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-​La tema central de la novela es amor, come vives su vida, y la contra entre dos vidas como dos personalidades.
-Es posible a sali una vida y hacer una nueva personalidad? Como vives su vida? Es posible cambiar?
-Ejemplos: pg 50, pg 40, pg 36

​The next step in my quest to secure funding for Amtrak was to learn about my representatives. A constituent of the 1st district of New Jersey, I am represented in the federal government by Representative Rob Andrews, Senator Robert Menendez, and Senator Frank Lautenberg. While all have been in support of railroads in the past, Sen. Lautenberg is the national railroad advocate (which greatly helps my cause).

Lautenberg, the chair of the Senate's Surface Transportation subcommittee, has always been in favor of railroad transportation throughout the United States. In fact, for his efforts to support railroads, the Secaucus Junction train station (a large transfer station serving three quarters of all NJ Transit trains) was renamed the "Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Station." Lautenberg's focus on railroads comes partly from his background, since his immigrant family often traveled on trains, but also comes from his work as Executive Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. His efforts to support railroads are widely supported, since many North Jersey and Central Jersey residents use NJ Transit to commute to work in New York City. Overall, it will be easy to get Senator Lautenberg to support Amtrak Funding.

Senator Menendez, while not an outspoken rail advocate, does support railroads. He has voted in favor of Amtrak in every rail-based election since his inauguration. While this support often comes from pressure by Sen. Lautenberg, it will still be easy to get him to support rail funding.

Lastly, Rep. Rob Andrews has been a partial railroad advocate. While he personally wants to support railroads, many South Jersey residents don't. This is most likely the result of a lack railroad transportation in South Jersey (with only the PATCO, Atlantic City Line, and River Line). However, Rep. Andrews has been supporting the proposed Camden-Glassboro line. If the state bill passes, he can certainly support an Amtrak bill without any negative campaigning from his constituents.

Overall, my representatives will be easy to work with and will hopefully support my efforts to increase rail funding.

Revolving door: When a elective official to leave his position as a means to transfer into a position to work as a lobbyist the same goes for the versa. This can be called a form of corruption. This is an issue because of the information passed through using this method.

Ex.

Laurence Lessig called people to challenge the presidential candidates to promise that they will only appoint FCC commissioners who promise not to work for those who have regulated for at least 5 years after their term is over. He issued that call-to-action after the GAO found that the FCC is providing information to lobbyist about upcoming meeting agenda. Basically FCC members were lobbying information a week before its public announcement.

David E. Jeremiah: 
While serving on the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Secretary of Defense (Donald H. Rumsfeld at the time) on military strategy, was hired by Boeing Company as a consultant while it was seeking Pentagon approval for a $20 billion contract for aerial refueling tankers. "An internal Boeing e-mail message indicated that the men, Adm. David Jeremiah, a retired vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a member of five corporate boards, and Gen. Ronald Fogleman, who retired from the Air Force, were to lobby Mr. Rumsfeld's office." 

Gill, Kathy. "The Revolving Door(and what can we do about it)."About.com. about.com/guide, Oct/18/07. Web. 24 Oct 2011. <http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2007/10/18/the-revolving-door-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.htm>.

 

Ronald

Rugei 

Alysa 

Keiasha

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Reflection

What grade would you assign yourself for each category?

	Exceeds Expectations 20-19	Meets Expectations 18-16	Approaches Expectations 15-13	Does Not Meet Expectations 12-1
Design	19
Knowledge		18
Application	20
Presentation	19
Process	20

TOTAL:      96     

Strengths of your process or product	Weaknesses of your process or product
* Grammar * Having all my things done on time	* The pronunciation

How did you apply the SLA core values to your project?

Throughout this project I did use the five SLA core values. Inquiry is the act of asking for information. Throughout this project I went to my peers and asked for certain words. Researching is the act of investigation. I investigated old photos from the past. Collaboration is the act of working with someone to create something. While peer editing, I did collaborate with my peers. I am presenting my project through imovie. It is neatly edited and done.  I have and continue to reflect on the work that I have done.

What did you learn about Spanish through completing this project?

I learned how to use the pretérito tense. I also learned new words just as “meido” and phrases such as “we left”.

What did you change about your final project based on peer feedback?  What did you change based on Srta. G’s feedback?

I made a lot of agreement and grammatical errors. Those were the main things that I had to change. As for sentence structure, it remained mainly the same.

If you had the opportunity to start your project all over again, how would you do it differently?

I would have used more pictures. I don’t have many pictures. However, I would have spent more time figuring out how to work with pictures.

Did you enjoy this project? Why or why not?

I enjoyed this project because it allowed me to look back on past summers and think of all the things that I have actually done. Also, this project allowed me to use imovie. Editing this project was fun.

Do you have any suggestions for me if I do this same project next year?

I do not have any suggestions for you if you do the same project next school year.

This is the link to my blog with the video.

This is the link to my school tube video.

​Topic #2-

 

Asking and telling time-

 

Title- Don’t be late

 

Your going to need to know how to tell time and how to say it so here is a way im going to help you. It might take a while because you’re new to it but remember your going to be a pro very soon. Practice makes perfect!

 

(*Es la una – 1:00

*Son las (__hour__) – hour:00

*Es la una y cinco – Five minutes past.

*Menos cinco - :45

*Y media-Half past)

 

*Here are so way to say times in words:

 

Al mediodía – at noon

 

A la medianoche – at midnight

 

Alrededor de – around

 

De día - day

 

Durante el día – during the day

 

A tiempo – on time

 

En punto – on the dot

 

Trade – late

 

temprano – early

This is Emalyn asking Alexis the time so she isen't late for her meeting, but it sees that she is running a little behind... ¡AY, Díos Mío! 



Here is Emalyn's lección on phone numbers.
Here is her lección on courtesy.
Here is her lección on the days of the week.

Manners are important in any language, and Español is no exception. Here are a few words you should know in order to show respect and gratitude. 

Now that you know the words, let’s go over in which situations you use them. Con Permiso is used when you are asking someone to move out of your way. Disculpe is used to try to get someone’s attention. Lastly, Perdón is used to apologize if you accidentally knock into someone.

This is an example of a real life situation, when Alexis bumped into her class-mate Emalyn, knocking down her book. 

This is the timeline of Symone S., Nick M., Yasmeen B., Imani J., and Justin P. Hope you find it informative and enjoyable.

Cyndi
Taina
Shammarlon
Maddie

If you are going to learn basic conversation questions in spanish, then there are a few things you should know

-how to introduce yourself
-how to ask for someone's name
-ask how someone is
-ask where someone is from

Now that you know how to say basic conversations in spanish, go use it!

Katherine 
Malik 
Bernicia 
Maggie 

Maggie, Katherine, Malik, Bernicia

One suggestion is to be more flexible with the number of pictures. If a person only has like 2 or 4 then that should be worth more than just a C.

 

To tell time –

What time is it?

¿Que hara es?

 0-30 minutes

1)    Choose between Es la 1 or Son las 2-12

2)    State the hour

3)    If they are minutes say “y”

4)    State the minutes

 

Ex- 2:12 pm- Son las dos y doce

 

31-59 minutes

1)    Choose between Es la or Son las

2)    State the hour a head

3)    To connect minutes and hours say menos

4)    State how many minutes it would take to be given hour in step 2

Ex- 9:35- Son las diez meno Veinte y cinco 

So this is my 2nd drawing of Jamie (backside). The reason I say it's my 2nd drawing is because someone took down my 1st drawing, and i don't know who or where it went to. My 2nd drawing isn't as good as the 1st one i had drawn but my drawing is very cool. I know it may be hard to see because of the paper i used but i outlined it with some darker colors. Its not very detailed but i did a last minute job cause of the problem i had. I just want to give a special thanks to Emma for helping Matt Ferry and me out for being my Art partner. So yeah, I'll take comments (good or bad). So thanks and here is my drawing

http://prezi.com/x9xqro20wmo4/present/?auth_key=o9hkeg5&follow=khatzidais@scienceleadership.org

    I am lobbying against the age restriction of curfew in Philadelphia. I feel as though the ages should not be under 18 because that affects a lot of teenagers that do have jobs out there. For example all of the 17 year old that have jobs out there and are done at 11 pm at night or later.
    I want to investigate on this a little more because I feel as though its not right and since one group of kids wanted to cause a ruckus not everyone should have to suffer for their actions. I feel as the the age should be 17 for the curfew because not only are 17 year olds working but they are also young adults. I feel as though if I was to bring this up to someone and continued to try and make these changes I would have a good amount of supports, not only the teens that work late at night, but also parents of these kids. I don't feel as though teenagers should be penalized for the mistake of a group of teenagers who have nothing to do better with their lives but cause ruckus.
    A lot of people might think that I am foolish for trying to bring the age down for these teenagers but I feel as though nowadays seventeen year olds should know their right from wrong. That's why I was stating that they would at least give it a try and trust that these teenagers in Philadelphia wouldn't make me regret trying to change the age for them. If this was to be changed and these teens were still disobeying the law that their would be precautions. That's one thing that I completely agree with the curfew law, and that's the punishments that kids and teens would get if they broke the rule. For example if this law was to be broken by a child or yours for example you, the parent would be fined with a bill. It states that if the law was broken parents can face a fine up to $500. Now that should make parents more informed on how serious this law is being taken.

LINK TO LUCID CHART 


1841 "Less than 50 percent..." primary source
1870 "Slaves are granted..."primary source
1916 "College educated..." primary source 
1916 "Woodrow Wilson..." primary source  
1916 "Woodrow Wilson..." primary source 
1920 " Women are given..." primary source
1924 "Native Americans..."primary source 
1861-1865 "Civil War period..." primary source 
1870 "Slaves are granted..."primary source
1882 "Chinese are denied..." primary source 
1965 "Selma, Alabama..." primary source 
1971 "26th amendment..." primary source
1971 " 26th amendment..." primary source 
1971 "26th amendment..." primary source