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Feature Article Reflection

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Ideas, Details, Drafts, Intros, Text Features, Color Changes, Final product. You heard me right, you have to do all of this to make a feature article! At first I thought this would be a week or two but I had no clue how much determination it would take. Now it’s finally worth it.
The first lesson we all had to come up with a few topics, and see if you had enough information. I knew I wanted to do Disney World because I just came back from a surprise trip. But I realized it was too broad and I didn’t have enough information on everything so I loosened it up to just a few that were my favorite, truly my favorites were Magic Kingdom and Universal but Universal wasn’t a part of Disney World so I faced a new problem. Which one would I choose? I thought it over and chose Universal more specifically Harry Potter Land (My Favorite.) I thought why is Harry Potter World so good and right away I just thought because it’s better than all the other places. Well it didn’t come that fast you needed to make sure you could defend that I made sure I could and I was ready.
The most enjoyable thing for me is the last few steps before I’m done. I love seeing all my hard work fall into place after spending a lot of time on it. The last few steps include looking at it in slide show mode, making the text boxes transparent, and adding a color scheme if you choose to (I did.) One of the most challenging parts for me was starting a new body paragraph. This probably isn’t one of the most common things to say but some of the paragraphs I couldn’t dig as deep as I needed to, but when I did I found elaborating much easier.
I used a bunch of interesting techniques when making my feature article. Simply to make it more interesting. First, I added a glossary for some confused readers. For me, this is a must. Then, I added photos that simply give you a reference of what I’m talking about. The other thing was adding a signature color. For me I choose light blue. I add bars to the top and bottom of all of the pages in that blue. Next I made my subheadings, Glossary, And fun fact boxes blue. I felt like this was just a great touch to my feature article and recommended it to anyone else who is planning to make one or is currently making one.
I’m most proud of the certain paragraphs that I found challenging and really took time into the thought process of proper punctuation and choosing the best place for a sentence to go. When I look over it now, even though it was hard for me at the start it looks and seems the most thorough.
To conclude, making my very own feature article has been the best! Some parts were hard but many were really fun! The question is would you ever make a feature article, if so what would it be about?

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Reading The Weather Reflection

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I really enjoyed researching and going down the rabbit hole. I got most of my information on rabbit hole day and think it was pretty successful. Even though. I thought I could of worked on using different data bases and sites instead of you the same four or five sites.

Taking notes was one of my favorite parts in the ignite process. I organized many different ways. One of my favorite note taking strategy was making a web. I started off just writing prevention and safety and making a circle around it and making lines out of my subtopics and putting circles around those I branched out on details. I also used boxes and bullets after doing the web to make it easier when you are writing your narrative and you just have to look down and be able to write with out struggling to understand what you wrote down.

At first I got a bit stumped on how to put or say something. I struggled and finally figured out how I wanted to write it. This was my least favorite step it was lots of adding on and then editing then revising and then taking something out then doing the whole cycle over again.

I enjoyed writing the script. I thought that I struggled the most in having to cut down my two minute narrative into a thirty second script. It challenged me to cut down the parts that did not really make sense but after I cut down a few sentences everything really made sense but I was still at one minute . I had to take at a category off and to make it thirty seconds but it was really hard to pick which one to get rid of. Then I figured out that I was going to do the conclusion. I found that it was easier doing the conclusion the my first or second slide.

I liked rehearsing it made me feel ready. We rehearsed it many different ways. One way we rehearsed was just as a group. Just the five of us. We would wait until it was your slide then you would start doing your speech. Another way we rehearsed was with the whole class. Rehearsing with the whole class made me feel prepared. The final way we rehearsed for the real ignite was independently. Doing it by yourself was productive because you got to do your script many more time with doing it with your class or with your group.

I enjoyed saying my speech. I knew I was ready so I did not feel scared. I thought everyone did a really good job. I do not think I would have changed anything.

At the start I liked working with a group. When we went farther in the project some people in my group told other people to change there work just because they liked it a certain way. It made me think if we kept changing things up it would be harder to memorize are script.

Expert Book: Women’s College Basketball

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I came up with “ Women College Basketball” because I was going to do one all about basketball. Then I decided to do it just with a few popular teams. It took me a few days to come up with Women’s College Basketball! I was watching a Stanford game against another college I do not remember. I think they won 99 to 84! I was expired! Then I did some of the other colleges I knew Pen state, Stanford,  Harvard, USB and Northwestern. In the end I decided to choose Stanford, Harvard and Penn State! I couldn’t wait to start jotting my ideas about each school.

I had to brainstorm the table of contents, chapters, slides, links, paragraphs, pictures and much more! It took me around three to two months doing everything! 

A few things were difficult for me. The thing that was the hardest for me was spelling everything correctly! I went over the whole entire book like 10 times! I tried to make it look really good and that meant the spelling should be correct. Another thing was hard was that I had two glossaries and I did the same pictures for both pages so then you can go back to the page you were on after you learned the word. But the pictures had to be at the same spot. That really made me struggle. The last thing that was difficult for me was editing, making everything look good. It was really hard for me!

I needed the most help with glossary linking in my glossary, adding pictures in my glossary and it really just made me struggle.

My favorite part of writing my expert book was just typing. I found it fun just to type what I’ve been working on for months. It was just fun to be putting down on the piece of paper. I like to type and I just like to just let things that I worked on for a long time go on a piece of paper with all my corrections. That was so fun for me!

During the process of writing my expert book. I fingered out that I was a pretty fast typer and liked to put pictures everywhere and add a lot of links. It was a fun, long and exciting process to talk about something that I liked a lot and knew a lot about. It was fun to be adding better and newer stuff to things that I know about. It was really fun.

I learned that I am pretty fast at typing and putting enough words and picture space and much more stuff I tried to fit everything. 

I felt amazing about my final project. I loved everything in my books the words, the pictures, the jokes, the links. I felt really good about everything. I felt really proud too. I tried my hardest and it felt really good about every part of the process. It was really fun. Everything that I did in my book I enjoyed. I hoped you liked my book.

This is my expert book.


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