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For my quarter number four benchmark I did a keynote and converted it to a quicktime movie. My project was about me and what was like in the past and present day. My project also has my plan for the next 15 years.

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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

 

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 ]:)

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Reflection: 

My project is a Comic life movie on how I was when I was born, to age 7 through 10, present day and also to the future. 

I like that it reflects on my life using spanish. A language that is foreign to me and some of the things we've learned over the course of year rushed back to my mind. 

Perhaps next time I might use something different besides Comic Life and iMovie. 

My project is an online book that I designed containing my life story. The thing I like most is the pages and the pictures that they have on them. Overall the book is really nice. If I would have done thins project differently, I would have used more pictures. 

Here's the link to my online story book, enjoy :)
Enjoy :))))

​my project is a children's that talks about my life
 
i like the pictures and formatting 


i would spend more time on it and put more effort into it


ITS HERE
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11544820/spanish%20Q4%20mwalls.pages

My project is a video story of my life from when I was younger up until now. I liked that I got to talk about my childhood and how I used to be. I would do a book instead.

Week 1 - Sculptures

 

I looked up how to make a marine biome. In order to do this I just had to look up different animals and other objects that were found in the biome. Although you can't see it very well, the hardest part was gluing the sand to the shoebox and making it appear rippled like waves. 

Week 2 - Photoshopped Pictures ​



The first picture was a picture that I tried to photoshop. It didn't come out very well and I spent too much time just trying to perfectly cut myself out. The second photo I used flickr instead of photoshop. I find flickr easier to use, and easier for me to color contrast.

Week 3 - Copy a famous Artist 

  

This was a picture that I found online. The different textures of the picture is was really intrigued me into trying to remake it. However one problem i had was trying to find the correct materials to try and remake the photo. In the end I couldn't find what to use, so I just used chalk pastels, but It didn't come out correctly.

Week 4 - Bike Drawing 

 
Line Drawing 


Negative Space


Shading 

My bike drawings was the hardest part. I had a hard time trying to draw the bike and an even harder time drying to make them fit the requirements. I think my best bike drawing was the one where I used shading. This is mostly because that is one of my strongest skills, so that is the one I'm best at.

Week 5 - Outside Drawing 



This is the picture that I am most proud of this quarter. We had to draw a scene from outside and on that week I was sick, so I just googled a picture. It was a picture of a tree in the sunset. I used oil pastels and created a really nice blend of several different colors. This is my favorite piece of the year. :)

My project was a short booklet about me.   I like the fact that I was allowed to draw for this project.  I might have colored it like I originally planned, if I did the project over.  The booklet is three pages showing me growing from a kid to the present, and then what I may look like 10 years from now.  I drew several examples of the things I wrote about.

Basement of Death Description

By Teila Allmond, Ricky Pham and Harrison Talese-Rhodes

Three friends at SLA find themselves in the basement. They can tell that no one has been down there for a long time... at least, they think so. A "horror" movie with some funny moments. 

Directed by Teila Allmond, Ricky Pham and Harrison Talese-Rhodes

Produced by Teila Allmond, Ricky Pham and Harrison Talese-Rhodes

Edited by Teila Allmond, Ricky Pham and Harrison Talese-Rhodes

Tyler - Teila Allmond

Harrison - Harrison Talese-RhodesCamille - Camille Maldonado

Demon From Hell - Ricky Pham

ROUGHCUT PRODUCTIONS 2011

This school year has been a wonderful experience for me I have learned a lot of things. I've also begun to better understand different morals or saying people live by. One thing I started to understand is even though we have our freedom to do as we please. If people tried to do what they are suppose to do, when others aren't watching then it would help make their lives easier. I came to that realization during an interview with my father.

            Although sometimes society gives people so much leeway to do as they please. Re-guarding what is right. They began to over use the right of freedom. Which causes the higher power to step into doing as they please no matter what the affect is on those around. Just like in the book Night we read in class the young boy Eliezer Wiesel who was deeply affect by the Holocaust due to the recognized higher authority of Hitler an his men. I wrote an academic paper demonstrating how is has affected him and the way he became.

            That also reminds me about the monologue assignment we had. Taken history and bringing it back to life. Trying to show that even thought history tends to heavily repeat its self that are some aspects of it that people just might not know or fully understand. In my story I was telling how the higher authority has affect a community.

            My favorite unit was the poetry. Just like any other form of writing it is a way to express the mind. I made a poem portfolio an in it I have five poems. I started to understand that you do not have to be an expert in a certain field to be able to accomplish the work. I love poetry and I like to write it, but when some people who feel the same way encounter another who might have a stronger way of expressing than they do. The thought of not being an expert really became a heavy thought.

            Besides my liking of the poetry unit I was also fond of was the Op-Ed on child abuse. What was so interesting about this assignment was what ever we chose to write about, we had to have a strong point and sort of give the story. The topic of child abuse crossed my mind because it is something that is often no touched. While I wrote it I felt like I was giving an article a voice and a purpose. In my mind it was not only a piece a writing that was needed for class it became a possible end to the problem for the younger generation.

            When I started this year it seemed as if it would be hard and the things the class were going to learned would be overwhelming.

            Some of the assignments and assignment reading over this year had make me have the general understand that every piece of writing made will not always make sense or come together.  But it will always have a meaning and purpose.

  ​My project is a video storybook of me being a child till present day, then to the future. It has photos of me from when I was growing up, featuring activities, people, and various other things that I enjoyed and some things I didn't enjoy. It shows photos of myself in current day, during the present day section. Unfortunately, I don't have photos of me from the future, so those I had to find, which are a compilation of various photos that go with how I will be in 5 and 10 years. 
  This project was by far more most favorite benchmark.It was all about myself. Hah. It involved me when I was a little one, me now, and me in the future. The best part to me was taking the photos from me when I was younger. Finding them, and scanning them was such a joy for me. 
  If I were to do this project again, i'd most likely make it into a physical book, and try to stay away from digital a bit. 

My project is like a little kids biography of my life. There are no real pictures of me in the book it is all doodles. The one of me younger are little anime me and when I get older the cartoon becomes a bit more realistic. In the future my face is covered by a question mark. 
I like that the pictures are all different it looks like I am changing over time the art is changing.
I wish I had made an amazing story instead of just simple stuff but I like it for the most part.