We finished our blog posts. For mine to present it, I had to screen record the slideshow while talking to the screen recording.It took a lot of tries but in the end it got better. Once it was finished I posted on YouTube and presented it to my class.
Here is the link to my presentation: https://youtu.be/PnYEtoHGxl4
I can’t believe capstone and the year flew by so fast. I am so excited to go to a new school but sad to leave Heathcote. But I am looking forward to the drive through graduation
For my Capstone project, I chose to do a slideshow. The slideshow explains all the research I’ve done over the past month on Hamilton.
In order to make this presentation, I had to first make a script template. This basically said what would be saying during the presentation and how long each slide was going to take. After the script template was done, we had to start making the real slideshow. This meant putting our pictures on the slide and fixing the formatting. Then, I had to memorize most of my script.
Some challenges that I faced making the slideshow and script was making sure what I said made sense and making sure my slides were clean and consistent. Something that I thought was a great part of the process includes choosing the pictures and making them interesting and connected to the script and my voiceover. Memorizing my script really challenged me, but it wasn’t too hard.
I’m definitely sad this is the last project we’re going to do in fifth grade. I think this was a great experience, and we all worked really hard to get our final projects to where they are now.
I finished my Capstone interview. For my interview, I interviewed Aisha Davis. She is a very successful producer and helped answer a lot of my questions I had about the Broadway. These were my questions:
Overall, she was very helpful and will definitely help me in the process of making the presentation.
In class, we have started our Capstone unit. A Capstone involves choosing a topic to study and coming up with a main inquiry question to answer. The first thing we had to do for this unit was brainstorm topic ideas. At first, I didn’t know what to do but then I decided to do the Broadway show, Hamilton. This is a topic that I know a lot about and that interests me. Once I found out what my topic was I had to find out what my main question was. After a Zoom call with my teacher, I decided to make my question, ”What are the key elements that make Hamilton successful?” I decided to pick this question because it focused on all of the things that I want to learn about. After we found out what the main question was going to be, I had to make my sub-questions. Sub questions are questions that help me figure out the answer to my main question. Since we have finished all of these steps the next thing we have to do is study our sub-questions and research more on this topic.
Doing this project has made me learn about myself as a learner by showing that I can learn a lot more about a topic if I am asking a question and looking for an answer, instead of just looking for facts about the topic all around.
Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929. Dr. King made a lot of speeches about segregation and racist remarks.
One of his most famous speeches was “I Have a Dream” His speech took place in 1963 at the March on Washington protest. This speech is one of the most famous speeches in history. Martin was a very strong influencer and changed the way people thought about segregation.
Martin luther king not only wanted his generation to be equal but also everyone in the future to this is shown when in his speech he says “I have a dream that my four little chi1dren will one day live in a nation \Where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
Altough he wanted all blacks to be treated equally, still not everyone ecepts them today and there still a lot of racists people and remarks.
The last few days my colony has been getting built. Since I am just a young girl I didn’t do much building, but I did help provide food and drink for the workers. Sometimes I do wish I could help with some of the things the boys get to do but I don’t really mind not all doing the hard work.
The last few days I’ve been quite lonely, I mean father’s been building, mothers been getting the slaves situated and instructing the workers on what to do. Since I haven’t been able to make any friends I’ve just been talking to the maids that are helping me cook.
In the end it is all coming together perfectly and I think are colony will be a pretty, happy and exiting new adventure
In my class we are reading “Stargirl” by Jerry Spinelli. I think it is really good so far and I wonder how it will turn out. My thoughts on this book are very strange. I kind of feel like people at her school are “adapting”to her and now instead of panicking and thinking she is weird now they clap when she sings, now that I say this it makes me think that maybe in the future she will still be the same but people will be used to her so she wont be considered weird. Another thing I realized it that she is smart because when Hillary said “you better not sing happy birthday to me” instead she sang to Leo happy birthday to Hillary. In conclusion Stargirl is a very inspiring character.
My name Emma Peterson. In my colony I am the plantation owners daughter. My responsibilities are to go to school, do chores, plan parties and learn how to one day become a suitable wife. I have many relationships like my Mother, Father, slaves, and other young girls just like me. I think I keep my colony a success by making sure there is another generation of plantation owners, If there was not anymore plantation owners our colony wouldn’t work out because there wouldn’t be anyone to take charge when problems on the plantation occur. In conclusion I thing that even though I live an easy life compared to others my role is still very important to me and to others.
In my class we are doing colonial america. My reigon is southern colonies. First we had to resarch a lot then we had to pick our roles, names and backstories. Its hard work but its still fun. One of the hardest things is working together with our group and who’s in charge of who .
I think it is a good experience because our teacher isn’t in charge so we have t figure out how to work, build and research without our teachers help.