For English we had to read Romeo And Juliet and write about it. We had four question to choose from I choose to answer the question are humans powerless to create the kind of world we would like to live in. I answered yes see why below. We also had to make our own podcast with us reading of it to make it sound conversational. Once we finished we put them on our websites.
For English we had to make a parent child skit having to do with the parent not in agreement with the person the child is dating. We had to learn how to add sound into the audio the app me and my partner Greg used was audio joiner to add the sounds and mix them up. For our sound we had footsteps, door slams, and tire sounds. the door slam and footsteps where homemade the tire sound was from sound bible. It is a minute long. My audio file if up top click it and it should download. If not email me the problem.
District 1 speech and costume
In English for exhibition we had to make our own speech and use ethos, pathos, and logos to make the speech engaging and our costume had to represent our district and we had to have a symbol and a rallying cry. We also had to make a costume that related to our district. We decided on a vest with a tie and a castle for our logo. I used black paper and a red tie and I put a little piece of paper in the inside to make it look better. My speech is below this overview and I have a picture of my costume below as well
In English we where learning about Greek mythology for a while and we had to make our own type of story that involves sum Greek mythology. While making the story it also had to be made into a book so that we can go to Da Vinci innovation academy so that we can read to the kids we first read them the story in print and after a few weeks we went back with our books done. My book is called Carl And The Saturn Stars its about a football them mixed with greek mythology. And it talks about a whole season that they had where they had to face some of there problems they had within the team.
For English we had to make a public service announcement a public service announcement is like a commercial that has to do with something that is happening with in the community. Mine is about how kids are getting unhealthy around the world and we have to try and make a stop to all of the kids that are getting to big. The video has a big prop in it you should really check it our when u get the chance down below.
Tedx is about ideas that are shared on stage for our school we had to make our own speech to share in front of all of our class mates. The speeches had to have data for them for computer science that. That involved us using google sheets. Which was a huge challenge for me personally. The system was just two confusing to me. But i still managed to pull it of in spite of the challenge. When we finished sharing all of our speeches Regina picked people to go at the tedx event.
It was about maybe a year ago now since the last time i walked in with my nice purple jersey i knew a lot about the sport but i just did not know about the rules and that made me not want to play on any team but one day that all changed spring 2014 we went to the ymca at about five pm noun the sun was setting it was getting cold. We drove into the ymca parking lot and parked our giant van. We opened our car doors and got out of the van we approach the glass door of the ymca and open it. And smell the nice pool water and all u see is the desk with all the workers. My mom looked around for the forms and we were playing around and looking at the pool with all of the swimmers in there then the basketball coach walked out of the gym and by the door. the workers told my mom that he was the basketball coach and mom was like guys this is the basketball coach. He was tall he had one a blue ymca shirt a black hat and black pants he reached his hand out and gave me a hand shake he said u guys like basketball we all said yes he said cool are you signing up my mom said yes and he said well i will see u soon because we will have a tryout on a saturday my mom said ok and we left the ymca It was dark we got into our car and left the parking lot.
In about a few days one of the spring basketball season was about to begin we got ready at 10:00 in the morning we left and drove there and got there at 11:30 and walked into the building and all we see is 4 and five year olds bouncing basketballs. And you hear an echo in the gym bang bang bang bang bang and about 30 kids running around. We searched the benches for a seat and sat down to watch. My mom calls my brother and told him it was his turn right then he said oh and got up from his bench and ran over on the gym floor and went to grab a ball from the basket he picked a courts and started launching shots. in a short period of time so coach calls all of the kids over and lined them up on the wall he said some stuff to them and they went into run position and started running. Half of the kids were on the wall waiting to go next. When the first group came back the second group started running after they finished running they lined up for shooting drills. he made all of his shots they were all up close. When they finished that the last thing they did was dribbling they had to run back and forth while bouncing the basketball finally there part was over.
Then came my older younger brothers turn he walked on to the gym floor and grabbed a basketball and there tryout was the same as the last one. Then it was my tryout 12 to 16 year olds it was no longer kid basketball it was now teens i was only 12 back then everyone else was at least 13 or 14 everyone else was taller than me. The coach told us the teams and line ups. I was in the second line up they did tip off and the game started the people on the left of where i was sitting they were writing the teens skill and level on their forms halfway in the game the coach put me in the game as the game passes by so far everyone has been running back and forth down the field. the coach called a timeout and put half of us out the rest of the game. when the game was over the coach said he would call us to tell us who our personal coach was we left and went back home.
Later in the day my younger brothers got their information before me. That made me even more anxious to know about my team information the information came at night time and i was with coach Matthew so one from when we first went to see about basketball at the ymca they also said practice was on thursdays. That is my story