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.

BIG ISSUE: SCHOOL MANUFACTURING

how I've changed this year

I believe I've changed this year not only as a person but also as a student. I've learned that everything I do today, makes a change in the future! As you grow older you begin to understand the word: responsibility. When you have the privilege to study at such an alight school, you have to get out the best of it. 

I've learned to really make an effort on my work! As cheesy as it sounds I've learned to really give a hundred percent and try my best. Another mile stone is how I've learned to work in groups. I've always been a very controlling person, I always like things done my way. Working in groups teaches you how to inbrase other ideas. Who know, maybe other ideas are better than yours. Working in group also gives you less work, which is always a plus. 

Over the year we have been introduced to many new technology tools. Instead of the usual like microsoft word, power point and exel; we have used tools such as: extranormal, jelly cam, little bird tales and much much more!

CREATING_SHAKES

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Applying- Shakespeare

Applying- Shakespeare

Shakespeare's style i very unique. He used to write in stanzas like they do on poems. He wrote a lot of styles and different plays that are very famous on the common days. He didn't stick to only one type of writing. He used a colloquial style of writing that wouldn't be understood by teenagers or kids from the common era. He is one of the worlds most famous writer

Analyzing- Shakespeare

Analyzing- Shakespeare

The difference between Dr. Suess' style and Shakespeare's style is that they write different type of stories. Shakespeare used to write different types like histories, comedies and tragedies but Dr. Suess mostly wrote comedies because most of his stories had a happy ending. He mostly only had happy endings unlike Shakespeare. He had stories were people died at the end and some had a little of history

Evaluating- Shakespeare

Evaluating- Shakespeare

Beatriz: You did a great job. You made the two stles very clear to me and wrote neat paragraphs.