Car Raid

          I interviewed one of my neighbors down the street,  Brenda Conley is a P.E. and swim instructor for special needs students at AISD, and she let me see what's in and around her car.

          To start off, there is a cat leaning against the left rear tire asleep. His name is Leo and he's an 18 year old calico long haired cat.  He pretty much sleeps all day in front of Brenda's yard.

          Brenda has a 2011 mint green Lexus SUV.  It was pre-owned by one of her friends and had low mileage. Brenda previously had an older Toyota SUV but it had many miles and after asking around at work, her co-worker mentioned the Lexus as an option to buy and as Brenda said "she went for it". Brenda bought it and has been using it to move around supplies and other objects.

          The Lexus was a recent purchase from April 2016.  She said the vehicle was a must have due to here hauling literally hundreds of pounds of everyday objects. From tissues to dog food, her SUV was jam packed.

          Some of her supplies are as followed: pool noodles, towels, a rain coat, a regular coat, and supplies for her mom.

          In the front, she has a box of teacher odds and ends including, pens, paper, snack, and most importantly, keys to her room at school. On the floor of the passenger side is a stack of music.   Brenda said since she travels from school to school to work with her special needs kids, she considers her car her "office on wheels".

          One other note is she keeps a bag of dog food to pass out for any stray or homeless dogs she runs into while driving around Austin, or to give to a homeless man's  dog. 

          Along with a cup holder full of old Starbucks cups, she also has a box from Starbucks in her trunk which holds many supplies and utensils.  

          I asked Brenda about the old Starbucks cups and says that one is "a store bought cup that I refill with my homemade coffee or Starbucks coffee." 

          With school wrapping up, Brenda also takes the summers off to relax and with a always changing schedule, school may last from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm.

          As Leo moved from car tire, to car seat, to my foot, I wrapped up the interview by petting the cat and thanking Brenda for time and finished petting Leo' neck as he lay on the driveway.

Merger

Found Objects and Graffiti  

HDR Photos

The best one

Apple Warm-up

1 - My favorite was the one with the sunrise in a very mountainous location and the sun is over a large house or hotel that is next to a river or lake.

2 - I going to say yes, but some pictures might have been enhanced with Photoshop or another type of photo editing program.

3 - Probably can changing the whole photo.

4 - Watch you focus and panoramic are hard, but the result is awesome, for best results, try to keep the  photo in the netted area.

HDR Photography Intro

1 - Taking multiple photos with different exposures and mash them all together with a software.

2 - A tripod, a camera, and a 64 gigabyte chip. 

3 - It makes a much better looking picture because it's now has a lot more resolution and add a lot more color to the photo.

4 - A giant, blurry mess.The contrast be either bright or just black.

Final Exam Planning Warm-up

1 - over this weekend or over next weekend.

2 - At the Origami Festival most likely

3 - The people interacting with the origami and the festival through out the day.

4 - A camera, table, and a LOT of paper. Maybe a tripod.

5 - During the opening of the festival.

Opinion Story

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fire-chief-investigating-reports-bullying-virginia-firefighters-death/story?id=38619162

       Virginia firefighter Nicole Mittendorff was found dead on last Thursday from bullying from fellow peers in April, 2015. She was found at Shenandoah National Park with a note. Her suicide was caused by fellow firefighters bullying her.
       Police found in the note that she was called a "slut" and "ugly" by fellow firefighter, who now are off the squad after other women firefighter were called the same.
       Bullying, once to been a problem only in schools, has now evolved into a problem in every workplace and is cause students and worker to kill themselves. Bullying is a practice that should be illegal and if seen must have much harsher punishment. 
      There is, however, a different side of bullying and in many schools, bullying, if seen, help the bully as well as the victim because nothing is going to be fixed if the bully has learned nothing from being a bully.
      For Mittendorff, however, she was one that could not be saved on time. The cause of her death is unknown right now, and the family is still in shock.
      Bulling is a problem that should be stopped and solve now that it is in our schools, workplaces, and more.

Infographic

Annual Online Travel Sales
Create line charts

Opinion Writing part 2

http://arspolarispress.com/61343/sports/taking-a-shot-one-district-champs-athletic-trajectory/

1 - Sammie Seamon

2 - Freshman Alexis Miller (who is a good friend of mine) amazing throwing skills and her training in track and field by Ebheni Henderson.

3 - That Henderson, a sophomore, will go to district this year and past. "Cosgrove (the coach) sees a lost of potential for Henderson to go even further than district champion this year..."

4 - No

5 - No

6 - Yes

7 - 3rd person

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http://westlakefeatherduster.com/2016/03/20/students-compete-in-visual-arts-scholastic-event/

1 - Jack Wallace and Raine Lipscher

2 - The easy to hard switch from district to state and the process that students must take to achieve this goal.

3 - Yes - "although many Westlake students breeezed through the critiquing process, ..., making it to staate is not easy"

4 - No

5 - No

6 - Yes

7 - 3rd person

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http://lths.news/727/news/angry-high-school-students-burn-down-principals-home/

1 - Maddie Womack

2 - On Feb. 22, four students burned their school principle's house and 3 cars. Although, he and his family were not hurt, charges are pending to the students.

3 - No

4 - No

5 - No opinion

6 - Yes

7 - 3rd person

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Personal essay

1 - A kids first day of school.

2 - Write about your pet

3 - Eating lots of cabbage, you never will get cancer - The best French Fries you ever had - Halloween memories and stores.

        SoM Peer review

Student in review - Jake http://jakinator89.blogspot.com/2016/04/student-of-month-story.html

50 - 50: body paragraphs

25 - 25: quotes

25 - 25: inverted pyramid

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Opinions writing preview activity 

The Starlight Theatre Company jumps into Spring with a plethora of shows

1 - By Victoria Newell

2 - The story is about how the starlight theatre goes through the U.I.L. process of making a 40 minute, 15 person maximum, to create a play.

3 - No

4 - Yes

5 - No opinion

6 - Yes

7 - 3rd person

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Band Director set to move move to a new school at year's end

1 - By Lauren Blevins

2 - Kim Shuttlesworth, a band director moves to a new high school in the outskirts of North Austin. Students talk about her lasting memories and how she help students.

3 - "With the great accomplishments of the band, hard work and dedications must come as well."

4 - No

5 - No

6 - Yes

7 - 3rd person


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Apple refuses to violate privacy of user

1 - By ?

2 - After the San Bernardino attacks, the cell phone from one of the shooters was locked and the FBI wanted Apple to unlocked, Apple strongly denied the offer. Even after the FBI went to court, the FBI said they hired hacker to unlock the phone, making a loss of security from the agentsy.

3 - "A teenager's life line is their cellphone. From Twitter, to conversations with friends, a teenager cannot live without their phone. It is also one of the most secure items they own."

4 - Yes

5 - Yes because the would say that "once the program is created, no one will is safe from encryption".

6 - No

7 -  2nd person
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Drug dog investigations have students feeling as though their rights are being violated at school

1 - Granger Coats

2 - High Schooler is when most drugs addictions happen, so drug sniffing dogs are used to find if anyone has any drugs.

3 - "So why does a place of education, whose goal it is to better prepare students for the world and pre mote the ideal of democracy take away students constitutional right?"

4 - Yes

5 - No

6 - No

7 - 2nd person

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Social media, back at it again

1 - Alicia Molina

2 - The story of "Damn Daniel" and his Van. (ugh)

3 -

4 - Yes

5 -

6 - Yes

7 - 3rd person

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1 - The main differences are: What you believe in over news, opinions could have no value and if you want your opinion to have value, then get in to politics, and last,no one wants to read a news paper about your opinion because that not what some one wants to read.

2 - To discuss more about the story.

3 - Bulling, video games, and weather.

Earthquake in California 

            At 8:12am Monday morning, Hayward California was smacked with a 6.4 magnitude earthquake killed two and injuring six, luckily, only one building collapsed in the 30 second earthquake. Authority came to the house quickly saving the people trapped and naming the dead at sight.

            A resident of the collapsed building Mike Beamer said "I was eating my breakfast when the room started rolling. I dove under the table just as I heard an explosion outside and a chunks of cement flew through my kitchen window."

            Firefighter used rope to keep the destroyed building up for a short period and found a destroyed gas pipe, spilling natural gas.

            The earthquake, although being only 6.4, was to  U.S. Geological Survey scientist Penny Gertz was "a strong one" after the quake struck on the Hayward fault that also runs under some hills.

           21 firefighters and 12 police were at the scene alone with 5 red cross members with some coming in to help 4 minutes after the quake struck.

           Out of the six that survived, three were seriously injured and were transported to the local hospital for treatment and services and officer Jennifer Vu added that "there were no other serious injuries have been reported".

           With people even reporting the earthquake in L.A., this was a quake to remember.

Hard New Story Practice 

Story 1:

          53 year old Janice Jone of Barstow, California was eating on her back porch with her dog until the dog dropped her 9 mm off her chair a fired off. The bullet when straight through Jone's leg and stopped in her car

          California Highway Patrol press Tammy Rye said "It could have been much worse."

          Jones was shot through the right leg at 10:00 pm Wednesday and the bullet was 2 inches from the fuel tank.
          Jones's dog who set off the gun "Tombo" had "seemed to be malnourished" and "had fresh cigarette burns on its forehead"
          Tombo was sent to the Huntington Beach Animal Control an Jones now has animal abuse charges.
          along side with those charges, Rye said that "Jones didn't have a permeant for the gun", only adding on with the animal abuse charges.
          

News Values

Conflict - 

The conflict is about the two democratic front-runners to be the U.S. president: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. After the both of them accusing of wronging doing, with both saying they it's a lie. 

Qualifications tiff pits Clinton against Sanders

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/

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Novelty -

After having engine problems, a North Carolinian man finds not one, but two dead dead snakes in the engine. The first snake died from electrocution and the second snake was atracted from the smell from the first one, and was electrocuted.

Electrocuted snake found trying to eat another electrocuted snake

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2016/04/08/82785822/

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Human Inserts -

After the long migrant crisis, those who were able to survive the crisis and now can settle down to made by buying home and making families. With 3+ million people leaving from Syria and other middle eastern countries to fid a new life and to escape the bloody civil war.

The New Europeans

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/magazine/the-new-europeans.html?ref=world&_r=0

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Prominence - 

After being having his "affluenza" in his defense when he killed 4 people in a crash in 2013, Ethan Couch is now in an adult court after he was considered a kid in 2013. He escaped to Mexico when this mom then both was captured and now are in US jails.

"Affluenza" teen, now 19, is officially in adult court

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/04/12/affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-turns-19/82934456/

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Softball-sized hail, winds wreck homes and cars in Texas ad Arkansas - Proximity 

Nut Graf

A Nut Graf is short paragraph that explains the main story and gives that who,what,when,where, why, and how. Also tells why the reader should care to read and tells the reader why this story is important.

Nut Grafs mainly show the "what's the point" of the article. In more serious articles, the nut graf has been replaced by narrative manner, 

Student of the Month Story 

        Olivia Nunez, the April Bowie high school student of the month, is the all-A student who won the award after going to the state science fair. Nunez tell the Lone Star Dispatch her story in an exclusive interview.
       "Olivia displays what Bowie students can accomplish with hard work" said Principle Cane after the award was given.
        Principle Cane picked Olivia out of 30 other students with their own achievements from academics to athletic.
        In the interview with Olivia, she answered "it feels good to achieve to title" to how does it feel to be student of the month?
        Olivia is now the 8th student of the month and when given the award, is entered to a raffle to decide who will be the student of the year and with a $500 dollar award if won.
        After some questions, she tells about how her parents "both have taught in schools", wants to go to "Harvard or John Hopkins University", and wants "to be a neurosurgeon."
       Graduating in 2019, Olivia has high hopes for the future with eyes on the $500 dollar reward to get help get her into collage.
       Finally, Olivia said to those who want to be the next student of the month "to be a good person at school and in life" and to to also have outside hobbies as well.

Inverted Pyramid

My First Interview

Interview from Olivia Nunez - O

1 - How does you feel to be student of the month?

O - "It feels good to achieve the title."

2 - As student of the month, do feel like you earned this title?

O - "Yes from the hard work."

3 - Do you grades should be the main player when the next student of the month or is it made from having citizenship?

O - "Both have Roles."

4 - What is your favorite part about school?

O - "Learning in Biology."

5 - How do you study?

O - "With Flash cards and notes."

6 - What outside hobbies do you?

O - "Drawing, taking pictures, and kayaking"

7 - What is a goal do you want to make this year?

O - "To raise my GPA by a point."

8 - After high school, what career do you want to have?

O - "To be a neurosurgeon."

9 - What promises have you made to become a better person?

O - "To be a better friend."

10 - How has your family helped you?

O - "Both have taught in schools."

11 - What has been your most helpful teacher?

O - "My 3rd grade teacher."

12 - What is your greatest achievement?

O - "Getting 100 on all my MOYs."

13 - Why do you think you were chosen to be student of the month?

O - "Academic success and leadership skills"

14 - Which University do you dream of going?

O - "Harvard, or John Hopkins."

15 - Who is your biggest influence? 

O - "My group of friends"

16 - Which year did you start at Bowie?

O - "This year, 2015"

17 - Why do you do good at school?

O - "I enjoy school, mostly, I have fun."

18 - What motivates you to get good grades?

O - "To have a good future."

19 - When do you graduate?

O - "In 2019"

20 - Last, any tips to anyone who wants to become the next student of the month?

O - "To be a good person a school."

Student of The Month

1 - How does you feel to be student of the month?

2 - As student of the month, do feel like you earned this title?

3 - Do you grades should be the main player when the next student of the month or is it made from having citizenship? 

4 - What is your favorite part about school?

5 - How do you study?

6 - What outside hobbies do you?

7 - How do you set goals?

8 - After high school, what career do you want to have?

9 - What promises have you made to become a better person?

10 - How has your family helped you?

11 - What has been your most helpful teacher?

12 - What is your greatest achievement?

13 - Why do you think you were chosen to be student of the month?

14 - Which University do you dream of going?

15 - Who is your biggest influence? 

16 - Which year did you start at Bowie?

17 - Why do you do good at school?

18 - What motivates you to get good grades?

19 - When do you graduate?

20 - Last, any tips to anyone who wants to become the next student of the month

School Uniforms

1 - Austin ISD employees   

2 - Students at schools

3 - Parents

Questions

1 - Why did you make this a this rule for schools?

2 - What if a students can't afford a second uniform if the first on is lost?

3 - Where did rule come from?

4 - What will happen to kids if they don't want to where their uniforms?

5 - What about transgender kids?

6 - How much will this uniform rule cost for tax payers?

7 - Is this rule really needed for every age.

8 - What emotion comes to you when you here this rule?

9 - Why do you think parents and students protest.

10 - Which age is the youngest that the rule will affect?

11 - How will you defend the rule?

12 - Will there be more than one type of uniform per gender?

13 - Who is supplying the uniforms?

14 - How will this stop gangs?

15 - What is the average price range per uniform?

16 - Why do you think uniforms are needed?

17 - How will this affect students personally?

18 - What school year will this start?

19 - What about the disabled?

20 - What will happen to disabled kids who do not want to wear the uniform?

Architecture Photos

Pattern 

Details

Surrounding

Angles

Light

Portfolio Analysis

1 - Daryl Peveto - Sports - To much open space, nothing stood out, bland - Lighting, wall shoots - Different settings had cool effects, didn't like how he had very different topics in very short times.

2 - Justin Mott - Stories - Portfolio building skills are in need of a tune up Off color balance, has random blank slides after harsh photos - black and white skills are great, lighting was good - I enjoyed his "hard to look" photos, rest us of focusing.

3 - Nick Adams - Stories/Commercial  - Needs more info, boring, cutting off to much of the picture - Likes: silhouettes, framing - Had originality, needs more info, to open in questions and paragraph captions.

Dustin Snipes - Winner -

1 - Color, lighting, reactions in everyone is real, point of view, shows pain, each had a tone.

2 - How each of the sports was different and showed one emotion. Out of focus here and there. 

Recap

- They look at each of the best portfolios and after a look a talk about each, the picked the most diverse of the bunch. 

Sports Shooter 2005

1 - In part 5, the picture of the Rugby guy because of how original it was a right expression he had.

2 - In part 3, the picture of the kid and the rainbow because of the ugly sky and lighting.

Sports/Action Photos

Blur

Panning

Running at camera

Running across 

Architecture Previews

La Pedrera, Spain

1 - Antoni Gaudi and Josep Maria Jujol.

2 - 1906 - 1912

3 - Spain

4 - Can be visited. 

5 -  ----

6 - 

7 - 

Sensory Overload

1 - The quote is very thought provoking and, to me, was a little to hard to understand. I agree to the statement. I feel that even in modern day world, there is so much creativity.

2 - Honesty, yes.

3 - Scary at first, but he/she would be settle in by a month or two.

4 - The photo with a square room with a lady and a bunch of plush toy. The one with rows of teddy bear on the walls.

Outside Prompt Shot: Horrors of Growing up

Please do NOT submit 

Newspaper Page

More than the Hallways

Newspaper Intro

1 - The Japan Times because of how how much news comes from America to Japan and its style

2 - "A front runner's path to defeat".

3 - Six

4 - Headlines, font size, organization, pictures, and date.

5 - Asia's had on some no pictures, Europe had a lot more soccer, and America on politics.

Year Book Spread

Kink Pica's Palace

Prompt Shoot 3: Peer Review

http://melissaphotoj.blogspot.com/2016/01/prompt-shoot-3.html?

1 - Her "Eight" picture because of how colorful it is and the simplicity of it. Also, lighting was great.

2 - Her "The End" picture because of how boring it was. Just a picture of a corner with a large white box next to it.

3 - Melissa's photos show all the prompts needed and has a rule of photography in each of her photos.

4 - Lighting

5 - Eight

6 - Pause

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Magazine Covers Review

 http://jackiesphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/magazine-covers.html

1 - Appeal and Sunkist by Jackie

2 - How much they really look like a real magazine cover and the way how all of her fonts are different to each other.

3 - To put one of the title on the back of one of the girls head because it's very distracting.

4 - The amount of words that were on the cover.

5 - Yes.

6 - No mainly because it's not my diaphragmatic. 

7 - Portrait. 

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http://jakeworthyphotojournalism.blogspot.com/2016/01/jake-worthington-magazine-covers.html

1 - The Flip by Jake

2 - The lighting in each one the two and the title of the magazine.

3 - The strange placement of the bar-code.

4 - The bright colors that radiates off the cover. 

5 - Yes.

6 - Yes because it might have very useful information for my everyday life.

7 - Self Portrait.

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http://katrinaphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/

1 - Young Dreams and Simple by Katrina

2 - How the magazines have to age groups on it and the way each is portrayed.

3 - Large font blocks a little to much.

4 - Mainly because my brother is very athletic and is always in sports wear.

5 - Yes

6 - No because it's not my diaphragmatic

7 - Self portraits

Yearbook Introduction

All yearbooks must have:

- All of the senior pictures

- All of the clubs in pictures, not in words

- A cleaver title

- Quotes 

- A "best of" section

- Two page spread

- School photos

- Sport pictures

- Sport awards

- Club awards 

- School staff picture

- Teacher of the year award and picture

- Prom pictures

- School spirit 

- Feature sections

- Senior activities 

- Special days

- Classic photos

- Cheerleading

- Congratulations at the end

- Marching Band

- Choir pictures 

- Life after high school pictures

- Index

- Yearbook staff at the end

1 - A Year with friends

2 - Maui High School 

3 - The "words with friends" letters, the yellow and blue fount, and the word "with"

4 - 15

5 - The "inside scoop" section where secrets are told.

6 - Yes

7 - Yes

8 - Yes

9 - 1014 boys and 941 girls.

10 - Hawaii

11

12

13

14

15

Prompt Shoot 3

Eight 

 Connected

Footprint 

The End

COVERS

A year in Review

1 - Top three photos

- http://designyoutrust.com/2015/12/the-best-press-photos-of-the-year-2015/ 

                                      

 - http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest-2015/gallery/winners-all/1

                                      
 - http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2015

2 - Hello: Adele - I assume that I'm not the only one picking this song, that and all the other songs on that list I've never heard because I'm not a "hip music listener", but this the song that I find the funniest due to my over all life. My younger brother hates the song, so I always troll him every time I see.

(Brother) Hi Evan

Me - HELLO, is it meee your looking for.

(Brother) just no.

3 - Speaking that I've only seen only two of the movies on the list, I'll pick Star Wars. (No spoiler, if you wonder, or cared) I was the only one in my family who like it, but I not saying it's the best star wars movie either.

4 - The Black lives matter activist mostly because of how the history of black culture has transcended over last year. Many examples from the police brutality to black men, teens, and even a child, the protest sparked a nation wide protest.   

5 - To me, the biggest story was the same-sex marriage debate. Although this was even with this put in place, Texas is still saying no to marriage licences. One of the only states to do so. 

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