Article FCAT

FCAT FEATURE ARTICLE

They are sitting there, all the students who’s graduation is depending o none single test. One test in their four years of high school that counts the most of them all. The math and the writing. The preparation and the stress. The test that creates high pulse and blood pressure in every person involved in the school.  

The days with the FCAT tests are approaching and in these days all the classes are doing preparation so the school can get their best result. All the teachers, except the mathematics classes are doing “show not tell” writing, to get the best result. Is this writing really necessary and does it help the students to improve the score on the test? Many think that this is unnecessary as this takes a lot of class time and students will lose a lot of lessons since they have to spend half the class to write an essay. Many teachers feels this as a burden.

 The students who did not pass the test the previous time they took it, feels a lot of pressure since this is the test the stands between them and the graduation. Some students slide easily through the test, but other students may have problems. The school is trying as hard as possible to provide the students help and tutoring so that they can pass the test.

How can the students help themselves to increase their testing score?

PLANNER

features-planner

Here is my planner for Thursday…

Reflection

The process of article writing was something that I have never tried before, at least not at this level. I learned that in order to get your interview and the information and answers you want, you need to be pushing and planning everything and always have a backup plan in case the people you want to interview is not available. The questions you want to asked needs to be thought through. One thing I experienced was that I got the answer to all my questions in the first answer I got. Have a lot of questions so you make sure you don’t get stuck.

Newsgathering takes planning and managing of time. I waited too long before starting interviewing people and did not get all the information I wanted. So now I know, start early planning it so you know you can get all the answers you want and the opportunity to interview various of people.

To write the article was interesting and to learn how to write a good article and all the tricks I did not know before. I learned many new things and I did not know that there is so much work behind one single article and how much effort it takes to make it successful.

Hopefully next time I will remember the mistakes I made now and all the advices I got, so that I can write and even better article next  time.

Final

8oz

cheeseburgerbaby

Burger and Beer

Five Guys

Presentation-ready presentations.

Presentations

8oz

Five Guys

Burgers and Beer Joint

Cheeseburgerbaby

Here are all my presentations for tuesday

Presentation

I know it is missing a lot of information, but I could not find it online.

Burger King 1 draft of presentation.

Questions:

1. How often do you spend money on food?

2. Where do you go to eat?

3. What type of food do you usually buy?

4. Do eat at Burger king a lot?

Final draft of article

Textbook delays at Beach High

Textbook delays caused by missing book orders at the end of last school year and a reduced budget for education, is now forcing some AP students at Miami Beach Senior High to use other sources for information in their classes.

According to assistant principal of curriculum, Jodi Robins, who is one of the people in charge of textbooks, Miami Beach High did not receive book orders at the end of last school year and the school is still waiting for the last once. A problem is that the budget for education is reduced this year compared to last year. Robins said that the school doesn’t have the money to do the job they really want to do

“This problem is a combination of increased enrollment, because we had about two hundred extra kids coming in the door this year, that we did not expect and that we have very little money because of the budget cut” Robins explained. In an article written in Miami Herald august 25, this year’s budget is less than half the size of last year. The budget does not include money for major projects or new schools. Robins said that this has never been a problem before, and that it became an issue at the end of last year and a little bit the years before.

Miami Beach High has been in contact with another school that had declining enrollments and extra books and they said that Beach High could borrow their books, but the contact from the other school has not yet replied. American History and AP Psychology teacher, William Presswood, said that many students don’t even use their books and they sometimes can be a waste of money, but the situation is sad for the student who actually uses the books to study.

”While the students are waiting for the books, they are using articles and hand-outs from the teachers.”

 “I expected to get the books the first week or at least during the first two weeks,” said Junior, Edgardo Barriga. “I have only gotten two books out of the six that I need.”

“There are few orders in process right now. I know I am waiting for a two AP sets, but nothing other than that” Robins explained “We also have to decide how to divide the books. Is I have 100 books and 100 students divided in two classes, to most convenient way to divide the book would be 50 on each, because then the students have at least a set of book to use in class.

 According to Presswood, hopefully the books will be here soon and the students at Miami Beach Senior High can continue with this school year with all the supplies and books they need.

 

 

Sourses

http://www.miamiherald.com/295/story/1202385.html

second draft of article

Textbook delays article DRAFT #2

Textbook delays

Textbook delays caused by missing book orders at the end of last school year and a reduced budget for education, is now forcing some AP students at Miami Beach Senior High to use other sources for information.

Assistant principal of curriculum, Jodi Robins, who is one of the people that have to deal with this problem, is telling that the school did not receive book orders at the end of last school year. A problem is that the fond of money for education is reduced this year. According to Robins, the school doesn’t have the money to do the job they really want to do. Robins said that the school has been in contact with another school that had declining enrollments and they said that Miami Beach Senior High could borrow their books, but the contact from the other school has not yet replied. William Presswood, who is a history and psychology teacher, says that many students don’t even use their books and they sometimes can be a waste of money.

”While waiting for the books, the students have to use articles and hand-outs from the teacher.” Said Presswood

“This problem is a combination of increased enrollment, because we had about two hundred extra kids coming in the door this year, that we did not expect and that we have very little money” Robins explained.

 Robins said that this has never been a problem before, and that it became an issue at the end of last year and a little bit the years before.

“I expected to get the books the first week or at least during the first two weeks,” said Edgardo Barriga, who is a junior. “I have only gotten two books out of the six that I need.”

“There are few orders in process right now. I know I am waiting for a two AP sets, but nothing other than that”

 According to Presswood, hopefully the books will be here soon and the students at Miami Beach Senior High can continue with this school year with all the supplies they need.

1 Draft

Here is the first draft of the article about my story, Textbook Delays

Textbook delays article 1 draft

 

In text:

Textbook delays

 

Missing book orders at the end of last school year is now causing Miami Beach Senior High a lot of trouble because some students still haven’t received all their textbooks for the new school year.

 

According to student Edgardo Barriga, a lot of his classmates including himself, are still waiting their textbooks I several different classes. “I expected to get the books the first week or at least during the first two weeks. I have only gotten two books out of the six that I need” Assistant principal of curriculum, Jodi Robins, who is one of the people that have to deal with this problem, is telling that the school did not receive book orders at the end of last school year. While waiting for the books, the students have to use articles and hand-outs from the teacher. William Presswood, who is a history and psychology teacher, says that many students don’t even use their books and they sometimes can be a waste of money.

A well known problem is that the fond of money for education is smaller this year. According to Ms. Robins, the school doesn’t have the money to do the job they really want to do. She is also telling that she has been in contact with another school that had declining enrollments and they said that Miami Beach Senior High could borrow their books, but the contact from the other school has not yet replied. “This problem is a combination of increased enrollment, because we had about two hundred extra kids coming in the door this year, that we did not expect and that we have very little money” She is also telling that this has never been a big problem before, and that it became an issue at the end of last year and a little bit the year before.

There are few orders in process right now, but hopefully the books will be here soon and the students at Miami Beach Senior High can continue with this school year with all the supplies they need.

Notes and quotes

Interview notes and quotes