Day 5: Restaurant Review

Ingredient Review

by Alexis

Today I went to the restaurant Ingredient, and I ordered a cheeseburger with turkey bacon on it. Ingredient offers many dining options, including the opportunity to design your own burger.

I enjoyed the restaurant layout; it was set up like a diner. The food was delightful but a bit greasy. The restaurant played classic rock music along with today’s hits. I would give Ingredient 90 out of 100 possible stars.

Thank you for reading my review.

Day 4: KCUR

Teacher’s note: On Thursday, students practiced reading weather, news, and advertisements for pretend radio broadcasts. They worked on monitoring their volume, pitch, and speed to optimize their vocal deliveries. After that, they wrote and recorded their own news, sports, and/or commercial features. Here is Alexis's performance:

Later that day, students toured KCUR studios in Kansas City. As their kind and knowledgeable host, Stephen Steigman—chief of KCUR broadcast operations—provided background information on public radio and some of the technical details that allow the NPR affiliate to beam its news and entertainment programming to radios throughout the Kansas City area. Mr. Steigman then recorded the students as they had a conversation. 

Here is the full interview.

The students watched in wonder as Mr. Steigman then took an excerpt of audio from the proceedings and added it to a popular song. During the entire van ride back to the school, students laughed and sang along to the new hit song:

Day 3: KCPT

On Wednesday, students took a tour of the KCPT studios in Kansas City, learning about what distinguishes public television from its commercial counterpart. With those differences in mind, each student wrote and directed a public service announcement. Here is Alexis's.

Day 2: KU School of Journalism

MEDIA MANIA TAKES A TRIP TO KU 

LAWRENCE, Kan. — On Tuesday, June 2, 11 students from Barstow’s Media Mania summer camp traveled to the University of Kansas’s School of Journalism in Lawrence, Kan., to learn more about the process of creating print, online, and television news.

KU school recruiter Ashley Anguiano led the campers, teacher assistant Matt Gannon, and teacher Mr. Guldin around the Stauffer-Flint and Dole buildings. Ms. Anguiano informed the group about the different aspects of a journalism and mass communications degree at KU. She encouraged anyone pursuing a career in media to write as much and as often as possible.

The tour concluded with a trip to the Media Crossroads, located within the Kansas Union building. Media Crossroads Director Cal Butcher introduced the campers to the “green screen” that KU students use to produce the student news show, Good Morning KU.

Day 1: Tomorrowland Movie Review

Tomorrowland

Review by Alexis K.

Tomorrowland is a great movie. There is a lot of action in the future. This movie is PG, but it should be PG-13 because it has some inappropriate scenes for children. If you are a sci-fi geek, you would like this movie because it has robots and time travel. 

It is cool how they transformed the young Frank Walker (Thomas Robinson) into the older Frank Walker (George Clooney). Athena (Raffey Cassidy) was a robot who was kicked out of Tomorrowland and was trying to recruit people to help her return to the technologically advanced culture. Athena got young Frank Walker kicked out of Tomorrowland and then something goes wrong, Casey (Brittany Robertson) has the last pin and she was in Tomorrowland. Casey then gets curious; she wants to go there to Tomorrowland, so Frank and Athena take her there, but it is not easy to do. 

You see, Athena is a robot and Frank and Athena are not the best of friends, but they learn to work together and go to the future. And that is when things get violent. If you want to find out what happens next, you should really go see it. Tomorrowland is an awesome movie. Thank you for reading my review and have a good experience at the movies.