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FINAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: GRADUATION PARTYWell...here we are. You have battled your way through your senior year of high school and have made it to graduation! You guys all impressed every one of your teachers and you have given me hope for our future! You kids are amazing.
So, after you graduated, you all had your very own graduation party, whether it be an enormous shin-dig or a small family get-together. I want to see what you did and how you celebrated your transition from senior in high school to preparing freshman at college! I'm sure you all celebrated in a fabulous way.
Create an image of your model's graduation party.RequirementsOne Photo
Mini-Story
THIN Black Border
Graduation Party
DEADLINE: JUNE 15TH @ 9PM PSTI will not provide example images for you this competition. I want all the creativity to come from YOU!http://i60.tinypic.com/2d7ge3s.jpg
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How will you earn the grades? Well, take a look at our Dean's rubric below to see how to impress us and how grading will work!
Scoring RubricPersonality: /5
Story Creativity: /10
Story Cohesion: /10
Image/Story Cohesion: /10
Overall Image Appeal: /10
Dean's Personal Taste: /5
Total: /50
What does all that mean?Personality: When you signed up, you chose a personality for your model. Does that personality shine through in this image/story?
Story Creativity:: Did you put real thought into your mini-story or does it simply fall flat?
Story Cohesion: Each new assignment is meant to build from the previous one. Does your story follow the line you set up in the previous assignment or is it totally random?
Image/Story Cohesion: Does what you wrote about show up in your image or are they two separate entities?
Overall Image Appeal: Does your image look striking, intriguing, or wowing or is it really rather dull, uncreative and boring? Quality also factors into this category.
Dean's Personal Taste: Each Dean has a unique taste for what you submit. You want to impress each one? It might be difficult to do.
You will be given a letter grade based off of your final score. Extra credit points can boost you from a lower grade to a higher grade.
Grading Scale:98-100 = A+
95-97 = A
90-94 = A-
87-89 = B+
84-86 = B
80-83 = B-
77-79 = C+
74-76 = C
70-73 = C-
67-69 = D+
64-66 = D
60-63 = D-
0-59 = F
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**JUDGES, PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGES THEMSELVES TO JUDGE FULL QUALITY PHOTOS. THE SMALLER SIZES TEND TO LOSE THEIR QUALITY**Tay & Hope Lyndon(preppy)Graduation finally rolled around and I wasn't quite sure what to do with myself yet. I already had my party planned out and I already had colleges wanting me. It was just the "slow" part of life, I suppose. I had the time for everything. I could focus on colleges, memories, and future plans. It was nice to finally be out of school. My friends and I made promises to keep in touch, so that was nice to still have them after growing up with them.
My graduation party was planned for today. I didn't want anything big, and I knew there was many going on, so people would be busy. I just ended up having family over at the house. My grandma, grandpa, parents, and twin sisters were there. I knew everyone was excited for me, but I think Jamie, one of the twins, was a bit jealous. They were younger then me and they still had another year or so before they were seniors. So I'm not sure if Jamie had fun. She looked quite bored to me. I know Julliette was happy, she couldn't stop laughing at our dad being told to not touch the grill by my grandpa.
Grandma was really interested with my stories today. I talked almost the whole time. After one of my stories, such as when I did the school colors day, she always had another story to go along. She would say "Back in my day, when I went to school.." I feel like that was back in the 1930's, and I'm glad things have changed today. They day was filled with food, jokes, stories, musics, and a few games. My mom tried to take charge of everything, and we all ended up laughing about it at the end of the day. Today was a great day. I'm glad I decided to spend it with family.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3849/14233104638_7f3e515820_b.jpgfirecrackergrrl & Arabella Shaw(friendly)Graduation was yesterday, and I am so glad to be done. I was so honored to be class Valedictorian! Everyone said that my speech was inspiring! I have to say, I'm so relieved that graduation is over. My nerves can finally settle down!
As everyone knows I was accepted into University of Sims that starts in the fall. I'm super excited! I have to say, I'm so excited to make new friends and memories with the people I meet here in the new future.
Today is the day! I've been planning my graduation party for awhile now! We booked my graduation party at the small amusement park by the beach. They recently installed a carousel and I thought that everyone would enjoy the treat of riding it. The smell of fresh popcorn and sweet cotton candy filled the air as the party began. All of my cousins and distant relatives made it to Sunset Valley for my party. The park started to fill up with the young and old, and everyone was laughing an having a good ol' time.
Peyton and I were inseparable for my whole party. I'm so thankful to have such a truly amazing friend. The presents and envelopes started piling up and everyone giggled at my picture collage my mom made for me. I have to say that the whole day was a success! I'm so glad to have spent this day with my family and friends!
http://farm4.staticflickr.com//3853//14431856282_9457e7ccc1_b.jpgBjorn & Doris Derber(narcissist)Here I sit in our backyard thinking that Barbra Streisand oughta be shot (figuratively). “People. People who need people…are the luckiest people in the world.” What baloney!
When you come right down to it, I don’t like people very much. I know I “need” them to a degree…not for company or for sharing or for clues to understanding and improving myself or for bouncing ideas off of. I need them for assistance, to provide products and services that I want, for sex (don’t talk to me about procreation), to do stuff that I hate but that has to be done by someone…things like that.
Analogously, I find that at graduation some thoughts and concerns that previously felt nebulous take on more importance. I’ve ******* about having to attend high school, but I now realize that it made my life easier in some respects…and especially in the realm of creating a structure for my being. I had to spend a lot of time at school (either that or commit virtual suicide). Now that it’s over, I’m totally and a bit frighteningly free to devise my own structure based solely on what I want.
So Roly, schweetheart, what is it you want? And what are the steps you need to take to get it? That’s what I’ll need to be considering during the next month or so. I want to continue volunteering at the Animal League, so I’ll do that. I won’t need to work for income because of my trust funds, but college and a degree in veterinary medicine may be in order if I want to stay near my beloved critters and their cousins. As much as I don’t care for people I do care for animals. So if it’s going to be college, it’s good that I’ve been accepted at several good ones and have a choice. Would I prefer being a big fish in a little pond or getting lost in an ocean? Food for thought. And I suppose a sorority would be in order. Would I prefer the best one on campus or the most prestigious nationally? Or I could travel (as yet I don’t think that would be much fun) or simply continue what I’ve been doing after school and on weekends but doing it in a more culturally inviting city. There’s much to consider. For now, I’ll get my bony Donkey into my graduation party…everyone will be wondering where I am.
So out of the backyard gazebo and onto one of our sun porches to join the festivities. There’ll be the Derber tradition of everyone making a party contribution. Cora will sing “Walk Like an Egyptian.” (In her heyday she was one of the country’s most well-known backup singers.) Big Mama and Fatherkins will once more recite their favorite oration on how the Republican conservative caucus has ventured way too far to the liberal side. God knows what Mrs. Kleisterburger will do. And Uncle Derby will don one of Cora’s hats and display his en pointe ballet skills. We’ll have the usual grand spread and boring gossip, and the three grads in attendance…me, Lois, and Donald (!)…will pretend to be very honored by all the toasts to our continued triumphs.
Plus we’ll take a swig or two in honor of our Deans and enclose snapshots for your memory books. You both have been great!
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I was excited to see that the entire graduating class showed up to the graduation party. I was surprised to see Doris Derber. I heard that she pulled off the principle’s toupee! There was Arabella Shaw. We were in Political Science together, and she has always been nice to me. Alecia Stovall was there with her boyfriend. And Hope Lyndon, who was in the Honor Roll Society with me, asked me to sign her yearbook. Even Brittany Louve was there. I was hoping that we could move past the nerd verses cheerleader thing. I was willing to forgive and forget, but Brittany was not.
“Who let the geek squad crash the party?” Brittany commented.
At first I just ignored her. This is going to be our last time together as the Class of 2014, and I wanted to enjoy the night. But Brittany wouldn’t let up.
“I’m talking to you nerd!” she shouted at me to get my attention. That’s when I decided to finally stand up for myself.
“I don’t know what you want me to do Brittany?” I asked. “For the past four years you have made my life at school unbearable. But I have decided that I’m not going to let you get to me anymore. Because now I actually feel sorry for you. Do you know why?”
When Brittany didn’t respond, I continued my speech. “You were so mean to me, and now I finally understand why. It’s because deep down you know that I am better than you. And you had to break me down to make yourself feel better. You know that I am going to be successful and make something of myself. And you aren’t. Maybe you can, if you apply yourself. But you have been so obsessed over stupid things like who is classified as a jock, or prep, or flirt, or even as a nerd. You can’t see that it’s what’s on the inside that’s important. Your popularity will fade. Your looks will fade. And you will have nothing. And that is why I feel sorry for you.”
After I finished my speech I waited to see what Brittany would do. I didn’t know if she would scream at me, hit me, throw her drink at me, or all of the above. But she just stood there with a shocked look on her face. Then something amazing happened. The entire room burst into applause. I didn’t know anyone was listening to me. But people started clapping and cheering things like “Amen sister!”, “Finally, someone stands up to Brittany”, and “You go, Supergirl!”. Even Trey whispered, “I am so proud of you.”
You know deans, it’s funny. I started out this year as that nerd who reads comics. And I ended the year as a Superhero defeating her Arch Enemy once and for all!
Michelle & Alecia Stovall(flirty)The big day has come, graduation day! I was so excited, my girls and I went shopping for new dresses and we got our hair and nails done. Then we headed off to the ceremony and I must say it was beautiful everyone was dressed in blue and red (school colors) and there were flowers everywhere in the botanical garden, which is where the ceremony was held. It was a bitter sweet night filled with a lot of joy and a lot of tears. My parents were so proud of me and I was proud of myself. They were so proud that my dad bought me a new car, it was AWESOME, cherry red 2013 Mustang, the car of my dreams and my mom bought me beautiful diamond earrings. I wasn't expecting it at all but was extremely grateful!
After graduation the school threw us our final school function for the senior class, Las Vegas Nights. We all went home and threw on our snazziest party dresses and headed down there. It was pretty cool with black jack tables, roulette tables, and slot machines that spit out candy. We danced and played games, ate pretty good food and me and Misty even engaged in a civilized convo. Justin came down to hang out with me and Chelsea. All and all it was a great night, I just loved the idea of getting to spend more time with my class before we started our new lives.
Well this year was a crazy ride with a ton of drama but I must say it was sooooo much fun and everything I expected my senior year to be. I did great in my classes, 3.47 gpa! I loved my teachers, I made a lot of friends, some enemies, and found something that I never thought I would, LOVE!! As for my future plans you ask, well I got accepted to the same college as Justin. I’m majoring in psychology and plan on becoming the next millionaire matchmaker. Me and Justin are planning on getting a small apartment together off campus. I’m going all in and see where the future takes me. Also I want to thank the deans for always being there to listen and supporting me through the good and bad with no judgment, and providing advice to help me out, it’s always nice to have that extra support, so thank you for that. I’m going to be sad to leave everyone here, you are all such great people. Well wish me luck, I’m off on my next big journey in life but I promise to keep in touch!
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