ARTIST STATEMENT

In our english class we are working on making podcast of interviews with the new 9th graders at our school. So pretty much we are trying to make these as interesting as possible. In order to make them interesting they also have to be good, most of the interest comes in the subject matter but another thing is the way that it is put together. To have a well put together podcast you have to have a clear sequence of events if it is a story, and if it is a intervew than you should have definate diffrences in question and responce, while avoiding yes or no question. You should know how to edit, removing anything that doesn't directly affect the story being told.

So far in my team we have given out jobs for everyone, who does what section in the book and who makes sure that everything is getting done, and who is in charge of making sure that our presentation of the benchmark is in order. We have also started to look at each others inspiration files so that we can get only the most important lines from each scene. After setting up the Google documents page there have been a few posts with what each team member wanted top put into the sections that they were assigned.
Working in a team has been nice because there would be too much work to get done if this was an individual project, it was also nice that we got to pick about half of the people who were in our group, that way we could take who Mr. Chase thought we would work well with and also the people who we know we would work well with. This way we get a group that is pretty good and will get the work done as planned. It was nice to see that most of the work that we had given to each other was done when we had planned for it with the acceptation of a few things. The only thing that is kind of difficult about my group is that one of the members is on simple finder so he cannot get Google documents to work while he is in school, but that was easy enough to fix and we got over that pretty fast.
As a group we have not gotten around to editing what other have put up on the Google Docs page, but once we have everything up and go over what everyone has put up there that will be the next step.
One part of this project is that I actually have to pay more attention to the parts that I was assigned so I actually get a bit of a better understanding of the book. I had a really hard time figuring out what was going on in Othello and it was hard for me to be able to see what was going on and translate things accurately into normal day language, but now that I only have to focus on a few parts of the text the play is starting to make more sense to me and I can definitely see the underlying themes that are not completely obvious just from reading the book.  

Drug use among teens has taken off in the past few years, statistics say that marijuana is the most common used drug in teens. Fallowed by prescription drug use and pills. In a recent survey by Medicinenet it was found that the most common prescription drugs used in boys and girls ages ten to 19 between 2001 and 2006 are the fallowing

*   Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs. Up nearly 74% for girls and 37% for boys
    * Antidepressants. Up more than 9% in girls and less than 1% in boys
    * Type 1 diabetes drugs. Up nearly 17% in girls and almost 10% in boys
    * Type 2 diabetes drugs. Up nearly 167% in girls and about 33% in boys
    * Antipsychotics. Up more than 117% in girls and almost 71% in boys
    * Sleep aids. Up more than 80% in girls and about 64% in boys

Most prescription drugs are used correctly but there is a percentage that is being abused by teens and adults alike. While the use of illegal drugs has been declining slightly since drug use has been recorded (1970’s) the rise in abuse of prescription drugs has been growing rapidly.