Weekly Blog

Summary: During this week, our class had to learn who killed the fish. I thought it was Sandy Trapp because when I did the phosphate test with the rest of my team, we saw that the golf course had too many phosphates-high phosphate levels.

Evidence to support (details and examples):

• Phosphate test: There was a change in color with the water from the golf course; there were too many phosphates.

• Second, the sarcasm in her voice! Sarcasm in her interview could have signaled that she was nervous, yet, she was trying NOT to sound nervous by sounded sarcastic! In her interview, she says, “Oh wow! Kid with chemistry set catches evil golf course in mass fish murder. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life! The golf course is on the other side of the hill, and our water doesn't even drain into the pond!”

• Third, Bo Vyne says, “And hey, if phosphates come from fertilizer, why not look at the golf course-they put fertilizer on their pretty little putting greens, and they're always watering their lawns.” Reread what she says. The last part, ‘and they’re always watering their lawns’ could mean that when they water the lawns, some of the fertilizer that hadn’t been held down by the roots of the plants, could be washed out to James Pond, which could have killed the fish. That, or, when they water the lawns, like my previous theory, the fertilizer that wasn’t held down by roots of the grass, could have gone into the sewer wherein a heavy rainfall, they could be washed out to sea!

SP8: Using reason #1, the phosphate levels were high in Sandy's golf course, which leads me to believe that she is the one who is guilty in killing the fish. And using reason #2, she uses sarcasm. She could be trying to hide the fact that she's guilty in the 'mass fish murder' by using sarcasm and denying it, like most common criminals.

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