Earthquake Video
The first video I watched from the DragonTales site was a interview about a teacher's experience when she witnessed an Earthquake. Her name is Monika Phillips and she was living in California when she had to experience an Earthquake. Ms. Phillips is an EAL teacher at PIE, but lived in California is 2003 when the Earthquake struck.
Using background knowledge that I already have, I know that California is located directly on the San Andreas fault. Most earthquakes happen along fault lines or in between tectonic plate boundaries. So, because she was living in California, there she was bound to come along earthquakes every once in a while.
She went through a measured 6.5 earthquake on a scale from 1-10, which is fairly large. When the earthquake started she felt the ground shaking and all the glass objects in the house began rattling. After, she ran outside where it would be the safest. She described the grass as "completely fluent". When I think of this, I think of what seaweed looks like underwater when the ocean currents make they plant sway back and forth. She also said the earthquake only lasted for about 20 seconds in all. I'm not an expert on earthquakes, and I really don't know that much about them. but I think most of them last longer than that. So she stayed out side until the aftershocks came, which they did.
Lather in the video, she mentions the way in which a typical building in California is built. The base of the building is built in a certain way so that the base doesn't move, but the whole building can sway along with the earthquake so that is doesn't fall. These new types of buildings are now being built in most places in the world where earthquakes are common.
In the end, nature will always win, and we can't stop any natural disasters happening, but we can predict them. Then, if we know when they're happening we can escape the mayhem or damage that they may cause to us.
Excellent retelling of what took place. I like the fact that you refer to your own prior knowledge. I also like how you use a quote from her story and even describe the lawn as possibly looking like seaweed under water. I think this is a fantastic visual that you create for the reader. Overall your writing is very clear with few, if any, mistakes. You also do a good job of including a number of specific details.
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