What my portfolio says about me:

What my portfolio says about me:

My portfolio reflexes my learning this year.  Eighth grade has been a tough year. However I am very grateful for having such great teachers.

My knowledge and hunger for learning has grown this year. I think we are all at an age where we really have no motivation to get up in the morning. However I am glad to say we’ve made it. I am nervous yet exited for next year and the four years of high school to come.

In my portfolio you can get to know, me, my passions, my favorite subjects and my work. This year we did so many assignments using the latest technology. We made countless videos. We were also introduced to new tech tools (see examples in my portfolio). I hope you guys enjoy.

- SLS 

non fiction novel project may 2012 Little Bee

1.0-1.5 DEFINE:

1. Teather: a rope or chain that’s prevents an animal to move.

2. Placid: calm and peaceful

3.  Gouge: a chisel like tool with a cylindrical blade.

4.  Solemn: grave

5. Ogling: to look at in a flirty way.

6.  Asylum: a place where ill or people with needs go.

7.  Queue: braided hair worn hanging behind

8.  Impeccable: flawless, perfect

9.  Sorcerers: evil, supernatural powers

10. Cobbled: to mend, put back together

11. Smiting: to hit hard

12. Linoleum: hard, washable, floor covering

13. Foe: enemy or opponent

14. Acolytes: somebody following the celebration

15. Henchmen: Flunky, criminal

16. Recrimination: accusation in response to one from someone else

17. Insatiable:  appetite or desire, impossible to satisfy

18. Threshold:  Piece of wood or stone that you put under the door

19. Bystanders: A person who is present but not involved (passerby)

20. Insomniac: No sleep

21. Cipralex:  a drug used for depression

22. Fester: Unhealthy, decay

23. Bureaucracy: system of organization and administration

24. Concave: going inward

25. Solicitor: lawyer who addresses matters of law with clients

2.0

Pg. 91: In the mirror my green eyes were peaceful (placid).

Pg. 91: So I drilled (gouged) my thumb into the skin beneath my lashes.

Pg. 9:  This small plastic bag is what I was holding in my hand when the detention officer told me to go and stand in the tangled line (queue) for the telephone.

Pg. 9: One has to go through a very great number  of charity boxes, you will understand, to put together an outfit that is truly an (ensemble).

Pg. 21: My son and I lived with consequences- a houseful of celebrations (acolytes), criminals (henchmen) and stooges, flirting with (ogling) us from behind the sofa, cackling darkly in the thin gap beside the bookcase, and generally bursting out at us willy-nilly.

Pg. 24: He gave the vicar a dead (solemn) thumbs up.

Pg. 13: You are like evilly powerful (sorcerers) and you gave made your language as safe as money.

Pg. 18: The headline on the new page said: Ill (Asylum) Seekers Eating Our Swans.

Pg. 19: I heard his chair scrape on the hard (linoleum) floor.

Pg. 24: The amputation was flawless (impeccable).

Pg. 168: Shock, then accusations (recrimination), and then two years of Andrews deepening depression.

Pg. 170: Lawrence grinned, but then hesitated on the stop (threshold). 

Pg. 171: I think one of those innocent extra (bystanders) you see in the back round of the comics.

Pg. 172:  Andrew was wondering around the house on his can’t-go-to-sleep (insomniac) nights.

Pg. 172:  the only thing keeping my husband going was six Amaretto biscuits and one tablet of anti-depressant (Cipralex) a day.

Pg. 172:  I’ve spent two years denying what happened on that beach. Ignoring it, letting in infect (fester).

Pg. 173: You’ll get dragged down by the government (bureaucracy), and they’ll send her home away.

Pg. 175: The ramp (concave) of Lawrence’s back.

Pg. 176: I’ll need to find her a lawyer (solicitor), and start an appeal procedure.

Pg. 81: I had been chained (teathered) to the detention center for two years.

Pg. 23: I went to Nigeria in hope to mend (cobble) my marriage.

Pg. 21: If it wasn’t Mr. Freeze with his dastardly ice rays, the it was the Penguin-Batman’s enemy (foe).

Pg. 169: His lips wobbled and his face went red and he howled, abandoning himself utterly to grief in that way only infants and super heroes have-that way that knows misery is bottomless and unsatisfying (insatiable).

 2.5

Negative/ harmful:

·      Solemn

·      Teather

·      Asylum

·      Sorcerers

·      Smiting

·      Foe

·      Henchmen

·      Recrimination

·      Cipralex

·      Fester

·      Concave

Positive:

·      Placid

·      Ogling

·      Impeccable

·      Cobble

·       

Having to do with the law:

·      Henchmen

·      Recrimination

·      Bureaucracy

·      Solicitor

Tools

·      Teather

·      Placid

·      Gouge

·      Linoleum

·      Threshold

Medical:

·      Cipralex

·      Fester

·      Insomniac

Vanity/ Beauty:

·      Ogling

·      Queue

·      Impeccable

Amazon Book review: Ruff copy

Little Bee

This quarter we were assigned to read a non-fiction book. To honestly say I wasn’t too happy. I tend to stay away from non-fiction. But to my surprise I ended up really enjoying it. This book is anything from placid. It’s about an African girl named Little Bee. She is driven out of her festering country, by the sorcerers who control it.  She makes a journey to the impeccable country of England. Where she meets up with some old friends.

Surprisingly enough I did like this book. On a scale from one to ten I would honestly give it a seven.  Very good life lessons are shown in this book. You can see how life can concave from one second to another, it shows you how not to be a bystander in life, to cobble a relationship, or too even make peace with your foe. But the most important lesson of all is how to acolyte life to it’s fullest, because you never know how much time you have left with the people you love.

This book will leave you insomniac. You’ll be so teathered to it; that you won’t want to put it down. I recommend this book for sixteen-year-old kids and up. It’s a little overwhelming but its still an impeccable book. The story line is queued together, so you really have to have patience to understand it.

3.0

PARTNER: JULIANA LABORDE

1.0- check, all good

1.5- add more to your definitions. Don’t make them be just one word

2.0- fix punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors

2.5- perfect

3.0- try using transitional words to polish it up, I really liked your review you gave details but, you didn't give it away, also you had a really good use of the words and the paragraphs flowed nicely. You have some grammar mistakes but, over all your review is great.

Little Bee: IMPROVED

This quarter we were assigned to read a non-fiction book. To honestly say I wasn’t too happy. I tend to stay away from non-fiction. However I really ended up really enjoying it. This book is anything from placid. It’s about an African girl named Little Bee. She is driven out of her festering country, by the sorcerers who control it.  She makes a journey to the impeccable country of England. Where she meets up with some old friends.

Surprisingly enough I did like this book. On a scale from one to ten I would honestly give it a seven. Yet, very good life lessons are shown in this book. You can see how life can concave from one second to another, it shows you how not to be a bystander in life, to cobble a relationship, or too even make peace with your foe.

However the most important lesson of all is how to acolyte life to it’s fullest, because on the other hand you never know how much time you have left with the people you love.

This book will leave you insomniac. You’ll be so teathered to it; that you won’t want to put it down. I recommend this book for sixteen-year-old kids and up. It’s a little overwhelming even though its an impeccable book. The story line is queued together, although if you be patented you’ll end up loving it. 

Peers questions: SCHOOL REDESIGN

Peers questions:

How is this different from a pre ap

How will the kids benefit

Will the kids feel bad or compared?

Will it make them like PE less?

If kids with a low physical status are in a regular class wont they advance more?

Awnsers:

This isn’t an AP course. These are many levels of physical education. Everybody has a different physical state. Kids should not be put in one Physical Education class.

Both kids with a low or high physical status could inprove. For example kids with a low physical status could feel comfortable. And kids with a high physical state would have a bigger field to do what they like and what they are good at with ot being held back.

Yes. Kids could feel compared but at the same time they are improving there exercising skills.

It will actually make them like PE more. They are getting to do things they actually can do and feel comfortable with.

No. Taking a kid and putting them into an environment they can not handle will make them feel 1. Uncomfortable. 2. Low self esteem. 3. They are not going to advance and 4. Will be held back; therefore a lower grade. 

SCRIPT

SCRIPT: school redesign

·      Have you ever thought about what is wrong with our school system?

·      Have you ever thought that we are all different?

·      Well we are.

·      So why are we all treated the same?

·      We believe that classes should be divided by your brain capacity.

·      Kids can learn, achieve and advance more using this theory.

·       INTERVIEWS:

·      Mr. Hickey

·      Dr. Imholt

·      Mr. laughfgy

·      Ms. shawn

·      1, 6^th grader

·      1, 7^th grader

·      1, 8^th grader

Step 1. Read them our theory

Step 2. Do they agree with our theory

Step 3. Why? 

portfolio

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ATHENS vs. SPARTA "FAVOIRTE PIECE OF WORK"

Sophie Steckerl

December 12, 2011

Period 1

November Discussion Board

(Topic #2)

     Education and good citizenship was essential in Ancient Athens. It left us with a clear image of what it means to be and educated person, and our ultimate goals of education. Until the age of six/seven, most children were raised at home by their mothers or by a trained housekeeper, (slaves, who specialized in teaching kids, where better known as gogos). Gogos’ would teach children manners, moral beliefs and what to expect when they leave their mothers nest. Greek myths and legends where incorporated into the child’s learning. Girls had a scarce need for education; on the other hand every Athenian father had the right to raise their boy as they pleased. He could either teach his son himself or he could pay someone to do so.

     When a young Spartan reached the age of seven, they were taken over by the state. The state rightfully owned him until the day he die. At the age of sixteen they were put into a secret police agency. The Spartans where more of a military-based society; compared to the Greek way of life.

     Conformity and discipline was strictly enforced in Sparta. In Athens, great philosophers influenced the society like Pericles, Plato etc. Both systems have their pros and cons. The children of Athens depend on the decisions of their parents. The children of Sparta depend on the state, which means they don’t have free will.

     The Colombian education system consists of nursery school, elementary school, high school, technical instruction and a university education. A typical Colombian student studies around 14 years and attempts to go to college. A typical school year runs from February to November. In Colombia 1.8 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 do not attend school. 

book reviews

hints:
favorite character
quotes
favorite parts
theme or something you've learned
how did the book make you feel
recommend the book PLUS audience

person or company who originally owned the picture
link to picture
copy the copy right

school manufact.: needs

- children would be at ease with there level of learning
-  kids who try in school still get low grades bc they are not being grouped by there ability
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WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE GAIN- MOTIVATION!
teachers: work with kids that have the same mental capacity
students: they would feel "at home" would be at their EXACT level
parents: see their children being challenged
principal: see improvement in their students

1. its easier on teacher
2. kids can achieve more
3. there should be a test to group kids
4. show principals the statistics why kids should be grouped
5. and how we would do it

favorite piece of writing

Sophie Steckerl

December 12, 2011

Period 1

November Discussion Board

(Topic #2)

     Education and good citizenship evolved in ancient Athens. It left us with a clear image of what it means to be and educated person and our ultimate goals of education. Until the age of six or seven, most children were raised at home by their mothers or by a trained housekeeper (slaves, or better known as gogos). They would teach them manners (educate), moral beliefs and what to expect when they leave their mothers nest. Greek myths and legends where incorporated into the child’s learning. Girls had a scarce need for education; on the other hand every Athenian father had the right to raise their boy as they pleased. He could either teach his son himself or he could pay slaves to do so.

     When a young Spartan reached the age of seven, they were taken over by the state. The sate rightfully owned him until the day he died. At the age of 16 they were put into a secret police agency. The Spartans where more of a military-based society compared to the Greek way of life.

     Conformity and discipline was strictly enforced in Sparta. In Athens its great philosophers influenced the society: Pericles, Plato etc. Both systems have their pros and cons, given the children of Athens depend on the decision of their parents. The children of Sparta depend on the state, which means they don’t have free will.

     The Colombian education system consists of nursery school, elementary school, high school, technical instruction and a university education. A typical Colombian student studies around 11 years and attempts to go to college. 

LINK TO POPPLET

http://popplet.com/app/#/293499

big issue: include to our research

Changes

Obstacles

How is it different from ap

How do you decide on there abilities?

Competition 

MY PASSION:

MY PASSION:

My world revolves around a couple of things: fashion, photography, food and love. Ever since I was little I’ve always had a passion for clothes. There is something about walking out of the house knowing you look good in what you’re wearing. Over the years you start to discover your own style, how you want to present yourself, but also how you want people to see you. I would say my style is different. I like to say I’m “high fashion”.  I try to incorporate unique pieces into my daily wardrobe.

Photography comes naturally to me. I taught myself how to use a camera. I think photography at this moment in time in just a hobby; but when I get older I will appreciate the pictures I took. A picture freezes a moment and it takes you back to that moment. Food is probably my biggest passion. I could eat all day. Tasting new foods is an experience for me; but eating my favorite foods is a like a high. When I’m older I would love to run a restaurant/bar. I would party all night and eat all day. My last passion in: love. Love for you family, friends, partner, life, even the love for yourself. I don’t know how to explain how much I love, love. But to keep it simple, I guess love is the closest thing we have to magic. 

digital presentation

Seven elements digital presentation

Point of view: from where somebody looks at the situation

Dramatic question: BIG ISSUE,

Make me care: make viewer’s care, feelings, memories

VOICE: personality YOU

The soundtrack: change it up, emotion NOT JUST TALKING, variety

Economy: brief, fast moving, 3 minutes, straight to the point

Pacing: rhythm, tempo, and rate KEEP IT SIMPLE, even it out 

my favorite thing in each subject

 Elective:

My favorite elective has always been art. This year we learned about famous artist. Once we watched a documentary on their life and did more research about them; we had to paint them. Ever since I was a little girl I’ve been fascinated be Fri Decalos work. Living in El Paso Texas, which is in between Texas and New Mexico, you could see her work everywhere. I learned about her love for art, the accident that impacted her life, her struggling relationship with her husband and much more. I believe portrait that I painted in the picture below came out beautifully, but then again, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Sociales:

In sociales you touch very important topics. Not only about Colombian history but what is happening to Colombia today. Something that touches my heart very deeply are the soldiers who risk their lives fighting for their country. Now-a-day, Colombia has an ongoing war with the terrorist groups (also known as the FARC). These groups specialize in kidnap, terrorist attacks, drug dealing and much more. The only way we maintain our security is because of these soldiers.  So Mr. Amaya came up with an idea of sending them canned food. I learned the living conditions of the army, what they go through every day, and how to give back.

English:

Books:

It’s Not Summer Without You

Tan Lines

Beach Blondes

Spring Break

The Break Up Bible

The Uglies

The Help

Little Bee

At the begging of the year we were assigned a project about the book we read over the summer. That’s summer I read three books, but my favorite was Beach Blondes. We were assigned to make a video. I told Ms. Shawn about my passion of photography. So instead of video clips I put pictures I had taken. I got to show, not only my teacher, but also my classmates my love of photography. I learned how to thourally work with iphoto and imovie.