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SLA Junior Manna-Symone Middlebrooks returned to her second PJAS State Fair to present a project on a Local Pollutant's Effect on Dissolved-Oxygen Producing Algae. This earned her both a First Award and a $2000/semester Scholarship to the Pennsylvania State University!
Finally, Senior Jeff Kessler earned a total of five awards at this year's competition! Jeff's study of the ElectroMagnetic Fields Emitted by Cell Phones not only earned him a First Award, but he achieved a perfect score of 5.0 (an additional distinction earned by less than 2% of all participants)! At the Special Award Ceremony, Jeff was also recognized for three years of participation at both the Regional and State levels, and won one of five Oerlein Awards for Outstanding Senior High School Science Student.
In total, SLA took home 10 State-Level awards and over $16,150 in monetary prizes! Congrats to all SLA PJAS State Participants!
SLA BIKE WEEK!
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Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner
I spoke with Looghan de Rubens from Mexico.What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
While talking to this guy he spoke in english to help practice his english. He also told me a little bit about himself, for example he worked in an office.How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?
In general my goal was to enhance my spanish and be able to hold a conversation with someone. The more I chat with these people the closer I think I am to this goal.What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
Something I have done well that I continue to do is keep a conversation going as well as being able to interact more with the person I am having a conversation with. I had more with this person but something happened with my computer and I lost the other conversation me and this person had, but I uploaded everything that I do have.Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
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Who did I speak with and why
did I choose that person?
I talked to a Charles in
my conversation, and obviously I chose him because he responded.
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What did you learn about them?
What did you learn from them?
I
learned that he loves anime, and speaks English pretty darn well.
· How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your
personal goal?
He is the first one to
correct me, so it helped me in more then one way!
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What specifically did you do
well according to your goals/expectations?
Since my goal was to
learn about him and life there, I’d say that this Dominican republic guy was
pretty helpful!
Goal: Share my opinions and experiences (Talking about things we have in common)
Las Preguntas
¿Música esta importante en tu vida? ¿Por que?
¿Qué typo de música te gusta?
¿Comó estas presentar bailar?
¿Solamente tu te gusta bailar en tu familia?
Transcript:
Yo:Hola chica! Que pasa?
Ella-Hola.nada,escuchando música y tu?
Yo-Yo también! Yp escuchando a Justin Bieber para el momento.jaja.¿Música esta importante en tu vida?
Ella-si musica es importante en mi vida
Yo-¿Por que?
Ella-La música es importante para mí porque me ayuda cuando estoy molesto, feliz, cansado, excitado. No importa lo que yo estoy en el estado de ánimo que puede encontrar una canción para que coincidan. Yo crecí con la música tocando el piano, la guitarra y el violín. Es lo que me mantiene viva del tipo.
Yo-yo ve,yo ve.M siento también…la música ayuda me relajarse,concentrado,y hace feliz.A veces música describe comó me humor mejor de me.
Ella-claro que si.
Yo-Esta bien.Me gusta R&B y pop.¿Qué typo de música te gusta?
Ella-todos.
yo-esta bien. Qué es tu favorita?
Ella-R&B
Yo-si si…con todos la música a escucha,te gusta bailar?
Ella-Si te gusta.
Yo-Yo también!! ¿Comó estas presentar bailar?
Ella-Yo bailo ballet y danza moderna. Cada canción me hace bailar de otra manera. Depende del ritmo y el humor de la canción.
Yo-¿llevas clases de baila?
Ella-No. Yo me enseñan a partir de vídeos y viendo Dancing With The Stars.
Yo-Jaja yo también! Yo bailo desde que pequeño pero yo no llevo un clase.Me gusta veo vídeos de baila en Youtube y intento aprendo la coreografía.
Ella-si si yo también!
Yo-jaja.Mi padre baila tambien...yo obtengo mi habilidades desde el.¿Solamente tu te gusta bailar en tu familia?
Ella-Un poco más. Mi papá baila para ser gracioso. Pero desde que mi mamá es de Puerto Rico baila salsa cada vez que tenemos los partidos con la familia.
Yo-Muy Bien!
Reflection:
For this conversation I continued talking to Brianna Perrin. I like talking to her because I feel more comfortable.In this conversation we talked about something that interest both her and me, music and dance. I feel like this conversation is actually a conversation we would have as friends, it seemed more realistic and not like an interview. I think I am making progress with making my conversation more casual. This is helpful because if I'm talking to someone in spanish its not just going to be question and answer. I noticed that my transitions and conjugations are getting better. I still do need to improve on getting my point across with my questions,make them more specific.
Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner
I spoke with Emilio for the 3rd time, and that's also the reason why I picked him. It's easier to communicate with.What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
Spanish verbs are a pain to learn even though he's a native speaker. He taught me some different ways to say "awesome."How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?
Gained new vocabularies and learned proper ways to state a certain question. It's advancing me in vocabularies.What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
• What will be your topic of conversation be?
Drinking.
• What are 5 questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?
- Do you drink?
- Whats the drinking age?
- Where are the partys at?
- If so where do you go?
- If not then what bad stuff you do.?
• What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I don't know if this was personal but I asked about drinking in Mexico. Obviously I talked to someone who was underage and she said never in her live did she drink.
• What are you nervous about?
I'm nervous that I might mess up and she will Yell at me and say I can't speak spanish correctly. I had no confidence.
After:
• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
I talked to Nohemi from Mexico She was 17 from Mexico.
• What did you learn about them?
The drinking age in Mexico is 18. Thats different from the 21 drinking age in America. I also learned that in Mexico there are a lot of partis at the beach. Its different from regular teen parties. In mexico its more tradition with music parties.
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
Nohei was a very nice girl. She was my age and understand what I was going through because just last year she felt the same about english. Also she said that she was ok with the topic which was fine by me.
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
I learned about drinking in Mexico. I also learned that Nohemi is a good little girl who never does anything wrong. She said she never had one sip of alcohol in her life. Not that she was suppose to but most teens usually have at least 1 sip in their teenage years.
• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
I want to improve on talking like a regular spanish person and not like I'm some 5 year old trying to learn the language. I want words to come natural to me instead of looking them up.
How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
Well it helped me to see that learning different languages are helpful for future education and depending on the field you go in, it could be necessary.What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
Work a little more on conjugations.Human Trafficking, a story
that never ends…
Why does this continue? Will this ever end? Why does
this happen? Is it for greed or do the Traffickers do this to feel superior?
What are the reasons behind this? Is there a way to stop this?
Human Trafficking is not
just making people work in farms, orchards and factories; Human Trafficking
puts women and children into prostitution. These people are sold into sex
trafficking and their scared because they know that the place that they are
being taken to is not going to make them happy.
These
children, women and men who become Victims
are forced to work and are tortured if they slow down. They are even raped and treated like trash. This is beyond Human Understanding of why captors would do this. What is it that makes them think this?
• What will be your topic of conversation be?
La tomitina y San fermines.
• What are 5 questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?
- Do you know what La tomitina is?
- Do you know what San fermines is?
- Have you ever been to either of them?
- What kind of people go?
- What is the atmosphere of the event?
• What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I'm looking forward to learning about these events from a local. It will be interesting because from what I know these are mostly tourists events.
• What are you nervous about?
I'm nervous about finding someone who has attended these events or even knows what they are.
After:
• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
I spoke to Antonio, 19, from Spain. I didn't choose to talk to him. He started a conversation and it worked out.
• What did you learn about them?
I learned that he is a student and he knows of these events but has never attended. He wants to go but he can't afford it.
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
It helped me because I learned about these events and Antonio also helped me with my grammar a little bit. It helped become a better spanish speaker in general.
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
I learned about la tomitina and san fermines.
• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
I should make sure I check my grammar before I send a message. I continue to make simple and silly mistakes.
I will try to find out what a typical day in the life of a person
living in their country is like. I will inquire about what time people usually
go to work, eat lunch and dinner. I also want to know what people do on
their weekends.
• What are 5 questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?
1. What time you wake up and you go to bed?
2. What time do you eat lunch?
3. When do you have work?
4. Do you go to church on Sundays?
5. What do you do for fun on the weekends?
6. How are the current economic problems affecting people you know?
• What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I am looking forward to having a long, sustained conversation because
I have so many questions to get answered. I am also looking to share
things about the United States, especially Philadelphia, with the person
I talk to.
• What are you nervous about?