Time Capsule Items

Scene one(describing character and exposition): I have recently been asked to participate in a time capsule that will placed in a cornerstone of a public building and will be opened in the year 2100. I am a girl currently fifteen years old living in Edison, New Jersey and enrolled in the Ogburn School. In this capsule I am supposed to include information about my current generation that I want the generation that will read is to know and be informed of.

This memo outlines the lessons I have learned and the skills I have gained over the course of the English W231. I will discuss my understanding of literature review, the importance of collaboration, and the goals achieved this semester.

It is year 2325 my colleagues and I have made an amazing discovery we have found 5 items dating way back to the 1960’s. We are archeologist that love finding things from years and years ago. My colleagues and I have just been summoned to a dig a site because my colleagues made a unique discovery: a time capsule from the 1960s that was buried so long ago. Very carefully my colleagues and I are going to unearth and open this time capsule. Inside the time capsule we found five items that define the era of the 1960s. The very first item we found is a record by “The Beatles”. The Beatles got their first studio deal in 1962. The Beatles cast involved John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. In the 60’s the Beatles

Thesis: If I were to put three objects in a time capsule to identify my generation, I would include an iPhone, a newspaper, and photos.

Yearbook has become a huge chunk of my time every single day at school. I attend yearbook meetings and camps, create all types of lists and spreadsheets, organize and assign everything to staff members, but every single task is worth it. Thanks to all of my hard work and dedication, I climbed my way up from staffer to the most successful job of chief editor. I was able to gain outstanding people and communication skills along with writing skills. I have watched myself grow from a ball of anxiety and nerves to a confident and determined chief editor. Unlike everyday classes, yearbook has helped me to successfully learn about different people and life skills that I will be able to utilize in anything I am a part of whether it's college, a career, or even daily conversations. Anytime I am able to complete a task by a deadline or talk to a complete stranger, my heart will be content knowing that I am able to have success in so many different ways thanks to my unforgettable yearbook

However, just one accomplishment like that is simply not enough for the American population. Some students try too hard, by participating in school events and making good grades, just to get the attention they do not deserve. So, the people have spoken, and in several school systems across the United States, everyone obtains equal representation in the yearbook. If one person is mentioned five times, every student is mentioned five times. Of course, this rules out any racial, gender or sexuality bias caused by the creators of the yearbook, but that is not the important part of this tremendous change. The importance of equal representation is to get the students who truly deserve fame, those of who could not care less of school and their low standard morals, their rightful place in the yearbook. Their participation in the school, which could be considered null, is the most inspirational and moving part of the school systems, and represents each system with

Yearbook Staff (August 2012- May 2013 & Spring 2015- May 2016). Having been involved with Yearbook in middle school; I furthered my

That summer I attended the Gettysburg Yearbook Experience in Pennsylvania to begin next year’s yearbook. My editor team and I were split into classes based on what

I can now see the underlying significance and purpose behind yearbooks and the influence that this annual festivity may have on each individual child and adolescent, but also the “school-attending group” as a whole in terms of closure. In relation to group dynamics, the yearbook can be seen as the school’s way of addressing “the end” as Yalom (2005) describes, “Pain over the loss of the group is dealt with in part by a sharing of past experiences: exciting and meaningful past group events are remembered; members remind one another of the way they are then” (p.390). The ‘Positive Me’ exercise not only allowed members to give and receive feedback to and from each other, but it also gave each person a souvenir or memorabilia-like gift—something concrete to take away with them as a reminder of this particular group experience. It also served as a great “warm-up” and transition into the process of using the creative modality to address and experience the closing phase of our group development.

I conducted an interview with a friend of mine to help my journalism class to create ideas for this year yearbook. My interviewee name is Xitlalic Salazar. She is a 10th grader at MAST @ Homestead. The interview took place in the school cafeteria on August 28, 2015. I mainly focus on asking her questions about how the yearbook should look inside and outside and the price of it.

The point of keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. Author, Joan Didion, in her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook” explains how to keep a notebook and why. Didion’s purpose is to inform us on how she keeps a notebook and why notebooks are useful in helping us to remember events that happened in the past. She adopts a sentimental tone in order to emphasize how many memories are kept alive by keeping a notebook. Didion uses ethos, pathos, and different rhetorical devices in her essay to explain her point.

Yearbook is very fun but if Kadence was not in yearbook where would she be? Well she said she would choose explorer.That is a very good alternative to yearbook.

I hope that you are doing well and thank you for agreeing to be my mentor. I am writing in regards to a project I’m doing for my English 2 Honors class. This project is called the Passion Project. For this project, we spent a year learning about a topic that interests us or something that we are passionate about. At the end of the year, we demonstrate the outcome of our project by presenting it to our peers.

How perfect it, now we are in 2015, a film using the term appears. What would happen if Marty, and his friends, won almanac today? Travel through time to sleep school, winning the lottery and get the girl? Director Dean Israel aims to answer this question in the Project Almanac. Marketed as a "Primary Chronicle meet", Project Almanac is finding teen-movie footage, where scientists college we find-hour implementing turning tools in the basement.

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” On the first day of school when I walked into this classroom, little did I how great of an impact this class would have on my life. Not only did I greatly improve my writing, reading, thinking, and speaking skills, but as a human being overall. Despite all the long, sleepless nights, I am grateful for what this class has provided me. This class has shown me that individuals always have room for improvement, and this improvement can be reached through hard work and dedication. With all the knowledge I received from this class, from individualism to the horrors of indifference, I hope to not let this information stray within my mind, but to share it amongst