Name: Robert Jenkins

Mentor: Chris Lehmann - I selected him because he’s the coach of the Ultimate team and has experience in running ultimate tournaments and leagues. 

Summary: My capstone was to host a high school ultimate frisbee tournament called Huck To The Moon.

Abstract: For my capstone, I decided to host a high school ultimate tournament that would work as a fundraiser for the Ultimate team. Originally this project  started off as a two day event with 16 teams, but due to heavy rains I had to postpone the event to the following weekend which caused a conflict with a number of teams spring break schedule. Through out the process of organizing the event I learned about money management  such as budgeting.One of the hardest factors of completing this project was keeping a step-by-step plan and sticking to it.Even though my plan was derailed by early contract fall outs with locations and team payment scrambling due to that confusion.

Bibliography:

Rick Atkins(PADA)

Atkins, Rick. Personal interview. 29 Dec. 2013.

Rick Atkins is PADA board president and is in charge of alot of logistics for the organization such as insurance/waivers and field permitting. The Philadelphia  Area Disc Alliance is the cites ultimate facilitator offering playing opportunities for people of all ages and skill levels.Through different programs and subdivision such PADA YO and PHUEL. 

Brit Bigley(PADA YO)

Bigley, Brit. Personal Interview. 5 Oct. 2013

PADA Yo is program with a goal of teaching and increasing the overall popularity of Ultimate Frisbee.They send out experienced players to various middle schools and recreation centers throughout the city to instruct a 10 week program about the principles of Ultimate and Spirit of The Game.Brit Bigley served as my primary contact into this program she assigned me to the recreation center and middle school pick-up in the fall.

Charles Boehm

"Pennsbury School District." Pennsbury School District. N.p.,  27 Jan. 2014.

A middle school in the Pennsbury School district that was the orginal site for my event.It offered a playground space that could fit 11 fields comfortably.Ultimately the event was moved from this space because of a in school event that made parking access for both function impossible.However the experienced helped learn how secure fields.

Friction Gloves

"Friction Gloves - HOME." Friction Gloves. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

A start-up company providing a product call friction gloves with the mission statement that they are the all purpose Ultimate Frisbee glove.The company is serving as an official sponsor for the event.The sponsorship helps  to  bring a fun factor the event with a  face that is becoming familiar in  Ultimate sporting it.This also brought to my attention that a cool thing I could have is a Capt./Coach packet which is where every teams captain gets a free gift.

Anthony Iwazsko

Iwazsko, Anthony. Personal interview. 

Former President and current board member at The Washington Area Flying Disc Club.He provide insite on how to run an ultimate frisbee tournament and what to beware of while negotiating prices on different services.Such as what should be expected from field spaces if the cost over a certain wage.He also describe different tournament brackets that would be ideal for a 10 team tournament.

LeagueVine By Mark Liu

Liu, Mark. "Explore Leagues." TD Tuesdays. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

The website provides a blog called TD tuesdays in which they breakdown different aspects of running a tournament.It covers everything from the necessities  such as food and water.To kind of fun factor you can add in order to turn your ordinary tournament to 5 star event that teams are begging to come to in the next coming years.The website also has an application in which you can use it as an alternative score reporter.

PHUEL

"Home - Philadelphia High School Ultimate Education League." Home - Philadelphia High School Ultimate Education League. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

Philadelphia High School Ultimate Educational League is the local High School league servicing teams from the greater Philadelphia area and surrounding counties.The league's serviced as a product base for the tournament with over an anticipation of more than half of participating teams coming from this league including SLA based teams.

Cathy Roberts

Roberts, Cathy. E-mail interview. 6 Jan. 2014.

Cathy Roberts is an event planner and SLA parent. She has helped me with planning out non-ultimate supplies such as what caters to hire and stores I should look at in order to save money.She also has helped me develop a list of companies I could try to get potential sponsorships from and how  to market the event to them to each one of them. 

Tino Leto Fields (SCCSA-Norbert Sax)

"SCCSA Soccer: Southern Chester County Soccer Association." SCCSA Soccer: Southern Chester County Soccer Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

Tino Leto is the primary athletic facility for SCCSA and the official location for Huck To The Moon.The fields have recently been opened back up to the public after a complete renovation in the spring of 2012.SCCSA is Southern Chester County Soccer Association that works with providing spaces for soccer events.

Savage Ultimate

"SAVAGE | The ULTIMATE Apparel Company." SAVAGE. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014

An apparel company based out of  South Carolina, that specializes in creating customize gear for ultimate frisbee teams, tournaments, and leagues.Heather Olin is the head of tournament sales at Savage Ultimate, I contacted her for a potential sponsorship from Savage.They offered discount on custom gear bearing that we sell $300 on gear at the tournament.Ultimately this source was unhelpful because it create an opportunity in which I was not guaranteed any benefits and with this being the first time SLA is hosting a ultimate tournament I have no past data to support how much revenue we could expect on the day of the event.

SPONSORSHIP GUIDE 

"HOW CAN TOURNAMENT AND LEAGUE ORGANIZERS GET THE SPONSORSHIP THEY WANT?" HOW CAN TOURNAMENT AND LEAGUE ORGANIZERS GET THE SPONSORSHIP THEY WANT? (n.d.): n. pag. Web.

This is  an article on how the tournament director would promote and sale his tournament to potential sponsors. He broke down his methods depending on the type of sponsorship he wanted, what was size  and national recognition of the company and who he would have to contact.For example in his pitch to Gatorade he used graphical analysis and company testimonials to show how successful he was with smaller sponsors.Foreshadowing that if he was giving a bigger budget he could expand to much more profitable event.

TheWrightLife

"Disc Golf | Frisbee Golf | Innova Discs | DiscMania | The Wright Life." Disc Golf | Frisbee Golf | Innova Discs | DiscMania | The Wright Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

The store sales Ultimate  Frisbee Wooden Trophies in which tournament directors can have their tournament logo engraved onto a wooden disc.i used this source because it's where I plan on but the tournament awards from.

USA Ultimate

"USA Ultimate." USA Ultimate. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

The governing body for ultimate frisbee in United States and Canada.The organization host a lot tournament at the masters, club, college and youth level.Along with being the general holder of information about tournaments hosted by individual organization through its score reporter application. 

What your book club discussed:

This session we talked about chapters 2-6

How you discussed it:

Asked questions related to the text and had a discussion about them.

Any points of conflict/disagreement in discussion: We could not agree on how making a study to support an idea is not lying.

Rob-http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/stat3.html

Markierta - http://www.forbes.com/sites/naomirobbins/2012/02/16/misleading-graphs-figures-not-drawn-to-scale/

• Group members present during the discussion?

• Robert Jenkins, Martez Cards, Niyala Brownlee, and Markitra Kesse

• What your club discussed?
  

• Introduction and Chapter one

• How you discussed it?

• Our discussion was about biases in statistics and if its possible to have a statistic without a hidden agenda.  

• Any points of conflict/disagreement in discussion?

• We disagreed on what was a bias study and how are the displayed.

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My group’s campaign topic is  College Dropout rates in Philadelphia and what we planed to do was first raise awareness that this is a growing problem in Philadelphia, while also pointing out different solutions to fix it. So Devante, Joshua, Aazimah and I decided that we were going to create a poster, flyers, a PSA and a twitter page to present this problem to our target audience. Our target audience was college students in Philadelphia so we would host most of are campaigning downtown near Penn and Drexel Campuses.

My roles in this project were to create the twitter page, find places for us to post and hand out our flyers and work on the group PSA component. Each of these component to me had their own advantages and disadvantages, such as how I may have found a place where college students do come past but when we went to that location during lunch hours their was no one to hang out the flyers too. But overall I think I made some good progress on my components of the project such as networking on twitter. My groups’ account is now sending our message out to 70+ followers which considering that it has only been active for a week that is a rapid approval rating. This also shows some success to the flyers and posters made by other group members because the username to the twitter page is posted on each component.

Gurwitt, Rob. Betting on the Bulldozer. EBSCOhost. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=9&sid=37b188e6-9663-4039-b244-c11cc6068abe%40sessionmgr110&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ofm&AN=503904949>.

Mayor John F. Street choose to devote a extra 250 million dollars into developing and brighten up to the residential areas of the city. As a cause of this the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative or NTI was created to be the organizer of the projects that this money will be spent on. But it turned out that the program has been a failure for sometime because the NTI didn’t make the plans in order to restore the city. “The truth is, until Philadelphia starts spending its NTI money, no one actually knows what changes the effort will bring.”

Beard, Elizabeth. Green Works in Philadelphia. EBSCOhost. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=7&sid=133b070a-9292-4ed4-961b-b09cdbdbc92e%40sessionmgr11&hid=27&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ofm&AN=84635847>.

Mayor Nutter takes a different approach to city recreation. His goal is to make Philadelphia the greens city in America by the year 2015 and has wrote a multi-decade budget of 2 billion dollars to complete this goal. This can show that the reason why are problem of abandon buildings hasn’t been tackled because the programs focus has been flipped to making Philadelphia a more energy efficient area.

            "Philadelphia's Future." Telephone interview. 15 Feb. 2013.

          We got a chance to speak to the executive office at PACDC and he explained to us the things that we might not be able to know about his job. Such as how they decide to spilt the budgets between each branch of the corporation. Such as NPDC or WPDC.

"Abandoned Philadelphia." Abandoned Philadelphia. Wordpress, n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://abandonedphiladelphia.com/page/2/>.

This is a unofficially data base of different restoration projects that have been implemented and proposed in order to cut down the overwhelming number of 50,000+ vacant properties in the Philadelphia area .It says in one article about how councilman Bobby Henon believes the city should wage war on the absentee landlords by increasing the cost of fines for landlords that choose to negligent their property. This shows that there is a push by the city to hold owners accountable for their property.

Pennsylvania Pictures. N.d. Photograph. Pennsylvania Pictures, Philadelphia.Pennylvania Pictures. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://abnf.co/pennsylvania_pictures.htm>.

This gives a visual look on the amounts of abandon buildings in Philadelphia. But the most interesting thing is the amount of these building that were former factories for some major corporations. How can we just allow corporation to just up and leave the city with the mess to clean.

I believe crossing boundaries generally have to do with two situations one is to better your life or the life of others and the other is to break a norm because you don’t that it fits with ones personal morals. For example moving to America was a way for Kristi’s dad to better his family’s life with the new job opportunities he could obtain in the United States. I found this project to be very fun and creative because we all got to research are own diverse subjects and explore as journalist. This made it more engaging to me because I had the ability to not make it boring. Also during the videos I learned a lot about the different and cultures in Germany and Albania. But I found that editing and creating a podcast extremely hard because some times you cant get the volume or the correct deletion of bites to fit correctly.

Strengths: Good Questions, Made it seem like a real radio/podcast, Volume lacked background noise for the most part.

“Sup.” I said.

“Tired.” my friend replied with a yawn.

“What Class we got first.” I asked.

“Spanish.” he replied.

“We mine as well get up dere now.” I said.

“Mine as well its already 8 o’clock.”

This is an example of my normal dialogue when I just get into the school building and greet my friends. I talk like this because it is a relaxing and much way easier to speak. Also, its something I have become accustomed to because this is how most of my peers and I communicate on a daily basis. Mostly because to us its such a easy and leisurely   way of speaking to one another. Though we are educated enough to realize that this is not the grammatically correct way of communication in qworking field or  profession. This is why during situations in school or the workplace I code switch. I switch my dialogue so the listener will pay attention to the information I am trying to tell.

For example, if I was to have a interview for a job I would not go in the employers office saying “Wats up I’m here for dat job interview jawn.”. Instead I would walk into the office and say “Hello I am Robert Jenkins I’m here for my job interview.”. As you can see this is a huge difference between the way I greeted my friend  at the beginning of a school day, and how I speak to people of higher authority. The reasons for making this change is so that the employer does not look at me as something that I am  not or to fit in with the kind of workers already with the establishment. For example I could be one of the best people for the job just as James Baldwin said in If Black English Isn’t A Language, Then Tell me What Is?  “To open your mouth is to put your business in the streets” and this could cause people to have the wrong opinion of me. They could believe I am a poorly educated young man and is not truly serious about this job or my future. Even though this is completely untrue I could not blame the employer for coming up with that assumption because what else would that kind of speech apply. This the kind of Code Switch that I have to make for many different occasion through out life.

Another reason I might code switch  is because I am uncomfortable with the people who are surrounding. Most of the time I use this kind of switch when I am going to new school, Church, or any other place that I am unfamiliar with. I remember the time I was in a similar situation when I was shadowing at SLA.

 “Wassup”  “Hi” I replied, “You ready for the day.”, “Yes I guess.” I replied. My Conversations with my Student Tour Guide went on like this for most of the day until I got use to the school a little and him. Once I was able to develop this relaxed relationship with my surroundings I was able to switch back to my usual sense of dialect.

A time where I mistakenly for got to code switch was when I was talking to my mom about the cost about of some Watch The Throne Concert Tickets. “How much are for good tickets.”, I said. “The Best Price and Seats I could find was 200.” “Are you serious!” I replied. “Very.” “Damn it” I said. Completely forgetting that I was having this conversation with my mom and not one of my friends in school, but luckily she really catch what I said so I was able to get out of it with ease. This is a situation where using the wrong dialogue could of got extremely ugly.

I change my way of speaking for many different occasion but they each are similar in the reasoning behide it. I do each change to try to either fit or to not be judge by others. I do not  do it in the sense of being fake to new people and make them believe that I’m not because I truly am ok with my own personality, but the comfort of not being judged is always a plus. But Code-Switching is not something that I just personally have to do but everyone in the world might have to change their dialogue at some point in time.

We were under heavy fire from the North Vietnamese Army and I had just knifed the chest of a enemy solider that had rushed into me. The battle had me full with so much adrenalin that I forgot the strategies that you to taught me that have so many times kept us alive through so many battles. Like the one when u said to secure every kill with a second cut to the throat to be sure that your enemy will never get up. But I didn’t instead I turned my back on him and the wounded enemy was able to draw his gun and fire.I slowly began to turn around in shock of the fate I will soon take I felt powerless and it seem as if I could not move. But then came you  jumping right in front of me  pushing both of us down to the ground. As we laid on the ground I began a sigh of relief, until I notice this blank stare in your face and you where not responding to my cries.” Ceaser Ceaser are you alright” no answer so pushed you off from the top of me and noticed you have been shot 3 times and where heavily bleeding. So I rushed you back to home base for medical attention but by time we had made It I had already lost you. From that moment in life I decided that it was time for me too change my life around. See even in the past life you are still my teacher. So for that I thank you Julius u are a true life changer

Miguel Card & Roberto Jenkins

Espanol Benchmark

Mi y Roberto fuimos a cinco restaurante. El primero restaurante nosotros fuimos a era Casa Felix. Allí nosotros comimos Halibut ceviche y Paraguayan corn cakes. Nosotros borracho Argentine wines y minty peperina.

Nosotros fuimos a Cabaña Las Lilas. Nosotros comimos lomo. Nosotros tuvimos to bueno el tiempo. No borracho.

Nosotros fuimos a Casa Cruz a tuvimos la diversión. Nostros no comimos y no borracho.

Nosotros fuimos a Cavas Wine Lodge. Nosotros comimos grilled lamb y din alfresco en beef empanads. Borracho Argentine wines

Nosotros fuimos a Desnivel nosotros comimos parrilla. Nosotros gusta décor mucho. Nosotros tuvimos to bueno el tiempo.

Yo y Miguel fuimos a Argantina las verano.Nostros tenimos pasar el Ushuaia y Beagle Canal.

Yo y Martez fuimos a El Calafate  veremos Perito Moreno. El Perito Moreno es muy grande

Nostros fuimos a Iguazu Falls  y Aqva Restaurant ayer mañana. Yo  comí el pescado y el pastel.

Nostros fuimos Ischigualasto parque a subimos Valle de la Luna.

It was a great day for cookout I spent the whole day with my family .It was fun even the ride home was a funnier then the usual. When I got home I  sat down and watched television, then I happened to noticed that no one had let my dog Misty in from the backyard. So I went to the backyard to let her out, but this seemed to be only a failed attempt because she was not  sitting outside the door from hearing the rattle of the door. I began to look around the backyard for her but she was nowhere to be found .Then, I noticed in the left corner of the gate there was a huge  opening big enough for more then a dog to go under. So my family and I quickly assumed that someone had broken to are backyard and either set my dog free to roam in the cruel world or try to take her for themselves. This seemed to be one of the  worst days of my life  because I could be losing a long time friend that I have known since I was just 4 years old.

Shortly, after we began our long search for the family dog we came to believe that our seem futile. A month had gone by there has been no citing of her around the neighborhood and we haven’t received any calls from anyone who have seen our flyers. Perhaps its because we only had a picture of Misty at 3 years old when she was now 7. After about a month of searching my parents found that there was no point invest any more money or time to continue the search. So we began “the waiting game” it seem like I have been waiting by the phone  each day for years  and yet its only been a couple weeks.

After about 2 months of Misty had been lost we finally got a call from a man saying he had found our dog on a corner,  and had taken her to his house around 40^th and market where she had been staying for a couple of days. Until he noticed that she had a collar with her name and our phone number incase she gotten lost. So I told him we would be there to pick her up as soon as my mother gets  home from  work. Later that day when my mom returned home I told the great news and her mans address. We left out right then and there so I could be reunited with my dog and I thanked the man  for his kindness and for helping us find our dog. Ultimately it all ended great, and I had a totally different perspective on the world and nice society might  actually be.

 The basic plot of the book Is about a boy named matt that is really a clone to a evil science professor named El Patron who controls mostly everything  and  everyone. But as through out the book Matt learns more and more information about himself as a clone and El Parton as a dictator to society.  The conflict of this story is person vs. person. This is because its Matt vs. the dictator El Parton  but the problem is that Matt is brain washed to believe that El Parton is his friend but he is really just a clone he wants to be in handy for spare body parts if something goes wrong.  You should take away from this book that everyone is not your friend and you can not live in world blind of your own personal thoughts. For example you can not expect someone to always be their to do everything for you and lead you through life’s task. Basically you should take away from this that its good to have independents

I  can relate to Matt in this story because just as for him everyday in my life is a opportunity to learn something  new with in my self. So I can someday have a vision of what a great life is for. The feeling I felt that a character in the story also felt was the down feeling of being accused of something and having no one believe me when I say I didn’t do it. This was the same feeling that Matt has when everyone is accusing him of killing Furball.

My personal opinion of this book is that it is a must read for anyone. This story had me on my toes from the minute I picked it up. The special thing about this book is that I have not came across to anything with a similar plot or way to present the conflict. The strength of this book is that it’s a original plot and  the suspense level it puts on the reader is unbelievable. I don’t find significant weakness in this text.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a different kind of story to read and loves a suspenseful book fraught with mystery this is the book for the job. I loved this book and wish everyone could obtain the same care for it as I did.

March 6, 2011

Orange Stream

The movie “O Brother Where Art Thou” and “The Odyssey“ features two adventurers who encounter similar pathsb but  but handles their paths in told different ways. Everett is a convict that is sentenced to work on the chain gang. He makes up a lie about a treasure of 1.2 million dollars. So that his friends Pete and Dumar will break free and help him get to his wife before she remarries. Odysseus is a leader of a Roman army who has been away from his wife Penelope and his Son Telemachus for 10 years. He tries to get back home before his wife remarries because he is believed to be dead.

Odysseus and Evert are both on journeys to get back to their loved ones, however they both take two different approaches to complete their journeys. Evert has to lie in order to make his friends want to break out but Odysseus already has a loyal army that also needs to get home as well. This shows that his peers respect Odysseus more, because he doesn’t have to make up a lie in order to get followers to join him on his journey. Also during Evert’s adventure, he has to continue to fight for power as the leader of Pete and Dumar, especially after they learn that the Treasure is a fake.

There are many differences in how Evert and Odysseus take their journeys.  Evert has only his two friends Pete and Dumar to take on his adventure but Odyssey has too lead him and a whole army from island to island through so many different dangers and encounters. However they both do encounter Sirens for example in book 12 Circe says to Odysseus as she explains to him about his journey. “First you will raise the island of the sirens.”(Book 12: line 44). In O Brother Where Art Thou Evert and his companions are led to the sirens by their song then is left there over night and Pete is captured by the ”Devil” and forced to tell were they are trying to get towards as they run away from the chain gang. 

Evert and Odysseus are both sharp-witted men who have to go through great obstacles to get back to their homes and loved ones. But even though Odysseus and Evert are both on journeys to get back to their loved ones, they both take two different approaches to complete their journeys.

 Robert Jenkins

March 6, 2011

Orange Stream

The movie “O Brother Where Art Thou” and “The Odyssey“ features two adventurers who encounter similar pathsb but  but handles their paths in two different ways. Everett is a convict that is sentenced to work on the chain gang. He makes up a lie about a treasure of 1.2 million dollars. So that his friends Pete and Dumar will break free and help him get to his wife before she remarries. Odysseus is a leader of a Greek army who has been away from his wife Penelope and his Son Telemachus for 10 years. He tries to get back home before his wife remarries because he is believed to be dead. The main difference in this is that Everett has to lie to get people on his side but people just generally follow Odysseus as a leader.

Odysseus and Everett are both on journeys to get back to their loved ones, however they both take two different approaches to complete their journeys. Everett has to lie in order to make his friends want to break out but Odysseus already has a loyal army that also needs to get home as well. This shows that his peers respect Odysseus more, because he doesn’t have to make up a lie in order to get followers to join him on his journey. Also during Everett’s adventure, he has to continue to fight for power as the leader of Pete and Dumar, especially after they learn that the Treasure is a fake.

There are many differences in how Everett and Odysseus take their journeys. Everett has only his two friends Pete and Dumar to take on his adventure but Odyssey has too lead him and a whole army from island to island through so many different dangers and encounters. However they both do encounter Sirens for example in book 12 Circe says to Odysseus as she explains to him about his journey. “First you will raise the island of the sirens.”(Book 12: line 44). In O Brother Where Art Thou Evert and his companions are led to the sirens by their song then is left there over night and Pete is captured by the ”Devil” and forced to tell were they are trying to get towards as they run away from the chain gang. 

Everett and Odysseus are both sharp-witted men who have to go through great obstacles to get back to their homes and loved ones. But even though Odysseus and Everett are both on journeys to get back to their loved ones, they both take two different approaches to complete their journeys.

Bull Crap Bull crap, these young adults don’t listen to me I’m a kid. Man let me tell you last summer I decided I was going to make me some money with my free time. So I could be independent till September then it’s in my parents pockets I go. I was going to be able to buy clothes, go to the movies whenever, and buy any videogame I wanted. So I found a job at MLK Recreation Center they tell me I get paid 7.25 an hour for 4 hours a day. So I'm like what a sweet job and its watching kids at an after care that’s cake.  All I have to do is interact with little kids. But little did I know my boss was some big grumpy lady that sole purpose was to make my summer full of anguish. She gave me the job of watching kids ages 15-16 even why knowing I’m 14. But gave her daughter and niece the job of watching kids ages 5-10 that’s totally unfair.

How was I supposed to make people older then me listen to me as their guardian? Then though they all were shorter then me and had a mind set of a little child. But still if I was in their shoes I would look at this 14 year old and say sit your little a** down who you think you talking too.  So after that moment I decided I was going to let them do whatever and I were going to sit somewhere and just sit back and relax the day away. Like their 15 why do they need after care anyway I can see you go to camp but after cares for little babies who can’t be home by there self. So when it was time the go outside they went out and started harassing the little kids and I just sat on the bench at the end of the park texting not realizing that the Boss will chew me up if anyone gets hurt on my watch. So I got up and did my job and led them back in into the building. As I did I noticed the kids starting to look at me as if they were going to do something, but they had another thing coming if they thought they could just run all over me like a Track star. So when we got in the class room I told them they were going to sit still and play like young olds with common sense.

However that attempt was what I call an epic fail because in less than a half and hour the room was uncontrollable and I didn’t know what to do. All I could think of was to ask my boss what to do. As she sat at a desk watching this mess and stuffing her fat face full of KFC chicken. Nevertheless she was no help because all she said was  “You have to make them know you’re the boss” and then she started laughing. I didn’t see what was so funny yes the kids where having fun but they could have did this in a more Conscientious manner of acting.

After two hours of uncontrolled time with the children I was switch it to finish the rest of the day at the front office. What a relief from them villainous kids and that dumb lady. This ending of my day was way better than working with kids because now I was a assistant and I didn’t have to deal with my main super visor. I was running back and forth doing all kinds of task. Such as filing, cleaning and working at the sign-in desk.

It’s almost time togo for me since their parents have picked up all the kids in my group. After they were gone I cleaned the messy room and was ready to rush put the door. But that Insolent woman stopped me and said “There is pieces missing to three board games your group was playing with them so your responsible for them being found and you can’t leave till they are.” I groped around looking for the pieces that I finally found in a child’s desk and then left work 10 minutes later then schedule. I though about quitting that day but I realized I’m not a quitter and sometimes a man's got to do what man have to do.

 The Boss By Robert Jenkins

I was at MLK recreation but this was not my dream. Man, let me tell you about last summer. I decided I was going to make me some money with my free time. With employment, I could be independent until September then dependent on my parents come school again.. I was going to be able to buy clothes, go to the movies whenever, and buy any videogame I wanted (Magic 3). So I found a job at MLK Recreation Center for $7.25 an hour for 4 hours a day. So I'm like what a sweet job and its watching kids at an after care that’s a piece of cake.  All I have to do is interact with little kids. But little did I know my boss was some big grumpy lady whose sole purpose was to make my summer full of anguish(vocab). From the first time we met she was yelling at me for being late on the first day even though I explained to her I never had even been in North Philadelphia by myself and I had gotten lost. After being torn of my happiness she gave me the job of watching kids ages 15-16 even while knowing I was 14. But she gave her daughter and niece the job of watching kids ages 5-10.

How was I supposed to make people older than me listen to me as their guardian? Even though they all were shorter than me and had a mind set of a little child, the fact was they were still older than me.  If I was in their shoes I would look at this 14 year old and say sit your little a** down who you think you talking to.  So after that moment I decided I was going to let them do whatever and I were going to sit somewhere and just sit back and relax the day away. Like they’re 15 why do they need after care anyway I can see you go to camp but after cares for little babies who can’t be home by themselves. So when it was time the go outside they went out and started harassing the little kids and I just sat on the bench at the end of the park texting not realizing that the Boss will chew me up if anyone gets hurt on my watch. So I got up and did my job and led them back in into the building. As I did I noticed the kids starting to look at me as if they were going to do something, but they had another thing coming if they thought they could just run all over me like a Track star(simile). So when we got in the class room I told them they were going to sit still and play like young adults with common sense.

However that attempt was what I call an epic fail because in less than a half and hour the room was uncontrollable with kids doing whatever they wanted like playing dodge ball or nearly breaking windows with baseball. As they yelled loudly with a variety of foul words that you think you would only here from a sailor. All I could think of was to ask my boss what to do. As she sat at a desk watching this mess and stuffing her fat face full of KFC chicken,  she was no help because all she said was  “You have to make them know you’re the boss”(dialogue) and then she started laughing. I didn’t see what was so funny. Yes the kids were having fun but they could have did this in a more conscientious(vocab) manner of acting.

After two hours of uncontrolled time with the children I switched shifts to finish the rest of the day at the front office. What a relief from those villainous kids and that dumb lady. This ending of my day was way better than working with kids because now I was a assistant and I didn’t have to deal with my main supervisor. I was running back and forth doing all kinds of tasks such as filing, cleaning and working at the sign-in desk.(Magic 3)

It was almost time to go for me since the parents had picked up all the kids in my group. After they were gone I cleaned the messy room and was ready to rush out the door. But that insolent(vocab) woman stopped me and said “There is pieces missing to three board games your group was playing with them so your responsible for them being found and you can’t leave till they are.”(Dialogue) I groped(Vocab) around looking for the pieces that I finally found in a child’s desk and then left work 10 minutes later than scheduled. I thought about quitting that day but I realized I’m not a quitter and sometimes a man's got to do what man has to do.

Robert Jenkins

Thesis Statement-Lady Macbeth went from a power hungry woman to a lunatic filled with guilt who is a threat to Macbeth’s throne. But also cause Macbeth to turn evil as well.

This Quote was said in Act 1 Scene 5 page 17 and told by Lady Macbeth. It takes place after she just finish reading a letter Macbeth Sends her after he is name Thane of Cardor and the witches propensity tells him he will be king but she doesn’t believe he has the guts to take over therefore she wants to gain power. She wants to be treated has a man because they have power. The Quote is “Come you sprits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”. This is important to her growth it shows that she wants power in her life and to help Macbeth get to were he needs to be king.

This Quote was said in Act 1 Scene 7 page 22 and told by Lady Macbeth after she tells Macbeth they should plan to murder Duncan. She says it because she wants him to agree with her ideas. The Quote is “As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem, “ This is important because it shows how that she is evil and is ready to stop at nothing to gain the power she seeks.

This Quote is said in Act 1 Scene 7 line page 22 and is told by Lady Macbeth. This is said as her and Macbeth is talking about killing Duncan and she is trying to convince him to do it. By saying is not a man and he is a coward. She says to Macbeth “When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be much more the man. “This is important because this is one of her techniques to get Macbeth to do as she please so that she can have power as the Queen.

This Queto was told by Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 7 on page 23.It talks as if that Lady Macbeth trickery and Indirect reasoning to make him believe he could kill Duncan and get away with it. He says, “False face must hide what the false heart follow. Which is important because if Lady Macbeth can get her husband to believe in himself and go with the plan she would be one step closer to her goal. Also it tells how even with out doing something herself she stills know how to get what she wants.

This is told by Lady Macbeth in Act 2 Scene 2 page 29-30.This is right after the murder of Duncan is committed and Macbeth is placing the daggers on the servants. She says, “Retire we to our chamber A little water cleans us of this deed. This is important because from that part of the passage it shows how Lady Macbeth had no regret for her actions. This is because she is only in the thought if protecting herself and getting what she wants.

The next part of the passage I will analyze is said In Act 3 Scene 4 page 52.It is at the dinner honoring Macbeth as the new king of the land. It states, “You shall offend him and extend his passion. Feed, and regard him not- Are you a man?” This Statement is important because it shows how that Lady Macbeth is able to with stand her pure evil plan even when her loyal partner is not.

This Quote was said in Act 5 Scene 1 page 83 said by a Doctor. This is when a doctor and a woman are looking after Lady Macbeth. The Doctor says, “ I have teo nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report. “This is important because the Gentlewoman has seen Lady Macbeth acting strange at different times of the night but she has no clue why.

The Gentlewoman says this Quote in Act 5 Scene 1 page 84. This is as the Gentlewoman and Doctor watch Lady Macbeth as she sleeps and notice that she is up sleepwalking. She says, “Ay, but their sense are shut. “This is important because after they see that she is sleep walking they continue to watch and as they do Lady Macbeth begins to tell important secrets that her and Macbeth share.

Lady Macbeth tells this Quote on page 84 Act 5 Scene 1. It is as Lady Macbeth sleep walks and start to talk to herself. She says “Out, damned spot! Out, Isay! One – two – why when ‘tis time to do’t. This is important because this is her first showing of guilt. This is because she guilty about the murder that her he Macbeth have done that she begins to sleep walk and talk about a spot of blood on her that she can’t get off her. Also with out knowing she gives the information of the murder to the doctor and gentlewoman.

Macbeth in Act 3 Scene 3 tells this Quote on page 89.This is after Malcolm, Siward and Macduff have made an alliance to come kill Macbeth. Also Lady Macbeth is still sick and ill. He says to the doctor “ Cure her of that Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased”. This is important because this is Lady Macbeth final change because she has now became crazy and now she is becoming a distraction. For example Macbeth has to worry about this alliance coming to fight him but also has to worry about his wife health. Which is splitting his mind on too two thoughts, as he must make critical decisions as king.

Conclusion-Lady Macbeth’s transformation was more crucial to the plot of the story because as described in my quote it tells how this whole idea and plan to become king and queen was her’s. But after finally achieving it she gets guilty about what she has just caused he then gives up Macbeth secret. Which makes the whole country turn on him and ends his reign as king and his life as a man.

English BM (Revised)

Robert Jenkins

Thesis Statement-Lady Macbeth went from a power hungry woman to a lunatic filled with guilt ,  threatening Macbeth’s throne and causing him to turn evil like her.

In Act 1 scene 5 page 17 Lady Macbeth just finish reading a letter Macbeth sends her after he is named Thane of Cardor and the witches prophesy tells him he will be king but she doesn’t believe he has the guts to take over therefore she wants to gain power. She wants to be treated has a man because they have power. The Quote is “Come you sprits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”. This is her way of ask the sprits to give her  man like qualities so she can kill the king her self and have power. This is important to her growth it shows that she does want the  power in her life and to help Macbeth get to were he needs to be king.

This Quote was said in Act 1 Scene 7 page 22 and told by Lady Macbeth after she tells Macbeth they should plan to murder Duncan. She says it because she wants him to agree with her ideas. The Quote is “As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem, “ This is important because it shows how that she is evil and is ready to stop at nothing to gain the power she seeks.

This Quote is said in Act 1 Scene 7 line page 22 and is told by Lady Macbeth. This is said as her and Macbeth is talking about killing Duncan and she is trying to convince him to do it. By saying is not a man and he is a coward. She says to Macbeth “When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be much more the man. “This is important because this is one of her techniques to get Macbeth to do as she please so that she can have power as the Queen.

This quote was told by Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 7 on page 23. It talks as if that Lady Macbeth trickery and indirect reasoning to make him believe he could kill Duncan and get away with it. He says, “False face must hide what the false heart know.” Which is important because if Lady Macbeth can get her husband to believe in himself and go with the plan she would be one step closer to her goal. Also it tells how even with out doing something herself she stills know how to get what she wants.

This is told by Lady Macbeth in Act 2 Scene 2 page 29-30.This is right after the murder of Duncan is committed and Macbeth is placing the daggers on the servants. She says, “Retire we to our chamber A little water cleans us of this deed. This is important because from that part of the passage it shows how Lady Macbeth had no regret for her actions. This is because she is only in the thought if protecting herself and getting what she wants.

The next part of the passage is said in Act 3 Scene 4 page 52.It is at the dinner honoring Macbeth as the new king of the land. It states, to the Thanes: “You shall offend him and extend his passion. Feed, and regard him not”. Meaning to disregard Macbeth for the moment and just enjoy the food. Then Lady Macbeth turns around to Macbeth and says “Are you a man?” Meaning basically what are you doing stick with the plan stop acting crazy. This Statement is important because it shows how that Lady Macbeth is able to with stand her pure evil plan even when her loyal partner is not.

This Quote was said in Act 5 Scene 1 page 83 said by a Doctor. This is when a doctor and a woman are looking after Lady Macbeth. The Doctor says, “ I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report. “This is important because the Gentlewoman has seen Lady Macbeth acting strange at different times of the night but she has no clue why.

The Gentlewoman says this Quote in Act 5 Scene 1 page 84. This is as the Gentlewoman and Doctor watch Lady Macbeth as she sleeps and notice that she is up sleepwalking. She says, “Ay, but their sense are shut”. “This is important because after they see that she is sleep walking they continue to watch and as they do Lady Macbeth begins to tell important secrets that her and Macbeth share.

Lady Macbeth tells this Quote on page 84 Act 5 Scene 1. It is as Lady Macbeth sleep walks and start to talk to herself. She says “Out, damned spot! Out, Isay! One – two – why when ‘tis time to do’t. This is important because this is her first showing of guilt. This is because she guilty about the murder that her he Macbeth have done that she begins to sleep walk and talk about a spot of blood on her that she can’t get off her. Also with out knowing she gives the information of the murder to the doctor and gentlewoman.

Macbeth in Act 3 Scene 3 tells this Quote on page 89.This is after Malcolm, Siward and Macduff have made an alliance to come kill Macbeth. Also Lady Macbeth is still sick and ill. Macbeth says to the doctor “ Cure her of that Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased”. This is important because this is Lady Macbeth final change because she has now became crazy and now she is becoming a distraction. For example Macbeth has to worry about this alliance coming to fight him but also has to worry about his wife’s health. Which is splitting his mind on too two thoughts, as he must make critical decisions as king.

Lady Macbeth’s transformation was more crucial to the plot of the story because as described it shows how this whole idea and plan to become king and queen was her’s. But after finally achieving it she gets guilty about what she has just caused he then gives up Macbeth secret. Which makes the whole country turn on him and ends his reign as king and his life as a man. The message from Shakespeare is the consequents to be being fraught with evil can be that you soon to become crazy for power.

This portfolio really shows how I have made huge process in my writing through out the year. The viewer should be able to get to know a little about me from reading  some of these pieces of work such as my all about me magazine and memoir notebook projects.

My weakness in writing would have to  be my spelling and grammar. My strength is the way I follow directions and is able give the teacher what they are looking for. I will continue to work on my grammar.

By writing this portfolio it was like a way to see how I have truly made progress as a writer. For example it shows how writing 2 page reports at 12 times font as became easier to do.

I am most proud of my Book Review on “The Beast”. I’m most proud of it because it was one of my best papers grammar and spelling wise and also had great organization. Also I’m proud that it is my highest grade work of the year.

1.How will the budget effect your personal lesson plans for next year. Dunn: My lessons won’t be affected, but I might have to cut down on my use of paper next year since our supplies budget was cut from $80,000 to $30,000 ( a $50K loss) and this means we will all have to learn to do without the same quantity of supplies. Maybe I’ll become more into technology and grade just on the electronically submitted work.  Any other supplies I need (additional books, texts, films, etc) I will put up as fundraising proposals on Donors Choose.org to see if I can get these things funded and won’t need to lean on school funds.

2.What are the procedures or plans for cuts that you know  that will be taking place at SLA.

Dunn: We have to let go of 2 faculty/staff members (Jon Amsterdam and Josh Newman).  We had to lay off Jeremy and Luke but we just secured grant funding for next year to bring them back and be able to pay them (but their salary doesn’t come from the district). The supplies budget will be cut the most, along with money for student activities, trips, and extracurricular activities.. 

Student questions

1.How aware are you of budget cuts and what they hold.

Sarena: I’m pretty aware, I do sports so it effects me in a big way i read up on it as much as possible

2.Do you feel about the decision of the government to make budget cuts.

Sarena: I feel like they not giving Philadelphia children a chance, as we need as many as possible. Government not think about the future these are the future citizens and mayors lawyers, but they not giving us kids a chance

I changed my slide so that i could make everthing bigger.As Ms Hull Showed us in class. But I also used shapes to take out the unessary words out of my lebron picture. The elements that i still used were that i still bleed my pictures and that ii contrast my Shirt color with the Color  of the Expanition point.