Wrapping up the year

Since the beginning of the semester we have coompleted many of assignments, from webliographys,s to photoshop, to proposals. I believe that I am ahead of the game on my topic and I am pleased to say that I am excited to start in October.

As you saw in my proposals and time lines, I have a well thought out idea for this project

until next year

- Kory

Today

I finished my proposal and ended up with four pages of it.
Now i need to get my papers proof read and it will be all set to go for the portfolio.

- Kor

Today

I finished up my proposal just needs peer edited

Yesterday

I was absent from class but worked on my proposal

Two days ago

I started my proposal and worked diligently on it.

Today

For today I finished up my timeline and I started working on my proposal, hopefulyl I'll be finished by friday if i use my time efficiently like I have been.

July 5th 2007

Today we started on our project time lines. So far in my time line i have made the basic layout for it i just need to add what will happen from now until June 2008 when I graduate.

- Kor

Today

For Today we started our pre- writing questionaire and I have two primary goals that I hope to and will accomplish for my project

a few notes though

1. My coach made me a student coach for Hockey in the Hood
2. Mrs Fossum made it said for me to present third trimester next year for my graduation project
3. My interview is almost an hour long. Unfortunatly I have to cut it up.

- Kory

Friday 6/29/07

On Friday I had Mrs. Fossum look at my outline and correct it

I then fixed my outline over the weekend and uploaded it this morning

- Kory

yesterday

I finished my outline, and hopefully i am on the right track thus far.

Today

For today, I was getting my thoughts together for my interview with Coach Howard Smith, all i need to get is the camera, tripod, and microphone and I will tape my interview on the ice hopefully

- Kory

Today

So after talking to Mrs. Fossum about my notes progress, she said I was on the right track and that they were really good thus far. Like wise we talked about my interview on wednesday and I am ready for it, all i need is the equiptment from Mr. Nelson to video tape the interview.

- Kor

Friday 6/22/07

On Friday I wasn't here due to the graduation rehersal therefore I got my camera insurance paper signed by my parents to use for the interview on Wednesday

Last Thursday

Last Thursday i continued to work on the citation portion of my notes how ever I still need to meet with Mrs Fossum for my progression grade.

Tuesday June 19th 2007

Today I had to return my library books down at the library, afterwards, I began working on my citations for my notes, I still need one more day to finish up, 2 days tops

Tomorrow begins my interview with Coach Howard.

- Kory

Monday 6/18/07

Finally My websites, 1 book, 1 article are all completed in notes, all i need to do is cite my sources which should not be hard.

Wednesday will be my interview day out at Ice Castle, Castle Shannon, Either A. It will be on the Ice, or B. It will be in the stands by the ice.

Hopefully i can see if coach can get me to interview Georges Laraque of the Pittsburgh Penguins because of his affiliate with them.

- kor

Good news

I have 2 more websites to take notes on and then I am finished, just need to cite them how ever

Yesterday 6/14/07

So yesterday, I was reading and taking notes again from my books. So far i completed my book's notes, some foundation questions, and i am half way through my websites and article.

I should be finished by the end of class if not then this weekend.

- Kory

Wednesday June 13th

Yesterday I was not in school, so I did some of my notes and read through my books, infact regarding contacting my coach, he said he would be delighted to set an interview up for me by next week hopefully, if not, then the following week.

My goal for the interview: have it one the ice taping the both of us.

- Kory

Tuesday June 12th

Tuesday June Twelwth I started to define some of my questions and added some vocabulary words to my topic such as Art Ross, Frederick Arthur, Stanley Cup, etc.

I should have all of my notes taken by tomorrow, latest would be at the end of the day.

- Kory

Friday 6/8/07

On friday i continued doing my notes for Mrs Fossum, I am progressing pretty far and I am going to contact Coach Howard today for my interview

However today, I am going to finish up my notes and questions

- Kory

Yesterday 6/7/07

For Yesterday's work, I took notes on two of my books, Kings of the Ice and Legends of Ice and I am taking notes to answer my foundation questions.

For today, I believe Dan wants me to go out and help him film for his graduation project.

I am up to beat on all of my work thus far.

Wednesday June 6th

Yesterday I had the oppertunity to go out with Dan Egan and assist him in filming for his graduation project, we traveled to Oakland to intervew a professor in law.

From doing the interview, I helped gain so more interview experience for when I interview my coach.

I hope to set up an interview date very soon.

Tuesday June 5th, 2007

Today I finished up my interview piece, and I am going to interview my coach, Howard Smith. I'm interview him because he is an expert in coaching along with Hockey in the Hood. I have yet to set up an interview date with coach but I may do it over email or phone due to the fact we live on the opposite sides of town.

- Kory

Today 6/4/2007

For today, I finished up my key terms in what I am going to use through out my project, they are:

Key Terms:
Diversity- the variety of opinion, color, or style.
CCM – Canada Cycle & Motor Co.
Minority – smaller group part of a much larger group.
NHL – The National Hockey League.
Stereotype - An Oversimplified conception of a person or group.
Racism – prejudice against another race.
Willie O’ Ree – First black player in NHL history, also developed diversity programs in hockey.
Prejudice – to prejudge some one whether be their ethnic back ground, race, religion, gender.
African – Canadian – a person of black descent that was born in Canada.
African – American – a person of black descent that was born in America.
Garth Brooks – country singer who started own program called “Teammates for Kids.”
Pittsburgh Penguins – NHL team from Pittsburgh; supporter of Hockey in the Hood.
Howard Smith – Coach for Carrick Ice hockey, co-founder of Hockey in the Hood.
Hockey in the Hood – hockey program for less fortunate kids to play hockey for free as well as teaching moral values.
Georges Laraque – African – Canadian hockey player on the Pittsburgh Penguins, volunteers himself to diversity programs on his free time.
Ice Time – enables people to be on the ice; hard to get; expensive, and does not cost a cent for people in this case.
USA Hockey – Founded in Colorado Springs, CO, made rulebook for hockey, runs 600,000 players a year throughout U.S.A.
Discrimination – to describe another person in a rude, obscure way to offend them.
Reverse – discrimination – to discriminate on some one else because you discriminated on another person just to “balance” things out.

Friday 6/1/07

So on Friday, I was not in class due to a Funeral, from what I hear, I have an assignment due today, Monday, so I will now work on it today and upload it tonight atleast.

Over the weekend however, I was reading my USA hockey magazine and there was an article about diversity programs so I ripped it out and I'm using it as a minor resource but am going to research it more in class today.

- Kory

Yesterday 5/30 Tomorrow 6/1

Yesterday we went to the Carnegie Library in Oakland, I had checked out two books, however I did check out two other books to help me on my graduation project for school. All books are on the history of hockey.

Tomorrow, we discussed that I will not be at school due to the death in the family, so let me know what we are doing so I can make the work up

- Kor

Last week

So last week was presentation week of every one's project
I learned alot from alot of peoples thoughts and ideas in which will help me with my own project

Today 5/29 we researched books we wanted to do research on that would help us on our projects.

I have three sources so far, how ever I will add them in tomorrow or the following day.

- Kory

What I've done 5/22

So today I completed and uploaded my essential question and my Ten Foundation Questions and now i'm just gathering more ideas for my project and how I am going about in doing it.

Here are the questions:

Essential Question: How can I increase the diversity of young people who play hockey?


Ten Foundation Questions:

1. What is diversity?
2. How many kids in America take part in diversity programs in hockey?
3. Who started diversity programs?
4. Have diversity programs helped keep kids off of streets?
5. Do kids learn from diversity programs?
6. What’s the primary goal of hockey diversity programs?
7. What has the NHL done for diversity programs?
8. How do African – Americans and other minorities feel about playing in the NHL?
9. What are the benefits in playing hockey?
10. Are there any companies that have supported hockey diversity programs?
11. What have companies like PowerAde and CCM contributed to hockey diversity programs?
12. How has Garth Brooks helped out hockey diversity programs?
13. What is the history of African – Americans, black Canadians, and Europeans in the NHL?

Today's blog 5/21

So today I created my essential question which was "How can I increase the diversity of young people who play hockey?" and I am also creating my ten foundation questions

Everything is running according to plan

- Kor

Class Work 5/15 - 5/18

For the past three days I have been working on my webliography, so far I completed it, and it did take me a while because some of the websites I intended on using at first were not going to work for my project at this time, but I found more to help me out.

My webliogrpahy ended up being about 7 pages long double spaced and I talked alot about the web sites and how they will help me with my graduation project.

I'm sorry for not updating on yesterdays blog but since I summed up three days of completing a webliography, well heres the blog.

- Kor

5/14/07

For today I continued on working with my MLA citations and annotations, better yet called a webliography. I have progressed to my fourth annotation right now and everything seems to be comming along so far.

- Kor

What was completed 5/11/07

Today was intro to annotations.

For my assisgnment today, I completed my first annotation and I thought that I wrote it up very well.

Other than that I had good news that I am now accepeted to do my project on Hockey Diversity and I have a lot of good ideas to put together for this project.

- Kory

MLA Citations

Here is my revised MLA citation post from yesterday's work

1. Morrison, Michael. "Icing the Stereotypes." Info Please. 2007. Pearson Education. 11 May 2007 . http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html

2. Bettit, Paul. "NHL diversity program helps Pirates goalie stick it to doubters." Main Today. March 18, 2007. Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.. 11 May 2007 . http://sports.mainetoday.com/pirates/stories/070318coleman.html

3. Horrocks, Kim. "The Lost League: A Black Mark On Hockey History." Black Athelete. April 3rd, 2007. BlackAthlete Sports Network,LLC. 11 May 2007 . http://www.blackathlete.net/artman/publish/article_03128.shtml

enjoy

- Kor

What I accomplished 5/9/07

During yesterday's class I basically searched for websites to research my graduation project.
So far I am up to 8 websites and I will now find my last two and then complete an MLA citation for three of them.

- Kor

Graduation Project meets Photo Shop

The picture that i made in photo shop to the left is NHL Diversity and each picture represents diversity and equal oppertunity.

There are three NHL players in my picture and they are; Georges Laraque from Pittsburgh, Anson Carter from Vancouver and Kevin Weekes from New York.

Following that; there are two Hockey in the Hood pictures one with just the kids and one with Coach Howard; his wife and three kids on the team.

That is what i did today in Graduation class

- Kor

Yesterday's work from 5/7/07

Yesterday during class we had Mr. Nelson come in and talk to us about using his equiptment for about 15 minutes then following that, we worked on the grad project meets photo shop, my pictures comming together pretty well, i have some very good pictures to go with it so i will post it as soon as i'm done

- kory

Letter of intent

5/4/2007

Today I just finished up my letter of intent, I think it's constructed with very bright ideas about my project and I am satisfied with what I want to do for my project.

Also I am now doing a photo shop picture of my project, it will consist of Hockey in the Hood, the NHL and Diversity.

- Kor

Yesterday's work from 5/3/07

So basically as you saw in my previous post about what i want to do for my project is how diversity impacts our youth and to support my project I am going to use is Hockey in the Hood and the reason why i used that is because that is our main focus at Hockey in the Hood and the NHL supports that along with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

As you read in my detailed entry from yesterday, you will find very interesting ideas that sparked me for what i am going to do for my graduation project.

Lastly I picked about 4-5 different websites to use as a beggining resource for my project, along with that i wrote a letter of intent to Mrs Fossum for what i am going to do for my project.

- Kor

Three Websites

The three web sites I decided to pick are:
1. http://www.hockeyinthehood.com/
2. http://www.nhl.com/nhlhq/community/diversity.html
3. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html
4. http://www.georgeslaraque.com/#

Yesterday's work

So yesterday May 2nd, 2007; we had two guest speakers come in from 12th grade. Mimi and Alicia came in and talked to us about their expierences from the graduation projects and what all occurred during the projects.

What I learned was that you shouldnt procrastinate, you need to make use of your time wisely. One of the things i jotted down as an idea for my own porject was to interview my coach, bring evidence to support my project i.e. trophies; awards; accomplisments, and finally to dress professionally.

These are just a few ideas on what I am going to do for my project but one of my main things I will do is to do an "on ice" inter view with my coach and other coaches i had from hockey in the hood.

This should work out perfectly and smoothly because of a few things:
1. The ice time is free, every tuesday and saturday for "Hockey in the Hood" and this is great because usually it costs money to be on the ice for an hour.

2. My coach; Howard Smith has connections with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Hockey night in Canada, and other operations in connection to hockey in the hood.

3. I have alot of resources; Marcus Day in 12th grade also participates in "Hockey in the Hood."

4. If things work out as planned and I am to present third trimester like scheduled next year, I can possibly bring some kids in for my project and show how it's taught them to be mature; better people.

5. Finally a key thing is the Detroit Tournament in February, what that means is that we travel up to Detroit to play in a tournament from training since October.

This project should turn out bitter sweet and I can't wait to get a jump on it

- Kor

First Day of May

So yesterday we didn't have really any class because of the PSSA Science and ACT registration that took almost all morning. How ever we did have about 20 minutes to hear from a group of students about what they did for their graduation projects and how they over came challenges.

This benefitted me because I learned about many new things such as time management, writting a ten page paper on just your topic and not your project. Also it was a good opening idea on how in depth these projects can get and how you should present your projects.

- Kor

What I did during class 4/30/07

Basically I did an interest inventory paper that consisted of 25 questions asking what i'm interested in and how it can help me for my graduatation project.

I am happy to say though that these questions has helped me even more with my interest in my graduation project because it gave me an even broader range of thought on how I can go about and do my graduation project.

Also my assignment is completed both 25 questions and picking 10 questions.

- Kor

Monday April 30th

So today starts off a new week and since over the weekend and reading your comments, I think your idea about organizing sports keeping kids off the streets is a great sub topic to add to my project.

I'm still in the process of thinking of different ways to incorporate adversity and diversity in it but the NHL does have a diversity program and infact i got a special NHL diversity patch for participating in "Hockey in the Hood"

- Kor

Questions

1. What have you heard about the graduation project at City High? Do you know any students in 12th grade or who have already graduated that completed their projects? What were their experiences?
- I heard it wasn't too bad, it was actually pretty fun for the most part and you also learn alot

2. What are some interests you have that you think you might like to structure a project around? List at least three options for your project.
- i may do something with hockey and teaching younger kids about it and maturity, still not concrete just ideas.

3.What are some of the concerns that you have about the graduation project?
- don't have really any concerns at all i have a lot of resources to back my project up.

Yesterday's work

In class yesteday we were asked to fill out questions and topic starters to help us get ideas for a possible graduation project, what my main focus was on for the majority of my interests was hockey and as you can see in my previous post, I was able to discover a possible graduation project.

The project is basically coaching and teaching kids about hockey along with maturity and as the further details are given in the previous post; you will see what my thoughts are on it.

Finally I am happy to say i was able to successfully complete, fill out, and upload my topic starter for graduation project.

Kory' grad project

So for my idea of doing the graduation project is to coach hockey to younger kids. I wanted to do this topic because I want to get kids my age to get more involved with the community and basically what I'm hoping to do is to work in a group called "Hockey in the Hood". Hockey in the Hood is ice time sponsered by the Pittsburgh Penguins that allows less fortunate kids or kids who want to play and get expierence along with experience diversity to be able to have a chance to play. The pro's about doing this project is that the ice time is free, it runs almost year round, and most importantly it keeps kids off the streets and developes them into mature young people.

There really isn't a con for this project because just about everything going down to helping kids out and teaching them how to play along with teaching them to be mature and self discipline is something i really want to do my project on. I have actually been with Hockey in the Hood since my freshman year of ice hockey and my coach actually runs it so i can use him as one of my major references.