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Alexis McCormick's Capstone

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Capstone - Echols - Wed on Friday, May 22, 2015 at 10:23 am
    My name is Alexis McCormick, I am currently a senior at Science Leadership Academy. I'm part of Rosalind Echols’ wonderful advisory. When it’s time to be a senior at SLA, everyone is required to do a year-long project that will be presented to other classes and teachers from around the school. This project isn’t easy at all! A capstone is supposed to be meaningful, showcase what was learned over the past four years at a project-based school, give back to the community, and something that is interesting. For my own contribution, I created a piece called “Rockets Wise Words” that has work that is established with both the senior class of 2015 as well as myself. My original plan for my SLA senior time capsule fell through, but with a little twist, I was still able to incorporate the senior class. For my capstone, a physical piece that is displayed near the office at SLA will hold positive, encouraging messages from the class of 2015 to the younger classmen of our school. The bigger picture of my project is not to have people to walk by and just observe my piece but to actually read what was written and hopefully use in later years of being a student at SLA as well as later in life. Many students wrote tips, tricks, and messages that helped them advance to senior year and hope to help others. “Rockets Wise Words” will be a piece that can show other classes that they can move forward and get their goals accomplished.
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Bibliography


  1. Steve Hoefer, dir. "Zoey 101: Season 2, Episode 2." Time Capsule. Nickelodeon. Http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0754877/, 18 Sept. 2005. Television.

This preteen based show is located on nickelodeon taken place in an on campus high school that tells the lives of a group of friends. On season, two episode two the story line was taken place in a class room with a different kind of assignment. The assignment that was given was to create a inclass time capsule. Freshmen year I watched this episode and thought about my senior capstone. Creating a time capsule for the class of 2015 which would hopefully be continued as a tradition for each senior class at Science Leadership Academy. The main character Zoey created a documentary of her life so for my part in the time capsule I will be creating a video that tells my four years at SLA.   


  1. "How to Create a Time Capsule." WikiHow. N.p., 02 Jan. 2007. Web. <http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Time-Capsule>.

This website is very informative and shows different ideas of how to create time capsules. The website lays out step by step on how to create a successful time capsule and ways to make sure people are actually excited for the time capsule altogether. Something else that was also very helpful that was shown in the website is the fact that there are sample letters that are done to help lay out different ideas that you may want to include in a write up. This is good because for the capstone that is being created for each contributor there is a short write up to explain why which ever item was put into the 2015 time capsule and what does it represent the year at SLA for that person.   


  1. Seibert, Patricia. We Were Here: A Short History of Time Capsules. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook, 2002. Print.

This is a book that is very helpful in many different ways. It tells about different time periods and holding different types of time capsules. This book is basically the backstory of a time capsule. If you want to know anything about a time capsule, what was the first time capsule ever made, of just different ways to make a time capsule this book is recommended. This book was both interesting and informations also useful to get great understand on what a time capsule really is and the exact meaning for one. To see change, advantagement, disadvantagement, and what just remained the same.


  1. Matt Novak. "First Video of the Steve Jobs Time Capsule Being Unearthed."Paleofuture. N.p., 12 Feb. 2014. Web. <http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/first-video-of-the-steve-jobs-time-capsule-being-uneart-1521353151>

Steve Jobs was someone who created a very big change in a lot of people’s lives today. The creator of apple made a time capsule that was recently dug up with very unique items inside. Being placed in the groups for years this time capsule made many people gather because of the significant meaning. The reaction of people who witnessed what was uncovered and that is what makes this article interesting. How surprised people were with the positive revealing moment. Something else that was also interesting about this article is that it holds different information that is laid out with great detail. Something along the lines of how much time is took to move the dirt away from the actual time capsule itself which lead to believe that it would be more successful to store the trunk for this capstone instead of actually bury it like a normal time capsule would be stored.  


  1. JAMIE FRATER. "Top 10 Incredible Time Capsules - Listverse." Listverse. N.p., 27 Apr. 2009. Web. <http://listverse.com/2009/04/27/top-10-incredible-time-capsules/>.

This article was very useful on how to create an eye catching, creative time capsule. This website links a handful of other time capsule projects that were recognized for its uniqueness and the backstory that follows it. The article links to one of the biggest time capsules that was ever created. This time capsule was an actual older model car with different things inside. From the passage it tells the backstory of wanting to see how different the world changes in the sense of cars, gasoline, and other things along that line. This article is very useful in the sense of helping thinking about different ideas that will make the capstone time capsule different, unique, and memorable so it will be continued with the future SLA senior classes.


  1. Jefferson Graham. "Redirecting." Redirecting. N.p., 20 Aug. 2012. Web. <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Ftech%2Fcolumnist%2Ftalkingtech%2F2014%2F08%2F20%2Fhow-to-make-a-smartphone-time-capsule-video%2F14262385%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEyJBvWvRd02Xh0JtzESQGdRuoM5w>.

This was a documentary that was built about a digital time capsule. The reason why this source would be useful for this capstone is because the plan is to create a documentary of the past years at SLA. Recommendations were made, thoughts pointed out, and different ideas that would be helpful when creating the actual documentary was a large part of this source. Something that is relatable was that the digital time capsule was made for a woman who is about to start her journey in college. It was made to be looked back on a few years in the future to see what was accomplished and to be recognized.


  1. Jill Neimark. "How Faith – and Fear – Created the World's First Time Capsule - The Crux." The Crux. N.p., 08 Aug. 2014. Web. <http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/08/08/worlds-first-time-capsule/#.VMqUdV7F8Yc>.

This article holds facts about the first ever time capsule. This is relevant because it is important to understand where things originated from and how much they advanced throughout the years went by. The article explain in great detail what was in the time capsule itself and what each item importance to the word today. The article was extremely helpful information that concludes on how things can change so much and the thought that should be put behind each and every item that is being place in the time capsule to be looked on in a few years in the future.


  1. "Budget Cooking: Feed 4 for $10." Cooking Light. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://www.cookinglight.com/food/everyday-menus/healthy-budget-recipes/chicken-rice-mushrooms-budget-cooking-recipe>.

Marshal Brian created a time capsule of his life. Each an every day was documented because each day was another chance to experience and look back on. The purpose for his time capsule was for his children to look back on and see how beautiful life was when they were too young to remember and notice it. This website holds different meaningful clips of his life that helps generate thoughts that could be including in the documentary of my life at SLA. There is no limit to what has to be placed in the time capsule. This video helps gather ideas to propose to the students that are going to contribute to the capstone time capsule of 2015.


  1. "WELCOME ABOARD." TimeCapsuleToMars. (TC2M), n.d. Web. <http://www.timecapsuletomars.com/>.

An extremely interesting project that was came acrossed dealt with sending a time capsule to the planet mars. The creators of this project was student based and meant to be an exploring project. When you think of sending a time capsule to mars you think about that being an adventure itself but there is more meaning to this project. The creators wanted to show the people in the future who travel to mar see how much the earth changes in the future and what different things that could be looked back on. The mission is to raise money and make this happen. Though this project doesn't really contribute that much to my project it does show a good message. It shows there the sky's the limit to anything, literally.


  1. Zurowski. "My Time Capsule Project." N.p., n.d. Web. <http%3A%2F%2Fczurowski.weebly.com%2Fproject-1--time-capsule.html%5C>.

This was a website that was created for a project done for an assignment for school. This source was a different way of creating a fully digital way of view the capstone time capsule for the 2015 class. This website was very useful in the way of how to lay things out for a final product and what I should and should not include to make the project to make it as successful as it could be. The project had a high tech way of turning something that you bury for memory to the changing way of technology. Throughout the website there were different tips that were suggested that turned the creators time capsule as successful as it was.


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Pick It Up #table8

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Environmental Science - Dunda - Y on Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 7:36 pm

Environmental Justice Video from Alexis McCormick on Vimeo.

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“The Portal Ring”

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 3 - Pahomov - C on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 9:12 am
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Having a family is a dream for many people. The thoughts of coming home everyday after a long hard day of work to a loving family is a wish to be fulfilled. Making something that you’ve built from love is a blessing, and thats what a child is. Putting all hope, faith, love, and care into a tiny baby to help them grow into the person who has it all. To someone who people look up to, who has a future, who has a good life. Knowing that there is no such thing as a perfect, you still will try everything in your power to have something as perfect as possible. Someone you always wanted to be, its now the time to try and make that happen. Watching a baby grow, from being born, to crawling, to their first words then to their first foot steps. The moments are precious and are meant to be cherished forever.


When someone has a child they will do anything in their power to keep them from falling, getting hurt, and from losing. Making sure they are always happy and having what they want, when they want it. Even if that means you doing things that you never wish to do but will anyways because you’re doing it for the light of your life. Even though you may not be capable to do so, you’ll still try your hardest to make sure that it will happen. Having a child can change a person forever. The way they think, to the way they do things, to the way they love and see things. Making you finally see the light of the gray years that passed. In the darkest days. The feeling of a full heart, just for a tiny baby. That feeling of having a child will make you happy every second of every day. Even when there are fights, miscommunications, regrets, and tears. Your child will always know where home is.


But what if you aren’t able to have that. The ability to make a love child. You’ll do anything to have the capability of creating a beautiful creature.  You’ll do anything to have that, even if that means taking in someone else's child as your own. Thats how Maria and John saw it. And thats exactly what they did. They wanted a child, no matter the race, the gender, healthy or sick. They’d love it as their own. Never giving up on something that meant so much to them.


John was a Doctor, one of the top plastic surgeons around. He performed over a thousand surgeries, where all were very satisfied. He made enough money a year to help support his small family that he always wished for. He had it all. Because being one of the younger doctors on his field and being very talented at what he did, he was a bit more liked, with his age and his charming looks. Maria on the other hand was not as good looking as John. She didn’t make as much money as he did and wasn’t as liked. The thing is, John didn’t care about her money, he made enough to make both of them stable. He didn't care about her appearance. Looks didn’t matter to John, he was completely fine with Maria’s appearance. The way someone looks shouldn't be the reason to start a relationship with someone its the way you feels towards and about them. Matter of fact, he liked the way she looked, she had a different kind of beauty. The way she spoke gave him chills. Her words grabbed a hold of his heart which made it no longer his, but hers. It was love at first sight for the both of them. The thought of him not being with her broke his heart, he couldn’t imagine life without her. Thats when they finally decided after three years of happy strong marriage, it was time to expand their family with a baby.  


Trying for a few months, many doctor appointments, injections, and tears, it was impossible for the them to ever have a baby. Maria’s body could not stand the what was needed when trying to have a baby. She was devastated, broken down. She tried so hard, did everything in her power she could to try and conceive, but nothing worked. A long month of grieving, barely able to eat, barely able to speak, John finally rose the conversations about adoption. A big responsibility, long process, questions, and wonders. Where they up for it? Caring for another person’s child. Having to face the fact that they are not the child’s birth parents. It was all too much but despite all the fears, they began the process of really being a family. Almost a year being past, the adoption was almost final. John and Maria were now going to be the new parents of a healthy baby boy by the name of Jack. Jack Mask was his name, no one really knew where Mask originated from but they weren’t going to change who Jack really was. Like they said, they’ll love him no matter what. For some odd reason, though the name was different, it fit him. They finally got what they always wished for.  


Everything was great, Jack loved his new home and Maria and John loved being parents. As time flew by and Jack was growing from a baby to a developing boy it was time for Maria and John to start thinking about schooling for Jack. For some odd reason, Jack wasn’t as comfortable with other children, not comfortable with people in general. There wasn’t a problem with family because they knew Jack since he was a baby, but you couldn’t bring different people around Jack because nothing ever turned out right. He would spaz out, shouting, kicking, crying, and no one knew what to do to stop him. The only way for Jack to really calm down is to get the people he saw as strangers out of his presence. Maria and John didn’t know what to do anymore, it was either bring new people around Jack and hear him scream and shout or it was having no communication with anyone when it come to Jack having to meet new people. After several doctors appointments to see if anything was actually mentally wrong with Jack, but there wasn’t. After a few weeks of John and Maria consulting about their son about school there was no other choice than to place Jack in homeschool. There were scared about the whole face the thoughts everything not working out right enough to keep Jack in home school because he didn’t have the ability to stay focus, or the ability to memorize things that he’d learn and then recap by doing a project or taking a test. But all they could do was try. At first, John and Maria didn’t know how to homeschool Jack, they both worked. While John was performing surgeries, Maria was cleaning houses so who was going to teach Jack. Thank god that Maria’s sister Jamie somehow joined into the conversation and suggested to John and Maria that she could homeschool Jack while they are at work with his cousin Alex. They seemed to get along well since they are around the same age and understood each other, agreeing with aunt Jaime to homeschool Jack Mask, the situation of schools was no longer a problem.


Everything seemed to be working out fine, Jack was doing better in school then John and Maria expected, he averaged out in grades as a’s and b’s which is good enough for them. Alex and Jack seemed to get really close as they began to see each other everyday for school. But the only thing is that Alex was loud and outspoken where Jack was always the shy one who kept to himself and came to a whisper when he actually spoke once in a while. John and Maria seemed to be okay with the fact that Jack was shy and to himself most of the time. He was comfortable with who he was and that is all that matters. One day while Jack and Alex were at school, Alex suggested to do a project about halloween because of it being early October, he liked the idea. Jaime being okay with that she gave a project of researching about any halloween character and then make them with some type of arts and crafts. Alex did no what he wanted to do at first, he was stuck between a ghost, a which, or a vampire. Where Jack did know what to do his project on. He never really went out for halloween except once but something bad happened and Maria and John never let that happened again, but that was when Jack Mask was only one years old, so he doesn’t remember anything that happened that day. John and Maria don’t like to talk about it so they try to keep it in the past. Jack always had a thing for people in colorful mask, dark clothes with bright ascents, with velvet material. He was looking up different types of monsters that are “seen” around halloween time. He came across some type of monster that caught his eye immediately. It was called the “joker mardi gra monster”, this monster was all that Jack loved. Searching up pictures of this creature, Jack fell in love with the whole look. He began researching about this mysterious creature. He researched day and night, and when he wasn’t he would draw pictures of the monsters. One picture he drew that his mother found was a family of these “people”, she was a little curious but she didn’t ask Jack about it because she understood he was a young boy and was exploring in his own ways. In the drawing, there was tiny words spread around the paper, but in a way to understood what it said in a sentence. “I will come home soon.” Maria didn’t understand what it meant, she just thought he was playing but thats when everything started to change.

Jack would stay in his room on the computer he received for his school work, he would sit up all day and all night on this computer. One day while Maria had off from work she went into Jack’s room to see what was going on while he was at school and went into his history just to see what he has been looking up all this time. The history list was full of google searches saying, “what am I going threw?”, “Feathers growing from my face”, “Body suit growing from nowhere”, “Joker”, “Mardi gra”, “Monster”. She was confused and didn’t know what to do or say. She questioned on whether or not this is just a stage her son was going through or something serious. But because Jack didn’t approach her with anything, so she thought is was best to just leave it alone.

The next day it seemed like everything was changing about Jack, his appearance, his mood, his voice, everything. Being new parents, Maria and John thought he was just going thru an early stage of puberty or something along those lines. But it wasn’t, it was something way more than that. The next morning Jack went down to the kitchen to get breakfast, he was thinking about either cereal or pancakes, walking into the kitchen and saying “good morning” to his mother there was a loud smash of a plate and a horrible scream that came from his mothers mouth.


“Jack, you scared me, why do you have that ugly mask and outfit on? Where did you

get that at?” Maria said while cleaning up the broken dishes.


Jack’s father ran down the stairs in alarmed from hearing the bloody scream;


“Whats going on down here? Maria why’d you scream like that, is everything okay?” John said while trying to catch his breath.


“Look at the costume your son has on!”


Jack then turned around facing his father in confusion,


“What costume? I have no costume on, what are you talking about?” Jack said while slamming his hand on the counter in anger.


“Where did that come from Jack, get that off before you give your mother a heart attack, I fix faces not hearts.”


Jack finally went to the mirror in the living room to see what his mother and father was talking about. Being a little hesitant to look in the mirror to see what they were talking about he finally gain the courage.


“No, its happening! Why me? Why mom why?” Jack screamed while tears were streaming down his face.


“What do you mean sweetie? Just take the outfit off, you’ll be fine, here I’ll help.” Maria said while smiling coming getting close to Jack.


“Stay away mom, please I don’t know what can happen to you if you touch me, don’t even look at me!” Jack screamed and cried crawling backwards to get away from his mother.


Jack knew this was going to happen soon enough, he thought it was just some stages but it was real. It was like all those dreams that he had. He became what we was researching, as joker mardi gra monster. From all of the research that was done he found out that these type of monsters as well as many others come from a place called Halloween World. Its a place like Earth but is different in a way where they have monsters instead of humans. They sip on witches brew instead of wine. They eat worms and cow eyeballs instead of spaghetti and meatballs. They are all around different from what a human is and does. But to get to Halloween World you can’t just take a plane there or drive a car, in order to get into that world you need to find the portal that leads the right way into the element. Unless you actually know where this portal is you can not find it until you are giving the ring of worlds by someone who actually lives in Halloween World.


Jack told his mother and father everything he knew about what he was now and the place he had came from. It was hard for him to everything out so he went to grab his computer to show his parents a video he found about the type of monster he is now. Though it was all so much to take in, they had to except their son for who he was now. They were still going to love him like how he was before all of this happened to him.


Months past by and Jack didn’t go to school anymore, it was all too much to take in and hold. So during the day he would continue to research how to go over to the Halloween World to see where he really came from. Why his real parents gave him up. And what he has to do to go back to a normal ten year old boy. Not having to wear this colorful, feather, shiny mask every day without taking it off. Not being able to remove this suit that was now his new skin. He wanted to know so much about himself from what he knows already. He knew that the only way from him to know everything is until he gets to the other world. He needed that ring.


Today was the day that everything was going to happen, Jack was going to get his ring, he was going to cross over to the other world and see what he really came from. Who he came from and why’d they let him go. The day was October 31st, halloween and Jack’s life is about to change. But Jack, Maria, nor John knew what was going to go on. Maria and John finally agreeing on letting Jack out for halloween again since he’s older and he actually wanted. Jack was going out trick-or-treating with his cousin Alex then after treating for all their candy to rot their teeth, they were going to go carve pumpkins at Alex’s house. Alex was going to be a mummy, he was so excited because his costume actually looks pretty real. Jack on the other hand can’t change his costume because it wasn’t a costume it was his real skin. Only because of how unique it was and how much it resembled halloween, he was okay with wearing it and going out.

While getting ready at Jack’s house he started to feel weird, like a sick feeling.

“Ahhhhh, ohhhh, ugh, ow,” Jack cried then falling to the floor.


“JACKY, are you okay? Whats wrong? Want me to go get your mom?” Alex said with a panic.

“I just don’t feel that well, I’ll be fine just give me a second.” Jack said while holding on hand on his stomach and the other over his purple lips.

Jack didn’t know what was going on. To him, it felt like someone was twisting his already twisted intestines. Like someone was holding and not letting go of them, holding them like they were trying to save themselves from falling in a body of water with sharks. After a half and hour or so Jack felt completely fine. It was weird. One minute he was in complete pain but the next he was completely fine. It didn’t make sense but now that it was gone, he was not even going to question it. Jack finished “getting ready” and it was time to leave and explore the world for the first actual time by himself, well with his cousin Alex. After Maria and Jamie being good mothers and telling their children what and what not to do they finally let them off to get their candy. So many things were running through Jack’s head and not knowing if it meant anything important or was it just a state of fear. He couldn’t put in words what he was feeling inside. There was a mix of emotions running through Jack Mask. The one step out of his front door and it all hit him. Reality hit him hard in the face and he knew where he had to be. Not with these type of people who he really is not. Not these people who are nothing like him. He needed to find a way to get back to where he really belonged, he needs that ring, but where does he find it at? Then he started to remember everyone who put a good impression on his life. His caring father who took him in, his loving mother who even though she didn’t give birth to him she still cared for him as his own. He thought about the two people who didn’t judge him at all when helping him grow and become better, his aunt Jaime and cousin Alex. Alex, his only friend. He could just up and leave Alex alone, that was his best friend. He loved Alex to death and would never want to hurt him but it was either the change to see where he come from or staying with the family that took him in. Cared for him. Fought for him to be theirs.


Jack try to put all the emotions and thoughts behind him to try and make the best  out of have some fun with his cousin. Trick-or-treat to get all the candy a kid could ever wish for. Walking down the street with Alex, Jack looked back and glanced at his house for one of the last times ever, turning back around to find a tear rolling down his face.


The boys were out trick-or-treating for only about a hour or so and their bags were filled to the brim. A ton of people ran up to them to complement how amazing their outfits were. They were pretty happy about what they have received for the night so they decided to head home.


“Alex im not feeling that good so I think I’m just going to go home instead of your house to carve pumpkins, we can just do it tomorrow after lunch!” Jack said while holding his stomach.


“Okay just have aunt Maria call my mom and we can do that and make sure you have you mom check your candy before you eat it, you know, just to make sure everything is safe,” Alex said with eye glaring onto his big bag of candy. Both walked the separate ways to their own houses without looking back.

Jack finally got to his house, waiting a few minutes to enter the house he looked at him candy bag and notice something. It was a shiny red rock sticking out in the middle or the candy that he received.


“What the hell is this?” Jack said to himself while reaching down into the bag to retrieve the mysterious item.


Jack eyes opened wide with his mouth following, it was a ring. Could it be the ring he needed to get the Halloween World. Sticking the ring in his pocket and then walked in the house like nothing ever happened.


“Hello sweetie, how was it? Did you have fun with Alex?” Maria said with a large smile on her face fixing a little snack for Jack.


“Good mom, I had a lot of fun, I’m not that hungry so I don’t need my snack, actually my tummy is hurting a little bit I think I’m going to go lay down and try to sleep.” Jack said while holding his stomach with both hands.


“You didn’t eat any candy did you sweetie, you know i'm suppose to check every piece to make sure everything is okay with it.”


“No mom I just think I ate something earlier to mess up my tummy.” Jack said while throwing the bag on the floor and running up stairs.


Jack ran to his room closing the door fast but silent. He didn’t want to worry anyone in the house with a loud bang. He went right in his pocket to examine the ring with a closer eye. He pulled it out and and as soon and his eye hit the ruby that was on the ring it glowed. Bright lighting up the whole room with a red foggy light. There was a bang in his closet randomly with a beep, there was silence after that. Jack jumped up and went to his closet door to see what was going on in there. He took a moment to gain the confidence to open the door. After thinking of what could be in there he finally opened the door. There was now a blueish purple light that was shining. There was a swirl or different colors just hovering over his shoe rack with a an inscription on the wall. It looked like scribbles but for some reason he was able to read it right away. “Once you come, you can never go!”, Jack finally found the portal that leads the the Halloween World. He knew that it was either a choice of staying with the family who took him in as his own, continue to be freak in the world or “normal” or go and explore where he really came from. Thoughts were running through his head and tears were running down his face, he didn’t know what to do.


The lights started to dim after a while and another encryption appeared onto the wall, “Now or never Jack!” Jack knew this was his last chance to meet the people who made him so different, to see where he really came from. He stuck a finger in the portal, it was cold but a sense of relief. Out of no where the portal was starting to close and suck Jack in but Jack still didn’t know what he wanted to do. He tried to pull the half of his body out of the portal but it was too strong. In a matter of seconds Jack was on his way to Halloween World leaving back his family, his thoughts, his memories, and all the love that the people who took him in as their own stayed.
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Formula For Love

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 3 - Pahomov - C on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 11:28 pm

“Change, the meaning is simple. To make the form, nature, content, future course, exstora, of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be, if left alone.” (Dictionary) Many things need to be changed, many things don’t; many things have changed, and many things haven’t. Change is hard to control. You can’t pick it up and shape it. You can’t move it from one place to another and you can’t just ignore it. Change happens for reasons whether they benefit a person or not. What about changing something about yourself? Sure you can change your looks, weight, and the way you think, but can you change the way your heart works? The feelings that come with it? Can you really change love? And if so, someone must show me the formula for that.


Taking my current relationship, no matter what happens I will always take my boyfriend back. My boyfriend, Michael, of three years. Now, three years is a long time, many things can happen in a matter of days so what about a matter of the years. Over the course of our relationship, Michael started to hang out with new people and with those new people, came new habits. Michael became a drug user. No matter what drug he took, he didn’t care about the effects. He didn’t care about losing his life, he didn’t care about losing me. Over and over again I would tell Michael to stop because he was going to hurt himself. He didn’t care and continued to do as he pleased. Breaking up with him did nothing because after every apology, I would take him back. The thing is, he still did the things that were tearing us apart. My relationship is like a roller coaster, there are always ups and downs, nothing goes as planned. Over the three years, I’ve been with Michael. I’ve been in situations where its either to stay or go. Because I care so much about Michael and I’m not ready to give him up, I continue to stay. Because of this I’ve taken people calling me a pushover. Though I’m not a pushover with everyone, when it come to Michael I’m a total different person.


“Im done!” No matter how loud I say it, how many times I say it, nor how I say it.  I'm never sticking to it. I do see how I am a pushover. I continue to say “last chance” but I always give him chances more than he deserves. Michael knows me by now, and if I say “last chance”, he knows what to say to pull me right back into his trap again. And yes, I fall for it every time. Michael has me wrapped around his finger and he’s been playing a good game with that. The bad thing about this is, because I always take him back, he is always going to walk all over me.


It’s sad to say we broke up for many reasons, some important and some silly. In many situations, he was the person to do something wrong. Where I had my heart broken. No matter what, I would always try and push the situation in the back of my mind like nothing ever happened and try to move forward. It is like a cycle. I remember one time I told him to go home after we were hanging out one night. The last words that came out of my mouth were, “I love you, call me as soon as you get home and DON’T stop and talk to anyone”. Him being his normal self, tells me exactly what I want to hear and goes off. I waited up till four o’clock in the morning finally realizing that he’s out and not going to call. He calls me the next morning and tells me his mom fell asleep and his phone wasn’t charged so he had to sleep at his friends house. That was not the first time he used that excuse. I cried and complained and he said “I’m sorry I won’t do it again okay.” The following night I told him the same thing, and what does he do, leaves with a promise and “sleeps” over his friends house.


No matter what he does to me, my feelings will never change and I am starting to see that he may not be the best thing for me but I can never push myself to let go. I didn’t know what it is, I mean I'm a young girl who has a job, who is still in school and focusing on her studies and future. He’s the total opposite! Michael is not in school, because he dropped out at 9th grade, he does not have a job and is currently in a juvenile jail since August of 2013. Since day one, he pushed every button I had but I won't let him go. Since he was sent away a few males have been trying to talk to me.These boys were intelligent, handsome and well behaved, but nothing changed my mind about Michael. I don’t know what is going to change my feelings towards Michael.


It is time for me to open up my eyes and see what the world can offer me. So far life seems to help me out. Now lets see what else it can to. Though this didn’t happen yet, I need to find a guy that I see is worth my time. I need to find that guy who wouldn’t hold me back from my dreams. The guy who my parents actually like, although it doesn’t matter what they think because I’m the one who is in the relationship, but it still counts. Someone needs to show me good times, similar to what Michael and I had. Someone needs to walk into my life and show me the right way of being in love. And I need to let that person in!


Relationships can be very hard to handle. In my opinion, a relationships are not suppose to be perfect, nothing is perfect. There should be arguments, tears, and sometimes regrets. The way I always looked at relationships is that if its really meant to be. The two people will always come back to each other no matter what situation happened a day, a month, or a year ago. Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes someone has to get hurt for them to learn. But what if they never learn? At the end of the day I don’t think I will never really be able to end it with Michael, no matter who comes into my life. Not because of how much love I have for him, but how much we’ve been through with each other. I have learned an existential amount of things about both myself and Michael and I hope one day I will be able to use all of the knowledge.  


Bibliography:

"Change." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. Mar. 2014.

<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/change>


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"Having control can come in handy!"

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 3 - Pahomov - C on Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Comparing “Taming of the Shrew” to “Bride Wars”

Everyone wants to have at least a some little amount of control on something, in “The taming of the Shrew”, one of the main men Petruchio believes to have complete control on a woman he plans on marrying, Katherine. In the movie “Bride Wars”, two best friends since toddlers planned their entire weddings out until the day it all actually happens. The two friends do everything in their power to make their wedding better than the others with the mistake of the weddings being planned on the same day. The demanding ways both women used help and hurt to plan the day of their dreams. The husbands of both women were too scared to say the truth to their fiancés because they know it wasn’t what the girls wanted to hear.


Petruchio as well as both Emma and Liv want the same things, control. Especially Liv, her view on life is that she has to always be first. Petruchio was a man of honor, well at least in his eye. Everyone would bow at his feet and listen to his commands. After listening to the stories about a woman named Katherine by some men he came across, he thought he could woo her and make her become his by his rules. Something that Petruchio didn’t noticed was how stubborn she was. She was also about control and hard to please. Though these storylines are totally different they are still common in one way, having control. This goes to show that over many years, having the desire to be in control has not changed. Both of these stories reflect on the control that one has on their spouse which then helps the relationship in the end.  


Going back to the middle of the book act three, scene two, in “Shrew”, after Katherine agrees to marry Petruchio the wedding day finally arrived. The only thing was that the husband was late. Everyone’s questioning on what is happening until Biondello comes into the act.

Biondollo- “Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair of boots that have been candle cases, one buckled, another laced; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town armory, with a broken hilt and chapeless; with two broken points; his horse hipped, with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred, besides possessed with the glanders and like to mose in the chine, troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten, near-legged before and with a half-checked bit and a headstall of sheeps leather, which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots, one girth six times pieced, and a woman’s crupper of velour, which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread.”

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Biondelleo describes to the wedding party that Petruchio was coming but in a ridiculous outfit. This outfit was one of the first ways to show everyone Petruchio was in control. Though the outfit was horrifying as well as embarrassed Petruchio was making a point, that no matter what he puts Katherine, she will never really leave him. He know it would embarrass her but she was too into him that she wasn’t even going to fight back because she knew she wasn’t going to win. The wedding continued and Petruchio and Katherine were finally married.


Now in the beginning of the movie “Bride Wars”, the first time where the women are shown to be controlling and the men have nothing to say.

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Both Emma and Liv have the amount of control on their men where they can do what they want and neither will say any comment in return. Both talking to their men about having a good time while the Bride of the wedding they’re at was about to throw the bouquet. 


Emma- “ Gotta go!”

(Man has a silent, mad face on.)

Emma then brings Liv along and she pocks her boyfriend in the chest and says,

“ They take it so seriously.” And then leaves. 

Both men are standing together with a silent but mad face having nothing to say but to shake their heads. This goes to show both women have control over their men. In the case of “Shrew”, Petruchio has all of the control over Katherine and she is left silent. 

Now back to the “Shrew”, in act 5 scene two a gathering is going on and a bet has been placed. The bet has to deal with which man has the most control over their wives for them to listen and to obey to their orders. Two men already went to try and fetch the other wives but they did not listen. Petruchio's turn is next and he commands a suitor to go and fetch his wife. With a surprise from the guest in the room as well as Pertuchio,

Katherine walking into the room ready for a command.


Katherine- “What is your will, sir, that you send for me?”


Katherine- “Go fetch them hither. If they deny to come, Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands. Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.” 

           (Exit KATHERINE)

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Katherine went to go and fetch the other women. This proves that Petruchio not only won the bet but has the most control over his wife and she has not a word to say about it. She replies will straight positive answers ready for his command. 

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After the mixup of the weddings being placed on the same day both women promise that one will change their date but both are not giving up just yet.

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Liv- “She's gonna move her date. She always was the bendy one, even as a kid, remember?”



Liv has always been the controlling one ever since her and Emma were kids and she will not give up for anything. She always know that Emma would put her happiness up before anyones, she was just that type of person but not this time. After a while, Liv needed a maid of honor but she just brought her fiancée instead to pick out the “save the dates”. Emma was going to give in and call Liv to try and settle things out but she find out that Liv went behind her back and was about to break the promise. 

Talking with her future husband about giving in he tells her to call Liv to make up and what he didn’t realize what he said wrong about the “save the date” invitations. Emma was really upset and now it was her time to shine. “Not this time. "No. No, no, no, no, no.I am a bride too. Okay? I'm number one too!” Emma sending out a save the date email to all her friends except Liv to get her word out first. She's playing no more games now.

Katherine has nothing to say after Petruchio gave her the orders because she was under a high amount of control where she didn’t even know what to say other then okay and leave. With Emma and Liv their type of control over their husbands is that they would demand something and they would get it without their men saying anything in return. The men would just listen and stare. That goes to show how one has control, and the others stay silent.


Back to the “Shrew, after Katherine goes and fetches the other women like her master pleased she says a very long speech that amazes everyone in act five, scene two.

Katherine- “Fie, fie! Unknit that threat'ning unkind brow And dart not scornful glances from those eyes. To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor. It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, And in no sense is meet or amiable. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labor both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands. But love, fair looks and true obedience— Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel. And graceless traitor to her loving lord? I am ashamed that women are so simple. To offer war where they should kneel for peace; Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway. When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, Unapt to toil and trouble in the world, But that our soft conditions and our hearts. Should well agree with our external parts? Come, come, you forward and unable worms!”

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Katherine goes on to say that one should obey whatever her husband has to command. He is the king, the leader and one should never think otherwise. Petruchio was amazed by the words and is convinced that she was tamed and his plan worked as wanted. 


At the end of “Bride Wars” after both girls were done sabotaging each other and making a big fight with the man they are suppose to be marrying they both just give up and give in. Both thinking and saying the same thing, “Oh, this fighting is so dumb, I'm so sorry about everything.”

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At the end of both stories things actually work out for the better even though no one was expecting it. Emma found out about her true self and was convinced that the love between the man she was about to marry was “just a thing of the past”. While letting him go she remembered all she really needed was her best friend. In “Taming of the Shrew”, no one would've thought that Katherine and Petruchio would of ended up together but they did. He ended with an accomplishment and a wife as well as Liv but Emma ended off with something different, a new look on life. One partner having control in these relationship helped form them into what they really needed to be. Throughout the centuries nothing really changed about what society wants to see! They want to see someone wearing the pants in the relationship and one to watching them fit. 

Bibliography:  

-Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. N.p.: 1590-1592, n.d. Print.

-Bride Wars. Dir. Gary Winick. Perf. Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. 2009. DVD.

-"The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)." Bride(: |-*| )Wars Script at IMSDb. N.p., 5 Jan. 2009. Web. 6 Dec. 2013.

-SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2013.

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Alexis McCormick; Gold Stream; Benchmark Prep Journal:

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 2 - Pahomov on Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Alexis McCormick 

Gold Stream 

Benchmark Prep Journal


Benchmark Prep Journal number one:


Iago:

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

When this advice is free I give and honest,

Probal to thinking and indeed the course

To win the Moor again? For ’tis most easy

The inclining Desdemona to subdue

In any honest suit: she’s framed as fruitful

As the free elements. And then for her

To win the Moor—were’t to renounce his baptism,

All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,

His soul is so enfetter’d to her love,

That she may make, unmake, do what she list,

Even as her appetite shall play the god

With his weak function. How am I then a villain

To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,

Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!

When devils will the blackest sins put on,

They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,

As I do now: for whiles this honest fool

Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes

And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,

I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear,

That she repeals him for her body’s lust;

And by how much she strives to do him good,

She shall undo her credit with the Moor.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch,

And out of her own goodness make the net

That shall enmesh them all.”


This soliloquy is found in act two, scene three, when Iago is talking to himself about Cassio trying to arrive back in Othello’s favor, and how Othello would do anything to keep Desdemona’s love. It is easy to say that Iago is talking to himself in this section, but also Iago could be talking to the devil from the line saying; “Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows As I do now.” This quote is saying that the argument that is happening at this point could be something the devil himself would be in, and or talk about. Back then, whomever was playing Iago’s role at this point would understand that they have to look and act devious from the line saying “And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.“ Iago at this point is basically saying, how his big plan is going to work and how he is going to trap everyone. From what we learned in class today about the actors back then, and how they didn’t know what their lines were about. As well as what actions they had to do. They would figure it out from the last sentence or this big quote.


Benchmark Prep Journal number two:


I am going to be investigating Brabantio’s perspective in act one, scene one. In this scene Iago and Rodreigo are telling Brabantio that his daughter is sleeping with the moor, also known as Othello. At first in this scene Brabantio was woken up from his sleep from screaming from the two men, yelling about the moor and Brabantio being robbed. At first Brabantio was confused and about what the men were talking about because he didn’t understand what they meant of him being robbed. What they actually mean is that Othello, robbed his daughter; Desdemonda’s love. Brabantio does not believe the words coming from the man's mouth until one of them gave him a proposition which was: “Sir, I will answer anything. But, I beseech you, If’t be your pleasure and most wise consent (As partly I find it is) that your fair daughter

At this odd-even and dull watch o' th' night Transported with no worse nor better guard But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor, If this be known to you and your allowance, We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs. But if you know not this my manners tell me

We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe That, from the sense of all civility,

I thus would play and trifle with your reverence. Your daughter (if you have not given her leave) I say again, hath made a gross revolt, Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself. If she be in her chamber or your house, Let loose on me the justice of the state For thus deluding you.” -Roderigo. Roderigo is saying that if your daughter is not in her room she is with the Moor but if she is then go ahead and kill him for his horrible lies. Brabantio is second guessing and still believes that theses words were still lies until he checks  his daughter’s room. After reading the first scene it's understood that Brabantio is shocked and is upset that his daughter would do such a thing. Brabantio is very upset and throughout the rest of the act he try’s to make up several situations on why Desdamona is doing this to him.



Benchmark Prep Journal number three:


The scene that my group and I had is where, Cassio reunites with Bianca and gives her the handkerchief that he found in his chamber. Bianca gets upset because she thinks that Cassio got the handkerchief from one of the women he was cheating with. The only reason why Bianca is leading to conclusions on the cheating line is because she was cheated on several times before. The first man she fell in love with cheated on her after two long years of on and off relationship. The man after her first love was more of an on and off type of guy but they said they were only seeing each other but she found out that he also lied to her. He would buy things for both Bianca and the said girl. With those memories that Bianca had with the last man in her life, she thought that because Cassio was giving a gift he, "found in his room", that he was then cheating. The previous men in Bianca's life made her have second thoughts about any men in her previous and future life.


Benchmark Prep Journal number four:


This journal it is more of a built list, so the actions I am going to be doing as my character as Bianca is to throw the handkerchief down and run off. The tone in my voice is going to be very upset and full of much anger. The props I am going to be using are a type of cloth for the handkerchief and dollars bills because my character is into that type of stuff. The reason why I believe my group and are presentation will stand out is because we are going to speak loud and clear and we are going to make the scene that we are performing over the top just like the real thing. My group and I decided that we need to put a lot of action into the performance while we speak and we also agreed that we would speak as if it was the real thing, like professional actors.


Benchmark Post-Performance Journal 


In scene six, the character I played was Bianca. During this time in the play, Bianca was full of anger, and she was very upset. She thought that Cassio was cheating on her because he gave her a fount handkerchief that she believed came from another women he was sleeping with. After reading my lines over and over again I soon believed the the line I felt that set the whole scene, mood, and emotions was when Bianca said, “This is some minx’s token. There; give it your hobby-horse: where-so-ever you had it.” This line made me think to react on a high level voice full of rage and anger basically almost about to cry. She then runs out very upset out of anger.  


I believe that my group did pretty well, knowing that one of our cast members has a very low voice, and the others are shy. The only thing that I thought didn’t go as planned was that we didn’t memorize the lines as much as we liked. We planned to have most of our lines down packed so we would look more professional, but it didn’t go as planned. Also, I stumbled on my words a little bit. I was just so worried about getting everything right, that I got scared and whined up messing up. 


After performing our scene, I felt as though I interpreted “Othello” by Shakespeare, a lot better and more easier. The reason for that is because of the deeper understanding of the many different characters and their stories. Throughout the short acting classes where we had to perform with just our groups. I started out really slow. In other words, I did not know what I was doing. After a few days, with the help of Mr. Aaron and Ms. Pahomov, I soon was able to feel Bianca’s emotions. I think with all the small activities that were led up to the actual performance day helped me get more into character.  


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El collar

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 2 - Bey on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 8:48 pm
​Andrés  y Carmen.

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/file/d/0B2Emkm_Y-gZ2UnhGQnZEZW5jaGc/edit?usp=sharing
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God's great test

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 2 - Pahomov on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 8:38 pm
​This story is about my mother Dawn Lewandowski getting pregnant at a really young age and how she lived the rest of her life after her situation as a child started with children.

You will need to know that many situations happen with this story and my mother was not apart of the reasons why my sisters had the problems that they did.


You will also see that I set a boundary for myself to cross and you will understand why after listening to the full pod cost.
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   Crossing boundaries can be both physical and mental and happens in many cases. When one crosses a boundary they can do it with or without the knowledge of them actually doing it. In this case my mother actually crossed two boundaries as you know. One being the boundary of comfort and the boundary of responsibility. In the case of my mother crossing her boundaries made a plus, even if some negative things happened without the situation. When one crosses a boundary it can set both cost and benefits it just determines on what the boundary is.  While I was doing this project I learned many things I didn't know about my mother and sisters. I honestly would not do nothing different then what I did maybe interview my sister Tiffany. Tiffany is the middle child with her son is the care of someone else. The only reason why I did not interview her is because the whole story is very emotional and with the problems she was diagnosed with she would make the story more sad then it is and its hard for her to talk about that story because it's a huge part of her life. I believe that my peers were right, I took great time and I believe that my overall topic was very interesting and even though teen pregnancy story's are common today the added information with the lies and my sisters conditions make it better.

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Girasol Revista

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 2 - Bey on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 9:25 pm


Carmen McCormick, Arcela Johnson, Veronica Olshin y Lorenzo Gray.
http://amccormic0.wix.com/girasol-revista
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How to pass spanish class.

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 2 - Bey on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 7:40 pm
​Here is Carmen McCormick, Arcela Johnson and Sara Das's link:

http://vimeo.com/58065635

And our video is below for easy access.

Public Service Announcement:Instructional Video Benchmark from Alexis McCormick on Vimeo.

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Just a little different by Alexis McCormick

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 2 - Pahomov on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 8:58 am

     Language can make you who you are. It can help you in some cases and in others, hurt. Sometimes using a different language others may look at you questionably. Language can tell a story about who you are. One language may comes with several different accents. Having an accent makes you even different as a person. You have to understand that even if you or anyone else had a slight accent there’s nothing different about that person, the only thing different is the way they pronounce a word. You can’t judge a person based off their accent, everyone has something they can’t control and their accent is what it is. 

     With that I will tell you my story. I am a girl that comes from south Philadelphia, born and raised. I can say I live in a pretty good neighborhood, which people generally call “dego land”, but if you go up or down a few blocks you will hit places you wouldn’t want to go. My surrounding are mostly asian and black with hints of white here and there. If you closed your eyes and get a white and black person to speak, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, but for some odd reason, im different. I hang out with every race, nothing particular. The questionable wonder from people about my accent is unanswerable. With this some accent judgement comes to play. And the even worse thing is that I get judged by some of my best friends.

      Have you ever been asked that question “where do you come from?” Well I do, all the time. Its all because of the way I speak. Its only a few words I pronounce differently. The worst feeling is when your own family and friends the ask the same question. The way I pronounce some words puts a slightly small toll on my life. I guess just because I grew up with a better education and payed attentions to the speaking test that I was blessed by being able to say words you would hear in the rich south.

     I’m very dedicated to my sports. If someone is playing a sport I’m interested in, then I’ll ask to play. But one day something happened at softball that I wasn’t expecting. That day it felt like it had to be at lease ninety five degrees out, and with the sun beating down on you makes it ten times worse. I needed a drink of water, I was so parched.

“Hey bri, throw me a watuh?”

“Sorry lex, we only have wateeeerrr, you know W-A-T-E-R.

     That day, was a day where I felt less than everyone else. That day at that moment, I was very tempted to quit something I really loved. All because my whole team was laughing at me because I said one word different. I realized that day that my accent could ruin things I really truley loved. 

     After that day I started to realize that I pronounced other word more differently. The first was “watuh”, then it was “bull” instead of “ball”, “gulf” instead of “golf” and “dughter” instead of “daughter”. What I learned through out this time period is that I was different from some others and it felt good. I was happy that I found out that I talk differently from others. Who wants to be just like everyone else? I know not me, because I like being my own person. 

      Something interesting was that some other people that passed through my life also spoke similar to how I pronounce words and others really liked the way I talked. So my little accent helped me meet new people who wanted to consistently engage in conversation just to hear me speak my words just a little differently. I kind of felt special after a while, people introduced me to their friends just because I tend to take away the “R” in water and the “A” in daughter.

     You can’t take something so miner to the head because you’ll never really know who’s going to like you for who you really are. I learned that my little accents helped in situations like when I have to talk to an important elder. When I encounter this situation I speak more properly. So in cases like that I feel like I do have an advantage.

     With that something else came to mind. The worst feeling is when you and your best friend get into a fight, right? Well one day me and my best friend Briana got into a little disagreement about something completely childish. She came at me with “I think im better then everyone and I act to grown for my age”. That right their lead into so much more, but she was referring to how I don’t talk with so much slang like every other child from around my neighborhood does. I told her, its not that I think im better then anyone. Im just a person who was raised with class and It was tough to speak with manors.

     I no longer get upset when people make fun of my little accent that I have, I just tell myself every time that this accent that people torture me with is what makes me different from a lot of other people. My accent makes me who I am and I wouldn’t change my experience with this accent for anything because it showed me a different view on life. This small accent I have helped me in many ways and I believe that it will help me because a very important part in many peoples lives and my very important future. 

     Don’t ever let something so little get you down, remember the people who hurt you with anything are just people who are mad, and if it is your friend, in any case, they aren’t true friends. Be who you are then you’ll realize that the people who come through your life and stayed are the people that will be there forever.  

English benchmark Digital Story from Alexis McCormick on Vimeo.

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Nothing Lasts Forever!

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 2 - Pahomov on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 8:18 am

Alexis McCormick

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Nothing Last Forever

Why  Rou (teddy bear her dad got her), just why, I mean I wouldn’t be a bad girlfriend I think I would be a pretty good one matter of fact, doncha think? Why can’t I just find that boy who will make me that girl he can show off to all of his friends and we can be together forever, where is my prince? I mean daddy called me his little princess all the time but after he died no one called me princess since. I miss it rou, I mean you don’t understand. I want to fall in love but then again I loved daddy and he left me. I just don’t know what to do anymore. Should I just give up? Should stop trying to find someone that will never want to find me? What should I do, (sniff and tear). Why aren’t you saying anything, what you don’t love me anymore either? Are you going to leave me too because thats what seems to happen every time. Fine just leave, get out now I don’t what no one anymore not even love (throws teddy bear behind her).

(Still  crying to herself, singing a song her father sang to her when she was a little girl) 

“Baby I love you and I'll never let you go. But if I have to my little princess I think that I should            let you know. All the memories that we make can never be erased And I promise you that you will never be replaced, god gave me a gift and her name is Stella she’s my little princess forever.”


(Girl starts pouring down crying for a little bit then looks back at the bear) Its not that I hate you Rou its just that I don’t want to lose someone I love so easy again. (Stella goes over to the bear and hugs it so tight)I love you Rou, I just don’t know what to do anymore. I miss daddy so much. Gosh, I would do so much to see him one more time. Its just that mama said he’s looking over me now, she said he would be so happy on what i'm becoming as a person. Remember the first day daddy gave you to me, I felt like my heart smiled Rou. Can you just promise me something Rou, please don’t ever leave me(scene ends with the girl hugging the bear really tight with a smile on her face).


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Project link

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 2 - Bey on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 2:33 pm
https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/open?id=0B2Emkm_Y-gZ2bnRnLVhpbS1sZzQ
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Mi casa.

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Monday, May 14, 2012 at 10:30 pm
​La casa es muy grande. La casa tiene diez salas: comedor,cocina, dos baño,sótano, tres cuarto, biblioteca,garaje. La piscina es mucho bonito con un árbol.La casa tiene mucho 

escalera. El garaje es la grande. Hay a mucho 

grande tele.La sótano es hace.
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E1U8-Sazon- Alexis McCormick & Emmanuel Kouadio.

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 10:38 am
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Lindsay Lohan_Alexis McCormick

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El secreto del coy.

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 10:36 am
​Hay una familia en la parka de chili. Hay un papá, un mamá, un hijo, y hija. La familia tiene una casa pequeña. La famolia tiene una coy Es una coy grande. El coy es mut importante. El coy tiene no secreto. El coy conento. El coy le dice al papá. "El vielnto, Mamacocha, no esta no está contento. Mamacoca va a destruir la parka. "Hay un problema. Es in problea grande."

El coy le dice al papá, Sibe el srbol más alta con tu familia." La familia camina hacia el arbol más alta el coy. El arbol más alta se kkama alta pada sempre.
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Food blog.

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Museum Experience - Echols on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 2:11 pm
​What is food? Why does it matter?

An edible substance which comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, flavors etc. What all living organisms need to survive. It is something that helps both people and  animals to live and will always be something that is  needed.
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Alexis y Marty...

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 9:04 am
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Mi Actividades!

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 9:58 am
    ​Mi nombre Alexis McCormick. Tengo 15 años. Soy siempre trabjar todo. Así que mí siempre duermo. Soy enconta para ser relajar. Por lo tanto escucho música. Soy muy sociable. Así que hablo por teléfono. Soy súper perezoso. Por la tanto mí no enconta trabajo.
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Nike Slavery

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in English 1 - Kay on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:59 pm
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¡Me encanta SLA! AMcCormick_Q3_Proyecto

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 1:29 pm
SLA es una escuela may genial, con muchos clases como drama, ingeníera, toncnología, ciencuas, educación fíaica, inglés, español, matmáticas, almuerzo, historua y mucho clubes. Tenomos mucho profesoroes y estudiantes. SLA electronico; no libros sólo computadoras. Es muy intersante, divertida, creativa. Está en felidelphía está en 22ns y Arch. Me encanta SLA porgue es mut cómica pero seria. Vamos cohetes!
​Clase: Bioquímica.
Profesora: El Señor Sharif.
Actividades en la clase: experimentos y ver cerca en cosas y investigamos.
Responsabilidades: particper y tener un abierto mente
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Materiales: un libro, una bolígrafo, y una computadora.




​Clase: Matemáticas.
Profesora: La Señorita Garvey.
Actividades en la clase: trabajar con números y resolver los problems.
Responsabilidades: la tarea trabajor duro
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Materiales: mí carpeta y muchos lápices.
​La clase de bioquïmica, el Señor Sharif es muy comíco y intaresante! Para la clase necesito mí computadora y un libro, Para tener éxite envla clase tenemos que paeticper. Me gusta bioquímica es muy energético y manose en! En el biguímica hacemos experimentos y ver cerca en cosas y investigamos. Tengo la clase los lunes, martes, jueves y viernes.


La clase de matemáticas, la Señprita Garvey es seriousia trabajadora y amable. para la clace necesito mí carpeta y muchos lápices. Para tener éxite en la clase es tenemos que hacer la tarea y trabajor duro. Me gusta matemáticas es muy cepilladay listo a ir. En la clase hacen trabajar con números y resolver los problems. Todas las dias menos lunes, martes y viernes.
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Alexis McCormick_Media Flouncy

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Technology - Hull on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 9:47 am
​See the differences? 


The things I changed with my slide was very simple for example, since my presentation I learned that I need to change my text and color so it was more noticeable, and I change the way the text is laid out and put a little bit of pop into it.
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Mis Seres Queridos

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Friday, January 6, 2012 at 10:24 am
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Tags: E1U3, leydipirela
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D pryde

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:33 am
D Pryde tienes él pelo negro y marrones. 
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Alexis_McCormick-Q2-Media_Fluency

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Technology - Hull on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 10:53 am
​ Here is a Slide Design I thought was a good resource. 
I learned that having a bold color stand out would make your slide look better. And having a item replacing a letter makes it look nice and would catch you eye.

Here is another Slide Design that I though was good aswel. 
It help me out because having a million words on word slide which makes the reader go crazy. So put your words in simpler form.


When I read then Zen link I learned that the picture can bleed of the page. And also I learned that the slide should have a cycle so the eyes of the reader will go around and around and around.

I chose the theme of before and after. The reason for this is because as i grew I released what life really was and that you cant depend of everyone and you have to do things by yourself but you still need help. Just like a flower, it grows on its own but it still needs water and sunlight to grow beautiful and strong.
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¡Hola Leydi Pirela mi nuevo amiga!

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Monday, November 21, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Querid Leydi Pirela,



Hola Leydi, soy Alexis McCormick, tengo 15 años. Mi cumpleaños es el agosto 12,1996. Soy un el verano bebé. Soy nacido y criado en Filadelfia la ciudad del amor fraternal. Me gusta escuchar música y cantar y salir con mi novio Michael may lindo es mucho moreno. No me gusta nada dibujar y jugar videojuegos. Soy un poquit boba y cómica. Podría sentarme para el día hablando de algo divertido, soy muy bueno en eso! Jajaja Es por eso que tengo muchos amigos. Yo tengo novio,  y el es muy lindo con migo, lo quiero mucho. ¿Y tu tienes novio? ¿Como estas ? ¿Cómo eres tú? ¿Qué haces para divertirte? Quiero saber más sobre lo que me gustaría saber, espero que podamos ser buenos amigos Cuando no estoy en la escuela yo estoy con mi novio o si no estoy con el, estoy con mi amigas Wendy y Angelina y Marisa,bailey, yo mi gusta comprar ropa de secreto rosa Victoria. Me encanta tu nombre tanto!  ¿Cuál es tu casa, como? Yo tengo  ojos azules  y tengo pelo rubio y yo no mi gusta nada cocinar pero si mi gusta comer, pero no estoy gorda . Bueno, me voy porque tengo que estudiar. Espero a escuchar de ti pronto y escuchar todo sobre su vida maravillosa. adiós :)


Con cariño,
Alexis
my baby
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Este es mi novio va a trabajar.
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Mi mijor amiga Wendy ! <3 
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Mi mijor amiga Angelina .
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Mi mijor candador Prince royce ! <3
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Mi hermoso ciudad.
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Mi mijor amiga Marisa
Aquí está mi canción favorit Precio por Royce!
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John and Jaden. Tarea: 14/11/11

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 5:49 pm
 Aquí es John y Jaden, John como jugar a los videojuegos y ir a la escuela. También como Jaden  le gusta salir con sus amigos y jugar con sus juguetes y leer. El amor fraternal es tan fuerte y los dos les encanta pasar tiempo con su tía. Me encantan estos chicos con todo mi corazón y nada puede cambiar eso. ♥♥♥







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¡HOLA!

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 9:49 am
​Topic #1-

 

Greetings-

 

Title- Hola!

 

Well when you go to corner store you’re going to want to know how to say hello or goodbye and how are you doing and also you’re going to want to know how to reply as well. So I am going to help you out and make this a fast and easy learning process.

 

 

Spanish*                            English*

¡Hola!

Hello, hi, hey

adios

Goodbye or have a nice one

¿Como estás?

How are you (older)

Como está

How are you (age group or friend)

¡Muy bien, gracias!

Very well, thank you

¡Buenos dies!

Good day or good morning

¡Buenos tardes!

Good afternoon or good evening

¡Buenas noches!

Goodnight

Y tú

And you

lo que está pasando

 

Whats happening

cómos se va

 

Hows it going

 ¿Como te llamas?

whats your name(older)

¿Como se llama?

Whats your name (someone in your age group)

Me llamo or Yo soy

My name it ______

Bienvenido

Welcome

 

Greetings.
Alexis is meeting a new spanish teacher and all she speaks is spanish.



Here is Emalyn's lección on phone numbers.
Here is her lección on courtesy.
Here is her lección on the days of the week.

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DONT WEAR THE RAIN!

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8:53 am

Topic #3-

 

Weather-

 

Title- Don’t wear the rain

 

We all need to know how to say the weather in order to prepare for your day ahead. You want to know if it’s going to snow so you can wear a warm outfit. Or if you’re going out to party at a club and outside is hot and inside is much hotter you’re not going to wear something thick or bolcky. So I am going to help you know the weather like the back of your hand.

 

Weather & Seasons

ENGLISH

SPANISH

PRONUNCIATION

    GUIDE    

How’s the weather?

¿Qué tiempo hace?

kay teeAIM-

poh AH-say?

It’s cold.

 Hace frío.

AH-say FREE-

oh

It’s hot.

Hace calor.

AH-say cah-

LURE

It’s windy.

Hace viento.

AH-say beeAIN-t

oh

It’s raining.

Está lloviendo.

es-ta-

youWay-dao

It’s snowing.

 Está nevando.

Es-ta- neeA-

bah

It’s cloudy.

Está nublado.

Es-ta now-bela

-do

 

 

 

It’s sunny.

 Hace sol.

AH-say sole

Winter

Cel Invierno

een-beeAIR-

noh

Spring

La Primavera

pree-mah-BAY-

rah

Summer

El Verano

bay-RAH-noh

Fall

El otoño

oh-TONE-yoh

GO TO THIS TO LEARN IN A FUN WAY -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9I59_QcKs  

             

Weather.
Emalyn is clueless about the weather today, so she is going to ask her friend Alexis what it is like outside.



Here is Emalyn's lección on phone numbers.
Here is her lección on courtesy.
Here is her lección on the days of the week.

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DONT BE LATE!

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Monday, October 24, 2011 at 3:08 pm
​Topic #2-

 

Asking and telling time-

 

Title- Don’t be late

 

Your going to need to know how to tell time and how to say it so here is a way im going to help you. It might take a while because you’re new to it but remember your going to be a pro very soon. Practice makes perfect!

 

(*Es la una – 1:00

*Son las (__hour__) – hour:00

*Es la una y cinco – Five minutes past.

*Menos cinco - :45

*Y media-Half past)

 

*Here are so way to say times in words:

 

Al mediodía – at noon

 

A la medianoche – at midnight

 

Alrededor de – around

 

De día - day

 

Durante el día – during the day

 

A tiempo – on time

 

En punto – on the dot

 

Trade – late

 

temprano – early

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This is Emalyn asking Alexis the time so she isen't late for her meeting, but it sees that she is running a little behind... ¡AY, Díos Mío! 



Here is Emalyn's lección on phone numbers.
Here is her lección on courtesy.
Here is her lección on the days of the week.
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