I AM HERE

Please explain your progress in this course during the first grading period.  Have you made progress toward your SMART goal?  Have you begun thinking/working on your senior project, big question, collaborative working group, or other endeavor/venture that shows how you're putting this course to work for you?  Document and explain your performance.

--I take advance placement classes because I have the ubiquitous optimism every student and parent has, that education will equip me for a brighter future. But there is also that small fear that maybe I'm not doing enough.  I have so much on my plate-filling out scholarships, meeting deadlines- that I'm stretched out thin, floating above the surface trying to breathe as much air as I can.  Yeah I've made progress towards my goals, and completed as many of them as I could. I've made so many lists on notepads and paper with things to do, just so much to do, always. Whenever you feel like a list is done, another seems to crop back up. I don't like deadlines but as I said in an earlier post, "deadlines give me structure, and I like structure." I really wish we did have deadlines for projects because that would really push me to complete them.

FIRST QUARTER REVIEW

a) Evaluate your performance so far this semester by explaining how you've done on required assignments and how you have moved forward on your Sr. Project/BQ/CWG; 
--Hmm, I think I've done pretty good in this semester. At the end of January, there was a week where I found it so difficult to get myself to do my hw. I would literally start at 7 or 8pm and it was such a chore to get out a pen or pencil. Thank goodness it was only a week and I managed to slap myself back into shape. No more dilidadalinging because there is free money out there and I need to find it (treasurer hunt!!). I have a portfolio filled with scholarships I'm going to get a crackalacking on. I'm glad its an early out so I can work on busting out some essays.
--Anyways, senior project talks have been good. My group (Ming, Matt, Val., Isaih, Dulce, Sam and I) has set up a good foundation/outline in which to move forward from. Looking forward to bringing out project to completion.

WRITINGAS5PECTATORSPORT

Some people that I have checked their blogs, have notified me that they are having technical difficulties uploading images and videos of being spinx! So I'll return to this post later once they have filtered out all the bugs.

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Chapter 1 overview....

• A. F. 632----current year
• Bokanovsky's Process----some kind of sterilizing technique----"One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress."
• "Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!"---the future of science.... no originality or imaginative running free....just order like a dictatorship...
• Planetary motto-"Community, Identity, Stability."
• Bokanovsky's Process limits- "Ninety-six seemed to be the limit; seventy-two a good average."
• Mr. Foster-scientist at the factory. He is ecstatic to beat gamete producing ovary records.
• "Made them taste the rich blood surrogate on which it fed."----Disturbing....
• '"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…" He was going to say "future World controllers," but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries," instead.'-----Again like a dictatorship because class rank already established from birth based on genes. This slighty reminds me of Gattaca.
• "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par."---Again, this is the factories way of ensuring there are certain humans with defects. Decrease oxygen will lead to mental and physical defects which will be evident later in life. This is a way of ensuring some humans will be better than others.

My personal analysis:

Kind of sickening of this world, has pioneered in science at molecular levels that are amazing and incalculable, but these scientists have chosen to play god. They design who gets to have better qualities than others and who gets to be elite. Obviously, I disagree with these methods but in this world, scientists have decided what is the norm, and the norm is a sort of dictatorship. Very good introductory chapter because it explains the views of many people and the people of that time have grown to the idea that influencing genes and deciding who becomes elite is perfectly normal. My nerdy side of me loves the idea of this sort of dystopian way of living and involves molecular biology so looking forward to the rest of the novel.

Spectator writing/ spinx

Dulce, Ming, and I essayed bombed Matt. The first picture is the essay prompt and the following pictures are his essay. Later on I will post links to the videos that were taken.

These pictures are my essay. Matt essay bombed Isiah, Ming, and I today. 

Terms 101-the rest

Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

Guestimation Rankings (BOB 1)

I say "guestimation rankings" because I think everyone in the class does a good job. I don't get to see every single blog but most of them I do and I like how everyone has a different style. I ranked everyone based on how often I go on their sites and how intriguing I find their blogs.

• Ming Chen: 
• Josh Ng: 
• Matthew Patel
• Justin Thompson: 
• Samantha Garrison: 
• Valerie Gonzalez: 
• Felicitas Ruiz: 
• Dulce Vargas: 
• Erika Snell: 
• Tanner Tuttle: 
• Isiah Mabansag: 
• Conor McNamara: 
• Megan Hardisty: 
• Sebastian Guillen: 
• Ashley Wilburn:  
• Chanel Yamaguchi:
• Abby Kuhlman: 
• Alex Lane: 
• Karianne LaPlante: 
• Colleen Livingstone: 
• Travis Knight: 
• Danielle Galindo: 
• Kristofer Green: 
• Alicia Hernandez: 
• Reed Conforti:
• Cassidy Ashlock:
• Brittany Cunningham: 
• Haleigh Jones:
• Ryunhee Kim: 
• Carly Koertge: 
• Lacey Mougeotte: 
• Bailey Nelson:
• Nathan Oh:   
• Conner Patzman:
• Troy Prober: 
• Brady Redman: 
• Jason Reinwald: 
• Devon Tomooka: