Maddie Johnson

Period 7Semester 1 Exam Portfolio

I enjoyed taking this photo because I got to play with, and figure out the different settings on my DSLR camera. I found out how to use the aperture setting, and I adjusted the ISO to adapt to the amount of light outside.

When I took this photo, I had to adjust the ISO setting because it was dark outside, and I had to allow a lot of light into the picture. I furthered my knowledge of picture-taking when I shot this photo.

I enjoyed this project because I learned how to use InDesign. I played with the tools, fonts, and colors in the program. I like how the spread turned out, considering it was one of our first projects in the class.

Without dance, life isPointeless

In one week, Maddie Johnson experiences twelve hours and eleven dance classes.

Back and forth from home to the Karl and DiMarco dance

studio, Maddie participates in many hours of ballet, pointe,

jazz,contemporary, and tap during the week. “I am constantly running between home and the studio to pick

up and drop off Maddie, she is there everyday.” said Jennifer

Johnson. One of Maddie’s favorite classes is pointe; the push to constantly improve

technique and become better leaves no room for boredom, or laziness. “There’s always a constant struggle to improve in ballet, so it really pushes us to keep working harder

every class.” said Eve Wacaser. Aside from ballet, Maddie

enjoys the contemporary side of dance. Contemporary is

a combonation of the ballet and jazz dance styles, which results in a modern form of

dance. “Contemporary is really common now because it’s a mix of two styles of dance.”

said Ava Martin. When she is not in ballet classes, Maddie competes in competitions with the competition team.

The team practices for three hours on Saturdays to prepare

for multiple competitions starting in January. “I tend to choreograph musical theater jazz or contemporary dances, because the girls have had a lot of experience with that style of dance.” said Robyn Hurlburt, choreographer.

Maddie’s favorite competition piece is called “Seven Devils”

where Maddie plays an innocent girl who is getting

pulled around by the evils of the world.

Do justice,love mercy,walk humbly.

1. The dancers from Karl and DiMarco begin their performance during their recital at the Mahaf-fey Theater in June. The piece’s

concept was that many people strive to be someone they aren’t.

“The dance had a lot of move-ment and fluidity,” said Danielle

McGoldrick, choreographer. 2. Maddie Johnson completes a

step during a performance at the yearly recital in June. During the recital, Maddie performed a total

of twelve dances. “Twelve dances is a lot to perform in one night,

but I really enjoy it.” said Maddie Johnson. 3. Dancers run around

backstage making sure everything runs well during a competition

in May. At the competition, they recieved multiple awards for their

dance.“You have to make sure you stretched so you can perform perfectly.” said Allison Voiland. 4.

Pointe dancers perform a piece on stage during Karl and DiMar-co’s dance recital in June. The number featured the glitz and

glam of New York city in the win-ter. “This dance had more jazz in it than usual ballet dances.” said

Tessa Vaughn.

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The first week in July is when Maddie joined sixty students from Epic student ministries volunteered for a Christian organization named Light of the Village. For one week, the students participated in work to spread their faith in God to children ages 2-15. Not only did they care for kids, but they also completed manual labor by restoring an old barber shop that had sentimental meanings to the community. “Honestly this trip was really eye-opening to see the conditions that some people live in, but at the same time it was incredible to spread God’s love to all the children.” said Zena Davis.

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Over the summer, Epic student ministries from South Tampa

Fellowship church, went to Prichard, Alabama on a mission

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Abby is a freshman at Florida State University, where she is studying to be a nutritionist. She is the oldest of the three girls, and is always catching up on the latest fashion. “My best memory with Maddie is shopping with her because we understand eachother’s styles and we have a lot of fun picking out new clothes and shoes.” said Abby.

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Gracie is a junior at Plant High, and is currently on the Drumline where she plays the snare drum. “My best memory with Maddie is when we would go on the boat to islands where we found cool sea creatures.” said Gracie.

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A little information on Maddie’s two older sisters: Abby and Gracie.

October beat

Drumline battle during the Plant vs. Tampa Bay Tech football gameMaddie Johnson

Step out onto the field, drumsticks in hand, bright stadium lights blinding at half time. The night was starting out as a regular Friday football game, until the Tampa Bay Tech and Plant drumlines began a drum battle during the half time show. Both percussion teams stepped into position out in the middle of the football field to face each other. Tampa Bay Tech had began their sequence of cadences with silence in the stands from the Plant football team fans. The Tampa Bay Tech drumline completed their song as the Plant percussion team regained their posture, prepar-ing for their turn. The Plant drumline began their cadences, but for them, the crowd roared, cheering for the familiar beats they hear every game. In an effort to defeat Tampa Bay Tech, the Plant drumline played their cadences with power in their drumsticks.

“I like when just the drumline plays, but with the drum battle, you get double the beats with the two drumlines, which sounds awesome.” said Sophomore, Hope Kurth.

This drum battle happens every year as a tradition; last year Plant went against Tampa Bay Tech as well as this year.

“We didn’t get to finish our sequence of cadences this year, the buzzer went off right before we started the head banging part of our cadence.” said Junior, Gracie Johnson.

Each team acted tough in front of one another, to display their strength in the situation. Each member had picked one drummer of the other team to stare down. Every drummer had to keep a straight face without laughing at all during the battle.

Although the teams kept straight, menacing faces during their performance, they still upheld good sportsmanship qualities as the drum battle ended. At the end of the battle, the teams shook each others hands and said “good job”. T

“I think it sounds cool when the drumlines go against each other because their cadences are always really good and make me want to dance!” said sophomore, Olivia Garrett.

This year the Plant percussion team went against Tampa Bay Tech’s drumline, but the question is, who will face the Plant drummers next year?

I enjoyed writing this beat because the event was interesting and I began to understand all the rules of writing copy. All the details of the event were fresh in my brain, and I edited this piece to make sure it followed copy rules.

I liked editing this photo because I became fa-miliar with the magic wand tool. I also learned how to adjust the saturation and vibrance of the selected area, while making the background of the picture less saturated.

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The pictures at this event were hard to take be-cause it was so bright outside, so I had to adjust my settings to meet the needs of the environ-ment. Also, the judge of the competition kept getting in my pictures, which made it hard to shoot photos of just the performers.

This was one of our first projects, and I really en-joyed getting to know and understand Adobe il-lustrator. One of the hard parts was hand writing the cursive using only the track pad, however I think it turned out alright. This one was one of my favorite projects because I really enjoy design-ing things.

This picture was fun to take because there was a lot of movement from the Pantherettes. How-ever, it was difficult to capture the movement of the flags, so I had to change the setting on my camera to action mode so it could take pictures of the flags in motion.

State Semi-finals Marching Band CompetitionNovember 2014

“Drum Major, is your band ready?” says the announcer at the State semi-final band competition. On Nov. 22, the Plant High School hosted Class 3A State Semi-finals Marching Band Competition at Dad’s Stadium. At 11 a.m. the Gold-en Panther Regiment stepped onto the field, prepared to perform.

Gracie Johnson (11), plays snare drum on the drum line and said, “The first impression we make on the judges is when we step out onto the field. We have to maintain composure and strength, showing our confidence to everyone.”

All of the front ensemble members pushed their marimbas, vibraphones and xylophones to the front center of the field, getting ready to begin. The rest of the marching band arranged themselves on the field, moving as one cohesive group.

Drum Major’s Kathryn Turk (12), Jacob Ramos (12), and Jodi Traster (11) counted the band in as the perfor-mance started. Stepping 1…2…3…4, the Marching band began their performance named “Opposites.”

Members of the Marching Band performed their piece, constantly moving around to new formations. Maintaining their composure, the team finished their show after eight minutes of performing.

Following their routine, the Marching Band waited three hours to find out what they placed in the competition. To their surprise, they ranked No.17 out of 21, even though the members expected a higher score.

Anne Themides (10) said, “Overall, I felt like we had a really good performance, definitely one of our better run throughs as a whole but I felt like we deserved a higher score than we received.”

Although some Marching band members seemed disappointed with their rank, the drum line members became ecstatic as they received 3rd place out of 20 for their specific performance.

Lulu Heenan (9) said, “I feel like we performed very well, a few minor mistakes, I think our score should have been much higher. But percussion scored third out of 20 so that was exciting.”

This was one of my favorite beats that I wrote because I was at the event so I could record details as they happened. I did have errors in name checking and making sure that I used the same terminology that the drum line uses. Over-all, I felt okay with this piece because I wrote it the same day I went to the event.

Do it yourself- DIY- is a phrase known to many about projects or crafts that people want to complete by themselves. However, the term DIY takes on a new meaning to the Honor Council this year. The new slogan of the Honor Council is “DIY- Do it yourself”, which encourages students to complete their own work without cheating off of their peers.

“Mrs. Glenn and I were talking and she said that she doesn’t understand why students don’t do their work themselves, so I thought of the ‘DIY projects’ on Pinterest.” said Co-president of the Honor Council, Gardner Popp, about the creation of the new slogan. This idea can relate to any school work, not just tests and quizzes, but homework and class-work as well. “Do it yourself” will appear around the school as well as on the new t-shirts that Honor Council members will receive.

Along with a new slogan, the Honor Council has come up with the idea of making a video that will encourage students not to cheat.

“[In our meeting we discussed} creating a video that shows different scenarios of cheating and not giving into it.” said Honor council member Miranda Parsons.

Last year, the Honor council talked to freshmen homerooms about not cheating but they felt like it wasn’t very effective. Because of this situation, members came up with a new entertaining way to make people aware of the honor policy: videos. For the Honor Council, the first club meeting of the year shed light on the methods members will use to inspire students to “do it themselves”.

Honor Council beatSeptember 2014

This beat was the first beat I wrote of the year. I didn’t exactly know what I was doing, and the rules of yearbook copy had sort of been brushed to the back of my brain. Although it is not terrible, this beat shows that I’ve improved my journalistic writing from the beginning of this year.