This week our task was to find our passion to focus on one interest so that we can start working on individual projects. Because that was the goal this week I read half of part one in "The Alchemist". The Alchemist talks about the journey of this young boy who is trying to find his treasure/passion. The boy was raised so he can become a priest but because his dreams were of traveling he talked to his parents about becoming a shepherd. With this the author conveys that you shouldn't lose control of what's happening to you and to not let fate control your life. The standards that apply are 1. Cite strong and through textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Some of the interests that I have are Design and art. I like the idea of being able to use different colors and styles in both design and art. It has been something that has always caught my attention. I think that my individual project can be about helping design the interior of a building or something along those lines. Besides trying to find our passion we also worked on answering some questions for a grant we are trying to get for the skate park project. The questions involved the budget, future funding, and how we would apply the standards to this project.

For our first project we decided on carrying out the idea of constructing a skate park in our community here in Laton. We knew that it was not going to be easy especially since we only had a few days until we had pretty much everything done before the big meeting. We all had our roles in contributing towards getting things done. Some of the things that we had to get done consisted of writing a proposal and reaching out to our community for assistance. Myself including a few others had the task of writing the proposal. We researched the writing style in order to create an appropriate proposal to present to the board. Because the proposal consisted of many factors we divided the work among the people who were writing it. Some of the things we needed to include were a cover letter, summary, introduction, budget, and the objectives. The rest of the students went to present the proposal to the water board at the meeting that was held on Wednesday, August 20th.