My Family Tree

My family tree consists of my mom and dads side. I included facts about each family member.


 Link to my moms interview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qx7qvy8KVznlLQ-I4P0LU2pFe50-uL2coHKRQIYmxU4/edit?usp=sharing

Link to my dads interview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PhveAagAnvZTMN5eC6vJdzAm9gFeL-cRDGV4-4a2Lfk/edit?usp=sharing

Link to email: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tb_gZwgdYi50qL0DoMhMAZ1tNtlWpTS8yiXm9aevEks/edit?usp=sharing

Link to FamilyEcho: http://www.familyecho.com/?p=START&c=6m781em7fm&f=122821346824447355

Tuesday, April 29, 2015

Read this blog post by a teacher. I mean actually read it. Take it in. Think about it. And then, write about it. What do you think about it? What is the teacher trying to say? In your own words explain what "the main event" is.

  While reading this blog post, The teacher writes "I care about you more than you may care about yourself. And I care not just about your grades or your test scores, but about you as a person. And, because I care, I need to be honest with you." Looking back through all four years of high school, I have never really had a teacher like this, that actually said they cared for me as a person. If I had a teacher like this I feel like I would like school a little more. I am not just saying this to just say it. I am saying it because some people in school don't have friends or they don't have anyone to talk to. If a teacher actually told me or any other person that they actually truly cared for them as a person, I think there would be a lot less "quitting" and "skipping" among students. 

  I think the author tries to say that you yourself is the "main event" and you have to keep trying, pick yourself up, and work through it, because no one is going to do it for you. You choose the life you live. 

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Blog Post:
      Brycen Gunn and Maggie Carter are my group members. For our stop-motion animation video we have decided to use the song "Perfect Two" by Auburn. We will be using a notebook with blank pages and cartoon pictures from the internet that will be sited at the end of the video. Our plan is take all the pictures today and start making the video Friday. We are using verse one, the chorus, and verse two. I was in charge of finding pictures to go with verse one, Brycen found pictures for the chorus, and Maggie found pictures for the 2nd verse.We printed all of the pictures in color and cut them. We will all be in charge of taking pictures so we all deserve the same credit. Maggie will be gone Friday, but Brycen and I will make sure things get done. I'm hoping our video will be as good as our video idea, we will see Friday!

Friday, April 17, 2015

GIANT blog post of the day: Answer the following questions thoroughly on your blog. 

1. What was your stop motion animation about? Why did you choose your video to be about this? Was it because it was easy, because it would be fun, or it would be challenging? Explain your reasoning behind your project (and be honest). My stop-motion is a message; peace, love, happiness. It has the peace, heart, and smiley face symbol. I used many different colors to make it more fun and I tried to grab the listeners attention by the moving crayons. I choose this to be my video because I like to draw and I wanted to do something with the saying: peace, love, happiness. For the most part, this video was really easy to make. The only thing I thought was challenging, was moving and using the right angle to take the picture of the crayon. My reasoning behind this project, was to share and make a video to show that everyone should be happy, be loving, and show peace.

2. If you could rate your stop motion on a 1-10 scale. 1 being low effort and no very good and 10 being out of this world/mind-blowing, how would you rate your project? Explain why. I would rate my project a 7 because it was good but it was not over the top. I don't think it deserves a 10 because I could have spent a little more time working on it and making sure while taking the pictures the angles were right. But I also don't think it deserves a 1 because I colored and did all the art work myself. I think I did an okay job with this project but I could have done a little better.

3. In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Explain yourself. First, if I was to do this project all over again, I would defiantly think about what the theme of it would be. I was not always going to do this theme, I changed it last minute. I wish I would have stuck to my original idea. Which was my sisters morning routine, it probably would have been more interesting.

4. Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project? I think my stop- motion is unique because I did all of the artwork on my own an I think it was jut colorful and bright. 

5. What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning. I think I deserve a B because I did do most of this project on my own and I tried making my project an attention grabber because it was cute and colorful.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

This weekend was extra exciting because Prom was Saturday. On Saturday, in the morning, I woke up kinda late and I was suppose to shower and have my dress and clothes ready to go to my friend Brittany's. We both had a hair, nail, and makeup appointment at 1:00 p.m. After that was all done, we had to go get her dress from her family friend who tailored it. We were actually running extremely late; right when we got to her house our dates were pretty much there. Both of us hurried to put our dresses on, our dates were waiting for us at the door. We took pictures just Brittany, me, and our dates, we were actually late to our group pictures with our friends and everyone was done taking pictures by the time we got there. After that we went to dinner at Macaroni Grill, I had bow tie noodles with Alfredo sauce because it didn't sound messy. I didn't want to get anything on my dress, or get anything on my face eating something like spaghetti noodles with tomato sauce. When we all finished eating, we went to the dance because we had nothing else better to do. We got there and no one was there so we walked back to the car and sat there till more people came. His truck, Kane, my date drove his old truck and it was country cute. Finally, more people were showing up so we went in again. There were a lot more people now, the music was going, it wasn't very good music but we still had a good time for the short time we were there. We were ready to leave the dance and go have more fun, I am not going to g in details there, but I had a great three day weekend. Defiantly one to remember!

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me ALL about what your idea is for your stop-motion animation. I need detail. Who is going to help you take photos? What props do you need? Where do you plan on shooting? EXPLAIN everything.

For my stop- motion video, I would like to make my video on my sisters morning routine. The video will start with her waking up to her alarm, then she will brush her teeth, brush, blow dry, and straighten her hair. Next, she will pick out her outfit, put her back pack on, go down stairs, eat breakfast, and the end will be her walking out to the car for school waving to the camera. I will be shooting my video at home and my sister will be helping me. Besides all the props at home, the only thing I might need is a tripod thing you have here. I will not be doing any of the shooting at school but I will make the video at school. When I was looking at ideas for stop- motion, I realized that this project is not going to be easy. But I am excited to see what I can do with a camera.

Monday, April 4, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:

My family cam into town from Indiana on Friday. I didn't come home till Saturday morning, so I saw them then. My Uncle Tom, Aunt Pamela, and two cousins; Tommy and Jacob. On Saturday, my sisters and I, went to Firehouse subs for lunch. We talked about how we have all been. It was nice to visit with them. After, we went shopping and me and my sister took my moms car so my sister could get her nails done. When we came outside, I realized I left the keys in the car.. Lets just say my mom was really mad and we argued the rest of the night. We eventually got the keys. The next day was Easter. I woke up and ate a delicious breakfast made by my mom. My uncle Tom made fruit salad, it was very tasty. After we ate, we went to church, then came home and hid the eggs for the Easter egg Hunt. Me and my sister had to hide 49, they couldn't find one of them and we didn't remember where the last one was either. We had a nice dinner, by the end of the night everyone was happy and ready to go lay in their bed.

Storyboard

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
What do you love most about this time of year? Explain why you love it.

I absolutely love this time of year for many different reasons. The first reason is because its warm and warm weather is my favorite type of weather because its not cold. I can go take a nice cruise with the windows down and the music blaring. The second reason is because I can go to Tads and enjoy a delicious icee. The last reason why I love this time of year is because summer is close and school is close to an end. But its not just ending and then I'm coming back next year, I'm graduating, and I could not be happier. After school ends I get to go to my favorite place, my grandparents house in Michigan. I get to go to the lake and go four-wheeling. I CANT WAIT.

Edited Pictures

Monday, March 30, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Did you complete the photo scavenger hunt? What kind of fun pictures were you able to capture? Did you do all your photos at school or did you do some at home over the weekend? Share one of your favorites.I finished the photo scavenger hunt. All of the pictures I took were at school because I didn't have time to work on it over the weekend. They are all different, just probably not as interesting as other peoples if they took theirs over the weekend. My favorite one that I took was the one of Maggie's hands folded on her side. I think this one is my favorite because I can probably edit it to be really cool.

Friday, March 27, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
What do you know about photography and/or photo editing? Do you take photos? How do you take photos? Do you edit photos before posting them on social media? How do you edit them? Explain any background or knowledge you have about photography and photo editing. Do you like it? Do you have any interest?

Photography is used by many people in many different ways. I use photography daily. I may not use a high- tech camera but I use my phone to take pictures of a variety of different things. Me and my friends, scenery, snap chats, family, and etc. These are few of many of the things I personally take pictures of. When I post pictures on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or etc. I really only edit them if they need to be edited. If I edit pictures I usually crop it, change the lighting, and sometimes I put a filter on the image. I love photography, I wish I would have taken a photo class but I didn't so I try to take pictures and be artsy with the knowledge I know already. I would like to learn how to properly edit pictures to make them look good and not edited.

Legalizing Marijuana Prezi

Monday, March 23, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Welcome back! Go ahead. Tell me all about your Spring Break. Include photos!

During Spring Break, I did a variety of things. I didn't go to a beach or to Mexico but I still had a good time. For majority of the time, I hung out with my sister, my mom let us use her car a couple days during the week, which being able to drive a car is nice. I hung out with some friends and then on Thursday, I went to The Lake of the Ozarks with a friend that goes here. We stayed at her mom and step dad house. We went mudding, fishing, snagging-basically fishing, your fishing hook is on the bottom of the lake because that is where the spoonbill are. Spring break 2015 is defiantly one to remember.

 

 
 

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
What are you doing for Spring Break?

For spring break I am going to stay home and just hang out with my friends that stayed here and my sisters. I went on my senior trip last week and I couldn't have asked for a better vacation. I am hoping to catch up on school and I would like to get into a good book. But its also my senior spring break so I would like to do something fun, which I'm sure I will. 

Friday, March 6, 2015

Monday and Tuesday, March 9-10, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend.

My weekend was pretty boring. Friday, I hung out with some friends and we drove around and listened to music. That was probably the only fun thing I did over the weekend. Saturday I worked and then came home and attempted to work on my senior speech. TO ALL UNDERCLASSMEN: TAKE CONTEMP. IT WILL BE THE BEST DECISION YOU WILL EVER MAKE! Sunday, I went to work and after that I came home to work on my senior speech, again... I got off work at 9 p.m. I had to come home and try to write and memorize it. I hate talking in front of people, especially people I know. But to the juniors becoming seniors next year: if you take ELA 12 next year and have to write your own senior speech, take time to think about what you want to write about, know what you are talking about, and be you. Unfortunately, I didn't take the senior speech seriously, but you can or you can take the easy way out and take contemp. That was my weekend, stressing over the senior speech.

Friday, March 6, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
If you were the Principal for a week at BVHS, what would that look like? What changes would you make? Why?
If I was the principal at BVHS for a week I would change multiple things. These things include: the dress code, some of the rules regarding going to any sport events, and less homework. For the dress code I think if kids were able to wear what they wanted they would hate school a little less. When I say they can wear whatever they want I mean they have to be wearing clothes. Some of the girls wear shirts that show their back and that's the kind of thing I wouldn't care about because it really is not harming anyone.I think the administrators take the dress code to far and some of the clothes people wear are how students express themselves, and I don't think that should be taken away from anyone. There are a lot of rules when we go to sports events for school. A lot of the times when kids cheer, they get yelled at for yelling something inappropriate. But I think the administers take it way to far sometimes. The last thing I would change is having less homework. We as teenagers deal with a lot. Some may not but a lot of us have a job, a lot of us have to write papers on papers, and I guess some of us just don't like homework. But having less homework would be beneficial for most students because instead of spending time on homework, we can spend time on actually learning the material being taught. I think being principle for a week would be pretty cool but also very stressful because high school is FULL of bratty teenagers.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
10 pieces of advice to give someone to create an amazing presentation would be to:

-When looking for information, make sure it is accurate.

-Site all sources.

-Make slides interesting, not boring.

-Be creative.

-Have information that someone wouldn't know.

-Have visuals.

-When presenting, have eye contact.

-Know what you're talking about.

-Don't be nervous.

-Speak clearly.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Use the internet to find an infographic about infographics. Place it in to your blog post. Read it and then give me the top 5 things you learned from it that will help you make a better infographic.

The top five things I learned from this infographic are:

1. Use charts

2. Have a theme

3. Use different fonts

4. Make a design

5. Have multiple sources