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Imagine. Create. Entertain. Productions - Lex Martinez & Jason Perez
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During our capstone project, Jason Perez and I realized that we have the same interests in a field of work that was very special to us. That field of work was Film and Video, digital media in broader terms. This field of work was special to us because it allowed us to connect to many different types of people not just locally but nationally as well. The field rooted from hard work, collaboration, execution, and passion qualities that developed during our four years at Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber.
With those qualities in mind, we developed the idea of creating a Film Production studio on a small scale, similar to what we have today at SLA's rough cut studios and SLA@B's media lab. We crafted a name, a logo, a mission statement, almost anything and everything you could think of when establishing something as big as a studio.
But life hit us very hard, it was difficult to get funding as teachers didn't support after-school jobs, teachers and students didn't support monetary donations or spreading for awareness, many doubted us, many didn't see what we envisioned for our capstone. It would have been studio that would have taught students that learning is more than textbooks and being at a desk in the classroom. Learning is getting out into the field and expressing and embracing your creative vision, a quality that is suppressed by current practices.
This was developed on the fact that there is a handful of schools that find the funding to create these programs, both SLA's as an example.
Imagine. Create. Entertain. Productions (I.C.E) would have been a program for any and all students within the Philadelphia school district to learn new skills and develop new media to be seen by millions of people in the world.
Today, I.C.E Productions stands as a long term goal between Jason Perez and I as we work towards building a credible portfolio to be seen by thousands of people. We hope to inspire, entertain, and more importantly teach through the videos we've created utilizing the programs provided by WHYY, SLA@B media lab, and the on-the-fly skills we've developed through experience.
Video Links:
Sugar my Balls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w1PdWlETk8
The Pen and Prejudice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppw69wJFYfA
Storm 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXdLKH_e90
Infidelity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_EFJ3CIuc
It's alwways sunny in Philadelphia -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTQx7HAby0
It's bigger than TX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IItnfx_Am68
Film Reel attached
Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/1YkWoROgmAJVAITPF5Ox2mUOaDkfSPP8LpVO_VOfqZwA/edit?usp=sharing
Idil ALTAY CAPSTONE PROJECT
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For my Capstone I wanted to make something about my country because I’m here for a year, and in this time period I experienced many things like American culture, history, people and etc. Before I return my country, I wanted to introduce mine. Turkey is an important geostrategic power thanks to being located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. I wanted to give some historical facts and some basic information about Turkey. The other thing that I mentioned in my Capstone are Turkish reforms which were made by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He was our leader after World War I, and he recreated a dead country. One of the most important details for me in this project is my perspective because i compared Turkey and America. I wrote my observations that I have experienced about relationships, daily life and perspectives. This was important for me because this is about my thoughts. I got help from Mr. Elish and we planned to add differences in the educational system between Turkey and America too. This was also important because I was an international student for a year and I learned so much.
"Turkey." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 16 May 2017. Web. 18 May 2017.
"Türkiye'de Eğitim." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 May 2017. Web. 18 May 2017.
History.com Staff. "Kemal Atatürk." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 18 May 2017.
"Ataturk: "The Form of Government Will Be a Republic!"" YouTube. YouTube, 18 Aug. 2016. Web. 18 May 2017.
Cycles of Matter: Water cycle- Egypt, Salina, & Mercedes
Water Cycle in the Food System
Draw a Room Project
She was a medium size, African American women with long dark brown hair. She also had a eye for fashion, so whatever she owned had to be eye catching. On the floor she a beautiful rug that had unique patterns. Her mother gave her a wooden coffee table before she died so she put the table over the beautiful rug. Lastly she a painting that she got when she travel to Paris. The painting was one of her favorite memory, she spent a lot time in Paris for a business trip.
One Point Perspective
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One person that live in the room will be me. The scene in the room is me coming home from a hard day at school. You will see my book bag on the rag on the floor. The book bag will show the view that I was at school also the expression on my face. My phone will also be shown on low battery. My last personal item is my t.v cause I like to play games when I come home from school.
Biochem Lucid Chart Cycle of Matter: Sulfur (Ashley, Wesley, Jade, Yari)
Alisa Foster- Capstone
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For my project as my final capstone, I have decided to use what I love and share it with my peers. I have decided to teach volleyball to my peers. Since I am very familiar with the sport and what it is you need to do to play it, I thought this would be perfect to teach to people who might not know how to play. Although only a few people were interested they still learned a lot. This process wasn’t very hard being as though I knew what is was I wanted to teach. Before I decided on coaching a volleyball class. I picked a completely different project but I wasn’t very contempt with it so at the last minute I changed it. I have played volleyball since sixth grade. I played/started all four years in high school. I was appointed captain in twelfth grade. Since I was captain I have learned that I am a strong leader so it wasn’t going to be hard to teach an inexperienced group of people the beautiful game of volleyball. After the practice, I have asked my classmates if they have a better understanding of how to play and they all said yes. This was my main goal. I thought it was going to be tricky for them to learn, but they actually picked it up pretty fast. Being as though I only had a day to teach them they performed well and to the best of their ability. The main thing I have learned through this short journey is anybody can learn a skill if the teacher teaches it thoroughly and correctly. Also, I learned that you must be patient and not yell if they do not get it because it does take time.
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Keya Ghosh- Capstone
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Abstracts:
For my capstone, I want to do resources about asthma disease. I decided to do this because I want to know more about asthma as well as give information to others. I can give people more information about asthma based on my project information. I did not know much about Asthma attacks and or how to control it. Through this year-long project, I wanted to reach out to my mentor about researching online. I always work with the mentor once a week so we found out how to teach about Asthma and to teach myself about diseases.
I wanted to teach people about asthma in a compelling method. I wanted to create something that people could easily access and understand. I aimed to produce work that was content rich and concise. So in order to meet all my requirements, I’ve created slideshow parts to my work and give a brief background on the project. The project goal was to improve the quality of asthma care given to pediatric patients by promoting inclusion of the asthma guidelines into the primary care setting, providing caregivers and children asthma self-management skills to improve asthma outcomes. In addition, the project provided educational instructions to both children with asthma and their caregivers to facilitate asthma self-management. The mission of the capstone project was to provide evidence to the capstone panel to improves pediatric asthma control. The vision of the asthma project was to reduce the asthma burden in children at the community health center and to increase asthma preventative care services to the undeserved children in the community.
Tsion Tucho- Capstone
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“Travel With Me”, is an Ethiopian documentary that I and other film editors created to teach people about the tradition, culture, and history of Ethiopia. Creating this documentary helped me feel much closer to my identity as an Ethiopian and I hope this video inspire others to look at their own culture and background. I created this documentary in a way where people are going on an adventure and seeing, beautiful views that Ethiopia is known for like Axum, its mountains and much more. In this video, you're expected to see, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which is a capital city, and Tigrai.
In order to create this project, I went on a two-month vacation to Ethiopia where I traveled to Addis Ababa and Tigrai and I visited historical monuments and buildings and interviewed people who are familiar with the history in order to educate myself and my viewers. Creating this project was very rough, when I was in Ethiopia, my camera was stolen on the last day that I was getting back to America. My camera contained a lot of important videos that I wanted to put in my documentary. But thanks to my outside mentor who works in film editing in Ethiopia helped me to capture those missing footage. I had some hard times in creating this video, but it was an amazing adventure. I hope you enjoy my documentary as much as I had creating it.
Bask in Your Beauty
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For my capstone my partner and I, Jada Thomas, created a girls mentoring program called Bask in Your Beauty (BIYB for short). The mission of BIYB is to empower and uplift young woman. We wanted to help girls find the beauty within themselves and the world around them. BIYB met every Wednesday from 1:30-3:15pm. During these sessions, we had discussions, trust building activities, and played games. Jada and I truly feel like we have built a sisterhood within BIYB. We remembered how it felt being a young woman in coping with the many things that come along with being in high school. We wanted the girls to feel like they would always have someone to turn to and we became those people for them. We also wanted the girls to understand that beauty is only skin deep so it is important to make sure that you are being the best person possible on the inside as well as the outside. We helped the girls find beauty in things like music, nature, and even in each other. It felt good for me and Jada to know that we had 20+ girls looking up to us. We ourselves feel like we have gained 20+ little sisters and have vowed to be there for the girls no matter what. Through my capstone, I learned what it felt like to be a leader and have other people look up to you. Having those young girls look up to me helped me carry myself in a way that would ensure I was looked at as a leader. This capstone also prepared me for what it feels like to have an impact on the lives of others, something I plan on doing for as long as I live. I am appreciative of the opportunities and experiences this senior capstone has provided me and we look forward to having BIYB continue long after Jada and I graduate.
What I wish I knew before High School!?
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For my Capstone, I did workshops at my old school with one of my closest friends that I grew up with Vaughn Matthews who attend Center City campus, A. B. Day Elementary School is where I first met him. Realizing now that I'm a senior I often think, "What if I knew some of the things I do now before entering school?" I believe that just somethings would be better and could avoid unnecessary problems, that is what inspired me to work with kids in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade my definition of collaboration. In the process of completing my capstone, It included weeks of research, planning, and communication. I did research on the learning styles of each grade group. I also researched what things they were interested in, so I knew what topic I would do for each workshop, and ideas for icebreakers to do before the workshop. With planning, in my calendar, I marked the topics of each workshop in each day, and the class room number that I would visit. I did workshops like high school expectations for 8th graders, and music for 6th graders. Communication was a thing that was a challenge with my capstone. The principal and vice principal of A. B. Day were very busy, and they had trouble replying back to my emails about what days I would go in.
Overall, I had fun doing my capstone. One thing that I learned is how to handle kids that misbehave. One of the 8th grade classes that I visited, was full of kids that were really bad, and I was able to do calm them down and get them to talk. It seem like the deeper I got into the lesson the more kids became involved, especially when I took the time to share new experiences and stories. I believe Here are some pictures of the high school expectations workshop with the 8th graders.
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Tasheba Francis's Capstone
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I made a music video that represents the emotions that come with living with mental illnesses. I don't want to post it on here until I present the project so enjoy this picture of a lonely lollipop. I tried something different for my capstone. My passion for video editing in tenth-grade still lives with me. Since my family has a history of mental illnesses and recently someone was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Growing up and going to many schools, adults and students tend to devalue mental illnesses once a person hits a certain age. In some cases, a person won’t be able to overcome illness or control it. People will tell someone with depression to stop being depressed, It’s not easy. I made this video to show people how this is a problem people have to face and live with. You can call this a PSA if it seems to way to you. Anxiety and depression are present mostly in teenagers. I hope this can bring some type of awareness even if people think it is bad or good, I just wanna get my point across.
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“Too Close To Touch – Inside Voices.” Genius, 23 Sept. 2016, genius.com/Too-close-to-touch-inside-voices-lyrics. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
Byrne, Jaimie. “Normal teenage behaviour vs. early warning signs of mental illness.” Friends for Mental Health, www.asmfmh.org/resources/publications/normal-teenage-behaviour-vs-early-warning-signs-of-mental-illness/.
“Tips For Making a Music Video.” Songstuff, 23 Apr. 2015, www.songstuff.com/recording/article/tips-for-making-a-music-video/.
Sonicbids. “4 Creative, Unique Music Videos to Inspire Your Own.” Sonicbids Blog - Music Career Advice and Gigs, blog.sonicbids.com/4-creative-unique-music-videos-to-inspire-your-own. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
McKissock, Leah. “How to Make a Low-Budget Music Video That Doesn’t Suck.” Cheapsters, 10 Jan. 2013, www.cheapsters.org/how-to-make-a-music-video-that-doesnt-suck/. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
Parekh, Ranna. “What Is Mental Illness?” What Is Mental Illness?”, Nov. 2015, www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/what-is-mental-illness. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
Smith, Andy. “Using Copyrighted Music in Videos: When is it Legal?” Tubular Insights, 11 Feb. 2017, tubularinsights.com/copyrighted-music-in-video/. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
“Too Close To Touch – Inside Voices.” Genius, 23 Sept. 2016, genius.com/Too-close-to-touch-inside-voices-lyrics. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
“NAMI.” NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2016, www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
Shumaker, Shannon. “Too Close To Touch - Haven't Been Myself.” The Prelude Press, 23 Sept. 2016, www.thepreludepress.com/album-reviews/2016/9/22/too-close-to-touch-havent-been-myself. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.
Dashawn Mcintosh-Inniss Capstone
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Art has always been my passion growing up. For my senior project I wanted to make sure everyone knew what I could create. For the past year, I have been developing my artistic abilities by painting, drawing, and designing many objects that represent me as a person. My art is revolved around my race, culture, and city in which I reside.
I create over 60 creations to showcase at my art show which is in the month of May, 2017. I designed hats, jackets, and shoes. I created many landscape pieces with spray paint. I decided to title my art show “The Wild Card” due to the fact that I am a wild card. When it comes to art I’m a broad street artist who is capable of creating anything. From graffiti, to murals, or custom shoes, you just never know what you are going to get out of me.
Throughout this whole entire project I did have some assistance, but for the most part I came out of pocket for supplies and made sure to pay all fees to the building for my art show. I spent over $3,000 in supplies for my show in total. My art show is on May 26 from 5pm-9pm at the Overbrook Art Center. Tickets are $8 a piece and both drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. This is my first art show and it’s also my final project at SLA@Beeber. I want this to be one of my greatest memories of a lifetime. To be completely honest I believe it was worth it and I cannot wait for all of my jar work to turn into success.
Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/1hj309ZlCEZFMrDq7jigSF-XHkvwNmR1eDn75R3v8o28/edit?usp=sharingTierra Weary Capstone
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Sometimes in life we stray away from what is real, taking the focus off the more complex issues creating a false world to live in.
Welcome to Tierra Weary´s Senior Project. I chose to do a children´s book because not enough awareness is spread to them about certain topics. My book targets children 8 years of age and older. I wrote my book on abuse and chose to write a book of such nature for children, allowing them to see the harsh realizations of society. Abuse came upon as a hard subject to take on because its a children´s book. I ran into various complications while making this story. The most challenging part for me was coming up with a story line that wasn´t to explicit for their ears, but enough to stimulate there minds. All in all, my senior project was very fun and interesting. It allowed me to express my creative side. I really enjoyed working with the tools I used and referencing back to old classes and assignments.
For my Capstone, I composed essential questions for myself:
How do you convey difficult messages to young children (8+)?
What could be the impact on a child's life taken what the book displayed?
How do you understand a child's mind?
I hope my story helps young kids in the future.
Tools: https://www.storyjumper.com/
To understand a young mind you have to forget what you know and let them take the lead. - Tierra Weary
Room Drawing
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This is Angel's room and in this room she made a lot of memorize with her friends. She haves amazing picture of her and her friends all over her walls. She haves a teddy bear from her past friend. As you walk into Angel's room you see her window, her bed and her closet. Her bed is right under the window while her closet is on the left side wall. Angel always have to go to modeling class every Saturday so she always have her makeup out on her table ready to go. And every Tuesday and Thursday she haves to go to ballet and modern dance so she haves her ballet shoes near her bed. Angel makes sure that her room is always clean because she can't stand a dirty room and also because she needs her floor clean to be able to practice dancing and modeling.
Gabriel Boykin Capstone
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For my capstone I created a little podcast talkshow with a fellow peer of mine, Lucia. Although only 5 episodes, we tried our best to cover a variety of different topics. In my head I wanted to make almost 30 different “episodes” but clearly that’s not the case since we only made 5. Something I learned from this process is that people come from many different backgrounds. We all have different stories and many perspectives in our day to day life. No two people are the same and no matter whether they have the same race, religion, or sexual orientation, we all see the world different. I also learned that time management is very important. I was not able to manage my time well enough to get the amount of episodes out there that I wanted but I would actually lie to continue this sometime in the future.
Room Drawing
Everyday before Seyani leaves her room for school she looks at the picture for good luck that she bought from Italy when she traveled with her school. While standing in her bedroom she makes sure that her room is clean and looks at her handmade blanket that her aunt made her to make sure it is nicely folded on the bed. As she leaves the room she spots her necklace on her rug that was a old gift for her birthday
Yaseen Thomas Capstone
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The Serpents Swim Team have been apart of my life since I have been about five years old. The West Philadelphia YMCA located on 52nd and Chestnut streets has been a part of my life, and a root to every branch I was able to acquire in my existence. My responsibility is to keep the cycle going and teach these young children the skills I acquired during my 13 years of commitment to this team.
Over eight weeks I held half hour classes on Monday’s and Wednesday's from 4-8 strictly dealing with devoting children to gain confidence in the water and build swimming skills. Over the eight weeks I have seen direct improvement in my swimmers. I teach ages from 4 to about 8 from the basics of swimming to the point where I am eventually moving them onto the swim team.
Towards the end of the session, around 95% of the students move on and are able to feel confident enough to be in the water. One thing I learned is it is very interesting dealing with little kids.The main thing I realized is no matter what you can make a difference in someone's life. It amuses me the type of good feedback I receive from their parents, and all I can do is thank my strong mentor system that taught me everything I know so I can relay it to the next child. Maybe some day they will be doing the same thing. Who knows.
Shanni-kie Watson, Capstone
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My Capstone was about Parent Teen Relationship and during this process I have learnt so much about only myself but younger teens. I chose this topic because not only did I have problems with my parent it affected the way I preformed academically. My capstone is based on ways to help teens establish a healthy relationship with their parents and vice versa. First step of my capstone was deciding how I would implement this idea. This capstone was created for fourteenth year old that as just hit puberty. I worked long and hard with Mr. Rosen Long and Mr. Gray on the lay out of what my capstone would look like. I created a survey with six questions which would let us examine the causes of the problems that arise in the relationship with the parents and the teens. I tried the survey out with five freshmen girls where I tested to see how this work shop would and after hearing the feedback from the students is went exceptionally well. I then went on and said let me now try this with a bigger group. Ms. Jackson allowed me to do her freshmen girls and it was so amazing. Not only did these girls have a good time but they learnt how to make healthy relationships within their homes. Personally I think this is a good activity for freshmen advisory to do with their girls to figure why they come to school so angry and failing classes. Let us keep promoting healthy relationships for our young ladies.
Leyitha Achoute's Capstone.
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The values and what I envisioned for my capstone was similar to what I have put in place for the school club I founded; African Root Connection. My capstone presentation is the highlights and objectives of that school club for this year. The reason behind creating this school club is centered around my interest in African studies and I wanted to provide a space for Black students like myself to learn together about our roots.
Ryan Swann Capstone
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I started writing this spoken word poem, because of a break up I had with a long time girlfriend. I was in the hospital and we broke up and I started out the poem upset about feeling helpless to the situation. Then I started feeling abandoned, however, that quickly turned into resentment. Then once I finished the poem I was able to forget and move on.
The final product exists as more of a collage of memories, rather than being something I continue to feel and something I hold onto. After writing this I also figured out that I would rather be writing over any other career choice. The project helped me finally figure out the person I want to be and the job I want to pursue.
I never left you
You never left the mind of mine
Until you left it for Dallas
You were never out of mind
But still never in sight
Sayings held no truth to us
And we only had monthly visits
So I forgot your face
But never your heartbeat
I remember you had a scent about you
And I trapped butterflies in my rib cage
While you glowed a being of Scarlet
But all of that lost in star lit emptiness
All of these memories turn heart to chore
I'm Lazy
And I didn't want to live anymore
So beats drop
Hearts fail
Mails snailed
But I promised you 365 letters
14 years old I stood in CVS for a book of stamps
'Cause there's something more romantic
About a letter
Than a text limited to 100 characters
Loves takes 4
But I have 1000 more to include
I wanted to write to you
That I would travel the billion miles it takes to reach you
Swerve the curves of the road
To intersect with the curves of your body
Teach a love that surpasses a puppy
As if age forces stipulations to emotion depth
Our emotional tolerance
Was not trained to love each other any more than we did
People should know that my trip to the mailbox
Wasn’t about birthday checks or amazon orders
But more for delivery of a message containing more than 140 characters
Forget the candy
I want to interact with you
More than an asthmatic
Wants to fluently interact with air
My air escapes in your being near
People say life is short
If that ends true
Mine will consist of you
We’ll lay together
Us, star, and moon
Pink Floyd in the distance
But the dark side is not present in your presence
I want your presence
Not presents
So I spent Christmas in the hospital
I never left you
You never left the mind of mine
Until you left it for Dallas
You were never out of mind
But still never in sight
Sayings held no truth to us
And we only had monthly visits
So I forgot your face
But never your heartbeat
I remember you had a scent about you
And I trapped butterflies in my rib cage
While you glowed a being of Scarlet
But all of that lost in star lit emptiness
All of these memories turn heart to chore
I'm Lazy
And I didn't want to live anymore
So beats drop
Hearts fail
Mails snailed
You moved to Dallas
So our present is frozen to picture
Future moves in dream
Flows to stream of thought
That’s video
But Dallas burns film
So all that's left is picture present
So I got present over presence
Maybe our love was at age level
Height of our tolerance
But who says that’s low
I was too slow to know what I had
Like Im age 3 and everything belongs to me
I just wanted you
Along with everything else
Now you’re gone
And I want to hate you for that
But I won't bring myself to ruin the memories left of you
And of course the memories stab
Like four year old me running with scissors
Once in awhile I fell
Sure it hurts like hell
But I f---ing bet I don’t do it again
Patience Elliott Capstone
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During Senior Capstone Project, I redesigned a geometry project assignment for sixth graders. To begin, I took a project that was originally made for tenth-grade geometry students and modified it so that it would be suitable for a sixth-grade classroom. The project was about designing their own homes and calculating the measurements for the structures. I then contacted Samuel Gompers School to determine if they would be interested in being my host school. When I contacted the principal, he put me in contact with the teacher that I would begin to work with, Mr. Neal. Mr. Neal chose the class that I would work with, and I began to introduce the project to the students. I worked with a class of about 30 students. In the beginning, I reviewed perimeter, area, and conversions with them. The students responded well, and they were excited about the project. I taught the class every Wednesday at 1:45 pm, and I stayed until the end of the school day. I made a list of dates that I would follow in order to get this project done on time. I did not take into account the times that they would be testing for PSSAs and when we would have spring break. Not taking this into account really set me back, and I had to go to the class Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in order to meet the deadlines. I finished the project and had the students present, and we had a party on the last day.
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