Jessica Maiorano
Final Portfolio
Before I came into his class I wasn’t sure what we were going to do. When I first walked into Mr. Block’s class I wasn’t a good writer and I didn’t like history class but Mr. Block made his projects different and creative. Every project was unique in its on way and that’s what I liked about it. We had the freedom to write our thoughts in our papers.
“I am me and that’s who I want to be
I am fifteen cool,
fun and free
I see and hear just
like you
But very different I am to you”
About a month ago Mr. Block told us to make poetry wiki of all different poems we are going to write in class during our poetry unit. One of poems I was most proud of was my riff poem.
“The feeling you get when you realized you can run all those
miles
Every step we take were getting closer
Is that want we want?”
A Series of Unfortunate Event
I recommend this book because the stories are engaging and there are enough books that you can stay occupied that hole summer.Purpose: Kids should be able to demonstrate why leaves change colors in the fall
Objective:Kids will learn the science behind colors and leaves.
Question:How do leaves change color in the fall?
Materials:
Leaves
Small Jars
Plastic Wrap
Rubbing Alcohol
Coffee filters
Shallow pan
tap water(hot)
tape
pen
plastic spoon, clock
Procedure:
1)Collect leaves(different leaves from different trees)
2)Add rubbing alcohol to fill the jar and leaves
3)Cover the jars but not to tight and place jars into shallow pan with 1 inch of hot water
4)Keep jars in pan for 1/2 hour
5)Remove jars and uncover while placing thin strips of coffee paper in, so it's touching the alcohol
6)The colors should travel up the paper and you can see the colors
7)Remove the paper let it dry and hang it where you want.
1st General understanding
One of the topics of study that stood out to me the most were talking about a world renowned author named “Edwidge Danticat”. She wrote a book called Create Dangerously that is a collection of essays. The essays were essays she wrote in the past and incorporated in her book. She talks mostly about her life in haiti and in the united states that involves lots of personal struggle. One thing that i noticed from reading this book is that When there is personal Struggle, successful people seek outside help to change their reality. In the first chapter of create dangerously she writes, “Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.” When i first read this quote it had me thinking, and that’s exactly what our year had in it, topics that had our brains thinking wildly. I wrote about this quote in one of my journal entries. I said “how about you think deeper than face value, when it first says. “Create dangerously is for people who read dangerously” and before reading anything else in that quote to me it said that the book create dangerously is for people who are willing to risk something and be in danger to read that book, because that’s what it was about. Then later on in that unit the class wrote a letter to Ms. Danticat and in my letter i made an honest statement and said “I have told my grandpa about you and some essays in the book and he seems a little less interested. But then I told him to give reading it a try and he honestly fell in love with it. I barely have time to read it my self, it’s always in his hands.” Now looking back on it i was interested in the book a lot.
2ndGeneral understanding
