Quarter Two

The activity was to watch a movie called “October sky”. It was a movie about Homer Hicum who was from Coalwood Virginia. Basically in Virginia, you would become a coal miner unless you got a football scholarship. Homer saw the Sputnik 1 one night and decided to make rockets with his friends and won a science fair and grew up to work for NASA. Homer even got to meet Werner Van Braun who was someone he liked and admired. Homer’s life was hard because he wanted to make rockets but his dad wanted him to be a miner. This movie was one of the greatest and coolest movies I have ever watched in class.

The purpose of this movie was for us to learn more about the basics about rocketry because the movie told us how Homer and his friends made their rockets. Also, it was to help us learn more about life in Virginia back then where people weren’t that smart and the movie showed us how you can find other ways of getting out of a dead end.

I learned how a basic model of a rocket works for they showed us in the movie. I also learned how hard it was to get out of a coaling city back then because you could only get out with a football scholarship but Homer used his brain and got a good job. A life lesson that I learned from this movie was that even if you fail a lot, you should keep trying because you will eventually succeed because Homer kept failing but he kept on trying and succeeded in his life.

I couldn’t have done better because all I had to do was watch the movie but if I had watched the movie more intently, I would have gotten a better grade on the quiz we had after it, then I probably would have gotten a better grade, but that’s about it.

This relates to my goal a little because my goal is to improve my reading comprehension. It relates a little because we watched the movie and then answered questions about it. But it doesn’t have anything with answering questions about what we read.