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The two photos above are of me coaching. The first shows me coaching my current team, the Flash. The image shows me speaking to the girls right before one of our games. The image below shows my previous team dumping the water cooler on my head just after winning the championship.
​https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/exercise/art-20048389

“7 Great Reasons Why Exercise Matters.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 14 Dec. 2018, www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/exercise/art-20048389.

I’m using this as an introductory resource to show off the benefit of exercise and risks of not getting enough. Exercise is imperative to being both physically and mentally healthy in life and I am using this to show how important it is not only that they join sports leagues in the first place, but that they stick with them. I know of many friends that had a bad experience with a ineffective or mean coach and I want to balance my coaching style so that they want to quit, but enjoy their experience and want to continue with it.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/physicalactivity/facts.htm

“CDC | Physical Activity | Facts | Healthy Schools.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/physicalactivity/facts.htm.

This source has many similarities to my first source, but shows a lot of the risks to both not being active and not taking proper caution when being active. You use calories when you’re running around and that means you have to eat not only more, but better. The risks to not being active are much worse and only minor precautions are necessary to make sure that one is going to be their safest playing sports. I want to be more informed about the benefits to playing and also prepared in case something does happen when I am coaching.

Interview with my baseball coach (not sure exactly how to cite this)**

My former baseball coach is a certified PIAA coach who has been coaching for the past 15 years. He has had a lot of experience working with kids of all ages and talent levels. By interviewing him I was able to get a first hand account of the best techniques and drills to help players get better. Even more importantly, he gave advice on how to communicate with players and their parents. 

Interview with student (again, I don’t this can be cited)**

For my project I interviewed a friend of mine who has been active on both the SLA baseball and SLA basketball team (he has also been playing sports his entire life). I met with him to discuss his experiences with coaches and what methods of coaching have had the greatest impact on both his enjoyment of the sport and his skill. 


Interview with someone I had previously coached (again, I don’t think this can be cited)**

For this source I’m going to use someone who actually is now a freshman at SLA. She and my sister were on the team that I originally coached five years ago and I have coached her more previously and she became an assistant coach on the 7-9 team that I coached in the spring of 2018. She can give me feedback (hopefully honest) on my coaching and will have different perspectives having been coached by me at different ages and working with me as an assistant coach. While again I haven’t been able to interview her yet, she’s been flexible about when we could meet.

https://appliedsportpsych.org/resources/resources-for-coaches/coaching-through-conflict-effective-communication-strategies/

“Coaching Through Conflict: Effective Communication Strategies.” Association for Applied Sport Psychology: Sport Imagery Training, appliedsportpsych.org/resources/resources-for-coaches/coaching-through-conflict-effective-communication-strategies/.

Kids, especially as they become teenagers, and their parents are very often not easy to deal with. Kids don’t want to practice, want to play the position they want, and sometimes be on their phones in the dugout. Parents want to believe the best in their kids and sometimes take that mindset too far in that they want their kids to get opportunities that as the coach I may believe they aren’t ready for. This article gives me the official way to deal with these conflicts so that I can diffuse situations before they deteriorate. While I luckily have not had many bad incidents over the years they do and can always come up.

https://www.acefitness.org/education-and-resources/lifestyle/blog/6441/top-10-reasons-children-should-exercise

Klika, Author Brett Klika Contributor Brett. “Top 10 Reasons Children Should Exercise.” ACE, www.acefitness.org/education-and-resources/lifestyle/blog/6441/top-10-reasons-children-should-exercise.

What you do in your childhood is of course well known to have an effect on the rest of your life and the article shows many of the scientifically proven examples of that. It also shows the effects in the classroom and other parts of your life. One’s mental state is greatly affected by whether or not they get at least some exercise and again this article shows me some of the consequences to not doing that. 

https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/good-coach.html

“What Makes a Good Coach? (for Teens).” Edited by D'Arcy Lyness, KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Nov. 2015, kidshealth.org/en/teens/good-coach.html.

This source gives data taken from surveys on what the most important factors of a coach are. One of the keys to the source is that winning is supposed to be a secondary thought to team morale which is true. I personally agree with this as a coach, but I also believe that winning is part of a good team morale and the challenge is a good thing. Regardless, this information provides a very interesting and informative check on some of the practices that I’ve believed in. It also talked about tough but fair which is something I really do live by as a coach and overall it can provide a good balance to individual feedback that I get from other coaches and players.

https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/NCSI_Effective-Coaching-Brief-508.pdf

“Effective Coaching: Improving Teacher Practice and Outcomes for All Learners.” National Center for Systematic Improvement, 2014, www.air.org/sites/default/files/NCSI_Effective-Coaching-Brief-508.pdf.

This source discusses how to find a balance of helping a player get better and also be nice and positive. While it may start out being the goal for every coach it becomes challenging when people don’t listen or simply continue to struggle. I think that knowing how to restrain yourself as they discuss in the article is essential as a coach because you are responsible (as it states in the article) for being the bigger person and calming down tougher things on the team. While I may have other similar sources this talks about you not as an individual coach but as being part of a greater coaching community. 

https://coachfederation.org/blog/the-science-of-coaching-worklife-balance

“The Science of Coaching Work/Life Balance.” International Coach Federation, 7 Dec. 2017, coachfederation.org/blog/the-science-of-coaching-worklife-balance.

Coaching is challenging. I will be the first person to admit that, but it is also rewarding. I love doing it the whole time I am there, but there are other factors to contend with especially for someone that spends over 24 hours a week coaching and doing other volunteering in the spring. How to stay on top of everything has always been hard for me and I think this article teaches me how to take more responsibility for all of the things I need to do by telling stories of people who have been there before.

Advanced Essay #3: Fractured Americ

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Introduction: 

My goal for this paper is to help people understand why America's politics have become so divided. I wanted to go farther than just talking about the language used in our politics and talk about the what is causing these tempers to rise in the first place, not only among politicians, but among everyday Americans. I'm proud that I was able to talk about an issue that is so impactful in our country, using details and examples to back up my point. I wish I had also included possible solutions, as our country urgently needs to improve relations between the major political parties.

Advanced Essay:

Politics in the United States has changed a lot over the last few decades. In the past, Democrats and Republicans have been able to come together and pass laws to improve our country. However, now that is very rare, with a party often needing to control the White House and both houses of Congress to pass meaningful legislation. As our politics grow more divided more divided so has the nation’s identity. We are being pulled apart from each other by dramatic ideological differences between the major parties and political language that is divisive and disrespectful.

The bases of the two major political parties are as far apart from each other on policy issues as they’ve been in the last hundred years. For the last 23 years, Pew Research has conducted polling to seek the opinions of the two major political parties on several basic policy issues such as the role of government and environmental policy, among others. When they first started conducting the poll there was an average difference of 15% between how the two parties thought of these issues. (Taylor) Now, the difference between the two parties is a whopping 36%. (Taylor) These differences have led to a lack of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill. In recent years both parties have passed bills without the support of a single member of the other party voting for it, such as the Affordable Care Act in 2010 or the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This leads to disappointment and anger among the minority who feel that their views are not being heard by the rest of the country. These feelings, often aimed at the majority party, has led to an ever-rising tension between the two parties.

One of the greatest things pulling people apart are the social differences between the two political parties. Take race, for example. According to additional Pew research, 75% of Republicans believe that “blacks who can’t get ahead in this country are mostly responsible for their own conditions.” (Taylor)  Only 28% of Democrats share that viewpoint (Taylor). In addition, while only 13% of Democrats think homosexuality should be discouraged, 37% of Republicans believed it should be. (Taylor) The differences between the parties are even greater on opinions about gay marraige. Similar divisions exist on issues related to immigrants, poor people, and an assortment of other issues. As a consequence, given that Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, a number of groups scorned by many Republicans feel excluded and ostracized.

The language used by elected officials and candidates has also served to pull our country apart. During the 2016 campaign, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that half of all Trump supporters were deplorables. Meanwhile, the Republican Donald Trump has taken offensive statements to a whole new level, most recently blaming the FBI for the mass shooting at a Florida school, because they had devoted too many resources to investigating his ties to Russia (Twitter). During the campaign, a video surfaced of him bragging about sexually assaulting women, and at various times he has made numerous statements that have offended African Americans, Latinos, immigrants, and Muslims. We’ve gotten used to these statements, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t further divide us. Every time Donald Trump or someone else takes to Twitter, it riles people up, causing clashes between their supporters and those who find what they said wildly offensive.

A difficult characteristic of our divisive politics is the increasing dislike for those with whom we disagree. A plurality of both Democrats and Republicans (44 and 45 percent, respectively) said they dislike those who are members of the other party.  Only 14% of Republicans and 9% of Democrats said that they had many friends from the other party. From these statistics, it is clear that there is more than just an ideological divide between the parties, but a social one as well. Democrats and Republicans tend to stick to themselves, but when we don’t associate ourselves with those whom we disagree with it become difficult to find compromises and repair the relationship between the two groups.

In the last decade, politics has become the most dividing issue in our country. As the parties’ voters continue to be further divided and candidates and politicians continue to launch verbal attacks on each other, it is likely that these trends will continue. Americans will become more and more divided, the number of people who say that they dislike members of the other party will rise, and people will continue to feel as though they don’t belong in their communities.


Sources:

Taylor, Jessica. “Republicans And Democrats Don't Agree, Or Like Each Other - And It's Worse Than Ever.” NPR, NPR, 5 Oct. 2017, www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555685136/republicans-and-democrats-dont-agree-dont-like-each-other-and-its-worst-than-eve.


Vavreck, Lynn. “The Great Political Divide Over American Identity.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/upshot/the-great-political-divide-over-american-identity.html.

Advanced Essay 2- The Difference In Our Words

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Introduction:​

My paper is about the ways in which we speak differently around certain people and why. I hope to shed light on how society has expectations for how we act in public and how we bend those unspoken recommendations around the people with whom we are closest. I am proud of how I believe I gave people an insight to who I am as well as what I believe is expected from me. I wish that I had included examples of how I deviate from societal norms with my friends in addition to just my family.


The Difference In Our Words

I change how I communicate when I interact with different groups of people. In particular, I speak differently. I change what I say, when I say it, and how I say it. This is true for most people, because we learn when it’s important to follow societal norms and when it’s acceptable to push those boundaries.

Cursing is something that most people do only in particular circumstances. While I am the same way, unlike many others I curse around my parents, who are mostly ok with it as long as I do it with a smile on my face so that they know I’m not serious or angry. Many other times, though, I know to hold my tongue and speak properly and with decorum.

Back in September, my Dad and I were at our friend’s house watching the Eagles game. As school had just begun, the group -- mostly made up of forty-something year-old Dads -- was discussing the pleasures of kids being back in school.

The host explained, “It’s nice to have them in bed at a reasonable hour. All summer, they were just banging around the house at all hours of the night.”

My Dad, sarcastically pretending that I wasn’t sitting right next to him, stated, “It’s amazing to have Leo back in school. I believe we had more than enough time to bond this summer.”

My response was already at the tip of my tongue. It would have been so natural, and so satisfying, to have released the words, “Fuck off.” It wouldn’t have been anywhere near the first time that I had said it, and I don’t believe that’s a bad thing. As Robert Klein explains, “I’m not against profanity. It’s an important part of the language when used properly.” Cursing is not just a way to express anger towards someone, but a way to strengthen a bond between people and to add humor. While I would have been comfortable saying these words to him with a smile if it were just the two of us, I restrained myself due to our present company. Some people might not have understood my sarcasm and would have taken it as me not respecting my Dad. Society creates expectations about how we are to act, and while we all strive to be our authentic selves, we also have to learn about the importance of operating inside society’s norms and therefore when and to what extent we should express ourselves in different ways sometimes.

Jokes are one of my favorite ways to express myself, but I have to be careful about what I say depending on to whom I’m talking. There is a fine line between what is funny and what is considered offensive. Many times it is hard to know where that line is, because it is different for each person based on how well we know each other.

For the last five years I have only rarely called my sister by her name Rebecca. Instead, I call her Tubby Bear Junior or some variation of it such as TBJ, Tubs, or Junior. Now while the Bear and Junior parts of her nickname are acceptable for all audiences, Tubby is a name that refers to someone who is overweight, which in a nickname would normally be thought of as derogatory. In this case, though, due to my closeness with my sister and our common understanding that not only is she not fat but in fact is fit and athletic, the nickname is just an ironic joke. It reflects how close we are to each other.

This is the type of joke that you can only make to someone with whom you are very close. I would never call any of my friends by a nickname that referred to them as overweight or anything related to body image, which can be such a sensitive topic. But with my sister it is ok because she is in on the joke and interprets it as the affectionate nickname that it is.

Just like many other people, I conform to society’s norms most of the time. The only times that I feel comfortable stepping outside what is considered typical is when I’m with people that I am very close with and who know my personality. It is not typical for a child to curse in front of his parents or to have a nickname for someone that contains derogatory language, but due to the bond I have with my family and also with my closest friends I am able to push society’s communication norms with that limited group of people. Pushing these norms not only allows me to express myself in the way I sometimes like to, but it also helps create and strengthen the bonds I have with these people.


“Robert Klein Quotes.” BrainyQuote, Xplore, www.brainyquote.com/quotes/robert_klein_678411.


Embracing Tomorrow

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​Introduction:

My goal for this essay is to tell the story of me coming to SLA and to teach all readers about the importance of giving new things a chance. The issue that I face throughout this short story is changing schools. At first I don’t give the new school a chance, because I enjoyed life at my old school, but once I was able to be honest with myself I began to enjoy my new school. I am proud of my honesty throughout the story. This was a tough time for me and I haven’t shared the full story of my high school adjustment with anyone and I think that this is a step towards that. In the future I would like to work on reflecting throughout the story. I may have done a satisfactory job in this story, but it was one of the hardest things for me to do throughout this story.

The sky darkened as two of my neighbors and I walked home from the sledding hill. They babbled on about our great day of sledding and snowball fights. But I wasn’t able to enjoy reflecting on this day with them. High school acceptances were to come out in five minutes. We walked around an apartment building that created a wind tunnel, with strong gusts stringing our faces, but I hardly felt it. My only thoughts focused on whether I’d spend four more years at Masterman or whether I would be forced to go elsewhere.  
Throughout my life, things had usually gone my way. But it turned out I was only a few minutes away from the painful experiences of disappointment and adjusting to something new and unwelcome. As we reached our street, my nerves grew worse. I believed I deserved to be accepted to Masterman High School, but one less-than-stellar standardized test score threatened to change that. Masterman was my home, the school where all of my friends whom I had grown to love the previous four years went. I didn’t want to leave them and go to another school, such as Central, SLA, or even a private school. I bid my neighbors goodbye as I climbed the front steps outside my house. As I had a million times, I walked in the door, but I felt as though my whole life was about to change. I pulled off my snow boots, snow pants, and jacket waiting to hear my future. 
I walked up the stairs. My dad stood at the landing above with a laptop in his hand, his face suddenly frozen. I asked nervously, “Did I get in?”
        There was a pause.
        “No.”
        That one “no” crushed me. I grabbed the computer, hoping it would all be a bad joke, but he wasn’t lying. I stared at the Masterman slot and then I scrolled down slightly and saw that I had been accepted to SLA. This did not cheer me up. I perceived that SLA was the weird kids school. I didn’t want to go there. I knew I wouldn’t be happy there. 
That fall I arrived at SLA with a grimace on my face. The first month at the school had confirmed what I had first feared. The kids were weird and annoying. All I could look forward to was the weekend when I could see my Masterman friends again. Looking back, I hadn’t allowed myself to enjoy the school. I had replaced every moment that I actually did enjoy at SLA with how much I missed my friends at Masterman. 
One day, in October, my feelings about SLA began to change. In English, a boy had hung his bag from the back of his chair, leaving it sagging open where he couldn’t see it. A few kids quietly tossed a few pencils and paper into his bag as a joke. The boy didn’t notice. At first, I found this rather dumb. A few other kids chipped in, adding books to his bag. Just as I was starting to enjoy myself, the teacher stepped in. But much to my surprise, instead of reprimanding them she took a potted plant off of her own desk and put it into this boy’s bag. He continued to be oblivious. More things were tossed in as the new contents of the boy’s bag commanded the attention of the entire room. Finally, with an overflowing bag and the snickers of classmates he turned around.
“WHAT?” he yelled as he turned around to see the contents of his bag. 
The entire classroom burst out laughing, me included. I realized how was nice it was to be in a relaxed setting like this where the class could make a brief joke without a teacher punishing those involved. This was also a new experience for me I liked. At Masterman, the kids were so  focused and the teachers so strict that this never could have happened. 
In my first month at SLA, there had been moments when I had enjoyed myself, but all I would allow myself to think of were the bad moments. Once I opened up my mind and gave the new school and the new people a chance, I started really enjoying myself. Had I stayed at Masterman, it is possible that I would have been happier. It is also possible that the overload of work and being stuck seeing the exact same kids for eight years would not have made me as happy a person. Either way, I am very happy that I got to meet all these new people and experience a whole new type of learning at SLA.

E2 U6 Leo Cassel-Siskind, Ashton Reigner, Caroline Pitone, and Imani Murray

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Yemaya

 

Había una vez, un joven que se llamó Yemaya. Ella era muy bonita y le encantaba nadar. Ella y todas las cosas que fueron vividos, fueron controlado de una orisha que se llamó Obatala. Él se fue como un padre. Cada día, dio tiempo a ver a las personas de la comunidad, al menos en tierra. Cuando ellos fueron en el agua, fueron en su propia.  

Un día, Yemaya fue caminando en la calle con una falda bonita, y un hombre se acercó, que parece muy rico, con su vestido muy fresco. Él le dio un poco de perfume. Yemaya estaba soprendida, pero aceptó el regalo. El día después, con el perfume encima de su piel, se vio el hombre otra vez. Él le dio una falda azul y blanco con volantes. Para el resto de la semana, Yemaya vio el hombre, y él le dio una sorpresa cada dia.

Por el septimo dia, ella decidió a seguir el hombre. Después de caminar detras de él por unos minutos, él se convirtió en un callejón. Él tenía una túnica roja, blanco, y morado. Él estaba encima del aire, flotando. Él fue cerca a Yemaya. “Yemaya, esta ultima semana, yo observé a tu belleza. Por los últimos años, yo estaba buscando a una compañera. Alguien para mirar al mar cuando yo estoy mirando al tierra.”

“Tu eres Obatalá?”

“Si”

Yemaya estaba muy contenta que iba un candidato para ser una orisha, y una gorbernante del agua encima del agua. Pero Obatala no fue convencido. Él dijo que él va a continuar a ver a ella y vas a volver. Dos años fueron pasados y Yemaya no oyó nada. Ella estaba muy triste en resultados y intentó a olvidar, asumiendo que Obatala no va a volver otra vez. Una dia, ella fue  a su casa para ver a los siete sorpresas que Obatala le dio.

“Le dio que me voy a revolver.”

"Tuve que tomar algún tiempo para decidir, pero creo que eres la mejor persona para ser mi esposa, mi pareja, y el Orisha del mar."

Yemaya fue muy contenta que fue acceptada. Yemaya y él fueron para siempre y tenían muchos niños que ser criaron como Orishas.


Mural de Leo

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Me gusta Fairmount. De hecho mi amor Fairmount. Es verde. En vez de ser ruidoso, Fairmount es silencioso. O sea es pacífico. En mi barrio no es el graffiti y el vandalismo. Solamente hay unos murales en la comunidad. Es el mural de la gente bailando en la calle. La comunidad tiene muchos parques y  también pequeño el delito. No obstante el Lemon Hill se utilizó como la barrera en los revolution. En fin, mi barrio es una comunidad excelente para vivir.  

Mi mural está en la calle de Aspen y veinte cuatro. Es de sera chicos correinco en las parques. El propósito del  mural es  mostrar niños y niñas el propósito  de ejercicio. Este rincón está pasar de los chicos y chicas. Pueden aprender y divertirse a causa de no pueden siempre.  

El propósito del mural  es demonstrar niños y niñas el propósito de ejercicio. Además la mural mostrará los chicos corriendo corretear y jugando deportes. El papel sobre el  mural es  simbolizar la importancia de la felicidad. O sea la felicidad es la juventud. En juventud tú son capaces de corretear y que es la felicidad. Hay parques en la Fairmount y los chicó necesidad de conocer la infancia no es duran para siempre. Este es la final momento de divertirse. La esperanza las imágenes simbolizar la felicidad por los niños y las niñas.

Mi imagenes con éxito la purposto de arte público. Es representar la felicidad por los chicos y para mi es decir la propositio de arte público. Para mi de mi el diseño es perfecto. Ayudara los chicos. En vez de el delito los chicos pueden divertirse. La designa representar que ocurre cuando tu relaxar. Los colores es vivo captar la atención. Los chico no se dan cuento mucho. Asi que los colores son vivo para captar la atención.



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Puerto Rican Statue of Liberty por Dietrich Adonis, Carlos Vasquez, Glenn Hill

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17th and Mt.Vernon

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Puerto Rican people live in the area.
Many people like works of art in the neighborhood.
The people find the statue of liberty to be a symbol of freedom.

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Puerto Rican flag on Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty made to look like someone of Puerto Rican heritage.

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Many people in the area (maybe from Puerto Rico) who came here believing that everyone would have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

E1U8 Leo, Marcin, Julia

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Barcelona, Spain


Marcin: ¡Hola amigos! ¿Qué vas a hacer después?

Leo: Voy a estar de vago. ¿Y tú Marcin?

Marcin: ¡Voy a viajar!

Julia: ¿Adonde vas?

Marcin: Barcelona, España. ¿Y tú, Julia? ¿Qué vas a hacer después?

Julia: Voy a ver las atracciones.

Marcin: ¡Qué interesante! Hay muchos museos en Barcelona.

Leo: ¿Qué vas a hacer mañana?

Marcin: Estar de vago.

Julia: Hay un jugar de fútbol después. ¿Quierés ir?

Leo: ¡Claro qué sí!

Marcin: ¡Absolutamente!

Leo: ¿Cómo llegamos allí?

Julia: ¿Por tren?

Marcin: Sí. ¿Dónde está un estación de tren?

Leo: Carrer del Rector Triadó. En Avenue de Roma.

Julia: ¿Qué es el estadio de fútbol?

Leo: Camp Nou.

Marcin: ¿A qué hora es que en?

Leo: Son las dos en punto.

Julia: ¿Qué debemos usar?

Leo: ¿Jerseys, posiblemente?

Julia: Bueno. Qué bueno Yo recéin compré un jersey.

Marcin: ¿Que hora son?

Julia: Son las doce y media.

Leo: Bueno, nosotros tenemos hora. ¿Qué ustedes querer algo mientras nosotros espera?

Marcin: Tengo hambre. ¿Tienen almorzar conmigo?

Leo: Seguro. ¿Dónde está el restaurante más cercana?

Julia: Él está tres manzanas desde aquí.

Leo: Bueno ¡Vamos!

(Cuarto horas más tarde)

Julia: Eso estar divertido. ¿Debemos pasar con cada otro mañana?

Marcin: ¡Claro qué sí! Nosotros debemos pasar con cada otro más frecuentemente.

Leo: Yo esto de acuerdo. Nosotros debemos absolutamente. ¡Hasta luego!

Julia and Marcin: ¡Hasta luego! ¡Adios!



E1 U5 Hijo de las Américas

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Leo Cassel-Siskind

Soy yo

El hijo de padres Américano

Legalmente

Una hermana

Producto de Filadelfia

Estoy aquí para siempre


Yo veo mi familia de alemania

Yo oigo mi hermana gritando

Yo huelo East Hampton todo el siempre

Yo saboreo el fin de la acción de gracias

Yo toco el béisbol


Necesito el béisbol

Yo escapo a la playa, de la ciudad

Yo hablo fútbol

Mi familia vino en barcos a las Américas


Somos productos de America

Somos Americanos

Hablamos inglés

Le lengua de la hamburguesas y perritos calientes.

No somos europeos. No somos de Europa.

No somos alemans. Alemania está en nosotros. Pero allí no tengo hogar

Mi familia y yo estamos en las encrucijadas

Y somos completo.

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Becoming Macbeth- Leo Cassel-Siskind, Raymond Rochester, and Brendan Hall

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Macbeth Game


Our group made a game about Macbeth’s life. In the game you become Macbeth and make the decisions we saw he had to make in the story for him. You begin the game by reading the first scenario and question and then choosing one of the answers. Each answer will be a link to a new slide where you will read another scenario and answer another question. Eventually you will reach a point where you win and stay king forever or die and someone else becomes king.

The reason we made a game like this was so everyone could have a fun interesting experience where you get to become Macbeth. It’s a unique experience to try to make the decisions that Macbeth had to make. While many people in the class were saying that the decisions Macbeth was making were stupid now they have the chance to be put into the same scenario with one major goal and the odds strongly against them like they were for Macbeth.

While we made a way that you could make the decisions Macbeth did there are also many ways to select a new approach in an effort to become king. One of the major things you could do began from the first question you see; do you take the witches seriously? Should you select no you have taken a whole different course than Macbeth and the questions you are asked are different. Instead of following a Macbeth approach where you can decide to kill the king and you focus much more on Malcolm, because he becomes king (as his father of course made him heir). You focus on becoming his prince so that you eventually take over and you also get the option at a point of killing him as to become king. All the things that took place here are what we expect would happen had Macbeth made this decision.

If you take the witches seriously it becomes a lot more straightforward. You can decide if you should kill the king or wait for fate (just like Macbeth did in the story). If you decide to kill the king you can second guess yourself like Macbeth did for a little bit or just be tough and kill the king. Then should you kill the king you move on to Banquo and you must decide if it is necessary that he be killed. He could be your best friend, but he could also be a threat. The next thing that will come up is Macduff. He doesn’t attend your celebration as well and you have to decide if he should be killed. If you don’t he goes off to England to find Malcolm and comes back to fight you. Finally you have the choice of whether or not to help your people. If you don’t, everyone hates you even more than they already do and turn on you. If you do help them they rise up and beat England. This entire part is similar to the book and should you stray from what Macbeth does the results are very predictable.

The entire game can take between three and ten questions depending on your choices. Normally it will be somewhere in the middle. The odds of winning are very low, because Macbeth’s odds at becoming king and remaining king are very low. We also wanted to include a reward. Should the class win the game when we present, our group will bring in some prize (dessert) to be handed out the next day or two days later at lunch. The final thing we wanted to do was make a video around each scenario for the classes entertainment and to enhance our overall project.



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My Digital Media Reflection

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Leo Cassel-Siskind


In class we have been watching Digital Nation. It is about how all humans and teenagers in particular are online so much more than they used to be that being online is becoming a new lifestyle. The most scariest thing I viewed was about how people were chatting each other and encouraging each other to kill each other. There was even a website you could go to for the best place to kill yourself. It’s important to learn about things like this because it helps us protect ourselves online and helps us understand what we are doing online. If I was a parent I would make sure that I could see what my family was doing online whether talking to friends or posting pictures on social media. It’s important to do this so that in case someone is bullying my kids I can see that’s happening and help them out. Parents today who grew up without all of these things need to keep track of all the things their kids are doing online even though it may annoy them. Being online can be dangerous and they need to be protected.



Leo's Revised Slide and Reflection

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I learned how to keep a slide very basic from the critique I was given. My slide had too many components and was really four slides put into one. On this one I kept it very basic. There is one clear image on this slide instead of four. I also tried to use more information from our research with the baseball cropped of at the top and bottom. The Phillies symbol on either side takes care of much of the empty space, but I still left some above each sign. I was advised to leave my name in all capitals so I did and finally my background was a little complex and had some odd patterns so I made it a white background, because black (the background for the baseball) an white go together well.
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Leo's Life: Leo Cassel-Siskind

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My slide tells about me. The most important three things in my life are sports friends and school so they were the ones I wanted to show on this slide. 

I spend hours each day playing and practicing sports. Sometimes it's on my own and sometimes I do it with friends. I also spend a lot of times talking or texting my friends. It's relaxing and a good way to catch up. School is also very important to me. Now that I'm in high school my goal is getting into a good college so I try to work hard and do my best. 

I choose the design for my slide, because I wanted everything to jump out at you. It's a pretty plain blue background so that the first thing you notice are the images. I thought the clip art design would be easy to see and make my intentions obvious. I wanted to make everything obvious so instead of wondering what each one was people can think about why it's really important to me. I also wanted my name large in the center of the page so everyone would know who I am and who's life these things are important to. Finally I didn't want to clutter up the page with too much stuff. I wanted to keep it to the basics of my life. 
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Leo Cassel-Siskind Assignment 3

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2. I have a few devices that connect to my Local Area Network. There are four phones which includes two iphones, a blackberry, and a slide phone. We have four computers and a printer which connects to one of the computers. 

3. I had one when I realized there was a distributer, because it seems obvious that there is one, but I had thought that everything goes seperatly to the device.

4. I would tell them what devices I have in my house and what my internet service provider is.

Bullying

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Today in class we watched a video about a boy who was being bullied. We watched it two times. The first time we did not click the eye emoji which showed what would happen if people helped the person being bullied. The second time we did though. When he clicked the emoji he was happy and seemed to be enjoying life, but when no one was helping he was nearly crying and was depressed. Online there are pictures of me from instagram and pictures from my friends instagram accounts. You could also see a project I did on Prezi in 6th grade and a picture of me from a race I did a couple years ago. There are both positives and negatives to online anonymity. The positive is that you may be comfortable with talking to people over the internet then in person, but also people can stalk you online which can lead to cyber bullying.  
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