Senior Project Reflevction

(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why? in my 2 hr I am most proud of eye fact that I was able to get my message across, that beauy is not what we see in the media, it's what is inside of people.

(2) Questions to Consider
a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)? Why?
P. I met all requirements for a proficient presentation. i completed the minimum of 30 minutes talk time, as well as had 3 answers and activities that were well related to each other. I submitted my lesson plans on time the day before and on the blog the weekend before my presentation. I set up the classroom before students entered and took everything down within 20 mintues of my presentation ended.   

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? Why?
AP+/P
I completed all assignments and components. My research is the only reason I think i would deserve anything lower than a P.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
My 2 hr. I think my service learning and my 2 hr worked for me. My service learning was not only fun, but it was a big part of my project, giving me first had experience with the miss america organization. Also I think my 2 hr just really fell into place for me. I won't really be sure if I actually did well until I receive my grade for it, but I was very happy with the way it turned out and I thought the activities fit in nicely with my answers. I also talked with a few juniors and seniors afterwards and they told me that they understood the point I was trying to get across, which was that the images they see constantly in the media aren't real and shouldn't be compared to.

(4) What didn’t work for you in your senior project?
Research. My research was very bad the first half of the year. Research was the reason I had to change my EQ.

(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.  It definitely changes the way is see the world around me. My whole project has taught me that beauty is always inside a person. It really has changed my views on my own body image as well. I had always kind of looked down on myself for not looking like the people I saw through the media. I had always known that it was unfair to judge myself and others based on the images I saw on TV, in magazines, ext. but it was until I completed this project that it really sunk in. I realized that I just can't compare myself or anyone else to the Photoshopped images I see all over the place.

2 hr lesson plan

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Blog 25: Service Learning

Literal

·       Log of hours

·      Katrina Moramarco -347.977.6062
Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

Applied

     Being in the Miss Covina Pageant gave me first hand experience in seeing how the Miss America Organization judges beauty. I spent over 2 months preparing to compete in the pageant. I was also able to get a new perspective into how the other 11 girls in the pageant viewed beauty. 

Blog 24: Independent Component 2

Literal
(a) Statement saying: “I, Brittney Morales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) I interviewed and created a scrap book of 10 and their view on beauty.

Interpretive
I started by interviewing 10 people, from 6 to 70 years old,individually, asking 3 specific questions. The questions were, "what is beauty? Who exemplifies beauty? If you could change 1thing about yourself what would it be?" each question had a purpose. The first question was to see how they find beauty in others. Question 2 was to see exactly what they think a beautiful person looks like. And question 3 was to see how they judge themselves when it comes to beauty. I spent about 3 hours interviewing each person, as well as putting their scrap book page together.

 Applied
How did it help you answer your EQ?  Be specific and use examples.
My EQ is all about what influences our societies veins on beauty, so it was great to get an insight on what the girls around me think beauty is. I interviewd everyone from my best friends, to my grandmother, trying to get a wide view on what beauty is. I found out that my 6 year old niece sees beauty in a smile, and my grandmother see,s it in a God-loving person. I was able to get a whole new insight when I interviewed my mother who told me beauty is in a caring and loving person. Even one of my best friends surprised me when she said beauty is about being a strong minded person.

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Blog 23: Helping 2013

I interviewed Alex Ayala, on 4/24 during elective.

(1) What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

• Something to do with engineering
• I told him he should choose a specific type

(2) What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting?  Note: They also have to complete the 50 hours during the school year.

• He said he wasnt sure but was going to talk to purther and see what other seniors have done for their service learning
• I told him that he might be ale to talk to the robert or angel because they were doing sound and music engineering.

(3) What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• He was hoping it would be informative, but fun
• I told him just to pay attention to what everyone had done over the course of the year

(4) What questions do they have about senior project?  What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project? 

• He wanted to know how the final presentation worked, with regard to the timing
• I told him it was 2 hours maximum, with a minimum talk time of 30 minutes, and most of the time can be spent on activities.

Blog 22: answer 3

EQ: what is most significant when perceiving beauty in the U.S.?

Answer 3: looking up to celebrities as role models is significant when perceiving beauty because we usually base what we think is beautiful off the celebrities and modles that we think of as attractive.

Evidence: Young children look up to celebrities as someone they want to be, as role models.
Source: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/celebrity-role-models

Evidence: Our society looks to the models and celebrities in magazines as real, ideal beauty

Source: Interview 4: Dr. Freitas

Evidence: Teens become influenced by the celebrities to make themselves ‘look better'. So many times they forget that they are beautiful the way they are. They want to look perfect.                       

Source:http://text.teachingmatters.org/node/8615

Blog 20: Room Creativity

1.  I plan on posting pictures around the room of people and things who are considered beautiful in our society's eyes on one side of the room, and on the other i will post pictures of  things that are beautiful, but not the conventional type of beauty.

2. For my answer 1 (influence from the media) I want to do an activity involving advertisements, and how there is only 1 type of women that ever gets put on them. Im not sure exactly what the activity will be, but it will center around that.

Blog 19: Answer 2

EQ: What is most significant when perceiving beauty in the U.S.?
Answer 2: Youthfulness


Evidence:1/3 of all cosmetic advertisements are for products that make women appear younger
Source: Media Awareness Network


Evidence: 28% of all women say they are much younger then they actually are when online dating
Source: MSNBC.com


Evidence: In 2009, there were over 9,000,000 plastic surgeries preformed to make women appera younger (botox, lipo, ect.)
Source: Juvamedspa.com

Blog 18: The Product

My product as of March is completing my pageant. 

I did it for my service learning and completed over 50 hours of rehearsals, fundraising, and promoting for the pageant, as well as competing in it. 

I was awarded a certificate from assembly member  Hernandez's office for my contribution to my city, and was awarded $50 for  my success in getting advertisement for the program. 

Certificate:

 Myself and the other contestants in the newspaper:

Blog 16: Ind. Component 2 Approval

(1) I will find out how the women around me define beauty. I will interview them, asking them questions like "who do you think is beautiful? how is it defined? how has your idea of beauty changed as you grew older? etc." I will get the views from all different age ranges, from 6 year olds to 60 year olds. and find out how all of their ideas match up. I =n the end, I will create a scrapbook, showing all of the women I intervied and what they said. 

(2) How will it meet the 30 hr requirement?

I plan on interviewing 15 women, spending at least an hour talking to each of them. It will then take me at least an hour to put together each individual scrapbook page.

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?   

My EQ is about the perception of beauty in our society, so it will be helpful to know how these individuals define beauty, and how it differs from person to person.

Blog 17: 4th interview questions

1. How do you define beauty?
2. How does beauty differ between a man and a women?
3. What are some factors you take into consideration when perceiving beauty?
4. What role does the media play in our society's views on beauty?
5. When it comes to facial beauty, why are symmetrical faces more attractive than a-symmetrical?
6. How is beauty subjective?
7. Who would you say exemplifies beauty? why?
8. Are we, the american society, more superficial when it comes to beauty and looks than other cultures?
9. Is beauty important?
10. How do you think our view on beauty and looks affects the younger generations?
11. What influences your views of an attractive person?
12. Why is the term "ugly" used so much in out vocabulary?
13. Why is being beautiful or attractive, so important to our society?
14. When did women begin to strive for beauty?
15. Does beauty ever have a true definition? What is it?
16. How, or when, is beauty universal?
17. How is the beauty of art different from the beauty of a person
18. What is most significant when perceiving beauty?
19. How is our societys view on beauty different from others?
20. What gets a women further in life, inner beauty or outer beauty?

Blog 15: Independent Component

LIA:

Literal

(a) S: “I, Brittney Morales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.” 

(b) I created a video series on how to successfully compete in pageants. I Researched 5 topics, filmed videos on the information, and edited each video to show the research i did on competing in pageants.

Interpretive

This componet was basically a research compont, with the end result being a video series. I had to spend about 10 hours looking up different websites and blogs to find good information on pageants. When I found good information on different areas of competition, i would talk to my service learning contact to make sure what i was finding was correct and made sense. I also had to teach myself how to edit videos, which didn't really come out as good as i expected. 

Applied

With my topic being Miss America, pageants are a big part of what im studying this year. I wanted  this component to help answer my essential question, but also help me with my service learning, and it did. My essential question is all about how one perceives beauty, and this video series is basically telling the viewers how to make the judges in pageants see you as beautiful. This helped me to see that people in our society are so used to changing themselves to fit the ideal vision of beauty. I do it when im trying to win a pageant and need the judges to see me as a winner, and old ladies do it when they get botox to look younger. This component helped me to see that there is more than just one side of the story. My EQ only asks about the person perceiving beauty, but this helped me to learn about the person being perceived, and how they change themselves to be seen in a better light, so to speak.

30 Hours:

Log of work

Evidence:

Video 1- Background

Video 2- Evening gown
Video 3 - Interview
Vid 4-platform and talent

(Im having some issues with youtube not wanting to upload my last 3 videos so they'll be on here by friday night!)

Blog 14: Presentation 2 Rough Draft

20 minute lesson plan

Blog 13: Answer 1

What is most important when participating in the Miss America Organization?
Answer 1: Knowing what Miss America represents is important for anyone that is associated with the organization.
Evidence: Miss America represent not only the Miss America Organization, but she also serves as a goodwill ambassador for the Children's Miracle Network.
Source: Missamericaforkids.org


What is most significant when perceiving beauty within the U.S.?


 Answer 1: The media


Evidence: The media dictates what we perceive as a "normal", beautiful person. When our society see's someone that is not stick thin, and doesn't have a perfectly shaped face, its hard to see them as beautiful. The media has transformed what we see as beautiful by showing thousands of advertisements of women who have been photo shopped to be the ideal beautiful women. Our society usually bases a persons beauty off of what they see in the media, advertisements, ect. and if the person does not fall in line with what we are contantly being told is beautiful its hard to see the beauty in them.


Source: online, "Beauty and Body Image in the Media"
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm

Blog 12: Service Learning

For service learning, I am participating in the Miss Covina Scolarship Pageant.
My contact is Katrina Moramarco, the executive director of the pageant.
As a participant of this pageant, I go to practices every Saturday for 3 1/2 hours, where we go over everything we need to know for the pageant. We learn interview skills, walking patters, as well as how to fill out our resumes and write our platform papers. So far I have gone to 2 of these meeting, along with a 2 hour orientation, and I've spent about 3 hours with Katrina putting up flyers for the pageant and finding advertisment for our program book.
I've completed a total of 11 hours.

Blog 11: Third Interview Questions

1. What do you think is the most important thing Miss America does throughout her year with the title?
2. What is the most important thing you've done with your title?
3. What is one thing that most people don't realize Miss America does? (ie: working with Children's Miracle network)
4. How can winning a title change the life person?
5. What new things have you learned since you've won your title?
6. If you won Miss America, what would you be most excited for?
7. Who does Miss America serve as a role model for?
8. What do you think are the most important factors a girl needs to win a title at the local level? is the state level any different?
9. Whats your favorite thing that you've done since reciving your title?
10. If out president represents our country, then who do you think Miss America represents?