Introducíon: Cada persona en nuestro grupo leyó un libro que se trata de la experiencia latina en los Estados Unidos. Pensábamos, como un grupo, en los temas de estos tres libros, Cuando Era Puertorriqueña, Esperanza Renace, y De Como las Muchachas Garcia Perdieron el Acento. Dimos cuenta que un tema grande en todos los libros es el cambio de identidad. Entonces buscábamos ejemplos de eso. En cada libro, una personaje se muda a nuevo lugar y pierda algo que tenía. Conectábamos el idea a la experiencia de la madre de Emma Connell, quien vivió en el Ecuador por un año. En el podcast, contamos las historias en el forma de diarios.
El tema general de este proyecto es para adapatar con culturas
extranjeras. Nosotros usamos los libros "Cuano Era Puertoriqueña" y
"Como los niñas Garcias perdieron los accentos" y una entrevista con
Martha Robles sobre su vida llegando a los Estados Unidos. Todos las
cosas que usamos contiene historias sobre personas que llegaron a los
Estados Unidos cuando eran adolescentes. Todos ellos lucharon para
poder adaptarse a una cultura extranjera.
Estudiantes en el grupo:
William Marsh
Martha Robles
Emma Hersh
When starting this project I didn’t have a set idea on what
I wanted to do. I never had a solid idea on how I wanted to make a project out
of recycled material. At first I thought, wow a project made of recycled
material this is a good idea. But I didn’t want to add none recycled material
to it, I wanted to be made out of all recycled material. After thinking about a
few ideas and sketching some ideas out I started coming up with some projects.
I didn’t want the projects of projects just to do. I wanted them to be
connected to me or relate to me somehow. What I had decided to do was paint
over used cardboard boxes and cut and past letters and words from recycled
magazines. After cutting out the letters and words I planned on making a poem
about our environment and how recycling is a good idea. At first I didn’t have
a poem on how to write it so I found a recycling poem that a 4th
grader had made, cited it and used it as part of my project. The world’s
greatest artwork wasn’t finished in a day, and neither was mine. But I plan to
finish the poem idea and place it on the school wall so that every one can see
it.
Another idea I had was similar to the artist we saw at the
exhibit. Her name was Aurora Robson. She took her nightmares and made them into
her own creations. She took plastic caps, bottles, and string. She cut them and
made them look like jellyfish and flowers hanging from the ceiling. My idea was
to make the bottle caps and bottles into a collected of flowers. In my head I
thought of paining them a light color so the glossy effect from the bottle
still showed. I just started this project a few weeks ago and it’s taking me
some time to do this project. I hope to also complete this project for the
second quarter benchmark as well.
These projects that we are doing is tying into a quote that
we are all probably know. Someone else’s trash is another person treasure. The
students of advanced art took this quote into consideration without even
realizing it. We’re helping our community and giving the thrash/ recycled
material a voice. A voice that hopefully will be heard.
Artist Statement When I think of statements like "Go Green," I think of a fashion statement. I realize that it is terribly pessimistic of me, but today, it would seem that when one says they are "green", it is almost like they are saying that they just bought that expensive pair of jeans everyone wishes they had. I constantly see celebrities on the news talking about what they have done for the environment. Observing this unfortunate reality, I perceived an idea for an art project. I figured that if I take this hypothetical fashion statement, and turned it into an actual fashion statement, I could turn the negative to a positive. This is why I decided to create a dress out of a recyclable materials. I chose garbage bags as my medium, simply because they are black. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the phrase "green is the new black", and because of that phrase, I coined my own, stating that "black is the new green". Unfortunately, I was unable to finish my dress. It took me a very long time to figure out a design, but eventually I settled on a v-neck dress with cascading newspaper along one seam. Around the later days of my process, after cutting, gluing (I still have some burns), and assembling the dress, I realized that I didn't have enough time to finish. When I realized this, I found out another horrible truth. My mother's boyfriend was looking for a trash bag, and picked up my dress. attempting to open the "bag", he tore the art by both seams. That was about four weeks worth of work, down the drain. You can imagine how livid I was with him.
Pictures Sketches The Dress So Far and the Dress Form That I Made (Duct Tape)
Bottle Cap Poster The inspiration for my poster was resources being wasted, as you can see, the pepsi bottle is being emptied and wasted. Thus the slogan for the poster, "DON'T WASTE!"
Listening to music is a way for me to detach myself form the world when I'm stressed.
No matter where I am, if i can find a way to listen to music, then i would be happy. This is why i decided to make headphones and music notes out of newspaper. Seeing as no one barely reads the paper I thought it would be best to combine something that people almost always do like listen to music when they are stressed, with something that people wouldn't even consider to do when they are stressed, like read a paper.
At first, when I began to wonder how I was going to make headphones, i simply decided to make them 2-dimensional. After i saw how it would turn out, I thought to my self that wouldn't making it 3-dimensional make it more appealing to the eye.
So there you have it. A pair of headphones slightly larger than normal ones, that represent two things that people wouldn't combine. I mean, who would want to read a boring newspaper while listening to awesome music? I know I wouldn't want to.
The
idea behind this piece of art is the idea of life coming from the strangest of
places; this specific example being technology.It is meant to symbolize that I’ve noticed that even though
some people think that technology can bring about the demise & downfall of
society, it can also bring us life in various ways.
I
collected materials that I felt could represent technology: an extension cord,
dvds & cds, a mother board, a cd stand, glue, & wire.I glued each cd & dvd, stacking
them onto the cd stand.Then I cut
the extension cord, glued it to the cd stand, & wrapped it with the wire
tightly to make it stand up straight. I then glued the motherboard to the top,
to make the sculpture look like a flower in a pot.
The project was of importance to me, and using the recycled pieces of
technology really made the project good for the environment. It also made sure
I showed that life really can come out of the weirdest part of the world. This
project showed me that simple things and simple people can make a difference in
the world.
The purpose of this project was to teach Noah some Spanish basics so he could survive on his travels in Spanish speaking countries. We had to incorporate some things we had learned like past and present tense verbs.
Though we did not break up the video in sections such as, "Past Tense Verbs", "Present Tense", "Greetings", etc. If you follow along it is easy to understand the conversation.
We used a interview format because this might actually be a situation he enters in another country. Interviews are also places where you are judged on the way you speak. We found that using a plausible example could improve the quality of the video
After watching our tutorial, you will be able to...
greet people in spanish
talk about past education
talk about past and current occupations
ask & answer questions about personality and attributes
The purpose of this project, is to teach Noah and other viewers how to speak spanish, at least at a spanish one level. We are going to help you and other understand spanish by using a connection type of video, which gives you real life situations that some may relate to. In our lessons you will learn how to conjugate verbs, the alphabet, count, and also how to speak simple words. Our goals were to help you learn how to use spanish words to ask where something is, and basic Spanish one terms. We put our script and our video in a certain form that we and others would understand too. For our final product, I think the group is most proud of the fact that we were able to pull off this project despite that obstacles we encountered. If given the chance to start over, I'd like to get things together ahead of time or at least on task, that way we don't have to rush everything at the end.
Over the Summer ... The purpose of this video is to teach Noah and other how to congregate verbs into the past tense. After watching this video you should be able to have the knowledge of how to congregate verbs into past tense and use it as a helpful guide. The video shows an example of a real life situation where conergation happens and then gives a more detailed explanation in English so that the viewer (Noah) is able to understand. We are really proud of the keynote because it is clear and easy to understand. If we had more time we would of recorded more. Does this video help you any in understanding how to congregate?
This
first quarter my senior art class we talked about recycling objects to make
artwork. Looking at discarded things and seeing the beauty in them. I am
inspired by nature and the changes that it goes through so I decided to create
a piece with that in mind. Walking through the streets of Philadelphia trudging
through the leaves I got my idea. The leaves sprout and are beautiful and
through the year so many changes happen to them and then they fall from trees
and die.At this point in my life
I am going through so many changes, not all of them bring me happiness. With
this piece of work I wanted to show that there is beauty in change even though
you may not see it at first.
For
this piece I gathered leaves from outside and sewed them together and with a needle
and thread. At first I was going to create a blanket, then a bag but the leaves
started to form a shape of their own so listened to what they wanted to be
shaped into and made it so. The
most important part of creating this piece was remembering to be delicate with
the materials because they could crumble at any moment, just like the decisions
we make in life.
A lot of artists say the best work is of
a tortured artist. To me that means when you go through things in life that are
not exactly the highlight of your life use it as inspiration to create something
beautiful that allows you to release some of the stress and emotion you are
feeling. That is what my work will startshow in the future.
The purpose of this project is to teach those who are new to Spanish, some basic questions and how to conjugate verbs. To properly complete the original goals of our project, we first created our script to get an idea of the exact things that we were going to say. Then we revised and corrected all of our grammatical errors and perfect the script. From there we rehearsed and preformed the lines from our script. In our final product, we realized that we were most proud of our dedication and good use of class time, also the way that we stayed on task and completed all of our goals that we had set for ourselves.
Questions for Noah:
How has your Spanish progressed since you moved there?
Were our videos of any help to you?
What do you most understand or what was the easiest thing you have learned thus far?
I am a Junior at Science Leadership Academy and I was given a project to create some form of art using recycled elements. I decided that since our school uses computers every day and when we have to print papers, we make mistakes. We print to many, forgot to add parts, etc. Then what happens to all of these mistakes of paper? My idea for a art project was to collect all these mistakes and turn them into art. To even start off on a good foot I used a plastic bottle for a mold. So forth I paper mached this bottle into a creation with the mistakes. I was inspired to make a figure that I feel some what of exoticism. My main character is a alien kind of creature. I tried to represent him in a recycled form. His brother you might say. What I've learned from this project is to take consideration for what is around us and how that anything that might look just plain trash on the sidewalk can be created into some so much more beautiful and gain more of a importance.
Post Questions Our main goal is to help Noah to speak spanish. And we’re going to help him by teaching him how to talk about his interest and hobbies , What he did over the summer and also be able to talk about things that are happening right now. So by the end of this he will know how to say it all!!
The goals of our tutorial is to teach Noah how to use past tense and present tense and what he did over his summer.
Well.. Of course we started with a sketch ideas of what we wanted to do, and made a script but what we THOUGHT could match the goals. Trying to teach Noah about the ways of simple Spanish doings, and summer times. Past tense speaking. After time, we fixed our scripts and molded it to truly match our goals. Or to the best ability. knowing that it might not be perfect. but just good enough.
We’re proud of our creativity. The ideas we came up with to display our Spanish knowledge. The fact that we purposely mispronounced and mis-conjugated words and then corrected ourselves shows that we’re skilled when it comes to correctly using Spanish verbs
Questions For Noah ~Do you feel that you've learned more about pass tense verbs? ~What should we have changed? ~Was our video easy to understand? ~Did you enjoy it?
Timothy
Ubuntu came from a family of computer programmers, and it’s fair to say that he
has loved computers since birth. On his 4th birthday he asked for
his computer to be able to run emacs so he would be able to program like his
dad. You see, his dad was a website developer and computer programmer, but his
mom didn’t do anything that fancy; she repaired computers. However, she was
damn good at repairing and you would never be able to see someone defrag a hard
drive that fast. Back to Timothy, his family wasn’t exactly the wealthiest so
they had dial up and every time they would get online to do something or show Timmy
the beauty of the internet the series of high and low beeps of AOL ate away at
him. When he was finally on it for the first time he was amazed at what he
could see, what he could do, what he could have, and especially what he could
give.
He
loved music and games but didn’t have money to buy them so he would play online
games. Free cheap ones because he couldn’t find the games he wanted online.
Timmy eventually was overwhelmed by the lack of interesting games on the
internet after he thought so highly of it and starting bawling.
“Why?
Why can’t I find anything fun? I thought it was all supposed to be here?” Timmy
cried. Shortly afterwards Timmy’s father walks into the room and says
“Timmy
Why are you crying?”
“Because
I can’t find anything online. I can’t find games or music and I hate it”
“Well
son it pains me to see you like this so I will teach you the ways I get
everything”.
From that moment on Timmy put all his effort into
researching one man who his dad told him about, Sean Parker, the man who
founded napster and broke the record companies.
Sean
Parker showed that you will never be able to stop the free flow of information
while there are people out there will to do the same things he did and napster
allowed to upload and download music for free. He was sued for creating it and
charged hundreds of thousands of dollars but that didn’t scare Timmy so he
looked up ways to download programs where we wouldn’t get caught. He asked his-self
what would the safest way be to get music and games, and that’s when his dad
told him about torrent files. It is one of the biggest peer to peer sharing
types imaginable and he noticed his dad already had a program called bittorrent
on their computer and just like that he began. He started downloading torrent
files and running them and the speed at which we would get files put him and
shock.
“Its
really free” Timmy asked.
“Yes
Timmy it is free and it’s there”.
The
only problem with this is that if the country cracks down they can still get
your IP address and sue you like they did Sean Parker. They already sued one
lady for uploading music to websites and was fined 220,000 dollars.
Inconvenient as it may be, that day, December 4th is when the
Prop-IP act was first introduced to congress. The Prop-IP act was to increase
the penalties for trademark and copyright infringement. Timmy and his dad knew
that if it got passed they could be made examples of and forced to be gross
sums of money. Sadly in the next 5 months it would only get worse. It had
traveled through the house and the senate so quickly and had an astonishing
voter turnout. It got passed 410 to 11. 5 months after that it was passed, and
on 10/13/2008 George Bush signed the bill and it was passed. Interestingly
enough people who torrented files have not been caught and everyday Timmy
wonders about how effective the bill was and will download more files for old
times sake.
Shaw, Donny. "8 Controversial Bills That Congress Still May Pass." Participatory Politics Foundation (2008): n. pag. Web. 7 Nov 2010. <http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/636-8-Controversial-Bills-That-Congress-Still-May-Pass>.
Esguerrra, Richard. ""PRO IP Act" Aims to Increase Infringement Penalties and Expand Government Enforcement." Electronic Frontier Foundation (2007): n. pag. Web. 7 Nov 2010. <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/12/pro-ip-act-increase-infringement-penalties-and-drastically-expand-government-enfor>.
"H.R.4279 - PRO-IP Act of 2007." Participatory Politics Foundation (2005): n. pag. Web. 7 Nov 2010. <http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4279/show>.
Hello my name is Samuel Kabangai, I am a junior at Science Leadership Academy. Our quarter one benchmark we had to take something that we see everyday and transform it into a work of art.
For my project I had different ideas that i wanted to peruse that will make a statement. I decided to make a T.V out of a card board box. I made the T.V by butting out a select from portion of the box and replacing with recycle white paper. It works through the reflection of light, I used candles to make a light behind the box and i used cut of figures that i made from card board the reflect through the back of the T.V.
The inspiration for this project came through when i saw that in our school, we had many boxes that were lying around and there was no use for it and when i saw trash in the schuylkill river and majority of the trash was cardboard boxes. I though to myself that, we are informed about everything that goes on in our life today mostly through the T.V and its amazing how little things like recycling was be ignored by our society. The project was clever and unique and if someone see's it they will always remember it and maybe that will make them remember to recycle.
To make this art work i only need a cardboard box, box cutter,glue, paper and candles. The turn out of the project to me was great and i will love to build on that idea more and make it better. A future consideration will be to decorate the art work and give it a sort of spunk that will catch attention and leave a memory in anyones mind.
Bottle Cap Recycle Project
For our bottle cap recycle project, i made a poster that showed a image of an bottle pouring in the water and the cap of the bottle was falling and on the image of the water it showed a fist eating the bottle cap. That idea came to me when my art teacher informed me that they bottle cap from our bottle drinks are not being recycled, but instead they were being thrown in the ocean and animals/food like fish were eating the bottle caps. It came to my knowledge that those fish were dying or if they don't die they are cough and people eat those fish that have these chemicals from the bottle caps in them.
Hello my name is Shakeelah Finney. I am a junior attending Science Leadership Academy. For our Advanced art benchmark the entire class was given the assignment of making art out of recyclable material. After scanning through a variety of ideas i had finally chosen the recyclables jean and Capri-sun pouches. With these two elements i would create a dress. The process for creating the dress was elongated but once i started i didnt stop until it was finished, meaning late nights or should i say early mornings. I would sometimes stay up until 5 am because i was so eager to get the dress done, which meant i was tired when school was in session, but in the end it was all worth it. This was probably one of my most amusing benchmarks of my entire high school life. Mainly because it was something i got to choose and play around with. The possibilities for what to do were endless. I could've made anything. Something that described myself as a person. It wasnt like any other project where your told you have to do a report on this person, 12-font, double space, 2 pages. This benchmark spoke freedom. This allowed everybody to be themselves and speak on things that mattered to them. Everybody had so many ideas which was evident at the finish of the benchmarks. The diversity was worth the world. We went from a tv out of cardboard box to a peace symbol made with condom wrappers or what not. And the meaning behind the art pieces were priceless. It spoke a lot on the class as a unison. The most exciting part of the benchmark for me would have to be seeing everybody in action. Watching them as they build their art pieces and explain the meaning behind it. It proves that teens also think about the world around them. Not all the negative stuff you hear in the media or on the news.
