Just finished my final woot!!

I just finished my English and technology final WOOT!!! Thank God I'm done!!!! now all thats left is the History and Graduation Project final O'dear. I will be ready for the Grad but history not sure but I know what I'm in for though I just can't wait to just get it over with .

Finals!!!!

This week is finals week and everyone knows what that means so WOOT WOOT!!!!!, in grad project class .I am preparing for our final I printed out all of my papers I just has to come up with a presentation. I already know what the other finals are in my other class I just to pray that I do will which I think I will. I already have two interviews at hand all that I have to do for the one is to email him the question and the other I just have to call. I have everything done YAY!!!

Finally!!!

Finally!! I'm done in order for me to pass this class I have everything turned in I finished everything. This is off the charts O YEA!!! all that I need is a few more notes and I'm gold!!!. I just have to practice my presentation for next week, then do a fabulous job on my presentation and I should have a 100% right now I have 96% but I strive for the very best!!

More Notes More editing.....

I am printing out more notes and I have to do some more editing then I'm going to do my outline.

Editing!! could there be anything more time consuming!!!

This period I have been doing nothing but editing my papers and others when am I going to have time for my other stuff :(

What's Next!?!?!!!!

Right now I am editing Zach paper why is that so many people have to come to me to fix there papers. But its ok I like to help, next I'm going to write my thesis statement and then my intro and hopefully i can print out some more article for my notes I now have 4 pages I would like to have 5-6 by the end of this week.

Revise and Sign

We have to have an adult edit our proposal and our to do list I'm going to get my advisory Mr. Kappranos. To look over it then he has to sign a paper showing that he revised it. And then I have to put it in Ms. Kings mail box before I leave I just pray that I don't forget. Then I have to look for some more articles that I can use for my notes Lord knows I need too. Right now I only have three pages of notes I need a lot more .I have to do that throughout the week and on the weekend so I will have it all done before Thanksgiving Break. Then the only thing I would need to do is write the introduction to my final paper and thats not going to take me long.

Paper work is there anything worse!!!!

I'm going to edit my proposal and then I'm going to work on my introduction to my final paper I'm just not sure how long I want my introduction to be .

To Do List

Today we are working on our to do list for our projects throughout the year so we will have everything done. So that next ( senior) year everything will be ready and we won't have to worry. All we would need to so is just prepare to present in front of the panal and that would be it no stress no extra work to take home .All we would have to do is do what is required to pass the class which isn't much. So that the main focus is graduation on time getting ready for prom and filling out applactions for collges passing the Act/SAT.

Proposal

Right now we are still working on our proposals, today I am doing the editing and then I will be mostly done with that next is just working on the chart and adding that. Then I can move on to writing my paper, which is going to take me a long time to do but if I stay focus it will go smoothly.

November 5, 2007

I did my action plan proposal that is five paragraphs, you have to give a very in depth description of what your end result of your project will be. It took me all period to do my proposal that I forgot to to blog so that is what I did.

Notes,Interview,Book Club,Proposal

I have to take notes that don't help me and take me too long to do, I have to find someone that I can interview because my contact hasn't contacted me ironic right!. I am looking for a book club that can help me with my writing to better my skills, but I can't seem to find one that is not only for adults. And I have to be able to make a prewrite for my proposal which I'm not sure that I can do. But this weekend is all about Graduation Project I should have my prewrite and draft done, this weekend if not the draft then the prewrite but I"m pushing for both.

Searching....

I am looking the net to find a writing club that I can join over break that can help me with wrtting my book and I am looking for someone I can interview since Carrie has yet to et back to me I will email her again Friday

Count down, starting now!!!!!

We have so much to do and the clock is running down we have to get started on our proposals this week well the draft and we have to know what our action plan will be me I already know what my action plan is and that is getting the book published and donating the proceeds to charity right now its just mainly been research which is the point of this class but to be honest note taking isn't helpful having the articles and looking back on what I highlighted is helpful I think that I have what I need to at least write my outline to do my proposal I think I need at least an interview to make it spotless

2 whole hours......

we usually have one hour of tech and one hour of grad project but today we got to choose which on we wanted to do so I'm doing 2hrs of grad right now I am looking for a agent but I first have to write my story and manuscript before I can do that but this weekend I am going to try and read my articles and make notes I have a lot of reading to do so for right now I am going to get back to reading

Running out of Time!!!

Today we were given the dates for when stuff is dew and how much time we have left until the trimester. So everyone including me is going to have to buckle down and get to work the only thing that I am behind on is notes. But I am going to try and have that all done tomorrow and Saturday so I won't have to worry and I'm done with my Interview question I just need the "Kings" approval. I am going to call Carrie O' Conner today and see if she can get me an interview and to thank her again the tickets.

Interviews due ! what to do?

By the end of this week we need to have one interview I already have an interviewer in mind by before I say I have someone for sure I have to first check with Ms. O' Conner who gave me the tickets a children's reading Saturday she is my connection to getting an interview with the next author at the reading

And then there was "ONE"

Today half the classes is gone because, Ms. King took them out to the Library in Oakland like she did with us. Also because she is out there is two hours of Tech, which is not bad because we are doing both classes in here we can switch back and forth. So as of right now I am looking on the internet for more some help I'm trying to find a writing club. That I can do over break I think that would really help me with my writing. And when king comes back I'm going to ask her if she can help me find a children's book author. That has had there book published and is sold in stores so I can interview them.

Virtual Tour

Today I went on the Carnegie Library website and took a virtual tour of the Library this must have been the most crappy tour I have ever seen. Two it wasn't even a virtual tour it was just a bunch of pictures with paragraphs next to them thats not a real virtual tour. And three the paragraphs are to long no one wants to sit there for 10min reading about the structure of the building .That is not in any way interesting or has anything to do with the purpose or programs at the library. But other than the really crappy tour I am looking on the internet for more website that can help me with my grad project. And tonight I am going to read over the articles I have already printed out and take notes, as well as add those articles to my webliography I have already done.

Notice the Notes

Today I am printing more articles for my notes as well as going on the Carnegie Library website looking up book that can give me more information on my graduation project

Notes

Today I am going through the websites I used for my webliography and taking notes so that I will have them later on when I write my paper and these are some really good websites which I think will help alot

My poster!!!!

I hope you like it :)

What's Next!?!?!!!!

Today I uploaded everything that I was behind on and what was due yesterday and this weekend I was at the library all sat, sun, mon day doing school work. Brad edited my Letter of intent and my webliography on the sheet in my graduation folder. All that is really left for me to do is my notes which shouldn't take up that much time its just like doing a webliography . Except I'm not evaluating the site the websites that I used for my webilography I will be using those in my notes they were very helpful sites.

Swamped!!

I have so much work to do because I am behind but this weekend I will be caught up for sure I have to read my questions and letter and I have to find information on my topic so much to do so little time but I will get it done

So much to do!!!!

Today I had to edit my "letter to the king" and I found a website that is specifically for writer trying to get agents I found an agent/agency that I like that is stationed in NC if I do decided to go with an agent I will email them and see what they can do to help me while on the website I learn that there are a few requirements that some of the agents ask for like your bio and resume luckily this agency doesn't act for that but I will do it just in case they ask next I have to write the book and edit edit edit then go through the publishing process

Reading

I have been reading article on the net that are helping me with my grad project it has a lot of helpful tips on what I should do for example it said read a few of the books you read as a kid that were a big seller such as peter rabbit and see what they have to offer that you can use to get your stuff published

! I GOT IT!

I have decided to completely change my graduation project to write a children's book I will go through the process of what it takes to get it published and get it out there. Then my action plan is to write another book of what I did to get my book published a how to guide. And then I will donate the money to a charity but I'm not sure which charity I want to send it to write now I am researching what i need to do to get my book publish but I'm going to back track and research how to write a book.

certain change of heart

I think that I am going to change my graduation project to writing a book and how to get it publish and how to create a charity. But someones else is doing that project so I might have to stick to my original plan to do the show and just write books on the side but it might look odd for a political report to write children's books.

Foundation Questions

1.Where should I board cast my show?

2.Who will be my net work?

3.What will be my Forum?

4.Should there be a group of all women and all men or should it be a mixture of both?

5.How many people will be in my conversation group?

6.What makes the opinion of the youth so much different than those that are older if there is much of a difference?

7.Will I go to high schools or colleges or both to get the opinion of our youth?

8.To get the view of those that are older what age group will I use 30-50 or younger or older or those that are above the age of 18?

9. Where am I going to get the skills and the information that I need in order to be able to do the show ?

10. Where will I get the founding if I need it will I need founding?

Change of heart

I started to change my mind I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue to do my project on politics it was starting to become to hard of a subject to do. Because I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to research and how and where I was going to do it. But now I got it , it didn't make any sense but what I am basically doing is becoming a news reporter. So what I have to research is how to be able to do research and be able to pick out the bits and pieces I need to put together a piece for my show as well as learning how to run a t.v show. And when ever there is a current event that I want to do I learn about the subject the laws and politics that deal with it and conduct interviews with people in power.

Letter to "the king"

Yesterday I was in class working on class assignment which was a letter about what and how I was doing my graduation project. Therefore I didn't really get a chance to do any research on my graduation project other than read an article I had found with the help of Ms. King (teacher).

Terms you need to know

ACTUAL MALICE: To win a defamation suit, public officials or prominent people, such as political candidates or movie stars, must prove that the offender made a false statement with actual malice. This means the statement was made with knowledge that it was false or with serious doubts about whether it was true.

ASYLUM SEEKER: A foreigner, already in the U.S. or at the border, who seeks refuge, claiming an inability or unwillingness to return to the home country because of a well-founded fear of persecution.

BIFURCATION: Splitting a trial into two parts: a liability phase and a penalty phase. In some cases, a new jury may be empanelled to deliberate for the penalty phase.

COHABITATION AGREEMENT: Also called a living-together contract, a document that spells out the terms of a relationship and often addresses financial issues and how property will be divided if the relationship ends.

DISCOVERY: Part of the pre-trial litigation process during which each party requests relevant information and documents from the other side in an attempt to "discover" pertinent facts.

Autocracy

A system of government in which supreme political power to direct all the activities of the state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d'etat or mass insurrection).

Coup d'etat

A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders, typically by means of the unexpected arrest or assassination of the incumbent chief executive and his principal supporters within the government.

Cabinet

A select group of state officials who each head one or more of the principal bureaucratic departments or agencies of the executive branch of government and who meet as a group from time to time for the purpose of discussing current policy proposals and advising the chief executive of their recommendations. (Chief executives usually also maintain one or more additional advisory councils that may well be more influential than the more formal cabinet.)

Budget

A statement of a government's planned or expected financial position for a specified period of time (usually one year) based on estimates of the expenditures to be made by the government's main subdivisions (wages and salaries of government employees; consultants' fees; purchases of equipment, supplies, real estate, etc.;

Commerce clause

The provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 3) that gives Congress the authority to regulate trade with foreign nations and among the states.

Common law

Legally binding rules or principles of justice developed in the course of history from the gradual accumulation of rulings by judges in individual cases, as differentiated from the kind of statute law embodied in special legal codes or statutes enacted by legislative assemblies or imposed by executive decrees. The importance of the common law heritage is particularly great in the legal systems of Great Britain and of most former British colonies, including the U.S.

Egalitarianism

A social philosophy or ideology placing primary stress on the value of human equality and advocating radical social reforms so as to eliminate all forms of economic, social and political inequality.

Todays agenda

I am now trying to come up with what and how I am going to write my proposal for my grad project . I'm looking for more websites that have some more information for me so that I will have all that I need to do my project. I haven't found any that are good enough for me to use yet although wikipedia was helpful but other than that and the websites I found yesterday not really.

Research for Grad Project

Today I have found four website that will help me with my grad project I need to know something about our government inorder to do my project. Or anything I say would end up being just crap, I need facts to back it up and these websites really help. One with The Declaration of Independence the second one has the Bill of Rights and the third site has the United States Constitution and the last site is United States presidential elections how it all works.

Narrowing Topics

1.Which topic seem most appealing and intresting?
Broadcasting and Human serivces

2. Which topic uses my skills and talents the most?
Physical fitness, sports

3.In which topic will I have access to the most resources?
Human services, Education

4.Which topic am I most likely to use after graduation?
Broadcasting, Human serivces

5. Which topic will enable me to produce a unique and exciting graduation project?
Broadcasting

6.Which topic will have the most positive impact on my school and community?
Human services, social and encironmental concerns, broadcasting

7. Which topic is the one I will be able to commit to over serveral months?
Broadcasting

8. Which topic will fit my needs in terms of time, human resources and money?
Broadcasting

Brainstorming topic ideas

1. Fine & performing arts
a. Practice more on the Piano
b. Singing

2. Health, physical fitness, sports
a. Improve my track time
b. Spending more time Boxing
c. Learn more yoga positions

3. Business, entrepreneurship, finance, stocks, marketing, economics
a. Stock market
b. Owning my own business

4. Travel, language, adventures
a. Become advance at speaking Spanish
b. Visit Italy

5.Career, education, personal goals
a. Four year college
b. Get a full ride for college
c. Become a political news reporter
d. Get a degree in psychology

6. Social and Environmental concerns
a. Poverty throughout the United States and the glob
b. What happens to the bodies of the casualties of war
c. Down sizing the percentage of homeless in the United States
d. How to slow or stop the process of global warming

7. Photography, Film Broadcasting
a. Learn to develop black and white photos
b. Record a opinionative political news show

8. Human services, education
a. Create programs for the mentally challenged so that they can live a life as close to normal as possible.
b. Create a shelter for children who have been abused

Blog Questions

1. Do you think constant blogging indicates signs of an unhealthy obsession or a harmless,spirited pastime? why?
I think that blogging to much is a waste of useful time and is indeed a unhealthy obsession when their are tons of other things you can or should be doing such as working on a deadline, picking up things around the house or just going out with your friends.
2. What makes another person's blog worth reading?
I think what makes someone else blog worth reading is if the title catches my eye and just by reading the first sentence of there blog I am automatically drawn in.
3. By what "rules" do you think fellow bloggers should abide and why?
I think there should be a limited amount of time to be on a blog site each day, also they should not be allowed to gossip about people putting their business out there and making rumors.