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Immigration Project Reflection

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Have you met an immigrant? Probably. Well my mom is an immigrant and I interviewed er. For my immigration project first I Interviewed her. Then I did my narrative and did my script. After all that I did my video with Pictures and a voice over  of me talking about her experience to the U.S. It was a very long process but in the end it turned out amazing and was super fun!

To prepare for the interview first I had to pick my person. I picked my mom who immigrated from Brazil. The next thing I had to do was create a list of questions to ask her. When I was making my list of questions I had to consider questions that were not closed. If I had done only closed questions the only I would have in my interview would be yes and no. My experience conducting the interview was good. What I did was I asked my mom all these questions in ways I would get lots of info and long answers. The interview was conducted in person. The interview was amazing and went as expected. All that happened was me and my mom sat at a table and I asked her questions and she answered and I wrote her answers down. The most interesting thing I learned about my mom during this was her first job she ever had in California. This job was her working at the Dean’s office.

Making my video was also a very long process. The first step was to do voice over. I recorded myself telling my mom’s immigrant story. The next step was the hardest. We had to get a bunch of photos and each one could only last up to six seconds. Which was super hard because I had to get so many different ones and some were really hard to find. The easy part of the video was adding music to the background. Some stuff I learned in WeVideo that I hadn’t done before was, I learned how to upload photos, and how to zoom in on stuff. Lastly I am most proud of the perfect timing of the pictures and my voice lined up. That helped so everything was more clear.

In conclusion, my experience doing an immigrant interview was amazing. I interviewed my mom, did my script, my narrative, and lastly made my video with the pictures and the voice over. It was super fun learning these things about my mom. I had so much fun in this experience!

Reading the Weather Reflection

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When I was doing research I thought that it was kind of easy. The tricky part was that every different site I went to had the same information as the last site so it was hard to find new information.  It was also confusing on some sentences because there were some words that I did not know and that were tricky to read.

When I was writing my notes there was a lot of hard words to spell and I was not sure where to paragraph on my paper. I had never really known a lot about blizzards so it was hard to understand lots of things and sometimes I was so confused with words I did not even know where to put them in a sentence.

Writing my narrative was pretty easy because I just copied off of my notes. For my narrative everything was going good.  When I noticed that I had way too much writing I knew that was a problem. It was hard deleting half of it because I did not know what parts to keep and what parts to delete.

My script was hard. It was hard because I had to delete a lot. I also had to add a bunch of paragraphs, spaces, and capitals. I could not find all the places that I needed to add paragraphs, spaces, and capitals so I had to keep re-reading it  over and over again.

The rehearsals were not too difficult because I did not take too long to memorize my script but once in a while I would mess up a little or forget a word or two. sometimes when I messed up I started to get nervous that in the presentation I would mess up but after a while I started to get less nervous because I was not messing up as much because I had fully memorized it by then.

At first I was really scared for the presentation because I did not want to mess up and forget everything and then when I walked up everyone stared at me and that made me a little nervous. Later I started talking without messing up and started to feel a little better and a lot less nervous.

Before I felt like our group that we would not get a lot done and that we would laugh during the whole presentation and then we would forget everything and maybe even get in trouble for laughing so much. After I noticed that my group could work hard be serious and try hard when we want to do something we can do it if we try!

My Expert Book: Babysitting

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I came up with this idea because I have been babysat my whole life and I thought that from the experience that I see my nanny doing every single day I had already learned from that until I started babysitting for a family and got even more experience. The process was a little bit hard for me because I had to come up with a lot of ideas and I was starting to run out. I think with the chapters after I knew what they were about I got a hang of it and was able to do it easily. The organizing got a little challenging because I did not really know what to put where and started getting a little bit confused. I think my favorite part was the third chapter because, it was really good and I thought a lot of people got inspired by it even though it was the shortest. I feel really good with the final product of my story, I think it was my longest and best story I have wrote in my whole entire life. 

This is my expert book.


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