So it is the last couple days before this project is due! Our website is coming a lot really well and has all the mandatory parts but some needs more information and more depth in analysis. The website is coherent and adds all of our work. I also added information into the power point and split work with Jennifer so she could have enough time to make the content good! I also worked on the theme of money and Samuel Hamilton in the novel and found a way to incorporate that into the website. I have confidence in my group and the website that is almost finished! We’re almost there and it’s starting to feel tiring! Let’s finish soon! :DDDD Please?
I couldn’t make it to the filming day so instead, I worked on different parts of the project such as the symbols and power point that would be a good addition to the website. It was a hard day, considering I didn’t have direct contact with my group for the whole Sunday because I wasn’t there with them. But I got a lot of work done and brainstormed for some ideas that would help make the content of our website much more interesting and hold more interactive ideas.
I was definitely tired because I didn’t get time to rest because I was out running family errands in Santa Monica and getting things done on my cousin’s laptop! WHAT A DAY! But I got through it and it seemed that my group was on top of things and that filming went amazing! Yay! So today was our first day in our group project. It was hard to meet when everyone was ready and had enough time after school! But we finally go to meet! Raed and I just finished the Old Man and the Sea which was a really great book and THANK THE LORD it was short! Though we thought a little bit about comparing and contrasting this book and plot line to East of Eden, we mostly talked about what else we would be doing, each person’s work as well.
It went really well and we got to start the website and brainstorm ideas of how we could start writing and creatively starting some of these ideas. Then, we brainstormed customizing certain things such as trailers and interviews so that we could have a more interactive web page. It was a good meeting because we also got to talk freely and just throw random things out there! We also split up some of the work but not so that it would not be coherent! We talked about how important that would be! This was a good start to actually working on the project and finding out a backbone to the project! Today was our second day of working at school. We had Andi’s laptop and Ayesha’s phone to help us work on the project. We were able to look up some background information on John Steinbeck, his family, his work, and of course, East of Eden. We also thought of ideas of maybe making a trailer and/or an interview where we can express the emotions of Steinbeck and his thoughts. It was funny but we thought it would add something different to our website; something that would set us apart. It also helped us think of ideas on what the message of the book was, which was an important category for the website. We got our ideas form last time and talked about how we could actually start working on the vague ideas we thought about including the interview and also the interactive parts of the webpage.
We then talked about who was doing what and began brainstorming in pairs after a large group discussion! We are going to meet soon after school! We gotta go! So today is the first workday we get in class to talk about the project in depth! We have to create a webpage which is exciting because it sticks out compared to the old poster and power point presentations. It seems like it would be a good change to work on something online and with a team. We need to create an original webpage in which we can include all informations about East of Eden and show analysis. We got into our groups! Which was a pleasant surprise because it was a great group, even though Mrs. Larson chose each group. It is an exciting project and we’re starting to brainstorm ideas of what we could do to make our website both uniquely exciting and informative with in-depth analysis too. We talked a lot and laughed at a few ideas and embraced some as well! It was a fun day that was definitely more laid back that probably our future meetings but it got some ideas flowing and concepts going! This project sounds very exciting! Can’t wait to have our first meeting.
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