Film Club 12/18/09

Today we finally decided on everything for our first film which we should start shooting towards the end of January. We decided where it will be shoot (My backyard, School, Town Green, and the Harbor). We also decided what genre which will be mystery, suspense, and horror. And it was decided that i will most likely due the dialouge while Ben writes the script/plot.

Film Club

Today we watched the newest version of Star Trek and decided to take a science fiction and horror movie approach and within the next two weeks decided what our first movie will be, who will right, and who will star in it. We also decided that actual filming will not take place till after midterms so that gives about a month to come up with our first film hopefully the STAGE group will help us since there winter play will be over.

FINAL REFLECTION CITIZEN'S ENERGY FUNDRASIER 11/20/09

My goal was to be able to help families who had difficulties affording oil in the winter and when I found a organisation like Joe Kennedy's which is run completely off of donations I decided wanted to get my advisory together and save up as much money as possible by selling food. MY initiation goal was a 100$ before Jan. but we beat that goal within two weeks and then we made the goal 500$ before the end of the year but do to other organizations we'd like to donate to we decided to stop before Thanksgiving. So after weeks of selling donuts,candy,brownies, cookies and other good we raised around 250$ which was half my goal but still something to show and be proud of. We will send in this money which will be very rewarding for me and the advisory to know how great it feels to help out families indeed from freezing since this is such a big issue in the United States which seems it will be worse this year with domestic and foreign issues. It benefits everyone in different ways for us collecting the money and donating it, it feels great. For Citizen's Energy they are keeping the program going. Learning outcome goal 1 applies and was achieved for this because I learned new skills for collecting money I got over my shyness to go up to people and be able to persuade strangers to buy food items for a good cause. I also achieved learning outcome goal 6 because I engaged in a activity that was of global importance. Of course freezing is a global issue I will my advisory took it as local and national importance to help out people across America during the winter season.

FINAL REFLECTION STURGIS TURKEY PROGRAM 11/20/09

My goal was to be able to get everything possible well all the fixings necessary for a family who is less fortune then most to be able to have a good thanksgiving. I feel really good about doing this, I had to interact with my whole advisory to be able to collect money from them which was a hard task for me to do being a nice person and when some didn't cooperate right away it was tough to get tough on them. But i was able to overcome them by talking to to people in my advisory and getting them to bring in money for me. I think this activity benefited everyone because we all got to help people with the advisory not having to do to to much and I got to get everything for a family and it obviously benefits a family who now gets to have a nice delicious Thanksgiving. And I ultimately learned from the activity that something like this can be done and a very rewarding process to help out people in a world such as what we live in. Also the one thing I wish I could get from this activity is seeing the family and the looks on their faces when they see the fixings my advisory and I got for their Thanksgiving this year. I achieved learning outcome goal 2 because its for undertaking new challenges which this definitely was for this one family it was on me they depended on me for their Thanksgiving i felt it depended on me to collect the money to enforce the idea and have the advisory bring in money for me. Which also goes into learning outcome goal 3 because that's for plan and initiate activities though i didn't fully plan this project I decided to under take this plan for a activity once i heard about it from school and decided to carry it out for the advisory.

Citizen Energy Fundrasier 11/20/09

We essential finished our fundraiser making around 250$ for families in need this winter. I learned a lot that this is the right thing to do for people who are less fortune and that i do have the abilities and skills to help these people.

Sturgis Turkey Program Service 11/19/09

Today I collected the rest of the money which was about 70 dollars and bought and brought everything on the list for families in need which will be delivered to them on Monday, November 23.

Sturgis Turkey Program Service

Today i began collecting money and found out the necessary items i need to purchase for the family my advisory will be helping out for the Turkey Program. This is a very exhilarating process because it feels good knowing your going to give it your all to help a family who is less fortunate out.

Creative Writing Club 11/12/09

We (the group) began the process of dissecting my poem "In her honor" in preparation for the December issue of the Sturgian. It's a hard process for one i had to have it critique in a room a essential full of strangers who had no I idea why I wrote the poem. But I hope to edit it and get it ready for the submission deadline of Dec 1st.

Citizen'sEnergy Fundraiser 11/13

Today I sold about 10 dollars of brownies and we counted how much money we've raised since beginning the fundraiser process back in September and it was a astonishing 200.82$ we have about two weeks left to get to 375$ I realize this is a stretched goal that it will be very hard to make a 175$ in two weeks but I hope to get as close as possible to that goal.

Creative Writing Club 11/06/09

This week I submitted two poems I wrote, "Paraclausithrone" and "In Her Honor'. We intend to discuss them next week and I decided to submit 'In Her Honor" for the December edition of the Sturgian for all of Sturgis to read which I am kinda nervous tomorrow, plus I am submitting a cover design for the Sturgian cover.

Film Club 11/06/09

Today we watched Alien and Cloverfield an got some ideas from those movies on how to make our movies which will be coming up soon. Next week we will discuss the films and what specifics we want fot them.

Creative Writing Club 10/22/09

Today was my first actual meeting, and I submitted my chapter 1 of the novel I've been working on. IT was pretty nerve wrecking to show it to 8 complete strangers but I still did and they gave me a critique which really did help, so i am going to revise chapters 1-4 and may resubmit chapter 1 again or send in 2. I also intend to submit this by Dec 1st to miss Fenney for the Sturgian.

Creative Writing Club 10/16/09

Today I wrote my first chapter to my story that I submitted to our advisory for the club. Its called "Who will save us" I am sure they will read it this Thursday and I will get positive feedback on my story so I can progress with it

Film Club 10/16/09

Today we decided what movies we would watch from here up till Jan. They consists of horror, comedy and old films since we will be basing our movies off of this, we also watched "The Twilight Zone" which was to help us get a feel of 1960s type things. We decided to film a movie in the school about a not to distant future it will be a horror film based off of the 1980s Biosphere, which I will begin to write the script on.

Citizen Energy Fundraiser 10/09/09

At this point we've raised 100.23$ we have 399.77 to make before the end of winter which I believe can be done and will be done!

Film Club 10/02/09

This week we watched the movie's Poltergeist and Dracula and saw different techniques by the directors and saw really how far horror movies have come in such a short time. Dracula was directed and produced very well for its time periods it gave us ideas for when we decided to make movies.

Citizen Energy Fundraiser 9/29/09

Today I went out and bought donuts from a local donuts shop and with the help of my advisory we sold them and other snacks we our now up to 90 dollars in less than two weeks. This shows 2 things.
1) That I do have these skills but am still not ready to admit I have reach my LOG's.
2) Now that i have awareness of these skills I want to make atleast 500 dollars before the beginning of 2010, this is my new goal by using the same LOGs to make over 500 dollars I am almost up to 100 I know I can. I am really seeing that with my motivation I was able to get other people more motivated because this is truly a global importance and I know 500 dollars once fix poverty but its a start.

Film Club 9/18/09

Today in film club we watched the movie Plan 9 from Outer Space by Edward D. Wood Jr. which is a low budget horror movie from the late 1950s which we compared how movie making and especial horror movies have increased from the 1950 to the late 70s when Halloween was made. We've come to respect and listen each others so far.

Film Club 9/11/09

Today was my first film club meeting after our introductory meeting on 9/10/09 where we discussed what we will do this year. Anyways today we watched the movie "Halloween" by John Carpenter and we discussed our likes and dislikes of the movie and decided what we'd like to learn and copy from the movie and what does not belong in the movies.

Citizen Energy Fundraiser 9/17/09

Today I sold cookies to the students of my school making 22 more dollars now putting me at 34.75 almost half way to my goal. I am learning more about my strengths because I've always been afraid to go up to people I don't know and now I have to sell things to them and I am doing good at, which makes me happy because its worth it in the end to hopefully see all the money I save go to people who really need it. This whole process is really shows me how lucky I and other people have it and how we should help out families who are needy.

Citizen Energy Fundraiser 9/14/09

Today I sold donuts before school time and during break making over 12$ towards my goal of between 50 and 100 dollars before Christmas time. It felt really good selling for this purpose and made me want to sell more. THis is very important so I can help out as many family s as possible during the winter time with the current economic state.