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Nick Manton Reflexion

Posted by Nicholas Manton in SP2-002 on
1. My project is a short book with a sentence at the bottom that relates to me, and a picture dealing with the sentence.

2. I completed the project by writing up and printing up each sentence and pasting them into the book, and then finding a picture dealing with the sentence(s).

Something I did well, is writing the sentences, so that they make sense.

If I could do it again, I would give myself more time because I felt that I rushed it a little bit.

I learned how to use each type of conjugation all at one time.
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Q4 BenchMark~ Alysha

Posted by Alysha Ortiz in SP2-002 on
For my benchmark I made a imovie, which i use many pictures & i did a voice over & music.

What did you learn from doing this project? (skills, life lessons, words etc)?
I learn that in spanish you need to choose certain words so your grammar doesn't seem funny.

How do you feel about your final product?

I feel like i could have improve.

If you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently/the same?

If I were able to do it again I would have manage my time.

Did you enjoy this project? Why or why not?

Yes, because it was fun looking back when i was little.
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Spanish Story Q4 BM Vinny

Posted by Vincent Russell in SP2-002 on
​​​​​I feel as though I worked hard on this project, making the pictures and putting it all together.  The process was good and I had all the check points done on time.  

If I was to do this again I would change the format and add more baby pictures and ones from today. Also, I would Add more description in the whole thing. 

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amigo sol

Posted by Tyler Hankinson in SP2-002 on
​The project was very diverse you had the option to make a children's story either that you created or one that was based on questions about your past and future at first i tried the one based on my life but i found out that that was harder and it bored me so i took a differnt approach and made up a story that my lilttle cousin liked and this is what i came up with the hard part about the project was managing my time
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Q4 Spanish Benchmark (Bernicia Guercio)

Posted by Bernicia Guercio in SP2-002 on
My project is on paper, it is like a story book about my life. It shows pictures of me when I was younger and shows pictures of things that symbolizes things in my life like the Phillies symbol and the Penn State symbol. It also shows pictures of my family.

My project started with the sentences and was the most important part so I took my time on them and I didn't just do a few sentences I tried to make it more. I think my sentence were good with conjugations and verb agreements. I think the end product looks good to. Maybe a little different design, and use the voice component. I learned a lot more vocabulary and practiced writing sentences without having to use wordrefrence or a dictionary.
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Mi Vida Chelsea Smith

Posted by Chelsea Smith in SP2-002 on
For my project I made an imovie. In this imovie i included pictures of my in the past, present and hopes for future. These pictures go to music and also have some voiceovers to keep the flow going. 


2. Reflection:

  • What was the process of completing your project?
    For this project I did the web maps and then got all the pictures together. I added in all the words on the slides with music and then voiced over select parts. 

  • What did you do especially well? 
    I think what I wrote was really good and I think my spanish speaking was good to! I feel very improved over the year. 

  • What would you change if you could do it again?
    I wouldn't do a movie, I think I would make a book or something different. 

  • What did you learn by doing this project?
    I got really good at writing in spanish and making paragraphs. 

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Negative Space

Posted by Briana Hicks on
Negative space is the space around and between the subject of a image.  

I found it by looking at the things that were only the orange paper in the background to help 
me in my stool drawing. For my cutout, I had some trouble because I wasn't sure what I wanted to be 
my negative and what I wanted to be my positive. But I later found it by cutting out the background of the owl.

Seeing things in negative space helps artist because then it can help with seeing shapes better
in different types of art styles. And different shapes in art.

Seeing in negative space does enhance drawings because then not only are you focused on the 
object in the picture, but the space around it as well can help you on the basic outline shapes. 
Even so, it's very hard to master that type of art style because your so used to the object 
instead of the space.  

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Ronaldo's Q4 Benchmark Reflexion

Posted by Ronald Jackson in SP2-004 on
1.) My project is a short story about my life.

2.) I like the fact that my project is about me. To complement this, I love telling stories about the experiences that I have encountered throughout my lifetime.

3.) If I were to redo the project, I would have spent more time working on it. This would have resulted in me feeling more comfortable about it during the last few days.

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El video de mi pasado, presente, y mi futuro.

Posted by Imani Johnson in SP2-002 on
Completing the project wasn't extremely hard. The really hard past was kind of planning things out and figuring out what I want to do for the project. I think that I put my movie together pretty well. Like choosing the right videos and pictures. If I could do this project over again, I would probably practice my vocabulary more often so that way I would be able to talk on my voiceover better. Also I would have gotten clips of more things. By doing this project I learned how to apply future,present, and past tense and how to relate it to my life. 
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Justin Pullins, Children's Book, Q4 BM

Posted by Justin Pullins in SP2-002 on
​I chose to do a biographical children's book, which sort've tells the story of my life up to now and into the future.


*My project required me to depend heavily on the charts we made, and then subsequently look relentlessly for illustrations that will match the story perfect. Then, I placed or altered the text to the illustrations.


*One thing I like about this project are the illustrations. I'm think they all look great and really help with the story.

*One thing I would change is extending the story, or making a fictional story, opposed to simply telling the story of my life.

*One thing I learned in doing this project is how to try to create an interesting story.



Click here to see my creation.
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DJackson 4th Quarter

Posted by Delesha Jackson in ART-002 on
For our last quarter we were suppose to create a piece of art work out of things you find and can use for different things. Things like duct tape, newspaper, etc. but I decided to use plastic bottles, bottle caps and cardboard. The thing that I created was a stool, because it was different. This stool isn't for sitting but just for show the  legs are made out of plastic bottles and the seat is made out of cardboard and bottle caps. I did this because in all honesty I didn't know what to do but then I was sitting on a stool and a friend suggested I make it so I became in agreement with her and did it. I came with the idea of bottles because I didn't think it was common for people to use them but common for people to use. And I didn't want to throw the caps away so I just decided to use them.
 And then we were to draw a picture of a bike 3 different ways. A regular pencil drawing, a shadow drawing, and a no space drawing. This was a very difficult task because I don't think I am a good artist so I doubt my self a lot but I think my pictures came out better then expected. I drew the regular one first and then shaded the darker parts and the light dark parts. After that I drew all over it and made it seem as though the bike was the only thing showing.
I feel like this was one of my best quarters this year because I feel as though I really accomplished what I needed to and got that I shouldn't try and look for the perfection the flaws that I improved on over the year.
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William Marsh Q4BM, poemas de la Guerra Civil

Posted by William Marsh in SP5-001 on
William Marsh

Spanish 5, Q4 BM.

Poemas de la Guerra civil

 

Poema #1:

 

Yo recuerdo.

El ruido.

Los avión, los aves de metal

Y los huevos del aves de metal.

Los huevos grande. Pero los huevos no tiene vida interior, tiene muerte.

Recuerdo los explosiones, el chillado del bombas.

Hombres no son para volar, y madres no deben sobrevivir sus niños.

Pero Yo recuerdo.

 

Poema #2:

 

Hola Papa. Tengo Miedo.

Anoche los aviones llegaron.

Hay un sirena, y mucho gritar. Y luego, los explosiones. Despues de los explosions, no escuché mucho gritar. No escuché nada. Pero poco y poco, los sonidos volven.

Adios Papa, te quiero.

 

Poema #3:

 

Hoy dia los escuelas cerrada. Soy muy emocionado porque quiero jugar fútball con mis amigos, pero mama hizo en casa por pasa tiempo con la familia. Estoy triste, quiero jugar fútball. Mama dice hay Guerra en el norte. Quiero ver los soldados y los armas, pero mama no quiero me vi la Guerra.

 

Poema #4:

 

Hola mi amor.

Espero que tu y los niños estan bien.

Estoy vivo, pero no bien. No estoy mal porque soy vivo, pero no es un vive bueno.

Mi rifle se ha convertido un parte de mi vida como mi vieja imprenta.

Oigo el otro soldados lucha. Ellos lucha por cosas differentes. Por libre, por sus familias, por sus vidas. No se que yo lucha por, pero no parada hasta el Guerra se terminado.

Adios mi amor

 

Poema #5:

 

Mama,

Estoy escribiendo por dice que sentia bien.

Estoy en el fuerza aérea.

Volo con cuatro otros personas en un bombardero.

Hoy nosotros bombardeado un ciudad principale.

Exito sentia bien, pero sentia mala a el tiempo mismo.

Yo mato muchos personas, y no se nada de ellos.

No tiene un razon por matar ellos.

Ellos no ataca me. Son solo personas en el lugar mal a un tiempo mal.

Sentia horrible

Mama, quiero estar en casa.

 

Juan.

 

Poema #6:

Diario

Hoy dia vi muchos aviones con mi luz de búsqueada.

Los rayos fervorosamente perisiguiendo los aviones

El metal brilliante con el sol durante los noches mas oscuro

Solo se eclipso de los parpadea de los armas de antiaérea

En un instantanea, el avion caída del cielo, y los luz de búsqueada elegir un nuevo avion

 

 

Poema #7:

Dios,

Proteger los personas de este cidudad.

En un tiempo muy mal los peronsas vi a tu por orientacion

Por ayuda, por todo.

Misericidioso Dios, por favor repuesto el ciudad de nosotros.

Me han guiado el ciudad en sus manos, ahora por favor guardar nosotros.

 

 

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Q4 Bm Mtlili

Posted by Malik Tlili in SP2-002 on
​This final product is a simulation of the road of my life. In the process of constructing this project i came across many things i enjoyed doing. i believe this was a well constructed project that opens up the varieties of ideas we can do. i enjoyed creating the characters and going over the key points of my life. in opposition of things being fun i cam e across many difficulties. the project was time consuming according to the format of which i chose. the characters took a while to create but the product was successful. if i were to redo the product i would put actual pictures of myself in the project instead of using characters. 
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A Watered Down Tomorrow

Posted by Dylan Lonergan in FILM-001 on
A Watered Down Tomorrow
The main, and only, characters.

This is the story of a boy who desires to be a fancy dancer.  His father, a righteous protector of the law, wants the child to grow up the same way.  The boy runs away and involves himself with a very charismatic drug lord with the power of hypnotism, who promises to let him be a fancy dancer.  Along the way, he develops a relationship with a box of drugs.

A Watered Down Tomorrow was originally meant to be a parody of film noir.  This, along the way, was discarded in favor of still making the movie look like an old film, but it stopped trying to have any sort of roots in film noir or any other sort of cinematic style.  The film does not utilize the camera angles, lighting, and many of the themes that made film noir what it was, but it is still a story of crime, drugs, a hard-boiled detective, and fancy dancing.

The movie has a running time of 15 minutes (and, in some players, 15 minutes and 1 second).  The beginning of the film has rather low sound, and is also incredibly laggy (to the point where it almost appears to be stop motion).  It is recommended that you view the movie below in full screen.  Actually, please do that.


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Q4 Proyecto

Posted by Toni Marshall in SP2-002 on

I wrote a poem for this quarters spanish benchmark describing my life goals and past experiences. I had difficulties trying to use my basic knowledge of poetry and incorporating my spanish knowledge as well I had to really utilize my resources around me. I enjoyed this project I got to remember  the good parts about my life that has happened and what to look forward to in the future. 

Below is the poem I submitted on paper for my final Spanish two Benchmark! 



Mis padres contaron un cuento de la lluvia u8de la noche en que nacî,

El 05 de septiembre fue la segunda vez que ocurrio un tsunami le tocó el útero en Filadelfia

Yo nací con ángeles,

Siempre quiero devolver el favor a los cielos

Un maestro de educación especial en mi descripción genética, la bendición de tener un corazón suficientemente grande para los componentes para ayudar a la gente.

Quiero ir a la universidad después de la secundaria para ampliar mi propósito

Yo quiero tres ninos

Cada dia yo me despierto abriendo mis ojos a la realidad

Eso es deformada,

hay veces que no viva entiendo

todo va a trabjar a lo ultimo

Continuare a jugar el volibol en

las nubes y vivir my vida con Dios ,

el encontro rerfugio en mi corazon

 

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Un Vida Loca! By Catherine Nardone

Posted by Catherine Nardone in SP2-002 on
For my Q4 Benchmark I made a story book. I think that this really reflected me in a lot of ways. Number 1, its about me. Number 2, I think that the story book reflected me in the way it was set up. It's really colorful, and pictorial. I think that it's interesting because I wrote it in 3rd person, and then at the end, you find out that it's me, even though its BY me. What was bad was the fact that there are no REAL pictures... and its sad... :( What I would change would be the fact that I would add real pictures of me. (My mommy has all the pictures ]:)
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Danny- Q4 BM post

Posted by Daniel Wirt in SP2-002 on
​For my benchmark, i decided to create a wiki space. The process in completing this process went smoothly. I created the three parts and then creating the wiki was pretty easy. I didn't have any pictures of my past, that went with what i was talking about, so I just got the pictures off of google. I think my ability to answer the essental questions was what i did best. If i could do this again, i'd like to try doing it on paper. Maybe i'd be able to use my creative artistic side. Something that i learned by doing this project is that i really change my mind a lot. I don't know what i want in life, but i am sure it will come to me soon enough. 



Click here to visit my wiki 
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A Watered Down Tomorrow

Posted by in FILM-001 on
Link to the movie in FLV format.  There is no other way for us to upload at this time.

This is the story of a boy who desires to be a fancy dancer.  His father, a righteous protector of the law, wants the child to grow up the same way.  The boy runs away and involves himself with a very charismatic drug lord with the power of hypnotism, who promises to let him be a fancy dancer.  Along the way, he develops a relationship with a box of drugs.

A Watered Down Tomorrow was originally meant to be a parody of film noir.  This, along the way, was discarded in favor of still making the movie look like an old film, but it stopped trying to have any sort of roots in film noir or any other sort of cinematic style.  The film does not utilize the camera angles, lighting, and many of the themes that made film noir what it was, but it is still a story of crime, drugs, a hard-boiled detective, and fancy dancing.
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Bee - BMQ4_E2

Posted by Breeanna Noi in SP2-002 on
For my project, I created an iMovie with a slideshow of images. There are slides that include words and relate to my photos. 

In the process of this benchmark, I enjoyed looking through all the pictures in the past and it was very fun. It brought back a lot of memories one wouldn't really remember at random moments. Some struggles I went through were scanning the pictures. My scanner wasn't connected to my laptop, so I couldn't really use it. What I had to use was a camera. I attempted using Photo Booth, but that was a fail. So, I resorted to using my camera on my phone - which would explain some of the horrible quality. Next time, if I were to re-do this project, I would find a working scanner and use that for better pictures. 
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czangerl Mi Vida

Posted by Cornelia Zangerl in SP2-002 on
​My project is a comic that includes a page about my past, a page about me currently and a page about my future. Originally, it was meant to be done in comic life since it is a program I enjoy using and had ideas for but due to the breaking of my laptop, I ended up drawing it by hand. My project incorporates past, present and future tense verbs as well as some of the vocabulary we have learned in Spanish 2 this year. I'm very glad I ended up drawing my comic as it gave me room to be a lot more creative. However, if I had to do it again, I would spend more time on the Spanish portion of the project as well as learn how to draw.











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Spanish 2-Proyecto Q4BM

Posted by Gabrielle Nigro in SP2-002 on
​For my project i made a keynote of what i was like when i was younger to how i am now and up till the future. I made the keynote as if i were going to present it. This is a simple kind of format. I hope you enjoy.

For my project if i were to change anything it would have to be the way that i did it. I would use a different program or make a story or something like that. During the project i struggled the most with getting pictures for my project.With my project the best part of it i think is the way that i set it up.
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Jordan McLaughlin Spanish 2 BM 4

Posted by Jordan McLaughlin in SP2-002 on
Extraño

Muy, extraño

Yo era muy extraño

No un poco, pero era que mucho.

Yo gustaba pokémon y yu-gi-oh,

No un poco, pero gustaba que mucho.

Yo no gustaba barbies y niñas,

No un poco, pero no gustaba mucho.

Mi familia es muy impotante

Mi amigo’s de escuela son muy importante tambíen.

Yo no era normal…

En el futuro sere la astronaught

Yo queriá volar a la luna.

 

Yo soy atlético y inteligentes,

Te gusta béisbol.

Te gusta béisbol mucho.

No un poco, pero gustaba que mucho.

Mi amigos es muy important para mí.

Mi día voy a la escuela y más tarde a mi casa.

 

En cinco años yo soy atlético y intelligente

Trabjo con apple store o en el militares,

Yo sere es soldado y programmador

No me gustaba Yankees, Microsoft y videojuegos

En diez años yo soy atlético y loco

Yo sere un professonales de beísbol o

Trabajo con blizzard o

Maestro de computadoras.

Yo cambiare el mundo por recycling y

Ayudar a los sordos.



I made a poem that represents me as a person and what im going to be when I grow up! I think what I could have done differently is that it doesn't really sound like a poem when translated into english. I think what I did well was I met All the requirements.

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mabintu's reflection

Posted by Mabintu Donzo in SP2-004 on
what is your project?
my project is a book.
what do you like about it?
i got to do my own thing on it and do what ever i wanted to do with it.
what would you do differently?
nothing really because i really liked this project and everything thing about it.
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