Portfolio Outlines

Elective

- Fear and Confidence project: I learnt all the connections between fear and all the fears there are. How the are born and why they stay and how to prevent them. This piece of work was for my elective, ethics.

Sociales

- Enterview Political Parties Project: I learnt all I know about the political parties in Colombia and how the function

English

- Books: Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, I am number Four

- Hunger Games Trailer Project: I learnt how to atract people to read or do something. I also learnt how to edit and how to structure a trailer

Social Studies

- Mesopotamia Items Building Project: We had to make certain items that you would tipically find in a peasrents hous in ancient mesopotamia.

I learned how to use clay and how to make something lokk old with certain characteristics.

Math

- I did an ancient MAthematician project. We had to make a sort of biography of a mathematician and how he contributed to something other than math in his time.

Science

- Car of the future project. We had to make an ecological car witha sort of technology or other fuel source.

Spanish

- I created a sort of booklet about Golfo de Morrosquillo. During the year, weve read 1 book: Farenheit 451.

3 Best Pieces of Work Journal

This year I chose my three best pieces of work that I did not only on how I did academically on them, but how I enjoyed doing them and what other thing than the academic buble I learnt. I chose my three best pieces by analyzing what I had learnt with each one. My final conclusion was that the three best pieces I have done are: My science cat of the future project, my spanish short story writing and my social studies podcast on medieval europe. I had to go a step further than what we learned in class with these because they also included working in teams and working with technology tools. I learned new leadership skills and how to perfectly function Keynote and Mac applications.

Piece of Writing Final Improved

          Energy drinks, as the name clearly states, are supposed to give you a “boost” of energy. Basically, the difference between an energy drink and sport drinks, soft drinks or regular drinks are the ingredients. What energy drinks have that most other drinks doesn’t have, is a high dose or percentage of sugar and caffeine. Sure, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have caffeine and sugar but a can of 480ml does not have 27g of sugar. 27 grams is about 10 teaspoons of sugar! That’s about 5 sugar cubes per can mixed in with caffeine and other “boost” like ingredients like inositol which is part of the b vitamin group, yet not a vitamin. The effect that sugar gives you in such a concentrated amount and the danger is that it accelerates the production of adrenaline by a lot, just that it lasts for a moment and then it disappears. Inositol is designed to trick the body to think it´s a vitamin process it quicker and send it to important cells in the body. Inositol´s main function or design is to help relay messages within cells in the body (accelerate movement artificially. Within this chemical and others in the energy drinks like taurine and sodium chloride ionic bonds are formed to create the energy drink.

        These chemicals of course have an impact on the body that is supposed to give you the boost of energy. If you take a look at the ingredients in both Rockstar and Monster, you would get the impression that an energy drink is a blend between a soft drink and a nutrition drink; and people that have tried the drinks say the same to the taste. They say that the taste in these drinks fall into medicinal or molten sweet tart alike. Like the ingredients, manufacturers say that the energy drinks do give you extra help on endurance and physical performance while most professional doctors strongly disagree. They all say that the energy drink works on its high amount of caffeine and that the other ingredients are not a boost for you, but for the caffeine itself working on the body. Caffeine works by blocking the job of adenosine. Adenosine is a chemical produced by the brain for sleep. When it is blocked, the neutrons in your brain are fired, tricking the body to think it’s an emergency and releasing large amounts of adrenaline, causing your eyes to dilate and causing the liver to release a lot of sugar into your bloodstream for energy. While it causes all this, it also affects a chemical in the brain´s pleasure system, called dopamine, making the body think it has much more energy than it really does. All this chemical energy is produced to create mechanical energy in the body´s movements and capacities at the moment.

      Since caffeine in these drinks is so pure and has a large effect on the body, it is not recommended for children under 12 years old, pregnant women or people with heart disease. The effect on the heart that the drinks may produce is dangerous for small children since their weak and little heart may not be able to hold the power of the boost. Since babies inside whoms receive what the mother consumes, it is dangerous for their hearts. They do not have the capacity for even a small zip of these drinks. On the other hand, children that are tall and about above 13 or 14 years old can handle these but not excessively. One every once in a while is ok, as long as no kind of addiction is produced and they are moderate with their servings and portions.

    Covering some of the dangers in these drinks can´t is easy so it has to be very hard on the companies and their marketing strategies. For Monster, I think their technique is truly amazing. They basically don´t hide secrets of the drinks, they simply diverse the attention from the bad things. By hosting motocross events and designing accessories and motor bikes, they show the public what´s good about monster and how it helps worldwide athletes and stunt drivers like Travis Pastrana who landed the first double backflip! For Rockstar, I dislike their strategy. They truly hide their ingredients and the bad things about the drink. Monster simply doesn’t talk about it unless their asked, Rockstar acts as if they had no idea. As well, they only sponsor athletes, but they don’t host or show major interest in the sports that they are trying to sell their product through.

     Overall, it has been decided. The winner of our epic battle is Monster. Their market is diverse, drawing attention to sell the drink indirectly. The drink also contains less amount and pure caffeine along with artificial flavoring and food coloring. Monster is heading to the top of energy drinks and is trying to make it less unhealthy, that gave it the grand winning prize!

Comments on Piece of Writing

Mathias: tomas did a very good job. He really did show his interest in the project and organized it very well. I like how he put very straight facts into his writing and helps to shape your opinion as the reader. If I were to correct this, I would only check spelling, the structure is great how it is.

William: I really liked reading this. Now I know how energy drinks can be to your body. My correction is to make it more friendly. Relax the mood.

Tomas´ Dad: I really enjoyed reading Tomas´s work. I personally think energy drinks are horrible in every way, so I wouldn’t say anything good about them. The correction I have for Tomas is to be more clear. There were times were you just jumped into an explanation of something you didn’t know was being covered. That’s what I would correct.

Piece of Wirting I could Improve - Science

 Energy drinks, as the name clearly states, are supposed to give you a “boost” of energy. Basically, the difference between an energy drink and sport drinks, soft drinks or regular drinks are the ingredients. What energy drinks have that most other drinks doesn’t have, is a high dose or percentage of sugar and caffeine. Sure, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have caffeine and sugar but a can of 480ml does not have 27g of sugar. 27 grams is about 10 teaspoons of sugar! That’s about 5 sugar cubes per can mixed in with caffeine and other “boost” like ingredients like inositol which is part of the b vitamin group, yet not a vitamin. The effect that sugar gives you in such a concentrated amount and the danger is that it accelerates the production of adrenaline by a lot, just that it lasts for a moment and then it disappears. Inositol is designed to trick the body to think it´s a vitamin process it quicker and send it to important cells in the body. Inositol´s main function or design is to help relay messages within cells in the body (accelerate movement artificially. Within this chemical and others in the energy drinks like taurine and sodium chloride ionic bonds are formed to create the energy drink.

        These chemicals of course have an impact on the body that is supposed to give you the boost of energy. If you take a look at the ingredients in both Rockstar and Monster, you would get the impression that an energy drink is a blend between a soft drink and a nutrition drink; and people that have tried the drinks say the same to the taste. They say that the taste in these drinks fall into medicinal or molten sweet tart alike. Like the ingredients, manufacturers say that the energy drinks do give you extra help on endurance and physical performance while most professional doctors strongly disagree, since it blocks a substance.When it is blocked, the neutrons in your brain are fired, tricking the body to think it’s an emergency and releasing large amounts of adrenaline, causing your eyes to dilate and causing the liver to release a lot of sugar into your bloodstream for energy. While it causes all this, it also affects a chemical in the brain´s pleasure system, called dopamine, making the body think it has much more energy than it really does. All this chemical energy is produced to create mechanical energy in the body´s movements and capacities at the moment.

      Since caffeine in these drinks is so pure and has a large effect on the body, it is not recommended for children under 12 years old, pregnant women or people with heart disease. The effect on the heart that the drinks may produce is dangerous for small children since their weak and little heart may not be able to hold the power of the boost. Since babies inside whoms receive what the mother consumes, it is dangerous for their hearts. They do not have the capacity for even a small zip of these drinks. On the other hand, children that are tall and about above 13 or 14 years old can handle these but not excessively. One every once in a while is ok, as long as no kind of addiction is produced and they are moderate with their servings and portions.

    Covering some of the dangers in these drinks can´t is easy so it has to be very hard on the companies and their marketing strategies. For Monster, I think their technique is truly amazing. They basically don´t hide secrets of the drinks, they simply diverse the attention from the bad things. By hosting motocross events and designing accessories and motor bikes, they show the public what´s good about monster and how it helps worldwide athletes and stunt drivers like Travis Pastrana who landed the first double backflip! For Rockstar, I dislike their strategy. They truly hide their ingredients and the bad things about the drink. Monster simply doesn’t talk about it unless their asked, Rockstar acts as if they had no idea. As well, they only sponsor athletes, but they don’t host or show major interest in the sports that they are trying to sell their product through.

   

Amazon Review Ruff Draft, Peer Comment, and Amazon Review Final Draft

Amazon Book Review

This book is amazing. It is a perfect inside look at the agency and is very thrilling. It truly portraits the way some presidents relished their power; as well as some embarrassing moment that created their international notoriety.  Its truly amazing how you can notice the dedication the author put into it to be able t get all the insights and really did exploit her sources for all the information.

In the book, you do really get to see how klutz some presidents have been, as well as the personable under the suit. It also lets the reader see the several plots that have taken place against the nation´s leader and other personnel under the agency´s detail. The author was also able to portrait the way and protocol that the agents need to thwart any kind of threat. It amazed me very much how hypervigilant an agent has to be on this job, but still how many dullards they have placed on the job.

The book is a true insight to how secluded the president is, few people know what actually happens behind the scenes, although many have a cursory. If you have a plan on acting on the president, read this book and think twice because the moment you don’t know, the secret service will pounce on you. Trust me, you don’t want that.

Mathias Kling suggestions:

Overall, Tomas did a very good job. It is clear he put some time into his work and was done with excellent quality. My advice to him in his vocab work is nothing. It is very well done, although he might want to consider choosing different words in the sentences wjere he needs to replace the vocab words. In his amazon review, I really liked it. I think he had to play with the words until they really did fit in. What I advice for the review is to give a final concrete opinion about the book, and then it will be perfect.

Amazon Review Final:

This book is amazing. It is a perfect inside look at the agency and is very thrilling. It truly portraits the way some presidents relished their power; as well as some embarrassing moment that created their international notoriety.  Its truly amazing how you can notice the dedication the author put into it to be able t get all the insights and really did exploit her sources for all the information.

In the book, you do really get to see how klutz some presidents have been, as well as the personable under the suit. It also lets the reader see the several plots that have taken place against the nation´s leader and other personnel under the agency´s detail. The author was also able to portrait the way and protocol that the agents need to thwart any kind of threat. It amazed me very much how hyper vigilant an agent has to be on this job, but still how many dullards they have placed on the job.

The book is a true insight to how secluded the president is, few people know what actually happens behind the scenes, although many have a cursory. If you have a plan on acting on the president, read this book and think twice because the moment you don’t know, the secret service will pounce on you. Trust me, you don’t want that.

Overall, the author did a very good job with investigation for this book. The division into chaprters and their tittles is very cleverly done. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes police and military stories and facts. It does include a lot of protocol explanation, which I like, but most people don’t. The only flaw with this book would be the plot. I would organize the chapters differently, to keep the reader on course of each president and protocol explanation. Rating: 4/5 stars.

Categories of Non Fiction Book Vocabulary

Categories: - State of Being  -characteristic –action –  object:

State of being:

-          Personable

-          Hypervigilant

-          Grueling

-          Secluded

-          Wag

Characteristic:

-          pathogens

-          frenzy

-          larceny

-          notoriety

-          adulation

-          conundrum

-          dullard

-          klutz

Action:

-          exigent

-          thwart

-          holler

-          cursory

-          pounced

-          brandish

-          exploit

-          relish

-          ruse

object:

-          flange

-          grate

Non Fiction Project (1,1.5,2)

Vocab for Non Fiction Project

Grueling: very strict, tiring and demanding (a grueling schedule)

-          Secret Service agent John Adams recalls President Nixon to be very strict with all his staff, not only the agents. (Grueling)

Conundrum: a difficult question, confusing

-          He always tried to puzzle us when driving, I recall because he used to call his questions a confusion. (conundrum)

Adulation: obsessive admiration

-          Agents recalled Ford to be very troubling, since his obsession was collecting guns, carrying them would be a pain. (adulation)

Notoriety: Fame for a bad thing, known for doing something bad

-          His bad fame was for all his visits to the Hilton, non with his wife. (notoriety)

Exploit: make full use of a resource

-          When his wife wasn’t in town, he would abuse of his bathtub with ten girls at once. (exploit)

Dullard: a slow or stupid person

-          The press always considered Ford a slow person and klutz, never taking his power seriously. (dullard)

Klutz: clumsy and stupid person

-          The press always considered Ford a dullard and stupid person, never taking his power seriously. (klutz)

Frenzy: wild excitement

-          Hart always had excitement when we were driving to his summer house, especially when he was alone. (Frenzy)

Wags: non permanent workers

-          Now, because Flagstone replaces the pebbles, interns in the press room call it stone hedge. (wags)

Larceny: fraud of ownership

-          During the administration of George H. W. Bush, a man who was wanted for grand fraud tried to enter the white house with a friend of Bush´s. (larceny)

Pathogens: disease producing organism

-          Each year, TSD screens nearly a million pieces of mail sent to the White House for disease and other biological threats. (pathogens)

Brandishing: to shake or wave

-          On December 20, Marcelino Corniel dashed across Pennsylvania avenue toward the White House waving a knife. (brandishing)

Pounced: swoop down quickly and act

-          Every assassin has acted when a president is more vulnerable, outside the White House. (pounced)

Cursory: going quickly over something, no detail

-          In contrast to the overlook given to Kennedy´s planned Dallas parade route, secret service now creates a three dimensional model of buildings in route so they know what to expect and from where. (cursory)

Ruses: a trick

-          As president, Carter engaged with more lies involving his luggage. (ruses)

Grate: a type of tube

-          One day, Carter noticed water gushing out a tube outside of the White House. (grate)

        Flange: a ring of a shaft

-          Which bolt ties to which ring? (flange)

Hollering: cry loudly

-          “I have a note to deliver to the president. I don’t want him screaming at me” (hollering)

Relish: enjoy the taste of something

-          Palmer says Carter seemed to enjoy his power. (relish)

Secluded: enclosed from outside, general activity

-          In Washington, the secret service tried to find isolated routes so that Carter could run. (secluded)

Thwarted: to cross from someone reaching a goal, stopping their success

-          As with most interrupted plots against protectees, this one never appeared in the press. (thwarted)

Exigent: asking for immediate action or aid

-          You are allowed to do that in demanding circumstances in protection because its so immediate. (exigent)

Hypervigilant: extremely aware

-          “You have to be awake” (hypervigilant)

Personable: a nice and happy person

-          He was just a nice man in person. (personable)

Portfolio Journal

If I were to look at my protfolio as a stranger, I would get some imideate opinions about Tomas Urrutia. First of all, I would think of him as a sort of serious but kind and fin person to be with. I would think he is artistic, likes to think and maybe enjoys school. Also, I would think he is dedciated. The portfolio portrays him as a loving person, also fun and diverse. It has an introduction which tells us about Tomas, which would also leave an important first opinion. I think he is fun and clearly likes dogs and tennis. The potrfolio would also say he likes sports and being outdoor.

School Idea Script

Introduction:

- Have you ever considered why schools are like they are?
- Why they function so strictly but work?
- Have you ever considered, what if all was different?

With our new school, you wont imagine it, you will live it.

We are getting rid of the old, and bringing the new.

Our generation needs to talk, one word at a time.


Because with out idea, you will learn your idea. Teach it to others, and create a whole new type of learning. Finish with the stress schools bring daily, finish with the bells, learn at your pace, and compete with your level.

The standarized tests, and standarizing in schools need to end. You will be able to be standarized much less and if you are, it will be fairly. You actually will be in your category. You will learn with the people that can learn at your pace, no matter your age. You will learn the way you want to learn. We eill provide the help and tools you need. We are trying to relax you at school so so you actually work, and in a better way. You actually will want to learn; beacuse with our school, you learn because you want to learn.

My Portfolio Link

http://tomasurrutia.weebly.com/

School Idea (ALL SCHOOL WORK)

1. Peer Questions and Answers.
- How will you organize the bell system in a different way, what would you use?
   A system in which each student goes to the class they want until the class fills up and leaves when the teacher finishes, not when time finishes.
- How will you be able to choose freely whether to go or not?
  A system for signing up. It would be via skype with a cam in the class you are taking.

2. Needs it will Meet.

What a school needs is for the people that attend to learn. For example, CNG´s mission is to prepare tomorrows leaders. Our school would basically follow that goal and make the best of people for tomorrow´s world. this through different courses like economics, english(and other languages), mathematics, world history and cultural classes such as ethics.

3. Motivation for parents, teachers, staff

The enviroment of everything being on a tight schedule would change big time. Practically everyone would choose when to go to school, but still learn everything needed. It would help not intervine with family matters and such events on a regular school day.

4. School main ideas:

- To change the factorization mode
- End with bell systems
- Relax the tight schedule for students
- Change the categorization idea
- To prepare tomorrow´s leaders

How to write a book review

You can talk about a main character or your favorite character
Quotes from the book
Can talk about your favorite parts of the book
Can talk about the theme of the book
Can talk about your feelings Towards the book
Have to recommend yes or now, to who and why

How to Give Credit to Images

If you search an image on google you want to use, you have to give credit by

Putting the name or company that owns the image
Put the link where you found the image
You need to pit the copyright of the image

School Questions

1. What are the needs that this change satisfies?
 - Students more than anyone are the benefitted by this taking away the strictness (or most of it) from school.

2. What would motivate staff and parents to change or adapt into our change?
- Parents: more time to spend with their children, since the time preriods are more relaxed and organized by your needs and comodities.
- Students: have more time to enjoy sports and even schools with the new organization
- Staff: can have more liberty to organize the school in a different way
- Teachers: would also have more free time and have to teach their s

5 ideas

- change bell system
- to change the factorization mode
- Relax the tight schedule for students
- change the categorization ideas
- to prepare tomorrow´s leaders

Improve Work Journal

The piece of writing that I think and want to improve is the written part of my science "Battle of the Beverages" project. I think I could improve this piece by making it more reader friendly, relaxing the mood and tone to attract the reader even more. When I wrote it, I feel that I didnt comunicate very nicely to the reader and maybe set a stressful piece or part in to the influence part of the written part.

My Passions Journal

My true passionate hobby is airsoft. I really enjoy this sport and really wish that they played more of this in Colombia. Ive been playing it since I lived in london and really did stick to it. I turned 14 on February adn this saturday, im having my birthday party. As you can imagine im planning an airsoft war with my friends. I really enjoy this and hope to still be able to do it.

This peculiar passion can be reflected in my portfolio as my outside school sport or activity. It has been my hobby for 5 years now and i can share this fun with my father and my brother which also enjoy the sport. since it is considered and athletic and sportive activity, this is how I plan to reflect it on my

Obstacles and Supporters

Obstacles:

Schools
Government
Laws
Were minors, we dont have a voice
School benefitors, owners...


Supporters:

Worldwide students
Ms.Shawn
teachers
parents

Five Sources for Issue

Issue: School is a factory

1. http://www.acrovista.com/bellcommander/
- It says how the intercoms and bells control movements and changes during the day, releases and permits students certain things

2. http://www.fairtest.org/facts/howharm.htm
- It says that everything so standarized, spacially testing arent necessarily very accurate to show a students learning and capacity as they say

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards-based_education_reform
- It says that the education in most schools in not very in dept or independent, just general and the same...

4. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/795coxmj.asp
- It says that the system in schools k-12 is bothersome since age doesnt determine your capacity

5. http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/tcast.htm
- It says about a book that is against standarized testing and how if you get a high score your better than the rest

MSND Evaluating

Since it is a discussion, a popplet has been created to represent it. (MSND Creating)

Conclusion:

The conclusion of the MSND discussion was about the theme. We found 4 possible themes we liked and we found a winner amongst them since the play was a romance and it did end in a happy ending. The final theme we chose was that love will always find its way. (see popplet for visual)

How Schools Kill Creativity

- Kids work better in groups, it builds knowledge
- Institutions are dividing kids into groups and categorizing them which is not accurate
- you can be the same intelectually at any age (a 6 year old the same as a 10 year old)

Two Main Messages:

- What we are told isnt always the truth
- Schools are set up as an industrial system(not good)

What are parts of a Portfolio?

For Whom?

techers
parents
7th graders
camps
HS teachers
College
yourself


Parts

elective
sociales
english
SS
math
science
spanish
out of school activities
personal

How Have I changed This Year as a Learner?

When I first walked into my eight grade english class i was scared. I was told she was a different type of teacher but I didn´t know what to expect. Ms.Shawn turned out to be one of the best teachers I have ever had along with my 3rd Grade teacher in London, Mr.Otoole. In this class mostly, I have learnt to learn in different ways. I now know what helps me learn and what doesnt, stradegies to learn in deifferent ways and what kind of person to work with. All this relates to bloom´s taxonomy and the logo of the CNG learning center, "If I cant learn the way you teach, can you teach the way I learn?". This is actually the ONLY class in which I have learned how to learn, and it has and will help me a lot.

In other classes throught the year, different types of knowledge learning have presented themselves. For example in math class, I have had to adapt to learn in different ways, for example teaching myself with the textbook, when my teacher isnt very clear or when I truly do not understand the concept. This ocassion has presented itself several times through the year, not necessarily in mathematics but in other classes as well. I have also been able to experience the not so nice feeling of when the teacher truly doesnt know how to teach and never really puts effort into it. This year, It happened to me in Spanish class. Sonia is a nice person but she doesnt seem to like her job or her students, which makes everything a lot harder for everyone. I really havent learn anything in the year that has passed except for a basic law in the spanish language. It was truly a horrible experience and a waste of time.

Shakespeare Influence Essay

One of the greatest branches of art is acting in theater and plays, one of the greatest writers that has passed through the world is william shakespear, a writer with british origins. He wrote tragedies, comeddies and history plays. Many of his plays still remain and are acted every day like a famous one romeo and Juliet, and also have affected the literature today. Shakespeare is famous for his great creativity and over 50 plays.

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 54 sonnets from which the queen Elizabeth helped him with, because during the time the queen liked a lot Shakespeares writing. She gave him ideas, characters and other things to make his writing for her. He wrote tragedies, comedies and history plays. The Comedies were known because of the happy endings, his tragedies were about the were about everything except the Royal Family and comedies and last the history was about the Royal Family during the Elizabethan Era. Shakespeare’s writing affected the literature today in many ways.

In his sonnets and poems he used 17,677 words. When William Shakespeare couldn’t find a word to describe what he was thinking about, he invented the word. He invented over 1,700! In his invented words, they include assassination, bloody, critic, lonely etc. He also invented many daily used phrases such as, catch a cold, break the ice, long-haired, naked truth etc. Thanks to the greatest writer of all times, if I may say so, we use much more words and phrases, and imagine, how would we describe some events or places without his inventions? Thanks William.

He is still considered one of the greatest writers of all time. He was able to write so many plays and all of them had a unique touch that you would enjoy again and again even if it was a very similar story. His writing style was fascinating and everybody could enjoy their taste by choosing from his three main categories in which he wrote. Shakespeare did a great division for theater today. He took a step ahead of us and showed us how its supposed to be done, for whom and when, we owe him.

Chezpir ;)

One of the greatest branches of art is acting in theater and plays, one of the greatest writers that has passed through the world is william shakespear, a writer with british origins. He wrote tragedies, comeddies and history plays. Many of his plays still remain and are acted every day like a famous one romeo and juliet. Shakespeare is famous for his great creativity and over 50 plays.

Mid Summer Nights Dream Discussion Conclusion

After discussing the events and facts in the movie, we found several options for the theme of the play.

1- Fight for your love
2- Never give up*
3- Love will always finds it´s way

*= winner

Conclussion About Shakespeares Writing(Not Time Influence)

Shakespeare wrote in three main categories.  Comedies, Tradegies and Histories. Comedies werent necesarrily funny, just that they ended in happy endings which made the public happy and make them enjoy his plays. Tradegies were anything that didnt end happily without envolving the royal family. Finally, Histories are anything that involves or talks about the British Royal Family. He wrote both sonnets and plays during his writing period. Although, Shakespeare was "helped" by Queen Elizabeth, which gave him different characters or themes to write about. He wrote in a very poetic way, in the English of the time. He is now known as one of the greatest writers and poets of history.

Conclusion About Shakespeare´s Time ad Writing Discussion(Influece from his time)

After our group discussed how the time that Shakespeare affected or influenced the way he wrote, we have reached a conclussion. In his time, Monarchs are great influence on everything that happens and what they say goes. We think that since Queen Elizabeth was a character in many of his plays or many of his plays were about The Royal Family, this was what actually influenced his writing. Shakespeare wrote in three main categories: Comedies, Tradegies and Histories. Comedies werent necesarrily funny, just that they ended in happy endings which made the public happy and make them enjoy his plays. Tradegies were anything that didnt end happily without envolving the royal family. Finally, Histories are anything that involves or talks about the royal family. Since this is what the public liked, this is what and how he wrote.

Shakespeare Project Rubric

Shakespeare rubric

Knowing.      Watch shakespeare introductory

Understanding.    Notes on video

 

Applying.         Take info from video and discuss about his time and how that affected his writing

Analyzing.        Discuss Shakespeare writing style

Evaluating.        Easy about how did Shakespeare contribute to the modern world

Creating.          Create a popplet about his contributions and other things 

Rubrics Time Work Outline

1-  analyzing Aand evaluaring from MSND

2- knowing, understanding and applying of shakespeare

3- analyzing and evaluaring Shakespeare

4 & 5- creativo for both

*MSND: Mid Summer Nights Dream

Mid Summer Nights Dream Rubric

Mid Summer Night's Dream

Knowing.   Introduction video, sparknotes

Understanding        Watch movie in class

Applying.       Movie Worksheet

Analyzing        Movie theme discussion and finding the play's theme

Evaluating.         Criminal minds style theme discussion

Creating.             Create poppet for discusión

Shakespeare Video Notes

NOtes On Shakespeare Video


- Greatest writer ever

- Very Perverse Jokes

- Born 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden

- Lived in Stratford upon Avon where he went to school until the age 13

- Married Anne Hathaway in 1582

- Had 3 children: Sussana, Hamlet and Judith

- Moved to London in 1591 at the age of 27

- He started his writing carrer with 37 plays and 154 sonnets

- He worked during the Ezabithien Era; named after queen Elizabeth(time she ruled)

- the queen would shut down the play houses and theatres because of diseases

- He was believed to be one of the translators of the psalms for King James

- Public enjoyed themselves by watching people getting executed and hanging their heads on poles around town

- No good sanitation, so the bathroom was the river and the woods

- The queen really liked shakespeare and asked him to write plays about specific topics or suggested characters

- Back then, theatres were in poor neighborhoods so they were sorrounded by pubs and the red light district

- Shakespeare had many mistresses

- Shakespeare retired as a rich and famous man

- all of the actors during his time were men, so even Juliet was a man

- His plays were divided into three categories: comedies, tragedies and histories

- Histories: stories about the royal family in England

- Comedies: known for having happy endings

- Tragedies: Like Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet; stories with non happy endings that are not about the english monarchy

Comparison Novel Project (4)

http://prezi.com/zjvv5qwhsftk/theme-of-uglies-by-scott-westerfield/

Theme Discussion Novel Project (3)

My Partner, Willy Bergman, and I sat down and had a long and interesting discussion on the theme of our book, "Uglies" by Scott Westerfield. We came up with two themes that had already an origin based on our independent thoughts and reading of the book. I stood with my former decision, even after sharing and comparing ideas and notes. I decided that what I thought was the theme of the book is accepting yourself no matter what. Willy thought that the theme was that you cant let anione trick you into thinking that you dont matter. It is an important theme as well, since it shows to the reader the importance of self value.

We had a long talk and at the end, we decided that the most important theme was accepting yourself no matter what. First of all, to think you matter you have to accept yourself, so this one won like being a first step. Second of all, it is the most presented point in the book and we interpreted it as the stongest message that the author tried to send.

Universal Theme Examples (1.5)

Novel Project (Uglies)

1. Man vs. Man: This is war; FDR against The British Guy
2. Man vs. Nature: Tarzan
3. Man vs. Society: iRobot
4. Man vs. Himself: Agent Salt
5. Man vs. Supernatural: Hancock
6. Family is important: "Bajo el Mismo Techo (This is life; I think)
7. Humans have the Same Needs: The Pursuit of Happiness
8. Sacrifices bring rewards: Mission Without Permission
9. Death is Part of the Life Cycle: Narnia and Prince Caspian
10. Love Conquers All: The Holiday
11. Overcoming Adversity: Ant Bully
12. Friendship depends on Sacrifice: This is War, Dug´s sacrifice

Theme and Why (2.5)

Novel Project (Uglies)

In my opinion, the theme of this book is caring about yourself, accepting yourself no matter what. Tally and Shay showed something very important throughout the book, the one wanted to change and be pretty while the other didnt care what others thought and just wanted to adventure the lands, break the rules and enjoy her life. Later, David appears and shows looks dont matter.

I think what most shocked Tally and caused her to be so obssesed with the surgery was the fact that she was pretty behind the rest of her friends and she just wanted to meet up with them again. That, other with the impulse of society, I think is the main reason for her obsession. I think this is the theme of the book because this is what the book is about. It shows the life of a young girl in a society into which everyone is born ugly and later transformed pretty. Tally and Shay´s ability to overllok and toggle that no matter what is what the author is trying to communicate to the reader.

Notes of Book Theme (Novel Project 2.0)

Clues of Theme: (Uglies)

- Tally desperate of growing up to get surgery and become pretty
-  Despites herself, thinks is SOO ugly
- Author making reference strongly to surgery and Tally´s urge to change into pretty
- Authors introduction to Sha so close to the surgery and how she changes Tally
- The way that te author enfacieses that there is no being prettty and ugly, just the samewhere  David lives
- Importance of being pretty in that ilustrated world

Things to Improve in Writing

- Using Transitional Words
- Run on Sentences
- Repeating words through paragraphs
- spelling
- Redundant explanations

Real Learning is... Journal

Real learning for me is when you actually are interested and understand the topic that you are learning. To really learn is to actually take in what has been taught to you and be able to explain and adapt it to other situations in your life. Although you might learn stuff and ace an exam, maybe you will forget it in the future and never mind about it. where as you learn to read and from that, you might evolve into different abilities to read and ways to do it as well. For me that is real learning, for you to understand, for you to enjoy it and for you to enjoy learning it.

On the other hand, enjoying learning falls into another category that helps real learning. I seriously think that if you have a good method and you are actually interested in going on to learning more in depth of the topic, you are truly learning. I have had a much easier time with good grades in classes that I enjoy, understand and that have a teacher with a method that is good for everyone and can adapt t difficulties. Overall, that is my conclusion of good learning. A good method that you understand and a method you enjoy.

Transitional Words

 Transitional words and phrases

- although

- even though

- while

- Where as

- Despite

- In spite of

- however

- on the other hand

- what's more

Grammar

Star Wars Science Fiction

Star Wars Sci-Fi Notes

- Lightsabers

- Space travel(commercially and personal)

- Hovering Cars

- Death Star

- Laser Guns

- Sllimy speaking monsters

(I only watched one forth of the movie because of MUN)

Link to APA Useful Website

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

How to Research Notes

How to Research (APA Notes)

-       Have a topic and a focused

-       Brainstorm topics and ideas that relate to the topic (idea list)

-       Go to library for subject topics

-       Use destiny to find magazines and topic related info. Summarize info and use reputable sources and post on website

Criminal Minds Knowledge Building Notes

Criminal minds knowledge building notes

Some give info of how the girl was seduced, the others explain what they think, others say no, it's victim 2 not 1. Then someone gives a theory so he changed his strategy to kill. Then another detective doubts the theory and finally they collide the ideas together. A person starts a theory because of pictures and starts his theory of why the pictures show certain things. Someone then explains what the previous victim did to prevent and make a theory of why something didn't work. 

Ex.

Theory by colliding facts:

They all smoked and now they find that the dose to seduce was given by their cigarettes 

Wiki and Popplet links

wiki:

holeinwall.wikispaces.com/

popplet:

http://popplet.com/app/#/198497

What does it mean to make an inference?

An inference is an educated guess, based on facts and clues that you are able to add up to form a sort of conclusion. These can be while reading, watching TV or even in real life when your friends are having trouble and maybe you think by what has previously happened that they will get in a fight.

Sci-Fi related Artcle (SIRI Voice Control)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/apples-siri-voice-technology-to-dominate-ces-chatter/article2296363/

Two Articles form Star Wars

1. Star Wars in the Rocket City: Inside the science of Episode VI with artificial gravity and Leia's slave costume


- This article talks mostly about a NASA enginner and his thoughts towards the death star. He explains that the gravity of an object this big not being natural is like imaginary or imposible because of the 100 mile diameter of the object. He gives his opinions of how the directors managed this fact and explained he would have enjoyed very much if out of no where the gravity disappeared and everybody started floating. The second part of the article, was about princess Leia´s slave costume. It explained why the teenagers in 1983 liked it so much because it showed as if Leia was a lave at Jabba´s palace. 


2. Aerodinamics in Star Wars


- The great part of the articles talks about the aerodainamics and space fighters in the movie. A NASA expert doubts and questions why rebel fighters have wings, when wings are used to push air, when space doesn´t have air. It is also very unlike the way that the motors power the aircraft, since in real life, it takes a much bigger and powerful thing to mpove in space; the beam used in star war fighters is the technology used in present day military jets. 

Theme notes

Theme notes > Novels

Theme is the central idea of anything in literature. It is bigger than just one character. The subject is what the story is about and the theme is the lecture or a lesson about the conflict in the story or the subject of the story. A theme is an opinion, example: love stinks or friendship is the best thing ever. It also isn't supposed to be very obvious. You have to actually analyze what you learnt to be able to truly find the theme that the author tried to present. With this, to prove it, you must have supporting evidence from the book, this is where analyzing is important. To find the theme, you should 1. Look at the main character and find the positive changes he does, and take that the theme might be to do something like that, but if he changes is a negative way, the theme may be NOT to do what he did. 2. Watch for meaningful statements that usually show the theme clearly. 3. Look at the title for clues. 4. Look at the conflict and see what is going on. Like in Mobby dick: mam vs nature is a very clear theme.

The basics of theme:

-Theme is the moral of a story

-Theme is bigger than just the conflict.

-Literary works can have many themes

-The meanings belong to you, not the author

Theme in literature:

Man vs himself (a character with doubt or love against himself

Unknown rules of punctuation and capitalization

Punctuation and Capitalization rules we don't know > grammar

Capitalization:

- You must put capital letter on the title of high rank government officials if their title is put before their name. Do not capitalize the civil title if it's used instead of the name.

Ex: President Obama is running again in 2012.

Punctuation:

- Inside parentheses, periods are only placed inside if the whole sentence is found there.

Ex:  Please read the document. (it is found in attachment A)

- If there is a singular compound noun, possession is shown with 's at the end of the word.

Ex: My mother-in-law's hats.

- You should use the possessive case in front of a gerund.

Ex: Alex's skating was a joy to behold.

Response to Novel - Creative - 3.5/4 Novel Project

http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=33a709c27ccd915d07b38f91e0f31a09&mId=1012795 


My link to tech tool used

Peer Feedback on Literary Devices - Novel Project - (3)

Comments on Peers for Literary Devices in Novels


Mathias Kling:

Mathias also read the book Mockingjay. I liked how he found some
examples that were hidden in the author´s writing. He truly must
have analized symbols in the book to get such a deep and good example.
Overall, I think his evidence and work are really good. The only
thing I would improve is the explanation of why he something is
that for other people to understand.


Alejandro Samper:

Aleejandro read Angels and Demons. His examples are amazing. He connected
them and related to them through Disney movies. I also
liked how he analized each comparison because if you randomly
look at the two elements, they are nothing alike. Very good job.


Daniela Velez:

I liked how Daniela showed she could really relate to the
literary devices. Her examples were elaborate and well thought
out. The only thing I did not like about some of her examples,
Is that while she explains, she gives great parts of the bokk
away.

Examples from Novel - Literary Devices - (2.5) Novel Project

Examples from Novel - Literary Devices - (2) Novel Project




Digressive Time: 


- During the first chapters of the book, the author starts at the present of the story and keeps going back to wha hapenned previously.
- When the capitol passes footage of Peeta, Katniss confesses to the reader and to Gale about the baby. 




progressive Time:


- Mayority of the book is progressive time like in the middle, where it all haooens in chronological order.
- Also, at the long beginning, everything is placed chronologically by the author.




Suspense:


- When Katniss enters the dark room at the hospital during her visit in D8, the author describes Katniss can´t see bery well and she is surprised/scared when the patients start touching her and she cant see them.
- Katniss was also very scared or nervous when they are called to command after disobeying orders. The author describes her fright so well, you get kinda scared or hopeful to what will happen; as if you were there.




Flashback:


- During the beginning of the book, while Katniss is still understanding the revolution, she keeps remembering the moment in the arena when she was extracted.
- When Katniss gets mad at Haymitch, she uses the excuse that he could have done a better effort to rescue Peeta and then se immideately regret it because she remembers him and misses him.




Symbolism:


- In the novel Mockingjay, Katniss´ symbol is the Mockingjay. She has a pin of the mockingjay wich encourages the rebels as if she was an example to keep fighting.
- Peeta can also be a symbol for the rebels. He is shown a prisoner of the capitol which shows the rebels why and for who they have to fight for., specially as Katniss never gives up on him.




Foreshadowing:


- When Katniss is visiting D8 and they are bombed, on their way to the bunker, before Katniss fights, the author gives words in her thoughts that imideately tell the author she will fight with a motive stronger than orders.
- During the combat, Katniss ripps out her earpiece, but the author also includes during the action, that she did it because of fury that they were telling her not to do it; this let me infer that she will consider orders before obeying. 






Atmosphere:


- When Katniss is angry for example, the author gives a lot of description of her desires at the moment or what would seem of she were to snap by using words that rise the tention.
- When Katniss is excited or inspired, like when she was shooting at the capitol bombers, the -






Plot Twist:


- From the beginning of the book, Katniss thought that in D13 she couldnt do anything she wanted but it all changed when Coin(leader) gave her some leash and allowed her a Gale to hunt.
- Katniss was also very protected, but then, in the middle of the plot, she is turned into a fightong soldier and in combat took down 2 capitol bombers.