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Immigration Presentation Reflection

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My class and I had a big project to do that included interviewing someone who immigrated to America and then making a story in a slideshow about it. This project was very fun and I learned a lot more about the person who I interviewed, which was my dad. I interviewed my dad because he was one of the only people I knew who immigrated to America that I could contact.

I learned that many people from all around the world immigrate to America, probably more than I expected. From seeing my classmate’s presentations and learning about it, many people came to America from all around the world for better life and learning opportunities.

First I had to ask my dad many questions like an interviewer would, and then take notes. After I took notes I put them into a script, then used them as inspiration for my slide show. Instead of using We-Video for my story like most of my other presentations, I used another platform called Adobe. I like Adobe better because the transitions and slides are better, and it is easier. It also unblurred photos, which was very helpful. I still like Adobe better, but there were some problems with it too.

Something that surprised me was that when I was in the process of making my slideshow, Adobe had many unexpected problems. The photos that I uploaded were glitching, my slideshow lagged and crashed my Chromebook more than once. In the end, I ended up liking Adobe less than I did at the start.

Overall I loved making the Immigration project and my slideshow ended up being a clean, thorough, and detailed story about my dad’s immigration journey. I think this very fun, even though it was difficult at one point.

Here is my final presentation. Bye!

Constitution Project Reflection

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I think the purpose of this project was to advance my learning with research and presenting, while also helping us learn more about important history. I think this because I had to do a lot of learning and researching while being independent. I also think it practiced my presentation skills because we had to present our final projects. I learned a lot about history while researching, (And the Constitution projects in general) and history is important. I loved this project a lot, and it was very interesting and fun while challenging in some parts.

The first part of our project was choosing our topic. My Constitution research topic is Important events that led up to women gaining the right to vote. I chose this topic because I wanted to learn more about Women’s Suffrage, and important Women’s Suffrage Events. Next, we had to answer research topic questions and fill out a planner. After we researched and took notes about our project. I think this part was hard because we had to choose and take notes about specific topics and choose them on only 3 websites. It was fun but challenging. I learned a lot. One interesting thing I learned was that there is a women’s suffrage flag, and the women suffrage represents the following colors: Purple, white, and yellow. 

After we took notes and research we had to take our notes and make them into a script. This was also very challenging because the timing of the script overall had to be less than 2:30 and more than 2:00. Each script slide/paragraph had to be more than 6 seconds, and less than 15. It was also very hard to put my notes into a script.

Then we made a slideshow for our project and notes. We had to add photos onto each slide that connected to the topic of each script slide. This was challenging because each photo had to match, even though there weren’t specific photos for each topic. We also had very direct instructions for the slides. For example, only up to six words on the slide. Another example was it had to be a good quality and centered photo, while it had to look neat. I had the most problems with my slides in all of this project! At first, I got the photos and organization finished very quickly, but then I soon realized that a lot of my notes were out of order and wrong, so I had to fix them up. I also realized I had a few problems with my introduction slide, and my third slide, so I fixed it up. I ended up moving down a photo and deleting a whole slide. It was also pretty hard to get the timing right.

The last thing we had to do was Screencastify our slides/presentation. Screencastify is a recording app. It was really hard to get the recordings right, and I had to re-do them many times because I had messed up reading the script in the recording, or just stuttered. Other problems I had were switching the slides while recording, and finding a quiet spot to record. In general, I loved the project and it was very interesting while challenging in some parts. This project helped me learn so much about the Constitution and Women’s Suffrage. Overall I loved it, and I had a great experience.

You can listen to my presentation here:

Thanks!

Narrative and Reflection

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Question 1: What writing techniques/strategies did you use most effectively in this piece? Provide at least two examples from your narrative.

I feel like I used a lot of detail, and a strategy for that was I used good dialogue with actions and I also described things very detailed. An example for this is in the text I described what the mountains looked like by saying, “It looked as if the farthest mountains were dipped in forest green paint and smudged to make a tree-looking texture.”

An example of dialogue was when I said, “I am not!” I think that it would have been different if I just put, “I am not!” But since I put, “I am not!” It made the tone sound different. Then I put actions at the end of when I said something, to make the reader able to imagine the scene. For example, it says in the texts: ““I…Don’t want to go first either.” I shook my head, grabbing onto the wood railings of the platform.” After a character states something, I put their action afterward so you can imagine what’s happening while reading. 

Question 2: What are some areas in your writing that you still want to improve?

To be honest I would like the improve the ending when I go on the zipline because it just doesn’t sound right to me. I like it, and It’s not that it is bad, or wrong, it just feels too descriptive and long but it is a good ending. I don’t know, sometimes I just get the feeling it is just, ‘too much.’

I like my story a lot in general, but I feel sometimes it’s just too much. I also have another ending that I really like but I decided to choose a different one, but it’s hard to choose which one I like better so I stuck with this one.

Question 3: What is something you are most proud of in this piece?

I am most proud of how I remembered and wrote the story so well it ended up feeling like yesterday after I wrote it!

It took a while to get the final piece, and it also took a lot of remembering to do because the story was a bit ago, though I did remember a lot. Mainly I like my story so much because it was very realistic and detailed. And for the process of getting it so descriptive, I had to remember a lot of the details to make the story as great as I can get it.