Feature article Reflection

Project Purpose:
To understand the difference between Cause/Effect Relationships and Correlations. To understand how and why major events in history are connected and intertwined (think yarn activity!). To research a major event from U.S. history in order to understand why it is significant and how it relates to other major events. To understand features of a feature article and podcast and to be able to create a feature article or podcast about your major event in history.


Project Requirements:
To present the 5Ws of your major event to the class. To write/peer edit/revise a feature article or podcast. To have at least three drafts in your Writing Portfolio. To present a polished version of your feature article or podcast on Media Night, as well as posting it online to our Team Featurecast from the Past web page (made by James).



Specific Concepts Learned:

1. Well the Kennedy curse was one of the things that i learned about. Basically the Kennedy curse is that every body with the last name Kennedy had some thing tragic happen to them. For example Jacqueline Kennedy had a stillborn baby, she had a baby die 2 day later after it was born, and she witnessed her husband getting assassinated.

2. Another thing i learned about was that Jacqueline Kennedy was a big part of JFK success. She helped JFK get votes and she helped him win the election to be President. And she redecorated the white house.

Challenges:

1. I had a hard time finding enough information about Jacqueline because there was so much info about JFK.

Real World Significance:

1. Well Jacqueline redecorated the white house and people today live in the white house. So i thought that was pretty cool.

Querencia Clipboard

One of our projects was the Querencia Clipboard. We had to write about someone, something, or a place that makes us feel warm inside and safe. Basically on the back side of the clip board we had to have a half page report and on the front side we had to put pictures of the thing we wrote about.


My Quuerencia:


My Querencia is my cousin Mikal Marquez, she is 13 and we are only 5 months apart. When I am around Mikal i am able to feel safe and comfortable. I can tell her just about every thing. we have always lived very close by each other so we have grown up together, we basically are sisters.

When we were little we either liver together or very close like i said. We both grow up in Texas. I remember living i this HUGE house with her when we were little and back then we even got along

When i am angry i either call her or i go over to her house(seeign that she lives right across the street). I tell her everything that is wrong and after that i feel like a giant wieght had just been lifted off my chest.

When i am happy or bored i go over to her house. I feel so comfortablle around her I can do anything and not feel stupid. We just listen to our ipods together or go swimming, we can do anything together and make it fun.

Mikal is a very impotant to me and i love her so much. I couldnt ever imagine life with out her. We have such great memories together, even though we do fight some times and it is extremely hard when we fight we always move on sooner or later.