Independent Component 2

LITERAL 

• I, Devanna Terry, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. 
• To complete my independent component, my main source would be my (ex) mentor, Elana Blum, who actually gave me the idea of hosting a towel drive in the first place. 
• During my 30+ hours of mentorship (and still going), I achieved in going out of my comfort zone and speaking out to strangers and my iPoly peers about something very significant to me. Before going out and announcing the towel drive, I worked with a senior teacher to put together a committee. With that, I acquired all of their emails and asked them if they wouldn't mind helping me out. Fortunately, no one said no. Later along the way, a few other people actually came to me and asked if they could help. Whenever I was given the chance, I would ask a senior teacher if I may go around and announce to each classroom about my towel drive and if they could please begin donating.

INTERPRETIVE 
As I stated above, I and other iPoly students went around the school to announce the Towel Drive. During our meeting, I told them what it was about and covered the 5 w's. They then reported to the rest of the students and said that if they had any questions, they could just ask me. Some classes were a little unresponsive, but it happens. Aside from just iPoly, after school and mostly during spring break, I visited a neighborhood, elementary school, and beach to collect donated towels and explain what it was for. One of the days, there was a bonfire at the beach, and for the people who were invited, they were asked to bring at least one towel. Other days (a normal day for me), I spent the entire day at the beach, from my morning yoga until sunset and kindly went about and talked to a couple of strangers about my project and if they might have a towel on them they were willing to donate. Surprisingly, a couple of people were so interested and intrigued by my project that they wanted to help me go around and ask other people for their towels. As far as going through a neighborhood, my mom's boss's neighborhood is very family oriented and pet friendly. She and I went around and knocking on doors asking for towels. (I brought my mom's boss around since her neighbors know her). That was another huge success.

Beach Bonfire

Collecting towels from local neighborhood

(way more pictures to come)

APPLIED
This component very well helped me answer a part of my essential question, when we're looking at both my second and best answer. That answer solely focuses on hosting events that promote shelter adoptions, in this case, I was trying to get donations from people. It isn't as easy as saying, "Hey. Do you have any towels you don't want anymore?" There were different methods that had to be used to persuade the iPoly kids especially to help donate towels. A guilt trip and explanation behind the project was the big picture.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) I, Devanna Terry, affirm that I completed my independent component, which represents 30 hours of work.
  (b) Anthony Thomson, the owner of the dog, was my main source to go to whenever I had a question about Blue.
  (c) Working on this.(d) Since the beginning of the year, my aunt and I have been fostering a pitbull named Blue. Since she works from 8 am - 6 pm, I'm in charge of watching over the little guy. The routine was the same for the most part: Feed, play, brush, walk. As if he were my own.

• INTERPRETIVE I guess the most significant parts of this component is learning how to train him to have a completely more relaxed personality. Instead of aggressively playing or taking a dog treat out of my hand, I would say "Gentle, gentle.." and he would take things gently.
  

• APPLIED
  This refers back to my essential question because in order to be a responsible pet owner, you must prepare yourself for dogs who don't always have that perfect personality. Which refers back to my first answer of identifying your needs and recognizing the commitment.

Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For my 30 hours, I plan to continue on working with Elana (my mentor) at the Pasadena Humane Society. During my summer mentorship, I contributed in helping run a seminar for young teens, which just taught them things here and there about the shelter and different animal projects that were currently going on. For my 30 hours, we might have something planned out. If not, I will continue getting experience with working in the shelter with all the animals, which includes learning about the different behaviors and personalities each individual has, and so on. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I'm a huge fan of take videos and photos. So, through those two methods, I will definitely be showing my 30 hours of evidence.
I have loads from this summer posted on instagram.  

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth. 

By continuing to volunteer at the shelter, as I've said before, I will be exploring through things like the different animal behaviors, what is required to adopt an animal, the individual stories of the animals, ect. This is crucial to my topic because I will come across both animals and people with different personalities and behaviors. Some will be more aggressive than others, and I have to learn the correct way to handle that through first hand experience.