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My teacher is still trying to kill my ideas… it makes me sad. Our project is going great and we only have one more thing to figure out with just one more period left. We also need to spray paint it, but we’re practically done, and my teacher just continues to try and kill our vibe. I don’t know why but she’s just an anti-our project gun. Let’s hope she comes around because she’s really not being fun.

Ah, the blue sky project, a project with endless potential and endless possibilities, you can do anything…that the teacher doesn’t reject of course, “too dangerous”…? PLEASE! I can make a fully functioning rocket with time to spare and at least 9 fingers left… But they said no so I’m creating an instrument, I started research and I’m going to create a woodwind, because I don’t have a forge to create a brass instrument. I’m not sure of some variables yet, but they will become clear, so until next time… JOEL OUT B****

The building of our machine is really going well, aside from our teachers incessant doubting, we’re doing quite well and our machine is looking more and more like the architects blueprint every day! Some of the impossible ideas have gone by the wayside, but most of the ideas have been deemed at least possible and I don’t know why Petra is such a doubter. We’re doing well and I think this will be a great project.

The planning stage of the project has gone well, we all made our own blueprints and then blended the good ones together into a rough draft that looks like it could work, I’m still working well and so I’d is my group for the most part, there’s still some arguing and yelling, but we’re on track and working well, even though Petra is doubting the hell out of us. Well who’s machine isn’t gonna work now ms willemse. Essentially the only part of the machine that is my group that’s not working, is the dictator of a leader (our teacher).

Thus far in the metaphor machine project I think I have worked well, I have been the contributor of a lot of ideas and I have done my best to keep my group on track. Our group has done quite well on creating the timeline, (it’s very aesthetically pleasing) and our draft for our machine was obvious with the events but good. Getting some of my group members to work has been a struggle and some of the idea making process has been a little shabby, but once everybody gets on board it will be good. If I could change I would make it so that if you didn’t work enough you got booted from the group but other than that it’s a fun project so far. My goals individual and for the group are tho get the whole group working and on the same page, and to keep my own work ethic and passion for the project and not stop working, that sometimes happens but not this time. I will be laser sharp an focused on completing the goal, like a shark tooth. You could say I’m a shark tooth. 

This was an interesting project, and it was well formatted. Everybody paired up and we all researched one topic about Elizebethan times. I got servants, and so we made a keynote on Elizebethan servants. We decided that we would need to research it, get pictures, create the slides and write a script, and I did the script and the research, and then we put it into a keynote that looked like this: Elizebethan Keynote  and then we presented it. Unfortunately I don’t have a video of that, but it went well. Overall this was a fun, well formatted, and informative and I really enjoyed doing it.

I thought my work as an individual and my groups work were both outstanding. In the preparation stage our group was an idea machine, coming up with lots of ideas, most of them ultimately were canned but the best 6 got used well. When we were at the Safari Park we worked really hard to get interviews with workers, and got a lot of footage of animals, while this didn’t help us in our debate it will in the video portion of the project. Then the debate came, and we did well. Even though we lost I think we did well, first for their team was Jayden and he made some compelling points, but then for our team Gabi came up and rebutted and she did well though seemed a little nervous. Then Anatolia came up, and she made some good points and good rebuttals to Gabi’s points, she also seemed nervous. Then I came up and I thought I did pretty well, my points could’ve been stronger and more connected to Gabi’s, and my rebuttals could’ve been more thought out and thorough, but overall I think it went well. Then teva came up and spoke well, but he was very clingy to the idea of the San Diego zoo and how great it was, but he left a vital flaw in his argument, the fact that other zoos are bad and the San Diego zoo is one of the best in the world, and so all we needed to do was point out this fatal flaw, and go over our points and we win, and up comes Griffin to deliver that, and he doesn’t, he makes a couple off topic points and then steps down and we lose. It was a disappointing end and result, but overall I think I did well. Unfortunately there was no video documentation of my debate, but it was a fun event and I enjoyed doing it. I have to thank my teachers for thinking up this project and I hope we do another debate!

This was a fun and informative project, I learned a lot about the impact of the railway on the Industrial Revolution and also learned how to use Explain Everything. I really enjoyed learning about Grenwich time, and even though it was hard at first Explain Everything became easier and more fun to use as the project progressed. I found some of the Industrial Revolution content a little tedious to learn but this was definitely not tedious to learn. This was a fun and enjoyable project to do and I learned a lot. My final presenting format was a YouTube video, here it is.

https://www.youtube/KBurpoB1uXQ