Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Interview Notes And First Draft!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1muv1slqaask2QNV5gijQaye4I6DuK1CGHqWiNwYmOwc/edit?usp=sharing

CE #3.1

1. 11 were critically hurt, one injured.
2. xenophobia - the fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
3. "dripping springs ISD can run, but they can't hide forever from their controversial policy that allows boys into girls' bathrooms and affects over 5,000 students."
4. "It would be three people, and it would be my immediate family. There aren't any other people in the world that I love and trust more than my mom, dad and brother. They are my biggest supporters, and I know that they would go to hell and back for me as I would for them.
5. It's a combination of a lot of different social media apps. It has video chat, like Facetime, Voice changers and temporary messages, like Snapchat, etc.

Long response:
Trump said "If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal." This means over the 50 years that we have attempted to become allies with Cuba, it will be ruined.

I think cutting off the relationship with Cuba is a stupid idea. We should be attempting to become allies with every country we can. I think that this decision will cause a stir up, causing Cuba's allies and our enemies to freak out on us. I think visiting Cuba would be super cool.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Feature Story Brainstorming

1. Marlayna Glynn Brown, stepmom and author.

2. People who have read her books.

3. Her books

4. How her books change the thoughts and lives of people who read them, you learn from them.

5. When did you start writing?
Why do you enjoy writing so much?
What inspired you to write a book?
Have you ever journaled? Why or why not?
How do your books reflect your life?
What types of books have you written?
When did you decide to change from writing memoirs to fiction?
How does your family incorporate into your books?
Why did you decide to start writing fiction?
How did you feel while writing your books? Be specific.
There were hard parts in your life that you wrote about in your books and it's understandable that those are hard to write about. How did you cope with that?
How many purchases do your books get monthly?
Yearly?
Do you make the pay you want off of your books?
How can you change that?
What do you need to write your books?
How long does it take to get out a book?
What impact do you want on your readers?

6. How have Marlayna's books affected your life?
Have they changed you?
Would you from Marlayna again?
If you could change one thing about her books, what would it be?
How did you discover her books?
Have you read Marlayna's fiction series? Would you? If so, how do you like them?
What books have you read?

7. Started a fiction series - The Vigilant. Includes her family as different characters, they picked them. Award winning author.

8. I plan to interview Marlayna next week and do the other interviews via email/phone.

9. My house.

10. Notes, Quotes, recording audio on my phone.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

C.E #2.4

1. underground injection of wastewater left over from oil and gas production

2. open-record laws are important because they create a flurry of higher court decisions

3. The judge could not save the kids, she couldn't go in to help.

4. it's a new beginning, he calls the podcast "a gentle step out." it's his first big public initiative since the scandal upended his life.

5. I want to see trolls because i already saw doctor strange.

Long response:
I think Hillary will win, or that's just what I can hope for. I think if Trump wins, we are going to lose about 80% of the Texas population through Mexicans and illegal immigrants. I could care less, as long as I'm safe and i feel safe at school, in my house, in my COUNTRY, etc. I also think if trump wins a lot of moving companies will make tons of money. I think the courts are already need to be involved.. i just hope that hillary wins. I am highly concerned about this election, but if we get through it, it's just another thing i'll tell my kids about when they grow up. i probably won't stay up, i stayed up last night doing homework.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Man Who Played the Violin

1. personally, i think some people do, but others honestly don't. I believe you need to go through pain first to see the real beauty in the world, to appreciate so many other things about humanity and planet earth. i think this goes alongs with the sayings of people, too. "you never know someone's toxic until you meet the antidote." it's the other way around, though. you never see how beautiful the earth is until you have no one to talk to, no friends, family. Hell, once the person who gave birth to you betrays you and you're living in a trailer in the back of your uncle's shop and you don't even have money to buy a school lunch, you see real BEAUTY. you see other people as beauty, the earth as beauty, life as beauty. humans have a bad habit of doing the same thing every day and it puts us in this zone to where we don't appreciate things because they are ALL THE SAME.
2. most of us don't. we go on with our lives and hide our food in our car from the homeless and pretend nothing happened the next day, when you know for a fact they need it more than you do. but there are a few of us that do appreciate it.
I remember a day this summer when i was walking downtown with my friends and we came across someone playing guitar and he was playing one of my favorite songs. i stood next to him and asked if i could sing along. as i started singing, my friends started recording it and a crowd began to get bigger around us. everyone had their phones out, which i took as a compliment, but i was also frustrated that no one could just enjoy the moment and go home to their families and tell them about this beautiful thing that happen on South Congress Avenue.
3. I don't think so, and that's something that we should work on. there are so many amazing things on this earth and we tend to stay in a bubble that's comfortable with our close interests, and the other half of us does work just for the money. i would hate to live a life like that.

Feature Writing Preview 2nd half

9. "That voice," 1st paragraph, "That voice could be his," Second paragraph. He connects them to connect the whole story.

10. I think he did that to connect the story all together and make everything add back to the story in the end so it didn't look like he trailed off.

11. Yes

12. Yes, I wanted to see if I recognized his voice.

13. It made me realize that good things come to those who not only wait, but who continue to reach for it.

14. yes, you really needed to hear his voice and hear his pain to understand.

15. he added quotes of the guy from the video

16. he put it in italics.

Feature Writing Preview 1st half

1. I think the lede about helped give more imagery to the scene and really sucked me in. I wanted to hear more about what this guy had to talk about about this homeless dude.

2.
who - 1st
what - 1st
where - 1st
when - 1st
why - 2nd
how - 1st

3. yes

4. no

5. Tim Williams, Kevin Mcloughlin, Doral Chenoweth, Ken Andrews, Tony Florentino, Shane Cormier, Patrick Harrison

6. "My boss said to me, 'If he isn't hired, you're fired.'"

7. 33

8. 765

9.



9. What is significant about the lead (lede) and the final paragraph of the story?

10. Why do you think the writer did that with the lead (lede) and final paragraph?

11. Was the story interesting to read?

12. When you finished the story, but BEFORE you watched the video, did you want to hear the voice?

13. Multimedia approaches are powerful tools, what impact did the video have when watched directly after reading the story?

14. Would the story have lost its impact without the video?

15. Did the writer try to come up with a way for you to hear the voice, i.e. did he try to describe the voice or give you a way to "hear" the voice without really hearing it?

16. How did the writer do that?