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)