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Spanish 5 Benchmark Q1
Miembros del grupo:
Emilisa Lopez
Elona Myftaraj
Stephanie Millwood
Marina Stuart
History of The AWA
Quarter 1 Benchmark: Interview of The Bill
Name of Bill: Respect of Marriage Act
This is an interview between a man named Tom and a Bill. (:
The bill was introduced on September 15, 2009.
The process was stopped on October 19, 2009.
Bibliography
http://www.hrc.org/issues/13530.htm
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03567:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3567
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3567/text
H.R. 1256: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act 111th Congress 2009-2010
We had to create a story about how our bill became a law.
Spanish Interview
Sophia Henninger
Nick Manton
Tenzin Ngawang
The purpose of this project was to teach Noah some Spanish basics so he could survive on his travels in Spanish speaking countries. We had to incorporate some things we had learned like past and present tense verbs.
Though we did not break up the video in sections such as, "Past Tense Verbs", "Present Tense", "Greetings", etc. If you follow along it is easy to understand the conversation.
We used a interview format because this might actually be a situation he enters in another country. Interviews are also places where you are judged on the way you speak. We found that using a plausible example could improve the quality of the video
After watching our tutorial, you will be able to...- greet people in spanish
- talk about past education
- talk about past and current occupations
- ask & answer questions about personality and attributes
- say goodbye
Watch our video!
Fuente de la Juventud
Q1 Benchmark
Backstory: Illegal immigrants cross the border and give birth to a child. That child is called an anchor baby.
Over The Summer...
Over the Summer ...
The purpose of this video is to teach Noah and other how to congregate verbs into the past tense. After watching this video you should be able to have the knowledge of how to congregate verbs into past tense and use it as a helpful guide. The video shows an example of a real life situation where conergation happens and then gives a more detailed explanation in English so that the viewer (Noah) is able to understand. We are really proud of the keynote because it is clear and easy to understand. If we had more time we would of recorded more.
Does this video help you any in understanding how to congregate?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2243105/Spanish%20Benchmark.flv
Quarter 1 Artist Statement
Desireé Mack
Senior Art
This first quarter my senior art class we talked about recycling objects to make artwork. Looking at discarded things and seeing the beauty in them. I am inspired by nature and the changes that it goes through so I decided to create a piece with that in mind. Walking through the streets of Philadelphia trudging through the leaves I got my idea. The leaves sprout and are beautiful and through the year so many changes happen to them and then they fall from trees and die. At this point in my life I am going through so many changes, not all of them bring me happiness. With this piece of work I wanted to show that there is beauty in change even though you may not see it at first.
For this piece I gathered leaves from outside and sewed them together and with a needle and thread. At first I was going to create a blanket, then a bag but the leaves started to form a shape of their own so listened to what they wanted to be shaped into and made it so. The most important part of creating this piece was remembering to be delicate with the materials because they could crumble at any moment, just like the decisions we make in life.
A lot of artists say the best work is of a tortured artist. To me that means when you go through things in life that are not exactly the highlight of your life use it as inspiration to create something beautiful that allows you to release some of the stress and emotion you are feeling. That is what my work will start show in the future.
Basic Knowledge of the Spanish Language
Title: Basic Knowledge of the Spanish Language
The purpose of this project is to teach those who are new to Spanish, some basic questions and how to conjugate verbs. To properly complete the original goals of our project, we first created our script to get an idea of the exact things that we were going to say. Then we revised and corrected all of our grammatical errors and perfect the script. From there we rehearsed and preformed the lines from our script. In our final product, we realized that we were most proud of our dedication and good use of class time, also the way that we stayed on task and completed all of our goals that we had set for ourselves.
Questions for Noah:
How has your Spanish progressed since you moved there?
Were our videos of any help to you?
What do you most understand or what was the easiest thing you have learned thus far?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2270875/Spanish%20Q1BM%20-%20tutorial.flv
Recycled Paper Mache - Ian McClendon
Verano Pasado
By
Matt Ferry, Cecelia Baez, Candace Blocker, and Stephen Holts
View our video:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5521605/Holts%20Ferry%20Blocker%20Biaz%20Benchmark.mov
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Our main goal is to help Noah to speak spanish. And we’re going to help him by teaching him how to talk about his interest and hobbies , What he did over the summer and also be able to talk about things that are happening right now. So by the end of this he will know how to say it all!!
The goals of our tutorial is to teach Noah how to use past tense and present tense and what he did over his summer.
Well.. Of course we started with a sketch ideas of what we wanted to do, and made a script but what we THOUGHT could match the goals. Trying to teach Noah about the ways of simple Spanish doings, and summer times. Past tense speaking. After time, we fixed our scripts and molded it to truly match our goals. Or to the best ability. knowing that it might not be perfect. but just good enough.
We’re proud of our creativity. The ideas we came up with to display our Spanish knowledge. The fact that we purposely mispronounced and mis-conjugated words and then corrected ourselves shows that we’re skilled when it comes to correctly using Spanish verbs
Questions For Noah
~Do you feel that you've learned more about pass tense verbs?
~What should we have changed?
~Was our video easy to understand?
~Did you enjoy it?
Timothy Ubuntu
Timothy Ubuntu came from a family of computer programmers, and it’s fair to say that he has loved computers since birth. On his 4th birthday he asked for his computer to be able to run emacs so he would be able to program like his dad. You see, his dad was a website developer and computer programmer, but his mom didn’t do anything that fancy; she repaired computers. However, she was damn good at repairing and you would never be able to see someone defrag a hard drive that fast. Back to Timothy, his family wasn’t exactly the wealthiest so they had dial up and every time they would get online to do something or show Timmy the beauty of the internet the series of high and low beeps of AOL ate away at him. When he was finally on it for the first time he was amazed at what he could see, what he could do, what he could have, and especially what he could give.
He loved music and games but didn’t have money to buy them so he would play online games. Free cheap ones because he couldn’t find the games he wanted online. Timmy eventually was overwhelmed by the lack of interesting games on the internet after he thought so highly of it and starting bawling.
“Why? Why can’t I find anything fun? I thought it was all supposed to be here?” Timmy cried. Shortly afterwards Timmy’s father walks into the room and says
“Timmy Why are you crying?”
“Because I can’t find anything online. I can’t find games or music and I hate it”
“Well son it pains me to see you like this so I will teach you the ways I get everything”.
From that moment on Timmy put all his effort into researching one man who his dad told him about, Sean Parker, the man who founded napster and broke the record companies.
Sean Parker showed that you will never be able to stop the free flow of information while there are people out there will to do the same things he did and napster allowed to upload and download music for free. He was sued for creating it and charged hundreds of thousands of dollars but that didn’t scare Timmy so he looked up ways to download programs where we wouldn’t get caught. He asked his-self what would the safest way be to get music and games, and that’s when his dad told him about torrent files. It is one of the biggest peer to peer sharing types imaginable and he noticed his dad already had a program called bittorrent on their computer and just like that he began. He started downloading torrent files and running them and the speed at which we would get files put him and shock.
“Its really free” Timmy asked.
“Yes Timmy it is free and it’s there”.
The only problem with this is that if the country cracks down they can still get your IP address and sue you like they did Sean Parker. They already sued one lady for uploading music to websites and was fined 220,000 dollars. Inconvenient as it may be, that day, December 4th is when the Prop-IP act was first introduced to congress. The Prop-IP act was to increase the penalties for trademark and copyright infringement. Timmy and his dad knew that if it got passed they could be made examples of and forced to be gross sums of money. Sadly in the next 5 months it would only get worse. It had traveled through the house and the senate so quickly and had an astonishing voter turnout. It got passed 410 to 11. 5 months after that it was passed, and on 10/13/2008 George Bush signed the bill and it was passed. Interestingly enough people who torrented files have not been caught and everyday Timmy wonders about how effective the bill was and will download more files for old times sake.
Shaw, Donny. "8 Controversial Bills That Congress Still May Pass." Participatory Politics Foundation (2008): n. pag. Web. 7 Nov 2010. <http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/636-8-Controversial-Bills-That-Congress-Still-May-Pass>.
Esguerrra, Richard. ""PRO IP Act" Aims to Increase Infringement Penalties and Expand Government Enforcement." Electronic Frontier Foundation (2007): n. pag. Web. 7 Nov 2010. <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/12/pro-ip-act-increase-infringement-penalties-and-drastically-expand-government-enfor>.
"H.R.4279 - PRO-IP Act of 2007." Participatory Politics Foundation (2005): n. pag. Web. 7 Nov 2010. <http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4279/show>.
Samuel Kabangai; Period one Art project
Hello my name is Samuel Kabangai, I am a junior at Science Leadership Academy. Our quarter one benchmark we had to take something that we see everyday and transform it into a work of art.
For my project I had different ideas that i wanted to peruse that will make a statement. I decided to make a T.V out of a card board box. I made the T.V by butting out a select from portion of the box and replacing with recycle white paper. It works through the reflection of light, I used candles to make a light behind the box and i used cut of figures that i made from card board the reflect through the back of the T.V.
The inspiration for this project came through when i saw that in our school, we had many boxes that were lying around and there was no use for it and when i saw trash in the schuylkill river and majority of the trash was cardboard boxes. I though to myself that, we are informed about everything that goes on in our life today mostly through the T.V and its amazing how little things like recycling was be ignored by our society. The project was clever and unique and if someone see's it they will always remember it and maybe that will make them remember to recycle.
To make this art work i only need a cardboard box, box cutter,glue, paper and candles. The turn out of the project to me was great and i will love to build on that idea more and make it better. A future consideration will be to decorate the art work and give it a sort of spunk that will catch attention and leave a memory in anyones mind.
Bottle Cap Recycle Project
For our bottle cap recycle project, i made a poster that showed a image of an bottle pouring in the water and the cap of the bottle was falling and on the image of the water it showed a fist eating the bottle cap. That idea came to me when my art teacher informed me that they bottle cap from our bottle drinks are not being recycled, but instead they were being thrown in the ocean and animals/food like fish were eating the bottle caps. It came to my knowledge that those fish were dying or if they don't die they are cough and people eat those fish that have these chemicals from the bottle caps in them.
Q1 Benchmark
Recyclable Dress
The process for creating the dress was elongated but once i started i didnt stop until it was finished, meaning late nights or should i say early mornings. I would sometimes stay up until 5 am because i was so eager to get the dress done, which meant i was tired when school was in session, but in the end it was all worth it.
This was probably one of my most amusing benchmarks of my entire high school life. Mainly because it was something i got to choose and play around with. The possibilities for what to do were endless. I could've made anything. Something that described myself as a person. It wasnt like any other project where your told you have to do a report on this person, 12-font, double space, 2 pages. This benchmark spoke freedom.
This allowed everybody to be themselves and speak on things that mattered to them. Everybody had so many ideas which was evident at the finish of the benchmarks. The diversity was worth the world. We went from a tv out of cardboard box to a peace symbol made with condom wrappers or what not. And the meaning behind the art pieces were priceless. It spoke a lot on the class as a unison.
The most exciting part of the benchmark for me would have to be seeing everybody in action. Watching them as they build their art pieces and explain the meaning behind it. It proves that teens also think about the world around them. Not all the negative stuff you hear in the media or on the news.
Quarter 1 Benchark: The Story of a Bill
American Gov. BMQ1
11/7/10
Kimberly
Yarnall
D Band
American
Government
Life for people with disabilities isn't
easy. They are stuck in a world with "normal" people.
"Normal" being defined as: people who aren't stuck to the confines of
a wheel chair, being able to care for them selves, and not being looked at
differently. Although people suffering from disabilities aren’t always looked
at differently then people without disabilities, it still happens. In 1990 was
when the Americans with Disabilities ACT passed. This made life for people with
disabilities a great deal easier because it opened up a lot of opportunities
for them. People with disabilities have a difficult time getting around if they
have problems with their legs or lower body. This could result to them in a
wheelchair. Other types of disabilities could make it hard to care for them
selves. Being someone with a disability makes it difficult for everyday living.
The
Americans with Disabilities ACT allows the people of America suffering a type
of disability the right to employment, state and local government programs and
services, and means of transportation. This makes life for someone with a
disability less complicated. People with disabilities don't want to be looked
at differently because they struggle more than others. There is a story about a
man who’s name was changed due to privacy, who was diagnosed with neurological
condition that is chronic, but controllable. All throughout his life he had
symptoms, but only became open about them later on in life. "Disability is
seen as a private matter, a personal problem that a disabled individual
struggles to negotiate in a world of 'normal' people, rather than a social or
political issue." This shows that some people feel like they have to hide
their disability so they aren't ridiculed by others. It isn't fair, and affects
the way they choose to live. This Act has made it so the people in America who
suffer with disorders and need the help from others are free to express
themselves.
Robert
Durgdorf drafted the first version if the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990. There was then numerous people that helped with the passing of the ADA.
Making a bill or a law takes a lot of time, and isn't easy. Their is various
people involved in the process and it can take awhile. I think that this Act is
so important because it is a serious matter. I'd like to know that if someone I
know, or if I ever suffer from a disability that there will be understanding
from others and ways to help me or someone else. This Act means that the people
with disabilities will be employed. They will have ways of transportation. If
they need the help of others, they'll receive it. It just gives people the
reassurance that it’ll be okay. This Act has had a positive influence on
America because it shows equality. It is equality between the people who move
around the streets without issues, and the people who need a little help.
Bibliography:
1. "Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act." US EEOC Home Page. 9 Sept. 2008. Web. 09 Nov. 2010. <http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html>.
2. Bruce, Drake. "The American Disabilities Act, and a Fall That Opened My Eyes." Politics News, Elections Coverage, Political Analysis and Opinion. Aug. 2010. Web. 09 Nov. 2010. <http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/01/the-american-disabilities-act-and-a-fall-that-opened-my-eyes/>.
3. "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,AS AMENDED with ADA Amendments Act of 2008." ADA Home Page - Ada.gov - Information and Technical Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act. 15 June 2009. Web. 09 Nov. 2010. <http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm#12102>.
4. Deborah. "MCIL Journal." The Memphis Center for Independent Living. 26 July 2005. Web. 09 Nov. 2010. <http://www.mcil.org/mcil/log/2005/072605s2.asp#90>.
5. "The Americans with Disabilities Act." Center for An Accessible Society. Web. 09 Nov. 2010. <http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/ada/index.html>.
Journal Of Richard Nixon
Journal of Richard Nixon
September 23, 1969
God, its bad enough that you have the whole country complaining about the Vietcong but no, these damned hippies have to get drugged up and push back every single incursion you try to start. I put that attorney general John Mitchell to work on drafting up a new statue. The plan is to combine every existing drug law into one comprehensive act. After I read over the whole thing we can send it over to the feds and get this going.
December 24,1969
So we’re calling it the “Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act” Clever huh? The draft ran to 91 pages. Mitchell separated the dope into five sections, section one being the highest offense and section 5 being the lowest. The section 1’s are all the highly addictive crap like heroin, pot, and Mdma. We lay it out like this.
"Placement on schedules; findings required
Except ... The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:
(1) Schedule I.—
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."
Placement on schedules; findings required
Except.... The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule II.—
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence."
"Placement on schedules; findings required
Except... . The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule III.—
(A) The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence."
"Placement on schedules; findings required
Except.... The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule IV.—
(A) The drug or other substance has a low potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule III.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule III."
"Placement on schedules; findings required
Except.... The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule V.—
(A) The drug or other substance a low potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule IV.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule IV
Now that it is drafted we have to send it through the damn tubes. Its gonna be months before we get anything done, but hell if were gonna declare another damn war it might as well be on what’s destroying our country. War on drugs. That’s kind of catchy.
February 12, 1970
I hate the political processes that we have to go through. It’s been a long two months, and what has been accomplished? Well that damn hippie sympathizer Raymond Shafer from the Shafer commission tried to raise some interesting points to congress. During his presentation he actually said "[T]he criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use. It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior which we believe is not appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only 'with the greatest reluctance."
Can you believe that? Do American values mean nothing? Not a Damn thing apparently! We appoint him to find the harms in these drugs and he goes all J.F.K on me. We cannot allow this infection to spread any farther then it already has! This country cant take anymore of these dope heads spreading their pro pot speeches.
March 12, 1970
Were getting close and closer to getting this law passed. Some things have been called to my attention though. Seeing as the five sections are separated by the amount of harm they do, we seem to have put some more potent drugs at underneath section one. Both morphine and fentanyl are in Schedule II, and heroin is in Schedule I. Fentanyl is approximately 80 times as potent as morphine, and heroin is around three times as potent as morphine. Just a hiccup I suppose. No bill is prefect.
October 27, 1970
Finally this bill has become an act. What a journey it has been. We wrote the damn thing up, sent it to the council, beat the committee, beat the committee again, got two thirds in senate and house, and it then received my signature. Finally we can get some control over the dirty nomads wondering through this country.
Sources
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/csa.html
http://isomerdesign.com/Cdsa/scheduleUS.php?structure=C
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/2108cfrt.htm
Emma Connell's Comic Book
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/525624/Adamson%20Act/Launcher.html
Spanish Benchmark
Follow the Bill
NCLB ACT BOOK!
Here is my book. The link to my book.
Trip to Espaa
After watching the video we created, Noah should be able to...
- hold basic convocations with people about himself and how he is doing
- order food and say thank
you
- say what he did in the past summer.
In the group we did a really good job on being serious and filming the scenes and making them look good. We really worked well together in that part and was albeit o get it done kind of fast. If we had more time, we wouldn't of waited until the day before/of to film and maybe given ourselves a more spaced out time line.
The question we have for Noah is, did this movie help you? Do you feel it helped improve your level of Spanish? Why or why not?