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​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.

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.

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. 
  
  

​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.

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.

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.