MC Website Project Reflection

~Name~
Sofia Garcia

~Project~
Moral Courage Website Project

~Class~
BD

~Dates~
March 14th 2008

Purpose:
The purpose of this project was to learn about a certain subject that we got to choose with our groups, we had to research this subject and become experts on it. In order to learn about our subjects we had to get in groups of 5-6 people, make a website, and enter in the Think Quest website contest. We created a website full of content of the subjects that we choose. One of the main reasons that we did this project was to learn about moral courage, which is when someone stands up for what they believe in regardless of what other people think. We had to relate the topic of our website to the subject of moral courage.

What I Learned:
The subject that my group choose was music and how it relates to important events in history. My group choose The Holocaust, The Great Depression, and The Vietnam War. My research topic was The Holocaust, so in this project I learned all about the Holocaust. Even though my research topics were not The Great Depression or The Vietnam War I still learned a lot about these topics as well. Since this was a website project I got way better at working with Macromedia Dreamweaver. There were also some other things that I learned, like I learned how to working groups better since this project was done in groups of five to six.
Reflection:
Since this project had a lot to do with the computer and technical stuff it was very frustrating when we did not save something that we worked really hard on and it got deleted. If I were to do this project again I think that we should spend more time on the graphics and not wait until the last minute to get the music since our website was called -the music-. Even though we were missing a couple of things I'm really glad that we spent most of our time on the content of the site.
Artifacts:
our website!-
file://///k2/homes/My%20DP/Internet%20Stuff/index.htm

Independent Reading: week 3

NAME: Sofia Garcia
DATE: 3.9.08
TITLE: Parvana's Journey
TIME: 2 HOURS
AUTHOR: Deborah Ellis
PAGES: 196
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 196
RESPONSE:
The book Parvana's Journey is the sequel to the book that I read two weeks ago, The Breadwinner. This book tales place two years after the first book. The difference between Parvana's journey and the  Breadwinner is that in that this book is a lot sadder than the first book. In this book Parvana's father dies so she has to travel alone in the country side of Afghanistan to find her mother and sister.  She is still disguised as a boy and if the Taliban finds her thinking she is a boy they would put her in the army, if she discovered as a girl she would get in trouble for not wearing a burqa.  Every where Parvana looks there is death and destruction.  On her journey she finds an baby boy who's mom got killed, a 9-year-old who lost his leg to land mines, and a little girl who is taking care of her aged grandmother until a bomb kills her grandmother.  Together these starving children travel Afghanistan.  This book is really sad, it made me cry, but it made me realize how good we have it and how lucky we are to live in a safe country. 

Independent Reading: week 2

NAME: Sofia Garcia
DATE: 3.2.08
TITLE: A Mango Shaped Space
TIME: 2 HOURS
AUTHOR: Wendy Mass
PAGES: 218
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK:
RESPONSE:
This book was a story about girl named Mia, who has a disorder called synethsia. Sometimes this disorder was a good thing and someimes it was a bad thing. When Mia decides to tell every one her secret [that she has senethsia], her whole life changes people think of her diffrently and she finds out a lot of things ablout herself and about her family and friends. This is a great story about family and friendship.
In this story Mia has a cat named Mango, she named him Mango because that is the color of his name. When people have synethsia sounds and letters have colors. When Mango has a deadly sickness it makes Mia's life even harder. If I was Mia I don't think that I would wait ntil I was 13 to tell people that I had senithsia because then it would not be sucha big deal.