Who Do You Think You Are?

Interview questions with Grandma Ardie Pinkerton
Pinkerton Interview Questions

Interview questions with Grandpa John Hagel
Hagel Interview Questions

Email written to Aunt Jane Tobias about the Pinkerton family tree

Persuasive Letter

Hagel/Pinkerton family tree on Ancestry.com (click on the green arrow below Cynthia Pinkerton or Keith Hagel to see the opposite sides of the family tree)

Family Tree

Looking through the Hagel family descendants book
StoryBoard

December 2nd, 2013

Where are you right now on your "Who Do You Think You Are" project? What did you do over the break for the project? Did you interview anyone? Use the checklist below to figure out what you have finished, what you are still working on and what you still have to do.

So far on my project I'm probably about halfway finished. I need to get some more of my interview questions done with different family members so I have different view points for my family tree. I need to collect more photos and try to see if I can go back one more generation in my family tree.

November 15th, 2013

Collin Wolfe - Skittles - I think that this idea was creative and unusual

Katie Gemperli - Drawing - This was just really cool

Emma Friedlander - Moving school items - I thought this was unique and I would've never thought of it

November 13th, 2013

How did you stop motion animation turn out? If you could give it a grade, what would you give it out of 60 points? What did you learn from creating this video?

I think my video could have turned out a little better than it did. I cropped all of my pictures and they ended up going back to the original photo so it was kind of unexpected. I think I would give my video a 45 out of 60 because the quality wasn't as good as I wanted it. I learned that it's probably better to take photos on a regular camera with a stand rather than taking them on my phone.

November 11, 2013

How far along are you on your stop motion animation? What did you do over the weekend to work on you stop motion animation? Do you have all your pictures today? Will you have all your pictures by the end of the hour? Give me a detailed updated.

As of now I have about 50 pictures and I am going to try to be finished by today. Over the weekend I tried to get my pictures edited and cropped so it just shows the square of sticky notes. I think that if I'm not done by today then I will be done tomorrow and ready to upload them to my computer.

November 8th, 2013

What are you planning on doing for your stop-motion animation video? What story are you going to tell? How will your video be fun and different? Who is taking your photos? When are you taking your My stop-motion animation video is going to be a sticky-note square and I'm going to move certain sticky notes around to create a picture. I think my animation is going to be a story about a flower blooming or I might just make kaleidoscope designs. I think my video will be different because no one would really think about having different colored sticky notes for a design. I am taking my own photos and I am going to take them during class.

November 6th, 2013

 What story will your storyboard tell? Explain in detail.

My storyboard tells a story about a boy who thinks he can fly and climbs on top of a really high place and spreads out his arms but but ends up tragically failing. He falls face first to the ground and then sits up and starts to cry because his dreams of flying have been crushed. The first few pictures are in black and white because it represents the boy reflecting back on what he has just done. The last picture is in color because it represents the present.