Fourth Interview Questions

1. Why is it important to practice?
2. When you practice, what is it that you help gain?
3. What happens if you don’t practice at all in one week?
4. How many times a week do you believe a ballerina should practice per week?
5. Why is it important to train?
6. What do you think training helps a ballerina gain?
7. What happens if you don’t train at all in one week?
8. Why do you think body weight is an important factor for a ballerina?
9. How does body weight help a ballerina in her dancing?
10. Why do you think facial expressions are important while on stage?
11. What do facial expressions make an audience feel?
12. What do facial expressions add to the routine/dance?
13. How do facial expressions add to the routines/dance?
14. Why are body proportions (perfect arms, legs, torso) so important?
15. What are the consequences of having bad body proportions?
16. What makes the ballerina look perfect on the stage?
17. What’s most important for a ballerina to look her best on stage?
18. How do ballerinas become so graceful?
19. Why is it important for ballerinas to be graceful?
20. Why is it important for ballerinas to become their character?

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1) I plan on doing a diet like what the ballerina's do. I will try to find an accurate diet plan for myself and make sure that ballerina's do it also.
2) I'm not just going to do my diet for a little over a day(30 hours). I'll probably do it for a month and I'm sure that's good enough to meet the requirement.
3) I'm thinking that this will be one of my answers. A perfect ballerina has to be able to have the perfect ballerina body.

Independent Component 1

LIA:
L: I, Erika Cortez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. For this component, I made sure I practiced 3 hours a week for my dances. I practiced my dances that were taught to me at my dance class, at my house, different days of the week for 3 hours.
I: In order to dance well and memorize all the steps, you need to practice a few times a week so that you are able to perform it at home. For this component, I am practicing for my recital in March. I probably practiced more than 3 hours some of the weeks but I made sure it was at least 3 hours. Because of my practicing, when I returned back to my dance class the next week, I knew all the dances.
A: This component helped me on my EQ because I chose it to be my first answer. This component is a perfect example of my first answer: Training/Practicing. Practicing is a huge key factor to being the perfect ballerina. Each professional ballerina dances about 6 days a week 5-8 hours a day. I didn’t go that extreme but I did practice more than I ever would. An example would be my third interview said she always used to practice and that’s how she was always perfect at everything. My component helped me understand the role of a perfect ballerina by practicing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10-Wn3mOAege6WYH_Dof5SRHIV7aS95gZzr1-RUUMVWw/edit?pli=1

Presentation 2 Rough Draft

20 Minute Presentation Plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rip-uThprXdeB-EKUI6oqymCgBlmeYSgTyr9k3CI-GE/edit

Answer 1

1. What is answer 1 to your EQ? Be specific in your answer and write it like a thesis statement.
In order to perfect the role of a ballerina you must train enough so that, every step and position is perfected.
2. What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?
In my research, ballet training begins between the ages of 5-8 through a ballet school and usually become professional by age 17 or 18. They train for 6 days a week for about 5-8 hours a day. (Dancers and Choreographers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
For an example: As you know Natalie Portman starred in the movie, Black Swan, as a ballerina dancer. She had to train with Mary Helen Bowers, a former dancer with the New York City Ballet. Mary Bowers had said she started training Natalie a year before her rehearsals started, 5 hours a day, 6 days a week. When they started filming the movie, they'd squeeze in sessions in the monring and evening on set. (Ballet Excerise: Natalie Portman's Black Swan Workout, Interview with Mary Helen Bowers)
3. What source(s) did you find this evidence and/or answer?
Dancers and Choreographers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ballet Excerise: Natalie Portman's Black Swan Workout, Interview with Mary Helen Bowers
Ballet Dancing, kidzworld.com

Service Learning

Where are you working for your service learning?
Laura's Dance Academy
Who is your contact?
Laura Maruna-Roach
Summarize the services you have performed to complete the 10 hour requirement.
I have been attending dance class since the summer. In the dance class, I have been practicing the steps and trying hard to make everything perfect.
How many hours have you worked?
I have not calculated it, I need to talk to me dance teacher to count my hours. I'm sure I have done more than 10 hours just in the summer time.

ESLR'S

L: I am currently focusing on communicator and learner.

I: I have done this already by interviewing my interviewee and getting her information. I have been learning by some of the information that my interviewee has given me. I also have learned a lot through my research. I have learned so much that I didn't know.

A: Communication will help me educationally because I need to learn how to get out of comfort zone in order to get an internship of ask questions involving academics.
Learner will help me because I am learning other ways in which I can learn. I can just research things that I need to know.