Senior Scrapbook! 2.0

I am proud to say that I have just finished my project! I felt extremly accomplished because I finished it early:) I plan on not looking at my project until Sunday night because I know that after seeing it a few days later I will want to edit it more. During dead/finals week, I will be presenting a movie/scrapbook. It is pretty much an overview of my whole life and my freinds and family. There are also a few songs that I feel go with the pictures and express a little of who I am and what I love. An example would be mariachi songs. I enjoy listening and dancing to that so I decided to incorporate some of those songs into my movie/scrapbook.
I really hope you guys enjoy it:D

Project Progress!:)

So far I have done just about everything. I have chosen most of my songs and I have gone through hundreds of photo albums to find the most meaningful photos for my scrapbook. It was difficult not to put choose too many pictures; I loved a lot of them. In the next two weeks I still have to put the things together. I have already cropped and fix the pictures to the correct size. I have also edited my songs to make sure they fit perfectly. My work while benefit me in the long run because I will have something memorable to look back at, at any moment I wish.

Project Plan

Goals/Timeline: My main goal is to have my scrapbook/power point done by next Friday. I have a lot coming up and I don’t want to be stressing out about it. I also want to make sure I don’t leave it till the last minute and  end up making it ugly. I want to make the power point very appealing and pretty I hope to include songs that describe e who I am, as well as show people basically where I come from.  Want them to understand why I am the way I am.

Materials: I plan to either use the prezi program or the windows movie maker. I am going to use a lot of photos of family, friends, and teachers in my power point. I will use a friend’s scanner to upload old pictures on the my computer, as well as using facebook to find more interesting photos of friends and family that I may not have on my computer already.

Presentation: I am basically just going to play my power point as it is. There will be titles, so it will be easy to understand what is actually being shown.

Feats of Wisdom?!

So I went to the Farmer's Market at SLO and visited the Wall of Gum and saw this. It reminded me of the Feats of Wisdom.  (Sorry it's a little blurry)

David Foster Wallace's excerpt

The excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More contains a large number of different literary elements in order to prove his point. His purpose is to make people think about a noun, but also clarify the meaning and make them not go too in depth with the definition and cause confusion. The theme of the excerpt is “always think critically about everything.” David uses a serious yet humorous tone to get his point across. He chooses to use simple, understandable diction in order to make it easy to understand what he is trying to say. Although the words are easy recognize, the word structure is a little complex. There are a lot of punctuations and the order in which the words are placed can be simplified. David also uses many other literary elements throughout the excerpt. Some are: allusion, ambiguity, analysis, aphorism, audience, purpose, rhetorical question, repetition, satire, and style.

AP Preparation

These past few days I have been slacking on preparing for the AP English Test, but not because I am being lazy. I am focusing more on preparing for the AP Spanish Literature Test. I feel like it’s a lot more difficult for me to understand the Spanish literature because it’s proper Spanish. I have been studying and working on essays for the Spanish test. I feel that the same concept applies to the English test when it comes to answering the essays topics. The essay topics that I have been using come from the books "Abriendo puertas" tomo uno y tomo dos.