Welcome... Well.... I was a slacker last week and no blog... but here it is for this week! Spring break was ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh such a peaceful time.. Isn’t great to have sometime off and holly cow batman... oops.. I should say ... set your phaser to stun...Captain Kirk... we have like, according to Mr. M... less than 40 actual school days left!!
THIS WEEK: We took a short trip to planet integer... and though some parts were negative.. Hahah and some parts were positive.. Hahahahah you did well grasping this new language! This week we are into some far out shapes, and logic.... you’ll need lots of space food for this trip!
CALCULATOR !!! YOU really want to make sure you purchase a calculator that can do fractions, it needs to have an ABC button on it! Trust me you’re going to want a fraction calculator!!
SPACE FACT: Movies with or about space.
You will need to read Pattie Stechschulte’s article on The top 10 Space movies are in order to answer this weeks blog questions. See this LINK.
I have goggled space movies and I looked at Wikipedia and the information referenced space movies that go back to 1951. Here is the link for the Wikipedia page WIKIPEDIA.
There are lots of movies about space and I am sure you have your favorite. Way before there was Twighlight there were TV shows or movies about space, the great frontier!
You will need to look at both of these web pages in order to answer the blog questions for the week.
According to CNNBC these are the top 10 biggest money making movies:
10) STAR TREX: Domestic gross (franchise average): $92 millionOn Sept. 8, 1966, the NBC television network premiered a show called Star Trek . It featured a diverse crew of space explorers who boldly went where no one had gone before, but despite its originality and ground-breaking vision, it was cancelled after a mere three seasons due to low ratings. However, when the show went into reruns it found its audience, and became a cult phenomenon.
9) CONTACT: Domestic gross: $101 million
Contact was directed by Robert Zemeckis, of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump fame. Based on the 1985 Carl Sagan novel, it depicts the first interaction between humans and a highly advanced alien race. The film stars Jodie Foster as the scientist who discovers the extraterrestrial species.
8) TOTAL RECALL: Domestic gross: $119 million
The 1990 film Total Recall mostly takes place on the planet Mars. However, the movie is most memorable for the acts of brutal violence with which Arnold Schwarzenegger dispatches every evil henchman unfortunate enough to wander onscreen. It is one of the 38th governor of California’s most bone-crunchingly violent films, as well as one of his best.
7) DEEP IMPACT: Domestic gross: $140 million
In 1998, a spectacular film with an all-star cast was released in which the earth is threatened by a giant asteroid, and a crew of brave astronauts represent mankind’s last, best hope to avert a global catastrophe. Although the Michael Bay epic Armageddon fits this description almost exactly, it was beaten to the punch by Deep Impact.
6) APOLLO 13: Domestic gross: $173 million
The Apollo 13 mission was the third intended to land on the moon. Launched in April 1970, it was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft and damaged its electrical system, making a moon landing impossible and throwing into question the crew’s ability to land safely on earth.
5) ARMAGEDDON: Domestic gross: $202 million
The Bruce Willis vehicle Armageddon was the second killer-asteroid movie of 1998 and the more commercially successful of the two. Released two months after Deep Impact , it told the story of a team of oil rig workers sent into space by NASA to drill a hole in an asteroid the size of Texas, bury a nuclear bomb deep inside of it and detonate it.
Pixar had another in its long line of profitable releases in 2008 when it released WALL-E . Set in the distant future, the movie follows its namesake robot, whose job is to clean up a planet Earth so strewn with garbage and pollution that human beings have deserted it.
When the first Star Wars film was released in 1977, director George Lucas simply hoped that the movie set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” would generate enough ticket sales to justify the two sequels that he wanted to make. It did.
2) INDEPENDENCE DAY: Domestic gross: $306 million
The second half of the 1990s was marked by a resurgence of disaster films, such as Titanic and Twister . The science fiction genre was represented by 1996’s Independence Day , which depicts a spectacular alien attack on planet Earth, in which such landmarks as the Empire State Building and the White House are destroyed
James Cameron’s Avatar is not just the highest-grossing space movie of all time, it’s the highest-grossing movie of all time, period. It takes place on the distant planet Pandora, which human beings are mining for a mineral so precious it’s called “unobtainium.”
BLOG QUESTIONS: SEE SPACE FACT FOR INFO!!
1) On the list of space movies on the Wikipedia site: How many of those movies have you seen___? What are the total movies in the list____? What fraction can you make out of the movies that you have seen out of the total number of movie that are listed? Also.... just for fun.. What percent of the movies have you seen___?
2) Looking at Pattie Stechschulte’s article on The top 10 Space movies, how many of those have you seen? Again what fraction can you make of the movies listed have you seen and not seen?
3) Of all the movies listed by CNNBC which one earned the most domestic money?
A) Add up all the movie incomes, what is the total?
Another season is over... BUT.. Just think we are less than 7 months away until the season begins! Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Zags!
Remember MATH is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!
Mr. Rott
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