Who Do You Think You Are? Presentation Final Exam Hour 1 5/14/2015

Here is my Prezi of my family tree. I decided to track illnesses and whether they were passed down or not. Besides illnesses, I included birth and death years and occupations. I was able to find some origin, like from where my family came.






For this infographic, I included the origins of family illnesses, which are mostly genetic. I also included some information on family origins.

Interview 1
This interview was done with my mom's mom. She helped me a lot with seeing what her life was like and information on my ancestors.
Interview 2
This interview was done with my dad's mom. She is the oldest living grandma I have. She lived through a lot of events in history, and had a lot of very interesting information to share with me.
Email to Family Member
I wrote this email to my mom's mom. She is known for keeping track of family, addresses, phone numbers, and birthdays. That is why I emailed her to ask for information. She called me later to respond to my email.

Family Echo Family Tree

This is just a basic outline of my family tree. It is very large and includes a lot of different generations.

04/28/2015

Read THIS blog post by a teacher. I mean actually read it. Take it in. Think about it. And then, write about it. What do you think about it? What is the teacher trying to say? In your own words explain what "the main event" is.

I think the teacher is partially correct. If it were true that leaning is not the main event, but learning life lessons is, then I would thing that there should be a better way to go about that. Learning about specific topics and subjects is what we are supposed to learn. Courage, adversity, perseverance, focus, and other life lessons can be supplementally learned at the same time, but are not the primary focus. The teacher is trying to say that the grades don't matter as much, but its about teaching yourself how to get through hardships. I believe both are important. The main event to the author is learning life lessons over content. To me the main event is leaning content AND life lessons, therefore creating the building blocks and the foundation to start a college career and build on that foundation. By the time you graduate college, you should know a lot in your field or major, and you should have learned things about yourself, others, and life as well. 

04/14/2015

3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

It was a busy weekend, to say the least. It started off well on saturday with prom. We ate at Avenues Bistro on 63rd and Wornall. They took a really long time, and so we left there at about 9:05 when Prom had already begun. I was driving 95, and got to the school in about 14 minutes, so we made good time. Went to the dance which was fun, then went to afterprom. I won a $25 Freddy T's gift card and had fun with my friends there. I had an after party that started at 3AM. We went to sleep at 6 AM, but i got up at 10 AM to go to the hospital because my sister had surgery saturday night to remove her appendix. Sunday night I went back out to a party, and I am completely exhausted.

04/07/2015

Tell me ALL about what your idea is for your stop-motion animation. I need detail. Who is going to help you take photos? What props do you need? Where do you plan on shooting? EXPLAIN everything.

I plan on mowing the lawn and taking pictures of the project. I will use a tripod to keep the pictures the same. I will use the natural sunlight during the afternoon to shoot the stop motion animation. I will have my friend, Conner help with taking the photos. I will mow during that time, or vice versa. I need my mower, long grass, a tripod, Conner, and the sunlight. I plan on doing this in my back yard. This stop-motion animation will show the evolving of my yard, as i cut it. It will show the mower going back and forth to cut the lawn neatly. 

04/06/2015

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your weekend and please share photos!

This weekend was pretty bad. Friday and Saturday were good in that i was able to hang out with my friends during that time. Saturday night, everything went to hell in a hand-basket. I arrived at one of my friend's bonfires. One person was barely conscious because he was too drunk. His vitals later crashed and we ended up taking him to Fire Station 81 in Stilwell. I had to perform life-saving measures on him in the car, then transferred him to Squad 81 and Medic 81, who transferred him over to Medic 1145, who took him to Saint Luke's South. He is now at KU Med, sedated. Now, the police are all over us, and want to start charging people, even though I saved his life. 

April Fool's Day 2015

What do you love most about this time of year? Explain why you love it.

I love today!!! I love April Fool's Day because I can prank my parents and friends. Now for this time of year, I love April because it warms up outside. I can begin to fish, hunt, and camp out with friends again, after a long winter of not being able to do those things. I also hate cold weather, so now that the temperature is in the 70's-80's, i'm very happy. We are also nearing Graduation time, and that is very exciting. It is also scary, because i start to realize how fast everything is going, and I must keep up and not fall behind.

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