Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Pitch Day Preperation

So far, we have completed everything up to our pitch day project. We have recently  put the finishing touches on our tri-fold display, and we are now just practicing for our pitch-day on Friday. This has helped us organize our ideas for the project by putting them on paper and then being able to weed through the good ones and the bad ones.
Something that I have learned about myself through the course of this project was that I like to have everything decided on before we start the project, versus other groups that have done the complete opposite and just making decisions as they go. My work ethic so far in this project has been strong. I have done everything that I needed to get done by the required due date. A problem that I have had to overcome was communicating with my partner about how we were going to do things, as the completion of the pitch day was all outside of school. Something that has been easy was deciding what recipes that we should prepare for our actual project.
Something that I have learned about the real world is that you might not always have people that will cooperate with you. An experience that we had was when we were trying to reach the Culinary Arts  teacher, but it wasn’t that simple in getting responses from her. This has enhanced our problem-solving skills by making us do things on our own. We knew we couldn’t just sit back and wait for a response, so we went up to see her ourselves.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Contacting The Authority

When I contacted my authority, which in my case was the culinary arts teacher, we conversed about good recipes for us beginners to be cooking for our project. She responded with a list of some basic recipes that my partner and I could cook for our project. We needed these recipes so we could have a base of what we know we would need to cook for our project. 
Some issues that I had during this process was getting ahold of the culinary arts teacher. I sent her many emails and even tried calling her. When she finally replied to one if my emails, she had sent me a list of recipes. Although I was hoping to talk to her face to face, this also worked, due to the fact that I still received the necessary information that was required to begin my project.
I learned from this part of the assignment the recipes that we need to cook. I didn't need to problem solve, other than compromise a face to face conversation, and just settling with communication through email. 

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Seeking Expert Advice

Someone that serves as an authority in our project topic is the culinary arts teacher. The reason that we should contact her is because she can give us good basic recipes for us to start off cooking. I think that without her we wouldn't be able to find any good recipes to cook. 
We are planning on contacting the culinary arts teacher by calling her. We are going to seek recipes that she would recommend to novices to cooking. I think that with her assistance we could get started off on the right foot with this project. 

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Cooking: Is My Passion Week One

Grant Seymour
Period 1
English 1
October 4th, 2013
Although it would be easy to just grab something off the shelf in a grocery store, it is a good life skill to learn how to cook. That is my project. I am going to learn how to cook. This can be used to benefit others as well as myself every once in a while. 
My plan and purpose for this topic is to take something that I've never done before and know nothing about and turn it into one of my life skills. I have been taught all of the things that I should know, such as how to do basic chores and how to care for myself if I had to, but I have never been taught how to cook something that could be considered advanced. I can of course cook pasta and grilled cheese and everything along those lines, but I can't cook a nice dinner that would require some kind of skill. That is my main goal by the end of this project, is to be able to make one of my life skills how to cook well. 
The reason that I chose this topic is because you always hear about people playing sports and excelling in academics, and frankly that is what I have been doing and trying to do my whole life. But now that I'm getting older, I'm starting to realize that I am able to do all the stuff that I was never exposed to as a child. I want it be as well-rounded as possible, so I started thinking about what I was most capable of doing that I have never done before. Cooking was one of the first things that came to mind, so I went ahead with that. I'm going to try to become so good at it by the end of the project that I will possess a new life skill.