WH GCE Portfolio

For this second unit of our Forbidden Books class, we learned more about books that were banned, but the main part of the unit was reading a book that had been banned for out Action Project on it, which is the paper you see below. We also went on Field Experiences to a mosque, or a Muslim place of worship, and to a feminist book store, to learn more about history and why books might be banned. Below is my paper that I wrote for my Action Project, as well as a picture of the book cover. Schoolastic, The Outsiders Book Cover , 2019 In conclusion, I thought that this project was really enjoyable to do, as well as being a good amount of challenging. I really enjoyed the book that I had to read for it, and the paper went together quite easily. 

In this second unit of our STEAM class, Disease, we learned more about the human mind, and how mental disorders affect you mentally and physically. We learned about different kinds of brainwaves, neurotransmitters, and how the nervous system works. For this Action Project, we chose a particular mental disorder, and we had to make a lesson plan to teach our classmates about it as well. Below is my Action Project. Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly know as Multiple Personality Disorder, affects the hippocampus and the amygdala, as well as the orbitofrontal cortex. This means that DID changes the way that a person’s memory works, as well as how their emotions and decision making work. The scientific definition states that DID “is characterized by a person's identity fragmentation into two or more distinct personality states. People with this condition are often victims of severe abuse.” My definition is that DID is where a person’s mind splits into different personalities in o...