ms. thomas

My A.p biology experience was a class like no other. I learned a lot in this class and built a lot of skills. I can not actually say I learned a lot of biology information but I built a lot of self- confidence and work ethic.

Service learning Reflection 3

Today in Service Learning Ms. Klose started our meeting by reading us and email from a man who is trying to create a dvd, video, or t.v broadcasting about different groups participating in the Fundred Dollar Bill project. The man wants to feature us in his media he is producing about the project. I really didn't understand why Ms. Klose would agree to letting us be apart of his media when half of my group doesn't even understand what it is we are suppose to be doing. We have not been producing much of any work at all. The main people who stay focused and get work done is Korin Lassiter, Diamond, and I.

Service Learning

In our last meeting our goal was to create a power-point, write a letter, and research local printing companies. The only goal we completed was creating the power-point. Diamond and I completed this power-point. Everyone in my group was playing around and completely off task the entire time. Ms. Klose was taking pictures of us "working". Since we did not complete all of our goals I guess we will be doing the same-thing in our next meeting. All I have to do is add in the pictures Ms. Klose took during her trip and I will be complete. MAybe in our next meeting I will do some research or write a letter because I feel as though we are not getting anything complete and our project is going no where.

Service learning power-point

Service Learning Reflection 2

Today was our second service learning meeting. Ms. Klose asked us to do research for this service learning day. When we entered her classroom she went over our list of goals and what we could do to jump start the long process to complete our contribution to the Fundred dollar Bill project. The three main goals of our group that day were to :

1.Create a general letter
2. Create a power-point answering general questions about the fundred project, our role in the nationwide project and all of our goals.
3. Research local companies that could do the printing for us
I was really tired today so I did not want to write a letter or do any research. I decided to do the easiest thing and that was to create the power point. I completed the power point with diamond. We received all of our general information about the project from the official fundred dollar bill project website. All other information we included came from notes we took during Ms. Klose's presentations explaining our mission and what the project was about. We accomplished a lot an included a great deal of information into the power point. Our power point is nearly complete all we have to do is add pictures Ms. klose took on her trip to Louisiana.

Service learning

Our next Service learning meeting is coming up. In our last meeting we covered all the basics so I guess where giong to start getting into the little details in our next meeting coming up on Thursday. Their are a lot of things that need to be completed before we can began collecting supplies and getting all of our major goals accomplished. I think I want to create a powerpiont to take around to all the bussinesses that we ask to sponsor us.

Service Learning ( research)

Mel Chin is the man responsible for the nation wide running fundred dollar bill project. All I know about this man is that he is an artist. From the video I watched including him and his artwork Mel Chin is a very unique artist. When I think of an artist I think of some wierd person who paints or draws amazing pictures or creates murals. Mel Chin's work raises awarness about important issues to him. I do not really know much about him so I deicded to do a little research about Mel Chin's work.

Mel Chin was born in 1951 in Houston, Texas. As a teenager Mel worked in his family’s grocery store, and began making art at an early age. Though he is classically trained, Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. Alchemy, botany, and ecology are but a few of the disciplines that intersect in his work. Chin's is very unique, he adds his art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility.



Sources:

www.pbs.org

the-artists.org

Service learning Reflection two

Today was the first service learning meeting of my sophmore year. Every year we have to complete a school wide service learning project. This year I'm working with Ms. Klose on a project benefitting Hurricane Katrina victims. Today we watched a video about our project and the man who started it (Mel Chin). We got an overview on how the project will be carried out and the role we will have to play. After the overview video we looked at pictures taken by Ms. Klose when she took a trip to Louisiana. She showed us pictures Louisiana. Some of the pictures were beautiful and a great sight to see. Other pictures made you want to cry. She showed us pictures of the ninth ward; which is still in shambles even years after the hurricane hit. We discussed the signs on houses and the meaning of those signs. Then she showed us pictures of the famous French Quaters.

Selecting Service Learning Groups

Service learning is here again. Every year our entire school chooses a service learning group to join and carryout a project with. This year I am working with Ms. Klose on a fundred dollar bill project. I am not really sure what I have to do to complete this project but I like Ms. klose as a person and teacher so i'm sure it will be fun working with the "art lady". To my understanding this project will be some how benefitting the victims of hurricane katrina. The people I will be working with to complete this project are as follows:

1. Dimi (10th)
2. Tomrell (9th)
3. Leon ( 9th)
4. Judith Dye (10th)
5. Andrew Howard (10th)
6. Marquicha Greene ( 10th)
7. Felicia Green (10th)
8. Atiya Groomes (10th)
9. Korin Lassiter (9th)
10. Kerin Streater (10th)
11. Daivon Jackson( 10th)
12. Diamond Sims ( 10th)

Service learning reflection 1

Service learning is a philosophy, pedagogy, and model for community developement that is used as an instructional strategy to meet learning goals and/or content standards. It is required by the School District of Philadelphia that each high school senior complete 120 hours of community service by the end of 12th grade. We complete this service through a program called service learning in my school each year. This year for service learning I am working with Ms. Klose on a fundred Dollar Bill project. This project helps aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Scientists are trying to find a way to make the soil in Louisiana safe again. During and after the Hurricane the soil in Louisiana was heavily polluted. It is dangerous to drink the water in certain parts of the state and to eat the food grown in the polluted soil. Scientist are trying to restore safety for the residents of  Louisiana and get things almost back to normal.

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