Thursday, May 13, 2010

Popeye Snort
• Metal leaf plate
• Flash light
• Screws/ Nails
• Chair made out of a bike

Fisheye Stacy
• Lamp
• Wires
• Fork
• Buttons
• Artificial clam
• handmade hive
• Earrings
• Night lamp
• Heart shaped thumb drive
• Blower motor fan
• Part of foot massager

Tigereye Smith
• Lamp
• Fork
• Artificial clam
• Handmade hive
• Earrings
• Night lamp
• Blower motor fan
• Part of foot massager

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010

Study Guides and Strategies

Set up a time schedule to answer each question and to review/edit all questions
• If 6 questions are to be answered in 60 minutes, allow yourself only 7 minutes for each.
• If questions are "weighed", prioritize that into your time allocation for each question.
•When the time is up for one question, stop writing, leave space, and begin the next question. The incomplete answers can be answered during the review time.
• 6 incomplete answers will usually receive more credit than the three complete ones.

Read through the questions once and note if you have any choice in answering questions.
• Pat attention to how the question is phrased, or to the "directives", or words such as "compare", "contrast", "criticize", etc.
• Answers will come to mind immediately for some questions.


Before attempting to answer a question, put it in your own words.
•Now compare your version with the original. Do they mean the same? If they don't, you've misread the question. You ll be surprised how often they don't agree.

Think before you write.
Make a brief outline for each question.
Number the items in order you will discuss them.
•Get right to the point. State your main point in the first sentence. Use your first paragraph to provide an overview of your essay, Use the rest of your essay to discuss these points in more detail. Back up your points with specific information examples, or quotations from readings and notes.
•Teachers are influenced by completeness and clarity of an organized answer.
• Writing in the hope that the right answer is somehow turn up is time consuming.
•To know a little and to present that little well is superior to knowing much and presenting it poorly--when judged by the grade received.

Writing and answering.
Begin wit a strong first sentence that states the man idea of your essay. Continue the first paragraph by presenting key points.
•Develop your argument.
• Begin each paragraph with a key point from your introduction.
• Develop each point in a complete paragraph.
• Use transitions to connect your points.
• Hold to your time allocation and organization.
• Qualify answers when in doubt. It is better to say " toward the end of the 19Th century" than to say " in 1894' when you cant remember where its 1884 or 1894. In many cases, the approximate, may be incorrect, and will be marked accordingly.

Summarize in your last paragraph.
• Restate your central idea and indicate why its important.

Review
Complete questions left incomplete.
• Remember to allow time to review all questions.

Review, edit, correct...
• Misspellings, incomplete words and sentences, miswritten dates and numbers.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

Performance Rubric

Use of language Grammar
Word . Choice. Voice.
• Distinguished 100%-94%
Poised, clear articulation; proper volume, steady rate, Enthusiasm; confidence, speaker is comfortable in front of group.

• Proficient 93%-85%
-clear articulation but not as polished, slightly uncomfortable; Student pronounces most words correctly.

• Basic 84%-75%
--Audience occasionally has trouble hearing presentation; seems comfortable. Student incorrectly pronounces terms.

• Unacceptable 74% and below
--Presenter is obviously anxious and cannot be heard or monotone with little or no expression. Student mumbles, incorrectly pronounces terms.

Eye contact-
• Distinguished 100%-94%
--maintained eye contact with audience throughout the entire presentation is like a planed connection.

• Proficient 93%-85%
-- Student maintains eye contact most of the time.

• Basic 84%-75%
--Some eye contact but not maintained at least half the time.

• Unacceptable 74% and below
--No eye contact.


Personal Appearance
• Distinguished 100%-94%
--full uniform, Personal appearance is completely appropriate for the occasion and the audience.

• Proficient 93%-85%
--For the most part, personal appearance is appropriate for the occasion and audience.

• Basic 84%-75%
--Personal appearance is somewhat inappropriate for the occasion and audience.

• Unacceptable 74% and below
--Personal appearance is inappropriate for the occasion and audience.


Audience Response
• Distinguished 100%-94%
--Involved the audience in the presentation, held the audience attention throughout.

• Proficient 93%-85%
--Presented facts with some "twists", held the audience attention most of the time.

• Basic 84%-75%
--Some related fact but went off topic and lost the audience.

• Unacceptable 74% and below
--Incoherent; audience lost interest.

Length Of Presentation
• Dustinguished 100%-75%
--Within minutes f allotted time.

•Unexceptable 74% or below
--to long or to short or more minutes above or below the allotted time.
My duty
I feel its my duty to speak my mind . I refuse to sit back and act like everything all fine.
I feel it my duty to redirect. Cuz if another go to jail who does that really affect.
I feel it my duty to get an education. My name is Anitra Jones and I’m the future of this generation.
I feel its my duty to lead the blind with one eye. I refuse to close mine and live a lie.
I feel its my duty to take back what was rightfully mine. Ima show you how it originally shined .
Yes I will take back. And I dare anybody to react.
I'm not saying don’t challenge me. Challenge Me. But don’t down grate me saying who is she. I'm that Nubian queen you thought you could imitate and be.
I feel its my duty to prove a statistic wrong. They may be facts but my people Be strong.
I feel its my duty to be against the crowd. Ima be a pediatrician and Ima say it loud.
I feel its my duty to drop a line. Follow me no longer will you be left behind.
I feel its my duty to where no mask nor no disguise. You can see my confidence in my eyes.
I feel its my duty to learn my history. I wont go far pretending to be something that I wasn’t descend to be.
Brown versus the Board of Education. You gotta be blind if you think where winning as a nation. Knowing or unknowing we’re losing as one. Its not that hard, the road has been paved in done. Its just waiting to be driven on and brought back to where its from.
I feel its my duty to carry out my name. This name is something you can never claim.
I feel its my duty to keep going even though I fall because the struggle and the pain is whats going to make me tall.
I feel its my duty to lend a helping hand. My people hold on , theses struggles aint nothing but quick sand.
Where did we go wrong? Or did we go right? Solving our problems and issues with a fight.
BANG my brotha dead. My cousin gave him to shots to the head. Now we in court pleading his case. This wouldn't of happen if anybody, somebody would of looked him in the face. Explained to him of his race, and what we stand for. I love my cousin, but now I'm crying on the floor. For what? My brotha dead or My cousin case, These just one of the memories I just can't erase.
I feel its my duty to cry. Because if I don't plead and cry, this generation will die.
I feel its my duty to be a success. I promise you I wont rest.
I feel its my duty
I feel its my duty
I feel it is my duty
My duty to speak words with meaningful conversations. Some will hear it and feel a sensation.
But to others. I’m just a figment of your imagination.
By: Anitra Jones

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Gold Chrome Tutorial







1.Type your text. Put a selection around your text by holdig down the apple key and clicking on your type layer.
2. Go under the select menu and choose save selection and click ok.
3. Deselect
4.Go under the Channels palette,(9 window-channels) and click on Alpha 1. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and shoose Gaussian Blur. Enter 1 px. Click ok.
5. Return to the layers palette, and click pnce on the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under render and choose ighting effecs. When the dialog box appears change texture channl to Alpha 1. Then click ok.
6. Go under the image menu, under Adjustment and choose Curves. Vhangr the input to 186 and the out put to 64. Then click ok.
7. Go under the select menuand choose load selection. Choose Alpha 1from channel pop menu. CLick ok.
8.Go under the select menu, under modify and choose expand. Enter 3 pixels. Click ok
9.Press shift+apple+j.
10.In the layer palette, click once again on the background layer. Pres Apple A. Press delete.
11.Deselct. Click on the text layer in your layers paltt. Add a drop shadow. CLick ok.
12.Add a color overlay. Change the blend mode overlay. Click the color switch. r=208,g=165 and b=16. Click ok.