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The Journey Through CapCon

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Lots of people have done presentations. But did you have to write an essay? Make slides with photos? Make a script and memorize it?  And even make a blog post about it? (This is the blog post) Well.. My question was “What are the contributions Ben Franklin has made to America as an inventor, writer, scientist and politician?”

I think that my research went well, Since Ben Franklin is famous, and there are a lot of sites, but not all of them are reliable, some of them say he invented daylight savings! Even though he didn’t invent it! So it was hard finding what was true, and what was fake. But after a long period of researching and finding out what was true and what was fake I had gathered enough research. Even though it was easy and hard finding my research it was also fun!

Writing my essay was challenging, I had to find what research to put in the right paragraph. I also needed to hook the reader in, so I needed to use the right words and also make some puns! When I finished my essay it had about six hundred words and was one and a half pages. I thought this was enough until I realized that it had to be three to five pages! So I extended my essay giving more evidence. In my essay I talked about the contributions Ben Franklin has made to America as an inventor, writer, scientist and politician. My essay is in this link: Capstone Essay.

Since I already talked about making my TED Talk I want to talk about why I chose it. Wevideo was a pretty good option too. But I really wanted to express my Capstone in talking, Not making a video about it. Making my script was easier than I thought because my essay Was formed into my script. Still, I had to change a lot of things but it was still fun. Each part of my script consisted of one slide. And each slide had to be 10-15 seconds! But after I had finished it it was 3 minutes and 18 seconds! My Script is in this Link: TED Script Template – Capstone. 

Making the TED talk took a lot of work but it was fun and challenging. One thing that was challenging was Memorizing, Memorizing took a lot of work, knowing it was over five hundred words! I also had to make slides and the photos had to match what I said, and that was hard because there were not many photos of Ben Franklin and his inventions. But after I had memorized it and finished my slides it turned out to be pretty fun! 5E – Eli – Capstone – Ben Franklin

Overall doing Capstone was pretty fun and challenging, Who knows? Maybe you will be doing a presentation like this one day?

 

My Paw-some Feature Article

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Writing future articles is pretty fun… in this blog post I am going to tell you about the things I found challenging about writing and formatting my future article, and what I enjoyed about writing and formatting my future article.

The future article was full of surprises, here were the things that I enjoyed about writing my future article and what I found challenging about writing my article. One of the things that I really enjoyed about it was picking my pictures and making them, like when I was making my future article I made a pie chart of how many people own cats and dogs! I did that because my future article was about dogs. It was mostly about how to train your dog, my title was “A Paw-some Guide to Dog Training.”-”Teaching tricks with treats!” and that was really fun! Also finding dog pictures was fun too! That was what I found fun… But what I found challenging was finding the right intro for my story. One thing that was also challenging was getting the right conclusion for my story, Because I wanted to end my story on a fun note! And also have an intro that will hook you. Those were the things that I enjoyed about writing my article and what I found challenging in writing my future article.

Formatting your article is important, here were the things that I enjoyed about formatting my future article and what I found challenging about formatting my article. Formatting my article is to make sure it looks neat and clean. But doing this can actually be fun! One thing I enjoyed about formatting my article was the different shapes I could put my text in! You had to keep adjusting it to make it fit in with the pictures! Some parts of it were also challenging too, one part of it that was challenging was having it right to fit in with my pictures. Those were the things that I really enjoyed about formatting my future article and what I found challenging in writing my future article!

Overall doing (and formatting, writing and getting pictures) was pretty fun! I also think that “A Paw-some Guide to Dog Training” was a success!