Romek #3

1: I thought that he was very describing and VERY deatailed. Especially when he was telling about how his brother died I found that very very emotional. I liked how he told more about his sister and why he did not have a picture of his father. So he made sure that we understood why certain things were not there.

2: I think that David was pretty smart for escaping even though he was planning to get right home but they still helped. I thought that it was nice that they fed him and took care of him when they didn''t just make him work and by working he urn's his food. So I thougt they were pretty fair.

3: I think that maybe they thought he was a little boy and he had already seen his brother die right in front of him a very graphic death. Maybe they felt is just was not worth it. Also he did not really know anything like they said.

Romek #2

1: At first I did not really know what the significance was of that bird. I knew right after the mom said there's some reason why that bird did not come back and she said for them to hide. Then it ended up that she was right and the Nazi's came. I thought that was really interesting how the mom knew that there is a reason the bird did not come back with all of the others.

2: The way that they treat them is definatly not like a vacation at all. This is the part that I really did not get is why was it called Vacation camp it did not seem liek a vacation to me or David. Maybe it is just a trick sign to make it seem like "oh its vacation camp nothing is that bad" but once david faber got in there it did nt seem like a vacation at all.

3: Question #1: What was your emidiate reaction on the first time you heard the big loud noises coming from the outside of the house you were living in". Question #2: What part in the entire part of the Haulacaust did u most remember".

5/18 Romek Post #1

1: An interesting fact about the book is that how much work that the people (men) had to do if the Nazi's took them away. I didn't think that they had to do work like do the potholes in the street I just thought they took them away to some place. I thought that was really fascintaing to me because I never knew that.

2 A: I think that they are very caring for eachother. Because I know it would be sad to have ur dad taken away, but they would like just cry out of know where because of him being taken away. I know how much David really wanted to get to his dad and make sure that he was ok. And his sisters were very scared for there dad.

B: I think that maybe he remembered that part because that is how it all started. How everything started also he gave us a little brief description from that one kid calling him names. So we actually knew how mean other people were (not Jewish people).

3: The rescue of his father really showed me how brave and caring he is about his family. Like when he was heling his dad and telling him "I'll help you up the stairs you can make it", it showed me he wanted to help. He took risks for his family and it wouldn't matter if there was gaurds (the Nazis) around there he still wanted to see his dad and help him.

Aztec Mural Proejct Reflection

Name: Lexi Alvarez

Project Reflection

Project Title: Aztec Mural Project (Hummanities)

Letter: A Dates: 5-5-2008

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 explore Aztec Murals and create our own. We got to learn about Aztec Culture. We actually got to go to Chicano park and observe actual mural's so we could get ideas for our own mural's. Basically we learned all about Aztecs and there ways of living. Such as how they dress what they eat there education and many more. I thought the actual mural's in Chicano were cool and I learned a lot of things that I could use for my mural. Like put a lot of different things so your is not just drawn to one particular spot. Also make it very bright and not so dull. I tryed to use a lot of different things in my mural I did a pryamid.

WHAT I LEARNED
In this section, tell what academic information or skills you learned or improved.

Sentence Starters
I learned about…
I explored the concept of …
In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)

I learned a lot on the society and the Aztec life style. I used all that information to put into my own mural I did actually need all of that knowledge. I needed to use their market and how they dressed for my mural. So all of the papers and the researching paid off. But we were in groups so it made it easier because we all had different ideas for our mural. What we did was sort of combined our ideas together. To make an Aztec pyramid the actually showed the cultures and an example of that cultures. I liked the mural most of the time because we got to make our own of what we saw


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 did not love this project but I did not hate it either. I liked it because we got to make our own mural because we got to go look at real ones painted by really good artist’s. Then we sort of got to do exactly what they did except not as professional. I feel like the whole group could have had more better teamwork and an actual technique of doing our mural. I think that we could have done way better on our artist statement because since I was gone I could not help and if I would have known who was doing it I would have helped them. Next time I would defiantly try to figure out what is going on so that I can help.


WORK HABITS
Complete the following section about your work habits. How did you manage your time in and outside of class? What parts of the project were you responsible for? What strategies did you use when you had difficulty understanding or completing the project?

Sentence Starters
I was responsible for…
I had difficulty…
Next time, I should have…

I was responsible for mainly just doing everything we would all work on something together like switch off jobs. So I would do the sketching then Erica would do the sketching and so on. Also same with painting it would be the same cycle. I was the second most powerful person in the group so when Erica was gone I would be in charge and sometimes I would have a hard time controlling the boys because they would get a little off task..


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?

I used the papers and notes that Miss. Interlandi had us do. I used the internet like google.com too look up images.