WH GCE Portfolio

During this term for our Humanities class, Forbidden Books, we learned about Socrates and ancient Greece. We also learned about certain books, and the reasons that they were banned from places such as libraries and schools. We even read one of these books,  Fahrenheit 451 , which was a banned book at one point. For this Action Project, we were tasked with creating a video, based on a Socratic Dialogue between two characters with different opinions. One character convinces the other to their side, with a convincing argument. Below is the video that me and my partner, BA , filmed together. In conclusion, this project was difficult to finish, but was enjoyable to film and act out. It was also pretty easy to wing it and go off script with this project, but I think that we for the most part stayed on the script. I learned from this project on how to use lighting and framing effectively, and also how to use a script as a base and elaborate on top of it more in the actual recording.

For this first unit of our STEAM course, Disease, we learned about the body's systems, and how diseases affect them. We read the book The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, which is about a thirteen-year-old boy with autism. The boy is the author himself, and he gives us an inside look on the perspective of autistic people. For this action project, we were tasked with interviewing someone we know with firsthand or secondhand experience with a disease, and then research that disease and how it affects the body. Below is my Action Project. Cancer occurs when healthy cells develop errors in their genetic blueprint: the DNA. Healthy cells grow and divide in an orderly way to keep your body functioning normally. When a cell's DNA is damaged and becomes cancerous, cells continue to divide — even when new cells aren't needed. As the cells accumulate, they form a tumor, which can be very deadly if not monitored or treated. Cancer is not a contagious disease because it only affect