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Immigration Video

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I started the video and I liked how it came out. My video is 2 minutes and 4 seconds long. First I had to do the script that goes with the video and I then realized, when I finished my video, (I just had to do the narration) the pictures weren’t in the correct order but then I fixed it, and coming up with picture that match what I’m saying was hard because sometimes I was saying different things.

For My video I first had to do my script which was not that hard because I only had to look at the answers and turn it into not an answer, in telling their journey and more. Selecting images was hard because Every time I was about to select an image, the other images I’ve already used looked very similar so that’s why it was hard. And it was hard to keep it between 2-4 minutes because mine was too short at first.

I didn’t really learn anything in this project

I liked this project even though part of the process was boring but sometimes it was fun. And I like doing the video and script 

Rube Goldberg Post #2

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I finally finished my Rube Goldberg Project. It was exciting to build. This blog post will cover, my sketches, my attempts, the final process of the project, and making the WeVideo.

My first sketch I actually built and then I tried to make it work but every time I tried it fell together and I thought there wasn’t really a point anymore of always rebuilding it because it would always fall together. So I changed the whole entire sketch, I felt like it was much shorter but it still has eight steps, I think. After I built the second one it almost always worked. In the sketch there was supposed to be a car hitting a book but after a few tries I realized that it’s just not going to work so I changed It, I made the car thing an inclined plane And that worked better. After that change I also realized I had to change something else, the glass/cup. It was too small. Always when it got there the water always spilled out and there was no way the bottle would exactly fall into that glass/cup. So I changed that into a bigger one, almost like a bowl (it is one that my dog drinks because when I would use a bowl that humans use it would be a bit weird because humans don’t drink out of bowls so I used a bowl from my dog). After that change it just needed some tries and then it finally worked. The most challenging for me building it I think was making the changes and realizing that I needed to change it. I thought filming it was hard because my Rube Goldberg machine was going really quick, so I thought it was going to be hard, because I would have to move quickly, but it came out that it was actually very easy. I had 40 attempts until my successful run. I think it took a really long time until the successful run.

My second sketch felt much shorter than the first one.  And the second one went much quicker than the first one. I actually didn’t think that I would have to change my first sketch but when I tested it, it always didn’t work and I gave up on that sketch.

I think making the video was the most fun part because it was very easy because you basically already had everything you needed and just had to put it in a video. My video included my final sketch, my final sketch explained, and my fails, my final run through, the changes that I did in my sketch, and some materials that I used, and how many failures I had

Overall I think the project was challenging and I’m glad that it is done now, but there were some parts that were fun like making the video, I didn’t like to build it. I think it was very hard and it took really long to do it. And the whole project took really long and a lot of steps were needed to finish it.

 

 

Feature Article Reflection

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When my teacher assigned my class to write a feature article I thought it’s going to be fun but challenging. I even thought it was hard to come up with a topic but I chose Switzerland as my topic. I didn’t think it would be that much work to come up with a meaning and topic and a title, and a subtitle.

First we had to come up with a topic I didn’t think that was so easy then we had to look if we had enough information for it after that we had to draft the categories that took kind of long and then we had to make a meaning next we had to revise everything we had to look if we could add some examples in our feature article and then we had to revise it again and had to bring out the meaning and then we had to put all that information into slides it was hard because when I put my first category into the slide I didn’t know there was so much information and almost didn’t have space for the pictures anymore put it was fun to move things around and finding pictures matching to the information then I had to add a title to my feature article I think my title is kind of boring it is just really simple and then I had to add headings after I did all that stuff I finally saw my feature article in paper it looked much different than I thought but I sort of liked it.when I saw it I saw that there was a lot of white space and then I moved the picture a little more down that there wouldn’t be that much white space when I did that I felt like I was done.

But when I had all my information then we had to revise everything which also was a lot of work and took very long. I liked the part where I had to put my information in the slides and find pictures. I liked to do a layout and move things around but it was also challenging because every time I changed something on my slide the whole thing changed but it was still fun. I also didn’t like to come up with a meaning, topic, subtitle, and title, and a conclusion, most of them took me a long time to come up with.

think writing a personal narrative was much easier than writing a feature article because when writing a personal narrative I didn’t have to have so much information and I knew what I wanted to write about when writing a personal narrative it’s something that I did so it’s easier to write it but when writing a feature article I needed information, and a subtitle and I liked my personal narrative more than my feature article because I also feel like I put more effort in my personal narrative than in my feature article. 

Overall I really liked writing a feature article even though I think my feature didn’t come out perfect and it was really hard work but it was very fun.

 

Reading Timeline Reflection

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I think the reading timeline was a fun project.

First I thought about the books that I wanted to include. Then I printed them out. I think it was hard to think about a book that I read in 5th grade because I didn’t read that much in 5th grade. Then I thought about what I thought was important about the book. After that, I glued the book covers on colored paper and wrote down the important things about the book. After that I was actually done. The only thing I had to do was write down the reading timeline and then I was done.

I liked the part where I had to decide where I wanted to glue the book covers the most. And I didn’t like the part where I had to find the book covers and had to print them out and cut them out.

When I saw my timeline when it was finished I thought that I made a big progress between each book because the first book hadn’t even words in it and then the second book was how to learn to read and then I saw the books got harder and harder and I thought it is cool that I can like look back and see what progress I made.

The first book on my reading timeline stood out to me the most because I forgot that I had that book (not anymore) and then I remembered what I found so good in this book.

 

 

 

Personal Narrative Reflection

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In my personal narrative  I first made four drafts and then my final one but I had to work a lot on it. I planned my story out, which was very helpful because I was able to see my different scenes that I have for my personal narrative and then I made a document and wrote my scenes down and wrote my story but I never really was finished with it there were almost always things that I could add. But then I was finally finished with my personal narrative after planning it, making different drafts, coming up with a story,revising it, and making a title.  I chose this story because I actually couldn’t come up with something else but I also thought that that’s just something that I want to write about.

I think I wrote a good ending in my story also when it was hard to come up with one. But I think I wrote a good ending. Because I had two endings that I thought would be good, one was a realization and the other one I thought was just a good ending. But I kind of tried to include both and at the end I think it came out good. I think also when my story is not so long I made it long enough because at the moment it was very short. But what I want to improve in my writing is my dialogue and inner thinking. I wrote a lot of inner thinking but I still think that when I read my personal narrative it doesn’t sound really realistic and I only wrote one dialogue and I want to improve that. 

I can see that I improved my writing from  the other drafts that I made for the narrative. It helped me to plan out my story because I was able to see how many parts I have and which part the most important was and that helped And it was helpful to write the scenes in the document because next to the scene I wrote what happened in that scene and I think that’s helpful because I was able to see what would happen in this scene and I just think that’s more helpful than just writing everything down.