Jentry Dutton

      Hey guys and welcome back to the final vlog! This genius hour has ben very challenging and I have learned a lot about myself through this experience! Before I get to ahead of myself though, lets talk about what I cooked this week! This week I decided I wanted to cook something easy and healthy. I looked some stuff up and decided tuna cakes was the way to go. Now I know what you all are thinking right now, tuna cakes. Ewww. They are actually very good and low in carbs which is what I wanted.     They did not turnout as planned though. You are supposed to put some flour in them, but I didn't because I really wanted to not have any yeast in them. Since I didn't use the flour the recipe essentially boiled down to eggs and tuna pressed into patties. Except because there was no flour they fell apart and crumbled. They were still really good and I liked them.      All in all I learned that I really should follow the directions because they are ther...

    Hey guys! Welcome back to the blog for another week of cooking. This week I did not cook curry. Again. I did however make egg breakfast muffins! I'm actually super proud of myself for doing this because I listened to Mrs. Crews and made enough to last me the rest of the week.      These egg muffins were vey easy to make. I just had to stir the eggs and then add onions, ham, tomatoes, and spinach. After all this I ladled the eggs into a muffin pan and baked them for an hour at 350 degrees. They turned out super well and I'm most proud I stopped procrastinating and just went for it.     Next week I might cook curry; I might not. I've come to the conclusion though that I've got cooking eggs and chicken down. My goal for this next week is to cook some form of a supper dish that doesn't involve chicken.  Thank you for taking the time to read blog! I hope you all had a successful week !

        Hey guys and welcome back ! This week has been what one could call a hot mess. I have not managed my time well at all these past couple of days, and consequently did not cook this week. Sadly  that means I did not get to eat some delicious curry. The reason for my lack of cooking is because I did not prepare this weekend. I usually find a recipe and then go to the store over the weekend to get the ingredients, but not this week.     While I may have sounded slightly depressed in the paragraph above, I'm actually quite hopeful. I'm hopeful that because now that I know where I'm going wrong I can adjust and have a great week next week ! Satrday I will find a good curry recipe that I can cook. On sunday I'm going to have to go to the store to buy the ingredients for the curry that I want to cook .      Thanks for taking the time to read my blog! I hope you all have had a great week

      Hey guys and welcome back to the blog! I'm incredibly pleased with this week's dish! I know I cooked chicken last week, but we had some in the fridge and it was just calling my name. I really did add to it though by making it lemon pepper chicken.          My first step was letting the chicken thaw. That took way longer than I thought and it ended up taking the chicken about three hours to totally thaw. After that I did the usual and greased the pan, covered the chicken in olive oil, sprinkled it with salt and then almost dumped the whole can of pepper on the chicken. I didn't want to throw the chicken out so instead I scraped the pepper off. Then I added the finishing touches on it by squeezing half of a lemon on the chicken and letting it sit in the fridge for thirty minutes.     After that I guesstimated and it worked. I couldn't exactly remember what the specific time and temperature to cook the chicken, but I believed it was 3...

      Hello my fellow bloggers! I hope all of your projects are going well. This week was actually a very big week for me. I've always loved chicken and beg my mom to cook it all the time, but no one else loves it as much as me, so this week I decided to learn how to make it myself!     I have tried to make chicken before by frying it, but it always ended up burnt. This time I decided to bake the chicken instead and it turned out super well. The first thing I did was cut the chicken in half so it didn't take too long to bake. Then I decided to put a generous amount of salt and pepper on the chicken and let it sit for a bit. After that I put it into the oven and let it cook at 350 degrees. I initially thought it would take 20 minutes, but it actually took 30 minutes.      This chicken turned out very well and I felt very accomplished after this week. I think I am going to cook chicken with some sort of sauce for my final three course meal. All in a...

      Welcome back fellow bloggers! The plan this week was to cook lunch, but things took a different turn. Instead I helped my mom make a Mexican casserole for supper. It was very good. I did the first part of the meal myself and then my mom finished it up.          I began by browning the hamburger meat which is easy. That took about five minutes and then I had to chop up a bunch of vegetables. I learned a lot about what cooking utensils do what. The first vegetable I chopped up was a green pepper. I chopped it into tiny little bits with a large knife, only to  find out I could've been using a chopper that would've cut them up way quicker. I used the chopper with the bell peppers and then put them into the dish. After all the vegetables were put into the dish my mom sprinkled it with cheese and put in the oven.      The dish turned out super well, I only cried a little bit when I chopped the onions, and I learned a lot, so I...

           Hey guys welcome back ! This week I decided I would make waffles to kick off the second week of my genius hour. I have come to the conclusion that breakfast food is quite easy to make. Waffles were a pretty cut and dry meal. I used Bisquick batter, and I personally hate the way it tastes, so I decided to add sugar to make it more flavorful.           After I read the directions, and got out the ingredients I mixed them up in a bowl. My mom said I need to be sure stirred the batter to the right consistency. The batter shouldn't be watery like soup, but you don't want it to be clumpy either. I stirred in search of the goldie locks consistency and once I thought I'd found it, I poured the batter onto the waffle maker.         A major lesson I learned through out this meal was patience. There were a few moments where I was so hungry and curious that I wanted to open the waffle maker early, but I ...

    Hey guys ! Welcome back to my blog ! As you may or  may not remember I am learning to cook this time around for genius hour and it is honestly off to a rough start. I haven't been cooking as much as I would like to be. My mother, the cook I want to shadow and have teach me a few things has had a very busy schedule lately. This has made finding time to get into the kitchen to cook with her very difficult.       Due to all the schedule conflicts I have decided to build on and get creative with some of the dishes I know how to cook. I eat eggs often and decided I would try to jazz them up a bit. I began by adding spinach to the eggs with some cheese. This was a pretty safe way to get creative so I decided I would try adding some unique little side dishes. I decided on having avocados and salsa on the side. This dish turned out really well.      Through out this first week I learned a lot about rolling with the punches and being flexible...

    Welcome back guys! This go round I'm learning to cook! Cooking has been a long time nemesis of mine, and I thought now would be a good time to learn before leaving the house and my mother's cooking. The way I am planning to learn to cook is by trial and error along with acquiring my Mother and Grandmother's help. Both of them can cook quite well so I hope if I hang around them enough I'll pick up some of their skills.     I will use the lessons of fortitude and self positivity to help me to continue on even after some burnt meals. The way I will know if I succeeded is if I can cook a three course meal. I am planning on getting good at cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner.   Thank you and best of luck on learning your new skills !

    Hey guys!! I hope all is going well for you guys! I realized that last week I said in my blog that it was the last week of genius hour, but I guess I was wrong. So because we do have this week I decided to learn colors. Colors recently came up in my pathway and I knew none. Yikes.          To my surprise colors were incredibly fun and easy to learn! The colors I learned are yellow, red, blue, green, orange, silver, pink, purple, gold, white, and gray. These were all pretty easy to learn and the way you signed the majority of them was to make the sign of the letter the color starts with and shake it.          Since this actually is the last genius hour, thank you all for the positive comments on my blog! I have enjoyed looking at all your blogs! I have copied a visual of how to sign four colors :)

           Hey guys, I hope you all have had a great week so far ! This week is a wrap up week and because of that I have decided to practice my opening sentence for my shark tank presentation. I also reviewed all of my previous lessons and words that I have learned. It's crazy to think this our last week of genius hour!     While I have learned a good amount of sign through out this time, I believe that sign is something you continue to build and add onto over time. I think the more I'm around people in the deaf community and people who use sign communicate the more I will improve. I hope that the more time I spend using sign in the deaf the community that my vocabulary will broaden and signing will become efficient.     Thank you all for the positive comments and interest shown on blogs! I hope you all had success in your first genius hours!  

      Hey guys! Welcome back to the blog! I haven't been following my initial outline very closely, I thought why not shake things up again and take his week to learn about the ASL culture! I read a couple articles that really gave me some insightful knowledge. The first article I read was from Minnesota Hands and Voices. The article talked about the deaf community and the benefits of being involved in it. Being involved helps improve one's self esteem, gain fellowship and respect the use of sign language.      The second article I pretty much covered the same topics as the first one. It talked a bit more about how to properly identify a deaf person. The appropriate terms are "hard of hearing" or "deaf". Offensive terms toward a deaf person is "disabled" or "hearing impaired" are offensive. I also watched a video on negation in ASL. To make a sentence negative the most efficient technique is to shake your head.      All in all this week w...

  Hey guys! I know in last week's blog I said I was going to learn numbers in ASL, but I changed my mind. I was starting to forget some words I've learned in previous weeks, so I opted for a review week. I decided to go back through old notes and rewatch the YouTube videos I learned from! The words I'd forgotten were school, we, they, clean up, tomorrow and yesterday.   I decided to practice each forgotten word five times. After I made sure I got those down I practiced some sentences. The video I used is posted below (because I couldn't upload the one I made 😕) along with a picture of how to say school! I hope you all are doing well in your projects! Thanks for taking the time to read my blog! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTiXNOhTI4c

    Hello and welcome back to my blog! This week I learned sentence structure in ASL. Honestly I'm very surprised at how simple sentence structure really is in ASL. Here's an example of a common sentence and its structure in ASL. "My brother walks home everyday" in ASL is Everyday my brother walks home.  The reason for this is that American Sign Language has a general format used for sentences. It goes like this: Time + Topic + Comment. I had to learn some time vocabulary to be able to make some sentences. What I mean by time is not three thirty or 5 o'clock. The words I learned are week,everyday, the days of the week, weekend, today, tomorrow and yesterday.      This week made me realize that  I want to revise my schedule. Next I think I'm going to learn numbers in in ASL, because I will most likely need them when working with children. I'm very pleased with how this project is coming along so far, but there is still work to be done! Thanks for readin...

                Welcome back to my blog ! This week I learned eighteen vocabulary words and two short phrases! I didn't have a specific topic or group of words I was trying to learn. I just learned eighteen  words and two short phrases I thought would be most useful in my future job, pathway, and when working with kids in general. It was incredibly fun to learn!     Here is a list of the 20 words I learned : Home, school, car, book, all done, clean up, more, stop, walk, run, please, thank you, mom, dad, brother, sister, we, they, shoes, and parents. For the most part the majority if the words were easy to learn, but four them I had a difficult time mastering. For some unknown reason all done  was really tricky. It's a swooping motion and I had a hard time remembering it. The next one that tricked me was brother  it's a word that requires two hands and I kept messing it up. They and parents gave me troubles too.  ...

         Hey guys ! This week I learned greetings and questions in American Sign Language. I learned five phrases that I felt I would be using immediately. The first word I learned was quite simple, hello. It is one motion, using one hand, so it was very easy to learn. The word hey is also super simple and I learned that one after hello. What's up ?  uses two hands and I had a harder time getting the hand placement correct. Hey, hello, and what's up are all I've mastered for greetings right now.       The next thing I moved into learning was basic questions and their answers. What is your name is the first question I learned to ask. An important thing to remember when asking questions in ASL is that the question word goes at the end of the sentence. Your name is what is actually how it is said in ASL. After learning the question I learned how to say my name is.  This question and answer was very easy to learn. The last question...

      For my first week of Genius Hour I learned the ASL alphabet. It was a lot more fun than I expected. I used the The Comprehensive Signed English Dictionary and the pictures it has in the front cover of the book. I broke the alphabet into sections and learned the letters bit by bit. A through D was very easy to learn, and I caught onto them very quick. I really struggled on the letters F, S, and T. To fix this little issue I watched a YouTube video of a lady signing the alphabet and signed in time with her. Throughout the week I also filmed myself signing the alphabet so I could see if I was holding my hands correctly.        Next week I will be learning basic greetings and phrases. Phrases like: "Hi! How are you?" and "What's your name?" will be a very beneficial to learn from the start. Hopefully I enjoy learning them as much as I did the alphabet.