Monthly Archives: December 2012

 For my Art of Rhetoric’s third action project, I had to write up an example of a college essay. Since I haven’t decided on a college yet, I chose a prompt from the Common App. I think that the reason my teacher assigned this as the project as action is because while its’ main purpose Read More…

For my second project as action for my D&E class, we built a homemade solar panel. Similarly to the earlier water station project, we built the panels in the hope that we could inspire others to make their own through watching the process that we went through. By working on this project, I learned a lot about Read More…

Through out this term my group has been working on a mini documentary (micro-mentary) that explores our ideas and the things we have learned about Gratitude. Along with the micro-mentary we created a lesson plan and workshop to give people a better idea of what we’ve been working on. Our lesson plan covers defining, identifying, Read More…

For our civic engagement course we had to make a micro-mentary. For our micro-mentary we made a film and we rorscoped part of the film. To make our micro-mentary we had to interview people about what they thought gratitude was. We also had to take b-roll,rotoscope, edit, and more rotoscoping. We also had to make a Read More…

During this Civic Engagement course, we have created a Micro-mentary and workshop on the power of gratitude. The purpose of this is to help people learn about the power of gratitude. I am proud of being able to work so hard on two really huge projects in such a small amount of time and get Read More…

Civic Engagement is a five week term in which we were broken down into 4 different groups and were assigned one of the four words that represent GCE. Ours was gratitude. The purpose of this project was to create a 5 minute micro-mentary showing gratitude while also using at least a minute of rotoscope. For Read More…

For my civic engagement unit we painted a mural. We had to do a 2 to 3 minute micromentary. In our micromentary we did a time lapse of us working, we did outside interviews with people who work with place-making, and lastly we shared our experiences through testimonies. We are going to have a workshop for parents and visitors Read More…

For my civic engagement unit, my group and I were assigned to use photography as our main media to make a short film with the theme purpose. So by using stop motion we created a short film. The movie we made was about a cake topper falling off a wedding cake and he goes on Read More…

   For this Civic Engagement term, the school has been divided into 4 groups of GCE’s values. Purpose, Accountability, Autonomy, and Gratitude. I was chosen to be in the purpose group. In these groups we’ve learned the basics of making a micro-mentary, how to write a letter or email, and how to write a movie critique. Throughout Read More…

For our Civic Engagement term I was put into the Purpose group. Our assignment was to make a mini documentary, although, we decided to make a fiction, stop motion film. Our film is about a wedding topper cake who falls off of his wedding cake. He then goes on an adventure to find his soon Read More…