Part of the project is going to a place that is related to your topic. I went to a place called Ellen’s Stardust Diner. You may know this place because it is a very popular restaurant in New York City. This relates to my topic because the waiters there who aren’t having the greatest luck […]
Ellis Island Field Trip
Today my entire grade went to Ellis Island for a field trip. We went on a ferry to get to Ellis Island so I thought that that was very fun. When we got there we got to wander around the museum for a while and learn about the immigrants coming through Ellis Island. After that […]
Passion Project Final Presentaion
For about a month I worked on making a passion project with my friend. At the end we ended up making a slideshow about everything we researched. Here is my slideshow:
Capstone #2 – Having my Interview
Over the weekend I had my interview for Capstone. Like I had said before I interviewed my aunt’s mother. Her name is Jessica Walter. When I interviewed her I didn’t have many questions but while she was talking, she basically covered everything that I needed to know about how to be prepared for an audition. […]
Capstone #1 – Thinking About my Interview
Since I am researching Broadway Casting for my Capstone, I was thinking about who I should interview. I knew that it should definitely be someone who has experience with auditioning for Broadway and being on a Broadway show. I thought if I knew anyone that had that experience. I realized that my aunt’s mother has […]
Choosing a topic for Capstone
This week we started to talk about ideas for capstone. Capstone is a project related to what our interests and passions are. I started to think about what I love to do and what my interests are. I knew that I liked gymnastics, so that was an option, but then I started to think about […]
Nerdy Derby
Today in class we did an activity that was called Nerdy Derby. The activity was when we got to make our own little cars and race them. I did mine with my best friend Samantha and we made ours very pretty. We called it the Color Convertible because we covered it in rainbow order pom […]
So B. It
With my partner in class we are reading the book So B. It. This book is by Sarah Weeks, and it is a social issue. In this book the main character Heidi faces many problems. Our teacher gave us these questions to answer about our book. Think of one character and a challenge or difficulty […]
Filters
In science we are studying all about pollution and the importance of clean water all around the world. So, we made groups and each group is supposed to design a filter that can make the water a lot cleaner. Everyone in the class started off with trying out three different materials that can filter the […]
Immigration Project Part Four
In school we finally finished the stop motion animation project. My group and I worked really hard on it to complete it. After finishing the filming we imported it to imovie. Then we added cool sound effects which really makes it more interesting. Then we made the voice overs which sounded really cool when attaching […]