Operation Weight Deck
Camp Half-Blood finally completed
Saturday, May 5, 2012
I know I already put a reflection, but I have to say that we have finally finished the Camp Half-Blood. After at least six hours of grueling work, we have accomplished so much. Katlyn and her father talked about how to make the forest look real to our viewers. Mr. Humrichouse decided to bring actual tree branches and stick them into the batting cage. It looks extremely awesome, and even better when we added some creatures and other mythological beings. Katlyn had plenty of supplies to work on her cabin. She used huge plastic, paper, and spray paint. Today I ran to the library after getting back from a band contest, and made my battle strategy and maps larger. It turned out not even charging me a cent. It is a good thing I work there. I spent most of the day taping battle strategies and maps on the board. I found many battle strategies not put in any chronological order, and surrounded the on the side board as if they were actually put up by the Gods themselves. Sean worked hard on her environmentalism theme looking in various places for tree branches, even bugging Liam to scavenge some, but had trouble. Mollie really worked on her various Gods cabin, by getting down and dirty with painting the sun gold for Apollo and making a moon for Artemis. Then she continued to put items that represented each and every God in a certain way. Dani wasn't here today because of Dance, but I know she will get the attic done by Monday. She has all the supplies, and all she has to do is put everything together.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Visual Literacy Reflection #3
Operation Weight Deck #3
Friday, May 4, 2012
Today I saw that we finally have cabins, and now I realize why Katlyn has been bugging me to make things bigger.My booth is Athena and Ares so the major themes are battle and strategy. I made a cool backdrop for my cabin that looks like two rolled up maps. I'm working on making a huge map and pinpointing battle grounds. I have discovered that I will need a bigger table, and a bigger strategy board, but I am totally on that. Dani brought all her supplies for the weight room to make the attic, and I can't wait to see it completed. As for Katlyn's booth, it is really cool seeing the three pedestals, and the real skeleton bones. Sean has been doing a great job with her drawings, and her satyr and D-Dog booth, and even stops by my booth to help me tape something or hold something while I do something else. Mollie unfortunately was not here today, and I'm worried that she will have to do a lot of work on Saturday. I believe we have accomplished a lot today because we have all our supplies, and we are going to work extremely hard Saturday as soon as a few of us get back from Band Contest. We will definitely get this thing done by Monday.
Reflection of Visual Literacy Project:
When I first heard of this idea to decorate Ms. A's room with the themes of the Percy Jackson series , I was okay with it. As we started reading the books, I enjoyed reading them and comparing them to the one Percy Jackson movie. I knew that this huge project was going to be a little challenging because one person may be more creative than the other, and other classmates might ruin all your hard work, but I didn't really think about that too much. I just worried about reading the books, but soon we were done reading them and had to start on this project two weeks later. The AP class decided we didn't want to decorate the English room, and so we discussed many alternatives for about a week. We discussed doing a project as one big group or two small groups. Finally, it was decided that we have boys against girls. The boys doing a movie and the girls recreating Camp Half -Blood. I will have to say that this has the been the most stressful project this year. It seemed like we had all these problems with the weight deck and how the school was going to put up a net, and how we were going to move it to continue with our project. Finally we clarified that we are doing our project on the weight deck. We have all our supplies and we are going to get this done. Overall it was an okay project, but I had a few problems with my creativity, and the amount of time needed to work on the bringing the supplies and make the posters, and pictures. I still somewhat remained calm throughout these couple of weeks.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Visual Literacy Project
Operation Weight Deck Reflection#2
Wednesday May 2, 2012
Today we finally got confirmation that we can move the net on the weight deck so we can start our project. because before that we have been working on our props and etc. to put on the weight deck in the classroom. We figured out that we can't use the dividers from the 4-H building so we are using dividers from Katlyn's church. We are going to divide our cabins by two pieces of cloth on each side of the dividers. making everyone bring their own pieces of fabric. Everyone huddled into a little group under the net talking about what our ideas are and what we need.
My idea for the Athena and Ares cabin is that I make the backdrop red and black using construction paper (red for Ares and Black for Athena), and by putting red and black fabric on each side to make the backdrop and sides of the cabin match. I am also planning on bringing one of my stools to school, using it as a table for a battle strategy board, surrounding the weapons and shields around the stool. My new ideas for Ares is to draw a motorcycle and cut it out of cardboard making it either stand up or stick it to the backdrop. Clarisse who is Ares' daughter needs to be properly represented also so I thought of bringing in a huge spear, and that will allow the symbol that I made for Ares to represent his children. For the Athena part of the cabin, I have found an variety of owls including one with a graduation cap as the main symbol of Athena, which is wisdom. I been thinking that maybe I can put some smaller owls on the fabric if they will stay. I'm still thinking about what I should use to symbolize Athena's daughter Annabeth. Dani gave me the idea of bringing in the invisibility cap, so I can find a random baseball cap.
We all agreed that we will have to work after school on these past couple days, and that we will have to work on Saturday. Four out of five of the members in our group asked Mr. Schwartz about getting access to the weight deck on the weekends since it is usually locked. Mr. Schwartz said that he would open up the school when we finally get there. Katlyn and I have band contest, and won't be back until 11:00 or 12:00. Therefore, we will meet between those times, and spend many hours working on this project.
Wednesday May 2, 2012
Today we finally got confirmation that we can move the net on the weight deck so we can start our project. because before that we have been working on our props and etc. to put on the weight deck in the classroom. We figured out that we can't use the dividers from the 4-H building so we are using dividers from Katlyn's church. We are going to divide our cabins by two pieces of cloth on each side of the dividers. making everyone bring their own pieces of fabric. Everyone huddled into a little group under the net talking about what our ideas are and what we need.
My idea for the Athena and Ares cabin is that I make the backdrop red and black using construction paper (red for Ares and Black for Athena), and by putting red and black fabric on each side to make the backdrop and sides of the cabin match. I am also planning on bringing one of my stools to school, using it as a table for a battle strategy board, surrounding the weapons and shields around the stool. My new ideas for Ares is to draw a motorcycle and cut it out of cardboard making it either stand up or stick it to the backdrop. Clarisse who is Ares' daughter needs to be properly represented also so I thought of bringing in a huge spear, and that will allow the symbol that I made for Ares to represent his children. For the Athena part of the cabin, I have found an variety of owls including one with a graduation cap as the main symbol of Athena, which is wisdom. I been thinking that maybe I can put some smaller owls on the fabric if they will stay. I'm still thinking about what I should use to symbolize Athena's daughter Annabeth. Dani gave me the idea of bringing in the invisibility cap, so I can find a random baseball cap.
We all agreed that we will have to work after school on these past couple days, and that we will have to work on Saturday. Four out of five of the members in our group asked Mr. Schwartz about getting access to the weight deck on the weekends since it is usually locked. Mr. Schwartz said that he would open up the school when we finally get there. Katlyn and I have band contest, and won't be back until 11:00 or 12:00. Therefore, we will meet between those times, and spend many hours working on this project.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Visual Literacy Project Reflection
Operation Weight Deck
Thursday, April 26, 2012
On Monday, we split into groups, but were missing a few people. We decided to carry on without them and brainstorm ideas for the weight deck. I agreed to do the Gods Ares and Athena, Sean is doing the artwork, and we need lots of cardboard. On Wednesday we had the entire group of girls together, so we all checked out the weight deck and tried to visualize how we are going to turn this shabby weight deck into a Camp Half-Blood replica of the Percy Jackson series. We first took a good look at the floor and decided to sweep it up a little bit, but it turns out it still needs work.
We continued to brainstorm about many ideas including making a labyrinth out of cardboard, and then a huge labyrinth out of a big piece of fabric. Then we all picked a certain booth or space to work on. Sean has Dionysus and the satyrs, Katlyn has the three major Gods: Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, Dani is in charge of recreating the attic where the prophecies have been heard, and I am in charge of making a booth for Athena and Ares. I have agreed to ask my church if I can borrow fake weapon, knowing that one of the themes in the Percy Jackson series is Battle, and I have also agreed to buying little toy soldiers.
Today I brought the fake weapons and put them into Ms. A's room. Katlyn said that she has sweeped the weight deck and Sean finished her job. We finally mapped out Camp Half-Blood with masking tape figuring out how everything is going to fit. Katlyn is going to talk to someone at the Extension Office to see if we can get big dividers for our cabins. We have talked about a huge cloth for our labyrinth, and maybe having Katlyn as the tour guide while the rest of us play different parts as nymphs, satyrs, or monsters to bring the camp to life. We are still searching for cardboard, paint, and maybe some fake grass. The lunch ladies said they will have huge boxes, which we will use for as our cardboard. We will need lots of paper to make our family tree of the Gods and Goddesses.
Otherwise its going pretty well, and I think if we keeping working and get all of our supplies we will be in good shape.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
On Monday, we split into groups, but were missing a few people. We decided to carry on without them and brainstorm ideas for the weight deck. I agreed to do the Gods Ares and Athena, Sean is doing the artwork, and we need lots of cardboard. On Wednesday we had the entire group of girls together, so we all checked out the weight deck and tried to visualize how we are going to turn this shabby weight deck into a Camp Half-Blood replica of the Percy Jackson series. We first took a good look at the floor and decided to sweep it up a little bit, but it turns out it still needs work.
We continued to brainstorm about many ideas including making a labyrinth out of cardboard, and then a huge labyrinth out of a big piece of fabric. Then we all picked a certain booth or space to work on. Sean has Dionysus and the satyrs, Katlyn has the three major Gods: Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, Dani is in charge of recreating the attic where the prophecies have been heard, and I am in charge of making a booth for Athena and Ares. I have agreed to ask my church if I can borrow fake weapon, knowing that one of the themes in the Percy Jackson series is Battle, and I have also agreed to buying little toy soldiers.
Today I brought the fake weapons and put them into Ms. A's room. Katlyn said that she has sweeped the weight deck and Sean finished her job. We finally mapped out Camp Half-Blood with masking tape figuring out how everything is going to fit. Katlyn is going to talk to someone at the Extension Office to see if we can get big dividers for our cabins. We have talked about a huge cloth for our labyrinth, and maybe having Katlyn as the tour guide while the rest of us play different parts as nymphs, satyrs, or monsters to bring the camp to life. We are still searching for cardboard, paint, and maybe some fake grass. The lunch ladies said they will have huge boxes, which we will use for as our cardboard. We will need lots of paper to make our family tree of the Gods and Goddesses.
Otherwise its going pretty well, and I think if we keeping working and get all of our supplies we will be in good shape.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
"Reflection on PostSecret"
"The Truth Shall Set You Free"
I found this story very interesting. When the author was talking about the Catholic religion I could completely relate to this. The sacrament of confession is very important in a Catholic's life as a way of penance before the Lord. According to Catholic tradition, the priest is the only person who can grant you redemption from your sins. When the author talked about going to confession, I remember all the times when I have to go to confession and think about all the things I've done. Afterwards I don't even know if I feel any different, but its nice to get things off your chest.
Sometimes it is very hard to tell your religious leader that you sinned, but he is supposed to forgive you and forget what you told him. That is probably why people don't like to go to confession because they believe the priest will review your secret or personal thoughts to someone else. The fact that the priest is also a human being makes people think that since he's human he will spread everything his parishoners' have told him. Wouldn't you think that having all those people go to your church, you would forget everyone's sin.
Last week in CCD, we talked about the eight commandment. "Thou shall not bear false witness". Many parts of this commandment included lying, calumny, and telling secrets. We spent most of our times talking about how we lie for good reasons and bad reasons. Gossip was also a popular subject considering we hear that everyday at school..Secrets was more emphasised because everyone has a secret and they must decide whether to tell someone their secret or leave it alone.
The problem is like I said in the last couple paragraphs is that you can't always trust somebody with your secrets because we are human and you never know when that secret will slip from your lips. When secrets become public, everything in your life starts to go downhill. Having everyone know what you go through everyday, would be a nightmare. You start to feel left out and believe that you are truly alone and nobody cares about you.
Thank Goodness for PostSecrets. Despite my belief that you should reveal your secrets to a priest, I believe this is a perfect way to get your secret out in the open without anybody knowing who you are. According to the Rev. Heather Janules' article, this has decreased the amount of suicides, depression, and young deaths in our country. This program helps people say what they want to say knowing that nothing will ever come back to hurt them. The transformation of these individuals is great, and I hope this program will still be around for years to come.
Sometimes it is very hard to tell your religious leader that you sinned, but he is supposed to forgive you and forget what you told him. That is probably why people don't like to go to confession because they believe the priest will review your secret or personal thoughts to someone else. The fact that the priest is also a human being makes people think that since he's human he will spread everything his parishoners' have told him. Wouldn't you think that having all those people go to your church, you would forget everyone's sin.
Last week in CCD, we talked about the eight commandment. "Thou shall not bear false witness". Many parts of this commandment included lying, calumny, and telling secrets. We spent most of our times talking about how we lie for good reasons and bad reasons. Gossip was also a popular subject considering we hear that everyday at school..Secrets was more emphasised because everyone has a secret and they must decide whether to tell someone their secret or leave it alone.
The problem is like I said in the last couple paragraphs is that you can't always trust somebody with your secrets because we are human and you never know when that secret will slip from your lips. When secrets become public, everything in your life starts to go downhill. Having everyone know what you go through everyday, would be a nightmare. You start to feel left out and believe that you are truly alone and nobody cares about you.
Thank Goodness for PostSecrets. Despite my belief that you should reveal your secrets to a priest, I believe this is a perfect way to get your secret out in the open without anybody knowing who you are. According to the Rev. Heather Janules' article, this has decreased the amount of suicides, depression, and young deaths in our country. This program helps people say what they want to say knowing that nothing will ever come back to hurt them. The transformation of these individuals is great, and I hope this program will still be around for years to come.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Post Secrets
Post Secrets That Catch My Eye
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I chose this secret because it makes me think of choosing your major in college. When you go to college and don't know what you want to do with your life, you major in undecided. You go from one major to the other until you find something that is interesting and you really want to do.
I chose this secret because it makes me think of choosing your major in college. When you go to college and don't know what you want to do with your life, you major in undecided. You go from one major to the other until you find something that is interesting and you really want to do.
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I interpreted this secret in two ways: you will challenged more in high school or you have no social life. You may think you are smart in elementary school and middle school because you never had to study for any tests and you still did well, but now you start to feel dumb. The reason you feel like you are no one is because some teenagers believe that they need to fit in with other people.
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When I first looked at this one, I laughed. It makes me think about people who have had bad relationships. Animals are sometimes the only one you can count on because they don't care what you look like or what you do. They love you unconditionally, and that is why you would choose your dog over your boyfriend or girlfriend.
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Everyone gets angry and some let it out and so hold it in. Nobody really wants to show how angry they are because then nobody would want to around them. I have that problem and I hold it in, waiting until I get home to release all my anger that has accumulated throughout the day. You have a limit of how tolerant you are and when you go over that limit you just want to scream, and let it all out.
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When I think of this post, I thinks of parents. When a man and women get married, they expect a little quiet time to be with each other, but when they have kids that dream is over. You are there to take care of your kids, tending to their every need, and helping them get through school. After a while, parents should take at least a day away from their kids so they don't go completely insane.
Help me
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I believe that this post is definitely true. A person may say their fine, but the truth is their not. There is always something going on in a person's life that may be unpleasant and the only way they escape is by going to school and acting like there is nothing going on. Sometimes it's nice to tell someone what you're going through. Try confiding in a school counselor or a friend that you know would never spill your secrets.
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I saw this one and I was thinking to myself this is true and it happens everyday. Under false pretenses, you seem to be innocent, but really your innocence is as true as your rumors. People act innocent to make people think that this person couldn't hurt a soul or tell a secret, but in reality they tell lies about other people and spread rumors that hurt others. I believe that everyone has listened to at least one rumor or told at least one lie. That is why innocence is hard to find.
I’m afraid I’ll end up alone
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Friday, April 20, 2012
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