In Spanish 1 in the first quarter, Don Marcos told us to each create a travel guide. The travel guide was to help and educate a tourist visiting a foreign Spanish country. The brochure was to not contain anything from the English language, but only composed only of Spanish. So how was the tourist going to be able to learn anything from a brochure that only had Español and the traveler spoke anything BUT Spanish? Well, by visual aids, of course! For example, in my brochure, I have the phrase: Buenos Diez. Next to that phrase, an arrow coming from Buenos Diez would point to a depiction of dawn. Would you know what that phrase meant?

Okay this project was okay but not what we wanted to turn out one person decided not to do their voice description so for that was a hold up and caused another group member not being in the slidshow because of that .the project for our group was delayed so we had to resort to using pictures turning it into a slideshow with voice overs it's could have been better i guess i need to pick a better team and not pick one where just a few people do work like the other don't

So this project was fun is just people did'nt hold up they're end of the deal

     Our History Benchmark was to plan/host a party for King Tut himself. We had to think as if we were in his time, we had to plan a Summer Solstice. We had to make King Tut feel welcome and accommodate to his needs. We had to make sure everything was just perfect. The Food had to e perfect, security, lodging and all.

     For my project I worked in a group of 4. The group contained myself, Natikwa G., Maxine H., Anwar A.-Q. For my portion of the project I had the role of organizer and caterer. I made sure all the menus had food that were related to King Tut's home. I organized parts of the Parade and Dinner's. Trying to make King Tut not feel home-sick was a test but I made it work.

For my English Benchmark I had to write a five-paragraph essay. The topic had to be related to the Odyssey. We had to write a thesis statement on it. We had to choose a theme to write about. Our themes and choices came form the book The Odyssey. We had to include a quote in every paragraph with no excuses.

For my essay I chose to write about love in the book. My thesis is that "men do not show love freely". I had very good evidence to prove my points. I put a good amount of references to the book to show the reader where I got my reasoning. I also had 5 paragraph of goo information.

For my English Benchmark I had to write a five-paragraph essay. The topic had to be related to the Odyssey. We had to write a thesis statement on it. We had to choose a theme to write about. Our themes and choices came form the book The Odyssey. We had to include a quote in every paragraph with no excuses.

For my essay I chose to write about love in the book. My thesis is that "men do not show love freely". I had very good evidence to prove my points. I put a good amount of references to the book to show the reader where I got my reasoning. I also had 5 paragraph of goo information.

Our benchmark was the “History Of Science”. My classmates and me were divided into pairs and each pair researched a scientist. We each had to make a fact sheet about the scientist. We were required to make a Power Point or Keynote presentation about the scientist. We also had to fill out an application.

For the benchmark, we were paired with a partner. My partner was Rashaun Williams who was in charge of doing the research and summarizing them. My part of the project was to organize a fact sheet and the Keynote presentation. Each of the groups was assigned a scientist to research about. My group had to research Hans Adolf Krebs.

For our geometry benchmark, my class was split into groups of two or three. We had to make a class presentation. In this project a partner and me had to create a -10minute lesson plan on a math topic given to us. We also had to create a math pamphlet on the topic. The topic that I had was Geometry in sports.

My group was Rashaun Williams, and myself. Our topic was sports and how they relate to Geometry. The sports we were given to teach about were baseball, track & field, and snowboarding. We decided for each of us to talk about one and we both talked about the last one. We had some media in our lesson such as a video on track & field and on snowboarding.

For the Spanish benchmark we had to create a brochure. It had to be universal meaning it can help a person coming from any country and speaking. The goal for our brochure was to make it professional and easy to read. We were allowed to use anyway to inform the users as long as they understood the information. The brochure must no have any English in it everything has to be in Spanish.

I made my brochure as simple as possible. I made it that way so it could be understood by anyone it felt as though I was doing a book on Spanish for Dummies. To express things in my brochure I used pictures, calendars, and cartoons. I broke it up into five sections I used date, weather, seasons, numbers, and days of the week. Overall I had a lot of fun doing this project.

     For our Quarter 1 Benchmark in science we had to research a scientist. Not just plain research like age, name, death date, and invention. Our research was based on questions. One question was, "How did your scientist's work affect future scientists?" So it wasn't simple research it was a connection to modern scientists.

     For my project I worked in a group. The group was made of Natikwa Goodwin and I. We had to research Galileo Galilei.He invented the telescope, but more so made improvements on it. For our project we made a fact sheet, with simple facts, a slide show of his accomplishments, and a skit for bonus points. People seemed to enjoy our presentation.

For this assignment, we had to create a piece of artwork, that displayed an image or object of our choics in a unique way. The name of the object or image had to be written or displayed some how or make up the image or object we were creating.

I created an image of a hand holding out an iPod, freehand.Showing allof the details of the Apple iPod. Then I sketched the words IPOD into the actual image of the iPod, with the circle of the iPod creating the O.

If I were to do something different in this project, I wouldn't have done the outline of the iPod first. I would have created the message(words) first and then created the object from that. To create a greater artistic image.