Thursday, December 17, 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Blog Entry # 3.3 - Design Brief

I am going to design and make a cereal box that will represent a specific person from world history.
Each panel of the cereal box will be filled with information about that specific person.

Blog Entry # 3.2 - Design Task

For this project I am being asked to desing a cereal box representing a person from World History. I will desing all aspects of the cereal box and each face of the cereal box will be contained with information about that specific person

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Blog Entry #3.1 - Person Research

1. Name of Notable Person
  • Joseph Stalin
2. Web Address of all Sources







3. Biographical Information

a. Date of Birth and Death:

  • December 18th, 1878 - March 5th, 1953
b. Place of Birth and Death( or current residence):


  • Born in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian empire and died in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

c.Family (e.g. parents, siblings, spouse, children):

  • First wife - Ekaterina Svanidze
  • Second Wife - Nadezhda Alliluyeva

  • Sons - Yakov Dzhugashvili and Vassili

  • Daughter - Svetlana

d. Education:

  • Stalin's mother enrolled him in a seminary school where he earned a scholarship to Tiflis Theological Seminary. Later on, Stalin got involved with Messame Dassy, who was part of the revolutionary socialist party, which got him expelled. After that, Joseph later on became a Marxist revolutionary.

c. Occupation

  • Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Premier of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the State Defense Commitee, and People's Commissar of Nationalities.
4. Two-Three Quotes(either about the person of from the person)

  • "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - No problems"

  • "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed at"

  • "Everyone imposes their own system as far as his army can reach"
5.He led his country through World War 2


  • Transformed the Soviet Nation from a agricultural nation to a global superpower.

  • Created a new kind of political system with severe police control(Totalitarianism)
6. Two-three pictues of the person(should be of a large size)






7. Ten terms related to the person

  • World War 2

  • Lenin

  • Yakov

  • Soviet Union

  • Adolf Hitler

  • Communist Party

  • Marxism

  • Orthodox Church

  • Red Army

  • Five -Year Plan

8. Timeline of at least five important dates in the person's life

  • 1901 - Joined Russian Democratic Labor Party

  • 1905 - Met Vladmir Lenin(leader of communist revolution in U.S.S.R)

  • 1912 - Named by Lenin to Bolshevik Party Central Commitee

  • 1917 - Named Commissar of Nationalities after Bolshevik

  • 1922 - Appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party

9. A symbol that represents the person(include a description of why it symbolizes the person





Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Entry # 12 - Interview

The 10 interview questions that we will be asking at the interview are...

1)What is this event about?

2)Is there any type of format you would like in the invitation?

3)Do you want the invitation to have any specific colors?

4)What time will this event take place?

5)Do you want a certain font and size in the invitation?

6) Will There be food for the guests?

7) How many people can attend?

8) Are there only certain students that are going?If so, how many?

9) Is this only a one time event? If not, how often?

10)Who are the other people responsible for organizing this event?

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Entry #11 - Picture Research(Elizabeth)

This picture is appropriate is for my invitation because it is related to school and the Junior/Senior Parent Information Night's are based on school.

This picture is appropriate for my invitation because it shows where the Junior/Senior Parent Information Night will take place.
This picture is appropriate for my invitation because it is a symbol meaning information. Parents and students will be receiving information from teachers in Junior/Senior Parent Information Nights.
This picture is appropriate for my invitation because it shows two parents receiving information about their child.

This picture of two kids in graduation gowns are appropriate for my invitation because it is related to Seniors, because the are going to graduate and parents will be recieving information about there graduation on Junior/Senior Parent Information Nights.
















Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Entry #5 - Success Project - The Design Brief

TMA students in class 902 will be able to gain an understanding of the IB Learner Profile. The task is to create 10 posters of each of the qualities of the IB Learner Profile in different groups. This project is for students of TMA, parents/families, visitors, Dept. of Education, and staff/teachers.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Entry #4 - Succeed Project - Areas of Interaction

The area that has been highlighted by my teacher for this design task is Human ingenuity. This area of interaction might be intrepreted to help me understand why people create art and other things and the impact of those things.

Entry #3 - Success Project - Guiding Questions

Why did the author of the poster choose the person to represent the meaning of the poster and what year was the picture taken(this can tell me what was happening at that time and maybe why that person would represent the meaning of the poster). This questions might help me with my research.

Entry #2 – Success Project – Design Task

My design task was to examine a poster. I worked in a group to gather ideas and make conclusions. The group used questions, such as, What features do you like/dislike about the design? Or how has the poster been laid out and why? These questions helped gather ideas
on the meaning of the poster and what it is trying to represent. After gathering ideas and conclusions, we had to use one IB profile word to create our own picture to represent the word. The task was to take a picture to symbolize the word Communicator.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Entry #1

How have your actions contributed to your world?

I think my actions have contributed to the world because I am showing that I want to give this world a better example by showing that i want to succeed and get a good education.