Guest+Coordinator

= Guest Coordinator =

Your wiki blog must clearly explain the process you took to research their __topic__. Each entry also explains the creation of the visual aid/activity, which must be posted on this site the day after the party, May 4th. __Students__ should write their first name and last initial as their "username" (LisaS) and include the date in each entry. Each week your entry should look like the following:

LisaS - April 12, 2012

Paragraph One - Full Sentences with proper grammar and spelling. Answer the questions below.

Paragraph Two - Full Sentences with proper grammar and spelling. Answer the questions below.

Answer the following questions in 2 paragraphs per week for each __student__ in the group:
 * 1) What books/websites did you use for research?
 * 2) How to do you know that they are reputable sites?
 * 3) What are your goals for the week? Did you complete each goal?
 * 4) What specific tasks do you have to complete as a part of your group?
 * 5) What difficulties have you encountered? How did you solve the problems?
 * 6) What is your favorite/least favorite part of the project this week?
 * 7) Self evaluation - How did you __work__ individually and/or with your group?
 * 8) Do you think you contributed as much as the other members of your group?
 * 9) What are your goals for next week?
 * 10) Other information you think is relevant and significant to include.

BEGIN STUDENT ENTRIES- WEEK ONE: 4/9/12

Sarah G- 4/10/12

Today I started out researching famous people of the 1960’s such as the Beach Boys and the Beatles. My group started by listing people. We then transferred all that information to a word document. I made a table of all of the topics then I put each persons name under the right __topic__. After that we narrowed down the names and ended up with a list of 16 people. We each decided who we wanted to research and I ended up with the beach boys and Neil Armstrong. I then researched the beach boys and ended up with a few good websites.

The group I was placed with did not mesh as well as it could. Today our group had disagreements, and not just one or two but three or four. When things got loud our __teacher__, Lisa, came in and solved the problem. She heard everyone’s sides and opinions and got us on track. We accomplished a lot by the end of D-block and were already __working__ together, agreeing on ideas and compromising.

Annie G- 4/10/12 Today I helped research famous people from the 1960's such as John F Kennedy. The group had written the names on the board and I then wrote them on a word document and then I send the document to everyone in our group. While Sarah G was sorting the names into the different groups I was founding out how many invitations we had to make and making a guest list of all of the people and teachers in the 9/10 team. We all came together toward the end of the morning and we all chose who we wanted to research I ended up with Gloria Steinem and John F Kennedy those people are going to be put into a PowerPoint. I found out that we have to make 42 invitations.

Our group had gotten of to a rocky __start__, but when we got some guidance from our teacher Lisa we got back on track. I had put everyone’s names on the board and we went around the room and I wrote down what each person wanted to do: Nick-PowerPoint, Robin-invitations, Ori-invitations, Sarah- invitations/PowerPoint, Annie-invitations, John-PowerPoint, and Josh-PowerPoint. For the next time I will be __working__ on getting the information about my famous people and getting some information on how people in the 1960's make invitations.

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Robin XP-

This week was the first that we would have to work on our parts of the 1960’s party project. Unfortunately I have already come into problems. I not only couldn’t find the questions, but I couldn’t actually get on the blog. I am in the “Guest Coordinator” group, although we as a group split into two parts, power point, and invitations. I am in the invitations subset, and the people I’m researching are Rachel Carson, and the Beatles. I hope the music group uses a song by the Beatles, my favorites are; ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Let It Be’, ‘Nowhere Man’, ‘All Together Now’, ‘Hey Bulldog’, and ‘With a Little Help from my Friends’.

When we came together as a group at first, there seemed to be a slight power struggle, witch is a massive under statement. Thank god we fixed all of that oho-ha, and we can finally get stuff done. We can start the real work next week.

John H. - This is the beginning of the 1960's history project. The group wasn't working well at first but later on we began to get along. Me, Sarah, Josh doing the powerpoint and Annie, Robin, Nick, and Ori are doing the invitations. I'm researching Malcolm X and maybe someone else. This project is harder then I thought it would be, we have lots of work to do in very little time.

The group had a hard time __ working __ together at first(read r0b1np second paragraph above)but Lisa came by and helped us under stand and work together with each other although I'm still kind of mad about the way things went. I hope we can get things done before we get into another argument over nothing. This project is worth 100 point so we really should mess it up.

Nick Boudreau 4/7/12

Today I researched influential people of the 1960s. I found Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, and some others. We had a bit of discussion about who will research what people and what jobs they wanted. I chose Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock, and Fidel Castro to research and began to make a rough draft of a PowerPoint. We had a bit of a rocky beginning to the project with a lot of yelling involved. In the end of today’s work, we are off researching who we chose.

Other than that, we sorted the people we had found. We uncovered a total of 22 people, and narrowed it down to 16 men and women to research. My goal for next week is to find a ton of information about my people. I think I contributed a fair amount; I took a quarter of the people to research. The workload was probably about equal. Not much else needs to be said, or happened.

Josh C. - This was the first day that I started on the 1960’s projects with my Guest list group. At first we were a little troubled because we had different ideas about what we wanted to do. We have a lot of people that we want to research. The people that I have are Martin Luther King and the Beach Boys. I did a lot of research about the people we picked.

Then The next part I helped search and put the important people into their category’s. Then we got to pick our job assignments and I got to work on the PowerPoint with a couple of friends. In the Last part of time that we had I started to research on the Beach Boys and find links that could help us. For Martin Luther King luckily I already did a project on him so I do not have to do that much research. My goals for next week are to start working on the slides for the PowerPoint and to help any of my classmates that needs help. This week I am working to accomplish finding information about rosa parks and malcolm x. Then I am going to look up what a invitation card would look like for a 1960s party. I also am going to start playing around with designs to see which one will be the best. Then commit to a design that everybody agrees to.
 * < [|OriG] Apr 13, 2012 5:49 pm

For next week we're going to talk with the people working in our group to make sure they agree with it. Once everybody agrees I am going to start making the cards. Im going to present to the group that we should work to accomplish being done the invitations in 2 to 3 weeks. || **STUDENT ENTRIES** **WEEK TWO - 4/17/12**

Annie G: 4/17/12 This week I got a little heated at the beging of the class, but I got it together and worked on getting information on John F Kennedy. I got added to a google document and added the information on John F Kennedy. Next after that I went around and highlighted all the people in the 9/10 team into what groups they are in and how many people there are in each group. I got the information that will go onto the invitations. Ori and I looked up what should be on each card and what would be good for each of the different groups. I helped out each group of people in the room with the powerpoint and the invitations.

For next time I am hopping to get more of the invitations done and to get some finished. I am hoping to get more information on how to make invitations and help other people with anything that they need. I am also going to try and make sure that I will not fight with other people in the group. I want to make the cards and have them done. I want to find pictures that would work for each of the cards and each of the groups. I will work harder and use my time wisely.

Ori- 4/17/12 This week we are looking to commit to designs for the invitations. I started looking for ideas to put on the cards. I found a few pictures that would make the cards look interesting. The people working with the powerpoint group are working on putting the information of the people we choose on to the powerpoint. The group put together 7 slides for the powerpoint.

Next week the invitation group is going to work towards being half way done with invites. The powerpoint group is looking to finish rough draft and start on final draft of powerpoint. And by week 4 invitation group is looking to finish the invites and hand them out. Also the powerpoint is going to need to be done.

John Hart-4/18/12 Yesterday we got more info on our people. I finished researching Malcolm X and now I'm going to research Mohammad Ali. I sent the info of Malcolm to Sara and I'm going to send the info I get on Mohammad to her next. I'm glad that I can research the African American people, I'm glad to research these brave people.

Next week we will __work__ on putting the actual power point together and working on the invitations. I don't know what I will be doing but doing but I will probably have to do more research on Ali. I hope we can get the invitations first so we can just __work__ on the powerpoint, but I doubt it.

Nick Boudreau 4/19/12 Today I researched my four people. I made a basic PowerPoint format, and then filled in the information into the corresponding slides. Then I added pictures to my slides. I happened to complete Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, and Alfred Hitchcock, which were all people I was assigned. Another thing I did was checked out an Alfred Hitchcock movie clip to see if it was school appropriate. Lisa watched it and said she would think about letting me use it. In the end of the time, I typed up these two paragraphs to post to the wiki. The group worked well together since everyone was nice to each other. This led to my productivity. Next week, I think I need to __work__ on my PowerPoint a bit. Also, it would be nice if I knew who was making the main PowerPoint to see if I could help. I would like to help.

Sarah G. - This week was not as bad as last week. We started off figuring out who will do what. Then we all got to work. I worked on the power point and researching my people. I then helped out with the invitations a bit. Finally I went around and asked if the people in my group finished finding information on the people they had to research. This week my group was much more together. We were very productive and had little trouble. Though some people were disagreeable and didn’t listen. Though the group over all had fewer arguments than before. I think that my group will be able to finish on time. My groups a good group of students and we are all working hard.

Josh C. - This week was better then last week because we got a lot of work done. We had a couple of issues figuring out what everyone will do. I created a Google doc so everyone can post and share their information on it. It proved to be quite useful. Everyone was posting their links and facts on the site and it made the PowerPoint process easier. I started to work on the power point along with Sarah and Nick while the others were brainstorming what the invitations would look like.

I completed my first task of my part of the power point on Martin Luther King. I am set to help Sarah with the Beach boys section. Also to help John with Malcolm X. I am also helping looking up information of Richard Nixon. My goals for the next weeks are to stop arguing with the others and come together as one unit to create an outstanding presentation.

Robin XP-

 The site I found for Rachel Carson was, []  it took me a wile to find believe it or not.  I know it’s absolutely legit because it’s pbs, and because it’s a dot org so it’s less biased. The site I found for the Beatles took me Eons (overstatement), [] it’s ridiculous really.I can’t confirm this site is legit because it’s a dot com, but you shoulda’ seen the other sad excuses for fan-sites I saw, talk about depressing.

My goals for this week were to get my bio information on all of my people I did. I thankfully had no issues completing these objectives. I contributed what I could but I lack the skill to successfully cut gathered information into significantly smaller, logical parts. I haven’t been doing much, but I should be able to greater contribute once we start the invitations up next week.

**STUDENT ENTRIES**

**WEEK THREE - 4/23/12**

Annie Goldberg 4/24/12

This week we have been fighting at the beging of the group. We worked it out and we all got our jobs for today. What I did was that I worked on what the invitations looked like and I put the information on the invitation. I got most of the information on the invitation, but I am almost done with that. I worked on how the layout is going to look and what is going to be on it and how it is wkll be on the paper. I worked with Sarah and Ori on how it should look and what pictures should be on the invitation.

The next thing that I want to do next time in the group I would like to figure out what I am going to be doing for the presentation. I would also like to make a group day that will not start out with us yelling at each other. Nothing about this has being going right at the beging of the group and if I can figure out that we all are all going to be friends and not going to be angry at each and every one of us.

John Hart 4/25/12

This week there seemed to be a lot of fighting in A block. I had Algebra at A block so I wasn't there but it sounded ugly. We got very far in the invitations and I think we will be printing them out at the end of next week, also we got far in the PowerPoint. I was doing research on Mahmmud Ali and Walt Disney.

I don't know what I will be doing next week but I hope I can help. I could do last minute research or hand out the invitations. The group is doing well so far besides the in the middle arguments so I hope we can avoid thouse and work on our 100 POINT PROJECT!!

Sarah G. - We got a lot done but the group was harder to work with. We finished designing the invitations. We also finished designing the menu and I emailed it to another Annie. We got far on the power point and are still adding a few facts here and there, and we still need to make it look pretty but we’re close. Josh and Nick were the main men working on the power point and got a lot done. My group this week was challenging. We started off fighting… A LOT. But eventually things calmed down and we got to work. That is after our teacher yelled at some of my group. The fights had to do with little things, such as group members talking while others did, or some members being unreasonable and stubborn. After we got yelled at we started to calm down and talk one person at a time. That is how we got a lot of our work done.

Josh C. - This weak we started to get more progress done for the invitations and the power point. I was working with Nick and John and we were finishing up gathering information about the famous people from the 1960s and were were focused about completing the powerpoint. I got done most of the slides that we need to finish up the powerpoint. I got emailed the powerpoint to check off all the facts like birthdate, death, ect. to see if they were correct.

For our last week I hope to finish up my part of the powerpoint so we can put on an amazing demostration showing what all our hard work lead up to. Also to have a great time at the party where we will see the other groups hard work.

Nick Boudreau 4/24/12 Today I powered through adding everyone’s information to the PowerPoint and adding pictures. I worked with Josh to finish up some slide details, like adding people I did not research. I collected the data and put it on the presentation. I also added two videos, one being //Psycho//’s shower scene and the other of MLK’s speech. We got off to a difficult start, with some arguments starting. I stayed out as best I could. After a little bit, we all became productive and did a lot of work. My goal for next week is completing the PowerPoint with Josh. There is not much else for me to do. I hope our presentation gets finished. I bet it will, and I think, so far, it looks good. All in all, we are really getting far.

WEEK 3 - Robin

This week our goal, was to work on our presentation. We have completed the script. Some of us, are going to continue to make some adjustments. These will be to the actual powerpoint, and on our own time.

In all of this, I currently hold the responsibility of holding onto a small stack of papers until tomorrow. Although I was too lazy to figure out what exactly is the importance of what I’m doing. Now I just have to worry about what I’m wearing. Yeah, like that’s not hard. B|

Ori- 4/24/12

This week we as a group are looking to complete the __invitation cards__. We are looking to get the cards out by friday. The powerpoint group is looking to finish the powerpoint rough draft and start the final draft this week. They are also finding pictures to put into the final powerpoint. These pictures will either be representing the person or be a picture of the person.

Next week we are going to review the powerpoint. We are going to see if we need to add anything or take anything out. Also we will put together any last minute things that are needed to put everything together. **STUDENT ENTRIES -** **WEEK FOUR - 5/1/12** **DON'T FORGET TO POST YOUR FINAL PRESENTATIONS/ACTIVITY PICTURES BY FRIDAY!!!**

Annie-5/4/12 This week we are finishing our group project and making sure that we get it all done. Our group has had some hard times and some good times, but we got through it all and helped each other out. We had to finish the Powerpoint and we worked together to get the Powerpoint done and ready to present to the 9/10 team. Also Sarah and I had to write a speech to introduce the day.

One the day of the party our group went first and Sarah and I introduced what was going on in the day. After that we presented our Powerpoint and I told everyone about JFK. The food was great and the energy that was in the room was amazing. I had a blast at the party and had so much fun.

Ori- 5/1/12

This week we are finishing the powerpoint. We are also going to invite some more people involved with helping the party going smoothly. We are also going to look through the powerpoint to go over the people we are presenting. We also will be practicing until thursday.

On the day of the party I am going to dress as a upper class person. I am going to try all the food. Of course I'll try all the desserts. Our group will be presenting first. Overall the group worked out well for me even though we had our moments. We as a group got through the tension and completed the project.

Week 4 - Sarah G. This week was the last week that we worked on our project. My group worked hard. But I feel as though at the last minute some students didn’t work as hard and pushed some stuff off to me. I got it done on time though, even though I had to do it alone and the night before the party. All in all I got the work I needed done and I made our power-point look amazing! The group was okay Tuesday, my group got all we needed to almost done and only had a few spats here and there. Then today my group went into overdrive to touch up our power-point and make a few changes. When my group was presenting several people in my group had added side comments that were unneeded and that annoyed me a bit. I got through the annoyance and had a great time presenting overall. When I was done we all saw the fashion group present, then everyone had break and advisory. When I got back we all watched the literature and art group present, then I had to go up and help with the music and dance groups, dance presentation. I had to show the group how to do the mashed patato, and the twist. I also helped a bit with the cotton eyed joe. After the dance performance we all got to see the music performance, which was wonderful! When that was over we watched a presentation from the catering committee then eat. I had an excellent time today and I learned a lot in the process. Did you know that in 1964 the beach boys released 4 albums? lisa and i discussed the power point i could not upload the file it was too large lisa has seen the powerpoint.

Josh C. -

So this week we started to wrap things up. We finished the invitations and they looked amazing. All of us pitched in to help with the final production of our power point and filled in any extra information. The day of the party was amazing and the power point looked stunning. All the other groups did a great job presenting and their presentations were interesting to watch. At the end we had our food and it was delicious and delectable. GREAT JOB TO EVERYONE IN THE 9/10 TEAM!!!!!