​My project :)

My favorite part about this project was the making of the fake primary source documents. The most challenging part was actually finding a way to display my new spin on history. My most intersing fact that I investigated was the Revolutionary War, there was no way in the world that America should have one that, but we did and thank goodness for that. If Thomas Jefferson would have left the clause which denounced slavery out of the Declaration of Independence, then the Conferderates would not have signed, and we would have certaintly lost the war. One change changes history. Whether it was changing a clause or taking it out all together. History would have changed. I could have improved my project by finding a better way to set it up and display it sooner. If i could re-do everything. I would have picked a new point of divergence. A more creative point of divergence.



Primary Source Documents:

My project is a keynote turned into a movie... 
Telling the past present and future of Cecelia Catalina Baez :)
I love the fact that I placed it in a sense where I speak, show the words, and give detail to all of the moments in my life that meant so much to me. & Are soon to come for the better :)
In the future... I would maybe try to ... Speak in each set rather then just the first and make the sentence break ups a lot easier to understand. 

​ Knowledge is interchangeable.   That is the main, perhaps the most valuable thing, I learned in History and English class this sophomore year.  In the beginning of the year English and History class were separated.  Towards the middle it seemed as though they interlocked and fit into each other.  But it all started with the descriptive essay from English.

 

We were asked to write Descriptive Essay about something that happened in our life. I chose to write about the summer earlier that year. “Out in the 90-degree weather and a storm we were up on the roof trying to prevent the resistant leaks”.  As I realize now this first assignment in English was really the backing of the whole year. I had to learn to be more descriptive and creative at the same time. It was a bit challenging at first because I did not write like this before. As time went on and the projects called for more and more I started writing better and better.

 

Oddly enough the project that I surpassed my standard for writing was the Monologue Project for History.  For this project we had to pick a human rights struggle. I had to do a lot of research to understand and convey the topic clearly.  I had chosen drug trafficking because of the different reasons to do it and how some people don’t really have a choice. “I know she needs the money but its drug money!”(Scene-1). The daughter had kidney disease and the family needed fast money to pay for her medical bills.  This project forced me to be very original, descriptive and creative.   Though, we had a little help from Kate from Young Playwrights. She helped most of the class and I our plays.   Even still it really pushed my ability and raised the bar for realistic fiction writing that will come in the future.

 

            The Sweatshop trial that we as a class did in middle of the year was probably the most enjoyable activity for history.  The class split up into groups to take positions on the real world problem sweatshops. Each group was questioned on the amount of control that they had on the situation and why it was still going on. “U.S. Consumers - If you wanted these “sweat shops” to end, you would have to stop buying into these companies”. As well as, each group had to present opening and closing statements on their position.  Finally, as a class we voted to see which group we thought had the most guilt. My group was the Poor Country Ruling Elite.  We had to research a ton of statistics, information and articles to fathom our position and perspective on the issue.  This assignment taught me about perspective because we had to really see from a group of people’s point of view on a hard issue.

 

The most interesting piece of work this year was the Night Artwork for English class.  After we finished the book Night, which is about life in a concentration camp, we were asked to make some sort of art to go with another issue of the book. There were no limits so I created a video of key things in the book. I tried to be creative as I could in designing the video, what items to put where and what type of music should be playing.  An important thing I learned was how to incorporate skills such as perspective and creativity into one project.  This also showed me a new medium in which to express the many forms of English.    

Overall this year has been very enjoyable and memorable. I learned many new things and polished others that we rough. I hopefully will remember the experiences or the hard earned skills. English and History class in sophomore year was a wonderful opportunity. 

My project is all base on my life, What I was like when I was a child and where I was born, what i use to do and what i want for my future.  

I like my book, it's simple and it just facts about me that has pictures of some things I like and it go alone with my story. 

If I could change one thing, I'd probably write a little neat and put my picture in color ink and use my time wisely.

It's A Book !

For this assignment, we had to print a block with our element and actually make what would go on the block ourselves. Our science teacher and art teacher worked together in order for this to be visually represented and presented in a professional manner. After putting our drawing on the linoleum blocks and carving it out, we put paint on it and put it on paper. We then matted it on to paper and ripped the edges because putting scissors to the paper is considered disrespectful. Throughout this assignment carving was one of the most difficult things to do because we were susceptible to cutting ourselves if it was done incorrectly. 


This is one of the pictures from the element I did. I had the element Titanium, which was the element # 22. 

Life is Wonderful and Grand!
Can one hold it in the palm of their hand?
Can life be as calm as the sea?
Can life be in the swaying flowers we see?
Life - Beautiful and Bold!
Can life have any stories untold?
Can the young be more wise than the old?
Can life be more valuable than gold?
Life is Careless and Mean!
Can there really be a superior being?
Can beauty under the skin be seen?
Can world peace only be a dream?
Life is Meaningless and Blue!
Is is possible to walk a mile in someone's shoe?
Under the sun can anything be new?
Can any love really be true?
Life is Loving and Free!
Can the joys of life flow through you and me?


My cousins dropped out of skool cuz its hard to study and their attention span was way too short.. Its flabbergasting as i see their attention span expanding…. As they study the every movement of women with the fat a** are walkingggg by ….. Not accomplishing anything and barley passing at life …. they say life is to hard and they pass thats why they take a puff puff and pass …. Inhaling the vapors and swallowing the gas thats kill their a**… This is believed to be true of all black society …. So sometimes i wish a spell would come and render me unconscious and peal back my skin so you can see inside me … Swim around in my thoughts and drown in my dreams… So look and see im different from what people depict of society … Now I say people are the down fall of this society … snorting powders , popping pills, and inhaling vapors that takes away our sanity… Madness made us believe slavery was abolished and is history. Like a man with a stutter history has a way of repeating itself. Every-time our fingers cramp on that trigger or take a puff of that weed we are enslaved but we are beating ourselves.

Sorry i was not able to use logger pro :)

         During the course of sophomore year in both English and History we learned a wide variety of topics. Often both classes related to each other and then there were times where they were completely different.

We learned factual topics but some were on more of a personal level. In English class we were challenged with writing many different types of poems. We learned how to write the different types of poems and read examples written by a variety of authors. The poems in the Poetry Portfolio had very few guidelines and I found myself writing about personal things. Its not easy writing about personal things and publicizing the for many people to read. “When I found out no one would hear the words I spoke. The day I was silenced. The day you didn't want to hear me” (Poetry Portfolio). I am more of a shy person but for some reason I have grown out of that and I am not so shy on personal topics. I think as this year went on I learned more about the people around making me more comfortable.

For an odd project for both English and History, we were a part of the Art in the Open festival on the Schuylkill River. We got to work with professionals to create our own site specific performance, which is a performance, which relates directly to the place you are performing it in. My group called out The Movement That Never Stops, I thought that I wouldn’t be able to do it well and create a good piece but when you work hard at something it will turn out great. We worked through hot and long day up until our performances and all of them turned out great. The Leah Stein Dance Company helped us tremendously and showed us that we could create pieces from scratch that are of high quality.

A key component in factual topics is research; we were presented with a project about a larger issue of the world. I did much research on the topic I chose which was education crisis in Afghanistan. The research leads to another project, Monologue Project. This project used the facts we learned about our larger issue to create monologue from different viewpoints of people that might have been affected by the issue. This is where I learned many different useful sites to use for general researching and I learn that there is never a thing as too much research. This is where I my stamina while doing projects, meaning I learned that I would do a large amount of work to make something good. “I felt like he took me with him, that the outside of the gate didn’t mean freedom but controlled”(Monologue Project).

Another factual project was the Religion Project that dealt with a lot of research. All of my classmates chose different religions to research and do the project on. But religion is a touchy topic for many people, and when you go to a very diverse school, you have to learn to be respectful. I had to learn to not get offended by what people say about my religion. I think this year and project helped me to not be so closed to what people say and not to take offense to things people say. It’s a part of growing up, everyone has their own opinion and I learned to respect them even if I don’t like them. I learned that I could respect something but not agree with it. 

I can say that I learn so much this year in these two classes. There was a lot of work and effort that I had to put into the work but in the end it was complete and I am happy that I survived sophomore year.

Hace clic aquí para ver mi proyecto.

La Guerra Civil en España era una lástima terrible.  Mucha gente, ambos rebeldes y soldados, mueren o eran heridos.  Todo el país sufrían, porque la guerra le afectaba a todos.  El sol "ganador" era Francisco Franco, el hombre quien era el dictador de España por veinte y ocho años, creando un estado de miedo y odio en España.  Franco uso este para controlar y oprimir a la gente de España.  El tema de my proyecto era la opresión.  Yo encontré muchos ejemplos de opresión en la obra "La Casa de Bernarda Alba."  Entonces, usé dos personajes de este obra, Angustias y Adela.  Usé ellas porque son hermanas muy diferentes, pero ambos son oprimidas por su madre, Bernarda Alba.  Bernarda le oprimía a sus hijas en una manera similar a lo que Franco usaba a España.  También, Bernarda celebra los mismos valores que Franco celebra, como honor, clase, y la inferioridad de las mujeres.

Me gusté este proyecto, porque me gusto escribir la poesía.  Fue interesante escribir de la perspectiva de otro personajes inventadas por otro escribidor.  También, no escribo mucha poesía en Español.  Después de escribiendo mis cinco poesías, pregunté a Yadi Angeles-Figueroa a chequear mis poesías para errores gramáticas.  Ella encontró algunos errores, y me ayudó para corregirlos.  Después de este, yo puse los poesías en Pages con algunos dibujos.  Seleccioné los dibujos que creé eran relacionados a las poesías, y a Franco y la Guerra Civil de España.

Soy feliz con mi producto terminado.  En particular, me gusta la poesía "La Vestida," porque es corta, pero tiene un mensaje grande.  También, es la única poesía que rima.  Si pudiera, cambiaría el diseño de las páginas.  Creo que debería haber usado fuentes más interesantes.

1) Nuestra tema es la opresión de mujeres/feminismo y la violencia. Nuestro proyecto se trata de do hermanas de la casa de bernarda, Adela, Bernarda y Martirio. Cambiamos el fin del teatro, en vez de Adela cometiendo suicido se escape de España y se va a otro país. Bernarda todavía esta loca y todavía piensa que los mujeres son inferiores a los hombre. Bernarda sigue con Bernarda tratando de cuidarla. El video que creamos es un conversación de teléfono entre Adela y Bernarda con interrupciones de Bernarda.

2) 

El razón porque escogimos estos imágenes es porque en el imagen de guarra solo hay hombres y no mujeres. Hay mujeres que querían pelear por los dos lados pero no podían porque fueron mujeres. El imagen de la cocina es muy estereotípica. Durante la regimen de Franco las mujeres quedaron en la cocina casi por todo el día.

3) Primero hicimos las lineas para la actuación. Segundo ponemos los disfraces y filmamos la película. Tercero editamos y ponemos en forma de flv. El proceso fue difícil y fácil en algunos partes. Un parte difícil para los hombres es ponerse maquillaje porque nunca han puesto y fue raro ponerse. Crear y editar el video fue mas o menos difícil. El parte mas fácil fue la actuación y creando las lineas para la película.

4) Una cosa que me gusta es que el video tiene humor pero la historia también es seria y muestra que mujeres fueron inferiores en es tiempo de la historia de España. Lo que cambiare es añadir una escena con un hombre y mujer mostrando que las mujeres no podían hacer nada afuera de la casa sin que un hombre la compagina. También las mujeres solo cocinaron, crearon las niños, y hicieron cosas por la casa.

​This is my bicycle drawing
 
This is my negative space bicycle drawing

This is my guitar that I made

     I didn't like is project that much because I feel as though we did not have enough time to complete each parts. We were given a week to complete each parts which is not enough time if you are trying to do it right. There are two of my arts that I did really well on, I guess is because I spend more time's doing them than I did for any other ones. If I were given more time, my project would have been even better. I did worked hard on each one of my arts, and I worked best to my ability.I would have done so much better if I had enough time to finish. I’m every grateful for doing those arts because they make me feel like I have learn so much about art. That I can draw a picture on my own without anyone’s help. Doing this project send a message that I’m really doing well at drawing, I guess is because I now understand the messages behind my arts. Art wasn’t always my thing because I thought art had no purpose and you can’t express yourself with art like how you can with words. I was wrong because I’m expressing how I feel about my own work and how seeing my own work like this, affects me. I’m looking forward to the next year.

I enjoyed this project although to me it was EXTREMELY confusing. I wasn't sure of everything we needed in the project even though I asked a few times from classmates what the project was supposed to consist of and even read the paper a bunch of times. The hardest part for me was picking a topic and finding primary sources for it. I did, but I never turned in my primary source document papers. :( But over all, I enjoyed this project and I enjoyed writing about my topic. I chose this topic because I wanted to learn about something that I take part in and how life would be without it. It turns out that life would be a lot different; there would be a lot more people alive and there would be less people with malignant melanoma (a deadly form of skin cancer that can spread throughout your body very quickly). The only thing that I would change is having to fill out the primary source document papers because I kept losing track of them and if I didn't have to fill them out at all, I would have been ay-oh-kay. 

Please click here for the benchmark (: 

Esto es el link por mi proyecto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm5hogfXcPU

Reflection:

 La experiencia de la guerra civil en España fue algo muy doloroso por toda la gente pero creo que también es algo que lo ayudo mucho, la guerra civil es historia, si es algo mala o buena no es importante. Le que importa es lo que aprenderán de la guerra y como están ahora. Y por esto La tema de mi proyecto es “los efectos de la guerra civil.” Por este proyecto yo no quise explicar solamente una de todas las cosas que pasaron durante y después de la guerra, por eso escogí hacer una Collection de poemas que representaron todo y se conectaron con una tema mas grande, y esto es la guerra civil.
Cuando empecé este proyecto tenia “major writers block” y no sabia de que me estaba metiendo, entonces me acorde de todas las personas que sufrieron en la guerra, todos los niños que murieron y todas las mujeres maltratadas, y mi “writers block” se fue. No se porque pero entonces no podía dejar de escribir, todas las películas que vimos en clase sobre la guerra civil y todas las cosas que aprendimos me llegaron. Y creo que por esto escribí ocho poemas de la guerra civil. Me gusto mucho mi presentación final porque reflecte lo mucho que trabaje tenerlo, yo creo que mi proyecto final es muy sentido y no creo que cambiara algo si podía. 

Reflection

The process for completing my project was brainstorming, outlining the content, writing sentences in spanish, peer-reviewing sentences, re-writing the sentences, gathering the pictures needed, putting them together into a book. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the book printed in time so attached is a pdf with all the pages in it.

I feel like I did very well on putting together the pictures into book in Aperture.

I would use my time better and finish it very early so that I could order the book and have it be in my hand on the day its due.

I learned how to describe what I want to be when I grow up, what i liked when i was younger, what i like now, what i will like in the future, what i don't like, what i didn't like in the past, what I will not like in the future, what Im doing after i graduate high school, and how to describe what i was like when i was young and currently.

My Finished Book about my life:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2174528/La%20Vida%20Tyler%20Morales.pdf

By: Antoine, Lamaya, Shalia, and Morgan

My project is a simple look at my life. What I was like as a child, what I'm like right now, and where I want to be when I grow up. 

I liked the pictures that I used to move the story along. 

If I could change one thing, I'd probably draw all of my pictures, but there wasn't enough time (I was going to do a video, but my camera broke the night before the project was due).

To see my project, click HERE

Por Sofia Luna Frank Fischer, Marina Stuart, and Emma Hersh

Nuestra tema era las relaciones, y como la guerra las cambia. Nuestra proyecta muestra la relación que la guerra rompió y que, después, revuelve.


Para este proyecto, primero hablamos como una tema para las poemas. Necesita ser en relación con la guerra, entonces nuestro tema esta relaciones entre la guerra y los efectos en las personas. Hicimos investigaciones en relaciones en la guerra y selecto nuestras personas. Disidimos en notas de amor entre el chico en La Lengua de las Mariposas y la chica en El Laberinto de Fauno. Después y individualmente escribimos poemas, cuando estuvieron termina, editamos y recordemos nuestras poemas.

En este proyecto nos gustó la libertad que nos dieron para elegir un tema.  También nos gustó los personajes sobre los cuales escribimos.  Nos cambiaríamos el producto final. 

Click HERE to listen to the poem/letters

This quarter I really enjoyed the fact that we got to work with different mediums beside just charcoal and paper. I felt a bit challenged because my artistic skills were challenged in more than one way, but if I wasn't good with one thing, I could be good at something else.
Sculpture: For my sculpture I made a nightlight. It's made out of a sewing hem, sewing blueprints, paper and foam letters. It was fun to make and I felt like I could get really creative with it. I specifically chose to make a nightlight because I had found a design on a website that looked really awesome and I remembered always having one as a child.
Pictures: I've always liked photography and I used to carry a camera with me everywhere I went. I really love taking pictures of architecture and flowers. I found that photoshopping pictures can be difficult. I wish I could've designed more complex edits, but I did what I could and combined different effects.
Artist Copy: I copied a piece by Alexander Calder using paint. His works specially caught my eye because they were very modern and geometric.
Bike Drawings: I have never drawn a bike before and I was constantly stressing about whether or not the mechanics of the bike looked right, but I kept going. To me, the hardest part of drawing the bike was putting in the spokes, they never looked right when I put them in, but I believe in the end they turned out fine.
Outside Drawing: This is a drawing of a tree outside. Since drawing every single leaf on the tree can be frustrating and way too time consuming, I drew the tree as if it had a bush of leaves, then extended the branches into each other and off the page. To me, it looks like it symbolizes the way a tree changes during the seasons.