MC Website Project Reflection

Name: Lexi Alvarez
Project Reflection: Post on your Blog
Project Title: MC Website Project
Class: Mrs. Interlandi- Humanities Dates: March 14 2008

*You may type directly in this document and copy and paste into blog, or simply address each of the following in a post. It should be approx. 2 pages worth of writing.

PURPOSE: In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do.
Sentence Starters
-The purpose of this project was to learn about…
-In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc…

The purpose of this project was to pick a certain subject and learn more about it with the group that we were with. Our group chose The Crucible for the Project it was good for us because we already knew a lot about it from drama class. We did use some websites for more in depth info. In order to learn more we used every single bit of info that we remembered and used it to make some info on our site. Sometimes our group would have difficulties on trying to figure things out. We would sometimes get passed them but if we couldn't we would actually have to vote. I thought that my team really needed to just set our differences asside and just think of what is really important which was the SITE.

WHAT I LEARNED
In this section, tell what information or skills you learned or improved.
Sentence Starters
-I learned about…
-I explored the concepts/topics of …
-In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)
I learned a lot more about The Crucible and more in depth about it like the characters and and actually more on McCarthyism and mob mentality so I learned from other people from doing the content. I liked doing the Crucible because we already knew alot about it and it was useful to use my own knoweledge for another project and plus the Crucible was meant to be read for the Moral Crouage. So that was what the "MC" web was about (Moral Courage). I learned definatly how to make a site and how much it takes to put into a site and how hard it takes, and how inportant content is. I learned during why Mrs. Interlandi would tell us that content is most imprtant, it is because thats why people go on a site not just to look at awesome grafics its to learn more about this subject. So the content is what mainly people look at on a site so I definatly learned that content was best for our site but not just ours everybody's

REFLECTION
In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?
Sentence Starters
-I enjoyed this project because…
-I feel like I could have done better on this project because…
-Next time, I would...........
I liked this project because I thought that making a web was a great expierence and also doing it on The Crucible because we did it in drama class and the questions that I had about it for drama class were answered during thsi project. I think that I could've done a little bit better actually I think that my whole team could have done better on this site. I think that the grade shows everything that we got on this site and its the most important thing for any project. Next time I would know how imprtant content really is so I would try to just put all my hard work into it and just get as much done as I could or try to be doing something every minute I had. So that I would get a whole lot more done and our site would get the grade it really deserved.

ARTIFACTS
You should have at least one artifact from each project on your DP. What document, picture, or link will you have for this project?

My artifacts our on my site unfortunatly not all of them are but I have the sites that we used in the sources page of my website. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_CRU.HTM this is at least one of the links that I have used for this project.

Post #3

NAME: Lexi Alvarez DATE: March 9th 2008
TITLE: Ida B TIME: 2 hours AUTHORKatherine Hannigan PAGES: 96- 194 TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 98

Brief Discription: I have just gottten everything put together in my book it is all coming together now about why she does such strange things and why she talks to them. She really does not have many friends so the trees are the only friends she can talk to but they talk back so this is basically fantasy type.
Q: Do you think you would read another book by this author? Why or why not?
A: I think that I would because I like how different this little girl in the book is she is just not ordinary but still she is cool. I like how she tells her own story in that book like the kindergarden story to tell the reader how she ended up being homschooled. I just like different books and different characters in that book and thats why I would read another one of her books.
Q: Which character would you like (or not like) to be your friend? Why?
A: I would like to be friends with Ida B because she seems like a cool person to be with even though she is different. Even though she is weird she just seems really cool or like my kind of actual person to hang out with.

VOCABULARY:
1. Formulated- To develop something like a making and expierment to formulate something.
2. Ensuring- To secure or gauruntee something.
3. Decimated- To destroy a great number of something.
4. Pitiful- It means it was bad or it was pitty like.
5. Distress- To have like great pain.

Post #2 Book #2 March 2nd

Name: Lexi Alvarez Date: March 2nd 2008
Title: Ida B Time: 1 hour
Author: Katherine Hannigan Pages: 50- 96
Total Pages: 46



Brief Discription: Ok so this book has continued with Ida B's wacky ways but different now she has told a little bit of a story from when she first went to kindergarden. It tells how she ever started getting homschooled. It explains part of her life to me. But unfortunatly her mother has started getting cancer I about cried when I found that out.

Q#1: What in the book upsets you or bothers you? Why?
A#1: Well there is a part that made me very sad is when Ida B's mom got cancer all of a sudden. It made me really sad because I sort of made a connection to Ida and I just could like imgine how sad I would be if I found out one of my family member's had cancer. Plus Ida B even asked her mom "Mommy are you going to die" and I just got soo sad from that one sentance.
Q#2: What was one of your favorite lines (or sentences) in what you read today?
A#2: "I stayed home and I learned and I had more fun then a kitten with twenty balls of yarn and three pretend mice". That was my sentance I liked how she related it to the kittens and they yarn because I can see that she was really happy. Because I know how my cat is when she gets around yarn and fake mice. This sentance was related to how happy she was to be homschooled.

Vocabulary
1: Truft- A bunch of thing clustered and put together.
2: Hauling- To pull something or force something.
3: Ether- It is liek chemistry or like something is attached.
4: Flitting- To move lightly or drift.
5: Somber- Dark light or gloomy light.

Post #2 Book #1 March 2nd

Name: Lexi Alvarez Date: March 2nd 2008
Title: Ruby Holler Time: first 1 hour
Author: Sharon Creech Pages: 58- 101
Total Pages: 43

Brief Discripition: Ok so I have continued my reading of Ruby Holler so far the two "trouble twins" have moved on to a new house with two older people. The two twins seems like they are not as bad as they were but still are a little bad, like breaking a window and breaking a wooden boat and a bird. It is littler stuff though not as big as it was when they lived with Mr and Mrs Trepid.
Q #1: What do you think about a particular character's actions? Was he/she right or wrong to do that?
A #1: I think that one of the twins Florida, the girl twin, is more of a trouble maker then the boy because she breaks more of the stuff then the boy. She seems like more then the trouble maker then both of the twinsso it surprises me that she is mainly the trouble maker then the boy. Because normally boys are more trouble maker then you think.
Q #2: What advice would you give to a particular character? Why?
A #2: I think that I would tell the twins to be less more trouble makers to the older people because I think that they never had trouble kids like them. In the book it tells that they had very good kids and since bthese kids are kind of bad I think that they should stop. I feel that they should be less of pains to these older people because they need help with these trips to these places.
Vocabulary:
1: Varnish- A surace that is glossy...... I am not sure because I did not find a real answer that I understood.
2: Mite- A small contribution...... had a hard time finding an answer
3: Nigh- Means to like be near in space or time
4: Whittle- To cut or shape something out.
5: Erm- An employee relationship........... did not give a good answer