My Clonlara Portfolio: Junior Year

Electives:

Driver's Education

In my junior year I not only passed the test for my permit, I got zero wrong on the test!

Improvisation

Also in my junior year I took an improv class through IO in Chicago.

Here are some shots of our final performance.

Teaching Beading to Children

In my junior year I was lucky enough to teach some local homeschooled kids my passion of beading.

It was a learning experience to teach kids.

The following is the ad my mom and I wrote to promote the class.

It was a success!

Beading Kandi with Jack
Kandi jewelry is beaded friendship bracelets taken to the EXTREME! Learn how to bead your own bracelets, cuffs, patterned cuffs and decorative peyote that can be hung on your wall, made into a necklace or sewn onto your clothes! Create jewelry with your favorite characters! Students will learn both the peyote and multi stitch. Unfamiliar with kandi beading? Check out this website: www.kandipatterns.com/kandi-photos/view/all

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Class taught by: Jack is a 16 year old lifetime homeschooler who has been making kandi jewelry for the past 3 years. Jack has had great success selling his work and would like to share it with others. When he’s not making kandi he can be found altering his apparel that his mother paid good money for and listening to happy hardcore.

Class geared toward ages: 8 years and older.
Class cost: $35 per person, plus a supply fee of $15-25 out of pocket expense for supplies. Students will purchase their own supplies per preference/project.”

- See more at: http://www.nakitababy.com/category/ajcollectiveworkshops/#sthash.IeXMolP6.dpuf

Physical Fitness:

In my junior year I became impassioned with running.

I was able to run very long distances in short times.

Running

Out for a late night run with my mom.

Ballet

I studied ballet at the Lou Conte Studios in Chicago for a semester.

French Film Study

I studied French films from the beginning to modern day and wrote a paper on my favorite French director.

”Vagabound”

Vagabond is the story of a girl named Mona who abandons an office job in Paris to

wander through French wine country without responsibility or regret. The opening scene of the

film shows Mona curled up in a ditch, a frozen sad looking corpse, with the last man to have

seen her alive looking over her. Mona is shown throughout the movie interacting with others

including this man, other vagabonds, grape farmers and several other neutral characters.

Mona does spend the time to confide in one of her temporary companions, telling them of how

she decided to drop everything and live day to day on what she could scrounge up. Mona

explains she made this decision because she was unsatisfied with how she was living and the

strain and stress that the current society imposes on everyone. This reasoning backs up Mona’s

tough image and feeds into the audiences emotional connection to Mona establishing that she

once was just another office worker in the mecca that is Paris. Throughout the film as Mona gets

weaker and more ill, it slowly becomes easier and easier to understand how she ended up in the

ditch in the first scene and what brought her to such a state of complete weakness and fragility.

Vagabond was released in 1985, it was written and directed by Arlette Varda. Varda was born

on the 30th of May, 1928 in Brussels, Belgium. Although her given name was Arlette Varda she

preferred Agnès Varda. Varda was the daughter of Christiane (née Pasquet) and Eugène Jean

Varda, an engineer. Her mother was of French decent and her father from Greek. Varda is an

important and often overlooked voice in modern French cinema. Her career pre-dates the

start of the French New Wave. Varda’s movies focus on documentary realism, feminist issues and

social commentary, with a distinct experimental style. Specifically in Vagabond there is a

pseudo-documentary style, featuring shots of people who were close to or knew Mona saying

something kind about her or mourning her. This style also adds to the backbone of social

commentary pointing out the flaws in how society treats what it considers to be its lowest class

of citizen. The film depicts that that assumption of how and why people are traveling or living on

the street will never be more than assumption; that these people are still people and do not

deserve to be looked down upon.

Vagabond was Varda’s tenth movie as both writer and director. Vagabond is arguably the best

film and success of Varda’s career thus far. With it’s strong feministic understructure and gritty

realistic surface value the film does an amazing job of captivating and shocking the audience, so

much so that it grossed over six and a half million dollars in box office sales in 1985 and has

since won eight major film awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Awards and

Best Foreign Film at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. Vagabond lives on to be a

French Classic and one of the greatest fiction based social commentaries ever created. The level

of depth and detail to not only the characters, but the set, clothing, and dialogue is astounding.

Taking into account where the movie would lead the audience’s mind long after the movie had

ended, and how a single piece of art can shape generations to come.

Study Skills

My entire junior year I worked on studying for my entrance exam into Ivy Tech and for taking my ACTs.

English:

In my junior year I took a 111 dual credit English course at my local community college and got an A for the semester. I also took a First Year Seminar class there and got an A in it as well.

Here's a copy of my final paper (first page only) for the 111 class with my grade.