Basic News Writing

First story:

1. parents and employees are involved
2. Teachers and the school system in general
3. school district's administrators
4. cut off school's budgets
5. may people lost their jobs
6. unemployment, bad education
7. cut off the funds
8. 2011-2012 school year
9. last week
10. Austin
11. there is no money to sustain the current expense account
12. cut jobs and take 38 billion out of the budget
13. all teachers and students too
14. I think it is necessary to spend money on education so I disagree with this 

Second story:

1. Barry Bonds,Anderson other MLB baseball player
2. Barry Bonds and Anderson
3. attorney
4. Barry Bond's drug case, they are trying to get MLB players to testify against Anderson
5. Bonds took steroids from Anderson
6. they are in jail
7. get people to testify agains Anderson
8. The case started two years ago
9. in the next days
10. San Francisco
11. Because Barry Bonds took steroids
12. Authorities caught Bonds on steroids
13. 50 MLB players attorneys and Anderson
14. I think they should be arrested especially Anderson

Third Story:

1. Japanese citizens especially scientists
2. Japanese citizens and many other countries
3. experts
4. Nuclear reactors are not working, radiation could be expelled
5. A tsunami hit Japan
6. Radiation would spread throughout the country
7. try to fix the reactors
8. Can be imminent
9. After the tsunami hit Japan
10. Japan
11. tsunami devastated the country and hit the nuclear station too
12. reactors are not working well
13. there is no approximate estimation
14. an entire population
15. they better fix it!

interview with classmate

1. Do you deserve to be student of the month?
2. what are your grades?
3. Have you ever failed a class?
4. How much do you study at home?
5. Are your parents proud of you?
6. Do they encourage you?
7. What grade are you in?
8. Are you already thinking about college?
9. How did your friends react?
10. Do you participate in any after school program?
11. How Do you feel about being student of the month?
12. What are your interests other than school?
13. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?
14. Can you be student of the month for more than a month?
15. How do you prepare for a test?
16. What is your favorite class?
17. Why?
18. Do you like Akins school system?
19. What people expect from student of the month?
20. do you want to add anything?

Answers:

1. yes
2. A's-B's
3. once or twice
4. not that much, I stay after school for tutoring
5. they are very proud of myself
6. Yes, they always want me to do be the best
7. I'm a junior
8. Yes, my dream would be attending Texas State University
9. They didn't think it was important
10. No
11. It is a privilege
12. Everything related with arts
13. no
14. It's better to give other people this opportunity
15. I stay up late until I am really prepared
16. Algebra because I understand everything
17. -
18. Yes, but some aspects need to be fixed
19. they expect me to be an example for every student and be a responsible person.
20. I don't want to add anything to this interview

FIXING...

1.Why do you deserve to be student of the month

10.Would you like to participate in any after school program? Which one?

13.Do you think having a girlfriend/boyfriend would help you being student of the month?

Student of the Month Review

1. Do you deserve to be student of the month?
2. what are your grades?
3. Have you ever failed a class?
4. How much do you study at home?
5. Are your parents proud of you?
6. Do they encourage you?
7. What grade are you in?
8. Are you already thinking about college?
9. How did your friends react?
10. Do you participate in any after school program?
11. How Do you feel about being student of the month?
12. What are your interests other than school?
13. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?
14. Can you be student of the month for more than a month?
15. How do you prepare for a test?
16. What is your favorite class?
17. Why?
18. Do you like Akins school system?
19. What people expectfrom student of the month?
20. do you want to add anything?

Interviewing Skills-Assignement #1-

1.I could interview:

• The principal
• A representative of students
• Parents

2.Questions:

1. Why wearing a uniform is important?
2. What colors should it have?
3. Should students put their name on it?
4. Should they have one or two uniforms?
5. What are the advantages of wearing uniforms?
6. What are the disadvantages?
7. Do you think wearing uniforms would discourage gang activities?
8. Do uniforms make everyone equal?
9. Would uniforms increase the learning?
10. Would buying uniforms be too expensive?
11. Should uniforms be mandatory for all schools?
12. We know some kids come from Paredes middle school, that has a uniform policy, would it help the approval of uniforms?
13. Would this help students from poorer families not to be jealous of others clothing?
14. Can it stifle personal expression and creativity?
15. Do uniforms aid in decreasing the possibility for variance?
16. Would it decrease the need of teachers or school authorities to be "clothing police"(they decide if a skirt is too shorty etc.)?
17. Would it create a sense of society?
18. Would it impede with religious clothing?
19. Should uniforms be more informal?
20. Would it restrict freedom of choice?

Sports/actions more details

1.Alyssa Schukar-stories(eating disorders,poor people,sadness in general)
PROBLEMS:

• pictures are similar distant-wise
• the pictures don't attract the juges's emotions
• not enough strong angles

LIKES:

• the athlete falling picture
• the guy cleaning the street picture

2.
STRENGHTS:

• colors
• composition
• pictures are tight
• there is action in the pictures

MY OPINION:

• composition and action in the pictures

3. Pictures don't have blanks, they follow a storyline, documentary stuff in the pictures,diversity


-----PART 2-----
1. I agree with the judges one the first picture because the leading lines converge in the center of the picture creating dynamicism.
2. I don't agree with the judges on the picture with the surfer falling into the ocean: the angle is pretty good and I prefr the fact that the surfer is not hitting the water because it creates more action in the picture.

JAPAN'S DEVASTATION

This picture is symbolic, the power of the tsunami brought a cargo boat in the middle of a neighborhood.( the picture as an high viewpoint}

Another represantation of the difficult moments Japan is living, their streets are covered in mud.( the picture as an high viewpoint}

Happy,Akins,Building

this is our mascot so it is a great way to represent Akins

A teddy bear in a class shows how teachers take it easy, and it makes me and other student HAPPY

this is the red hall and it is my picture for Building

TOUCHING PEOPLE

1. This project is really interesting because adds more spirit to the art of portrait-making, it is unpredictable how strangers relate to each other and,specially, how they would pose for these pictures
2. I would participate and I would take a picture with a stranger
3. "fake a laugh", I think this would be a fun project because you can pose as you want, it would be hilarious.
4. I don't think he used a specific rule of photography in every single picture, but the subjects are always on focus ane there is little blur so he probably used a medium speed shutter.

Cool Advertising Idea

I like this advertising poster because reproduces an historical monumentum such as Stonehenge.
It is also effective because my eyes are trapped by this image and it makes me fell like I want to change to AT&T.