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For my project I did the truths of Pocahontas. I did research regarding the real story of her. I took the information I learned and I compared it to the information given in the movie of Pocahontas. I used the information and created a truth or false, a,b, or c game. 



http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18699737/Pocahontas%20Truth%20or%20Flase.key

By: Amaris Romero

Reflection:

Originally I had chosen to do a different law but I had changed it because I wasn't as interested in it as I thought. I decided to do the "Indian Civil Rights Act" because I wanted to know more about them. I always had an interest in Native Americans. Every year I write about or talk about something that involves Native Americans and I wanted to know, I felt as though I didn't know enough. I chose the Prezi format because I felt it was one of many simple ways to create a story format. I came across many challenges while doing research, one of them being not being able to find the right answers for the questions that was being asked. I had another problem where I didn't know how to format the work in a presentation. I didn't know how to work Prezi I had never used it before. I got a hang of it after I had a brief tutorial of it. In the end I decided to do it like a story book with a table of contents, chapters, index, and glossary. The way a book would be setup. If i were to do this project again I would make my prezi a little less wordy because I wrote a bit to much information and not everyone wants to read a presentation when it resembles a book. Thats BORING, so next time I will make sure it is less wordy. I noticed that the project and the entire process doesn't just take 1 week or 2 weeks it takes time. Especially when it has to go through stages in which people have to agree with it. The entire research process was simple to me because I knew about it all and I knew how it would all turn out to be or so I thought. After my researching of the law I realized I didn't know to much about it all I knew that I would have to dig a bit for certain things such as those who were involved in the process. I found this BM very useful to me because of my interest in Native Americans.

Sources:

http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/indian-civil-rights-act

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1104_US4_Susan_BA/en/US&utm_source=B11_1104_US4_Susan&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1104_US4&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCivil_Rights_Act_of_1968

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/516.html

http://facstaff.uww.edu/guliga/uwec/american_indian_history_timeline.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

http://www.tribal-institute.org/lists/icra1968.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2001/04/brokentrust/history/history10.shml

http://www.answers.com/topic/indian-civil-rights-act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_civil_rights

http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/Indian%20Civil%20Rights%20Act%20of%201968.htm

http://blog.michaelsinanian.com/tag/indian-civil-rights-act-of-1968/

http://caicw.org/Indiancivilrightsact.html

http://www.citizensalliance.org/Major%20Issues/General%20Legal%20Issues/indian_civil_rights.htm

http://www.citizensalliance.org/links/pages/articles%20and%20CERA%20news/Wall%20Street%20Jounal%20Reply.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_self-determination

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-rights/

http://thorpe.ou.edu/guide/robertson.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2876.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

This is how I believed I could portray my information the best about my law.

• Explain your decision making for choosing the bill.
  -I chose this bill because I have always been very interested in the adoption of children. I also am very interested in children with special needs. When I came across this law I knew this was the right law for me.
• Why did you choose the particular presentation format?
  -I chose this format because I believed that it could stand on its own and that it was more of an attention grabber.
• What challenges did you overcome in completing the project?
  -I overcame the temptation to just not work.
• How would you do the project differently if you had to do it over again?
  -I would make more of an presentation.
• What did the research and investigation tell you about the creation process... from idea to bill to law?
  -It told how hard it actually is to create a law. The bill has to go through many people before being considered a law.
• Was the process easier or harder than you imagined based on your particular bill/law research?
  - It was actually harder than I thought it would be. I thought that the president had the whole say but it turns out that many people have a say in this process.

This is my 1st quarter benchmark. i did mine on Hua Mulan known just as Mulan when made famous in the disney channel movie Mulan.

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.savevid.com/?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARl1cMxS9w">Download Mulan's Decision video on savevid.com. Download videos in flv, mp4, avi formats easily on S 1 on Savevid.com</a>

By Natalie Sanchez

​Link to Website.

Everyone has seen a Disney movie at least once in their lives. The movies "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bambi" opened a portal to a magical world far beyond the reality in which we lived. Princess dresses and tiaras were out of stock in children department stores and girls everywhere would dream of living in a castle one day. This was the footprint that Walter Disney left on my generation's childhood memories- these were the dreams that stemmed from Disney productions. For my first quarter English benchmark, I have chosen to create a website about Walter Disney, the master behind the magic.

The Projecthttps://historysweethomephiladelphiabm.wikispaces.com/BM+Work

Our Vietnam War Prezi Presentation:

This is a presentation about how Gandhi is misrepresented to be a perfect saint. In reality he is simply a human being who has the same vices that all of us have. The viewer should, after seeing this presentation, understand that no human being was, is, or will be perfect and should focus on individuals as a whole rather than what they are known for. However, people should not look at Gandhi as a complete failure, but should understand that they most likely would have done the same if they were in Gandhi's situation.

The Knights Templar have been depicted through popular culture as a secret society which practiced paganistic and satanic rituals, though they were supported by the Vatican and the Pope himself. In other modern portrayals, especially due to the popularity of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, the Templars are depicted as a group which sought the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, and other legendary relics. Some believe that the Templars still exist, protecting and hiding these secrets from those who would seek to defile them.

But what no one portrays is the events that actually occurred. The events in which the Templars played important roles and for which their are numerous accounts.

That is what this video aims to do: portray the Templars as they were, not as they are theorized to be.

For this photo I first created a shaded background so that the clear object would stand out. Next I drew exactly what I saw. once I created something for the object to sit on I then drew the object and I used the eraser to create the clear part of it. It was hard to get the roundness of the object exact. Overall I did pretty good.

I have a personal connection to the roots of Quakerism because my family "converted" when I was in 1st grade because I was attending a Quaker school and would ask my parents, of my own volition, if we could go to meeting for worship. What shocked me when I went to public school in 5th grade was how surprised people were when I told them I was Quaker. Then we would open our text books and read about George Fox and William Penn and the Native Americans and the idea of Quakerism would fade into colonial America. Well, I clearly used electricity, much to many people's shock, and I did not use the words "thee" or "thou" so I began to realize that there was some sort of miscommunication going on with these kids that they could assume something was dead and also a certain way because a text book only mentioned it once. My goal was to shed new light on aspects of Quakerism that are often overlooked as well as making it clear that Quakerism as still as much of a religion as any other that was present during Colonial America. 

I used the form of a podcast because I know that I learned best when I am spoken to and also am best at relaying information verbally. With those qualifications understood I created a skeleton of a script and then spoke as though I were presenting to a class. I find this to be the most helpful way to hear new information because inflection and interest does not sound dialouged but engaged and loose.



http://soundcloud.com/emmahohen/quakers-1644/s-nOrdu

I did this drawing because I was assigned this drawing. during this drawing I 1st outlined the way I seen this person standing. Once I outlined the way this person was standing I then added a little more detail by drawing the  clothing on to the person and using the colors that look like the colors she was wearing. Last I added detail to clothing and finished drawing her face and hair.

I did this drawing because I wanted to capture the 3D essence of the object. I wanted to capture the shadows because of the sun rising in the background. I wanted to show the vases nature when outside. The vase shows that even a clear object can have shadows influence how it looks. I think that i successfully captured the vases 3D environment.  

Reflection

In the beginning, right when Ms. Laufenberg mentioned this benchmark, the first thing I thought of doing for my bill was the Clean Water Act. Not only does it relate to my lobbying topic of fracking, but I also learned alot about it when I actually worked at the EPA over the summer. It seemed very interesting and I had heard that it was actually vetoed which made it seem like it would be an interesting story to tell. I chose a Prezi for my presentation format because it makes any presentation look great and keeps the attention of any viewer. Also it has great transitions from zoomed in to zoomed out to tilted right or left. I have used Prezi in the past, and I basically knew how to use it well. I would change up my project differently in the way in which I would change up the presentation format. I would probably make an iMovie that is sort of a skit and plays out the whole history in one little timeline, as I saw a classmate do last year. The research and investigation told me that the process from idea to bill to law is actually a hard, complicated one. Many people disagree or agree and many other people have their own opinions on things and it takes a long time to settle those disagreements. Also it takes time because the idea has to pass through so many different processes and stages until it finally becomes a law. The research was actually pretty easy, especially since I basically had the whole process in which it was passed. The only hard part was finding out background on when the Clean Water Act was vetoed, but later on I found it out. Overall, it was interesting finding out more about the Clean Water Act and the true insight to how a bill becomes a law.


Sources:

http://greenlaw.blogs.law.pace.edu/2011/04/01/cwa101/

www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/cwahistory.html

http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal14water/cwa.htm

http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/fwatrpo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act

Pictures:

http://www.brevardgreenhomes.com/images/clean_drinking_water.bmp

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/8/215/livinglifephoto/livinglifephoto0912/livinglifephoto091200011/6076679-young-boy-swimming-in-ocean-during-the-summer-in-florida-with-a-big-smile-on-face-fort-desoto-park-f.jpg

http://c0365781.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/datas/21202698/original/701px-Puffer_Fish_DSC01257.JPG

http://images.politico.com/global/070626_thisday6-27.jpg

http://limitlessdroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/shaking-hands.jpg

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/spglascampanaseccheck3e04e.jpg

http://www.aph.gov.au/house/pics/chamber.gif

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/photo1-350-drop.jpg

http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20091015/470_great_lakes_091015.jpg

http://www.downloadwinzipfree.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/I__m_just_a_Bill_by_kilroyart.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1412/1272200949_d4f811978e.jpg

http://www.manversusfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/dirty-lake-water-bass-fishing.jpg

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?imgurl=f69baf8c0d7f7dc1

This was the first project that I was assigned to do and I first thought there is no way that I can ever draw a life size human being and I have never done this in my life. That is when my insructor (mrs. Hull) told me not to say I can't do it because I,can but I just have to try and from there I started. when I first started out I had one model but them that drawing got thrown away so I had to start over once I stated over I was bot completely happy with what I had but I thought with a little tweaks here and there it would get better, until that one got thrown away by someone, needless to say at this point I was beyond frustrated because now this is my third time drawing, but I did not give up I started one last time but this time with a different model because the one I had started with with not there that day. The tool that I used to draw the life size drawing it called pastels. I am happy thati got threw it and drew what I could to the best of my abilities, I was very inspired while drawing to music and looking at how other people approached drawing their life,size drawings. Thank you for reading my blog post and viewing my art