Part 2: The First Interviews

Part 2;

(March 9)
Today in class, we interviewed 2 students. One of the students told us he wants to go to an IV league school and become a doctor, while the other student told us he would be fine with any good college as long as he could grow up to be a lawyer.

(March 13)
Today we realized that there was too much background  noise in our interviews, so we decided to redo the interviews in the closet to make them a lot more sound-proof. However, one of the students from our previous interviews was absent, so we had to seek out a new one. And so we did, but we also got even better results from this newer student interview. This student told us he will stop his education at a high school diploma. His philosophy of college is basically that he thinks that its a waste of time.

Part 1: Research and questions

This is the research that has been done by me and my group members about our news story

(Should people go to college or not).

Interviews:

Administrators: ask them what convinced them to go to college and why

Students: ask them what they are going to do later in life and if they are going to go to college or not

People  who have succeeded in life without going to college

People who have gone  to college but hasn’t succeeded

People  who are in college right now

Mr. Roberto () <== We don't know his college

Rishabh (Harvard or Yale/Doctor) and William (Michigan State/Sports Related Job) @

Mr. Stanton () <== We don't know his college  

@ = interview ready

    

Adult questions:          

What college did you go to?

What convinced you to go to college?

Did you have a plan when in college?

How did college affect your success?

Should all students go to higher education?

Student questions:

Are you planning on going to college?

Why?

What job are you planning on doing?

Why?

What level of schooling did your parents complete?

These questions will be asked to these people during and prior to the interview. We will give interviewees time to think about their answers by giving them the questions beforehand.

Black And White Design

Final View:

For my final image, I added dots to the corners (half-ovals) to help my image pop out. However,  I thought that my triangles on the bottom were very misleading because they pointed in various directions. Although my balance was perfect, my craftsmanship could of used more of a touch. I can say this because only one of my puzzle pieces stands out, which is bad because I started off with one unique shape and never had any other unique shapes.

1/2

Weeks 1 and 2:

This week I learned about black and white design. I learned about how balance and color ties into  art, which also gave me an idea. I am probably going to use a puzzle background and zebra stripes.

This week, I started my rough draft. I started with a 3d puzzle piece with a vine connected to its right side. Today I started to develop a theme for my drawing. So next week I will give my final project a theme to help me finish the project.

Week 3

Week 3:

This week, I got to finalize my black and white design by adding the black. I think that the hardest part of this experience was shading the black spots next to the white spots. I think that I could of made my picture better by adding more shapes to the top by the zebra stripes.

Postcards

WOW! Weather sure is balanced here. It's a good thing too because I almost chose to go to Antarctica and the Gondwana Desert.  As a caring person, I chose to come here because these amazing sites may not be around forever. These environments are home rare reptiles and fantastic fish. Hopefully, they’ll let me jump off that waterfall!

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Boy, it sure is hot out here! I guess that it was a great choice to come here. I came out here to be an Inquirer. While here, I found the difference in temperature of here and Stamford. I also learned that it takes 2 days of being stranded in the desert to hallucinate and oasis. HEY! Is that a pool behind me?

WOW! What a contraption of art! Rome is very different than Stamford. You have to be very open-minded. People here are different, so you have to keep an open-mind. I came here to experience new culture and activities. So far I got to fight in the Mini-Colosseum. SHOOT! Gotta-run, Augustus is chasing me!

AHHHHHHH! I’m falling! Hey, look it’s James Bond! Just kidding, it’s only my good friend Chuck Berry. Chuck is a professional “Red Bulls” skydiver. I don’t even know how he dragged me into this. Chuck has taught me that technology varies beyond phone and laptop. As a digital citizen, I was exposed to new parachute technology and a special Go-Pro helmet. Thanks Chuck!

WOW! Didn’t see you there! Oh, not you, I meant Mt. Fuji. What a relief that I finally found it too. I’ve climbed around 650 feet already and still have a while to go. I knowledgeable to walk up steps to get here. Yeah, I’m burning those calories! However, oxygen is lower up here and I’m almost out of breath. C’mon only 11,738 feet left to go!

Marking Period 2/ first 5 weeks

For the first week of the new 2nd marking period, I got to learn to how to use pixlr. Pixlr.com is basically like photo shop. The assignment I had to do consisted of 5 Pictures of myself in 5 different parts of the world.

For my 2nd week I had to decide where I was going to be in my 5 pictures. It took some thinking but I finally decided through trial and error. I had decided the Colosseum, Amazon Rain forest, Gondwana Desert, Mt. Fuji and the pink lake. I chose all of these places because I thought  each of them was very unique. 

Before starting the project, I needed some practice. So I chose a celebrity and a random place. From there I ended up with Trumpzilla in the Gondwana Desert. It took some work, but finally came out great......and a little funny!

Now came week 4, which gave me a good two weeks to finish my project. I started with a picture of myself in the Amazon Rain forest. After finishing my first 3 pictures, I had finally realized that the picture of me in the Amazon had a bit of a godly glow. So I decided to keep it because it gave the picture a cool effect.

Final week. I had to complete my final picture. This picture showed me and a skydiver over the Pink Lake in Australia. Of all my pictures, I think this one was the hardest because I could of done it better and it was very hard/stressful to find the right pose for my self over the skydiver.



Link to all pictures and write-ups for all 5 pictures

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJPQSDnGRA4jplx6hEtJEFLazQF78MOBd1hzsiuWCaA/edit