reflection

My Experience on Youth Voices

I feel proud of myself as a student this school year. I feel like the most valuable thing in my classes were augmenting my lexicon with more words. I have met my goals by passing all my classes and implicating the new words into new assignments given by teachers. My goal for the next school year would have to be to start off strong, stay strong, and finish off strong.

The role I played in this Film trailer was the Cinematographer. My group name was the Supah Novas and my job was a little easy but pretty hard at the same time it was to film my fellow group mates on their acting scenes they were in on. I was successful in my role that I record all I needed for this trailer to get it to my film editor to let him edited all the thing to make the film look legit.The things to make it easy was to used my phone and send it to the Film editor to let him edit.

The topic that I have chosen for my research is self publishing versus traditional publishing. I chose this topic because I have always loved reading books who people who are not really famous, more than those published authors who have made a name for themselves. Some facts that I already knew about this type of publishing is that self publishing is more expensive, since the money is coming out of the author’s own pocket. Also there is no guarantee that the work will be perfect according to the author’s skills in editing. In traditional publishing all the work is done for the author.

I have done 70% of my monologue. My project I just need to record myself, so I don’t have to worry too much that I might not be on time. However, the tough part is that I have to edit and make it more natural. There so many challenges while I’m recording, but I had overcame it because I’m keeping tiring no matter how hard it is. When I recorded it, I keep on forgetting the line which is making my video look strange. Then I had to restart again and again. However, I had some tricks that make my video goes well.

I have been working the whole weekend. I did not not that much memorizing from the text but that is not gonna stop me from doing a good job. Some of the challenges I have faced was while i was recording myself, there were too much of a racket. Also I would get nervous and forget my lines and start laughing. Then it will just get all messy. I was successful in getting the emotions in the right time. At least when I'm not messing up. I was also being successful in not procrastinating and making myself too far behind. So far my next steps is first to get my lines memorized.

Today, I finished "Every Soul A Star." In the course of this week, I have read from page 201 to 322. This book is about the lives of three completely different teenagers named Ally, Bree, and Jack. Their lives intersect with eachother when they all come to stay at the Moonshadow Campground to witness a rare total solar eclipse. They meet and become close friends, and learn to cope with their problems with the help of one another's support.

Warriors Don't Cry By Melba Pattilo Beals is a very great book. It's about a girl, Melba Pattilo, who grows up in North Little Rock, Arkansas. During this time, around 1957, segregation and racism were still big in some places and slavery had not long since been over.

As the school year comes to an end, I feel as if I should’ve worked harder, I feel like I did average. I could say I have and haven’t met my goals, because I handed most of my work late, and I let my work pile up, But I felt a bit good about my average per quarters. I’ve set goals for next year, like handing my work on time, focusing more on school, and get higher grades than this school year.

I feel as if I haven’t changed much personality wise, but academically wise I have. I have tried to get better grades then the grades I have gotten in the previous year. I've actually paid attention during classes, and asked questions if I didn't understand something. I took notes on what I thought was important, and embraced being an actual student. I did make it to the honor roll this year, that i am proud of. However my new goals for my junior year is to always be on the honor roll and have at least an 85% average.

As a senior in high school college is just around the corner. As I finish up the last of my application I look up and for a long while sit and look at my room.

The room that will only be mine for a short period of time. Soon "my" room will be in another house, another city or even state. No longer will I come home every night and see the faces of my mom, dad, brother, and dog.

I will come home and see my small bed inside a small room with two bathrooms shared by six people. Not that I am not excited for college.

Every year we as a society seem to go from Halloween straight to Christmas. With all the stores decorating for Christmas on November 1st, we seem to lose sight of one of the most important holidays: Thanksgiving.

Making the Three Act Play Animation Scratch was fun, interesting, yet meaningful. While it was fun making up stories, dialogues, and characters, I also learned how to use the program more, and how I can improve my animations.

Just finished Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie, another mystery solved by our main detective Hercule Poirot! For this certain story, the host of a bridge party, Mr. Shaitana, is murdered, in the same room as 4 other guests where each of them didn't notice the murder happen, and each of them have a dirty past... Everyone knew who Mr. Shaitana was, for he threw  the most marvellous parties yet people also feared him for he knew everything about everyone.

The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth is a novel about Paul Deveraux also known as The Cobra is 70 year old retired CIA agent.  He's now brought back into the old days where he's asked by the President of the United States and President Obama to take down the entire cocaine industry down in Columbia and everywhere around the world.  He's agreed to the the mission, but under one condition: he gets to run the mission on his own terms and he has complete control.  After much hair pulling the government finally agrees to his terms and they allow him to do what he wishes to do.  His