www.ted.com/talks/candy_chang_before_i_die_i_want_toWe started off by presenting our identity project our project. It went a lot better than we all thought it would go. We use a survey as a hook and everyone responded to it very well. We only had one person that said it was stupid, but that’s ok and that’s their opinion. We were really glad that the survey went well because that opened a whole window for us to explain why this was a good question for us. After we got all of the presentations done we moved on to the senior projects. I am working with Kameron, Matt, and Ceci. We are going to go to West Intermediate to talk about the Mount Pleasant High School Marching band. We are going to make a slideshow with a bunch of pictures on them and kind of just talk about the pictures and what they mean to us and also talk about the different parts of marching band. Then the next time we go we are going to teach the kids how to march and maybe march and play alittle if we have enough time. This is a good project because if we can get more people to join the marching they would realize how much fun it is. We are a huge family and you get so many new friends. It’s a great way to come into high school because then you have friends at the high school that can help you get around the new school. I am excited for this project and to see how it all works out.
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We continued on Identity this week. Trying to get out projects all around and making sure they are exactly what we wanted them to be. At first we really didn’t know what we were going to talk about when presenting but we finally got the rough draft done. I am working with Ceci and Kameron so I’m Pretty sure the projects going to be fine. We work really well together. https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_mokobe_a_powerful_poem_about_what_it_feels_like_to_be_transgender We also have been continuing with the poetry every day. I think it’s a nice way to start the day, and since we looked at hooks I have realized that, that is what Mr. Schoenborn is using the poetry for. It’s his own personal hook. To get us ready to start the day. We started listening to some TED talk poetry and other poetry he has found online. I think that is interesting because you get to see the body language of the writer. How they are portraying their own piece. Some of it is really emotional. I like to watch their emotion on the screen you can tell that they really believe in every word, or stanza that they say. This week was kind of a hard week to get through since next week is spring break and I got to leave a day early. But I made it through it and next week will be a great week, until next time. This past week we focused a lot on poems. For me poems are not my strong suit. I know what I want to say but I don’t know how to put them in words that sound good together. We wrote the “Where I’m From” poem and over all I was fairly impressed on how my poem sounded when I read it through. I was a little nervous to read it to the entire class but after hearing other classmates it was a lot easier. We also set up the blog and wrote the “As a Reader/ As a Writer” Biography and as I really thought about the questions and how to answer them it really revealed a lot of things I have forgotten over the years. I realized how much I have stopped reading and writing over the years and that is something I use to love to do. Reading is so relaxing if you can find a good book you are interested in. I just stopped trying which is very sad. I believe as high school students we need poetry. We are only a week into the trimester and I have already have started reading a lot more. I have finished one book and have started another. I am also very interested in my creative writing I have started for the class. I am excited to see what the rest of this trimester has in store for us. This week we started talking about identity. We thought about what identity was to us. There are many aspects to your identity, some that you can see and some that you can’t. We also learned how to take notes. I’m am very interested in the book I just started, and am super excited to be reading and writing again. The book I just finished was about poetry and Mr. Schoenborn reads a poem every day and it really has inspired me to start writing my own poetry. I haven’t wrote any yet, but I want to start doing it, it’s such a great way to express your feelings. I like the way we were showed to take notes because it makes it a lot easier to go back and read through them. It was a little confusing at first but after it being explained it was easy to get started. The notes are really going to be helpful with the following projects and make taking notes in every other class so much easier. With identity there's a lot to learn from it. Identity isn’t just what we see on the outside of others. It also families traditions, and other things that we sometimes can’t see. I learned from the video that I watched that some people are very uncomfortable with their identity and wish they could change it. Many people want to change their identity. The video I watched was about Latinos. They are uncomfortable with their identity. A lot of people think they aren’t latinos just because they have lighter skin or big hair. But they should really express their identity because it is very unique and beautiful. |
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