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Capstone Blog Post #3

5th Grade, Capstone,

We are done with Capstone. These last few days we have been presenting in front of the class to practice for the real presenting day. I was really terrified of sharing in front of the class but when I was done it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be.

After all those weeks of researching, interviewing, writing scripts, and working on my slideshows I am FINALLY done with this project. I am really proud of myself for finishing all of the steps in time and not going over the due dates. I’m also proud of all the hard work I’ve done.

The first few steps were picking your topic, picking your main and sub-questions, and researching a whole lot. I already talked about picking my topic and main and sub-questions in my first blog post so this leaves me to just talk about the researching part. When I say it was a lot of researching I mean it. I thought it was going to just be a little more than normal researching but the researching step was long and scary.

I’ve had a lot of ups and downs during this project. For example, the interview part of this project was really stressful and hard for me and once I was done I was really relieved. After I interviewed my interviewee (Tania Sole) I realized I was worrying for nothing.  One of the ups I’ve had in this project is writing my script. Once I finished my introduction the rest was easy. After I was done I asked some of my friends to read it and they gave me great opinions to make my script better. Some of my friends also helped me time my script.

When Mr. Casal our tech teacher gave us the three choices which were: ted talk, ignite, or movie I thought I was definitely doing a movie because I was really scared of memorizing and talking in front of the screen, but then I thought about it more and I started to change my mind to ted talk because I thought making a slideshow was easier than making a movie. In the end, I picked a ted talk and I am happy with my choice.

We presented our capstone and we got separated into two different rooms. I was in the ar t room. I brought my flashcards because I was scared that I would just forget it and I recited it during art. When it was my groups turn to go to the computer lab to record I was so terrified. I was scared I was going to forget. I was going to go second but when I went on the screen I was shaking because of nervousness. I started my introduction but than  my slides started going by themselves I panicked and I froze. Thankfully, Mr. Casal let me start over again. But the same thing happened again! Mr. Casal finally figured out the problem and it was that my hair was touching the smart board and It went to the next slide because of that! I just had the worst luck ever today!!!  Than I started again and I froze. At this time I was really regretting my choice that I didn’t do a movie. At the end, I had to go last so I could recite it. Finally, when I was actually presenting I did it. The only thing I wasn’t happy with was that I had messed up the ending and forgot a slide because of my nervousness! Im also really scared to present in front of the parents because I can’t redo if i mess up and I will be even more nervous.

In the end, this was a really terrifiiying and a bit fun project but I’m glad I’m over with presenting.

 

 

 

 

Capstone Blog Post #2

5th Grade, Capstone, ,

In school, we are still working on Capstone. In my last blog post, I was talking about what Capstone is and my topic. In this blog post, I will be talking about the interview process for this project.

The first thing we had to do in the interview process was to write a request and find an expert to interview. This was the most challenging part for me. I started looking at some articles on air pollution to see if they mentioned any experts about air pollution but I didn’t find anything.  So I asked Mrs. Boyer for some help and she called a site about air pollution. When we got the phone number we tried to call it but nobody picked up. The next day we called again but it was the same. So we called that same site again and they gave us another person’s number. We called this new number and nobody picked up. I felt really frustrated because I thought it was going to be easy to get an interviewee, but it was actually really hard. When I went home that day I asked my parents if they knew someone related to air pollution. And my dad said that he knew someone named Tania Sole. When I heard this my stress lessened and I was thrilled.

Once we got Tania’s email, I sent my interview request. I didn’t waste a single second. I just wanted to be done with the interview to get on to the next step. Once Tania replied back we set up a date and she said that Fridays were generally good for her. So we set it up on Friday at 11:30. But on Friday I was at home and I got nervous because I thought we had to cancel it. But to my relief, the zoom worked! When I was done I got most of the answers to my questions. Only 4 or 5 weren’t answered. I think that my interview went great and I got the answers I was looking for!

The interview step to Capstone was fun but a little stressful too. I’m kind of glad I am done with it because now I don’t have to worry about this!

Personal Narrative and Reflection

5th Grade, Writing, ,

One writing technique that I used was dialogue. One example of this is when my mom and dad were having a conservation on the phone after the crash. My dad and mom were talking about the crash.

Another example of when I used dialogue is when the crash happened. In the car my dad checked if I was okay. Also the workers in the salon asked me questions and I answered them. This shows that I used a lot of dialogue.

I want to improve the part where the crash happens. I want to improve it because it is not that descriptive.  I think that if I worked on that part the reader would feel and understand how I felt and how scary it was.

When I look back at my writing “The Crash” I am proud of the dialogue I used.

One example of that is in the first paragraph I used a lot of dialogue there. I am proud of the dialogue I used because in the past years I wasn’t that good at putting dialogue in my writing.

If you haven’t read my story recommend that you read it.