ASTRONOMY 101
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The summer before my senior year I took an astronomy class at LATTC. Half way through the semester we had a field trip the the Griffith Park Observatory. We learned about the different scientist who discovered things. As well as how to use a sundial, the Tesla coil, information about all the planets and about meteorites. After this we were expected to write a five page report with pictures about everything we learned at the observatory as well as our experience there.
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AP Government & Politics
In AP Government we were learning about local, state, and federal government. After learning about it we were given the task to find out who our local and state government officials are and to research them. Once we got all the info we had to create a pamphlet that others can use to help them know who the government officials are. This helped learn who my government officials are.
AP LANGUAGE
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In AP Language I also learned many skills that helped me improve my writing skills. Second semester we had a 5 - 10 page paper about the American dream I had to read two books to get information to support my argument and look for 3 articles. I also learned how to make subheading in my paper to make it longer.
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In AP Language I learned many skills that helped me improve my understanding of the things I read. During the first semester we would read small stories and then have to write a precis where we had to state the theme, the authors strategies and tone. This helped me better understand things I read.
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YEARBOOK
Yearbook helped me discover my creative side. While creating these pages I had to come up different ways to layout the pictures and paragraphs to make it look nice. I tried to create a background and layout that was related to what the page was about. I had to go out and get pictures and if I wasn't able to I had to assign someone to take them for me. Since I was one of the two head yearbook editors I also had other things to do like decide the theme and the cover of the book.
PHOTOGRAPHY
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Medium: Galaxy s6 & IPod5
Taking pictures was something I didn't know I would love. Taking pictures is now becoming more than a hobby for. I am very interested in photography and would like to become a photographer. Whenever I go somewhere and see a photo opportunity I take it. The one thing I am interested in photographing is nature. |
FILMMAKING
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Medium: iMovie
For this project we had to create a short story for a poem. The poem we chose was Caged Bird by Maya Angelou. There was to be no dialogue. It was a silent film, except for the poem being narrated. It was a little hard to create a story that would go with the poem without literally filming what the poem said. Going through the process of this film helped me further improve my filming and editing skills. |
ENGLISH
In English I had to write an essay related to social and digital media. I wrote about the benefits it has on the youth as well as all the negative consequences it comes with. Writing with essay and reading an article that I talked about in the essay. Opened my eyes and made me realize that we should use the internet wisely and not to overuse it or take advantage of it. Overall I like writing this essay because it helped me improve and keep my writing skills going.
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For this English assignment I was given a symbol from the novel Lord of the Flies. I had to describe what the symbol symbolized in the novel. I got the island, I wrote about how in the beginning the island represented paradise and in the end it represented destruction. Along with this I had to create a power point to explain show my class what the island symbolized.
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GAME DESIGN
Medium: Scratch
For our final in game design we were asked to create a game using all of the components we learned during the year. We had to make it a two player game have an objective and over all be entertaining. Designing games is never something I saw myself doing. Being in this class and learning the basic skill will help me if i every become more interested and decide to expand my knowledge on this. |