Quarter 2 Benchmark American Government
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Smoke Outline Portrait
I opened a portrait of myself on Photoshop, and
used the pen tool to neatly extract my entire face from the image. I
then did some simple photoshop techniques to make the image into a
silhouette. I downloaded a brush set of different images of smoke, and
made the smoke outline the silhouette. I then changed the color scheme
of the entire image to a rainbow-like color.
I did use a tutorial while completing this image, but I strayed away from copying the entire tutorial, so I used my own ideas. This photo took me several hours to complete, and I am pleased with the final result.
I did use a tutorial while completing this image, but I strayed away from copying the entire tutorial, so I used my own ideas. This photo took me several hours to complete, and I am pleased with the final result.
Alex McGrorty Benchmark Quarter 2
To complete my benchmark I had to research all branches of government and figure out which laws, court cases or bureaucratic functions applied directly to my life. Basically I just thought out all the things I do in a day (it's not much, when I really think about it) and how the government impacts any of these activities. I also scoured through lists of court cases and used the bureaucratic blogs as reference.
I found this to be an easy process, but a very tedious one. The work itself wasn't hard per se, but it took a lot of research and the ability to just sit down and work through the inner workings of the government. Once I began actually realizing what laws and processes affect me, the overall process was much easier.
I definitely believe that the government will have a lot of more impact on my life as I get older. Right now I'm on the edge of that threshold, however, I don't do things like pay taxes or try to purchase property. I'm too young to be eligible for a lot of government processes, but they will begin to affect me a lot more as I get older and go through my life.
I found this to be an easy process, but a very tedious one. The work itself wasn't hard per se, but it took a lot of research and the ability to just sit down and work through the inner workings of the government. Once I began actually realizing what laws and processes affect me, the overall process was much easier.
I definitely believe that the government will have a lot of more impact on my life as I get older. Right now I'm on the edge of that threshold, however, I don't do things like pay taxes or try to purchase property. I'm too young to be eligible for a lot of government processes, but they will begin to affect me a lot more as I get older and go through my life.
Gov Benchmark: How The Government Impacts My Life.
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Yearbook Senior Page
I created the senior page for Megan Doe and I. It isn't that complex, nor was it difficult to create, but it does look professional, organized and appealing.
American Government Q2 Bm
Benchmark link to google doc.
Reflection:
My America Government Q2 benchmark was finding 12 laws, cases, and offices 2 negative and 2 positive for each branch of our government, and find out how they affect me. When choosing the 12 laws, cases, and offices that were included in my benchmark the first thing I thought of was me. I thought about the things I do in my everyday life as a teenager and how the government wraps into that. The activities I perform, my education, safety, the rules I follow etc. I researched my laws, cases, and offices that revolved around those specific words and found the ones that automatically connected to me and placed them into my project.
This process had its difficult and easy times. The easiest parts for me were analyzing how each law, case and office affect me personally and why. It was also finding either the law, case, or office that I thought would portray this type of affect perfectly after fully understanding what the law was saying. That ties in to what I thought was difficult, the three most difficult things about this process were understanding some of the laws, finding the exact name, and locating laws/ offices with the Executive branch. Some of my laws for example the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008, I need to reread a few times in order to fully grasp the concept. I did understand the main task this law was trying to accomplish but some details and procedures were included that I did not fully understand. I also found it hard to find laws and offices that related to the Executive branch, because many bureaucratic functions effect me later into the future.
I found my life to be more affected by the government as I grow older. There comes a lot more procedures that I have to go through in order to obtain the things I want or need in life and almost all of them have a connection to the government. The government is related to many aspects of my life, and what I go through as an adult is held onto their decisions. The laws they make, the cases that win or lose, the offices and their heads all decide the major aspects of what happens in my life when becoming an adult. Though they do not control my curfew, or the things I watch on television, they deal with my education, future jobs, and others.
I enjoyed working on this project, not only because I learned how the government affects me, but also new laws, cases, and offices that set up the way I, we are all affected by our government. The people that decide many of the things that happen to the way its country is run. I learned information that I plan to continue learning and remembering.
Reflection:
My America Government Q2 benchmark was finding 12 laws, cases, and offices 2 negative and 2 positive for each branch of our government, and find out how they affect me. When choosing the 12 laws, cases, and offices that were included in my benchmark the first thing I thought of was me. I thought about the things I do in my everyday life as a teenager and how the government wraps into that. The activities I perform, my education, safety, the rules I follow etc. I researched my laws, cases, and offices that revolved around those specific words and found the ones that automatically connected to me and placed them into my project.
This process had its difficult and easy times. The easiest parts for me were analyzing how each law, case and office affect me personally and why. It was also finding either the law, case, or office that I thought would portray this type of affect perfectly after fully understanding what the law was saying. That ties in to what I thought was difficult, the three most difficult things about this process were understanding some of the laws, finding the exact name, and locating laws/ offices with the Executive branch. Some of my laws for example the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008, I need to reread a few times in order to fully grasp the concept. I did understand the main task this law was trying to accomplish but some details and procedures were included that I did not fully understand. I also found it hard to find laws and offices that related to the Executive branch, because many bureaucratic functions effect me later into the future.
I found my life to be more affected by the government as I grow older. There comes a lot more procedures that I have to go through in order to obtain the things I want or need in life and almost all of them have a connection to the government. The government is related to many aspects of my life, and what I go through as an adult is held onto their decisions. The laws they make, the cases that win or lose, the offices and their heads all decide the major aspects of what happens in my life when becoming an adult. Though they do not control my curfew, or the things I watch on television, they deal with my education, future jobs, and others.
I enjoyed working on this project, not only because I learned how the government affects me, but also new laws, cases, and offices that set up the way I, we are all affected by our government. The people that decide many of the things that happen to the way its country is run. I learned information that I plan to continue learning and remembering.
Q2 AmGov BM
do not click HERE, that is not the Benchmark, or is it?
REFLECTION
I went about choosing the items for my 12 laws by just googling and researching things, at first I looked up Laws, cases, and functions involving school and education because that would most commonly affect me because I got to school, Then I tried thinking outside the box and finding smaller things that affect me such as curfew and smaller things. Then I searched laws that should be repealed or laws that benefit general people and found some laws that were generally affecting to my life.
The Process for the project was tedious, It wasn’t hard writing it up, but there was a lot of research to be done for this project, I know we had a couple examples that we could use and I welcomed the examples with open arms when I used them, but I still needed to spend hours looking for things that affect me directly and what part of government they apply to, It was time consuming.
I do think my life will be more affected by the government as I get older, because as I get older I will have to worry about Taxes and Jury duty and stuff of the kind that applies to adults. Right now I’m living at home and my aunt is taking care of everything that needs to be taken care of to live, Working, Taxes, and health insurance.
Doing this project makes me think how much the government has an impact on how I live my life, and without knowing really, I do things that the government has set-up for me as a person to be able to do, and I can honestly be thankful for that, however, I know the negatives the government has set-up for me much more clear because it negatively impacts my life. Looking at this with that perspective I would disregard the positives that government has set-up for me and criticize the government for having negatives, which is very biased. You win some, you lose some, it’s the basis of life, can’t have everything you want.
Funny Oranges
I was browsing different brushes for Photoshop CS3, when I came across a brush set of funny animated faces. I thought it would be comical and appealing to apply these animated faces to different fruit. This photo in particular I found to be the best. Solely because it is simple and funny.
Fire Portrait
I was on a forum that had a variety of Photoshop tutorials. As I was browsing, I came across a tutorial on how to create a Fire Portrait, very similar to the one I created. This photo manipulation took a few hours. I did used stock photos and a tutorial to create the below image. After completing this image, I learned how to use a variety of tools featured on Photoshop CS3, especially the warp tool and brush customization tool.
History Benchmark
Here is the place to find my history benchmark.
This benchmark to me was definitely one that I learned from as I went along. Yet when it came to the process of working on this benchmark I did have complications. From choosing the correct tops to include and also actually writing each paragraph there where many little complications along the way. Still I continued to work hard in order to get the full amount that I could learn out of this project.
When it came to choosing my topics I tried to think of things that related to my life. Such as for looking into the judicial branch I found it easier to look into Supreme Court cases about students. Executive branch & legislative was easier to look into things I encounter everyday. Once I got to this point I then went onto pointing out specifics in order to narrow down my topics. From there I went on to researching, formatting and writing. Writing the paragraphs was the most complicated part for me as at times I was unsure what to say.
With this benchmark I realized how much of a role the government plays already into my day to day lie. From what I see I know that this wont change. As I get older attend college, get a job, eventually my own home, etc. The government will always be there in some way playing a role in how I live and what I do. The ways it will be present might change compared to now but who is to say.
This benchmark to me was definitely one that I learned from as I went along. Yet when it came to the process of working on this benchmark I did have complications. From choosing the correct tops to include and also actually writing each paragraph there where many little complications along the way. Still I continued to work hard in order to get the full amount that I could learn out of this project.
When it came to choosing my topics I tried to think of things that related to my life. Such as for looking into the judicial branch I found it easier to look into Supreme Court cases about students. Executive branch & legislative was easier to look into things I encounter everyday. Once I got to this point I then went onto pointing out specifics in order to narrow down my topics. From there I went on to researching, formatting and writing. Writing the paragraphs was the most complicated part for me as at times I was unsure what to say.
With this benchmark I realized how much of a role the government plays already into my day to day lie. From what I see I know that this wont change. As I get older attend college, get a job, eventually my own home, etc. The government will always be there in some way playing a role in how I live and what I do. The ways it will be present might change compared to now but who is to say.
2nd Quarter Benchmark
Ashley Hinton
2nd Quarter Benchmark
Link to Benchmark:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1cN1bSqGRcspJmrf2mtrBE_u-NYPkFluB2c-KWrOpCB0
Benchmark Reflection:
I’d have to say this benchmark was the most useful and straight forward project we’ve had in this course. I went about choosing the 4 cases, 4 laws and 4 offices by thinking about how exactly the government intervenes with my life directly and indirectly. With the help of Ms. Laufenburg i found some very useful websites that gave me lots of information on the curfew laws and drinking laws in Pennsylvania because they were most interesting to me. The only part about the process that was a little difficult was separating the cases from the laws and the laws from the offices and so on. Although we’ve spent a lot of time learning how to differentiate between the three its always a little confusing for me. As i get older i anticipate the government affecting my life more because there are a lot of laws in the world, most of which doesn't apply to minors. The thought process throughout this project was essential in getting the project done. Overall,i feel like this project was a great way to understand how laws directly affect our lives and this is extremely important to know.
2nd Quarter Benchmark
Link to Benchmark:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1cN1bSqGRcspJmrf2mtrBE_u-NYPkFluB2c-KWrOpCB0
Benchmark Reflection:
I’d have to say this benchmark was the most useful and straight forward project we’ve had in this course. I went about choosing the 4 cases, 4 laws and 4 offices by thinking about how exactly the government intervenes with my life directly and indirectly. With the help of Ms. Laufenburg i found some very useful websites that gave me lots of information on the curfew laws and drinking laws in Pennsylvania because they were most interesting to me. The only part about the process that was a little difficult was separating the cases from the laws and the laws from the offices and so on. Although we’ve spent a lot of time learning how to differentiate between the three its always a little confusing for me. As i get older i anticipate the government affecting my life more because there are a lot of laws in the world, most of which doesn't apply to minors. The thought process throughout this project was essential in getting the project done. Overall,i feel like this project was a great way to understand how laws directly affect our lives and this is extremely important to know.
AMGOVT Q2 BM
Art - Blog Post #1
2nd Quarter Benchmark Share Out
1. Go to D Band Voicethread.
2. Register for an account.
3. Add one image to the collective voicethread.
2. Register for an account.
3. Add one image to the collective voicethread.
- Choose one of your 12 items from the benchmark to highlight
- Locate an image that best represents that item - you can use the flickr Creative Commons to find an image if you do not have one
- Narrate your paragraph that accompanies that item from your benchmark
Three Branches
When I started the assignment, my instinct was to look up laws or cases that revolved around education. Out of all my roles, I value my role as a student more than anything. Although, I had much difficulty trying to pinpoint exactly which ones I wanted to do, I was able to find some neat sources and websites. It was also nice to look into and play up on my minority card, which I don't do very often or use. I kind of anticipate my life becoming a bit more affected by the government as I get older because a lot of the ones I chose were about me being a student and a minor. As I get older, those won't apply to me as much anymore. But new and probably more laws and such will take the place of those. During my research, I was a bit surprised by how much my life would be different if certain bills weren't passed or court cases didn't happen. It was very interesting to see how they were ruled also. Learning this made me more interested in how government works and makes me want to stay more engaged or involved in the things the government do.
Am Gov. Qtr 2 BM
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Benchmark Reflection Requirement
1. Upload a link of your PUBLISHED work to the SLATE class blog.
2. Write a reflection narrating these points:
a. How did you go about choosing which items to include in your 12 identified laws, cases, or offices?
b. Was this an easy or a difficult process? Elaborate.
c. Do you anticipate your life becoming more or less affected by the govt. as you get older? Explain.
d. Any other thoughts on your learning process.
3. DO NOT WRITE THIS AS A LIST. Write paragraphs that flow like writing rather than like a worksheet. Thanks!
12 Identified Laws
To complete this project I looked up laws that I've researched before that had some relation to me. For example, the No Child Left Behind Law and Brown vs. Board of Education. Then I looked into the things that people my age weren't allowed to do. This is how I came up with most of my Executive Laws. I researched underaged drinking and smoking to texting while driving.
Now that I think about it, it wasn't really that hard of a process to do, however, the hardest thing about it was separating the different laws and cases into its rightful topic. Also, I kept on mixing up things that related to me with things that I wanted to voice my opinion about.
While doing this, I realized how controlling this government is and how they're very precise with how they word things. I'm not looking forward to getting older because I do believe that every year the Government rewrites laws and even make new ones to incorporate more things that limit our rights.
Now that I think about it, it wasn't really that hard of a process to do, however, the hardest thing about it was separating the different laws and cases into its rightful topic. Also, I kept on mixing up things that related to me with things that I wanted to voice my opinion about.
While doing this, I realized how controlling this government is and how they're very precise with how they word things. I'm not looking forward to getting older because I do believe that every year the Government rewrites laws and even make new ones to incorporate more things that limit our rights.
Am Gov Benchmark James Seward
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I chose my items based on how easy they were to compare to my life. Al ot of the items were easy enough to compare to my life but others were difficult and almost impossible. It was an easy, but time consuming process. The idea of it was easy, finding all of the items and writing about all of them became a time consuming task as the days went on though. i believe that my life would become more affected by the American Government. I plan to diverge myself as much as i can into politics because i want to know exactly whats going on when im voting or buying things from stores.
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I chose my items based on how easy they were to compare to my life. Al ot of the items were easy enough to compare to my life but others were difficult and almost impossible. It was an easy, but time consuming process. The idea of it was easy, finding all of the items and writing about all of them became a time consuming task as the days went on though. i believe that my life would become more affected by the American Government. I plan to diverge myself as much as i can into politics because i want to know exactly whats going on when im voting or buying things from stores.
History Benchmark-LJE Branches
The link above will take you to a google doc the describes what effects me personally from Laws, court cases, and offices from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. Choosing the item though was a bit of a challenge. So what i did was ask my teacher for help in finding link the could help me. Also think about what thing I have to do now. Like Driving, College, Affirmative action plan so that was real bases on how i got them. It was a little bit because searching for them was no easy task. I do expect my life to get more difficult because their are more things i have to apply for. But also my things I will have to pay for.
Benchmark 2
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A: I tried to choose topics that would most relate to my life, So I went about this process by searching through the most widely important cases I could find.
B: The only really difficult process to me was actually finding how each of these cases are classified.
C: Yes, I can see it getting way more dependent on the government seeing as I am going to be using a lot of government funds to get through college.
A: I tried to choose topics that would most relate to my life, So I went about this process by searching through the most widely important cases I could find.
B: The only really difficult process to me was actually finding how each of these cases are classified.
C: Yes, I can see it getting way more dependent on the government seeing as I am going to be using a lot of government funds to get through college.
Q2 Benchmark - Sophia
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This benchmark turned out to be far more difficult than I originally anticipated. I didn't realize how hard it would be to find examples, especially negative ones. When looking for laws, court cases or executive functions, Just typing in "beneficial laws" didn't get so far. I decided the easiest thing to do was to think of a life situation first, instead of trying to find any random law and make it applicable. For example: I'd think of something that I wish I didn't have to do or could do, and then find the law that makes it so. This helped mitigate my struggle a great deal.
As I said before, this definitely wasn't an easy benchmark. I wish I had organized myself more carefully. I should have found all the examples I wanted to use first, and then done all the paragraphs.
I definitely think the government will affect my life more as I grow older. It will happen as I gain independence and become more involved in politics and national interests. Some laws won't apply after a while, like student education laws, but others apply more with age and work.
Quarter 2 Benchmark
The reasons I picked the 12 topics i picked is because they all effected me in some way that really hurt my life and damaged some of the things that I was able and not able to do. At first it was easy to pick which laws, cases, and offices but the hardest part was thinking what part of my life did it affect. I was always jammed up at how it effected my life and was it really a direct effect or a indirect effect. After doing this benchmark I think my life will be more affected by the government because I have a feeling the laws that are set now against the teenagers, the age limits might go up. Then again, it might just stay where it is seeing how society status with teenagers and drunk driving is going so far. This benchmarked helped me realize some bad decisions the government has made and how it has severely effected my life and somewhat traumatized me.
Quarter 2 Benchmark
Choosing the laws, cases, and offices was the hardest part of this assignment. I had difficulty choosing which ones to use. Once I found a good sources of court cases or laws or offices, the process became much easier. It wasn't too hard to figure out which laws affected me because a lot of them have to do with minorities or women. I do anticipate my life being affected by different laws as I get older. A lot of the ones I used had to do solely with students. So once I am out of school those will go away. So I don't think there will be more or less laws that affect me, just different ones. Something interesting that I learned from this assignment is how much decisions on court cases affect my life. I thought those would be the hardest to complete, but in reality, they were the ones that I finished first.
Emma's 2nd Quarter Government Benchmark
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1D2KnZ8ARi1hycsoY99vVMh8bmmMA7FEY0GIq_0eyiK0
Reflection:
It was really hard for me to find 12 laws, cases, or offices that impacted me directly. Whatever I found first I used as one of my 12 laws or cases. After much research I discovered that as I get older and as I begin to pay taxes, buy a house, own property, get my own health insurance, etc. more laws, acts, and cases will affect me. The government affects my life a fair amount right now with such acts, laws and cases like the No Child Left Behind Act, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, FAFSA, and Tinker vs. Des Moines. However, as I get older the government will GREATLY impact/influence my life, because the older I get the more I participate in society like having a job and paying taxes. All of these activities are monitored or set by the government meaning the government has more authority over my life. Overall, this project gave me a better understanding of the three branches of government, which are legislative, executive, and judicial. By having a stronger knowledge on these branches I now am more aware of my rights and restrictions, and the overall and basic knowledge of how the government functions.
