Thank You For The Ressource! Langblr Is A Lifesaver Tbh

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

Thursday, May 4, 2k17: EXAM TIPS

4. May is AP Exam season! What are your tips for studying for tests?

May Study challenge by nkbstudies

So here in Canada, we don’t have AP at every school and our exams are at the end of June. BUT, I have picked up a few tips. 

1. Make review sheets at the end of each unit. By the end of the semester, these will pile up and you can look back @ summaries of the entire year. Here’s a quick way to create one, s/o to my Math teacher. 

2. Flash cards. Ofc this one is obvious, BUT instead of just defining the term, try to get the term by the definition, work backwards! 

3. Clean/organize/create a new layout for your study. This’ll help to not only distract you but motivate you bc everything will look nice now. It’ll also give your brain a new place to work at. 

4. Practice Worksheets. A lot of you like to rewrite your notes (and so do I!) but another thing that is similar and works well is creating mini worksheets and working on them whenever you can. Whenever I know that I’m going to get these say like four questions wrong, I would make worksheets of about 10 questions and add these ones in them, sometimes worded differently. I do them whenever I have a spare moment, such as on the way home, during lunch break, at homeroom. This forces me to think and eventually causes me to remember them. Try to pick problems that you know for SURE are on the test!

strawberry hill house in london, england

Can you rec some of your favorite books?

sure thing!!

middle grade

percy jackson and the olympians by rick riordan

a monsters call by patrick ness

matilda/ the witches by roald dahl 

young adult 

penryn and the end of days by susan ee

the darkest minds by alexandra bracken 

the infernal devices by cassandra clare 

the rest of us just live here by patrick ness

before i fall by lauren oliver 

six of crows by leigh bardugo

shatter me by tahereh mafi

the wrath and the dawn by renee ahdieh

the naturals by jennifer lynn barnes 

and i darken by kiersten white

all our yesterdays by cristin terrill

we are the ants by shaun david hutchinson

at the edge of the universe by shaun david (currently reading this)

new adult 

addicted series by krista and becca ritchie 

aerial ethereal by krista and becca ritchie 

touch by natalia jaster

managed by kristen callihan

cyclone series by courtney milan

beginner’s guide: love and other chemical reactions by six de los reyes

adult

the hating game by sally thorne

vicious by v.e. schwab 

classic lit

to kill a mockingbird by harper lee

the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald

frankenstein by mary shelley 

night by elie wiesel

Inspired by Filipino tribal jewelry, specifically the Lumad tribe.

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5 Mysterious Cities of YA

From the shadowy walls of Weep to the twisting alleys of Ketterdam to the sleek penthouses of NYC 2118, there are dozens of intriguing settings in YA lit—and we can’t get enough. Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor’s newest epic fantasy, features her best world-building yet—so, in honor of its release, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite mysterious cities of YA. 

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

The Walled City by Ryan Graudin

You never know what’s lurking around the bend in these places… it could be wonders beyond imagining or dangers beyond comprehension. You’d better start reading ASAP to find out!

Oh my f u c k click this #pretty #art

What a sad looking Eliza :(  Maybe you should click on the image? It might make her feel better. 

Important bee discourse ↑↑↑

Is using honey bad? It would be hard for me to give that up because I love it so much.

16 oz of honey requires 1152 bees to travel 112,000 miles and visit 4.5 million flowers.

Most of the honey we get at supermarkets and stores don’t come from natural hives. 

Honey is an animal product, produced when bees digest nectar they have collected and then regurgitate it. It is an animal product, just like an egg or milk. Yes, a bee is an insect and not technically considered an animal by many people, but a bee’s body changes the composition of what it ingests, just like other animals.However, there is another reason vegans won’t eat honey, and that is because it is harmful to another living creature. According to Daniel Hammer, bees do experience pain and suffering while they are being exploited for their products (not just honey but also beeswax, royal jelly, and more). There is simply no way beekeepers, humane or otherwise, can avoid harming or killing bees while they are extracting the bees’ products. Many vegans choose their lifestyle because they wish to avoid harming any other creature, and so they choose not to eat honey.

Check out this couple of articles that are pretty complete about everything around this topic :) 

Why Honey is Not Vegan?

3 Reasons Not to Eat Honey > This one explain about the environmental damage and how we are killing the bees.