September week 22-26

In the beginning of the week we focused on getting the fundraising application done for the student store so we can get it approved as soon as possible. We just needed a few more details to add to the description and a few other signatures before we turned it in.

Towards the end of the week we decided that we needed to work on getting some donations but before we go out and actually ask we had to research what businesses we can ask. So that's what we did we researched some local businesses donation policies because each business has different requirements and certain organizations they only donate to. Some of the possible businesses that we so far qualify for is Costco. It said that Costco supports local non-profit groups with donated items from a range from $25-$50.

Civics

12.3.1. Performance Standard:

Explain how civil society provides opportunities for individuals to associate for social, cultural, religious, economic, and political purposes.

Having a student store on campus creates a relationship between buyers and sellers. Our project covers the topic of economy, students will practice on maintaining a budget, making profit, and learn how to manage money. This not only benefits the students but the school as well considering that the profit will go to the school. 

Last week our group worked on writing a timeline for the process of our project. We wrote down some of the goals we would need to do for the next 12 weeks of carrying out the project of the student store. They included getting a storage room, a booth, getting the tax code, filling out the approval application, asking for donations, and making a donation letter. We also had to make an individual goal of what we were going to each work on to get the student store ready to open. So that week was pretty much dedicated to planning out for future goals. Besides planning, writing, and discussing our future goals, I finished reading the Alchemist. The ending was totally ironic, i didn't expect it at all. Santiago, the protagonist, went through a couple of final hardships. He turned himself into the wind to prevent himself from being killed and he got beat up by two men. Although at first he had no idea how to turn himself into the wind in the end he was successful. The lesson he learned was that the power of conquering over your hardships is within you. He arrived at the pyramids but he didn't find his treasure there however the men who beat him told him that next time he should not have been so dumb enough to follow his dreams. He even told him that he had a dream that there was treasure under a huge tree next to an old church abandoned in the meadows, so it ended up being the same place Santiago slept when he was a shepherd. The story finished off with him finding the Spanish treasure full of gold coins.

Reading Standards for Literature 6-12

In the beginning of the week we finished our group proposals. I'm working together with Melisa, Julisa, and Jazmine, our project was to create a student store to provide students with the opportunity to buy and make their own merchandise and to acquire some extra profit for our school. We had to turn in an actual proposal on Tuesday so we divided the work and we each finished our part. I worked on the cover letter, Melisa did the summary, Julisa worked on the introduction, and Jazmine worked on the budget. That same day we presented what we had and discussed our ideas to Ms. Pilcher and Mrs. Cervantes. They in return gave us some feedback on what we should work on. Ms. Pilcher gave us some important factors that we should consider thinking about, they included the location, storage, and the liability of our project. Towards the end of the week, within our group we discussed the factors that we needed to consider and I read the Alchemist. So far much of whats going on has to do with the protagonist's journey and the things he's doing to get to his destination. He has gone through so much that it has become a lesson. In his journey the protagonist has learned to not trust no one, his biggest mistake was to trust a complete strange with all his money. He also learned that you should just do what you want to do, to follow your dreams. He wanted to travel so he became a shepherd but because he wanted to find this "treasure" he lost himself on the way he no longer was a shepherd and was working for a whole year just to get his life back.

 1) Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

 

2. Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

3. Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters/archetypes are introduced and developed). CA

 

5. Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

This week, we focused on the skate park project. We decided that we would all continue working on it since we had initially helped with the proposal. We discussed the possible grants that we needed to apply in order to get funded. Mrs. Rempp came to inform us about varies grants that she had found, including the Tony Hawk foundation and the California department of parks and recreation. She also gave us phone numbers of people who we could contact to ask what they did to acquire a skate park. She told us that this would be a very long process the CA department of parks would take two to three years so she said that our best bet would be the Tony Hawk foundation which only took one year. But even then she said that because it was a long process to not get discouraged because there are many more grants available out there we just have to look, so with that she offered her help to assist us in anything we needed help with. So besides working on the skate park we have also been planning and writing our own proposals. We decided that we did not want to do individual projects so we decided to divide in small groups to work on a project together. We had a student store in mind so we planned to work on that. The student store consists of many smaller areas that we can include. Some of the things we had in mind were constructing a booth, making our own t-shirts to sell, and selling baked goods.