Welcome to my 9th grade year! (I'm a freshmen!)
TPOL Presentation
I’m white like a canvas, paint me with your life. Start slow, stereotype. Draw your pencil plan before you strike. Stand at a far, don’t read between the lines, don’t get too close, don’t touch, don’t see these scars of mine. From head to toe make sure you think you know. Then you start with a vicious outline. Dark strokes of anger, pain, and words of my kind. Zig zag, criss cross, spirals you have it all, you want me to feel it, you want my skin to crawl. Agian and agian I’ll stand tall. Agian and agian you won't fall. Agian and agian and agian we’ll go, a pointless war, will I win after all?
Now I’m covered in black and brown, Lines and dots, I’ve got it all. So now I beg of those who still stand tall. Give me your color, give me it all. Give me color of love, culture, and home. Maybe I’ll never get the pain but fill in my blanks, don’t leave me plane. Dip my hair in your water, let my eyes see your world. Let my nose smell your nature, let my tongue taste your sky. Let my hands feel tradition, thousands of year, we all move alike. So run with me my friends, let our legs go free. We’ve painted our colors, that’s all we need.
I’m white like a canvas, that’ll never change. But all a canvas needs is a little paint, a little color, a little change. So hold me high, hang me proud. I’m not just white anymore, I’m an art piece now.
Hi I’m Lucy Bollinger, I’m a 14 year old freshmen at HTHI. I wrote this poem because I feel like it embodies how I’ve felt this year and what I’ve always been missing. At my middle school I wasn’t introduced to many cultures or different people. I even rarely heard Spanish, which to me now seems crazy. Coming to HTHI has really opened my eyes to how much I was missing out on. Another thing I’ve learned at HTHI is that I don’t think i’m a HTH learner but this year I’ve been able to make interesting projects that challenged me in new ways I’m not use to. I hope next year I can continue to make cool things.
A project of mine that shows a lot of revision is the Head Lamp Project.For this project we had to design and create a head lamp. The head lamp had to have a red light setting and if you wanted to you could have a white light setting. The outline for this project that I made on paper seemed to work perfectly but when I went to actually create the head lamp that wasn’t the case. I think one of the reasons this happened was because not many people gave me good or any feed back when I asked for revision. Which made it so I was the only eyes really looking for problems which of course makes it harder to find them. Jocelyn finally was the one that found that the reason my head lamp wasn’t going to work. In Draft 1 these two areas were connected which would make it so that there wouldn’t be a red or white light setting there would only be a both setting. After I made the revisions and presented my head lamp I got an A on the project. From this project I learned that I need a lot of passions to be able to finish projects like The Head Lamp Project.
I learn best from having a lesson and taking notes. I can’t remember anything unless I take notes. Something that is very difficult for me is reading. I find anything thing to do with reading very difficult for me. This is because I am Dyslexic. This year I have really been challenged in this area. Through out the whole year I’ve read four and a half books. I think the reason I was able to make it threw all of these books is because the ones I finished had a very strong history aspect to them which made it very easy for me to follow. History is the easiest subject for me. I find it very easy to remember events and with a little bit of time names and dates become easy as well. This year I’ve learned that to attain information I need to have notes and to review notes. Otherwise it will just go in one ear and out the other.
The thing i’m most proud of this year is the play I helped write, “Don’t Mean a Thing”. In particular I am proud of the choruses. I felt proud of these because I feel like they were completely mine. I was assigned course writer and I wrote all of the choruses. After that I cast and was cast in the Chorus. I was also chorus director. Everything that happened with the choruses I had a say in and was a part of. And the thing that makes me even prouder is that our class won best choruses out of the whole 9th grade! This project really shows how hard I work on things and finally I feel like other people recognised that which made me really happy.
Goals For Next Year
If I could give any advice to incoming 9th graders it would be to not insult your teachers or say rude/ inappropriate things in their classes or in general because they have ears and they will hear you. They also are human and saying mean things about them can and does hurt their feelings.
Even though I’m not really a HTH style learner I have tried to get the most out of every lesson and project. Threw that I have been able to create things I wouldn’t have ever attempted on my own.
Thank you for coming to my TPOL.
Now I’m covered in black and brown, Lines and dots, I’ve got it all. So now I beg of those who still stand tall. Give me your color, give me it all. Give me color of love, culture, and home. Maybe I’ll never get the pain but fill in my blanks, don’t leave me plane. Dip my hair in your water, let my eyes see your world. Let my nose smell your nature, let my tongue taste your sky. Let my hands feel tradition, thousands of year, we all move alike. So run with me my friends, let our legs go free. We’ve painted our colors, that’s all we need.
I’m white like a canvas, that’ll never change. But all a canvas needs is a little paint, a little color, a little change. So hold me high, hang me proud. I’m not just white anymore, I’m an art piece now.
Hi I’m Lucy Bollinger, I’m a 14 year old freshmen at HTHI. I wrote this poem because I feel like it embodies how I’ve felt this year and what I’ve always been missing. At my middle school I wasn’t introduced to many cultures or different people. I even rarely heard Spanish, which to me now seems crazy. Coming to HTHI has really opened my eyes to how much I was missing out on. Another thing I’ve learned at HTHI is that I don’t think i’m a HTH learner but this year I’ve been able to make interesting projects that challenged me in new ways I’m not use to. I hope next year I can continue to make cool things.
A project of mine that shows a lot of revision is the Head Lamp Project.For this project we had to design and create a head lamp. The head lamp had to have a red light setting and if you wanted to you could have a white light setting. The outline for this project that I made on paper seemed to work perfectly but when I went to actually create the head lamp that wasn’t the case. I think one of the reasons this happened was because not many people gave me good or any feed back when I asked for revision. Which made it so I was the only eyes really looking for problems which of course makes it harder to find them. Jocelyn finally was the one that found that the reason my head lamp wasn’t going to work. In Draft 1 these two areas were connected which would make it so that there wouldn’t be a red or white light setting there would only be a both setting. After I made the revisions and presented my head lamp I got an A on the project. From this project I learned that I need a lot of passions to be able to finish projects like The Head Lamp Project.
I learn best from having a lesson and taking notes. I can’t remember anything unless I take notes. Something that is very difficult for me is reading. I find anything thing to do with reading very difficult for me. This is because I am Dyslexic. This year I have really been challenged in this area. Through out the whole year I’ve read four and a half books. I think the reason I was able to make it threw all of these books is because the ones I finished had a very strong history aspect to them which made it very easy for me to follow. History is the easiest subject for me. I find it very easy to remember events and with a little bit of time names and dates become easy as well. This year I’ve learned that to attain information I need to have notes and to review notes. Otherwise it will just go in one ear and out the other.
The thing i’m most proud of this year is the play I helped write, “Don’t Mean a Thing”. In particular I am proud of the choruses. I felt proud of these because I feel like they were completely mine. I was assigned course writer and I wrote all of the choruses. After that I cast and was cast in the Chorus. I was also chorus director. Everything that happened with the choruses I had a say in and was a part of. And the thing that makes me even prouder is that our class won best choruses out of the whole 9th grade! This project really shows how hard I work on things and finally I feel like other people recognised that which made me really happy.
Goals For Next Year
- Force myself to learn in class
- Take notes on EVERYTHING
- Review notes
If I could give any advice to incoming 9th graders it would be to not insult your teachers or say rude/ inappropriate things in their classes or in general because they have ears and they will hear you. They also are human and saying mean things about them can and does hurt their feelings.
Even though I’m not really a HTH style learner I have tried to get the most out of every lesson and project. Threw that I have been able to create things I wouldn’t have ever attempted on my own.
Thank you for coming to my TPOL.