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This is the Henry C. Lea Elementary School. The school was named after a Philadelphia historian, civic reformer, and political activist Henry Charles Lea. The Building is located on the corner of 4700 Locust Street PA.  The school was build in 1914 two years after West Philly High school was built. The school cost a lot to be built. The total cost of the school and full construction and instillation of the heating, ventilation, plumbing, and electrical was added up to 190,090.00 dollars. It may not sound like a lot of money now but back then that was a lot of money. Then they had to pay for the classroom. Each classroom cost 6,554.80 dollars. There were 29 classes built in the school. When the school was first build it was about 926,724 cu. Ft.  It cost $.205 per cubic foot. The designer of the building was Henry deCourcy Richards and the superintendent J. Horace Cook. The land was first donated June 19, 1873 to Thomas C. Price and his wife Susan T. It was there thatThomas C. Price School was build. On May 4, 1911 John R. Drexel bought the land for $27,108.53 and three years later Lea was built. Now there has been some changes to the school since the school was built. There are more classrooms added on, security camera, and two playgrounds.  But by looking at the picture’s I found at phillyhistory.org you can get a idea of the changes since it was built.

This is a project that we had to complete for our United States history class as well as our English class. My project was about Memorial hall in fairmount park and how it came to be known as Memorial hall and exactly the impact it had on the community.

This is the link for all of my bibliographies 

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1x9Y_izU3EJS3Qtadztp7CO7ojdOMpckV8NI1cFEmosk

The history of evolution shows us that when there is a pressure change that threatened the survival of an organism, the organism evolves to continue living.  That shows us that for future evolution, for example, homo sapiens might start to have more and more hair due to the recent climate change and issues of global warming, so they can continue to live and keep warm throughout the decades to come.  If the world where to become flooded, leaving very little land but enough for people to migrate and find new sources for food and shelter etc., then we would have to find another alternative to the way we live now. If people had to swim from point A to B, I don’t think that we would necessarily grow gills, but I do think that our lungs would grow larger and bigger. If you were to look at a mammal that lives in the water, such as a dolphin, whale, or sea lion, they do not have gills. They need to resurface from time to time to get oxygen. So, if  the world did start to flood you could only imagine that people would start to hold their breath longer and probably have webbed fingers and toes to help swim in the water.

I don’t think that evolution can be determined by looking at history and seeing what has happened.  I believe to see the future in evolution you have to look to the present and see what is happening now in front of you.  If there are no selection pressures maybe evolution will just start to get rid of what we don’t need, like the pinky toe or the male nipple.  The problem with the theory of evolution is that there is nowhere near enough data to say this is how evolution works.  The reason being for that, even though evolution is amazing on its own, it takes centuries for it to occur. 

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If there's trouble with that the link to school tube is below:

I liked the first slide I made, but I couldn't fight the feeling that there was something missing. I added a picture of myself. I thought that the contrast on the old slide was an overload of color, so I toned it down some. I made a more unique font, with a single poppable color. I took out the pie chart because it was just too much information at once.

I used contrast in the yellow words on red background. I used empty space where there is nothing in the upper-left and kinda rule of thirds in my picture. I used 3 different colors not including the picture.

Top: after   Bottom: before

This is a video that I made to tell the story behind the historic John Bartram house and garden.

Here is the link to my project script:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b58Ei8yxcquHR4XO8GUSBmBdYWpzO-ObUnYFbrKuUWM/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMul9vcG

Here is the link to my annotated bibliography:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Faexpbh2hRhEgJpquB8JVQ2F1JwPiDNPe_3359_cyao/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKfEyo4H

Natalie Sanchez 

For our first benchmark in Ms. Laufenberg’s history class and Mr. Chase's English class, we were assigned to tell the story of a building's history. This building had to be named after a person, and in some way, we were supposed to intertwine the stories of the people that influenced the name of the school and the history of the building. I chose to research the building at the intersection of 8th and Lehigh. This structure looks a bit like a castle, and I have always been fascinated by it. I was raised right across the street from this place. My personal memories of the building seem very distant, but I am flooded with good memories whenever I stop to remember my childhood on 8th and Lehigh. I remember playing on the side of the school with my cousins and taking walks with my father around the building just to talk about things. I remember the huge walls of the school and how I felt so microscopic when standing juxtaposed to this huge artifact. This is the impression that the building has left on me. This is why I chose to research, what many have referred to as, the "castle" at 8th and Lehigh.

When I first began my research, it was pretty complicated to find any information on the history of the school. I could find pictures of the building and of the people that the school was named after, but I couldn't find any historical dates and facts about the actual history of the structure. I then started speaking with some of the people that I know that have worked or studied at the school and could give me a more personal view of the school. One morning when I arrived to school, I started speaking with Mr. Paul, the security officer at Science Leadership Academy (SLA), about my project. He told me that he used to work at the school and that he knows some people that work with the school district and that know about the school. I got a lot of information from Mr. Paul. I also researched on the Internet, and found a lot of information on the school's history here and there. I went through the "digging-for-research" stage for about two weeks.

After this, I started to put my research into presentation form. I was going to originally make a documentary, but the videos that I took of the school were not compatible with imovie. Desperate to begin my presentation, I decide to make an iweb instead. I built the frame of my iweb by putting all of the research into the site first. I then gave up on all attempts at converting my video files, and decided to wait until I got to school to receive some help from Ms. Hull to convert my files. Luckily, I had art before English the next day, where I asked Ms. Hull for help converting my files. She showed me how to convert them, and then I was able to put the video files into my iweb. After a couple of clicks and waits, my iweb was finished.

My history and English Benchmark was definitely a challenge for me, but the feeling that I received when I finally found the information about the school was unlike any other. I felt so satisfied and excited, as if I had just made a new discovery. I enjoyed the process of making my history project. It definitely took me back to my roots at 8th and Lehigh Ave.

To see my iweb, click here.

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1_mRg2UbItjpAFkDIOUG83gkpQdu4crC0tic7u6QOKl0/edit#