Friday, December 3, 2010

Show idea's

Show 1
Title:
Gib Tastrify

Logline:
A crazy 17 year old girl who runs from town to town lying, stealing, and cheating her way through life to get what she wants.

Discription:
Pathological liar ruins the innocent lives of nice people trying to help her. She started out as a troubled child. As the years go on she gets worse and worse, till her past starts to come back to get her and things start to escalate.

Target Audience:
the target audience is teen girls because teen girls can relate to this situations and go through some of the situations Brittany goes through.

Other Information:
-The theme song for the show is - Your time is going to come BY led Zeppelin
- based on a true story!
- show written by megan little

Show 2

Title: Hormonal Hannah

Description: A teen girl with very big hormons that effect her family and friends

Target Audience: Teens around the world

Other Information:

Show 3

Title: Beautiful Liars

Description: A dramma tv show about a group of five girls and one on them dies on trip and they get stalked by her killer who is unknowen

Target Audience: teenage girls who are board with there lives and have nothing better to do then to sit at home and watch a fake tv show

Other Information: in one episode hanna gets hit by a car by mona, but the girls dont know it was mona then they figure out it was mona who hit hanna and mona killer there friend

KISS! :)

Interesting Facts About KISS!

-Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons met in 1973 and formed a band called Wicked Lester, they recorded an album which was never released, they then split apart.
-KISS made a great move by releasing a live album in 1975. It was their album where the fans decided if they were good or not.
-In 1978 the band decided to go their own ways in order to each record a solo album
-In 1990, one of the band members Eric Carr died after suffering with cancer for over a year. Eric Singer replaced him along with Bruce, Gene, Paul brought KISS into more time
-KISS regular members were back together for a two year tour in 1996
-KISS is not in the rock n' roll hall of fame.
-Gene Simmons is one of the top fire breathers.
-KISS was offered a part in the movie Stg. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
-KISS were gold record champions
-Gene Simmons was an
elementary teacher
-KISS was the only one and first one to have their album distributed by Warner Bros.Records

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

My Quiz Questions

1. In the 70's what was the main type of music?

The main type of music was Disco.

2. What kind of sound is disco music?

I'ts a repetive, stick in your head, not interesting music that white folks lysin to.

3. Where did pop music come from?

Pop music came from disco music, as soon as disco was big cool people hated it and pop music became alive.

4. Who is a famous person today that worked with motown records?

Michael Jackson worked with motown when he was a little boy, and now he is dead :(

5. What were "cool kids" lystening to in the 60's?

The cool kids were lysining to folk music becuse it was honest and real and the rock music at that time was very phony.

6. What dance was made up by black people? What did the dance represent?

The dance was called the cake walk, it was making fun of rich white people.

7. What is the name of the place where black people went on sundays?

The place was called the Congo Square, and white people would watch the black people and the black people made up dances.

8. Who was the Beatles Target Audience? Why?

Their target audience was teenage girls becausethey like harmany and melody and cute boys! ;)

9. Who was Bary Gordy Junior? What did he do?

Bary Gordy Junior took black kids off the street and tained them to dance, sing and to be performers, just like The Jason 5.

10. When did music become a HUGE business? Why did it?

Music became huge in the 70's because alot of things were changing, the war was still going on, gay culture becomes more open, image and style become more important. Disco music was all about fashion and looks.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New Unit: TV

1. Three showes you like:
- Desperate House Wives
- Gossip Girl
- Top Chef

2. Why You like thoughs shows:

I like the show Desperate House Wives because it is a made up comedy involving rich mothers, there kids, and there life situations, the polt of their lives are funny, and can sometimes be touching and sad.

I like the show Gossip Girl because i enjoy seeing the new stuff they get into and I look forward to watching it every week, just to keep up with there drama and life. Its enjoyable to relax and watch something that is like your life.

I like the show Top Chef because i love good healthy food, i work at benmiller inn and see amazing food all the time being made and my family has traveled all over the counrty and i have had the opportunity to try so many diffrent typs of food. I love to try new food and see how food is made and what goes into making it. When i watch these shows I get an intrest in the food they are making and get ideas for what to try next, and to learn new thing about food.

3. Three shows you do not like:
- Dance-Off Pants-Off
- Dancing With The Stars
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader

4. Why you dont like thoughs TV shows:

I do not like the show Dance-Off Dance-Off because it is pointless, imbarasing to the person danceing and a waist of air time. There are more things to be on tv than some random person who just wants on tv dancing and stripping.

I do not like the show Dancing With The Stars becuase it is very showy, and sparkly, and is only about already famous people try to be even more famous by being on a show trying to be a ball room dancer. And they wear very showy outfits that dont cover enough up. It gets to the point where its just like its the same dance every week just hoochier outfit and a diffrent person who is already famous. So You Think You Can Dance is a good show but i dont enjoy Dancing With The stars, like whos the star? the famous dancer, or the alradys famous actor or nba player? And the judes better not get payed all they do it hold up a sing that says 9 on it ... oh and the music on it is pathetic ( watch it you will laugh, it sounds like a game show in the 80's)

I do not like the show Are You Smarter That A 5th Grader, because the kids tey have on that show are probly the smartest kids in the province and when there not on the show they learn the answers. And it makes people look dumb infront of our nation, like why would you do that to your self and let be aired?
and the host is on drugs because he is just all over the place.

5. How many hours a week do you spend waching tv?
In one week i watch about 3-4 hours of tv. Half an hour watching Desperate House Wives, another half hour watching Gossip Girl and about on hour a week watching the tyra show and almost an hour a week watching top chef, or an show on the food network.

6. Parents!
1)A TV Show Your Parents Like:
Mom - Amazing Race
    Dad - Doesnt like tv, but if its ever on he will watch the tour da france, or triatholon races

2) Why they like thoughs shows:
Mom - She loves to travel and she gets to see all over the world and likes cheering for who she is hoping to win the money.
Dad - My dad bikes and runs and swims so he likes shows that show that and talk about that.

3) A Show They Do Not Like:
Mom - South Park
Dad - Any show that is not real

4) Why they dont like that show:
Mom - Thinks its disrespectfu, and pointless, an not funny, and very inaproperiat
Dad - doest like these shows because they are a waist of time and not educational.

5)Time spent watching tv a week:
Mom- She watches about 4 hours on shows she recordedddd
Dad  - He will maybe atch 20 min watching tv

7)
I like these shows because they are targeted at a audience like me and they itrest me at this age.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Little Richard



Ten Facts

#1. Real Name: Richard Wayne Penniman


#2. He claimed to be “the architect of rock and roll”


#3. He began performing on stage and on the road in 1945


#4. He began his recording career on October 16, 195by imitating the gospel -influenced style of late-1940s jump blues artist Billy Wright, who was a friend of his and set him up with the opportunity to record.


#5. He was one of four people to receive the Rhythem and Blues Foundations’s Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award



#6. In January 1958 Little Richard enrolled in and attended Bible College to become a preacher and evangelist.


#7. Born in Macon Georgia –> the third of 12 children. His father was a bootlegger.


#8. In school Richard played alto saxophone in the marching band , he lost interest in school and began performing in a variety of travelling shows in his mid teens.


#9. His father was shot to death while he was performing at a club on January 12, 1952.


#10. Penniman was flying from Melbourne to appear in front of 40,000 fans in concert in Sydney. Shocked by the red hot appearance of the engines against the night sky, he envisioned angels holding up the plane. Then, while he performed at the stadium, he was shaken by the sight of a ball of fire that he watched streak across the sky overhead. He took what was actually the Russian satellite Sputnik as another sign to quit show business and follow God. The following day he departed Sydney on a ferry and threw his $8,000 ring in the water to show his band members that he was serious about quitting. The plane that he was originally scheduled to fly back home on ended up crashing in the Pacific Ocean, which he took as confirmation that he was doing what God wanted him to do



Little Richard IS in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

LL Cool J ( Ladies Love Cool James )

LL Cool J 70's Music Performer



- Releasing his first single "I Can't Live Without My Radio" in 1985 when he was just 17 years old.

- LL Cool J (given name: James T. Smith) was probably the best looking of the early/mid 80s rappers, and he's exploited his sex appeal to the max (his stage name stands for "Ladies Love Cool James"). But there's a lot more to LL than that; he's got an incredible voice that moves from a powerful roar to a gentle bedside croon - he has more emotional range than any other rapper I've heard, when he chooses to use it. Unfortunately, most of his later albums have been recorded on auto-pilot, so tread carefully. (DBW)

- LL Cool J initially was a hard-hitting, street-wise B-Boy with spare beats and ballistic rhymes.

- Upon his album release, Radio received generally positive reviews and praise from "street and dance music" aficionados and mainstream music critics, including Robert Christgau of the Village Voice who described it in a January 1986 article as "the most engaging and original rap album of the year".


- With the breakthrough success of his hit single "I Need Beat" and the Radio LP, LL Cool J became one of the first hip-hop acts to achieve mainstream success along with Kurtis Blow and Run D.M.C..


- James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968 in Queens, New York), better known as LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James), is a Grammy Award winning American rapper and actor signed to Def Jam. He has released twelve studio albums over his 27 year career, has starred in numerous feature films and currently plays Agent Sam Hanna on the hit show NCIS: Los Angeles.


- Born in Bay Shore, New York, and raised between St. Albans, New York and Hollis, New York in the borough of Queens. The only child of Ondrea (née Griffith) and James Smith, Jr. Smith is of both African American and Native American descent. He spent his youth singing in the church choir, participating in the Boy Scouts and delivering newspapers.

 - Def Jam released his first record, the 12” single “I Need a Beat” in 1983. The single sold over 100,000 copies. The success of “I Need a Beat” helped lead to a distribution deal with Def Jam and Columbia Records in 1985. Soon after, he dropped out of Andrew Jackson High School to record his debut album.


Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Teen Sensation Caught at a Private School In Orlando

Sixteen year old Megan Little, of the hit tv series “Every body Loves’s Megan” was found out side of a private School In Orlando. Megan being the busy person she is with her job was home schooled. On Sept 12th news reporters drove by a school and saw Megan outside of A private school in the country in Orlando. The big question is “is she going to school there and will he tv show be affected by her wanting to go to school. The reporters caught pictures of Megan Running From the cameras because she didn’t want to be seen. More on this will be updated in next weeks issue.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Ashley Johnson’s Dog Attacks Students at GDCI



On October 1, 2010 a grade eleven student named Ashley Johnson who attends GDCI, brought her dog to school, the dog was very violent and attacked. Ashley sates she didn’t want to leave her dog at home alone because her dog Marley was sick. Ashley brought the dog in a bag, as soon as the dog was set on the ground it ran to a group of grade nine students and attacked. Three students have serious injury from the vicious dog, Ashley and her parents, the owner of Marley will be facing the consequences of this situation. The dog is a Pug, but when it comes to this dog, size does not matter. One student who saw the dog attack commented “ As soon as I saw the dog I for sure thought the dog had mental issues, and I don’t know why any one would bring it to a place where there are hundreds of kids”. The school board is considering having a bag check before entering the building every day. More on this will be released later.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Newspaper Assignment

The Use of Cell Phone in Class is Educational

Who - Students in Ontario schools.
What - Cell Phones in class is educational due to the fact of studies done the University on Western Ontario
Where - Ontario Canada
When - Wednesday,September 1, 2010
Why - The government has decided from looking at  research, the use of a cell phone is not bad but it is good



The Use of Cell Phone in Class is Educational
Wednesday September 1, 2010

 
On the first day of school September 7, 2010 for the first time cell phones will be allowed in class for all students in Ontario. The Premier of Ontario, Daulton McGuinty and the school board of Ontario has decided to allow cell phone during class. At the University of Western Ontario Students in a extra curricular club of over 100 students worked very hard and put in a lot of time to research this. They went all over the province to evaluate students and learning with cell phones in class.  The students have worked on this study for over 2 years and finally had it good enough to bring to the attention of the school board. the school board found it very interesting and let it go to the Premier. He also agreed that why not try it and see if it benefits our schools. Now on September 7, every School in Ontario will be allowed this privilege, and the outcome will be being evaluated, on if it is effecting positively or negitivly.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Writing a News Report



Tital: Tyler Million's First Loss
Who? Tyler Million, Golf Champion
What? Tyler has his first loss of the season.
Where? Maitland Golf Course
When? September 1, 2010
Why? Golf Turnement
How? Tylers compatishion Jim Straight shot a hole in one at hole 8.

Details:
- the crowed went wild when the under dog Jim Won Against Tyler.
- Tyler states "It was my first loss, and my last loss"
- Jim states " I didnt picture myself winning against Tyler ever"!

             
         On September 1st Tyler Million has his first loss of the season in the RPG Tournament in New York. Thousands of Tyler’s fans came out to watch him play, and left disappointed when Tyler had lost. Tyler said after he lost to a news reporter " that was my first and last loss". Jim Cook the winner of the tournament and winner against Tyler States " I never thought I could beet Tyler, so playing him was intimidating". Jims Fans Went crazy over the win and how outstanding he played. As for Tyler he is still a legend just with a loss now, hopefully he can get back to his winning streak again.

Teacher website!

http://alexanderopolisems30.blogspot.com/p/eight.html

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Newspaper Assingment, Sept 9th

Questions:
Based on our discussion and information you find online, answer the following questions on your blog.

1. What makes a newspaper different from other printed media?

- The difference is a news paper tells you information about the world and true facts. Other media papers you can read are not always true, they are sometimes 'Yellow Journalism' type of writing.

2. What role did the Industrial Revolution play in expanding the readership of newspapers?

- It played a huge role, before everything had to be hand done, (slowly) and when this came along you could have 10times as many print outs in the same amount of time it took for it to be hand done. So instead of there being about 1000 print outs there would be 10 1000.

3. What kind of relationship did Pullitzer and Hearst have with each other? Why?

- Both newspapers and were accused by critics of sensationalizing the news in order to drive up circulation, although the newspapers did serious reporting as well. Poseph Puitzer’s newspaper was called "New York World," and William Randolph Heart’s was called "New York Journal." After two years Puitzer took over both newspapers and the world became the highest circulation newspaper in New York.

4. What is meant by 'Yellow Journalism?'

- Yellow journalism is based opinion masquerading as objective fact. The practice of yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion.

5. When was the Spanish-American war? Who was involved?

- Spanish-American War, the 1898 conflict between the US and Spain, during which the US removed Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from Spain, annexing the last 3.

6. Including at least one picture, cartoon, or news story in your answer, explain how yellow journalism help initiate the Spanish-American war.

- The newspapers made up stories about the Spanish. The stories were not true but no one could verify if they were real or not. Every one in America red the paper and became angry, and started a war.

7. What is meant by the term 'Sensationalism' ?

- subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.

8. Would you mind telling a small lie if it meant making a sale or a bit of extra money for yourself?

- I probably would to an extent. Like I wouldn’t go to far like yellow journalism. But yes in a way I would make a story a little more exiting by exaggerating what happened to make more money.

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