Blog 12: Faces Continued

A lot of people know Sierra Barnwell on a surface level, they just see her as an athletic cheer leader that had lots of school spirit.  5’10” long blonde and a smile on her face.  She is much more than that.  She lives at home with her little brother and mom and dad.  She doesn’t live near the Willow Glen area so has a long drive everyday to school.  She manages to wake up earlier get ready and always show up to school on time.  Cheer is very time consuming, takes up most her time after school.  Some practices can go till 8 at night, leaving her not much time for homework and studying and no excuses.  She get everything she has to done, no matter how much sleep she misses out on.  Being on varsity cheer and competition team, this means she needs to give all her free time to staying focused on cheer and practicing.  She would never want to let her team down, her roll is very important to the team.  She is a back spot this means she is the main support base of lifting the ‘flyer’/ ‘stunt’ cheerleaders in place.  With her mind just slightly in the clouds she could drop her person and lead everyone to serious injury.  This can be a dangerous sport if you don’t stay committed dedicated and on task.

On the weekends Sierra loves to watch tv, her favorite shows included South Park, Jersey Shore, and various Holiday movies like ‘Elf’.  Also of course taking care of her brother and small light brown with some white haired chiwawa.  She likes to brush her dog and snuggle up with it when she watches her tv.  Her phone is her favorite electronic devise.  She can communicate with all her friends and use her favorite app ‘SnapChat’.  With this she can send fast video messages/pictures of funny faces, this makes her laugh.  Part of her routine weekend Sierra go to tumbling classes at Vegas Tumbling on 1111 Fliepe dr on the East side of town.  In this class she goes for a total of 4-5 hours on normal.  2-3 hours for her cheer team, and an additional 2-3 hours of extra practice with the professionals there.  Cheer is expensive, she can’t pay it all by herself she fundraises and does bake sales/ car washes ect.  Also lots of begging to her parents.

Who is Sierra as person?  Cheer leader? Nerd? Blonde? All can be terms people might call her, some rude, yes, stereotypical, most defiantly.  She is someone that doesn’t care what others think of her and sticks out among the crowd, whatever she wants goes.  Extremely independent and does what she has to do to get the grade, the trophy, or whatever she is reaching for.  Sierra Barnwell, someone that cant defined in one word, cant even be defined in several.

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Blog #11 More faces of Willow Glen

Sierra Barnwell, an all around great student at Willow Glen High School.  She participates is all school activities that are possible.  So she can show her school spirit and Ram Pride.  As a Cheer leader she feel she needs to set the example for her school by being a good remodel for younger students and freshmen.  Every chance she gets at school to dress up she takes advantage by going all out in school colors.  Also when she does all this she manages to get straight As.  Her favorite things to do in the willow glen community are to hang out with friends at Lincoln Ave and get lunch at one of the restaurants.  She loves star bucks, on lucky days she gets to get star bucks before school.  Sierra is consatly trying to improve her cheer skills by practicing whenever she gets the changes.  Her plans for the future are to go to the college of her choice which she is unsure about now, and possibly be a cheer coach of her own.  Her favorite item is her cell phone, she is always listening to music by Eminem and Mac miller.  Her dream is to meet Eminem or go to a concert by him one day.  Sierra is very excited to compete in ‘Nationals’ compition in Disney Land this February, her goal is to take home 1st for her team.

Blog #10 Faces of Willow Glen

There are so many amazing people at Willow Glen High School that are talented in sports, academics, have great personalities and more.  I will go in depth with three sophomore students that attend WGHS.  Sierra Barnwell, Aiko Goldstien, and Rachel Morals.  These girls are all great examples of what we are made up off as a school, diverse in so many different ways.

Sierra Barnwell, is a 15 year old straight A student at Willow Glen.  She has been on Varsity cheer sense freshmen year, also had cheered all through middle school.  She likes to stay athletic by going to tumbling on the weekends and of coarse cheer practice almost everyday of the week.  Sierras favorite part of the school is the diversity and school spirit.  Also “cheering at the football/basketball games, and rallies is always fun”.    On the weekends she enjoys hanging out with friends and practicing her tumbling skills and Vegas tumbling with her team mates and friends.  This year she will be competing in her 2nd national cheer comp in Disney Land.   She loves all her teachers, and feels like she learns a lot from them.  Especially her English teacher Mr. Anders.  In all Sierra love Willow Glen and wouldn’t wanna go anywhere els, not only has this school impacted her in a positive way, she has impacted it in an even more positive one.

Aiko Goldstien a 15 year old, like Sierra is a straight A student.  Trying to maintain her 4.0 for all 4 years in hope of going to the college of her choice.  She does bat-mitten every spring season at willow glen.  Every Monday Wens-day sometimes Friday and saturday she goes to a Japanese school to learn more about her culture and how to speck the language fluently.  She has been going to this program sense she was in the 3rd grade.  She will graduate this year.  Aiko is very focused on school work and family.  He impacts willow glen in positive ways and is a great representative of the school because of her great grades and athletics.  Her favorite part of willow glen is the “people”.  She says the people here are “nice and easy to get along with”.

 

Rachel Morals is also a 15 year old.  She loves Willow Glen High School, she has amazing school spirit and gets along great with everyone here, teachers and administrators.  She plans to do bat-mitten in the spring and also is going to try out for cheer.  On the weekends she goes to tumbling classes to prepare for cheer tryouts.  Her favorite thing to do is jump on her trampoline with her sister and hang out with her family.  She always likes to see whatever new movies are out in the theater.  Rachel’s main focus right now is school work and finals.  Rachel’s plans for the future are to go to a good college and thrive at everything she does.

The Image of Willow Glen High School

I believe that Willow Glen High School is an excellent school.  There are 1600+ students at are school.  My perspective on the school is that it is a very good school.  The staff is great and keeps the students well behaved and in shape.  I came late to this school, but all the kids  here were very welcoming and nice.  I feel that the people in the community of Willow Glen should like the school and most likely do.  That is why I will be doing an interview on the people in the community ect. on there opinion of the school. 

Blog 9: Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for what we have.  During thanksgiving most people celebrate with friends or family but eating a big meal and saying what they are thankful for.  Most people only have a 3 day school/work week during the week of thanksgiving.  The day after Thanksgiving is called black friday, which is known to be an extremely big day for shopping and special deals.  I’ve gone to black friday for the past 4 years, and plan to go again.

Thanksgiving Turkey

Blog 8: Veteran’s Day

November 11th is a day to celebrate those whom have supported our country by joining the military.  Anyone that has joined is considered a veteran.  Some people celebrate in different ways like having BBQs or going out to lunch or seeing a movie.  Some resturants like Chile’s even gives free meals to the veterans that come on veterans day.  So remember ever November 11th is a day to celebrate those who have helped our country.

Reflecting on the Process

1.  When we planned, we tried to think of good questions to ask we took lots of thinking into our questions.

2.  Creating a public service announcement helped me with my topic because after learning from different people, myself and the internet I have learned so much and how bad anima extinction really is.

3.  We used all different types of transitions and we enclosed them because they looked good, and served the purpose.

4.  The effects we used affected a lot to the meaning because they really put the whole presentation together well.

5.The word added helped the viewed know who is ho, also there also and occupation in some cases.  As a plus it looks more professional too.

6.  To me, my final project mean helping animals by spreading the word on animal extinction.

7.  I hope that my PSA expressed a importance of animals and how they are in danger and we should do what eve we can do to help.

8.  I learned a lot about technology I learned how to used software like imovie and iTunes, also garage band too.  In general this project has helped me be more tech-savvy also by spreading the word on animal extinction.

PSA Evaluation: Anti-Racism

1.  The message that this PSA is trying to portray is the message that racism does exist but it is getting better.  And that it shouldn’t matter what race you are.

2.  They used very well written questions that made the interview think about it and have to answer in a full sentence.

3.  If i had to make two changes visual in the PSA video i would have made the music more quiet in some parts and the talking louder, also on the 2nd to last slide you couldn’t read the writing.

4.  The visual representation added meaning to the message because you could see their facial reactions in the video as the question was being asked.

5.  Disscustion~

6.  The ultimate message o gain when i watch this is to not be racists and that there is no need to be.  Also the way others feel towards the topic and questions makes you think about it, and how it makes people feel bad.

7.   This topic was expressed perfectly, because I (and im sure a lot of other people) feel the exact same way towards this topic.  That racism exists but can be ignored, and how you can also help but not being a part of it.

PSA Evaluation: Breast Cancer

1.  The message that this PSA is trying to portray is that Breast caner is a very serious topic and shouldn’t be taken for granite.  Also that there are are ways to help out and prevent.

2.  The question showed in this video and real life experiences shared in this video were very inspirational and really makes you want to help out the cause and to support.

3.  hey only thing i would change is lower te music in some parts and higher the volume on the talking.

4.  You can see their facial expressions and sadness

5.  Disscussion~

6.  The message that i gain is to support in any way I can and help out.

7.  This was a better interruption of the topic.