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WHYY Radio Piece: My story, bullying

Posted by Amanda Thieu in Reading, Writing And Rising Up - Block - B on
WHYY RADIO PIECE BULLYING FINAL - 2:3:16, 11.58 AM
Hi my name is Amanda Thieu and I am currently a senior at Science Leadership Academy. I am honored to have the opportunity to produce a radio piece on a topic that I'm passionate about. Bullying has not only has gratefully impacted my life, but it has also changed me to become the person that I am today bully-free. I hope my story helps other people realize the damage that bullying causes. We need to stop this. It's traumatizing that it could happen to a younger generation. 

Sexualization of Women in the Media

Posted by Ava Olsen in Reading, Writing And Rising Up - Block - C on
My piece highlights the sexualization of women in the media and how women are portrayed across all platforms. Important questions regarding advertising and company campaigns are addressed, and touches on what the sexualization stems from. Additionally, Amal Giknis, a teacher of a course on feminism at Science Leadership Academy, shares her opinions about female representation and inequality, and why females are represented in such ways throughout the media.
Sexualization of Women in the Media Radio Piece - Ava Olsen - 1:31:16, 1.10 PM

Identity Without Words

Posted by Jamilah Woodards in English 3 - Block - E on
My initial goals for this podcast consisted of me interviewing three females of different ages and races on my specific topic of identity. That didn't exactly happen. I ended up with one female as well as getting the perspective from my 19 year old brother. With me switching up my interviewees, I also had to switch up my approach. My new goal was to ask the both of them similar questions and compare/contrast their answers.

Working on this project was interesting. It was very tedious and time consuming. Interviewing was the easy part. The more difficult part was editing and switching up my entire podcast. Since I interviewed two people, that was two people to edit, trim, and create interesting content. I had to move so much around while editing since the two were interview at different times.  

  
English Podcast - 2_2_16, 8.50 AM

Macbeth Movie Review

Posted by Meymey Seng in English 1 - Giknis - A on
​ A new movie for Macbeth came out! This would be an amazing thing to watch after watching two different productions of it in class, and reading the play. I was very excited to watch this because in the play, Shakespeare did not put in a lot of stage directions, so the director would have to use their creativity.
Something that I liked a lot was the cast because they are just a great group of actors and actresses. Another thing that I thought was good, was that the director decided to show in the beginning, Macbeth helping Duncan in a war. This makes the impact of him killing Duncan later more shocking to us. 
There were many things in this movie that were surprising that I did not expect the director to do. The first thing is that in the beginning of the movie, there was a funeral scene of Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's child. This surprised me because I didn't think they even had a child. Although, I do think it's interesting that the director choose this. I believe that this scene was put in to make Lady Macbeth look like a sympathetic woman. Later on when she says cruel things, we may not take it as harshly because of what she's experienced. Another thing that I did not expect was the three witches to look like normal people. In the play, they were described to look like disgusting creatures but in this movie they looked just like normal woman. This disappointed me because I really wanted to see strange looking witches. 
More things that I did not expect the director to do was to show the ghost of a boy soldier who fought in the war, giving Macbeth a dagger leading the Duncan. This was unexpected to me because in the movie that we watched in class, the dagger and blood was only thing hallucination that leaded itself to Duncan. Also, in this movie, Malcolm saw Macbeth murder Duncan and ran away. This was shocking because in the play, when Macbeth just killed Duncan, no one really witnessed. 
So, what I can say after watching this movie is that I loved it and I recommend that you should go watch it! There are lots of things that I enjoyed and maybe you would too. Also, if you read Macbeth, you will see that in this movie, the director chooses to do a bunch of things that were not included in the play. This could be awesome or could be better in your opinion. 

Now You See

Posted by Jaime Vaquero-Garcia in Advanced Art - Hull - a1 on
Art

Throughout this second quarter we've been learning more abilities and ways of drawing and gaining more skilled at art. I feel like these small little assignment help me maintain my ability and skills. Throughout every assignment that we had there was a new thing that I learn or gain from it. and ever little assignment that we had we had to do a little research to know what we were doing. some things I knew and some of the things I did not know and there were some other things that I knew what had different methods of it. one of the most difficult assignment that I had in this quarter was drawing fabric. reason why is cuz I wasn't very good at visual drawing or wasn't very skilled at, but you have to try and in order to get better that's the only way that's the way it works. One of the things that influence me the most was the first assignment that we had art history there were many different objects to have different things and meanings.

One of my main reasons continuing and learning about art and its history is because that's one of the things I enjoy the most. art can be applied to many things shooting and everyday thing or job/career. To backup on this, for example engineers architects factories anything that we use in our everyday life clothes shoes TV game consoles. All these things are in our daily life we use and obtain and everything. and the only way these objects were created was through the mindset of an artist or someone who has the ability of art which sense has along with the mass that technology and the hardware and everything that goes with it and in the material that need to be used with can be created. Are involved and every little thing.

Views From Society

Posted by Pedro Castillo in English 3 - Block - D on
​My podcast is just raw opinion about the people of society today in age. I interviewed two poeple who gave me their honest opinion about society, gender roles, people, religion, etc. I would say that overall, I rached my goal with the type of answers that I wanted and I really appreciate the fact that they were just being honest and true to themselves. 

The road to finishing this podcast was a stressful one. Throughout the work process I hit many road blocks and had to do many things from scratch again so that pushed me behind in the end. Overall this was a difficult thing to pull of being that we had to juggle two projects in one class. It was difficult getting people to interview, it was difficult editing, and it was difficult making something I was proud of. But in the end I overcame what stood in my way and got the podcast done and I would like to say that I am proud of the work I produced. 
Pedro's Urban Jungle- Views From Society

Q2 Artwork

Posted by Nevrid Nazif in Advanced Art - Hull - a1 on
​Art Collage
 I like cars, and I have specific cars that I like, and for many different reasons. The collage represents some of the type of cars that I like, and words that describe each car. to make the collage some people would have cut out the logos from magazines. That would have made it look better. I choose to draw each logo because drawing each logo was a fun thing to do. "Always enjoy what you do."

Fabric
 Shading is a very hard thing to do, especially when drawing a fabric. I chose to draw a fabric hanging by two pins because I was looking at a flag hanging on a wall, which gave me an idea of what I should draw and how to draw it. In the drawing I didn't draw the symbols of the flag, and just drew the look of the flag/fabric. In the end I really liked how the fabric looked, because I didn't think I could draw it that good.

Photo Editing
 I took this photo during a pickup Frisbee game, and it was a happy accident of how the photo actually looked. When I was taking the picture, I wanted to capture both the frisbee and the player throwing it, but I took it in the wrong time. Happy accident.

Illustration
 This illustration was my favorite part of all the drawings. I drew something that means a lot to me, and that I really like. I live soccer just like millions of people around the world. While thinking of a quote I wanted to represent I thought of "Football is life." But it wasn't a quote that could be drawn (at least in my mind). Than I added the rest of the part to the quote, which than I was able to draw what I wanted. The drawing came out really good, and I am really proud for myself because I didn't think it would look that good.

Identity and Belonging Podcast

Posted by Alexander Tristano in English 3 - Block - E on
Interview_Podcast_Project - 13116, 10.38 PM
My goals for this podcast was to interview someone who had a story to tell, and would love to talk about themselves for a while. When I chose my interviewee because he is an immigrant from Spain, and he is also homosexual. I asked him about how this played a role on figuring out how he fit into society here in America as someone who is not born here or is of the minority.

When completing my assignment, the interview went extraordinarily well. I was obviously surprised by all the stories he had to offer, and the most difficult part of the assignment was choosing the audio clips that would make it into the final and the ones that would get deleted. It was hard to throw away such amazing audio footage because it seemed as if everything I had was absolutely amazing.

Relationships- Podcast

Posted by Ashlye Fitzmaurice in English 3 - Block - E on
After writing my Advance Essay #3, I wasn't really sure who I wanted to interview or what to discuss in my podcast. My goal was to interview someone who I can connect with and take on a different or the same view on a topic. Either way, I wanted to get the feel and understand their identity of belonging. 
At first, I interviewed my older sister. She drifted the conversation to what it is like being the oldest child and the responsibilities of being one. In the end, I found that I was not really satisfied with the recording because (1) she was driving, (2) the radio was on, and (3) I did not feel like the message was clear on identity nor belonging. So one day, my best friend happened to be over and she was telling me all kinds of stories from her family, to friends, and being stressed overall. So, I knew it was the perfect timing to do my podcast! 
Below is the conversation of how her past relationship or generally how strong love can affect a person and their identity. I do have to say, working to edit and put everything together was not an easy job. I used Garageband on my MacBook to edit the piece and on the day it was due, my work was unsaved and all my work was gone. Luckily, I got it done and to be honest, this is not the best but this the best that can be done compared to the original piece. Also, I literally tried every background music that would go along with my podcast, but it just sounded weird to me. I think it makes it too much if I were to add in music or sound effects. So I hope you guys understand. With that being said, I hope you enjoy! 
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