awesome, super thankful! I honestly am surprised that I have actually written a comic book, the progress is fascinating, and I am super proud of myself for everything I have done for the past few days. This year was special, never thought middle school could be so warm and united, especially our class. Also, another writing I am super proud of myself, and I think had the deepest memory was the realistic fiction I have written, where I talked about leaving my old school, I have made that piece of writing my very best. Anyway, here is the summary, the ending was a little rushed and there weren’t any morals which I think I could work on next time.

Summary (very detailed because some parts of the comic might not be clear): The story begins with a man, age around 30, driving a car and crashed into a man and woman, they were married and about the same age as the person driving the car. The man killed both of them and found their child, a baby lying on the ground crying, seems like he didn’t kill her. The man then calls his wife and hints that their phone call is being recorded. Then, the story suddenly moves onto 9 years later where a girl got home from school and hints that she is the girl that survived the car accident and the home belonged to the killer. She got home and started dinner. She had a fight with her foster parents (the killer’s family) which hints that they adopted her and shows each character’s traits and her foster brother, Dominos, had brain disfunction. Afterward, the girl, Jennifer, found Dominos wearing a necklace, she asks the killer’s wife, Mrs. Loise, what is it, and then Mrs. Loise takes it away and acts like it’s nothing which raises Jennifer’s suspicious. A few days later, Jennifer got home from school, and Mrs. Loise gave her a phone call. They took Dominos out to dinner, and then Jennifer asks if she could come but Mrs. Loise already ended the call which hints that the family doesn’t consider her as family, and she feels lonely and sad. As Jennifer got home, she hears a squeaking sound and realizes it is in Mr. and Mrs. Loises’ room. Even though she knows that she is not allowed to go into their room, she still went in anyway, she has strong curiosity and courage. As she found a phone squeaking (vibrating noise and ringtone makes the squeak) in a drawer, the Loises were back and so quickly cleaned up everything and got out. Later that night, she found out the recording of their phone call 9 years ago and goes insane. She calls 911 and arrests them. Moments later, Jennifer’s phone rings and found out that she has a brother, blood-related brother and the story ends. To be continued…

Thank you so much for reading my first graphic novel~~~~~

The Martian is a fascinating book, the kind of the book where you really can’t put down once you start reading. The book had a very detailed description of the characters and an exciting climax. For this book, I focused my thinking on the themes, which is one of the topics I am the most uncomfortable with. I never really did think about themes like ever, though now, I did not just have a clearer understanding of themes, I also got comfortable with doing themes. I believe next time, I shall create something more detailed as my thinking for my project. Furthermore, I created a playlist, just a few songs, but it represents some parts of the story and somehow did bring out some of the themes of The Martian. Also, I created a creative cover that states two of the theme of the book, hope, and love/teamwork. I searched for quite a long time to see what symbolizes hope, but then, Ms. Krista made me change my mind, what is better than thinking of my own symbol of hope? So I thought of light and used that as my background for my cover. Finally, I created a simple back cover summarizing the book without any spoilers for the ending! Overall, this has been a little bit challenging because the book is quite long and I am a slow-reader, and themes are uncomfortable for me. However, I think I can do something more with themes for my next project. ENJOY~

The Martian THEME Playlist

The playlist needs to be opened in another tab to play music. Please ENJOY~

The Martian by Andy Weir and adjusted by Sixing Wang

This is a recording of the past few months of COVID-19 quarantine. It’s a special, scary but special time; and I think it is valuable to record this moment of my life. Below is my reflection and my project.

eBook.com by Sixing Wang

This is my Thinglink with all the hard work I have done.

I created my infographic (above).

A video of me explaining my research question (What are the major changes in diet from the past to now? How will it impact our future?).

My deep analysis of values and limitations for both of my primary sources.

And a long list of citations I have used for my project.

I think I did a good job in quality for each assignment in the project, though I think I and many others was very confused with the assignments and what they are about. Otherwise, I think it went well enough for me and I did learn a lot of knowledge about our change of diet. I am now an expert.

I would like to thank Ms. Krista for being really understanding and helpful because she was always really optimistic and open when we needed help and was kind enough to delay the project. I also would like to thank my fellow classmates, we were all going through this fast-paced project and we were all supportive of each other. (This is like my special thanks section…)

Thank you and please enjoy my Thinglink. Not my video.