The Man who Played the Violin

Do we perceive beauty? I think that we perceive beauty by our preferences. If we aren't into art of any kind, even if it is beautiful we might not see it.
Do we stop to appreciate it? I think it depends on the situation and place. If you aren't interested or you got something you need to do, you can't appreciate it.
Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context? I don't think so. The reason I think this is you aren't able to appreciate something if it isn't expected or wanted.
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? We could be missing out on things that might be important or striking.  We miss out on stuff because we have other things on life that come in the way.

Feature Writing Brainstorm

1. My mom
2. My Aunt and Uncle
3. My mom immigrating to America and her difficulty with getting used to America.
4. Human Interest
5. Question 1:How do you spell your full name? Question 2: How did you immigrate to the U.S.?Question 3: Why did you immigrate to Hawaii? Question 4:Where did you go to school when you moved to Hawaii? Question 5: What did you do fist when you came to America? Question 6: What was it like not knowing english? Question 7:Where did you stay at in Hawaii when you first got there? Question 8: What troubles did you have to face when you came to America? Question 9: What was it like for your parents coming to America? Question 10:What was school like? Question 11: Question 12: Question 13: Question 14: Question 15: Question 16:  Question 17: Question 18: Question 19: Question 20: Do you have anything else you want to say? 
6. Question 1: What was Your sister like when she moved here? Question 2: What was it like when you immigrated? Question 3: Question 4: Question 5:
7. The number of immigrants increased from 1965 and reached 30,000 in 1976. The earliest immigrants from Korea moved because they had no choice to leave. From 1965 to currently Koreans came voluntarily. more jobs became available to people from Asia after 1965. Many Korean people immigrated to the state Hawaii.
8. I plan to do my interview with my mom over the weekend and my aunt and uncle as soon as they aren't working.
9. I plan to interview my mom in my room and to interview my Aunt and Uncle on Skype.
10. I will take notes during the interview.

Feature Writing Preview

1. Feature stories are longer than a hard news lead.

2.Who- 

3. Yes

4.No

5. Doral Chenoweth III,  Ted Williams,  Kevin McLoughlin, Ken Andrews, Tony Florentino, are just some of the people quoted in the story.

6. The most powerful quote in the story is "He's a good guy," Andrews said. "But we never knew he had 'the voice.'" 

7. 33 paragraphs

8.765 words

9. Both the lead and the end worked with eachother.

10. I think the writer did that with the lead and ending paragraph to reinstate his point.

11. Yes

12. Yes

13. The effect of watching the video after the story shows what the voice the man had.

14.Yes

15.Yes

16. The writer sort of described the voice by explaining the effect the voice had.

Editorials and Personal Columns

1. Mental Health and how do kids treat kids like that.
2. How to react to kids who are cyber bullied.
3. Should teachers be allowed to put up phones into pocket holders and not be used in class?
 Sometimes I check out Rachel Maddow on Msnbc news because she seems to have a good opinion on political subjects.

Commentary Brainstorm

1.  One emotion was boredom which was caused by not being engaged by certain teachers at school. Another one was stress because of getting assignments in on time.  Another is happiness because I am with my friends.
2.   One is completing all the assignments that are due. Another is beating a level in a video game. Lastly was when I finished watching a movie I enjoyed.
3.  I worry about losing all my friends, making a fool out of myself, and not getting through the school year.
4.  Things that frustrate me is how mentally challenged people are treated by other kids, homework, and bullying.
5.  Three things I need are food, water, and my house.
6.  Three things that teachers probably worry about are the kids at school that struggle, their home life, and helping with certain kids who struggle.
7.  Three things that teachers view as accomplishments are being able help a student, when kids get high grades, and a student understanding something that they didn't before.
8.  Three things I like about the school community are some teachers, some students, and it isn't nowhere as bad a my middle school.
9.  Three things I dislike about school are kids getting bullied, sort of a lack of activities outside of sports, and a lot of kids being terrible people.
10.  One trend is that kids listen to a lot of rap music.

News Evaluation

Story 1
1.Who: Mr. Robinson and Ruth Ann Wilder
What: Bowie got a high average accountability rating.
When:This year
Where:Bowie Middle School
Why: Cause students had high grades and attendance.
How: Teachers taught the students well.
2. Bowie has an average accountability rating of 97 while the district has one of 89. It's expected that the students will continue to be excellent and keep those distinctions.
3.Mr Robinson and Ruth Ann Wilder. Both have direct quotes.
4.No opinions
5.It does
6.No
Story 2
1.Who:Mr Robinson and Simoon Saiyed
What:Controversy over parking spot art
When:This year
Where:Bowie
Why: Some students couldn't use certain images for their parking lot.
How: They weren't evaluated correctly.
2.There was a controversy with some of the student's parking lots. Some students couldn't get certain symbols while others were.
3. Mark Robinson, Simoon Saiyed, Kennedy Hartman's, and Wesley Hartman were all directly quoted.
4.no opinions
5.Yes
6.yes
Story 3
1. Who:Students
What: School AC being fixed
When: Over the summer and currently
Where: Bowie High School
Why: AC broke
How: Pipes deteriorated
2.The AC broke for Bowie High School. The AC is trying to be fixed right now.
3.Viviane Harle, Mark Robinson, Jeni Garcia, Miranda Cardenes are all direct quotes.
4.no opinions
5.Yes, it does.
6.yes
Story 4
1. Who:New Counselors
What: Bowie gets new counselors.
When: Beginning of school year.
Where:Bowie High School
Why: Most of the counselors left.
How: There were opportunities for new counselors.
2. New counselors are at Bowie. They are not having trouble with getting used to Bowie.
3. Mr Robinson, Anne Ippolito, Laura Loza, and Taina Gomez were quoted directly.
4.No opinions
5.Yes
6.Yes
Story 5
1. Who: Students and teachers
What:Traffic troubles
When: January 2018
Where: Slaughter and Mopac
Why: Traffic Construction
How: Construction to make traffic happen less.
2. The traffic is getting really bad at Slaughter and Mopac because of construction. Students are getting into lots of traffic jams just getting to school.
3.Claire Richardson, Sarah Rolan, Jessica Davis, and  Darrey Kanneman are directly quoted.
4.No
5.Yes
6.yes.

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