Final Exam

1. What did she write?
"It's a beautiful day and I can't see it.

Now continue watching the video.

2. How did this video make you feel inside?
Sad and sympathetic .3. Why would I show this video to you?
To see how people can tug on others emotions through media and advertising.4. How can you "Change your words" to impact the readers of your school newspaper?
By telling stories that are about tougher subjects.

5. How many different ways did the Guardian cover the story of the three little pigs?
The news, twitter, newspaper, online newspaper.
6. Is the story the same as you remember it as a child?
No.
7. Who did they interview?

8. What aspects of the story did they cover?
The pigs side and the wolf's side.
9. Were there any aspects of the three little pigs story that were not covered?
No.
10. Did the Guardian ever offer their opinion of what happened, who was guilty, who was not guilty?
No.
11. Can we do this for events on our campus on a daily basis?
No.
12. How can you help make this a reality?
Get more input from the students body.Finally,

It's reflection time. Please write at least two paragraphs on the following prompts on your blog:

13. What is the most important thing you have learned this semester being on newspaper staff?
I have learned how to communicate with others. I think the only way to make a good story is with good interviews, and to get those, one has to be a good communicator. Every time I go and interview I feel more comfortable and relaxed. My communicating has become better which has made my interviews stronger. This skill is also going to help me with whatever I do in life.

14. What can you do next semester to continue your scholastic journalism career in a fulfilling and positive way?
I think I can work harder to find out what things are going on in the school and what people are interesting and worth writing about. There are lots of clubs and people that deserve a voice and I want to be able to give those people the chance to be in the paper. I hope I can write stories that will impact the school and I can leave my mark.

15. What suggestions do you have to improve any part of this class? For example, you could address editor/staff relations, editor/editor relations, staff relations with the advisor, how we can better serve our community, direct suggestions on the newspaper itself, equipment or supplies we might need, computer program instructions you need, or even stories we should cover. I am open to anything. Part of my job is to make this a positive experience, yet it is also an educational opportunity for all of you and the other part of my job is to teach you new skills.
I think that as a staff, we don't know all of each other as well as we should. We did bonding at the beginning of the year which was fun but we didn't continue and I think we kind of lost it. This lack of closeness leads to the problem of us not communicating when we need something. I think we can feel hesitant or nervous to talk to someone about issues they're having with completing an assignment. We should be as open as possible, because then it might save us from a lot of last minute "I didn't get the photos" or "I didn't get my story in". If we are honest and communicative, we could stop a lot of issues before they become worse. 

Culinary Story Questions

Student Questions
1. Tell me about what you've been doing this week?
2. How long does it take to complete a house?
3. What is the process lie?
4. What was your favorite part? Least favorite?

Teacher Questions
1. How long have you been making gingerbread houses in terms of years?
2. Why do you do this project?
3. What is the process like?
4. What is it like seeing your students create a gingerbread house from scratch?
5. What is your favorite part of this experience?

Interview Questions

Children's Shows
What do you do as a senior director?
Why did you choose to be a senior director?
What is your favorite thing about children shows?
What is your show about?
What is it like directing students?
What skills will you take from directing?


Presidents of Bowie
What is it like being a president of your organization?
What duties come along with it?
Why did you choose to run?
What contributions do you think you bring to our school?
What is your overall goal for the year as president?
What life skills do you think you will take from this?

Welcome To My Blog

D.J. Interview

Tell me about Back to the 80s
"It's your basic typical cheesy 80s movie plotline""all of the music is popular 80s music"
What's it like learning songs from the 80s
"Me personally I've known the songs as long as i can remember because my dad and i used to listen to these songs all the time, they're a little bit different because they're cut down for the show, so getting the original versions out of my head is a little bit challenging, otherwise I'm pretty familiar with them"
"Since it's a jukebox show, there's at least some kind of a  familiarity with at least some of the music from the show"
What was it like going the whole summer without rehearsing?
"Once the school year started it hit me "wow I haven't done this in a while' but we didn't do any rehearsing because we knew that some people who were lead roles last year had dropped the class to take other things, so we had to recast some of the roles with people who are in the class this year. I think we decided not to do rehearsals because there was just a different group of people and we didn't know who would be what roles"
Are you happy that you got the oppertunity to do it again?
"Mr. Bazan decided that he would take suggestions from the class for what musical we are doing. And I had seen this musical just a few years ago in Witchita Falls, and I found it on the MTI website and i brought it up to the class and they all liked the idea, so Mr. Bazan got the rights and paid for it. So I really like the show, it's a big show I've wanted to do. especially the character corey, I'm really glad I get to play Corey because, it's the first show I can really remember seeing,so it's always been a big dream role of mine considering it''s my first expereince with theatre.
How does it feel that you made it happen esesially?
"we wouldnt really be doing right now even if i hadnt brought it up bc we are doing it now mainly bc it didn't come together like we had hoped to back in the spring, so we just ended up doing the music as a preview for what's coming this year"
What's it like doing an in-class musical?
"It's very different, there's not as much time commitment considering we're doing all of the rehearsals in class" " i can focus my after school time on homework or other shows that I'm in." "It's also different since it's not every day, it's A Day B Day schedule, so it's only every other day." "Yes so i can focus on hw and everything else but no because it feels like theres always less time to do it bc we can't have any extended rehearsals if we wanted to."

Juliana Inteview

Tell me about Back to The 80s
"Itis super fun! It kind of reminds me of the movie Pretty In Pink"
"I think it's jus treally fun, energetic, and it's cliche in a cute way"
"The 80s were a really fun and bright decade so I think that is what the show encompasses"
"Last yeare verything we were wanting to do kept getting pushed back because of theatre UIL"
"We took the choreography from last year and modified it to make it more challenging because we have more time"
"We are learning about a dance of 2 a day"
What's it like doing an in-class musical
"In class it's good because we know we have a time constraint, so we're working with it instead of against it. We try to stay on task as much as we can to make it efficient"
What's it like learning songs from the 80s
"It's super fun, I love this style, it's definitly different from most musical theatre stuff. For musical theattre you usually use really good dictiona nd youre precice with what you say, but with the 80s, I sing Girls Just Want To Have fun and she kind of slurs it, so i started trying to pick up stuff like that. It doesnt need to be perfect it can be really fun. It's really fun and carefree" "You can take more liberties with the way you do stuff" "It's definitly been different but it's definitly expanded my musical repertior."
What was it like not rehearsing all summer
"We did not rehearse all summer" "It was surprising in a good way, how much we kind of picked it up right away." "I remembered the footwork it was kind of like muscle memory". "It was nice that it was still with us and we could still pick it up"
Are you glad you got to perform in the spring and continue it this fall?
"I feel like I've grown a lot personally as a performer, I'm really glad I get the oppertunity to do it again which is something you don't get a lot from performances."It's really special to me to be able to do it at th end of my sophmore yaer and then go the whole summer and see how ive changed and how i want to do it differently." "I want to see how much more confident I feel about it. I'm really excited for that aspect of it"" ifeel like i've  broken out of my shell and I will be more confident in it." "It's really a blessing for me to get to do it again".

Interview Questions

Back To The 80s

Juliana Davis
1. How do you feel about your performance?
2. How much preparation did you put into this production?
3. How have you improved from the spring performance to now?

4. What is it like learning songs from the 80s?

5. How easy or difficult was it to go the entire summer not rehearsing?

6. What is it like doing an in-class musical?

DJ Fortner
1. How do you feel about your performance?
2. How much preparation did you put into this production?
3. How have you improved from the spring performance to now?

4. What is it like learning songs from the 80s?

5. How easy or difficult was it to go the entire summer not rehearsing?

6. What is it like doing an in-class musical?

Marco Bazan

1. How does your musical theater class work?
2. Why did you choose this show?
3. Have you always put on a musical in your musical theatre classes? 
4. How has this years performances compared to years passed?
5. Why did you choose to perform in the spring and again in the fall?
6. What improvements have you seen in the cast since the spring?
7. What is it like working on an in-class musical and outside of school productions?
8.