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Singing In The Rain as a Horror Film // Jessica and Tia

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Reel Reading · Giknis · B Band on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 9:52 pm
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For our fourth quarter benchmark we decided to convert the hit musical Singin’ in the Rain into a terrifying horror film that will scare you right out of your socks. In order to accomplish this goal, we had to first learn from the best. Starting from all your favorite halloween specials and fright night films, we looked for all the cinematic elements that really made us jump. All the different types of coloring, dark lighting, camera angles, underexposure, distorted music, etc. really pull the film together and keeps the audience interested. While still using the original clips from the film we tried to highlight the below eye level angles, creepy facial expressions, and scenes where the movements played well into the storyline we’re trying to create.

Just like how Alfred Hitchcock's used the technique of knowledge for the audience during Psycho. You need to give the audience information to create great suspense throughout your film. This is something we are trying to incorporate during our trailer but in a different way. We put in clips that would tell the story but not give away what exactly is happening. You seem to understand who the main focus is on and can begin to put your own storyline together.

Along with worrying about what makes a great horror film, we had to find what elements would make a great trailer. Should we focus more on the pop up aspects like The Conjuring , follow a normal life of the people that just suddenly turns bad like in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or walk the audience through every important location like in the Psycho trailer? After looking at each and deciding whether or not we would actually watch the films. We decided to do a happy energetic scene to start off and allow the trailer to get more and more horrifying over time. This way you aren’t just bombarded with scary things popping out but more so a story that just doesn’t end so well.

One of the main things we focused on in this converted trailer is the music. We wanted to continue to use music from the actual soundtrack and just flip it to more distorted scary sounds that will play throughout the film. This way we aren’t pulling too far away from the theme of the movie but still adding that creepy aspect. Also, we included many dissolving edits between the scenes that will allow the images to play through quickly, allowing the audience to be exposed to little parts of the shot.

Most of the shots are either eye level or below eye level. Even through these were scenes from the actual movie, we actually did try to focus on the scenes where the camera was leveled or lower because it creates this thought that the audience is little and the actor is more powerful making it seem scarier. It also plays into the theme that you do not have the power which is usually a common theme in horror films.

Overall, adding all these little changes and touches to this film, I feel we did a great job not only converting it into a horror film but creating a trailer the audience would love to watch.


Video Link: https://youtu.be/eQ70UiKawtY
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Jessica Guarino Capstone

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Capstone · Baird · Wed on Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 2:36 pm
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For my capstone project, I wanted to educate people on animal behavior, and utilize that knowledge in situations when either animals approach people or if animals are seen on the street. To accomplish this goal, I held a presentation that went over the 4 basic behaviors of dogs and cats, since those are the two most common domestic pets. In that presentation, I discussed when not to approach an animal, since there are instances when approaching one is not safe. Another thing that I wanted to accomplish with this capstone was to give back to the animals in need, while they are waiting to find their forever homes. So with that, I decided to hold a donation drive to collect necessities for the animals, and deliver them to the PSPCA. After all of this was done, I put everything together on a website and added some extra information about animal behavior for those who want to explore beyond what was explained in the presentation. Something that I learned from working on this capstone project was that initial plans may not turn out how you originally imagined them to, but to overcome that obstacle, you should be open to quick changes to make do with what you have.



Final Website here

Annotated Bibliography here
Tags: capstone, Baird, 2018
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Advanced #4: If You See Something, Say Something

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 3 · Block/Franz/Taylor-Baranik · C Band on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 12:43 pm
Intro: My goals for this essay were to make sure that I was able to incorporate my quotes in my essay, make sure that I stayed within the word limit and making sure that I was able to develop my larger idea throughout the whole essay. I wanted to have the format of the essay be something that's different from what I have done in the past, and this time I did a question-answer format. At the start of writing this, I wasn't sure where I was going with my topic, but then I found more sources to uses and I was able to develop an idea.

​Essay:

Street harassment is an issue in society that not only affects women, but it also affects men. When thinking about street harassment, you have to ask yourself questions like what is considerably good or evil, do you think that people are good or evil, and are people returning to their animalistic state. These can help determine what your view is like on the topic of street harassment. Street harassment doesn’t just affect people in the U.S., it affects people all over the world. We mainly hear stories about women getting sexually harassed and not having anyone there to defend them, and if there is a witness, they don’t do anything about it. We don’t normally hear stories about men being sexually harassed, but it is just as relevant a topic that sexual harassment is for women. When this happens, people are being disrespectful to both genders and degrading them. We should keep this in mind and try to answer the question what causes street harassment and how can we stop it?


“Part of the problem lies in how the general public defines sexual harassment in public spaces. At work, there is a government-approved definition: ‘unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.’ There are rules to be followed, departments to hear grievances, and punishments issued to offenders.”, quoted by Emily Smith from CNN. She answers the question of what sexual harassment is and mainly where it can happen. People seem to have this idea that it’s okay to go up to a stranger and treat them in a disrespectful way, just because there is someone to mistreat. It is stereotypically said that men will just go up to women and start treating them in this way, but some women will do the same to men. The question that needs to be asked is why do people think they have the right to walk up to a complete stranger and just undermine them. This can also go into the topic of whether people become animalistic when they sexually harass someone.


“When I was introduced to catcalling, it was like a game, just trying to be funny or look cool. We saw older guys doing it, then started in ourselves around 13, 14. It was as easy as saying hi to your neighbor. If she looked developed, there was a comment for her. If a girl frowned across the street, it amused us. We weren't necessarily looking for a response.”, quoted from an NPR radio piece. This answers the question of why people sexually harass others and catcall. This also relates to the topic of whether there is good or evil in the world and what people consider to be good or evil when “choosing” a side in terms of sexual harassment.


“I think it depends on who you ask and where you are in the country. While there are many, many women who are vocal about how much they hate it, there are still a lot of people who dismiss it as no big deal, or who simply don’t understand how prevalent it is. I know that one of my male co-workers a few years ago didn’t realize how big of a problem it is until we started taking an afternoon walk each day, and he saw how often I got honked at. Even among the men who don’t do it, and who agree it’s shitty, I don’t think most are taking active steps to discourage it.”, quoted by Rachel Miller on Buzzfeed News. “I was on the metro on my way home this evening and a man sat next to me and began to loudly talk about how nice my legs looked. I told him to stop and he wouldn’t and I couldn’t get out of the seat. He continued to encroach on myspace so I turned my head, and could feel everyone looking at me but not doing anything.”, quoted from Hollaback. This asks the question of whether there is good or evil in the world and it also answers that question. The way you decide to answer this question or how you perceive the perspective of this, all depends on what you consider to be good or evil.


“Our research shows that as little as a knowing glance can reduce trauma in the face of harassment, but the wrong response can actually increase trauma. With so many eager to step up, we need everyone to be equipped with the right information on how to be an effective bystander in the midst of violence enacted within our communities. With ten years of this work already under our belt, we at Hollaback! are poised to arm you with the tools you need to respond to harassment and protect the rights of everyone.” This answers the bigger question of what to do if you or someone is being harassed.

"Hey Baby! Women Speak out against Street Harassment." CNN. Cable News Network, 6 Oct. 2012. Web. 17 Mar. 2017. <http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/06/living/street-harassment/>.


Rossalyn Warren, Marie Kirschen, Lane Sainty, Jina Moore, Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Hannah Giorgis, Nirali Shah, Bibiñe Barud. "Here's What Street Harassment Is Like In Eight Countries Around The World." BuzzFeed. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2017. <https://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/what-street-harassment-is-like-in-eight-countries-arou?utm_term=.ct6a4YRZP#.paA5p2BQ1>.


"From Online to the Streets,." Hollaback You Have the Power to End Harassment Home Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2017. <https://www.ihollaback.org/>.


"Radio Rookies: Reformed Catcaller Explores Roots Of Street Harassment." NPR. NPR, 23 Aug. 2016. Web. 17 Mar. 2017. <http://www.npr.org/2016/08/23/491103720/radio-rookies-reformed-catcaller-explores-roots-of-street-harassment>.

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Experiences and Environmental Changes

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 3 · Block/Franz/Taylor-Baranik · C Band on Friday, February 17, 2017 at 1:08 pm
Intro: My goals for this assignment were to have a larger idea that I could incorporate throughout my whole story. Things that went well were having enough information to use throughout the entire project, finding music that fits the mood and having the story flow without the clips sounding irrelevant to each other. Some struggles that I had were making sure that I got all of my information into a short amount of time(the story is longer than 8 minutes, but not by that much), trying to find a way to upload my interview because nothing was working and making sure everything was saved and didn't delete. Overall, I learned how to use the resources around me to figure out the solution to my problem and how to incorporate my larger idea throughout my story.


Podcast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0GAb0LCdSKbU1yd3ZmbzhwSmc/view?usp=sharing
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Advanced Essay #3: The Leaders and the Followers

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 3 · Block/Franz/Taylor-Baranik · C Band on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 1:26 pm
Intro: 
For my essay, I wrote about how people's actions can affect others' individuality. My goals for this essay were to show how people can grow up and not getting a chance to express and explore their individuality for themselves. I also showed this through my personal experiences that I have dealt with. When I first started to write this, I was unsure how to get my larger idea across without making the essay sound bland. I decided to write some ideas down that popped into my head that had some relation to my larger idea. Once I started to type them up, everything flowed smoothly. I think that people will be able to relate to my essay because of some experiences that they have also had.
Essay: 

In every group, there are people who have roles, the leaders and followers. There are people who are the followers, that do whatever the leader tells them and rely on the leader to make all of their decisions for them. This affects the followers negatively because they just rely on the leader which affects their individuality, and essentially making the decision about who they are. It doesn’t affect the leaders because they are the ones affecting the followers and telling them who to be, what to do and how to become what the leader wants them to be.

When I was younger, this happened to me a few times. In each of these situations, I was the same person. Even though I experienced this several times, I still didn’t know when to recognize the signs. “When an individual plays a part he implicitly requests his observers to take seriously the impression that is fostered before them. They are asked to believe that the character they see actually possesses the attributes he appears to possess, that the task he performs will have the consequences that are implicitly claimed for it, and that, in general, matters are what they appear to be.”

In elementary school, I had a best friend and her name was Anya. I had known her since we were babies and we had been best friends ever since then, at the time. We loved to do everything together and we were both young and impressionable. Whenever our class took trips or we went out for water ice on a hot day, I always got what she ordered because I couldn’t decide on what to get. This started to happen more often and with other things besides these, and it became harder for me to make decisions for myself. I guess she noticed this happening to me, and started to use this against me for her own benefit. We continued our elementary years like this, she would tell me what to do and I would do it for her. The only time I noticed what she was doing was when my mom told me, because I was so oblivious to it.

It was my first day back to school and I was finally in middle school. I noticed the new students that were going to be in my class and one of the new kids I recognized, it was a girl from my old elementary school. She recognized me too and as the weeks and months went by, we did almost everything together. One day she came up to me, pointed out that I always had my hair up, and told me to take it out. I told her that I really didn’t want to because it made me slightly uncomfortable, but she ignored that and forcefully grabbed my hair tie and pulled it out. She said she wouldn’t give it back unless I wore my hair down for the rest of the day, and I kept my hair down for the rest of the day. Every since that day, she saw how I reacted to her actions and kept doing things like that, but it started to become too much to the point where I would do something she didn’t like and she would tell me that she wasn’t my friend any more. After I would react to her statement, she would always claim that she was “just kidding” and that I should always take things so literally. From Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was in a similar situation. “I think it’s a good thing about finding out how everybody laughs at me. I thought about it a lot. It’s because I’m so dumb and I don’t even know when I’m doing something dumb. People think it’s funny when a dumb person can’t do things the same way they can.”

Freshman year of high school I wanted to be my own person and do things for myself, but it didn’t end up being like that. At first, I only knew a few people, but over time, they became friends and we stuck together. We would always hang out and go to the same place after school. After a while, I would just hang out with them because they would always ask if I could somewhere with them. But when I said no, they would just comment that I was no fun, as if they were almost stating those things on purpose so that I would change my mind. Of course because I wanted them to stop, I went with them, even though I really didn’t want to. We used to share things about ourselves and they would always make me go first, even though they knew I didn’t like to. After I said something, they would completely change the subject and not say anything. “Professional sports offer a big tent. It has room for racists, homophobes and misogynists as well as the people they hate. And hate or judgment would seem to represent a wall that the self-identified don’t want to hit. In the case of, say, a job application or a census report, reluctance can become principled refusal: My sexuality is none of my boss’s business.”

Morris, Wesley. "Why 'Self-Identifying' Is Different Than Coming Out." NY Times. N.p., 29 Dec. 2015. Web. 10 Jan. 2017. <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/magazine/why-self-identifying-is-different-from-coming-out.html>.

Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. 293. Print.

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Advanced Essay #2: Say it, Spell it, Say it Again

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 3 · Block/Franz/Taylor-Baranik · C Band on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Intro:
This essay shows the strong connection that I developed with my dad because of spelling. It talks about how we helped each other out with other things and the connection became closer. My goal of this essay was to show how I became a better speller and how it affected my connection with my family members. 

Essay:

When I was in fifth grade, I was in my school’s spelling bee. It started off as one of the times that I’ve been the most worrisome. It ended up being one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I can almost remember how I was feeling all throughout the night.

I have been a speller all my life. When I came home from school each day, my dad would have a new word for me to spell, or a new set of flashcards, depending on what we learned in school that day. He would make it fun by putting the words on big white pieces of poster paper and he would write the words nice and big so that I could see the words. At that same time, I was helping my dad learn how to print again, since he only wrote in cursive and I was also learning how to write. So we helped each other out each day after school and sometimes even on the weekends. It was a way that my dad and I could bond over things, since he was usually working at night.

As time went by, I became a better speller and the words would get harder as I became more advanced. My dad and I had this process where he would run through the words once or twice so that I could get an idea of what those words were. Then he would have me write each of the words down on paper a few times so that I could memorize the words and watch myself spell them. After we did that, he said the word and then had me say the words, spell them and say it again. That was the technique that I used from then on when I was learning new words to spell and when I started to have spelling tests in school, that was what I would say to myself quietly when taking the test. We would take these tests every other week, and that would give me enough time to study the words and go over them with my dad.

After I finished 3rd grade, my dad no longer studied with me. He said that I was old enough to do that on my own and that he would always be there to help. I would eventually have to learn how to do that on my own. I felt that because of this, we weren’t going to be as close, because I thought that we wouldn’t continue to connect over our special thing.

In the article I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.,  “Wrong. If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use “it’s,”then that’s not a learning curve I’m comfortable with. So, even in this hyper-competitive market, I will pass on a great programmer who cannot write. Grammar signifies more than just a person’s ability to remember high school English. I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing — like stocking shelves or labeling parts.”

At first, studying by myself was hard because I would sometimes be tempted to look at the words or I wouldn’t be able to visualize the spelling because I had to look at the words to know which word I was spelling. After many times of attempting to study by myself, I found a way to study without going back and forth between finding the words and trying to spell the words. I would make note cards on Quizlet with the different words that I would get each week and I would study them using the different sections and ways to study them, until I felt ready enough to take the test that was available. I used Quizlet all the time when I had to study for my tests and I did really well on them, and while taking them I still continued to say the word, spell the word and say it again in my head when I took the test.

Each year, around spring time the school would give every grade a spelling test with different words, depending on their grade level. After we took that test, a few weeks later we would get the tests back, and depending on your score it would tell you if you made it into the school-wide spelling bee, and I was so happy when I found out that I had gotten in the spelling bee. The day after we got the tests back we got the words that we had to study, because there would be some of the words that we would spell the day of the spelling bee, which was about 2 months later.

During that time, my dad helped me study each day to get prepared for the spelling bee at school. We used those techniques to study until the night of the spelling bee. I was so nervous that day until I had to go to school in the evening. My parents, sister, uncle, and grandparents came to support me and cheer me on. I remember they gave us numbers at the start and my number was 24. I remember them telling us and the parents that the spellers couldn’t have any food or water on the stage to prevent cheating, which at that time I thought was unfair. I do remember feeling very nervous about walking in because I didn’t know if I was dressing the right way for that type of thing. I was about to be up on the stage in front of a whole auditorium full of people.

I was sitting in the front row with the other fifth graders that I was up against. The rows went back by grade and the spelling bee stopped at 8th graders, which were the oldest in the school. As I went up to spell my first word, my palms were sweating and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to talk. Either way, I was already at the microphone, listening carefully to the word. Spell it, say it, spell it again. I spell the word correctly and sit back in my seat, listening to the spellers, either hearing correct or incorrect and waiting for my next turn. Turn after turn, I was spelling and hearing correct, sitting back down and waiting. After half of the students were eliminated, we took a short intermission for everyone. Afterwards, we continued until there was 3 people left: Me and two other sixth graders. At this point my heart was racing because I wasn’t sure if I was going to beat them or get eliminated. When it was my turn to go up, I went up to get ready to spell the word, which was harder than the past words have been. I spell it correctly and I sit down feeling more confident than I did when I went up.

We are down to the final word and one of the sixth graders is up, he doesn’t spell it correctly. The next sixth grader goes up, doesn’t spell it correctly and it is now my chance to spell it correctly. I spell that correct, and now I’m feeling really good. All I have to do is spell the next word correct.

They say, “Spell Mandate.”

“Mandate. M-a-n-d-a-t-e. Mandate.”

“Correct. Congratulations on being the youngest winner in the school history to win the spelling bee.”

I knew that my dad and I really became close after all the hard work we put into this really paid off. We have had a stronger connection ever since that day.


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Advanced Essay # 1 - This Year Will Be Different

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 3 · Block/Franz/Taylor-Baranik · C Band on Friday, September 23, 2016 at 11:33 am

Intro:

My idea for this paper was to show how my relationship with my parents has grown over the years and, as shown through my gifts, I really appreciate them, especially my mom. I mention that as I’m getting older and as I’m maturing, I am thinking more of others and I am adding more emotion to my gifts that I give her.

Essay:

This year for Mother’s Day, I wanted to get my mom something really special. The years before, I hadn’t really given her anything that was spectacular. It was mainly just cards that I had made, or little things that I had painted. But this year I knew that I wanted to do something different.

In previous years for Mother’s Day, I do remember the day that me, my dad and my sister went to a ceramic and art studio. We had no idea what was going to come out of our time there, we weren’t sure about anything at that point. This idea was kind of a last resort thing since Mother’s Day was so close and we still didn’t have a gift yet. A week before this, we had my sister’s birthday party at the same place and we really liked it here. Walking through the door, I felt a cool breeze hit me along with the chill from outside. My dad talked to the person at the front desk about some things that were available to paint as a gift. Most of the ideas that she mentioned didn’t really appeal to him, until he heard her say that they had big salad plates available. She went to the back of the studio and brought out a big ceramic plate. It was rough to the tough, almost as if it was sanded down before it was brought out to us.

At first when we got the plate, we tried to come up with ideas of what would look good on the plate and what would look nice in our kitchen. We decided to go with a cooking theme because my mom loved to cook. The next thing that we had trouble with was deciding what colors we would use and more of a specific design. The first thing that came to mind was wine because she loved cooking with it and it went perfectly with the theme. We drew it out and as we continued drawing, everything started coming together. Around the rim of the dish is speckled paint that is not too thick and not too thin, just around the rim or edge. In the dead center there is a painted wine bottle that says Pinot Noir in the center of the wine bottle as a label and in the top right hand corner of the label is 2012. Under the word Noir is a thin squiggly line and also on the top of the word Pinot. At the spout of the wine, the cork is short and shaded. The inside of the outlined wine bottle is also shaded. Near the spout of the wine bottle are four thicker winding lines, thicker than the squiggly lines on the wine bottle. 

As I worked on those things, my sister had a different design in mind that didn’t really fit the theme. She started to paint flowers on different parts of the plate and at first it was weird, but then it started to look okay because it added some color. I wanted to make the lines sharper on some of the flowers, so I walked over to a set of cabinets that had little bottles of paint that you added a metal tip to and it made clean lines. They only had a few of those tips, so we had to wash the ones we used with warm water. I was about to rinse the tips and when I turned the water and stuck my hand underneath, I burned myself with the water. I felt the pain rush up my hand into my arm. I felt stinging my hand, so I quickly switched the water to cold and it instantly changed the pain in my hand. Next to the wine bottle on the left are flowers, the one on top is bigger than the one on the bottom.

So we drew the wine bottle on the plate and came up with an idea to paint grapes around it. I remember agreeing with that idea, but then not knowing how to paint grapes. The lady overheard me and handed me this long stick with a small end that was almost like a dotting tool and a large end with an even larger dotting tool. I tried using that, but dots ended up being too small and the shape was weird so I just used a paintbrush instead. Right next to the wine bottle on both sides are bunches of grapes, the one on the left wraps around the front of the wine bottle. Under the bunch of grapes on the left of the wine bottle, to the bottom left hand corner is a little open cook book illustration with the words Cookbook underneath it. Next to that is the word Pasta. Slightly above that to the right a little is a little drawing with rainbow swirls and hearts. Right next to the bunch of grapes on the right of the wine bottle is a flower that just has the petals outlined. Right above the bunch of grapes on the right side of the wine bottle is another flower with outlined petals. In the open spaces are squiggly lines, but only a few. It started to come together really well.

My dad slowly added things that helped make the plate come to life, like little illustrations of a cookbook and words like Pasta and Cookbook. When we finished painting the details, we looked at the plate and noticed that it was missing something. So my dad thought that it needed a border and he also added some squiggly lines in places that were empty. Then we told the lady that we were finished and she wrote our names on the back and put it in the kiln. She told us to pick it up in a few days. After a few days past we went to pick it up and once we got there, we saw it and said that it looked great and that my mom would really enjoy it.

This year was completely different for Mother’s Day. I was out with my friends, when my parents and my sister had gone to my aunt’s house for the day. We were shopping for clothes for the upcoming comic con at the Central library. I remember that in the morning when my dad dropped me off it was chilly and rainy, which didn’t help with a hurt ankle which I sprained earlier that week. We all met up at a Starbucks that was on 20th and Market because it was closest to H&M, which was the first store we wanted to go to visit. I walked into the Starbucks and instantly a gust of cold air hit me. I saw my friend sitting by a big window, holding their rainbow umbrella, waiting for others to show up. A few minutes after I walked in, my other friends tapped on the window for us to meet them outside.

After going to a few stores, we got something to eat at Wendy’s and some of us went to Five Guys. When everyone was finished eating, we went to Liberty Place to take a gander at what they had to offer. We went to a few stores such as Express and Bloomingdales. We didn’t find anything we needed in those stores, but after looking through a few more stores, we finally found this clothing store that was small and not a commonly known shop, but had things that we needed to complete our outfits.

I wanted to go to Bath & Body Works while we were in Liberty Place, so me and one of my other friends went there while the others were checking out of the previous store. As I walked into the store, my nose filled with various aromas and my senses were awakened. I noticed that they were having a sale on hand sanitizers, 5 for $6. Above the display, I saw another sign that was talking about gifts for Mother’s day. I asked the lady at the front desk,

“Hey what is the mother’s day sale?”

She said, “You can make your own bag or set of body washes, lotions and sprays for a certain price.” So I went to the section that she pointed to and started putting things together.

On the way back home I was thinking about previous years, what I got her and how she reacted. Those years in the past I realized that each year my gifts were like an upgrade from the previous year. As I was getting older, I was thinking more of others and giving myself more to people. I was becoming more emotional with my cards, I was using words and memories that I knew would mean something to her. The cards turned into 2 page letters, the little hand painted things turned into things bought with my money and the little poems written by 7 year olds to meaningful words written by a mature 15 year old.

When I got home, I re-wrapped the gift and added something else to it. I also found a really nice little gift bag to put in that kind of fit the theme of the gift that I got her. Later in the week I wrote her a really nice little heartfelt letter that came to me as I went along. I had to hide it in my room until it was Mother’s Day. On Mother’s day when I gave it to her she read the letter first and as her eyes went down the paper, her eyes filled with tears. When she finally opened the gift, she gave me a big hug, thanked me and told me,

“This is one of the best Mother’s Days yet.”

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The Evolution of Children and Greed

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 2 - Pahomov - A on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 12:49 pm

Jessica Guarino

English 2

April 6, 2016

The Evolution of Children

Children disobeying their parents is normal until a certain age, but let’s just say that the average age is about 5-6 years. During this period in their lives, children tend to be very irrational and they lack the knowledge to think before the speak or do. Children often act more savage than adults because they lack authoritative figures.


In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack, the leader of the choir boys, and his tribe come to Ralph’s, the leader of the other group of boys, camp, and they start attacking the shelter. Piggy is convinced that they are there to take the conch, but instead they were there to take Piggy’s broken glasses. Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric try and start the fire again, but without the broken glasses, they are unable to ignite the fire. Ralph calls an assembly of his tribe and together they come up with a plan of how they were going to get Piggy’s glasses back. At this point in time, the most important thing that is needed is the fire. With that Ralph, Sam and Eric recommend charging to Castle Rock to retrieve Piggy’s glasses. As the boys arrive at the beach, Ralph blows the conch, which attracts the attention of Jack and his tribe. Ralph and Jack argue, which then turns into a full-fledged fight to the point where spears were being thrown. “Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone. This time the silence was complete. Ralph’s lips formed a word but no sound came. Suddenly Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly. ‘See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone-’” (Pg. 181) From the beginning of the book to now, Jack has definitely changed and become more aggressive and savage towards his tribe mates and just the other choir boys in general. For the fact that he thinks he should be the chief, he will do whatever it takes to regain the control of the choir boys.


A few weeks ago, there were high school students, teens in general, hanging around 15th street after school. Police had found out the reason why the teens were hanging around was because The Gallery, which is a mall, was closed for renovations and was the top hangout spot for high school students. There were gatherings of 600 kids one day, which had been caused by the good weather. According to billypenn.com, officers had set up cameras around 15th street and Market and Chestnut streets to observe the situation. Officers report that they have seen the violence, vandalism and even robberies. They can even get very detailed descriptions of the kids clothing because of the school uniform and the school administrators. This connects back to the book because they are both example of how children, in this case teens, can be more savage than adults. Children aren’t really given a born responsibility, which is where the want tends to come into play. Age is definitely a big factor in these examples and also how they grew up in society. Without proper authority, violence, vandalism and robberies are what the children are led to do, like they did at 15th and Market. The way that society is, with all this violence, is shaping the children of today’s society to act this way, especially at younger ages.


Most of the articles on the subject of this event were written from the point of view from adults, but this article really embodied the view of the adults. According to phillyvoice.com, “SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel, who was in Center City on Wednesday, said on Twitter the city’s youths were ‘off the hook subsequently clarifying that a small number were ‘out of control’ and making other young people look bad. ‘As with everything, a small group makes everyone look bad. Kids enjoying the weather downtown smeared by the behavior of the few,’” said Chief Nestel on Twitter. The adults have perspective of a small group, which can supposedly affect a larger group because of their thoughts on the fact that the small group can represent the larger group.

Piggy is slowly being washed away by the sea, as it continues to roll in and out. Ralph, Sam and Eric are shocked by the situation that just happened before their eyes, while Jack, on the other hand, has a different reaction. He uses the current situation to regain his role as leader, this time of both of the tribes, which he thinks that he should have from the beginning. “‘I’m chief!’ Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Ralph stumbled, feeling not pain but panic, and the tribe, screaming now like the chief, began to advance. Another spear, a bent one that would not fly straight, went past his face and one fell from on high where Roger was. The twins lay hidden behind the tribe and the anonymous devil’s faces swarmed across the neck. Ralph turned and ran. A great noise as of seagulls rose behind him.” (Pg. 181) This quote demonstrates Jack evolution into a more corrupt being than he started off as. Kids often have a natural tendency to want things, especially at young ages. As they get older, that want turns into greed, which has a greater effect on them and society. Now, society is filled with greed because of that want people had when they were children. If children are raised with having no control over that want, they can end up with having that greed in the adult lives.


Conclusion: Even though adults are usually the ones that are greedy, children can be just as greedy as the adults in society. If the children of today’s society are brought up in such a way that when they get older, they become part of violence, vandalism and robberies, they will continue that way of life in their later years. Children natural tendency to want things at a young age can affect their greed for power and other things in their adult years. Without authoritative figures in the young children’s lives of today’s society, they will eventually grow into having savage lives.


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ILP

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Advisory Sophomore - Baird - adv on Monday, March 28, 2016 at 3:36 pm
My ILP has been going great and I have been learning a lot about Veterinarians and their line of work. I have met some of the sweetest cats, even though some of them are hard to deal with. I have been helping prepare for surgeries happening the next day and mainly just assisting the technicians. I've been learning about different diseases that cats could possibly contract and I've been learning more about cat anatomy. I hope to learn more and experience new things. 
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Haider Ackermann - Natalia, Rosario, Andrés

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 2 - Bey - D on Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 8:26 am
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La Entrevista BM- Cristina Roberts, Natalia Guarino and Rosario Measley

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 2 - Bey - D on Friday, January 22, 2016 at 7:13 am
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Q2 Foto Proyecto

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 2 - Bey - D on Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 10:32 pm
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The Hardest Part About This Is.....

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 2 - Pahomov - A on Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 10:56 pm

Ugh, I can’t believe I have to work with him again. Why does this always happen to me?

I just walked into my class and the teacher was making everyone change their seats. I was fine where I was sitting and all of a sudden, we change seats. Now I’m working with him, the person no one wants to work with because every project someone has done with him, ended up with him doing nothing and the other person doing everything.

(to the chair next to him/her) Okay, so we’re doing the Renaissance as our topic for this project and you’re going to find pictures about the Renaissance. I’ll give you the links where you can get the pictures from. So really, you don’t have to do anything.

Wow, I can’t believe he took my offer.

So, that’s everything you will be doing. After you finish with that, you can be done and leave me alone.

I’m making him feel useless, aren’t I. Listening to myself, I sound bossy and controlling. Why am I always trying to control situations? Am I making everyone feel useless?

I don’t really mean to, sometimes I can’t control it. Sometimes what I’m thinking just bursts out of me and I end up hurting the people around me. The hardest part about this is trying to apologize, trying to take back all of the hurtful things you said, with no intention to hurt anyone.

I know that bossing people around isn’t really who I am, it is just how people see me. I guess that I’ve always been bossy because I was always being bossed around by everyone that I knew. Maybe now I want to boss people around and see how they like it, make them see what it was like for me and make them feel the way I did when I was being bossed around. That’s not right; I don’t want people to see me as someone who is just bossy and controlling, even though I don’t want them to see the real me either.

Just control yourself right now, Ash, so that you don’t hurt anyone. Stay calm and just focus on your own work and maybe let him find the pictures on his own. If he needs your help he will ask, so just focus on your half of the project right now. (breathes in and out deeply)

I was trying to focus on my work, but I couldn’t stop looking at what he was doing every 5 seconds. I knew that something was going to burst out of my mouth, asking him what he was doing, but I was trying to control myself.

Hey, what are you working on? Oh, you’re still finding pictures? Ugh, sorry I didn’t mean it that way.

I can’t believe I just said that to him. Here comes the hard part; trying to apologize to him, but I don’t know what I should say to him. This time try to be yourself, be nice and you’ll figure out what to say.

Look, I’m really sorry for the way that I have been over the past hour, I just wasn’t myself. Wait-it’s been how long? Only 5 minutes, really?

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My ILP

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Ilp - 10Th Grade - Baird - Wed on Monday, November 16, 2015 at 2:27 pm
The past few times that I have been at my ILP, were the best learning experiences for me because I was doing different things and I was learning more about the different things that go on at the Cat hospital. A few weeks ago, I actually got to assist in restocking the boarding room and meet some of the cats. I am still learning about how the cats behave in different environments and what different types of cat breeds there are.  I am looking forward to learning about cat behaviors and even more about what goes on at the cat hospital. 
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Equatorial Guinea D Band

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 2 - Bey - D on Monday, November 16, 2015 at 1:18 pm
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My Language Belongs to Me

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 2 - Pahomov - A on Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 10:41 pm

“Hey, do you want to come with us to Chinatown?” the people I knew in my stream would ask.


“I don’t know,” I said in an unsure manner.


That is what I usually sound like when I am in school, with people I feel uncomfortable around. I am not a very extroverted person and when it comes to being social, I’m not sure about what I should say, do or how I should act. When I’m around people that I hardly know, I feel like they won’t accept me for who I am. In times like these, I am unable to make decisions for myself because I feel out of place and I feel like I’m the center of attention. When I’m the center of attention, I feel uncomfortable, like I am being judged and that affects how I make decisions. Sometimes when I can’t make decisions on my own, I go further into the corner that is my shyness instead of breaking out of my shell and thinking for myself. When I put myself in these situations, I am always questioning myself like, “What should I do?” or “Should I just do this?”


My first year of high school was very tough because everything was new to me, especially the language people used. I heard people using slang words that I didn’t know the meanings of or what they were saying. After a while, I did get used to the slang and started to use those words when I spoke to people at school in order to fit in. The way I spoke was different whenever I got home from school because I respected my parents enough where I wouldn't use slang words.


In my sophomore year of high school, things have changed, especially the slang. I do feel like it’s my freshman year because of my new stream, new friends, new languages, even though everything still seems new, but different to me. This year is different only because of my new friends, languages and everything that goes along with it. I am still very shy and aware of what I say because I’m afraid that I will sound unintelligent to them. As James Baldwin said, “People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate.” This relates to me because he is saying that people change their language to fit in, not be judged and to be on the same level as everyone else, and my case, it would be the level of intelligence. He is also saying that it is easier to understand someone on your level, instead of being left “clueless” from someone on a different level of intelligence.


Sometimes when I am around people that I don’t know in other places, I think that I sound weird to the people. Also, if they ask a question that I either don’t understand or hear, I would be afraid to ask if they could repeat the statement. I am a very shy person, so that really doesn’t help with speaking up and asking people to repeat. When it comes to situations like that, I just don’t want to ask them to repeat because I always think that is rude. I am also a very kind person, which also plays a big role in being shy.


“So, who had an awesome day today?” I would ask my family when we were sitting down, eating dinner. When I am in my own environment, I feel “free” and able to do what I want and be what I want. I don’t have the pressure of being different or being weird because I was being myself. I think the way I speak determines how I feel or act around people. I think language plays a big role in determining someone’s identity because some people talk differently and act differently around certain people. I know that I do act differently around my immediate family, than I do around my cousins, aunts and uncles. With my cousins, it’s usually easier to talk to them, even though some of them fall into the category of people my age. I feel this way around them because I grew up with them and I have always felt close with them. With my aunts and uncles, they tend to try and make me the center of attention because they are used to their kids being more out-going than I am.


My parents, on the other hand are the complete opposite because they let me be who I am and don’t try to make me be something I’m not. They are fine with me being introverted because they can understand and have explain how they can relate to me. They let me use my own language, even though they try little by little to break me out of my shell. They tell me to talk to people if I am having problems, such as being my own advocate and tell me to try and speak up if I have a question. My language derives from the language they use, which I always used for as long as I can remember.


“Wow, your daughter has an extensive vocabulary? Where does she get it from?” people always ask my parents.


“She’s always been very mature and she has always very courteous. She sometimes surprises me.” My mom would respond.


The language you use says a lot about a person because language is multiple things. It is mainly your dialect, your accent and the words you use, which does say a lot about one person. It tells a story about who you are and where you are from. Language and identity go hand in hand because one determines what the other is like and they are both used as ways to express oneself. You will never know who a person truly is until you are able to meet with them, talk to them and really get to know them.


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My ILP

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Ilp - 10Th Grade - Baird - Wed on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 8:50 pm
This past Wednesday, 10/14, was my first day at my ILP and I really learned a lot in the short time that I was there. My ILP is at the VCA Cat Hospital of Philadelphia, working with my host Dr. Aimee Simpson. Since last week was my first time there, Dr. Simpson had a college student that was also interning give me tour around the hospital and I got to meet a lot of the people that worked there. I’m looking forward to going back and learning more about what they do there, like with the dentistry. Something that stands out to me is how the cats acted around me and in certain environments, like the boarding room and when they are getting ready for surgery. Besides that, everyone there is really nice and the cats that I’ve met so far are just as sweet. I can’t wait to go back and learn about what vets do so that I can become one later in life.
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Second Rule Of Safety ...... Be Safe!

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 1 - Giknis - X on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 10:39 pm

In my first blog post, I talked about how teens are the causes of their own and other’s accidental deaths and how teens are not only distracted by their cellphones, but other people. I also talked about how hazardous teen drivers can be while on their cellphones and that teens need to be more aware about their safety while driving. The one big question that I had ending that blog post was WHY? The why question was for why do people keep on getting distracted and possibly not only putting their lives in danger, but others lives.

In my second blog post, I talked about how crashes are more common among the young drivers than any other age group and in 2009 3,242 teens from the ages of 15-19 lost their lives in crashes where the driver was distracted. I also talked about counting 500 cars, 126 of those drivers were on their phones and 26 of those drivers were actually texting while driving. The one big question that I had ending that blog post was HOW? The how question was for how are we going to stop this and spread awareness. That is the question that I am going to answer in this blog post and how I decided to find out for myself.

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This was my pledge(on left) vs. what AllState already had in place(on right)

For my agent of change, I decided to convince a company, like AllState, to make a pledge that new drivers would sign as a friendly reminder not to text and drive. I then decided to ask an expert about their point of view on this topic and how safety is key. I went to an AllState office near me and talked to Ms. Rebecca Clemento about this topic and I had some questions:

What are the biggest dangers of teen driving?

What do you already have in place for managing cell phone use with new drivers? Does AllState have any incentives?

Are there any specific policies in place for teen drivers or new drivers?

Have the laws changed for texting and driving as the technology has changed?

What would be the effectiveness of the idea that I am proposing?

Do you think the laws will need to change for safety in the future? If so, how?


For the most part, I think that my agent of change went pretty well and was inspirational not only to me but to the people that I talked to about this. As I was doing this project, the thing that I enjoyed most was finding out all of this cool information that I never knew existed until I started this project. From this project, I learned that this topic was more widespread than I thought, but not as often talked about.

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A recurring question that I had in both of my blog posts was: Why do teens, and even adults, go out in the world of driving and continue to be distracted? This question has still yet to be answered, but with more research this question will be answered someday.


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First Rule of Safety ... NO Distractions

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 1 - Giknis - X on Monday, May 11, 2015 at 11:25 pm
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This picture was from my field observation, those drivers weren't on their phones.


In my previous blog post, I talked about how teens are the causes of their own and other’s accidental deaths and how teens are not only distracted by their cellphones, but other people. I also talked about how hazardous teen drivers can be while on their cellphones and that teens need to be more aware about their safety while driving.


When I was doing more research, I found out that crashes are more common among the young drivers than any other age group and in 2009 3,242 teens from the ages of 15-19 lost their lives in crashes where the driver was distracted. Also, everyday in the US more than 9 people are killed and over 1,153 people are injured in crashes where the driver was distracted. As I mentioned before in my previous blog post, teen driving distractions involve people being on their cellphones, there are actually three main types of distractions: Visual, Manual and Cognitive. A visual distraction is when you take your eyes off the road, a manual distraction if taking your hands off the wheel, and a cognitive distraction is taking your mind off driving.


People might not think that teen driving distractions are a major issue in today’s modern world, but they are and here’s why:

In 2012, 3,328 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 3,360 in 2011. In addition, 421,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes because of a distracted driver. People might also not really know all of the risk factors involved when being distracted while driving such as, younger drivers may be at increased risk which can also mean that they are distracted more easily than other experienced drivers. Also, the crash fatality rate is highest for 16-17 year olds that had recently got their licenses.  


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This is also a photo from my field observation, but I'm sure that one driver was texting.


I think that everything that I did with the research and the field observation went pretty well and it was actually cool to see my topic from a different perspective. Doing this felt interesting and made me understand my topic even better. I would probably say that this was just about what I was expecting, yet it wasn’t because I counted 500 cars, 126 of those drivers were on their phones and 26 of those drivers were actually texting while driving. Some challenges that I faced were keeping track with the number of drivers and the total number of cars that passed, even with help. Even though I have done more research, I am still wondering why teens, and even adults, text and drive when they know that their life is on the line, and that their life is more important.


The plan that I have for my agent of change is to make new drivers make a pledge not to text and drive, but also send those pledges to companies and convince them to have everyone sign it before they can drive.

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Some Risks Aren't Meant To Be Taken

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 1 - Giknis - X on Friday, April 24, 2015 at 10:25 pm

https://www.libertymutual.com/safe-and-smart-living/blog-posts/teen-texting-and-driving-statistics

In today’s modern world, teenagers are sometimes the causes of their own accidental deaths. I know most parents are nervous about their teens driving and also that most teens now have smartphones. Having these two things in the same car are very hazardous to the teens and other drivers on the roads. I’m not saying that teens having the ability to drive without their parents at their side, but I’m just saying that teens should be more careful and more aware of what they are getting themselves into. I chose teen driving distractions as my topic because I feel as though no one really talks about it and because they are the main cause of most deaths. Another thing is that teenagers are being allowed to get their permit at the age of 15, and I know from being a teen myself, that we all have new technology that gets us very distracted and keeps getting more and more distracting every time Apple comes out with a new phone, etc. People need to be more aware, especially parents, about what their child is doing in the car while driving when the parents aren’t with them. That’s what I’m here to talk about.


http://blog.leizerman.com/tag/ohio-distracted-driver/

This is a picture of an Ohio teenage driver that is being distracted by their phone.


Ok, so we all know that cellphones are good for uses like texting, calling and checking social media, but those things can wait until you are not in a moving vehicle, that you are driving. This might be a habit for some people, and it is not a good one. People need to be more aware of what they might be getting themselves into before they actually go out and do it. Did you know that 

in 2011, 933 passengers died with a teenager behind the wheel and that having two or more passengers triples the risk of a fatal death with a teen at the wheel. This issue may seem scary to some people, but most of you are scared that this might happen to you. When you were little, your parents told you what was right and what was wrong and they probably still do, but this time they can say what they were unable to tell you about rights and wrongs before. Some of those things may be how you shouldn’t drink and drive, but sometimes it might be not to drive in the dark with another teen passenger.

http://weimarlaw.com/car-accidents-teen-drivers-top-4-causes-of-accidents-caused-by-teens-pt-1/

Distracted driving and speeding are most dangerous with teen drivers, as shown in this picture.


Something that I wonder is why, even though people sometimes talk about this issue, teens still go out in the world of driving and still continue to do these kinds of things. It really doesn’t make that much sense to me, even after they are told what the consequences are if this were to happen. According to studies: with peer passengers in the car, male teen drivers were almost six times more likely to perform an illegal maneuver and twice more likely to act aggressively before crashing than when driving alone. On the other hand, female teen drivers rarely drove aggressively before crashing, regardless of the presence of peer passengers. This is not my opinion, this is just a statistic, and I can’t really say that I agree with this because I have never experienced it for myself. My whole point overall is be safe while driving and texting and checking your emails can wait. “ The Number 1 rule is to keep yourself safe, … Nothing is more precious than your life and the lives of your loved ones.” - Steve West


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Q3 Art Reflection

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Art - Freshman - Hull - b2 on Friday, April 10, 2015 at 9:10 pm
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​a. What do you feel like you accomplished with your final drawing?  (keeping the rubric in mind. 20pts. - back wall, 20pts. side wall, 20pts. ceiling, 20pts. floor, 20pts. table/chair = 100pts.

I feel like I accomplished a lot of the requirements, but, I am not that happy with my tops of the windows and my table and stools I think could have been a little better.

b. What would you change or differently if you could do this project again?

If I could do this project again, I would use my time better and I would do the larger part first of the drawing and then add the details.

c. Find a drawing on the wall that you think is successful. Describe it. Why is it successful?

The drawing is finished, the majority of the lines are drawn over with pen, the other pencil lines that are not drawn over are erased, the lines are straight, the stools and the table are outlined and colored. This picture is successful because it fits all of the requirements and some that were not really needed.

d. What did you learn about one point perspective?

I learned that up is down, down is up, left is right, and right is left when it comes to the vanishing point and the horizon line.

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La familia de Siani Davis: Arielle y Jessica

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 7:48 pm

Siani Davis y la Familia de Ella

Para este proyecto, mi pareja Jessica y yo hablamos con nuestra amiga y preguntado sobre sus cosas favoritas. El nombre de ella es Siani Davis. Siani vive en Filadelfia con la mamá de ella y hermanos. Ella tiene catorce años y es una muy inteligente y estudiosa estudiante en su primer año de Science Leadership Academy. Ella es bilingüe y habla con fluidez español y ingles. Siani obtiene buenas notas cada trimestre. Las favoritas clases de ella son español y ingles, con su maestra favorita Señora Giknis. Ella es una muy cómica, bonita, simpatica, amistosa, y fabulosa amiga. Le gusta pasar un rato con amigos, va a la escuela (a veces), lee, corre, come, va de compras, escucha música, juega ajedrez, dibuja, y pasa tiempo con su familia. No le gusta canta, baila, nada, y cocina. Ella especialmente encanta diseña ropas. En la futura, Siani quiere ser diseñador de moda. Es un sueño de suyo.

Ella pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo con la familia de ella. En la familia de Siani, ellos reúne cada viernes de cada semana para ponerse al día sobre los últimos acontecimientos en sus vidas. Su familia es muy grande con muchos tíos, abuelos, abuelas, padrinos, primos, y muchos otras parientes. Ellos viven en Filadelfia y Puerto Rico. Sus miembros de familia son divertidos, entretenidos, amables, bondadosos y amorosos. Familia es un grande parte de la vida para Siani.photo (3).PNG

Para resumirlo todo, Siani es una persona increíble y le encanta estar con su familia. Ella es muy amable y muy agradable. Siani tiene su set sueño y está haciendo lo que pueda para lograrlo. Siani le gusta estar involucrado en un montón de actividades en la escuela y fuera de la escuela. Ella hace su mejor esfuerzo en la escuela y la gente como ella por lo que ella es.


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Celebraciones Presentation

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 5:09 pm
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Equipo Moreno Pelo(Christian, Arielle, Jessica)

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 7:23 am


¡Hola! Nosotros somos Christian, Arielle, y Jessica. Bienvenidos a Science Leadership Academy. Nuestra escuela está en Filadelfia. SLA es muy creativa, aplicada, y un poco extraña, pero es por eso que nos encanta nuestra escuela. SLA es muy pequeña y tenemos muy pocos estudiantes. En la escuela, tenemos que usar nuestras computadoras en todas las clases. Este es muy diferente de muchas escuelas en el ciudad. Ofrecemos muchas actividades y clubes. Son americano y internacional fútbol, béisbol, ultimate frisbee, debate, robótica, poesía, glee y mas.  

Tenemos más de cinco clases. Son inglés, bioquímica, historia, español, y álgebra. Clase favorita de Arielle es bioquímica porque es muy interesante y divertida y hacemos experimentos. La clase favorita de Jessica es español porque nosotros aprendemos y cantamos canciones en español. Clase favorita de los Christian es el inglés porque es muy interesante, tranquilo, y porque le gusta leer. Utilizamos lápices, computadoras y cargadores para muchas clases. Necesita dormir y estudiar para tener éxito.

Nuestras favorita profesoras en SLA a Srta. Manuel, Srta. Giknis, Srta. Sessa. La Srta. Manuel enseña Español Uno. La Srta. Giknis enseña Inglés Uno. La Srta. Sessa enseña Bioquímica. Me gusta Srta. Manuel porque ella personalidad es simpática, cómica, inteligente y boba. Yo también, me gusta Srta. Giknis y Srta. Sessa porque son amable, tranquila y trabajadora. Sus clases es divertida, chévere y interesante. Él estudiantes a SLA ser amable, artístico, talentoso y creativo.

En conclusión, SLA es una de la mejor escuelas en Filadelfia. Nosotros somos dado un excelente educación y el estudiantes respetar la comunidad. Nos encanta la atención de profesores en la escuela, y todas las oportunidades la escuela tiene. Lo que más nos gusta de SLA es todas las divertidas actividades que tienen para nosotros. Creo que también nos gusta cómo SLA es muy tranquilo y libre.
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Jessica's Macbeth Creative Project

Posted by Jessica Guarino in English 1 - Giknis - X on Friday, January 23, 2015 at 11:03 am
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This was my Macbeth Creative Project and this is a drawing of Macbeth's transformation. On one half, Macbeth is himself; Thane of Glamis and Thane of Cawdor. He was content with being those two titles. On the other half, is when he became corrupted with being Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland, which in the beginning he was given those 3 prophecies. That side also shows some of the things that might have turned Macbeth to the dark side.  
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Jessica's Los Seres Queridos En Mi Vida

Posted by Jessica Guarino in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 7:50 pm

Intro:  Los seres queridos en mi vida


Yo: Mi nombre es Jessica. Tengo el pelo es café y tengo los ojos pardos. Mi cumpleaños es dieciocho de agosto


Él: Mi padre tiene a cómico, bobo, amable y listo personalidad. Le gusta americano fútbol. Él es muy alto y es un poco deportista


Ella: Mi madre cumpleaños es seis de diciembre. Ella es de edad cuarenta siete. Mi madre es origen italiana, sin embargo, ella hablar un poco español


Ellas: Sus nombres son Jhazzelle y Jae. Les gusta escuchar música. Son divertidas , artísticas y sociables.


Nosotras: Me y Mi hermana, y su nombre es Alyssa. Mi hermana le gusta hablar por teléfono, pero me no le gusta hablar por telefono. Me gusta practicar deportes y cocinar.


Closing: Gracias por tu atencion. Eso es todo.


Spanish Benchmark: Los seres queridos en mi vida
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